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CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison for child pornography and enticement of minors for sex but will serve all but one of those simultaneously with a 30-year sentence on racketeering and sex trafficking convictions. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber ordered that Kelly serve one year in prison

Writer and director Miguel Martinez has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring a new horror film to life: Lechuza, a story about a young woman who tries to bring her mother back from the dead, and is met with horrific consequences. According to the film’s synopsis on its Kickstarter page, Lechuza is a film “that

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Thursday sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the 2013 rape and sexual assault of an Italian actor and model. The sentence comes on top of the more than 20 years the 70-year-old Weinstein has left to serve for

Republicans are lining up for the presidential primary like it’s 2015. Donald Trump was essentially in the 2024 race since he left the White House, but didn’t officially announce until a week after November’s midterms, where he led his party to squander any strategic structural advantage they might have had. It was little quiet, but Nikki Haley last week

Adam Scott and Jennifer Garner star in the Party Down revival.Courtesy of Colleen Hayes via Starz. Thirteen years after the super cult comedy series about aspiring-actors-turned-dejected-caterers got canceled, it scored an unlikely callback for more episodes. By Jake Kring-Schreifels February 23, 2023 In the spring of 2007, writer and producer Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) turned

In what can only be described as truly impeccable timing, Netflix dropped their latest true-crime offering just hours before the main character in the case was called to the stand at his own double-murder trial. Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal was released to the streaming platform Wednesday, one day ahead of disgraced South Carolina lawyer

A month after she and husband Carter Reum welcomed their first child, Paris Hilton is finally ready to share the baby boy’s name—Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum. The hotel heiress announced the moniker she selected for her newborn on the latest episode of her podcast This Is Paris. While reading an excerpt from her upcoming memoir,

Jennifer Lopez’s two children, twins Emme and Max, turned 15 today, and their mother gave her millions of followers an intimate look into their life together. Lopez shared an Instagram Reel, set to Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen (Taylor’s Version),” featuring footage from throughout Emme and Max’s lives. Lopez shares her twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony. “Happy

So, yeah, Marjorie’s at it again. If you’d rather scoop your brain out your nose than listen to more of her ranting, that’s understandable—but her latest ploy for attention points to some of the most dangerous elements of the far right’s ideology. Earlier this week, Greene published a long Twitter screed claiming that red states

The Court appeared wary of taking serious action against Section 230, the politically contentious law that largely shields companies from liability for harmful posts—but whatever ruling it makes could open cracks in the way the internet works. “These are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet,” Elena Kagan admitted during oral arguments. By

Jacket, $4,625, and pants, $1,210, by Rick Owens. Turtleneck, $1,640, and boots, $2,550, by Tom Ford. Sunglasses, his own. Ring (on left hand), $22,000, by Fabergé. Ring (on right hand, price upon request), by Chopard.  He’s been making beds squeak for nearly three decades now, but more recently he’d been stuck in a creative rut.

This year’s leading Canadian Screen Awards nominees include a series about North America’s Black train porters in the 1920s and a coming-of-age film set in Scarborough. The Black-led CBC and BET Plus series The Porter is the leading nominee with 19 nods heading into this year’s awards, including best drama series, best writing in a

Just months shy of her and Robert Pattinson’s five-year dating anniversary, Suki Waterhouse is ready to talk openly about her life dating The Batman actor. Waterhouse spoke candidly to The Times about their flourishing but private relationship. The two live together in London after first beginning to date in summer 2018. The two barely spend

Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) has entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he’s already garnered a colossal fan base. Now, anonymous sources at Marvel are reportedly leaking that he’ll have a bigger role in Loki season 2 than his predecessor, He Who Remains. Cosmic Circus claims that according to multiple Marvel sources, Jonathan Majors’s villain

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is up for Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards.Courtesy of Paramount via Everett Collection Start your binging before it’s too late. By Nathaniel Houston February 21, 2023 Awards season is finally drawing to a close, and the grand finale is right around the corner: the 95th Academy Awards. The

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Guns N’ Roses is hitting the road in 2023, mapping out an extensive, five-month world tour that will hit stadiums, arenas and festivals around the world, including multiple shows in Canada. The tour begins June 5 in Tel Aviv, Israel, before making its way across Europe for

Princess Kate went from the height of glamour at the 2023 BAFTA Awards on Sunday to rolling up her sleeves and getting messy in the kitchen. The Princess of Wales followed her appearance at the award show alongside her husband Prince William with a solo trip to the Oxford House Nursing Home in Slough in

On Sunday, Gisele Bündchen shared a few clips from her night of fun at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations. The 42-year-old super model was in her native Brazil enjoying the traditional long weekend marking the days before Ash Wednesday and Lent, which includes lots of partying, costumes, parades, and dancing. Bündchen was accompanied by a

We were recently overjoyed to hear that our beloved Phoebe Waller-Bridge will be blessing us with her talents yet again with two new projects as part of a three-year deal with Amazon. The first project will be an adaptation of the novel Sign Here, about a man who works in the “deals department” on the

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.Courtesy of Jay Maidment for Marvel Studios. The MCU multiverse is in for a wild ride. Here’s how the events of this film tee up the next movies and series to follow. By William Goodman February 20, 2023

At one point, the doctors overheard that the occupying authorities, appointed by the Russians in consultation with Ukrainian collaborators, had become unhappy with the arrangement of payments. So these authorities started pressuring Volodymyr Todosenko, the acting chief of the hospital, to reregister the facility, placing it under Russian jurisdiction. Todosenko’s saving grace: There was no

In Bozoma Saint John’s upcoming memoir, The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, the award-winning marketing executive—who’s held high-profile jobs at companies like Pepsi, Uber, and Netflix—gives a raw, unflinching account of what it means to grieve. In December 2013, Saint John lost her husband, Peter, to cancer. By then, the couple

Season 2 of Marvel’s Loki is coming to Disney Plus in summer 2023, and some key details have been revealed over the past few months, including at Disney’s D23 Expo 2022. Here’s everything we know so far! Loki season 2 trailer and plot (Marvel Entertainment) Although we don’t have a full trailer yet, Disney has

Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4.Courtesy of Lionsgate. Topping Chapter 3 is a tall order but based on this trailer, the new film just may have done it. By Grant Rindner February 16, 2023 It’s unclear whether we’ll be getting a fifth John Wick installment, so we’d better savor all the bloody battles, bullet barrages, and biting

By Staff The Associated Press Posted February 19, 2023 3:24 pm Updated February 19, 2023 3:32 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” has died.

For their first Valentine’s Day as a married couple, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez debuted their matching tattoos, with J.Lo sharing their new ink in a carousel of photos on her Instagram timeline. The collection also included shots of the couple now and twenty years ago when they first got together. “Commitment. Happy Valentine’s Day

You might think that February 14, 2023, was primarily notable for being Valentine’s Day. You would be wrong. It was, in fact, primarily notable for being the day that Viz released the fully-formed, physical-book version of Mieri Hiranishi’s excellent yuri series, The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend. I don’t care what your sexual preferences

Michael Houtz; Getty Images Numero Group was founded by Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier, who are part crate diggers, part forensic scientists who unearth long forgotten music—funk, gospel, country, metal—from decades past. And more recently they’ve been refocusing their attention on a new target: ‘80s and ‘90s punk, post-hardcore, emo and indie. By Alex Pappademas

Imagine for a moment that you walk into a swanky restaurant, sit down for dinner, and when the waiter appears and hands you the menu you notice a giant Warning in legalese that says the food you’re about to eat could cause irreparable harm to you, and possibly to society at large. My guess is

Following her breakup from Zach Braff, Florence Pugh sparked rumors that she may involved with a London boy when she and Charlie Gooch were photographed showing affection on Valentine’s Day. Photographers noted they were also wearing matching rings. Pugh hasn’t commented on Gooch or their relationship status, but they do follow each other on Instagram.