Jon Stewart returned to the Daily Show on Monday night with the opening line: “Now, where was I?” The host has taken up the chair at the satirical news program on a part-time basis through the 2024 election season and will be hosting Monday night’s broadcast, with a roster of …
Read More »Sophie Ellis-Bextor Makes U.S. TV Debut With 'Murder on the Dancefloor' on 'Fallon'
Sophie Ellis-Bextor brought the party to The Tonight Show with a lively rendition of her hit “Murder on the Dancefloor.” The confetti-filled performance marked Ellis-Bextor’s U.S. TV debut, decades after the song’s release in 2001. The singer was accompanied by house band the Roots, with the excited audience dancing along. …
Read More »Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon Revive 'Barbie' Characters to Promote Oscars
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel enlisted the Barbie cast to help him make his way to the awards show. In a new clip, which aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Helen Mirren narrates the tale of a man (Kimmel) lost on his way to the Oscars. He enlists help from Weird Barbie …
Read More »Katy Perry to Exit 'American Idol' After 7 Seasons: 'I Want to Go and See the World'
The upcoming 22nd season of American Idol will mark Katy Perry‘s last as a judge. The singer announced her exit from the hit singing competition series after seven seasons during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night. When asked how long she planned to stay on the judging panel, …
Read More »'Madame Web' Isn't As Bad As You've Heard. It's So Much Worse
Trailers are designed to stir up excitement, the amuse-bouche that whets your appetite for the three-course meal. Occasionally, the oldest marketing trick in the book backfires. When Sony dropped a sneak peek at Madame Web, the newest addition to the company’s roster of Spider-Man–related films and another of their corporate …
Read More »How Taylor Tomlinson Conquered Comedy — and Her Fear of Death
A s anyone who’s laughed uncomfortably at Taylor Tomlinson’s “dead mom” jokes is well aware, her mother died of cancer when she was eight years old. (She used to tell friends her parents were separated — which they were, she argued onstage, “by Jesus.”) Tomlinson’s mom lived to be just …
Read More »Millie Bobby Brown Faces a Dragon in the New 'Damsel' Trailer
Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown is entering another kind of Upside Down. In the Damsel trailer released Tuesday, Elodie, a disgraced princess, attempts to survive an impossible fate. After a damsel (Brown) agrees to marry a prince, her body is chucked into a cave home to a fire-breathing dragon — …
Read More »The Viral 'Madame Web' Line Isn't Even in the Movie
So much movie-making these days seems tragically engineered towards ginning up that one perfect shot, expression, quote, needle drop, or moment that’ll go bonkers viral and juice the box office receipts. But as any student of the extremely online will tell you, rarely can you manufacture these memes. They must …
Read More »Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg Are Shaggy Beasts in 'Sasquatch Sunset' Trailer
Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg shape-shift into shaggy, mythical beasts in the absurdist comedy Sasquatch Sunset. Less than a minute into Bleecker Street’s Sasquatch Sunset trailer, one bearded sasquatch dry humps another in a North American forest. The trailer then follows the family of ape-like creatures as they forage, hike, …
Read More »Prince Andrew's Infamous Epstein Interview Is Being Turned Into a Netflix Movie
Prince Andrew’s damning, mortifying, and horrifying interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — and the allegations brought against him by Epstein trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre — is getting the Netflix movie treatment. Scoop, out April 5, will recount how the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview came about, with Gillian Anderson …
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