By Brent Furdyk. Published: 59 mins ago Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron are such action-movie pros that they don’t even need a director to film a fight sequence. That’s the revelation made by Rodriguez in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, discussing a fight scene she and Theron shot sans-director for the upcoming “Fast X”. “Can […]
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Where Lana Del Rey last left us and where she lives in our memory are two different places. For some, she will exist forever inside the grand vision of her 2019 album and its hyperbolic songs, “The Greatest,” “The Next Best American Record,” and emphasis-laden title track, “Norman Fucking Rockwell,” painting a portrait of America […]
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. This season, fashion pulled a fast one. Dopamine dressing? Serotonin-seeking maximalism? Aughts bodycon? We don’t know her. Instead, trends were out and wardrobe-building was in; on the runways, stealth wealth reigned in a way it hasn’t since the glory days of […]
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Spoilers for season 1 ahead. With the first rings forged and the true identity of Galadriel’s boyfriend—er, sorry, mortal enemy—revealed, the Rings of Power is finally ramping up now that its first season has aired. But the fires of Mount Doom will wait for no man (or elf), and you’d better believe Amazon Prime Video […]
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On Friday, just a few weeks after dethroning Kylie Jenner on Instagram, Selena Gomez became the first woman to have 400 million followers on the photo-based social media platform. Jenner is not too far behind with 382 million Insta fans, but Gomez has been pulling ahead fast. There are still two people with more followers […]
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Donald Glover’s Amazon Studio project Swarm released all its episodes this week on Amazon Prime. Co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers, Swarm is a horror-thriller series that stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman obsessed with a pop star named Ni’Jah. Dre’s own life is full of disconnect and abandonment, and she seems to […]
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Beauty and grooming rituals have long been a part of the Black experience. Historically, everything from hairstyling to body art has represented where we come from and to which community we belonged. But then we fast forward to the mid to late 20th century, when many of our beauty choices—while still widely culturally driven—were heavily […]
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Charles Foster Kane complained that he couldn’t buy a bag of peanuts without someone writing a song about him; Quentin Tarantino lives with a less adulatory version of this attention-curse, unable to sneeze without inciting at least twenty-four hours of impassioned discourse complete with backlashes, backlash-to-backlashes, and perhaps a couple of frontlashes. When you’re one […]
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They say you find love when you least expect it. And a relatively newly single Kendall Jenner, Us Weekly reports, hadn’t been looking for anything when Bad Bunny came into her life last month and their romantic relationship took off. A source said that while Bunny and Jenner are not a serious, committed couple, they […]
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On Friday night, Shakira put in an appearance on The Tonight Show to discuss her very successful “BZRP Music Sessions, Vo. 53” collaboration with DJ Bizarrap. During her interview she shared a little bit about her “rough” year and how making the song helped her recover from her difficult separation from her boyfriend Gerard Piqué. […]
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