LONDON (AP) — Angelina Jolie can add royal recognition to Hollywood stardom. The Oscar-winning actress has been named an honorary dame — the female version of a knight — by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. Jolie, a United Nations special envoy, received the honor on Friday for her work combating sexual violence in war zones. Jolie, […]
For decades, Russell Simmons has been a busy man building an empire, from co-founding Def Jam Recordings to creating the Phat Farm fashion line. But in the midst of his rise to fame, there was one thing that got him to actually slow down and venture into a yoga studio. Women. Simmons tells Oprah on […]
Image Comics’ Rat Queens — which earned IGN’s Best Comic of the Month back in January, by the way — is getting the animated series treatment, thanks to Weta Workshop’s Pukeko Pictures and Heavy Metal. For those out of loop (which you shouldn’t be, because Rat Queens is awesome!), Kurtis J. Weibe and Roc Upchurch […]
Morrissey guitarist Jesse Tobias has weighed in on tour opener Kristeen Young’s accusations that his boss was lying when he said she got him sick When Morrissey had announced the cancellation of the tour due to his illness he wrote that Young had contracted a “horrendous cold” so he asked… Source
A gameplay trailer for the upcoming PlayStation 4-exclusive role-playing game Bloodborne has emerged, showing off the game’s dark environments, weapons, and otherwordly enemies. If it gives off a Demon’s Souls/Dark Souls vibe, that’s probably because the mastermind of those acclaimed franchises–Hidetaka Miyazaki–is working on Bloodborne as its director. The game is in development at From […]
Keanu Reeves has joined Frozen River director Courtney Hunt’s courtroom drama The Whole Truth, replacing Daniel Craig just two months after his departure. Reeves will play the role of a defense attorney for a teenager accused of murdering his wealthy family, joining the current cast of Renee Zellwegger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Gabriel Bosso. Source
Biz Markie’s knack for gracing a hip-hop track with vivid lyrics and his trademark beatboxing has swayed countless amounts of fans around the globe for over 20 years. And as Markie, born Marcell Hall, famously professed on his 1988 track “Nobody Beats The Biz,” when it comes to rocking parties he is “a nymphomaniac, brainiac […]
Jimmy Scott the revered jazz vocalist known for his unique vocal phrasings and diminutive stature died Thursday at the age of 88 While the cause of death was not immediately disclosed his death was confirmed by his biographer David Ritz Scott who began singing in the Forties earned his first hit with… Source
If you watched this year’s E3 press conferences, you saw things like severed limbs in a demo for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, decapitation by guillotine in Assassin’s Creed Unity, and graphic kill scenes in Mortal Kombat X. This trend of violence in mainstream games is “disturbing,” and isn’t likely to stop anytime soon, according […]
Stoney Lake Entertainment has released the international poster for Left Behind which you can view below. Hitting theaters on October 3, the Vic Armstrong-directed action adventure stars Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan, Lea Thompson, Jordan Sparks, Quinton Aaron and Martin Klebba. Source
