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Cineplex says it’s sticking with coronavirus safety policies that leave it up to moviegoers to decide if they wear a face mask inside their theatres. The country’s largest movie exhibitor confirmed on Friday that despite a mandatory face mask policy being introduced at a number of major U.S. theatre chains, it intended to stick with

Republicans have been engaging in shady voter suppression tactics for years, but none have been quite so obvious about it as Donald Trump. However blatant the scheme, the GOP has, in the past, at least sought to maintain a certain amount of plausible deniability. But Trump, a man about as subtle as a foghorn, has

Ahmad Wali’s journey to America was years in the making, but what he remembers most vividly is how time froze when they were in the air. The Afghan-born Wali had finally secured a Special Immigrant Visa, affording him permanent legal residence in the United States, and to reach America, Wali and his family took a

It’s been more than three months now since the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic began making a heavy impact on the global entertainment industry, and with no real end in sight, companies are struggling more and more every day to stay afloat with a lack of business brought upon by social distancing regulations and the risk of

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, which at this point, no one should have to explain to you. Right now we’re all focusing on America’s history of systemic racism and anti-Black violence, a history that goes far beyond the Civil War and Jim Crow. As Donald Trump prepares to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we’re reminded once

Posted June 18, 2020 5:01 pm Updated June 18, 2020 5:34 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Raven-Symoné is married! The That’s So Raven actor teased the news on Instagram Thursday, writing, “So something happened this week, that has changed my life FOR THE BETTER!” READ MORE:

When they haven’t been facing off with police, protesters have turned their demonstrations into de facto block parties, particularly when free food and massive speakers are involved. But even then, there have been disagreements about what demonstrators hope to achieve. During a calm interlude on a Saturday two weeks ago, I spoke to a protester

Over the past decade, J. Cole’s less-is-more approach has made him one of the most successful figures in hip-hop. He’s self-produced a significant portion of his discography. His last three albums, you may have heard, went platinum without any guest appearances—the impetus for a joke so worn out that J. Cole told this very magazine

Gurki Basra appeared on Season 1 of Netflix’s Dating Around and she was the only person on the show to chose to not go on a second date with any of the five men she went out with. On Sunday, she took to Instagram to joke about not picking a second date after Season 2 of

Even Stephen Colbert was shocked by some of the details about President Donald Trump presented in John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir, The Room Where It Happens. “I can’t believe I’m saying this: it’s worse than even I imagined,” Colbert said on Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show. Bolton’s book, which the Trump administration has tried to

MTV has cut ties with Siesta Key star Alex Kompothecras after he allegedly made racist comments on social media and shared posts from white supremacists. “We’ve made the decision to cut ties with Alex and are editing the current season to minimize his presence,” Siesta Key announced on the show’s official Twitter account. “He will not be in

Five years ago today, Maggie Nichols’ gymnastic coach submitted the first report of doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of gymnasts to officials at USA Gymnastics. More than 300 women would eventually come forward to accuse Nassar of sexually abusing them under the guise of providing medical treatment during athletic training. The trailer for Athlete A,

“That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson was charged with the rapes of three women in the early 2000s, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday, the culmination of a three-year investigation that resulted in a rare arrest of a famous Hollywood figure in the #MeToo era. The three counts of rape by force or fear against Masterson

Bolton also claims that at the G20 meeting, Trump reportedly openly endorsed Xi’s plan to “basically [build] concentration camps in Xinjiang” for China’s Uighur population, a predominately-Muslim minority group in China. “According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to

Superb, stylish, and tragically beautiful are just a few words to describe Killing Eve as a whole, though the third season of this BBC hit, in particular, was especially brilliant, despite what the many negative reviews written by cis male critics say. Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, and the rest of the

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of A-list musicians, including Katy Perry and Adam Lambert, have banded together for an upcoming LGBTQ2 benefit show by the name of Can’t Cancel Pride: A COVID-19 Relief Benefit for the LGBTQ+ Community — or Can’t Cancel Pride. The virtual fundraising gig will take place next

Stephen Colbert interrupted his own monologue on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show to dive into some late-breaking news: a lawsuit filed by the White House to stop John Bolton from releasing his memoir, The Room Where It Happens. After focusing the early part of his monologue on President Donald Trump’s police reform executive order

Sandoval says that he learned from being bullied, and from occasionally bullying others, as a preteen. “I felt like an asshole,” he says. “And I don’t like that feeling.” When popularity followed his awkward stage, he took on a white knight vibe, becoming “a bully to bullies.” And on TV, his white knight vibe has

Keanu Reeves will be donating 15 minutes of his time for an online auction for Camp Rainbow Gold, an Idaho-based children’s cancer charity. The 55-year-old actor is offering the 15-minute Zoom call to the highest bidder in the auction for Shine for Camp, which is an initiative from Camp Rainbow Gold. “Bill & Ted. Speed.

For the third time in Television Academy history, Jimmy Kimmel will return as the host for the annual Emmy Awards this year. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Emmys will return later this year and serve as the first major awards show to take place since the novel coronavirus put the global entertainment industry at

For starters, the guy’s got a farm. Matthew Rhys can wear a fedora like nobody’s business, but this is Perry Mason—Perry Mason, best known for dramatic courtroom interrogations and the occasional car chase. What’s he doing slopping buckets of milk around? In a real flourish of late-stage Peak Content, HBO’s Perry Mason offers an eight-episode

A few years ago, Representative Emilia Sykes, a Democrat who represents the Akron area, was trying to enter the Ohio statehouse in Columbus when one of the guards stopped her. Sykes, who’s Black, showed him her badge, a lapel pin that denoted her status as an elected official. The colleague she was with—white, male—attested to

Eva Marcille has announced that she is leaving The Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA) after three seasons. Marcille’s exit from the series was announced on Tuesday morning on the Rickey Smily Morning Show. “I appreciate the bond of friendship that I’ve made with my castmates and strong personal relationships I have with numerous executives and producers

Her presence is normally the very essence of Royal Ascot, but Her Majesty the Queen will be absent from the world famous racing event this year as she continues to self-isolate at Windsor Castle. For the first time in her 68-year reign the Queen has been advised to stay away from from one of her

Today marks the season finale of Dead Still—a show I can only describe as “macabre, but make it delightful”—and one that I enjoyed very much. The series, set in Victorian Dublin, follows an unconventional mortuary photographer and his companions as they are drawn into murder, mystery, and mayhem. I was thrilled to learn that series

For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than originally planned because of the pandemic’s effects on the movie industry. The

As an avowed proponent of textualism — an approach to law which favors interpreting a statute solely on the basis of the text, rather than the purported intent behind it — Gorsuch, like Justice Antonin Scalia before him, was willing to read Title VII in ways that no one who voted for it in 1964

Scumdogs rejoice: Gwar, the American heavy metal band (commonly stylized as GWAR), has backed a fan-launched campaign to replace the controversial Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Va., with a statue of Oderus Ungerus — a deceased member of the band. That’s right. Rather than honouring a “failed” 19th-century U.S. confederate general, one “GWAR scumdog” launched

In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump administration’s public response to the rapidly-spreading pandemic was basically: Just don’t worry about it. “We’re talking about very small numbers in the United States,” Trump said on March 4 in a White House meeting with airline CEOs, days after he predicted cases would soon go