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There are so many superhero films hitting theaters and streaming in 2022, but perhaps the one we’re most excited for is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One). After 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse stunned audiences and critics alike (and won Best Animated Feature at the 91st Academy Awards), naturally fans we’re eagerly anticipating a follow-up.

Brown’s character Taissa is at the center of some of the Showtime drama’s biggest mysteries. By Julian Kimble January 14, 2022 Jasmin Savoy Brown in Scream.Courtesy of Brownie Harris/Paramount/Everett Collection Jasmin Savoy Brown was very close to passing on Yellowjackets, Showtime’s new hit drama. “I hadn’t had auditions in months,” an extremely cozy Brown says

The concept can be expressed in different ways. It runs in the family. Like father (or mother), like son (or daughter). The apple never falls far from the tree. In every case, we’re talking about either hereditary characteristics or learned abilities passed down from parent to child. It stands to reason that if you grow

Within just a week of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker announcing their engagement in October 2021, sources have already been talking to multiple outlets about what their wedding will look like…along with their plans for life after it. Here, all we know about the couple’s evolving plans for their nuptials—and hopes of starting a family

[embedded content] Showtime has released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming science fiction series ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’, which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange) as Faraday, an alien struggling to find his purpose after crash landing on Earth. The series is based on Walter Tevis’s eponymous 1963 novel,

Citing her ongoing health issues, Céline Dion has made the tough choice to cancel the rest of the scheduled North American concerts on her Courage world tour. The Canadian singer had completed the first 52 shows of the tour before the COVID-19 pandemic began. In July of 2021, she rescheduled the last half of the

Lamar’s PGLang, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are producing a new, racially-charged comedy. By Grant Rindner January 14, 2022 Kendrick Lamar performs during Lollapalooza Buenos Aires 2019 at Hipodromo de San Isidro on March 31, 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Courtesy of Santiago Bluguermann/Getty We’re still all eagerly awaiting Kendrick Lamar’s new album, but in the

It’s been described as a “drug,” an “obsession” and a “love story.” Wordle, an online vocabulary game, is taking the internet by storm and has millions of people hooked. What is it? Wordle is deceptively simple to play, but harder to solve than it looks. The once-per-day deduction game asks players to figure out a five-letter word.

In Belfast, writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s black-and-white ode to his childhood, a young boy named Buddy (Jude Hill) escapes from his often-turbulent reality via movies. One day it’s the splashy musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the next it’s the classic Western High Noon. It becomes clear that Buddy idolizes Jamie Dornan’s Pa as his own version

Kylie Jenner may or may not have already privately welcomed her second child with Travis Scott, but the reality star offered her 301 million Instagram followers an intimate look at her baby shower ahead of the baby’s birth. With white decor and giraffe sculptures, Jenner’s shower was like any other Kardashian party: Lavishly designed and

Netflix Inc has raised its monthly subscription price in Canada by $1.50, to go from $14.99 to $16.49 for a standard plan, the company said Friday, to help pay for new programming to compete in the crowded streaming TV market. The company also raised the price for the U.S. by $1 to $2 per month, depending

A full 12 months after premiering at a virtual Sundance Film Festival, where it swept the awards and scored a record-breaking distribution deal with Apple, CODA has entered 2022 as one of the year’s strongest Oscar contenders. It’s competing against bigger-budget, studio-backed fare, from art house hits like The Power of the Dog and Licorice

Spoilers for My Hero Academia up to season 5 Yesterday, Bandai Namco announced a free-to-play battle royale game for My Hero Academia called My Hero Academia: Ultra Rumble. The news came courtesy of the latest issue of Weekly Jump Magazine. While details for the game are scarce at the moment (there’s no release date yet, for example), there are a

By Staff The Associated Press Posted January 14, 2022 9:09 am     Updated January 14, 2022 9:11 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Police are investigating after a battery report was filed Thursday against Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. The incident that

The Weeknd’s new album, Dawn FM, uses radio as a narrative device. But he’s not the first to do it. By Al Shipley January 13, 2022 Illustration by Michael Houtz. Photographs by Getty Images.  Last week, The Weeknd dropped the year’s first blockbuster album, Dawn FM. His last album, After Hours, unspooled a cinematic storyline

Before excited fans sang their hearts out to Harry Styles during Love on Tour, his cross-country tour in support of his album Fine Line, they were greeted with a question: “Who the F is Jenny Lewis?”  Illuminated on a jumbotron, the seemingly loaded inquiry hung in the air above the stage, illustrated with an outline

Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock `n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, has died. She was 78. Spector died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, her family said. “Ronnie lived

At the 74th Academy Awards in 2002, Ian McKellen gave a victory speech. Facing the black-tie audience in the Kodak Theatre, he dedicated a history-making triumph to the many young gay actors, out and not, who felt unwelcome in the industry. But McKellen wasn’t holding an Oscar, or even standing on the stage. History had

Hours after Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly personally announced the news of their engagement to the world, E! and Page Six got intel from sources about how Fox was acting after Kelly popped the question—and before they made it public. A spy told Page Six that a “giddy” Fox was seen showing off her

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are heading down the aisle. On Wednesday, the Jennifer’s Body star shared a clip on her Instagram from the day before of MGK getting down on one knee as birds sang around them. “In July of 2020 we sat under this banyan tree. We asked for magic,” Fox wrote.

For five-plus years, members of the publishing industry have grown more and more distrustful as hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts appeared to be stolen and phished from emails. What’s made this more puzzling is that the entity (assumed a group because of the scale of the fraud) collecting these manuscripts never reached out to blackmail

The armorer overseeing weapons used in the filming of the Western “Rust” sued the prop supplier on Wednesday, alleging his company distributed live ammunition on the set where police say actor Alec Baldwin fired a round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, is seeking unspecified damages from prop provider Seth Kenney

CNN+ is loading up on new talent (Alison Roman, Chris Wallace, Audie Cornish) and tapping its own (Anderson Cooper, Kate Bolduan) for a subscription service launching this spring. It’s shaping up to be a major investment in the network’s future—and maybe a lifeboat? By Joe Pompeo January 12, 2022

The battle over whether the Serbian tennis superstar will play in the year’s first Grand Slam has been filled with twists and turns. By Grant Rindner January 12, 2022 Novak Djokovic of Serbia during a practice session ahead of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 12, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.Courtesy of Darrian

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky signaled to the world they’re going strong this January, as the couple of over a year stepped out for a dinner date at Nobu in West Hollywood on Monday. They also demonstrated how to dress masterfully in comfy clothes for the winter. Rihanna paired a white sweat set with white pumps

When selecting which portraits she would share to commemorate her 40th birthday this month, Kate Middleton took the advice of her husband Prince William and their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, the photographer behind those royal images, Paolo Roversi, explained the process

Our cold open in the first season finale of Amazon’s Wheel of Time series adaptation shows us the world from before The Breaking, during the Age of Legends where The Tamyrlin Seat, Latra, and the Dragon Reborn, Lews, discuss (entirely in the Old Tongue) Lews’ plan to confront the Dark One. Latra thinks Lews’ approach