Month: January 2020

move close Now Playing Up Next 2020 Golden Globes Fashion Predictions Three cheers for the 2020 awards season!  The countdown to to the Golden Globes is officially on, but first we turn our attention to the 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The annual event draws scores of celebrities as they continue promoting their critically-acclaimed projects,
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American actor Jacob Reynolds is best known for playing glue-huffing Solomon — who hangs around and huffs glue with the downright evil teenager, Tummler played by Nick Sutton — in Harmony Korine‘s 1997 cult masterpiece, “Gummo.” Other standout actors in the provocative film are Jacob Sewell as the frail Bunny Boy, Daniel Martin as Jarrod
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The Trump administration has made no secret of its antipathy for immigrants, embodied by campaign-hyped plans for a border wall, an endless stream of dark anti-immigrant rhetoric, and ICE raids that swept up workers in factories and farms last year. But the Trump business empire has taken a completely different approach to immigration, hiring undocumented
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Big Tech has come under more scrutiny than ever in recent months—including from its own employees. But as workers from Silicon Valley’s biggest behemoths start speaking out against the practices of their employers, the companies are also starting to fight back. Just weeks after Google made headlines for allegedly retaliating against employees involved with union
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Looking for your new favorite indie-folk artist? Look no further than SOAK. Born Bridie Monds-Watson, SOAK (which is a combination of “soul” and “folk”) is a 23-year-old Northern Irish singer-songwriter from Derry fighting for gay rights — and making really incredible music while doing it. The soulful prodigy released her debut album, Before We Forgot
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David Young’s debut novel, Stasi Child, won the CWA Historical Dagger when it was published in 2016. Since then, his Stasi novels have been sold in 11 territories around the world. They feature Karin Müller, a detective in the People’s Police in East Germany and are crime thrillers that also highlight the challenges and compromises
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TV producer Jenji Kohan and writer Christopher Noxon remembered their son Charlie Noxon, who died Tuesday in a Park City, Utah, skiing accident, as “questioning, irreverent, curious and kind,” calling his death at age 20 “an unfathomable tragedy.” Kohan, who created Showtime’s Weeds and Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black, and Christopher Noxon, whose writing
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It’s safe to say that 2019 was kind of an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the horror genre. That’s what made making this list this much harder. But here we go, this is the Top 10 Horror Films of 2019.  Before we get into the list though there has to be an honorable
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EXCLUSIVE: Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s Ford V Ferrari has revved its engines past the $200M mark globally, accelerating to $200.6M through Monday. The split is $106.6M domestic and $94M at the international box office. Disney is handling the awards-season contender that reps the sort of movies Fox has excelled at making. Directed by James Mangold
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