On Sept. 6, Netflix will debut Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America, a documentary about how one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S. — with over 700,000 members — tried to cover up one of the most widespread child sexual abuse scandals in …
Read More »Randall Park Fought Like Hell to Get Here
Randall Park is seemingly everywhere nowadays. He’s FBI Agent Jimmy Woo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, popping up in this year’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and the upcoming The Marvels. Over in the DC Extended Universe, you can see his Dr. Stephen Shin, who’ll feature in the Christmas release …
Read More »SAG-AFTRA Ceases Approval of Indie Projects Under WGA Contract
After SAG-AFTRA received backlash for approving 207 indie projects to continue filming during the actors-writers strike, the union announced on Monday that it will no longer give permission to independent projects that fall under the WGA contract. Jason Bateman, Anne Hathaway, and Matthew McConaughey were among the celebrities tied to …
Read More »Netflix's 'Depp v. Heard' Casts the Trial of the Decade in a New Light
On August 16th, Netflix will debut Depp v. Heard, a three-part docuseries about the infamous Virginia defamation trial between actor-exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Though the seven-week trial wrapped on June 1, 2022, with the court finding Heard liable on three counts of defamation (awarding Depp $10.35 million in …
Read More »HBO's 'Telemarketers' Exposes a Billion-Dollar Scam the Cops Are in On
Sam Lipman-Stern was 14, he’d just dropped out of ninth grade, and he needed a job stat. There wasn’t a host of options for an underage kid in New Jersey in terms of gainful employment, and his main interests at the time — skating, graffiti, filming his friends on his …
Read More »Inside 'The Shark Is Broken,' the Meta Play About the Making of 'Jaws'
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A man goes to make a movie about a shark. He decides to shoot on the ocean instead of a tank on a soundstage, to give it that extra sense of realism. Virtually everything that can go wrong does go wrong, including …
Read More »What Hollywood Strikers Can Learn From the Porn Industry
Performers are making the most in industry history. If you’re following the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, this may sound shocking, but I’m not talking about mainstream Hollywood. I’m referring to the so-called “Other Hollywood” — the porn industry, which is in the midst of a financial renaissance thanks to big …
Read More »Why 'Winter Kills' Is the Perfect Conspiracy Thriller for the QAnon Era
The ’70s were the perfect time to be paranoid: rumors of government-sanctioned assassinations here and abroad, second-gunman theories around dead presidents, whispers of elite secret societies pulling strings, that whole Watergate thing. It wafted in the air like yesterday’s tear gas. The movies picked up the vibe and amplified it. …
Read More »'Drag Race' Star Pearl Apologizes After Blackface Accusations: 'Not My Intention'
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Pearl has apologized after being accused of doing blackface. On Thursday, the drag performer shared an image of herself as a character she says was “inspired by Caucasian people,” but many believed the makeup she chose was too dark and emulated Black skin tones. “I’d like …
Read More »How to Watch 'Big Brother' Season 25 Online (And Where to Catch Up on Past Seasons)
Quick Answer: You can watch Big Brother season 25 online without cable by getting a subscription to DirecTV Stream or Paramount+. Buy Free Trial Paramount+ Big Brother is back. Now a few episodes into its 25th season, the long-running reality show is already delivering excitementand, recently, some serious controversy: Housemate …
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