Month: April 2022

News Brian Eno, Big Thief, Coldplay, and More Contribute to Earth Day Charity Compilation Hot Chip, the Weather Station, Nile Rodgers, and others have also provided previously unheard tracks to the EarthPercent initiative By Eric Torres April 22, 2022 Facebook Twitter Brian Eno, June 2016 (Christian Alminana/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter The foundation EarthPercent, an initiative
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Bestselling author John Darnielle’s most bizarre novel to date, Devil House (11.5 hours), is an odd amalgam of crime fiction, buried memories and investigative journalism. As the audiobook’s narrator, Darnielle performs the story in a steady voice, combining the otherwise disjointed series of events into a cohesive, fascinating whole. Assuming the voice of true crime
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Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson are leading the cast of dark comedy thriller The Kill Room, and Deadline reports that Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) has also signed on. Nicol Paone is directing The Kill Room, written by Jonathan Jacobson. The movie will tell “the story of a hitman (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), and an art dealer (Thurman) whose money
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The culture of dolls, it seems, is everywhere. In February, the New York Times reported that the American Girl Cafe has become a go-to destination for the influencer set. Elsewhere, TikTok star Hal.Baddie has popularized the term “dolls” for her legion of 320.5k followers. Megan Fox recently got Bratz doll-inspired nails, a new season of
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Kit Connor (L) as Nick and Joe Locke (R) as Charlie in Heartstopper. (Netflix) It’s been six years since Alice Oseman published the first edition of Heartstopper, her universally adored webcomic, and now the television adaptation has finally landed on Netflix. Heartstopper tells the story of Charlie (Joe Locke), an openly gay teenager who finds himself falling
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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been in the midst of a legal battle for years, but things have really stepped up in recent weeks. The U.S. defamation trial has officially begun, with Depp himself testifying for several days about his experience with the Aquaman actress. While getting cross-examined by Heard’s team, Depp admitted to
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Actor Robert Morse, best known for his work on “Mad Men,” has died. Morse’s death was confirmed Wednesday, though his cause of death is currently unknown. The actor’s work on “Mad Men,” playing Bertram Cooper for 74 episodes, got him 5 Emmy nominations over its 8 years on the air. Bertram, or Bert, was one
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British cyclist Katie Archibald says that trans athletes have been “let down” by sporting bodies’ inclusion policies. (Getty/Sebastian Frej/MB Media) Olympic gold medalist Katie Archibald has declared that trans athletes have been “let down” by inclusion policies in the sporting world.  Archibald, who is a two-time Olympic cycling champion, called out “international governing bodies of
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Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida governor Ron DeSantis. (YouTube/ PBD Podcast) The recently exposed Libs of TikTok Twitter account has been credited with inspiring Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, as well as the surge in “grooming” rhetoric among conservatives. This week, Chaya Raichik was exposed as the person behind the account, which started on
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This summer will be significantly better than last, or at least that’s the expectation from Fandango’s second annual Moviegoing Trends & Insights Study, which just dropped this morning ahead of CinemaCon. Among those 6K moviegoers polled by the online movie ticket retailer, 83% plan to see three or more movies in theaters between the May to
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Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf’s Queen of the Tiles is a raw, moving exploration of complicated grief, a celebration of teenage determination and a nail-biting murder mystery set at a cutthroat Scrabble tournament in Kuala Lumpur. At last year’s Word Warrior Weekend competition, Trina Low, the titular Queen of the Tiles, made it all the way
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From Paramount and eOne, the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons live action movie has received its official title today, now called Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The Dungeons & Dragons movie will release in theaters on March 3, 2023. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, co-directors of 2018’s hilarious comedy Game Night and writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming, are on board
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