In the first official trailer for their upcoming horror-comedy film Studio 666, the Foo Fighters gain a seventh member — that is, if the paranormal demon possessing Dave Grohl’s body and trying to kill his fellow bandmates counts toward the lineup. Directed by BJ McDonnell, Studio 666 takes some creative …
Read More »Juice WRLD Documentary Shows the Promise, Personality, and Downfall of a Generational Talent
When Rolling Stone profiled Future in January 2019, he admitted that he had some regrets about the way he’d rapped about drugs in the past. “I was like ‘Oh shit. What the fuck have I done?’” he said. “It really bothered me…. How many other sixth-graders did I influence to …
Read More »'Succession' Recap: Logan Roy Goes Full Fascist
A review of “What It Takes,” this week’s episode of Succession, coming up just as soon as I throw cake batter at a brick wall… “What It Takes” borrows its title from Richard Ben Cramer’s 1992 political nonfiction opus What It Takes: The Way to the White House, which chronicles …
Read More »'Emily in Paris' Is Back and, OK, Fine, We'll Watch
‘Tis the season to disassociate! Darren Star’s Emily in Paris is back on Dec. 22, and we’re ready to hate-watch the titular American fail up against a foreign backdrop — in heels. From what we can recall of the first season — which most of us probably watched through a …
Read More »Alec Baldwin Shares 'Rust' Crew Member's Post Denying 'Unsafe' Set Conditions
In a series of Instagram posts, Alec Baldwin offered a counter-narrative to allegations that the working conditions on the Rust film set were unsafe, leading crew members to quit the day of the shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin, who has been fairly quiet on social media since the …
Read More »How Can a Prop Gun Kill?
The tragic accidental-shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the movie Rust has raised numerous questions about safety in film productions. Chief among them: How could the use of a prop weapon or fake ammunition leave a 42-year-old mother of one dead and a colleague …
Read More »The Most Terrifying Show on TV Right Now? It's 'Midnight Mass'
The people who live on Crockett Island, roughly an hour from the mainland, population 127, are the sort of folks you’d recognize if you’ve spent any time in quaint little American villages. There are still a handful of fishermen who remember when times weren’t so lean and the place was …
Read More »'SNL' Pays Tribute to Norm Macdonald on 'Weekend Update'
Michael Che and Colin Jost paid tribute to former Saturday Night Live cast member — and Weekend Update anchor —Norm Macdonald during the first Weekend Update of the show’s 47th season. Following jokes about the R. Kelly trial, the Met Gala and a masturbating chimpanzee, Che and Jost devoted the …
Read More »Jon Bernthal's Family Values
A ll Jon Bernthal wanted to do as a young actor when he arrived in New York was get a job on The Sopranos. He wrote letters to the casting department, begged his agents constantly to get him an audition. “And I never got one,” he laments. Still, the very …
Read More »Willard Scott, Longtime 'Today' Weatherman, Dead at 87
Willard Scott, the former longtime weatherman for NBC’s Today show, has died at the age of 87. Al Roker, who succeeded Scott on the daily morning show, announced Scott’s death on Instagram Saturday. No cause of death was provided. “We lost a beloved member of our @todayshow family this morning,” …
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