Friday, May 16, 2025
Stephen Colbert Jokes That Instead of Canceling Child Food Programs, ‘Republicans Can Eat a D–‘ | Video
Stephen Colbert got a little blue during his monologue on Thursday’s “The Late Show” thanks to his disagreement with Republican policies. But Colbert offered a compromise to Republicans if they’d back down from one of those policies, joking that in exchange, “they can eat a d—.” “Republicans are trying to give Trump a gift before his big birthday parade, a budget that would cut Medicaid to finance tax cuts for billionaires,” Colbert said, elicitin boos from the audience. “If this bill is passed, experts estimate that in the next 10 years, 8.6 million fewer Americans will have health care coverage….
Thursday, May 15, 2025
‘Death Does Not Exist’ Review: Stunning but Slippery Animated Feature Confronts Love in the Shadow of Death
The world as we know it is crumbling. Rising wealth inequality, a collapsing climate and the continued expansion of unchecked state violence are all bearing down on us. It’s far from a cheery state of affairs, but it’s in this heavy yet unavoidable reality where filmmaker Félix Dufour-Laperrière places us in “Death Does Not Exist.” Thus, it’s where any engagement with his work must also begin. Despite its title, this is an impressionistic film very much about how death does exist and will haunt us after the moment of loss. While the doesn’t make its subtext 100% explicit, it’s grounded…
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Stephen Colbert Says Trump’s Saudi Arabia Trip Means ‘I Got Another Birthday President’ | Video
Donald Trump’s official visit to Saudi Arabia — which coincides with the constitution-violating acceptance of an private jet gifted to him by Qatar — happens to coincide with Stephen Colbert’s birthday. Naturally, the host of CBS’ “The Late Show” noticed the coincidence. “According to several texts from my children, today is my birthday,” Colbert said during his monologue on Wednesday’s show. “Can we confirm that? Is it possible? Yes, we have fact-checked it. It is today may 13.” Colbert then joked that he fact-checked it on a foot fetish website before continuing, “it’s also a big day for the President,…
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Open Letter Calling Out Film Industry ‘Silence’ Over Gaza Signed by 380 People Including Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Ruffalo: ‘We Are Ashamed’
In an open letter signed by 380 people, publication of which was timed for the first day of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, entertainment luminaries from around the world called out that they said is “silence” in the film industry over the situation in Gaza. Published in French on the website of France’s Libération newspaper, the letter’s signatories include Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Ruffalo, “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder, Javier Bardem, Guy Pearce, Brian Cox, Susan Sarandon, Ralph Feinnes and many more. “Since the terrible massacres of 7 October 2023, no foreign journalist has been authorised to enter the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army…
Sunday, May 11, 2025
‘SNL’: Trump Crashes Mother’s Day Celebration, Cecily Strong Returns as Jeanine Pirro in Cold Open | Video
President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) interrupted Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernández and Kenan Thompson’s sweet Mother’s Day celebration in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open in order to celebrate the election of the first American pope and introduce viewers to the new United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro (a returning Cecily Strong). Before Yang, Thompson and Hernández’s Mother’s Day song could reach its chorus, Johnson’s Trump came in to crash their party. “It’s me again, invading all aspects of your life!” he announced, while shooing the “SNL” cast members and their “moms” offstage. “Don’t worry….
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Bill Maher Jokes That New Pope’s First Prayer Was ‘Keep JD Vance the Hell Away From Me’ | Video
Like pretty much every other night time TV host this week, Bill Maher talked quite a bit about Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected head of the Catholic Church who also happens to be an American from Chicago (born Robert Prevost). And given the timing of the death of Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis — he died just hours after meeting with the current Vice President of the United States — Maher joked during his monologue on Friday’s “Real Time” that Leo’s first prayer included “keep JD Vance the hell away from me!” But before that joke, the HBO host brought…
Friday, May 9, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes the American Pope Means ‘the Popemobile Is Now a Ford F-250 With Truck Nuts’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel was excited by the extremely surprising news Thursday that for the first time ever, an American has been elected Pope. For those just catching up, that’s Chicago native Robert Prevost, who has since taken the Papal name Leo XIV.” “An American Pope!” Kimmel exclaimed. “The Popemobile is now a Ford F-250 with truck nuts.” Kimmel admitted he was very surprised by the news and joked, “Italy and America, this must have been what it felt like when they opened the first Olive Garden, you know?” Later in the monologue, Kimmel noted that “Nuns go crazy for the Pope,”…
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Smokey Robinson Denies Sexual Assault Accusations, Attorney Calls Lawsuit an ‘Ugly’ Attempt to ‘Extract Money’
Through his attorney, Smokey Robinson is denying the accusations of sexual assault against him by four former employees in a lawsuit filed this week. The Motown icon’s attorney also called the lawsuit an attempt “to extract money” from Robinson. “As this case progresses, the evidence (the crucial element that guides us) will show that this is simply an ugly method of trying to extract money from an 85-year-old American icon — $50 million, to be exact,” Christopher Frost said in a statement Wednesday. “Through this process we have seen the bizarre theatrics of yesterday’s news conference, as the plaintiffs’ attorneys…
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
‘Andor’: Is [Spoiler] Dead? Breaking Down Season 2’s Most Shocking Moment
Note: This article contains spoilers from “Andor” Season 2, Episode 8. “Andor” Season 2, Episode 8 is one of the most viscerally upsetting hours of up-close, in-your-face violence that the “Star Wars” franchise has ever produced. After spending seven episodes setting it up, the Disney+ series finally delivers on the growing, Imperial-induced tensions on Ghorman. Dedra (Denise Gough) and her fellow Imperial officials manipulate a crowd of Ghorman protestors into the planet’s capital square and then use a shot from a hidden Imperial sniper as an excuse to begin massacring all of the Ghormans present. The episode’s most shocking moment…
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Gavin Newsom Asks Trump to Create $7.5 Billion Federal Tax Credit for Hollywood Instead of Tariffs
Gavin Newsom responded Donald Trump’s demand for steep tariffs on movies filmed outside the U.S. with a plea for the President to “partner” with him instead on a proposed $7.5 billion federal tax credit for Hollywood. The proposed tax incentive would be separate from the California state tax credits Newsom is trying to enact, including the proposal announced in October expand the state’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program to $750 million annually. It is currently $330 million annually. “America continues to be a film powerhouse, and California is all in to bring more production here. Building on our successful…
