Back in olden times before Netflix, you had to wait days, even weeks, between episodes of your favorite show, and it was terrible. Then the streaming service came along and changed everything. Today, the time between episodes has been reduced to seconds, the term binge-watch has been added to the Oxford Dictionary and, thanks to […]
There are a lot of lines in Funny Or Die’s parody of America’s militarized police force that would be laugh-out-loud funny, IF they didn’t seem so disturbingly close to the truth. When Ferguson Patrol Officer David Johnson (David Koechner) remarks that, “A lot of cities use violence as a last resort, but we find it’s […]
It’s been six months since the finale of “How I Met Your Mother” and no, we’re still not over it. We’ve moaned and debated about it, fans made a petition to change it, Twitter exploded in outrage and one fan even decided to fix the ending. But now apparently the real alternate ending to the […]
The weekend after Labor Day has the dubious distinction of being the lowest grossing period of the year. No one in the industry expects anything notable from these three days. The fact that “The Identical,” a barely on the radar faith-based musical drama about an Elvis-like figure, is the single new wide opener (on pace […]
Ohhhhh, James Franco. James Franco surprised his 2.7 million Instagram followers when he shared a picture of his newly shaved head on Sept. 4. The 36-year-old revealed that his new look is for his role as Ike “Vikar” Jerome in the upcoming movie adaptation of Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel, “Zeroville.” Franco took his method acting […]
Divorce rumors? What divorce rumors? Beyonce and Jay Z looked like the happiest of couples as they cozied up on vacation in Portofino on September 6. To celebrate Beyonce’s 33rd birthday, the couple jet-setted to the gorgeous Italian village for some quality Bey & Jay time. Beyonce rocked a floral bikini top and a slitted […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis reveals in a new campaign memoir that she terminated two pregnancies for medical reasons in the 1990s, including one where the fetus had developed a severe brain abnormality. Davis writes in “Forgetting to be Afraid” that she had an abortion after an exam revealed that […]
If “The Drop” didn’t contain James Gandolfini’s last screen performance, it might have gone directly to DVD. That’s how old fashioned so much of this movie feels. Written by Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone”) and directed by Michaël R. Roskam, “The Drop” — previously called “Animal Rescue,” the title of Lehane’s source short […]
To say that Joan Rivers was a major fashion icon would be a complete understatement — she was so much more. The “Queen of Comedy” was a New York Fashion Week staple and made award season worth watching. Known for her hilarious and often crass commentary on E!’s Fashion Police, Rivers never let a ridiculously-sized […]
Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie says he isn’t bothered by fans or media outlets that have mislabeled him bisexual after he admitted to having “experimented” with homosexuality and bisexuality last year. “It’s interesting because it’s what people do when they don’t have a way to label something,” Urie tells The Advocate’s Jase Peeples. […]
