TV amp; Movies

And so we go once more into the Colosseum, a place where bread and circuses reign supreme. A mad emperor, his mind slowly rotting, puts a once-mighty empire on the brink of total and utter collapse. The ruling class has gone from corruptible to corrupt. The masses are kept distracted …

The defamation lawsuit against Rebel Wilson over claims she made about producers of her directorial debut The Deb survived a key hurdle this week after a judge denied Wilson’s motion to toss the case. The Deb producers Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron, and Vince Holden sued Wilson back in July, days …

Mike Schur’s The Good Place was a cosmic epic about what happens when the universe is fundamentally broken. But it was also a four-season discussion of the best way to live a good life — for both yourself and the world around you. It just brilliantly inserted these questions of …

During Alyah Chanelle Scott’s first trip to Los Angeles in 2020, she was feeling lost in her fledgling career. Straight out of college, she’d been cast in the national tour of The Book of Mormon, the musical comedy from South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker about Mormon missionaries …

Killer. Robin Hood. Cannibal gang leader. Revolutionary. These are some of the conflicting labels that have been attached to Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, the former police officer-turned-gang chieftain at the center of Haiti’s spiraling violence. Since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse plunged the country into anarchy, mainstream news …

From the moment it went on the air in 1992 all the way to its final season in 2019, MTV’s groundbreaking reality show The Real World offered young people a simple proposition: We’ll give you 15 minutes of fame if you agree to live in a house with complete strangers …

JonBenét Ramsey’s father is urging police to “do your job” and “test the DNA” on materials left behind at his daughter’s crime scene, as the cold case is set to be revisited in a new Netflix docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? The six-year-old pageant princess’ murder has remained …

Jussie Smollett’s conviction for lying to the police about a hate crime he was accused of staging against himself was overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court. The ruling was made on procedural grounds, going back to a decision by the Cook County State Attorney’s Office to drop the case against …

The musical instrument sitting over in the corner, idle but not gathering dust, at the center of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play The Piano Lesson is more than just a piano. It’s a family heirloom, passed down several generations and proof of how their lineage endured hardship and tragedy. It’s a …

Despite acting since she was a child, leading one of Disney Channel’s topsitcoms,Wizards of Waverly Place, starring in A24cultclassic Spring Breakers, and landing Golden Globe and Emmy nods for her lead role in smash hit series Only Murders in the Buildings, Selena Gomez still has trouble convincing casting directors to …