Breaking News Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, won’t ever have to worry about facing charges over the raid on his home that left his girlfriend dead … because a judge has deemed it so. Judge Olu Stevens of Jefferson Circuit Court in Kentucky handed down the ruling Monday that the criminal charges Kenneth was originally facing in the immediate aftermath — assault and attempted murder of an officer — would be dismissed with prejudice. That means they can’t be filed against him again. A motion to dismiss with prejudice was recently filed by Jefferson Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine … who…
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A new study from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reveals the bleak reality for women in popular music. The report—compiled by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Dr. Katherine Pieper, Hannah Clark, Ariana Case & Marc Choueiti—sought to “assess the gender and race/ethnicity of artists, songwriters and producers across the 800 top songs from 2012-2019” (derived from the Hot 100 Year- End Billboard Charts). The researchers found that less than 23 percent of artists and less than 2 percent of producers were women. This year’s study generated the fourth annual report from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which received funding…
Writer/director Lee Isaac Chung is Korean American himself and grew up on a farm in Arkansas, so it is clear he drew from personal experience when writing and creating Minari. Despite not immigrating or living in the states, Korean actress Yeri Han still has personal connections to the film. Her connections to the script have to do with family; the way she was raised along with the memories that she holds. What’s so beautiful about this is that while Han and Chung have Korean roots in common, having similar childhoods is the thread that connects their experiences to this script,…
One year into the pandemic, its effects are threatening to undo decades of investment in girls’ and women’s access to education, economic opportunity, and safety. The facts are dire: The crisis has led to an increase in domestic violence; the gender poverty gap will likely worsen, as more women than men have lost work during the last year and a larger proportion of women than men slip into poverty; and around the world, 20 million girls could drop out of school by the end of the pandemic. As we rebuild in the months and years ahead, the question I keep…
Kim’s Convenience is closing up much earlier than planned. The current fifth season of the hit Canadian sitcom will be its last. “To our amazing fans: Authenticity of storytelling is at the center of the success of Kim’s Convenience,” the producers said in a statement. “At the end of production on Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving onto other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special.” The statement added that “Kim’s…
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Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin, Michelle Monaghan, Veronica Ferres and India Eisley star in the thriller Every Breath You Take, which has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Deadline reports today that Vertical will release the film, directed by Vaughn Stein, in both North American theaters and at-home via Premium VOD on April 2nd, 2021. “Every Breath You Take centers on a psychiatrist (Affleck) whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient’s surviving brother (Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Monaghan) and daughter (Eisley), his family life is suddenly torn apart.” “With…
Exclusive The Naked Cowboy, famous for performing in Times Square, got busted way down in Florida for his same old schtick … and cops say his trusty guitar broke when he resisted arrest. Robert Burck, the nearly naked man behind the Naked Cowboy character, was arrested Saturday on a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest without violence in Daytona Beach, where police also cited him for aggressive panhandling. The Naked Cowboy was in town for Bike Week … and cops say he was in his familiar getup — white briefs, guitar and a cowboy hat — when he was taking pictures…
Amazon isn’t being transparent in the weekend viewership of Coming 2 America, the Eddie Murphy comedy sequel the streamer picked up for $125 million back in October, which we first told you about. Rather they’ve serviced a statement pointing to The Digital Entertainment Group/Screen Engine/ASI’s VOD weekend rankings which contains streaming, PVOD and VOD feature titles claiming the comedy sequel was No. 1, even beating Paramount+’s first weekend stream of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. Oddly enough, Screen Engine/ASI’s chart doesn’t even rank the weekend results for Disney+’s Raya and the Last Dragon. Rather than reporting weekend viewership…
While P.T. is gone, it’s certainly not forgotten. In addition to the handful of fan remakes, we’ve also had a few games taking inspiration from the cancelled Kojima project. Among them is Spanish indie developer JanduSoft S.L.’s Evil Inside, which will be headed to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam later this month. You play as Mark, who after the death of his mother and the arrest of his father (for causing said death), decides to contact her through a occult means. Unfortunately, things go south, and Mark is now being tormented inside the house while trying…
Hiss Golden Messenger have announced a new studio album: Quietly Blowing It arrives June 25 via Merge. Today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single, “If It Comes In the Morning.” Find that below and scroll down for the album tracklist and cover art.Quietly Blowing It follows 2019’s Terms of Surrender, which netted bandleader/songwriter M.C. Taylor his first-ever Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album. Last year, Taylor released the live album Forward, Children to benefit the Durham Public Schools Foundation in North Carolina.[embedded content]Quietly Blowing It:01 Way Back in the Way Back02 The Great Mystifier03 Mighty Dollar04 Quietly…
Pepe Le Pew’s problematic behavior appears to have been something Warner Bros. was well aware of before he was called out anew … because he reportedly doesn’t make a single appearance in the new ‘Space Jam.’ A new Deadline report explains that the Looney Tunes character actually had a scene written into the movie early on in the production, when director Terence Nance was still at the helm. Apparently, there was a ‘Casablanca’-like scene in which Pepe played a bartender and tried kissing the arm of a human character, portrayed by actress Greice Santo. Deadline says Santo pulls back and…
Can’t get over that WandaVision finale? Me neither. But the good news about a series based on comics is that the end of the season doesn’t mean the end of the story. You can still catch up with Scarlet Witch, Vision, and all the other characters we’ve gotten to know in Westview. Whether you want some backstory on Monica Rambeau and S.W.O.R.D or more adventures staring Scarlet Witch and Vision, Marvel has a comic for you. From recent releases to comics spanning all the way back to the 1970s, I’ve put together a list of the best comics to read…
Exclusive The Netflix docuseries on L.A.’s mysterious Cecil Hotel is triggering a flood of new, and bizarre, theories on who was behind Elisa Lam’s death — some so strange they’d require time travel. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … ever since “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” started streaming, LAPD’s 24/7 hotline’s been ringing off the hook with tips. We’re told most are connecting the hotel’s haunted past to the unsolved mystery of how Lam ended up dead in a rooftop water tank. If you’ve seen the series you know a former GM at the Cecil said she…
Ahead of the film’s premiere at SXSW, we’ve learned today via Deadline that Jaco Bouwer‘s South African horror movie Gaia has already been acquired for release by Decal. Decal, which Deadline notes is “the newly formed home entertainment distributor from Neon and Bleecker Street,” is planning to release Gaia in theaters this summer. “The plot follows a park ranger on a surveillance mission in a primordial forest who encounters two survivalists living a post-apocalyptic lifestyle. The boy and his philosophical father seem to have their own religion and a mysterious relationship to nature.” The film stars Monique Rockman, Carel Nel,…