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08 Mar

Maria Bakalova is Ready to Do Borat 3 in ‘Five Minutes’

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Maria Bakalova is having a remarkable moment. Six months ago the Bulgarian thespian was completely unknown to English speaking audiences. Tonight she won Best Supporting Actress from the Critics Choice Awards, beating out other Oscar winners for her genuinely revelatory performance as Tutar Sagdiyev in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat 2. After all, how many other award winners can say their star turn helped expose Rudy Giuliani for extremely creepy behavior? It’s a brilliant showcase for the young actor, and one she visibly held very dear when she spoke to the CCA press after accepting her award. In fact, during a…

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28 Oct

Borat 2: Sacha Baron Cohen Reveals Dangerous Deleted Scene

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Sacha Baron Cohen says Borat 2—also known as Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan—wasn’t the easiest picture to make. That is likely an understatement since almost the entire movie was filmed during the height of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. And now he’s revealing footage on social media that offers a different context to events which appear in the finished film. Taking to Twitter late Tuesday evening, Baron Cohen revealed the below deleted scene, which offers a seemingly more dangerous chain of events…

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27 Oct

Borat 2: The Most Embarrassing Moment for Mike Pence at CPAC

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I admit I came late to the Borat 2 party. The film has been available on Amazon Prime Video since Friday, which may as well be five months ago in the realm of streaming discourse. Nevertheless, I sat down Monday evening to Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan expecting nothing would surprise me. I knew about, and had watched, the clip of Rudy Giuliani disgracing himself, and heard about Maria Bakalova surprising audiences as Borat’s daughter. I even knew Borat went to CPAC to bedevil Vice President Mike…

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27 Oct

Borat 2: How Maria Bakalova Steals the Movie as Tutar

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Fans and critics have now had the weekend to digest Borat 2–aka Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan–and reactions have been mostly positive, with widespread praise being heaped on Maria Bakalova, the unexpected highlight of the movie. Bakalova, a virtually unknown actor, appears in the film as Tutar, Borat’s daughter. Everyone familiar with Sacha Baron Cohen’s work knows that he can commit to zany characters, even in the face of powerful, unsuspecting targets and real-life danger, but Bakalova’s ability to do the same, and with her surprisingly poignant…

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26 Oct

Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani ‘Tucking Shirt’ Excuse is Irrelevant

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Having been online for a little more than a weekend, the climax to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat 2—or its full title of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan—has already become the stuff of legend. Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, once dubiously titled “America’s Mayor,” and current personal attorney of President Donald Trump, appeared to be sticking his hand down his pants while in the hotel room of a young woman. At least that’s  how the news started trickling out last week when the review embargo…

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22 Oct

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Review: Rare Win For a Legacy Sequel

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The increase in open racism, sexism, and asinine conspiracy theories in America over the past four years may be shocking to some, but anyone who watched Sacha Baron Cohen’s first feature film appearance as Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev should not have been surprised. Playing a dimwitted foreigner with a thick-accent, Baron Cohen expressed anti-Semitic, misogynistic, and all-around vile views and the real-life Americans he encountered either were too polite to denounce his wrongheadedness or reveled in hearing someone express their ugliest ideas out loud. At the end of the Bush era, Borat unveiled both deep indifference to and shocking endorsement…

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21 Oct

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

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14 years later, Kazakh TV talking head Borat is once again dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 23, 2020

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21 Oct

Borat 2 Puts Rudy Giuliani at the Center of His Own October Surprise

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This article features Borat Subsequent Moviefilm spoilers. Like many, I admit I was skeptical upon hearing the news that Sacha Baron Cohen was making Borat 2, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, no less. But less than a month later, and a handful of days before its Amazon Prime premiere, I stand corrected. It seems Borat is the exact kind of October Surprise we need this election year… or at least the one we deserve. Look no further than details about Rudy Giuliani lying in a bed with his hands allegedly near his crotch. As revealed in a report filed in…

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01 Oct

Borat 2 Trailer and Release Date on Amazon Prime Confirmed

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Borat 2: Subsequent Moviefilm is coming to Amazon Prime Video on Friday, October 23rd, and a first proper trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s hurriedly-filmed project attempts to give us an idea of what we’re in for, but …we probably still aren’t ready for what we’re about to get. The existence of a sequel to Baron Cohen’s 2006 comedy vehicle Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was officially confirmed in late September after being produced in relative secret, and was first announced as Borat! Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make…

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29 Sep

Borat 2 Picked Up by Amazon, Will Premiere in October

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There is a moment that I will always treasure in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and it may not be one that immediately springs to your mind. It’s not when Borat goes into an American religious community, nor is it when he wrestles his husky sidekick in the nude. Rather Sacha Baron Cohen, in his complete Borat regalia on the Upper West Side, squats over a sign that says “Trump International Hotel.” In recent years, the scene provides the occasional cackle, and apparently Baron Cohen is determined to do that again in long-form…

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09 Sep

Borat 2 Reportedly Filmed and Already Screening for Audiences

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You want to know about something that’s very nice? Well, depending on your opinion of 2006’s Borat, that’s exactly what you might be saying right now with reports that Borat 2 is not only in the works, but it’s also in the can. That’s at least what a new report from Jeff Sneider at Collider suggests. While specifics are exceedingly scarce, Sneider reported that social media rumors about Sacha Baron Cohen portraying the character of Borat again on the streets of Los Angeles in August are true, and further the film is already wrapped. Indeed, the website elaborates the film…

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