Month: December 2021

Fender has tapped the My Chemical Romance bandleader to help release a new guitar pulled from Kurt Cobain’s sketches.  By Eileen Cartter December 17, 2021 Photographs courtesy Getty Images; Collage by Gabe Conte Research says age 14 marks a sweet spot in our cognitive development when the pop culture we gravitate towards—movies, books, fashion, and
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A dynamic duo! Over the weekend, Tiger Woods and his 12-year-old son Charlie Woods took the PNC Championship by storm. On Saturday, Dec. 18, the father-son duo played in the competitive golf tournament in Orlando, Fla. at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. The annual two-day exhibition event pairs pro golfers with their family members. To kick off the tournament, the 45-year-old
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Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in
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It’s been a stellar year for crime fiction – no wonder sales of mysteries and thriller titles are still going up. Even the pandemic isn’t dampening the desire for the thrills and spills that come with a good crime novel. My CFL top five reviews of the year reflects some to the diversity the genre
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Who says people love to stay home and stream movies? Proving that theatrical is still king, Sony/Disney/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rang up a massive $50M, the third highest preview night ever, and the most money Sony has ever seen for a Thursday preview night that easily buries the previous high we’ve seen during the pandemic, that
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New Trailer for Dark Star Pictures ACHOURA Available on Digital and DVD December 14 IT meets THE BABADOOK in director Talal Selhami’s ACHOURA, premiering on DVD and Digital December 14 from Dark Star Pictures. Following raves at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival and more, North America gets to now witness the
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News Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek, and Christine and the Queens Saturday Night Live Performance Canceled The show announced it would limit cast and crew in studio and broadcast without an audience By Allison Hussey December 18, 2021 Facebook Twitter Charli XCX attends the iHeartRadio Z100 Jingle Ball 2021 Pre-Show on December 10, 2021 in New
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In the wake of playing the wise and balanced god of the universe, Doctor Manhattan, in HBO’s Watchmen, a role which earned Yahya Abdul-Mateen II a Primetime Emmy for supporting actor in a limited series, the actor has accumulated a resume of socially philosophical protagonists including Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7, Anthony
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Saturday Night Live’s Christmas episode was largely curtailed as a result of Covid. The long-running NBC series aired a handful of original sketches with host Paul Rudd as well as a Tina Fey co-hosted Weekend Update. But it filled the time with a slew of classic old clips. Tom Hanks, joining the show in a
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Humanity creates A.I., relies heavily on A.I. in every aspect of daily living, and becomes horrified when a triggering event causes A.I. to turn on its creators. An apocalyptic war between humans and machines ensues. That basic premise applies to numerous dystopian sci-fi movies over the decades, and Mother/Android emerges as the latest. Despite its familiarity, writer/director Mattson
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