Thursday, December 13, 2018
A producer on Twitter recently entreated critics not to craft Worst-of lists this year, and I couldn’t disagree more: Observers of film should absolutely be praising the best of cinema, but it’s only by remembering the shortcomings of the art form by which, ideally, artists can learn from their mistakes. And mistakes were definitely made this year: 10. (tie) “Peppermint”/”Proud Mary” /”Red Sparrow”: Can we have some strong screenplays to go with our strong female leads, please? This trashy trio of action sagas put guns in the hands of some of our most talented actresses but then forgot to supply…
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
“Jurassic Park,” “My Fair Lady,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Shining” were among the 25 American films inducted into the National Film Registry, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced Wednesday. Selection to the registry will help ensure that these films will be preserved for all time because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage. “The National Film Registry turns 30 this year and for those three decades, we have been recognizing, celebrating and preserving this distinctive medium,” Hayden said. “These cinematic treasures must be protected because they document our history, culture, hopes and dreams.” Also Read:…
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Former “Desperate Housewives” star Josh Henderson got arrested Tuesday for allegedly burglarizing his neighbors’ home, TMZ has learned … but our Henderson sources say the bust is bogus. Law enforcement sources tell us Josh’s neighbors came home… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Twenty days in, police and family have revealed little information about Kelsey Berreth. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
On Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Trevor Noah got into some of the more awkward, R-rated aspects of the Robert Mueller investigation drama in light of papers the special counsel filed on Friday recommending serious jail time for President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen. Noting that the criminal accusations against Cohen concern paying off women who said they had affairs with Trump, Trevor joked that the line between politics and pornography is becoming extremely thin. “If you think about it, it’s weird how much politics and porn are overlapping right now. ‘Cause in the future kids will will…
Monday, December 10, 2018
[[tmz:video id=”0_2srilmis”]] President Trump didn’t fork over hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep their sexual liaison from his wife, because Melania knows his “history” with women … so says U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge. The Ohio congresswoman… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Monday, December 10, 2018
Tyerell Przybycien said he “wanted to see what it was like to watch somebody die,” authorities said. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Monday, December 10, 2018
Ty Dolla $ign’s staring down the possibility of more than a decade in prison now that a grand jury’s indicted him on drug charges that include felony possession of cocaine. According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, the rapper has been slapped with 3… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Monday, December 10, 2018
Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play,” which opened Sunday at Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop, is a giant trigger warning in three acts. This is an ambitious, at times uneven satire about race and sex and power and politics that seems designed to provoke. It begins with the surprisingly graphic onstage couplings of three interracial couples on an antebellum Virginia plantation. A white overseer named Jim (Paul Alexander Nolan) hooks up with a broom-wielding slave named Kaneisha (Teyonah Parris, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) — though not before forcing her to eat cantaloupe off the floor. A white mistress (Annie…
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Brown, who was allegedly forced into prostitution, is serving a life prison sentence for killing a man she thought was going to shoot her. Source: Huffingtonpost feed