It’s been two years since news of the college admissions scandal broke, sending high-profile celebrities, financiers, and Ivy League athletic coaches to prison. There’ve been podcasts, books, and even a Lifetime scripted telepic based on the twisty tale. Now there’s also a docudrama: Netflix’s Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal delves into the seedy underworld of college recruiting and the stomach-churning lengths wealthy parents are willing to go to—and the hundreds of thousands of dollars they are willing to pay—in order to get their children illegally admitted to elite colleges.Netflix’s documentary focuses on a man named Rick Singer, who…
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Last spring, Sony’s Columbia Pictures delayed their highly anticipated Venom: Let There Be Carnage from its planned October 2, 2020 date all the way to June 25, 2021. Now, with that date quickly approaching, the studio has shifted plans by pushing the Venom sequel to September 17, 2021, adding the Spider-Man spinoff to a growing fall slate that includes Candyman, Resident Evil, Malignant, and Halloween Kills, among several others. Venom 2 is directed this time by Andy Serkis with Tom Hardy returning as Eddie Brock, who is of course also the alien symbiote known as Venom. Woody Harrelson, who popped up as Cletus…
Breaking News Justin Bieber. Snoop Dogg. Saweetie. The Black Keys. Doja Cat. Diplo. No, that’s not the new lineup for Coachella … that’s the list of music guests slated to perform at the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight next month!! Triller just announced the stacked roster for its first-ever Fight Club on April 17 … in hopes of turning the boxing match into a party for the ages. The lineup is nuts … and will also feature the debut performance of Snoop’s rap supergroup, Mt. Westmore, with Ice Cube, E-40 and Too $hort. Of course, Triller put on a…
Demi Lovato says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager and is opening up about it for the first time, publicly … because it’s taken her this long to process the trauma. The singer made the shocking revelation in her new documentary, ‘Dancing with the Devil’ … which premiered Tuesday night at SXSW. In the film, she says, “I lost my virginity in a rape.” The film infers the alleged assault occurred when she was 15 during her days as the Disney Channel star of “Camp Rock” and “Sonny With a Chance.” Demi says she called the person back a…
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Sabine Schmitz — affectionately known as the Queen of Nürburgring and former host of the hit BBC show “Top Gear” — has died. Sabine, the only woman ever to win Germany’s famous 24-hour touring car and GT endurance racing event in 1996 and 1997, died Tuesday. She revealed last year she had been battling a rare form of cancer since 2017. The Nürburgring’s racing account tweeted, “The Nürburgring has lost its most famous female racing driver. Sabine Schmitz passed away far too early after a long illness. We will miss her and her cheerful nature. Rest in peace Sabine!” Sabine…
In 2003, Charlize Theron won an Oscar for playing Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, in Monster. Now, “Cobra Kai’s” Peyton List will star in the prequel, American Boogeywoman, which will be based on the early life of Wuornos, reports Deadline. “Based on Wuornos’ early life in 1976, the film follows America’s most notorious female serial killer in Florida when she marries Lewis Fell, an older wealthy yacht club president only to inflict mayhem within her new family and Florida’s high society. “In the film, Lydia Hearst plays Jennifer Fell, the daughter of Lewis. The character…
NewsHelado Negro Covers Deerhunter’s “Futurism”: ListenCheck out Tune-Yards’ Breeders cover, Bing & Ruth’s rendition of Pixies’ “Gigantic” from 4AD’s Bills & Aches & BluesBy Evan MinskerMarch 17, 2021FacebookTwitterHelado Negro (Alessandro Bosio/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)FacebookTwitterA new compilation from 4AD called Bills & Aches & Blues features artists from the label’s roster covering songs from throughout the label’s 40-year archive. Today, a new batch of songs from that collection has been shared: Helado Negro covering Deerhunter’s “Futurism,” Tune-Yards playing the Breeders’ “Cannonball,” Bing & Ruth’s rendition of Pixies’ “Gigantic,” Spencer.’s version of Grimes’ “Genesis,” and Efterklang’s cover of Piano Magic’s “Postal.”…
The Sequels Included Fan Favorites Like Luke, Han, And Leia. Again, Whether You Liked It Or NotOK, so I kind of hate this, but I know a lot of Star Wars fans really wanted to know what happened to Luke, Han, and Leia (and I guess Lando Calrissian) following the events of the original trilogy, and the sequels gave fans that story. Now, most fans weren’t happy with what they got with Luke and Leia (especially with Carrie Fisher’s untimely demise). But this is a continuation of the story that a lot of the fans wanted to see, and the…
Rowan Blanchard was woke before we even knew what being awake meant. By the age of 13, the bubbly actress was a keynote speaker at UN Women’s HeForShe conference. In 2014, she openly discussed her struggles with depression, creating a public discourse around destigmatizing mental illness, and in 2017, she spoke at the Women’s March in L.A. She spent the better part of her teens using her social platform to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and rally for intersectional feminism, and to put things simply, she became the de facto face of youth activism in the late 2010s. With every…
The hour found a way to continue its theme of finding a new normal. The series has found a sweet spot in covering the pandemic and lingering effects of it without bogging the series or viewers down with the worst of it, and New Amsterdam Season 3 Episode 3 was another hour that showcased that. Everyone is still afraid, overwhelmed, and uncertain about what the future holds, but life is still going on. It has to keep trudging along, and so do we. In one of the most surprising moves, depending on your stance, Floyd is back in New York, but…
Film writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse has dedicated much of her life to exploring horror’s history and culture from a critical and scholarly perspective. Janisse authored House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, published and edited numerous horror non-fiction anthology works, founded the on-going Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and more in her impressive career so far. In her feature debut, writer/director Janisse dives deep into the world of folk horror, delivering a dizzyingly comprehensive documentary that approaches the subgenre’s history with a broad critical perspective. Woodlands kicks off its deep-dive with an overview of folk…
Hold on to your galactic blasters and gather up your space dragons—the finalists for the 56th annual Nebula Awards have been announced and they are out of this world! The awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. They have been voted on, and presented by, full members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. since 1966. An anthology including the winning pieces of short fiction and several runners-up is also published every year. The announcements were streamed live with host SFWA President and SAG-AFTRA performer Mary Robinette Kowal, and…
Demi Lovato is opening up about the night that almost killed her, and the frightening moment when she woke up in the hospital and was declared legally blind. Lovato’s highly-anticipated “Dancing with the Devil” documentary premiered at the South by Southwest festival Tuesday night, giving viewers an unvarnished look at the singer’s struggles and triumphs. In one part, she shares she was declared legally blind in the hospital after her 2018 overdose … her vision so bad she was unable to see her sister at her bedside. In an interview with The New York Times, Lovato said it took her…
Great news for AMC which threw open the doors to its Century City and Burbank locations Monday after a year of being shutdown due to Covid restrictions: The No. 1 circuit’s Burbank location sold out 22 of its 32 showtimes, while Century City sold out 18 of its 30 showtimes yesterday. Remember, capacity is capped at 25%. But still, a good start as the motion picture industry looks to get the No. 1 box office market back in business. As we told you, Boogie filmmaker Eddie Huang celebrated the reopening of LA theaters by coming out to Century City last night…