“It’s a cold, dead film about cold, dead people” is how Bret Easton Ellis described The Canyons at a press conference during the 70th Venice International Film Festival. Earlier that year, it had been rejected by Sundance, though the second of the two festivals to reject the film – South by Southwest – was perhaps […]
Continue ReadingHurricane Ian—a Category 5 storm that just hit Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic—made landfall in Florida late Wednesday afternoon. With over 150-mile-per-hour winds and devastating blows to the state’s power lines, the hurricane hit Fort Myers on the southwest side of Florida especially hard. Footage shared on social media depicted homes ravaged by […]
Continue Reading
Black women are three times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The reasons are wide-ranging, from what resources are available to the ongoing issue of bias and racism in healthcare. Aftershock, an eye-opening new documentary, aims to shed new light on this massive problem. From co-directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula […]
Continue Reading
Taylor Swift became a doctor today—technically, earning her honorary doctorate from New York University with the graduating class of 2022. Swift shared a video of herself en route to the graduation ceremony, where she was the commencement speaker. And Swift gave one of her most honest, inspiring speeches yet, adding cheeky comments about her songs […]
Continue Reading
It’s a classic parlor game, a staple of the wee small hours during slumber parties: everyone draws a card, and whoever gets the one marked with an X must play the ‘murderer,’ dispatching their ‘victims’ while fumbling about in the dark as the other competitors try to guess who’s behind the spree. But in the […]
Continue Reading
South By Southwest 2021 Film Festival Film Lineup Sound of Violence, Here Before, The Fallout, and the other films in the film lineup for the 2021 South by Southwest Film Festival have been announced. “South by Southwest is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take […]
Continue Reading
Play video content 11:07 AM PT — According to Atlanta PD, a call for service came in Friday for a dispute at the gate of an airport, which we’re told appears to be related to this incident Bam was involved in here. Luckily for him, no arrests were made — which jives with what you […]
Continue Reading