Just hours after Gilbert Gottfried‘s family announced his death on Twitter, his verified account began linking to an amateur porn star’s OnlyFans and leading people to follow a rap stan account on Instagram. The comedian’s Twitter bio had been changed to “hacked by” and an Instagram handle just several hours …
Read More »'Game of Thrones' Prequel Series 'House of the Dragon' Sets Summer Premiere Date
House of the Dragon, HBO’s much-anticipated prequel series to their hit Game of Thrones, has set the premiere date for its first season: Sunday, August 21. The new show is based onGeorge R.R. Martin’s 2018 bookFire and Blood, a companion to theA Song of Ice and Fireseries that inspiredGame of …
Read More »Why 'Flee' Deserves to Win All Three of Its Major Oscar Categories
It’s not unusual for a film to be nominated in multiple categories at the Oscars — a big movie like, say, Dune is up for 10 awards this year, ranging from Best Picture to a slew of technical categories (how many or how much of those likely wins we’ll actually …
Read More »Marilyn Manson's 'Blood Pact' With Evan Rachel Wood and 13 Other Things We Learned From 'Phoenix Rising'
A little over a year ago, Evan Rachel Wood released a statement claiming Marilyn Manson “started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years.” Her words followed years of speculation in which she spoke of suffering sexual abuse at the hands of a significant other …
Read More »'Winning Time' Recap: A Changing of the Guards
A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Is That All There Is?” coming up just as soon as you come back with a real business plan… Among the many conflicts that Winning Time established in its series premiere was incumbent Lakers coach Jerry West’s opposition to drafting Magic Johnson with …
Read More »'Yellowstone' Actor Forrie J. Smith to Skip SAG Awards Over Vaccine Requirement
The Hollywood awards season drama over Covid-19 safety protocols continues as Yellowstone actor Forrie J. Smith says he would rather skip the Screen Actors Guild Awards than get vaccinated. The SAG Awards ceremony, set for later this month, requires all attendees to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19. However, Smith, …
Read More »'Inventing Anna' Can't Catch the Scammer at Its Center
The new Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna presents the story of Anna Sorokin (played by Julia Garner), who posed as a European heiress named Anna Delvey and scammed her way through Manhattan high society. Thanks to the reporting of Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky), Anna becomes a social-media cause célèbre, praised and …
Read More »Work Is Hell in 'Severance'
In the engrossing new Apple TV+ thriller Severance, Adam Scott plays Mark, a man who literally has no life outside of work — well, half the time, anyway. Let me explain. The show takes place in a world where corporate employees can volunteer for a “severance” procedure that completely separates …
Read More »Watch Anxiety-Inducing Trailer For Marvel's 'Moon Knight'
Fans aching for a new franchise to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe won’t have to wait much longer, as the trailer for Moon Knight dropped Monday night. The show, which premieres March 30 on Disney+, stars Oscar Isaac as Stephen Grant, a museum gift shop employee who discovers he has dissociative identity …
Read More »Melanie Lynskey Is Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore. Maybe.
There’s a moment in the pilot of Yellowjackets — Showtime’s Nineties-nostalgia-evoking, deeply disturbing cult-hit about a group of high school soccer players who survive a plane crash in the Ontario wilderness — when one of the survivors, Shauna (played by Melanie Lynskey), meets another, Taissa (Tawny Cypress) at a diner. …
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