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Photo: David M. Benett/Dave Benett (Getty Images) Move over, deer in headlights: We’ve got a new expression to convey “an almost paralyzed level of shock at some overpowering oncoming horror,” and it turns out that it’s “Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke being asked if she’s watched House Of The Dragon yet.” Clarke was (very […]
Marlee MatlinPhoto: Unique Nicole (Getty Images) Marlee Matlin took time out of her busy day at Sundance today—where she’s serving on the festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition jury—to call out kids music brand Kidz Bop, saying that she’s “pissed” over the way the company is treating its first deaf performer. Specifically, Matlin spoke on behalf of […]
Game Of Thrones “The Long Night”Image: HBO We’ve all been there. You tune into a show, often something in the fantasy or sci-fi genre, and you end up squinting at the screen because you can hardly make out what’s happening. Game Of Thrones is a notorious repeat offender (the season-eight episode “The Long Night” is […]
Mia GothPhoto: Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images) It’s not often that a new horror franchise blasts into the mainstream with as much force as Ti West’s X trilogy, which is set to wrap up with the ‘80s-inspired MaXXXine later this year from A24. But for all of the accolades afforded to ‘70s slasher X and its technicolor […]
Forrest Gump – Trailer There are people who consider Forrest Gump among the best studio films ever produced, and there are folks who consider it perhaps the most overrated Oscar winner in history, up there with Crash and Around The World In 80 Days. Whether you love or hate the Robert Zemeckis-directed, decades-spanning dramedy, Hanks […]
RuPaul’s Drag RaceScreenshot: MTV The return to the werkroom after the first elimination on RuPaul’s Drag Race is always sobering for the queens. This week is no different after Irene’s somewhat surprising elimination. While Irene left a mysterious message, the queens quickly turn to some salacious information from Untucked about Robin and Amethyst. They both firmly […]
Daveed DiggsPhoto: TNT Well, this is just getting goddamn ridiculous at this point: Deadline reports that yet another network has decided to shitcan one of its shows, after already filming an entire season of it, with news breaking today that the fourth season of Snowpiercer won’t be airing on TNT. (Which, shock of shocks, is […]
In the fall of 2019, the world was a different place. Donald Trump was the U.S. President, there was no COVID-19 pandemic, and former MMA fighter Gina Carano was a rising film and TV actor set to star in a Mandalorian spin-off. Years later, inspired by a heady cultural and political atmosphere that compelled lots […]