Month: March 2020

Artsploitation Film’s Obsession with Death Continues As the Award-Winning Dead Dicks and The Dead Ones Are Acquired for US Distribution Artsploitation Films has announced the acquisition of two new genre films: The Dead Ones, an American Indie horror directed by Jeremy Kasten and the award-winning sci/fi-horror Dead Dicks. Both will be released later this summer
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Donald Trump addressed the press Saturday to discuss the ongoing coronavirus crisis and, for a long stretch, he was relatively calm and mature, at least by Trump standards. It was not a repeat of Friday’s temper tantrum, in which he responded to NBC’s Peter Alexander‘s reasonable question about the American public’s worries by calling him
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Deadline has confirmed that Rosario Dawson is making an appearance on the second season of Disney+’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Production on season 2 has already wrapped. While many have remained silent about Dawson’s casting, what we know at this time is that it’s not a series regular role. It remains to be officially confirmed
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The long-running British avant-garde music magazine The Wire has announced it has opened its online archives to the public for the next week. “We’re giving everyone one week’s FREE access to our online archive containing every issue of The Wire ever published,” a tweet reads. “That’s more than 430 issues to while away the time.”
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Harry Langdon/Getty Images The music world has lost another legend: Country Hall of Famer Kenny Rogers has died at age 81. “The Rogers family is sad to announce that Kenny Rogers passed away last night at 10:25PM at the age of 81,” the Grammy-winning singer’s rep said in a statement on Saturday. “Rogers passed away peacefully at
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Exclusive Details Hollywood’s movie theater and valet workers are in major crisis mode now that their job opportunities have completely dried up. We’re told it’s been especially devastating to valet companies that have contracts with high-end restaurants because with restaurants closed for in-seating service … that means valet attendants have no cars to park. Those
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With a new world order shaped by the novel coronavirus pandemic, many of us are stuck inside our homes trying not to go insane from lack of human interaction, while helplessly waiting for a deadly disease to potentially ravage ourselves, our loved ones, and our livelihoods. People who have lost their jobs can’t even hug
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A new challenge has swiftly made its way around social media. Nope, this isn’t the ALS ice bucket challenge that saw celebs like Anne Hathaway, Bill Gates and Taylor Swift willingly chuck buckets of ice-cold water over each others heads to promote awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (though that one helped raise over £100 million
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Published in 1922, H.P. Lovecraft‘s short story Celephaïs is the author’s latest work that’s headed to the screen, with Dream Apex Pictures revealing exclusively to Bloody Disgusting this week that they’re currently turning the story into a short independent film. The team tells us, “The story is a mix of dark fantasy and horror that
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EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld has responded to yesterday’s letter from fired staff calling for the company to reconsider the mass redundancies it made this week due to the impact of the coronavirus. As we revealed yesterday, more than 240 UK workers who were let go by the exhibition giant wrote to group CEO Mooky Greidinger calling for
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Country music star Kenny Rogers died Friday night in Sandy Springs, Georgia. He was 81. According to a statement posted by his family on Twitter, the singer, songwriter, actor and producer passed away at 10:25PM “peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family.” Rogers, the crooner with
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Through some incredibly creative fan art, Star Wars fans can catch a glimpse of what Rosario Dawson could look like as Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian season 2. It was recently announced that the actress would portray a live-action version of Ahsoka in the upcoming season of the popular Disney+ series. Dawson is known for many roles, including her time on Daredevil and the animated film Wonder
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On the Radar — We’re living in troubled times, and as we all struggle to come to terms with what’s happening in the here-and-now it’s mighty tempting to hark back to the past. But were the good old days really all they’re cracked up to be? Judging by this week’s crop of new releases, the
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So you made it through Dry January (bravo!) and probably realised that cutting down on alcohol isn’t as complex or terrifying as you might have thought, right? It seems you’re not alone. ‘Mindful Sobriety’ is a burgeoning health trend that sees health-conscious millennials combining the practise of mindfulness with sobriety to cut back on their
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