‘Primetime’ Is a Robert Pattinson Transformation and the Nightmare Media Movie of Our Time, With Lance Oppenheim!
Robert Pattinson stars in Lance Oppenheim’s audacious, darkly comedic satire Primetime, a fictionalized descent into the chaotic world of NBC’s To Catch a Predator, portraying host Chris Hansen as a narcissistic media figure emblematic of our conspiratorial culture. The film, both a tim
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