Riri Williams, who suits up as the titular heroine of the new Marvel Cinematic Universe series Ironheart, insists that her plans are much grander than flying around in a suit of armor inspired by Iron Man’s. Her technology, she boasts, will transform the world, and will be, as she says …
Read More »'Love Island' Urges Fans to 'Be Kind' to Islanders in Second Warning About Cyberbullying
Love Island USA viewers spend five nights a week checking in on the islanders looking for love in the villa. For a series that runs for six weeks, this is more than enough time to develop emotional investments in the fate of strangers-turned-reality stars. Without access to phones, the islanders …
Read More »Mariska Hargitay Says Playing Olivia Benson Helped Her Open Up About Her Own Sexual Assault
Mariska Hargitay spoke about how her years of playing Detective Olivia Benson and acting out stories centered on sexual violence on Law & Order: SVU helped give her the “deep compassion and empathy and understanding” to finally talk about her own experience with sexual violence. In an essay for People …
Read More »'M3GAN 2.0' Is Exactly 0.0 Percent Watchable
Horror sequels tend to operate on a rinse-and-repeat cycle: You loved it when Michael/Jason/Freddy/Ghostface/Chuckie did the thing. Now here’s them doing it for the second time. Or the third. Or the 10th. Occasionally, creators get ambitious and/or ridiculous — hey, let’s do a crossover! And then send one of them …
Read More »Diego Luna Slams Trump's Immigration Policies: 'Too Many People Live in Fear'
Diego Luna stepped in as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and took the opportunity to criticize Donald Trump‘s “unfair” approach to immigration. “Tonight, I want to address an important issue that is happening here in Los Angeles and all around the United States,” Luna said during his …
Read More »Copaganda and Me
The police are the good guys, or so I thought as a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s and 1990s when just about everything I knew about policing came from what I watched on television. Long before I had ever heard the word “copaganda,” I had little …
Read More »Pedro Pascal Won't Stand for Anti-Trans Comments From J.K. Rowling or Any Other 'Bullies'
The general consensus is that Pedro Pascal wasn’t in the wrong for referring to J.K. Rowling‘s relentless spewing of anti-trans rhetoric as “heinous loser behavior” earlier this year. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, his own sister Javiera Balmaceda backed his stance, saying, “But it is heinous loser behavior. …
Read More »Jonathan Bailey Explains Why He Keeps Kissing Scarlett Johansson: 'Life's Too Short Not To'
Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey are super-friendly co-stars. So friendly, in fact, that they have shared a kiss on two occasions during premieres for their upcoming film, Jurassic World: Rebirth. Most recently, the actors caused a stir at the movie’s premiere in New York when they quickly locked lips in …
Read More »Ezra Miller Has 'a Lot of Remorse and Lamentation' for Past Wrongdoings
Ezra Miller reflected on the numerous controversies surrounding their career in an interview with Italian outlet Lo Speciale Giornale. In the interview, filmed during the Cannes Film Festival in May and published on June 19, Miller (who uses they/them pronouns) explained why they joined the red carpet for Lynne Ramsey’s …
Read More »Margaret Cho Says Ellen DeGeneres Was 'Really Weird and Not Nice' to Her
Margaret Cho described her strained relationship with Ellen DeGeneres during an appearance on a new episode of The Kelly Mantle Show. The comedian said DeGeneres always treated her like a stranger when she came on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, despite the fact that they had been around each other for …
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