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…
Monday, May 5, 2025
Colin Jost Attempts to Sell Staten Island Ferry Boat in New ‘SNL’ Sketch: ‘Please Buy It’ | Video
Colin Jost still has a Staten Island ferry boat to sell. On the most recent episode of “Saturday Night Live,” the “Weekend Update” anchor starred in a sketch in which he attempted to sell the boat — which he bought with Pete Davidson in 2022 — to Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman. The sketch, called “Ferry Altercation,” starred the trio as well as host Quinta Brunson. Day and Brunson played two angry drivers who enter into a verbal altercation while trying to park on the ferry, and Fineman played Day’s daughter. Jost makes his appearance after an exasperated Day complained…
Sunday, May 4, 2025
‘SNL’: Trump Signs Executive Orders Defending Bill Belichick, Chris Columbus and J.K. Rowling in Cold Open | Video
President Trump (James Austin Johnson) celebrated the first 100 days of his second term in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open by signing a new slew of executive orders in support of Columbus Day, Bill Belichik and “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling. The president was joined by White House Deputy Chief of Staff and “Lord of the Shadows” Stephen Miller (Mikey Day), whose remark that it was “an absolute pleasure” to be in the Oval Office with him prompted Johnson’s Trump to joke, “Wow! Even the nice things you say sound like Kylo Ren!” Trump then announced he would…
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Kirk Medas, Reality TV Star Known for ‘Floribama Shore,’ Dies at 33
Kirk Medas, a reality TV star best known for his 4-year stint on MTV’s “Floribama Shore,” died Friday from liver failure, his father confirmed to TMZ. He was 33. Medas had been hospitalized for around two weeks at the time of his death. The news comes just hours after his family announced he had been hospitalized for nearly two weeks battling a severe case of necrotizing pancreatitus — an inflammation of the pancreas severe enough to cause tissue death. It’s not known how he developed the illness. Medas’ “Floribama Shore” costar Aimee Hall paid tribute to him in a social…
Friday, May 2, 2025
Trump Slashes Federal Funding to PBS, NPR in Executive Order
Late Thursday night, Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS,” citing unspecified “bias” as justification. The executive order, which attacks NPR and PBS as spreaders of “radical woke propaganda disguised as ‘news,’” who “receive millions from taxpayers,” doesn’t just concern direct funding. It also commands the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the publicly funded nonprofit that oversees NPR and PBS, along with other unnamed government agencies, to identify indirect sources of government funding that may go to those outlets. Trump said in mid-April he would be asking congress to cut funding for the…
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Says Thanks to Trump ‘We’re Already Going to Loan Sharks for Lunchables’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel had a rather blunt observation about the state of things, economically, amid the chaotic economic situation thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs. “This is something that I’m pretty sure voters didn’t have in mind – when Trump promised to lower prices on day one,” Kimmel said as he started to make his observation. “An increasing number of Americans are using short-term loans to pay for groceries.” “25% of Americans are financing their grocery purchases using buy now, pay later. 100 days in, we’re already going to loan sharks for Lunchables with this guy,” Kimmel joked, adding while imitating a…
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
L.A. County Approves $4 Billion Sex Abuse Settlement, Largest Such Payout in U.S. History
Los Angeles County will pay out $4 billion in settlements to victims of sexual abuse at its juvenile facilities after the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved what will be the largest such payout in U.S. history. The victims were children housed in county-run juvenile detention centers and foster homes dating back to 1959. Nearly 7,000 claims are involved, with the bulk coming from the 1980s to the 2000s, and thousands from the now-closed MacLaren Children’s Center in El Monte where staffers were accused of drugging and molesting children in their care for years. The cash-strapped county, still reeling…
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes Trump Only Wants to Annex Canada to ‘Distract Us From the Fact That JD Vance Killed the Pope’ | Video
There was an election Tuesday night in Canada, one Donald Trump has had a very outsized impact on by his belligerently claiming he wants to illegally annex the country and make it part of the United States. But during his monologue on Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel had an amusing theory about that: Trump is just trying “to distract us from the fact that JD Vance killed the Pope.” Obviously this is a reference to the many, many jokes about how the vice president was one of the last people to see the pope in person just hours before his death…
Monday, April 28, 2025
‘The Last of Us’: All the Easter Eggs and Changes From the Game in Season 2
Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 1. HBO’s adaptation of the hit Naughty Dog and PlayStation video game franchise “The Last of Us” is back, with Joel and Ellie set to face off against new threats in the brutal post-apocalypse. Season 2, which takes place five years after the events of the first season and is based on the original game’s 2020 sequel “The Last of Us: Part II,” finds the pair, portrayed by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, respectively, settled down in Jackson, Wyoming. Over the course of seven episodes, audiences will…
