Series creator Malcolm Spellman is planning to cowrite the fillm. Here’s why Anthony Mackie must be the lead. By Anthony Breznican April 23, 2021 The last episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier brings with it a piece of not-very-surprising news: Marvel Studios is developing a new Captain America movie with Falcon creator and
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The upcoming edition of Osheaga, the annual summer music festival in Montreal, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers announced the decision Thursday, citing concerns about the uncertainties linked to the ongoing health crisis. “We want to be back in the midst of it too, but the truth is that it takes several
Looking at the nominees in the acting categories in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020 tells a story of Hollywood’s approach to diversity and other ensuing changes in the industry. By Keith Phipps April 23, 2021 Denzel Washington and Gina Davis at the 1990 Academy Awards.John T. Barr / Getty Images It’s hard not to view
Caitlyn Jenner announced Friday that she has filed the initial paperwork to become a candidate for California governor. The 71-year-old longtime Republican will be joining the field of candidates hoping to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a likely recall election later this year. “Californians want better and deserve better from their governor,” Jenner said
How the actor’s own reaction found its way into the script. By Joanna Robinson April 23, 2021 This post contains frank discussion of the The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Season 1 finale. If you haven’t watched yet, now is your time to leave. Even as the credits rolled on the adventures of Sam Wilson
Several provinces lowered the eligible age bracket for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this week, prompting Gen X’ers to proudly share their vaccination journeys on social media. Read more: Ontario, Alberta to lower minimum age for AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from 55 to 40 On Sunday, Canada’s federal health minister, Patty Hajdu, said provinces and territories were
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s relationship is still on but barely, with Rodriguez in the Dominican Republic with Lopez now, trying to save their four-year romance. What got their relationship, which seemed rock-solid publicly, to this point? People has new detail today about Lopez’s longtime private doubts about Rodriguez and how the pandemic (and quarantine)
Four years after being repeatedly accused of sexual assault, Spacey is reportedly living with his manager and enjoying the anonymity afforded by PPE. By Savannah Walsh April 22, 2021 Nearly four years ago, when several allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Kevin Spacey, the Oscar winner retreated from public life in search of “evaluation
Come on down! It was a big day on The Price Is Right. On Wednesday, two people, in separate spins, won $26,000 each on the Big Wheel — something that has never happened in the game show’s history. Read more: Fans flying high as LeVar Burton joins list of ‘Jeopardy!’ guest hosts After the first
ReedPop has decided to go full steam ahead when it comes to conventions and what they’ll look like in 2021. In an official press release for Florida Supercon, NYCC, Emerald City Comic Con, and C2E2, they made sure to emphasize in the first two sentences their commitment to promote health and safety standards while bringing
What do you feel like has been the most pivotal part of your year so far? The most pivotal part of my year has been to be able to stay at work as a supportive teacher, to have more freedom in creating my musical material, to cooperate with music professionals. What has been a big challenge so
Take a look. LeVar Burton‘s been booked as a guest host on Jeopardy! after thousands of fans petitioned for the Reading Rainbow and Star Trek star to take over for the late Alex Trebek. “THANK YOU to y’all for your passionate support!” Burton tweeted on Wednesday, after Jeopardy! made it official on Twitter. “I am overjoyed, excited and
Soon to debut on the streaming platform are Amy Adams’ The Woman in the Window, a new Ryan Murphy series titled Halston, and the final half of Selena: The Series. By Savannah Walsh April 22, 2021 As summer draws near, so too do Netflix’s highly-anticipated May offerings. The next project in Ryan Murphy’s blockbuster deal
The actor discusses Jerome’s fate and weighs in on the The Wire debate. By Frazier Tharpe April 21, 2021 Amin Joseph in Snowfall, 2021.Courtesy of Ray Mickshaw for FX Tonight, FX’s crack drama Snowfall cemented itself as the best show on TV this year (so far) with an intense season finale that brought main character
The delicious unhinged quality of Brian Shapiro’s vocals is obvious less than a minute into the album All That We See. “Three Things” opens the collection with a loose, relaxed musical rave-up complete with kazoos. Yes, kazoos. It has a distinct low-fi punch, seemingly by design, but Shapiro’s near-ranting vocals occupy a central place in the
New reports highlight the ties between veterans and service members and extremist groups—a link that one expert fears the Pentagon is unequipped to handle. It goes “much deeper than we realize,” he says. By Caleb Ecarma April 21, 2021 In the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol attack by supporters of Donald Trump, The Washington
Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group says it is resuming shows after being closed for more than a year due to the pandemic. The company says “O” at the Bellagio and at Treasure Island will reopen this summer in Las Vegas. The group’s touring show division will present Kooza in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, starting in
Elizabeth Olsen sat down with Glamour UK to take part in their “Unfiltered” interviews, and the result was a very open and frank conversation with the WandaVision star. Lizzie Olsen is the kind of celebrity that feels genuine in every interview you see her in. She’s open and honest and doesn’t shy away from talking about her own
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the world’s oldest monarch, turned 95 on Wednesday, but there will be no public celebrations just days after she bade farewell to her husband of seven decades at his funeral. Prince Philip, whom Elizabeth married in 1947, died on April 9 at the age of 99. The royals paid their final respects
I think often of those eight minutes of the 2017 Oscars where the thing that no one ever considered might happen actually happened. In a world where Black talent, especially talent that highlights the tender interiority of Black queerness and poverty, feels perpetually overlooked, hearing Jordan Horowitz say the words, “I’m sorry, no. There’s a
The late Bad Boy rapper leaves behind a legacy of plenty of great verses and album cuts besides “Whoa!” By Eric Diep April 20, 2021 NEW YORK CITY – AUGUST 3: Black Rob attends the taping of “Good Morning America” on August 3, 2001 at Rockefeller Center in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella,
Manny Cabo and songwriter Bonnie Warren continue to make magic in their latest collaboration “Worst Bad Decision”, a country-rock pop offering. Featuring Cabo’s wide vocal range and sincere, sage advice, “Worst Bad Decision” is top-tier songwriting and a platinum-worthy performance. Cabo, years after his national stage, chair-turning appearance on The Voice, proves once again he’s more
Here is my Q & A with the very talented journalist, motivational speaker and author of “How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself.” The man that is fighting the stigma against mental illness and making it ok for people that identify as LGBTQ to be who they are. He is deemed a hero in
Despite the incontrovertible evidence, it was far from clear that Chauvin would be found guilty. By Bess Levin April 20, 2021 For an hour on Tuesday, it felt like the entire country stopped what it was doing to collectively wait for the Derek Chauvin verdict to come in. Long used to cops escaping accountability for
I read in a quote from from Richard Metzger (Channel 4 TV, Britain); “I have met God, and he lives in Brooklyn….Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller. He is going to change the way we see ourselves and everything around us.” A
You don’t have to believe in the coronavirus to get it, as musician Ted Nugent acknowledged with the revelation that he has tested positive for COVID-19. “I was officially tested positive for COVID-19,” Nugent revealed on Facebook Live Monday. “I got the Chinese s—,” he added, in a nearly nine-minute video peppered with profanity, anti-Asian
Ron DeSantis apparently has a problem with the constitutionally enshrined right to assemble. By Bess Levin April 19, 2021 As racial-justice protests swelled around the country during his last year in office, Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that he had little regard for the constitutionally enshrined right to assemble. Regularly conflating peaceful protesters with
Australia is in the midst of a sexual assault crisis. Former parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins spoke out earlier this year, saying she was raped by a former colleague inside of the Parliament House. Days later, accusation of rape from 1988 surfaced against Attorney General Christian Porter (which he has denied). The New York Times writes
It’s tough to think of a topic for hit songs more successful than that of the classic break-up anthem; maybe love songs, but the two go hand in hand and wholly rely on each other to maintain their cornered market, so the idea of one being more successful than the other is irrelevant. For every
With Glenn Close poised to tie Peter O’Toole as the actor who’s lost the most times without ever winning once, let’s look at the players and directors who are always a nominee, but never an Oscar-winner. By Colin Groundwater April 19, 2021 Amy Adams congratulates Anne Hathaway for her Best Supporting Actress win in 2013