The show’s messy relationship with its audience was its own complex love story. By Bolu Babalola December 29, 2021 Jay Ellis and Issa Rae in Insecure.Courtesy of Raymond Liu/HBO. To say Issa ending up with Lawrence was a controversial choice would be like saying the men she hooked up with were kind of cute: an
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Joe Rogan has cancelled his upcoming Vancouver show due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the province. The UFC commentator said he was cancelling his 4/20 show during a Christmas Eve episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. “I should probably say this because I haven’t yet. My 4/20 show that’s sold out in Vancouver
On Tuesday, celebrity tattoo artist Bang Bang shared Selena Gomez’s new watercolor tattoo across her back, showing off a pink rose dripping with black and red after first teasing it in black and white in earlier posts. On Wednesday, he shared a clip of model and actress Cara Delevingne with her shirt off and ribs
You’re debuting your latest New Year’s poem on Instagram, a platform with over 450 million followers. How did this partnership come about and what was it like filming the video for this? I just feel so fortunate that I’ve been able to do this project at all, let alone with a partner like Instagram. It’s
Matt Reeves’s The Batman will be the latest installment in the Batman multiverse, and with all the trailers, we know this is going to be a huge ensemble movie with at least three classic villains, and one cat anti-heroine. Let’s break them down. Paul Dano will be playing Edward Nashton/Riddler—and no, that isn’t a new incarnation
In The Tender Bar and The Card Counter, the rising actor shows he knows how to listen and be still. By Paul Thompson December 28, 2021 Tye Sheridan attends the premiere of 20th Century Fox’s “Dark Phoenix” at TCL Chinese Theatre on June 04, 2019 in Hollywood, California.Courtesy of Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images. Elkhart, Texas, is
On Monday, pop icon Britney Spears shared on Instagram that her hiatus from making new music was actually her way of striking back at her family, who she feels betrayed her during her 13-year conservatorship. Spears’s money and movements were placed under the control of her father, Jamie Spears, during that time. She has frequently
On December 27th, 2016 author and Star Wars legend Carrie Fisher passed away at the age of 60, to the shock of her millions of fans worldwide. Fisher suffered a heart attack on a flight back to Los Angeles, and the world became a darker place without our bold and brilliant Space Mom and her
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is a love letter to ’70s LA, but the longtime councilman explains to the actor why his memories are more complicated. By Keith Phipps December 27, 2021 Benny Safdie and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza.Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. When Joel Wachs received a message that Paul Thomas Anderson had reached
Come From Away has permanently closed in Toronto. Mirvish Productions made the announcement in a statement released Monday, citing financial difficulties that have come as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement said there have been 855 performances of the musical in Toronto, which is its hometown. Its final show was on Dec. 22
Québécois director and producer Jean-Marc Vallée, who won an Emmy for directing the hit HBO series “Big Little Lies” and whose 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club” earned multiple Oscar nominations, has died. He was 58. His representative Bumble Ward said Sunday that Vallée died suddenly in his cabin outside Quebec City over the weekend. Vallée
Spoilers for Insecure below. Insecure’s series finale wasn’t going to go by without a Lawrence vs. Nathan debate. The on-and-off love story of Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and Martin Lawrence Walker (Jay Ellis)—yes, that’s his full name—has caused mass Internet debate, complete with passionate fandoms, since season 1, with millions of viewers weighing in on
Believe it or not, it appears that no one has tried tossing a coin in Henry Cavill’s direction. The Witcher star would like for this to remain the case! As Screenrant points out, Cavill recently had an interview with BBC Radio1 to promote the second season of the Netflix fantasy series. During the interview, Cavill
Juice WRLD’s rapid rise and tragic death makes him the best lens to explore the last five years in hip-hop. By Grant Rindner December 20, 2021 Juice WRLD in Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss.Courtesy of HBO. A little over an hour in, HBO’s Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss depicts one of the most haunting moments
British superstar Dua Lipa, 25, is one of the world’s biggest pop artists, with her mega-hit song “Don’t Start Now,” reaching number the two spot on the Hot 100 in the U.S. and U.K. And off-stage, the pop star is in a serious relationship of almost two years with model Anwar Hadid, 21. Initially, Lipa
Many of us came to love the chaotic energy that Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara brought to Buzzfeed Unsolved. The series that they started on YouTube gave us Bergara (the believer) trying his hardest to convince Madej (the skeptic) that ghosts were real. The two then embarked on two separate shows: Supernatural and True Crimes. While True Crimes was
Canadians hoping to continue their long tradition of heading to the movies on Christmas Day will have to mask up and check their local restrictions. No fewer than seven new Hollywood films are opening this holiday weekend, including “The Matrix Resurrections,” spy prequel “The King’s Man” and family musical “Sing 2,” but depending on where
The South Korean series from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho combines detective drama, religious critique, and social commentary with flair. By Grant Rindner December 22, 2021 Hellbound.Courtesy of Jung Jaegu/Netflix Let’s get this out of the way: Hellbound is not the next Squid Game, despite what you may have read online. The two Netflix
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their 2021 Christmas card, offering the world the first official glimpse of their six-month-old daughter, Lilibet “Lili” Diana, born in June this year. Their two-year-old son, Archie Harrison, is also front-and-centre, with a shock of red hair just like his father’s. Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, son Archie and
On a chilly gray morning in 2017, hours before the Milan City Council was to give Benedetta Barzini a gold medal for civil honor, she was at home with her filmmaker son, Beniamino Barrese, thumbing her nose at the whole business. “If they’re honoring me for the model thing, beauty isn’t a merit. Not at
Every year, Kris Jenner famously hosts a massive holiday party with the rest of the Jenners and Kardashians, but this year will reportedly be scaled way back due to the outbreak of the new COVID-19 variant, according to TMZ. Though they intend to celebrate on their own as a family, the big bash will be
By Staff The Associated Press Posted December 24, 2021 9:11 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Home Alone actor Devin Ratray surrendered to authorities in Oklahoma on Wednesday after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend, police said. Ratray, who played older brother Buzz McAllister in
Joan Didion, a resounding voice in American literature who insightfully captured the sixties and California through observant and beautiful language, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87 years old. The famed writer’s cause of death was Parkinson’s disease, according to an email sent by her publisher, Paul Bogaards, an executive at
Legendary novelist and essayist Joan Didion died Thursday at age 87. According to a statement from her publisher, the cause of death was complications from Parkinson’s disease. In a month that also saw the deaths of bell hooks and Eve Babitz, Didion’s death is another massive blow to the world of incisive, insightful writing. Didion
By Staff The Associated Press Posted December 23, 2021 12:41 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ The parents of actor Alicia Witt were found dead inside their Massachusetts home by police after she hadn’t heard from them in several days and asked a relative to check
Stay in and catch up on all the new shows and movies your timeline won’t shut up about. By Nathaniel Houston December 22, 2021 The last two weeks of the year, otherwise known as “the holidays,” are always a good time to stay inside, lay low and catch up on the entertainment that end of
Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87. Didion’s publisher Penguin Random House announced the author’s death on Thursday. She died from complications
The fury with which public-health experts greeted Psaki’s comments reflected their longstanding frustration with an administration that, in their view, has put almost all its focus on vaccinating the American public, at the expense of other critical aspects of the response, from getting shots into arms overseas to making high-quality masks widely available. The rapid-test
Kim Kardashian will be home for the holidays, but she won’t be touting along her new boyfriend just yet. An insider told People on Dec. 22 that, despite initial hints that the couple would spend Christmas together in Los Angeles, “Kim is celebrating Christmas with the kids and won’t see Pete.” It’s as yet unclear
The third and final season of Apple TV+’s Dickinson has achieved an impossible meeting with another great writer, courtesy of a time-traveling storyline. In “The Future Never Spoke,” Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) and Lavinia (Anna Baryshnikov) go to 1955’s Amherst—no carriages in sight, as cars and planes have taken over, and oh my, women wear pants and go