“I always say that our guiding principle, our lighthouse, our bullseye, is the female gaze,” declares P-Valley creator Katori Hall of the subversive Starz strip club series. “So, I always wanted to place the audience in the platform heels of the dancers, to the point where I want people to feel the wobble,” the acclaimed
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The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing Wednesday to explore how Wall Street’s biggest banks have impacted the lives of regular Americans. And surprise, it hasn’t been great! By far, the highlight of the hearing was Senator Elizabeth Warren’s questioning of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. The CEOs of the country’s six largest banks
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Raisa Flowers has stayed booked and busy throughout the last year, pandemic be damned. The New York City-based makeup artist is responsible for some of our favorite beauty looks—including that Rihanna Essence cover—and is a regular contributor to editorials and campaigns alike. Her artistry is instantly recognizable: flawless skin, bold and imaginative eyes, and equal
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Some crime books have you hiding behind the cushions, while others make you cringe and shut your eyes in disgust… In a first for this reviewer, The Waiter made me hungry! Seems appropriate, then, that for the book’s online launch party, a number of reviewers (including yours truly) were invited by the publishers to a
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is tightening new membership numbers by roughly half of the large class annually admitted in recent years, an initiative originally begun in 2016 when the previous year’s number of new members was doubled. This was largely in order to correct the imbalance of the organization’s then reported
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After a turbulent year in various iterations of lockdown, UK hotels have finally been granted permission to reopen. Hallelujah! Some might opt for a seaside break, whilst others will book a secluded treehouse in the countryside, but my best advice for anyone looking for a post-lockdown staycation? Treat yourself to a break at one of
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Warning: This essay contains spoilers for all Saw movies, including Spiral. Like most reviewing Saw when it was released in October 2004, critic David Edelstein found the film so disturbing that he questioned the morality of screenwriter Leigh Whannell and director James Wan. But unlike most, Edelstein, who would later coin the term “torture porn,”
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Welcome Edwrds, excited to catch up with you today! To start out, tell us about your history in the music industry.  Hello, and thank you for having me. Music has always been a passion of mine. However, I decided to commit to creating music full time 3 years ago after getting a little buzz on
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Can you imagine Eric McCormack and Tiffani Thiessen as Ross and Rachel? Or Vince Vaughn and Jon Cryer sitting in Joey and Chandler’s La-Z Boys? Yeah, we can’t either and yet it almost happened. Nearly three decades after Friends‘ premiere, it’s hard to see anyone else playing the iconic NBC sitcom’s characters. And yet Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew
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EXCLUSIVE: Diane Kruger, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Jeffrey Donovan and Sydney Park have joined romantic drama First Love from writer/director A.J. Edwards. Produced by Henry Kittredge, Lucas Jarach, Nadine de Barros and Edwards, the film is currently in production in LA. Kruger serves as an executive producer and De Barros’ Fortitude International is fully financing. The story
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As Oscarwinner Emma Stone turns into the ultimate villain, Cruella De Vil, she opens up to Josh Smith about how she perfected that infamous cackle in the shower, how feeling anxious led to her putting herself in ‘self-imprisoned’ boxes and why she’s always drawn to the person in the room, “who really seems to detest
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Amazon Inc said on Wednesday it is buying MGM, the fabled U.S. movie studio home to the James Bond franchise, for US$8.45 billion, giving it a huge library of films and TV shows and ramping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+. Privately held MGM, or Metro Goldwyn Mayer, was founded in
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