After That ‘70s Show‘s Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for two counts of forcible rape, several of his sitcom co-stars spoke highly of the actor and prominent Scientologist. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were among the 50 people who wrote letters to the judge …
Read More »'The Drew Barrymore Show' Finds Itself at the Center of the Strike
The Drew Barrymore Show resumed filming in the midst of the dual writers’ and actors’ strike, sparking criticism from the show’s writers who picketed outside the studio on Monday. The Writers Guild of America East also confirmed in a statement on Twitter, “The Drew Barrymore Show is a WGA covered, …
Read More »'Daryl Dixon' Finally Gives Us a Fun 'Walking Dead' Spinoff
The zombieverse was a much different place when AMC’s The Walking Dead jerked and growled to life back in 2010 at what seemed like the crest of a wave for the genre. There was still ample room to grow, with takes both serious (28 Weeks Later) and comedic (Zombieland) in …
Read More »'Dream Scenario' Is Bald Nicolas Cage's Cancel-Culture Nightmare
Think about some of the weirdest dreams you’ve ever had. Maybe you were perched on a dining room table while hungry alligators slithered toward you. Or the one where you’re sitting by a swimming pool as various objects fall from the sky. Or that nightmare where a tall, terrifying man …
Read More »Drew Barrymore Explains Why She's Bringing Back Talk Show Amid Strikes: 'I Own This Choice'
Drew Barrymore confirmed in a statement Sunday that her talk show will resume this month despite the ongoing writers strike that has shut down both daytime and late-night. Back in May, Barrymore stood in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America when she dropped out of the MTV Movie & …
Read More »Paul Reubens, Actor Best Known as Pee-wee Herman, Cause of Death Confirmed
Paul Reubens, the actorwho created and portrayedPee-wee Herman, was battling two forms of cancer at the time of his death. The primary type, which was listed as a sequential underlying cause, was acute myelogenous leukemia, and the actor had also been been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, according to his …
Read More »An Orgy of Dicks, Ketamine, and Class Warfare
The solipsism of artists and influencers offers infinite variations on self-lacerating lampoon, and Sebastian Silva’s new film Rotting in the Sun comes up with a dandy. Here Silva, the Chilean filmmaker best known in the States for the Michael Cera psychedelic quest movie Crystal Fairy & the Magic Cactus, creates …
Read More »'Fade Into Nothing': Netflix DVD Subscribers Aren't Ready to Move On
Oswaldo Quinones has looked forward to receiving red envelopes in his mailbox for almost two decades. He subscribed to Netflix’s DVD service back in 2004, around the same time Blockbuster reached its peak with 9,000 global stores (and not long after Blockbuster turned down an offer to buy Netflix for …
Read More »Kurt Russell Hunts the Origins of Godzilla in 'Monarch' Trailer
After wreaking havoc on the big screen for nearly 70 years, Godzilla will finally invade televisions in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The 10-episode series, premiering globally on November 17, stars Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt Russell (playing the same character across decades) as an …
Read More »Nickelback Doc 'Hate to Love' Is the Nickelback of Rock Docs
It is easy to shit on Nickelback. Too easy, some might say. The question is really: Why? What, exactly, is it about this Canadian group that inspires such ill will? Their overwhelming success? Lots of bands are successful, for all of the right and wrong reasons. Their hits? No one’s …
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