During a recent interview, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige seemed to confirm that an upcoming superhero movie would feature a trans character. The news instantly made the rounds, marking an exciting development in the MCU, which has been slow to include LGBTQ characters in its features. However, according to new reports, it appears Feige may
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It’s our second day in the ’20s, and now that we’re past the holiday stretch, it’s time to look to the year ahead. A brand new decade has arrived, and with it the reality of escaping the interminable 2019. I didn’t think it would ever end, but now that we’re here, let’s talk resolutions. The
Welcome to On the Radar, your monthly reminder of what’s coming down the pike in the world of entertainment. We’ve got the latest TV shows, movies, books and more — all coming out in January. READ MORE: On the Radar: Our December entertainment picks Take a look and see what’s up this month. TV Power (Starz)Release
The Trump administration has made no secret of its antipathy for immigrants, embodied by campaign-hyped plans for a border wall, an endless stream of dark anti-immigrant rhetoric, and ICE raids that swept up workers in factories and farms last year. But the Trump business empire has taken a completely different approach to immigration, hiring undocumented
By Staff The Associated Press Posted January 2, 2020 8:55 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek says he’s already rehearsed what he’s going to say to the audience on his final show, whenever that may be. Trebek, host of the popular game
Big Tech has come under more scrutiny than ever in recent months—including from its own employees. But as workers from Silicon Valley’s biggest behemoths start speaking out against the practices of their employers, the companies are also starting to fight back. Just weeks after Google made headlines for allegedly retaliating against employees involved with union
Posted January 2, 2020 3:35 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Wilmer Valderrama is engaged to his model girlfriend Amanda Pacheco. The That ’70s Show star, 39, asked Pacheco, 28, to marry him in San Diego on New Year’s Day. He shared a photo of himself on
Martin Scorsese, the man whose 1970s oeuvre inspired the billion-dollar hit Joker, still hasn’t seen Joker. And it appears that he’s not terribly interested in watching it, despite the fact that the Todd Phillips-directed blockbuster channels old Scorsese films like Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy in order to tell its bleak loner tale.
Us Weekly got rare details this week on how Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s son Archie’s first Christmas was with his parents in Canada…and how the seven-month-old’s personality is developing. He still seems pretty extroverted, and he got some great toys from his parents this year. “You can tell Archie’s going to be a confident
Justin Bieber is not impressed with Tim Hortons coffee cup lids. The Canadian singer posted a poll on Instagram asking his followers: “Who’s Canadian and misses these lids at Tim Hortons like I do?” Bieber posted the poll results on his Instagram page, showing 70 per cent of the people who voted miss the lids
John Mulaney’s latest Netflix special opens with a fantastic quote: “You know who’s honest? Drunks and children.” Versions of that idiom have been around for centuries, though it sounds like something that could have originated with Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker. Instead, the title card gives credit to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Erika Jayne.
Nick Gordon, who was found liable in the death of his ex-partner Bobbi Kristina Brown, has died. He was 30. Gordon’s attorney Joe S. Habachy confirmed his client’s death in a statement Wednesday to The Associated Press. The Atlanta attorney did not give a cause of death or say where it occurred. Gordon’s death comes
Less than two months out from the first contest of the Democratic primary, Pete Buttigieg is upping the ante, going after his closest moderate rival. Joe Biden, he remarked in an interview on Iowa Public Television over the weekend, “supported the worst foreign policy decision made by the United States in my lifetime, which was
On Saturday, the local Kansas police chief Brian Hornaday posted an expletive on his social media account. In an Instagram post, the Herington law enforcement official put up a photo of a McDonald’s coffee cup, with the words “fucking pig” written on it in marker. In a lengthy caption, he wrote: One of my Officers
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that’s been speculated about for decades. Many consider Hale to not only be his
Back in October, financial markets and other interested parties woke up to the exciting news that, according to Donald Trump, the United States had reached a “very substantial phase-one deal” with China, constituting the first step in a series of steps that would hopefully end the longtime trade war with Beijing and make the pain
Inuk singer Kelly Fraser spoke openly about her personal traumas and channelled her pain to help others before she died by suicide at age 26 on Christmas Eve, her family said in a statement. “She was fiercely open with her fans in the hopes that sharing her personal struggles might help them know they were
Kate Middleton and Prince William aren’t the only royals to share a new family portrait for the holiday on their royal Instagram. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry took a moment to post one on their Instagram too ahead of New Year’s Eve. The couple posted a highlight reel of their year, which included a new
It’s an exciting start to 2020 for actor Michelle Williams: the Golden Globe-winning star is pregnant and engaged to Hamilton director Thomas Kail, according to a report from People. The 39-year-old Williams, a four-time Oscar-nominated actor, was photographed by People holding hands and looking smitten with Kail, 42, a Tony award-winning director. The photo was captured
President Donald Trump put the blame squarely on Iran after protesters in Iraq stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad Tuesday, further escalating U.S.-Iran tensions as the two countries jockey for influence in Iraq. The embassy attack came in response to deadly U.S. airstrikes Sunday on the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia group Kataib Hezbollah, which were an
I think we can all agree that 2019 was, by and large, a political hellfire. But it wasn’t all terrible. A few moments were good, some were great, and some were straight-up hilarious. As we begin our journey into 2020, which will no doubt be 100% perfect and not at all terrible in any way
After four years of concert cancellations and mental health breaks, Justin Bieber is telling all in his first-ever docuseries, Justin Bieber: Seasons, to premiere on YouTube on Jan. 27 at 12 p.m. EST. The Canadian superstar has teamed up with YouTube Originals to give fans a rare glimpse into his private life in hopes of
Teenage activist and Time magazine Person of the Year Greta Thunberg has dedicated her life to fighting climate change, traversing the globe to raise awareness of the dangers posed by the rapidly-warming planet. But Thunberg is a busy person, and she knows that some things just aren’t worth the effort—like, for instance, having a one-on-one
A lot of bad things happened in the 2010s, but some good things happened, too. We finally got rid of trucker hats and popped collars! It was a decade free of Avatar and “Mambo No. 5”! Best of all, in the vacuum left by these cultural voids, we’ve enjoyed a whole lot of steamy moments.
2019 was a tough year, and it seems even harder when you consider the celebrities we have lost in the last 12 months. From legendary actors like Doris Day and Carol Channing to young musicians who had so much left to give like Nipsey Hussle and Juice WRLD, there was a lot of sadness to
Posted December 30, 2019 11:23 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Actress Padma Lakshmi has called out the New Yorker for tagging her as Priyanka Chopra. The situation happened over the weekend when the outlet tagged a photo of Lakshmi as Chopra. Lakshmi took a screenshot
The Barack Obama year-end list extravaganza continued (ended?) on Monday, as the former president tweeted his favorite songs of the year. In the previous two days, he’d posted his favorite books and movies, and we’re probably not getting a standalone TV list, since he already added a few shows to his movie list that he
Stacy Spikes founded The Urbanworld Film Festival in 1997. The festival curates films representing the broadest lens of diversity across stories, characters, themes and cultures. Urbanworld is a five-day festival, anchored in film, showcasing narrative and documentary features, short films, spotlight screenings and conversations and live staged screenplay readings. Among the founding sponsors are HBO
We made it through another holiday season! We’ll drink to that… and so will Ashley Tisdale. On today’s episode of Thirst Trap, the Merry Happy Whatever star talks her Christmas dinner disaster, worst on-screen kiss (hey Zac Efron!), and reminisces on those Disney days. Watch to find out which Sprouse brother she’d rather be stranded
Being a member of the British royal family isn’t the easiest job on earth, if TV shows and movies provide accurate pictures. But how much do the royals work? According to official records, prominent members of the royal family worked an average of 84.5 days this year, or about a third of the 253 working