A planned TV show for CBS about the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California, has been scrapped after members of the Bay Area arts community expressed their outrage and reservations over the project. The show was announced last week as part of a new deal between CBS and …
Read More »Tom Cruise Trains the Next Generation of Pilots in 'Top Gun: Maverick' Trailer
Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, opening in theaters on June 26th. With more than 30 years’ experience as a test pilot under his belt, Maverick finds himself training a new group of Top Gun graduates for an unusual and challenging specialized …
Read More »The Never-ending Afterlife of Classic Rock
“Being in Queen now feels like the old times because it has become as big as the old times,” Brian May told Rolling Stone in 2017. The band was still a year out from the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic that would raise its pop-cultural capital even further. But …
Read More »Flashback: Billy Joel Hits Number One With 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
Billy Joel rattling off historic names and events most people under 30 have never heard of hardly seemed like the formula for a hit song, especially in 1989 when the charts were dominated by the likes of Poison, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Debbie Gibson, and New Kids on the Block. …
Read More »Read the House Intelligence Committee's Impeachment Report
The House Intelligence Committee has released a scathing report that lays out the case for the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. The document, released Tuesday, lays out stark misbehavior by the president. The committee is controlled by the Democratic majority and recaps the …
Read More »How the New Adam Driver Movie 'The Report' Turns Political Thrillers Inside Out
In The Report, Adam Driver plays Daniel Jones, a real-life Senate staffer who spent years working in a basement office on a 7,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report concluding that the CIA’s post-9/11 use of torture in interrogations was not only inhumane but entirely ineffective — only to discover powerful forces …
Read More »Best TV to See in Dec.: 'Dare Me,' Holiday Specials, 'The L Word' Returns
So what’s hitting the airwaves this holiday season? There’s a new series from Idris Elba; the revival of a queer cult classic, a night of charity hosted by a wicked Broadway legend; and a reverent salute to a titan of golden age television. Plus: The gajillionth version of Dicken’s Christmas …
Read More »Why Spotify May Soon Have a Big TikTok Problem
Are you dead? Let’s find out: Watch this video, which went viral on TikTok this week, and see if you don’t chuckle. For those skeptical types who refrained from clicking the link above: It’s a human, clad in a dinosaur costume, petrifying members of the public. What can I say? …
Read More »Documentary About Late Blind Melon Singer Shannon Hoon Nears 2020 Release
UPDATE: All I Can Say will arrive in “virtual cinemas, record stores and music venues” on June 26th. All I Can Say — the long-in-the-works documentary about late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon — has added Double E Pictures and Live Nation Productions as executive producers on the film, which …
Read More »'I Followed the Directions of the President': Read Gordon Sondland's Explosive Impeachment Testimony
In explosive written testimony, European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland told House impeachment investigators that he was just following orders when he pressured Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and the Crowdstrike conspiracy in exchange for the release of hundreds of millions in U.S. funding for Ukraine’s defense. In his testimony, Sondland …
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