Robert Downey Jr., as you no doubt know if you follow Hollywood lore, was once a polysubstance addict — or, as 12-step groups would phrase it, is an addict who has been in recovery since 2003. He finally got sober after a life of doing drugs, starting before he turned 10, as Vanity Fair chronicled […]
In the circus of comedy, where the tightrope between genius and garbage is as precarious as a politician’s promise, and the line between hilarious and heinous is as thin as the president’s hairline, Shane Gillis parades as living proof of a cynical maxim: No comedian is too outrageous — especially when his humor drills through […]
Edgy “anti-woke” stand-up comedian Shane Gillis held nothing back when he hosted this week’s “Saturday Night Live”, opening his monologue with a jokes about his firing from the show, his parents, a relative with Down syndrome, and much more. “I’m here,” Gillis began his monologue, which “SNL” posted on the social media platform X. “Most […]
Major film flops have Warner Bros. seeing the color red. The company’s shares sank after a quarterly earnings report Friday came in lower than projections, according to the New York Post. With two recent releases proving box office film disappointments, maybe the company — and Hollywood overall — ought to ask itself why Americans aren’t […]
Warner Bros. Discovery released its financial report for 2023 and it was largely mum-to-bad news. But that report did include one bit of good news — and it turned out to be a historical bit of good news. In short, Warner Bros. Discovery’s flagship streaming platform, Max, helped turn a modest profit. (WBD describes its […]
With the recent release of the “X-Men ’97” trailer, the online discourse on whether the iconic mutant team serves as an allegory for social justice has resurfaced. The upcoming show, a continuation of the beloved 1990s cartoon “X-Men: The Animated Series,” has sparked both praise and criticism over its expected progressive themes. Controversy arose when […]
Few animated cartoons are as broadly appealing and critically acclaimed as Nickelodeon’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” The original series, which ran from 2005 to 2008, was a massive critical and commercial success. It is one of this writer’s favorite shows of all time, and many others feel the same. Many “The Last Airbender” fans were […]
Sometimes, fact really is stranger than scripted fiction. During a press conference for WWE’s upcoming Elimination Chamber 2024, the company’s lead announcer Michael Cole revealed that WWE had been accosted by pirates — and it doesn’t appear to be a storyline. (And to be clear, these are real pirates, not the Johnny Depp variety.) A […]
Lamb Chop lives. Mallory Lewis, daughter of famed puppeteer Shari Lewis, is making good on a promise she made to her mother. She said, “I promised my mom I would keep Lamb Chop alive.” She grew up with Lamb Chop, her “sister” and often slept with the puppet as a child. She joined her mother’s […]
Filmmaker Tyler Perry has decided to indefinitely halt the plans he had for expanding his film studio because he fears that artificial intelligence software programs could more or less make a lot of jobs in the industry obsolete and put the power of movie-making in the hands of a person sitting at a computer […]
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