As Season Nine of Southern Charm gets underway, Austen Kroll can’t help but feel a bit nervous — and anyone who has watched the trailer for the season, or even just the first episode alone, can understand why. The season’s main storyline revolves around an alleged hookup between Kroll and …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro Confirms He Almost Directed 'Star Wars' Film
The world was nearly gifted a Guillermo del Toro-directed a Star Wars film several years ago, revealed screenwriter David S. Goyer. During a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confusedpodcast, host Josh Horowitz asked Goyer which major franchise he would love to work with. “I wrote an un-produced ‘Star Wars’ …
Read More »Jon Stewart Crashes 'Strike Force Five' Podcast to Roast John Oliver
“I want to make one thing clear off the bat: Not a fan. Not a fan of the podcast,” offered Jon Stewart. “Tried to get through the first one. Not a fan.” Yes, the seventh episode of Strike Force Five, a Spotify podcast featuring late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, …
Read More »Watch Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke Star in 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial' Trailer
Showtime has released a trailer for The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, the final film from writer/director WilliamFriedkin. The movie, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, follows a U.S. naval first officer who’s standing trial for orchestrating a mutiny after his captain shows signs of becoming unhinged and jeopardizes the …
Read More »'It Lives Inside' Is More Metaphor Than Horror Movie
What the fuck is in that jar? That’s the first question that It Lives Inside throws at you, and the one that has Samida (Never Have I Ever‘s Megan Suri) wondering if it has something to do with the odd behavior of her classmate, Tamira (Mohana Krishnan). Once upon a …
Read More »'Squid Game' Gets Real in Teaser for Netflix's 'The Challenge' Reality Competition
Netflix has shared the first teaser for their controversial Squid Game: The Challenge, a reality competition that turns the hit South Korean television show into a last-person-standing battle for $4.56 million. In the teaser, 456 real people attempt to “survive” the show’s now-infamous deadly children’s games, like “Red Light, Green …
Read More »The Animal-Rights Activist Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Dolphin
During Becky Milligan’s more than three decades as a journalist, she still remembers her encounter with a bottlenose dolphin, Freddie, that touched people in the British seaside town of Amble in the mid-1980s and 1990s. Freddie was all people talked about. Crowds waved and cheered from the pier as Freddie …
Read More »Watch Steve Martin Belt Out 'Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It' for 'Only Murders in the Building'
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Steve Martin delighted fans of Hulu series Only Murders in the Building with an immaculate delivery of “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” — a patter song written specifically for the show. After struggling to conquer the tongue twister for Oliver Putnam’s (played by Martin Short) …
Read More »Late-Night Hosts Cancel 'Strike Force Three' Live Show as Jimmy Kimmel Tests Positive for Covid
The Strike Force Three live event scheduled for this weekend has been canceled after Jimmy Kimmel tested positive for Covid-19. Kimmel was set to host the event alongside Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert at the Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Sept. 23. “Well, Las Vegas, I …
Read More »How 'Cassandro' Turns the 'Liberace of Lucha Libre' Into an LGBTQ Icon
In the larger-than-life world of lucha libre, there are “technicos” (good guys who fight for truth, justice, and the rule-abiding way) and there are “rudos” (villains who lie, cheat, and steal victories). There’s also a third category that’s neither hero nor heel, however, and that’s the “exotico.” A relatively late …
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