Ellie Goulding has been reflecting on how things have changed in the music industry since she got her start in 2010. In a new interview with BBC Radio 4, the British pop star reflected on how the #MeToo movement ended up helping the music industry and effect change in how …
Read More »How Little Brother and Rap Portraits Made One of The Year's Best Music Documentaries
For some, life is a series of chance meetings with historical consequences. Little Brother, the trio comprised of rapper/singer Phonte, rapper Big Pooh, and (formerly) producer 9th Wonder met on the campus of North Carolina Central University and went on to craft one of rap’s most beloved catalogs. Their story …
Read More »Trump Demands MAGA Group Give Him 'Millions.' That's Not Legal, Experts Say
His former aide has been making bank off his name for years and he wants his cut, right now. At least that’s how former President Donald Trump sees it. “It’s my fucking money!” the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner privately vented in October, referring to an alleged sum in the tens …
Read More »Taylor Swift Fan at Brazil Concert Died of Heat Exhaustion
The cause of death for Ana Clara Benevides, the 23-year-old Swiftie who died at Taylor Swift‘s concert in Rio de Janeiro, has been revealed. The AP obtained a copy of a forensics report Wednesday, Dec. 27, confirming that Benevides died of heat exhaustion. The Forensic Medical Institute in Rio said …
Read More »Tucker Carlson's Quest for a Digital Empire Is Getting Weird
On Christmas Eve, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a “surprise” collaboration with disgraced actor Kevin Spacey. During the interview, Spacey, who earlier this year was acquitted on charges of sexual assault brought against him by several young men, embodied his House of Cards character Frank Underwood and delivered …
Read More »'Parasite' Star Lee Sun-kyun Dead at 48
Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor best known internationally for his performance in Parasite, died Wednesday, Dec. 27, in Seoul, The New York Times reports. He was 48. Lee’s body was found in a parked car, not long after his manager had reported him missing. Authorities are investigating his death …
Read More »'It's Not a History Lesson, It's a Warning': Inside the Making of 'The Zone of Interest'
Jonathan Glazer was, by his own admission, a little lost. The writer-director behind Sexy Beast and Under the Skin had been chasing an unformed idea for a movie for years, uncertain of where he would go with the story or what he wanted to say about the subject. “It wasn’t …
Read More »Greta Lee First Got Rejected from 'Past Lives' Casting. Then They Wanted Someone 'Older'
Sometimes what’s meant for you ends up finding you months later. In a new interview with Deadline, actress Greta Lee spoke about getting cast as Nora Moon for Celine Song‘s Past Lives almost a year after first being rejected from the role. In the interview, Lee explained that she received …
Read More »2023 Was the Year of the Reality TV Villain
It was the reality TV scandal to end all scandals. So earth-shaking that it got its own hashtag: #Scandoval. In early March, just a few episodes into the tenth season of Vanderpump Rules, it was sensationally revealed that Tom Sandoval — the worm-mustached cover-band lead and minority-stake West Hollywood bar …
Read More »'American Fiction': How Cord Jefferson Took on Hollywood and Won
Cord Jefferson wants to tell a quick story. It involves something that happened to a friend of his, although the writer-director of American Fiction is quick to point out that the incident in question could have easily happened to any number of Black creatives he knows, or for that matter, …
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