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Alex Jones:

Rendered as a reddening rage fountain in Richard Linklater’s 2001 animated film “Waking Life,” self-described “performance artist” Jones has become legit in the truth a verse Trump era, first by earning a White House press credential for his website InfoWars and now with an interview with Megyn Kelly on NBC Sunday night. While expanding the platform for a conspiracy theorist seems like a bad idea, here’s a shortcut to sidestep this reach for ratings-boosting controversy: Whatever Jones says on Kelly’s show will be a lie. Whatever he says on his own show will also be a lie. Any questions?

Pixar:

Remember when movies from this studio were worth planning your summer around? We’re two years removed from “Inside Out,” which stands with some of the studio’s strongest efforts, but this level of invention has become rare for what was once a source of not just some of the best storytelling in animation but movies in general. Now with “Cars 3” passing us, we can at least look forward to the “Book of Life”-adjacent “Coco” next year, but we fear this once-mighty machine has become addicted to sequels. Just like anywhere else in Hollywood.