Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson deleted his Instagram account after a troubling post where the comedian wrote “I really don’t want to be on this earth anymore.” “I’m doing my best to stay here for you but i actually don’t know how much longer i can last,” Davidson wrote …
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The American Meme, a new Netflix documentary film, highlights the absurdity and emotional dangers of life as a modern social media mogul. Writer-director Bert Marcus follows four web celebrities –Paris Hilton, Josh “the Fat Jew” Ostrovsky, Vine star Brittany Furlan and Kirill “the Slut Whisperer” Bichutsky –as they process the …
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On Tuesday, while tweeting about a trade deal with China, Trump bragged, “I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It will always be the best way to …
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Hugh Jackman remembered standing in the shadow of Stan Lee at Comic-Con during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday. Lee, the mastermind behind the Marvel universe, died yesterday at the age of 95. Since 2000, Jackman has portrayed Wolverine in the film adaptations of one of …
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Soon after Andrew Lincoln made his much-anticipated exit from The Walking Dead, AMC revealed that the actor would reprise the role of Rick Grimes in multiple films based on the hit zombie drama. Lincoln’s closing moments on the series featured a mortally wounded Grimes being loaded onto a helicopter, his …
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Last night Stephen Colbert had a lot to say about President Trump’s ongoing feud with Elizabeth Warren over her Native American heritage. The Democratic senator, whom Trump often refers to as “Pocahontas,” confirmed via DNA testing that she does, in fact, have Native American ancestry, to which Trump has responded, …
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For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight. As Tom Surgal, director of the new doc Fire Musicput it in a 2015 …
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Mid90s, Jonah Hill‘s directorial debut, follows 13-year-old Stevie, who befriends a group of skateboarders one summer while navigating a heartbreaking home life in Los Angeles.“A lot of the time we feel like our lives are the worst,” a friend tells Stevie (Sunny Suljic) in the tender new trailer. “I think …
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Roy Moore, the former Alabama Republican senator who was accused of attempting to have sex with a 14-year-old when he was in his thirties, has filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime and CBS, the TV network’s parent company. The politician and former chief justice of …
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Samantha Bee explored the crucial role undocumented immigrants play in the food industry – and debuted her Guy Fieri parody character, “Girl Fieri” – on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Bee noted, there are 1.3 million undocumented immigrants working in restaurants in the United States, and one of them, Christina Martinez, …
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