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American potato chip brand Pringles announced an upcoming Rick & Morty-themed flavour in partnership with Adult Swim and the Super Bowl on Wednesday. The flavour, called “Pickle Rick,” is inspired by a 2017 episode from Season 3 of the animated show, according to Pringles. In the episode, Rick — Morty’s alcoholic, scientist grandfather — intentionally

The United Kingdom’s election Thursday was billed as the country’s most historic general election in a generation—and it looks like current Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Brexit plan will be the ultimate winner. According to an exit poll released when polls closed Thursday night, Johnson’s right-wing Conservative Party is likely to earn an overwhelming

It is truly deranged that the secret society that runs Hollywood continues its relentless attempt to fool me into thinking there is a movie called Cats that exists in reality and will be in theaters at some point in this timeline. This public misinformation campaign has been going on for months and must have cost

Thought Keanu Reeves‘ career peaked in 2019? Think again. Sure, he starred in Toy Story 4 as “Canada’s greatest stuntman” (Duke Caboom), and yes, he became the “internet’s boyfriend,” but did we see him reprise the role of Neo again? No. Well, in 2021 we will, and on Wednesday afternoon, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed that by

“Yesterday was a microcosm of how Democrats have governed. We both held him accountable and delivered a massively important generational trade bill,” a senior Democratic aide told me Wednesday. “Essentially, you have one day that represents everything that we stand for.” By striking a trade deal with Trump—in which Democrats argued they secured wins on

Hasbro released a look at their collection of toys for The Mandalorian‘s baby Yoda! The problem? We have to wait until May of 2020 to get our hands on them. Do you know how upsetting this is? Still, the look at the new toys has me excited to see what other toys of “the Child”

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 12, 2019 6:27 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ The Hollywood Critics Association has declared Quebec director Denis Villeneuve the filmmaker of the decade. The Los Angeles-based group says it will give Villeneuve an award for the distinction at

Andre Drummond is a lot of man: 6’10” and 279 pounds, to be more precise. Those measurements guarantee that the 26-year-old Detroit Pistons center isn’t going to blend in with the masses while walking down the street, playing Top Golf, or bowling (the latter two are some of his favorite off-the-court activities), but he’s mostly

Jojo Rabbit (2019) actor Archie Yates has been tapped for the leading role in Disney‘s upcoming Home Alone reboot. The casting decision was reported on Tuesday by Variety, which also wrote that Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney would serve as the child actor’s co-stars. Though the Dan Mazer-directed comedy has been labelled a “reboot,” it

The most famous rap on Succession may not have come until season 2— say it with us, “L to the OG!”— but it was another rap from the HBO drama that helped inspire the iconic, meme-able, weirdly addictive theme song. In this video for Vanity Fair, composer Nicholas Britell says that he started by asking

It’s been 15 years since fans last saw Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo, best known as “the Bride,” in Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and now the film’s eccentric and world-renowned director Quentin Tarantino has teased that fans may see the beloved character again in the future. Talking with entertainment broadcaster Andy Cohen on Sirius

I asked Riley what AJC’s next move is and how far they’re willing to push this. “We take the misrepresentation of our reporter, who can’t defend herself because she’s dead, and the misrepresentation of the Atlantic Journal-Constitution, very seriously,” he said. “The letter speaks for itself.” (Singer, by the way, was hired not by AJC

The Queen has generously let a photographer once again capture the guests at her annual Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace—including Kate Middleton. The Duchess of Cambridge was shot en route to the reception in the Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara and diamond dangle earrings. Photographers captured her look in full inside. Kate is in a

Following two years of court appearances, harrowing stories and shocking op-eds involving disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, it looks like it all might be coming to an end. According to a bombshell report from the New York Times, Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film studio, The Weinstein Company (TWC), have reached a tentative

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has announced its official Word of the Year is the singular pronoun “they.” The word has made a huge impact this year, which is visible in the data used to determine the year’s top word. The dictionary explains that to be number one, “the word must have been a top lookup at

By Global News Posted December 11, 2019 6:00 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ View link » In July 1996, a backpack bomb rocked the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, killing one and injuring over 100 others. The bomb had been left under a bench in the

For the fourth time, Spike Lee has had a film inducted into the National Film Registry, earning a permanent place in the Library of Congress for making a film that is “historically, culturally, or aesthetically significant.” But when the call came that 1986’s She’s Gotta Have It would join Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X,

At a time when 60 percent of all bankruptcies each year are caused in part by medical bills, more and more people are looking for alternative ways to pay for their health care. Enter crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe. Between 2010 and 2017, the company raised $5 billion through its campaigns—and roughly one third all the

The Real Housewives of New Jersey (RHONJ) star Teresa Giudice has let the world in on her turbulent life from Season One to the now-airing Season 10 of the hit reality show. Giudice served a little over 11 months in prison for mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud and was released on Dec. 23, 2015. Her

Something you may have noticed during the 10 months that he’s been Attorney General is that William Barr appears to view his role not so much as the chief lawyer for the federal government, but as Donald Trump’s personal attorney and manservant. After scoring the job by sending an unsolicited 19-page letter to the Justice

The risks of vaping still aren’t clear. (Photo: Getty) Vaping related illnesses have become a major headline grabber in Canada this fall, and for good reason. A recent study conducted by the University of Waterloo states that nearly one third of high school students in Alberta and Quebec tried vaping in the month of November

Matthew Good announced Monday morning that he will embark on a lengthy North American solo tour in the coming spring. The 48-year-old musician revealed that the tour will include 28 Canadian shows from coast to coast. Kicking off in Pictou, N.S., on March 4, the B.C. native will conclude the Canadian portion of the trek

Spoilers below for Mrs. Fletcher episode 7, “Welcome Back.” With every role Kathryn Hahn adopts, there’s always the question of, “What’s she gonna do now?” The veteran actress made a career of embracing messy, insatiable women, from trading filthy barbs with Will Ferrell in early Adam McKay projects (Anchorman, Stepbrothers) to a woman driven to

Over the weekend, it was confirmed that Disney is in early stages of producing a spinoff series of the live-action Aladdin remake for their newly launched streaming service, Disney+. The series will reportedly be centred on Prince Anders, a comedic minor character played by Billy Magnussen in the 2019 film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Google’s apparent resistance to its employees’ unionization efforts came under scrutiny in November, as the tech giant generated headlines for firing four employees who were active in the burgeoning organizing movement. While Google insisted that the terminations were instead because the employees were “searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their

[embedded content] Jason Reitman, son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, is here with his own spin on the franchise. Focusing on a younger generation of Ghostbusters, the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife plays up suspense and familial drama. Ghostbusters: Afterlife looks beautifully shot, but I was surprised to find the trailer giving more of a Stranger Things vibe

Vicky Cornell, widow of late-Soundgarden frontman, Chris Cornell, has filed a lawsuit against the much-beloved grunge band, claiming that its members are withholding “indisputably owed” royalties from her and her two children, Toni and Christopher. The lawsuit, filed in Florida federal court on Monday, alleges that the remaining band members: Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and