Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che lampooned President Trump’s laughable Friday press conference in which he announced he signed a national emergency declaration to fund his pet project border wall with Mexico. Jost started the segment pointing out just how bizarre Trump’s behavior was during …
Read More »Trump's Awkward Relationship With the Troops (Timeline)
Nobody knows more about ISIS than Donald Trump does. Or about hunting down enemies. Or preventing terrorist attacks —believe him. The 45th president lacks military experience but seems to believe he would have served his country better than any of the men and women who actually chose to do so. …
Read More »Journey To Release 'Frontiers' and 'Escape' Live Album From 2017 Tour
In February 2017, Journey went to Japan for a special show at Tokyo’s Budokan that featured a complete performance of 1981’s Escape and 1983’s Frontiers at the request of legendary Japanese concert promoter Mr. Udo in honor of his 50th anniversary in the business. “There’s a few songs I don’t …
Read More »'Birds of Passage' Review: Colombian Crime Saga Is Stunning, Surreal, Epic
It’s tempting to think we’ve seen it all when it comes to gangster movies — the Tommy-gunning tough guys, the cosa nostra capos and cutthroats, the tattooed yakuza hard men, the cartel-to-Chinese-triad thug lifers, the coked-out kingpins with their Everest-sized blow piles and ballistic “little friends.” Cristina Gallego and Ciro …
Read More »Maren Morris Sounds Off on Gun Reform in New Interview
Ahead of the release of her second album,Girl, Maren Morris is making good on the promise of her new song “Flavor,” in which the singer proclaims: “Shut up and sing? Oh hell no, I won’t,’” in reference to the infamous phrase levied against the Dixie Chicks when the group spoke …
Read More »John Prine Doc 'Hello in There' Picked Up for Theatrical Release
John Prine‘s songwriting legacy and recent resurgence will be the focus of an upcoming documentary titled John Prine: Hello in There. Sony Pictures Classics announced Saturday that it had acquired the film, which was directed by Zachary Fuhrer and produced by Rolling Stone‘s Patrick Doyle. “The movie began filmingJohnas he …
Read More »Dua Lipa on Her Grammy Win, 21 Savage's Arrest and New Music
“So many women!” Dua Lipa said on Sunday night, scanning the crowd from the stage while accepting her Grammy for Best New Artist. “I guess we really stepped up this year.” The comment, however offhanded, was a clear reference to Recording Academy President Neil Portnow’s infamous remark at last year’s …
Read More »'SNL' Mocks Virginia Politicians Over Blackface Scandal
As Virginia continues to reel from allegations that both Governor Ralph Northam and the state’s attorney general donned blackface in the Eighties, a Saturday Night Live sketch mocked the state’s clueless representatives. “Alright, so we’re all in agreement that the lieutenant governor should be encouraged to step down? Okay, so …
Read More »'High Flying Bird' Review: Steven Soderbergh's Got Game
Ray Burke (Andre Holland) talks a great game. If verbiage was a professional sport, the man would be rocking MVP rings, adorning Wheaties boxes, have his own sneaker line. Kids would be wearing his jersey. He’s first-round Hall-of-Famer material when it comes to pitching clients, charming “the naysayers and the …
Read More »Watch Chilling New Trailer for Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary'
Stephen King has written a lot of frightening books throughout the course of his five-decade career, but none are quite as viscerally disturbing as Pet Sematary. The 1983 novel is about a doctor that moves to the country with his young family and discovers a pet cemetery in the woods …
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