The Netflix docuseriesCheer — about the championship cheerleading team at Navarro College in Texas — will tackle the arrest of breakout star, Jerry Harris, on child pornography and sex charges when the show returns for its second season on Jan. 12. The new trailer for Season Two features features footage …
Read More »James Cameron on His New Art Book 'Tech Noir,' The Future of the 'Avatar' Franchise
As a kid growing up in Chippawa, Ontario, James Cameron used to run to the drugstore every Friday after getting his allowance and blow it all on Mountain Dew and Marvel comic books. He’d then race home, tear through the new comics, and take out a notepad and try to …
Read More »Watch the Trailer for Michael K. Williams' Last Doc Project, 'Black Market' Season 2
The second season of Black Market with Michael K. Williams will premiere on Jan. 10, VICE TV has announced. It marks the late actor’s final documentary project. He died of acute intoxication in September at the age of 54. Hosted by Williams, Black Market sets out to pull back the …
Read More »Real Kevin Hart Plays a Fake Kevin Hart in 'True Story' — Yeah, It's Confusing
“People think that they know me because I made them laugh or because they’ve been to a show. But they don’t know what I did to get here. Or what it takes to stay here.” This is Kevin Hart at the start of his new Netflix thriller True Story. Well, …
Read More »Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee Freak Out Over Sex Tape Leak in First Teaser for 'Pam & Tommy'
The first teaser trailer has dropped for Pam & Tommy, with stars Lily James and Sebastian Stan embodying Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee with uncanny likeness. The Hulu series, set to premiere with the first three episodes Feb. 2, 2022, centers on the fallout after the famous pair’s sex tape …
Read More »'SNL' Skewers Ted Cruz for Anti-Big Bird Stance in 'Sesame Street' Parody
In an episode hosted by Jonathan Majors, this week’s Saturday Night Live cold open took Ted Cruz to a fictional version of Sesame Street. After Cruz spent the week attacking Big Bird on Twitter for his pro-vaccine stance, Aidy Bryant reprised her role as the Texas senator hosting a far-right …
Read More »There Are Crazed, Manic Cult Movies — and Then There's 'Possession'
There is a pantheon for over-the-top screen performances, one that dates back to the silent era and has room for everyone from an unmasked Lon Chaney to a covered-in-bees Nicolas Cage. In the center of this Hall of Fame, however, sits a French actress, her pale blue eyes widened, her …
Read More »'The Velvet Underground' Documentary Is as Radical, Daring and Brilliant as the Band Itself
“I feel as if I were in a motion picture theater,” he says, voice unmistakable. To the right of the screen, the face of a young man, half-obscured by shadows, stares blankly at us, his lips unmoving. It’s the kind of face you can’t take your eyes off of — …
Read More »Three Netflix Employees Reinstated Following Suspension Amid Uproar Over Dave Chappelle's 'The Closer'
UPDATE 10/12: Mere days after three Netflix employees were suspended— including a trans senior software engineer who criticized Dave Chappelle‘s Netflix stand-up special The Closer — all three have been reinstated, as Variety reports. According to Netflix, they had been suspended and investigated for attempting to attend a meeting of …
Read More »'The Simpsons' Get (Edward) Gorey in New 'Treehouse of Horror' Episode
The Simpsons have shared the Edward Gorey-inspired chapter from the never-ending animated series’ upcoming “Treehouse of Horror XXXII” episode. The annual Halloween episode has often turned horror classics — complete with faux-Vincent Price narration — into fodder for its chapters, and in this clip, Price reads Maggie Simpson a bedtime …
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