A YouTuber who posted racist videos and said he is “ambitious for more kills” has been arrested by Florida police for allegedly transmitting threatening interstate communications, according to the Sun-Sentinel. Mostafa Hussaini, a 34-year-old who goes by the name Vam Vami on YouTube and who has called himself a racist, has openly discussed killing all […]
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The 71st Annual Emmy Awards were historic for a number of reasons, some remarkable (Billy Porter!) and some just facts (no host? Okay then). As with every year’s ceremony, the three-hour telecast (which didn’t run over?!) was filled with highs and lows, but dare we say… more highs? Here’s our list of the best and […]
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Children say and do some pretty odd things sometimes — especially when they’re only 2 years old. Zach Galifianakis’ son is no exception. In the clip above from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Galifianakis and Kimmel exchange stories of some funny-but-embarrassing things their kids have done in the past. But the actor and Between Two Ferns host […]
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Black Panther’s Shuri is returning from screen to page, this time with a novel by young adult author Nic StoneShuri is the first in a series of collaborative stories from Marvel and Scholastic, per Entertainment Weekly. In a statement to EW, Marvel’s vice president of content and character development Sana Amanat said that Shuri was […]
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Ahem. “Whoa.” Almost 16 years ago, The Matrix Revolutions hit theaters and brought the Wachowskis’ daring sci-fi trilogy to a close. Or so we thought. Lana Wachowski is returning to write and direct a fourth movie in the series, and she won’t be alone. Stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will also reprise their roles […]
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Dystopian fiction is by definition a showcase of the worst case scenario. To write it, creators must take horrible realities and stretch them to their logical, if pessimistic, conclusion. In a lot of ways The Handmaid’s Tale does dystopia fairly well — it draws upon modern misogyny, extremist pseudo-Christian ideology, and observable human rights abuses […]
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One British TV channel has taken a step towards eliminating the standing trend of all-male comedy writers’ rooms by outright requiring women writers on all submitted projects. ITV Comedy Controller Saskia Schuster announced the policy change at the Channel 4 Diverse Festival, an event dedicated to improving representation in TV and film, as an extension […]
Continue readingThis tweet of Keanu Reeve not touching women when he takes a photograph with them is going viral with over 26,000 retweets and 123,000 likes as of the writing of this post: Lol Keanu ain’t taking no chances. pic.twitter.com/nnfIOZKbT1 — Kemoy Lindsay (@KemziLinzi) June 9, 2019 You can’t really see it in the way the […]
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Carrie Fisher will live forever as Leia Organa, but her Star Wars sendoff in The Rise of Skywalker will include scenes with a very special costar: her daughter, Billie Lourd. After Fisher’s sudden passing in 2016, Skywalker director J.J. Abrams and the teams at Disney and Lucasfilm elected not to digitally add Leia to Episode […]
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“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” Taylor Swift sang years ago. But it seems the Game of Thrones references run deeper than just dragon imagery. In a new interview, Swift explains that the HBO juggernaut was definitely in her head while writing reputation. “A lot of the songs [on reputation] […]
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