Barack Obama had more than enough face masks on hand for his birthday party guests this past weekend — custom ones at that — but it’s clear a lot weren’t put to good use. 44’s been taking a ton of heat these past few days for throwing himself a huge bash on Martha’s Vineyard, where
GQ’s global editions picked 21 artists who show where music is going next. By The Editors of GQ August 10, 2021 There are no borders in music. BTS tops charts in the U.S., Bad Bunny was the most streamed artist in the world on Spotify in 2020, and the Weeknd is on 21 different versions of
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out our most recent list.) Suzanne Santo, “Mercy” Former
August 10, 2021 Trailer: The Edge Of Your Seat Thriller ‘The Night House’ Rebecca Hall (The Town, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) stars in David Bruckner’s psychological thriller The Night House. A director known for specialising in horror, Bruckner’s latest feature is no exception, with the film not holding back on the jump scares (you’ve been warned…)
It would seem that one of new additions to the mythology in Nia DaCosta‘s upcoming Candyman is that the titular moniker doesn’t just describe a single character, but rather, as the trailers have been suggesting, “the whole damn hive.” In other words, there’s more than one “Candyman” at play here, including one character we’ve seen
August 8, 2021 FEATURED, Music News Black Eyed Peas Release New Single “Hit It” featuring Saweetie and Lele Pons Just when you thought they couldn’t go any bigger, six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning, genre-bending pioneers Black Eyed Peas unleash a blockbuster new single and music video entitled “HIT IT” featuring Saweetie, & Lele Pons. The track brings together an icy multiplatinum hip-hop force of nature
EXCLUSIVE: Samba TV has updated the running U.S. viewership on Disney+ Premier’s Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt adventure film Jungle Cruise and it’s 1.5M U.S. households through the pic’s first ten-days. Multiply that by the pic’s in-home purchase price of $29.99 for Disney+ subscribers and Jungle Cruise has taken in $44.985M stateside in those homes clocked by Samba TV.
At the height of my wrestling and boy band obsession, I wrote a crossover fan fic in which *NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake dated a WWE wrestler who was best friends with the Hardy Boyz and Lita. It was not good. On the other hand, Starz’s upcoming drama Heels (premiering Sunday, Aug. 15 at 9/8c; I’ve seen
Patriotic superheroes were ridiculously popular during World War II. Captain America may be the best-known example, but he had to fight his way through a very broad field to become the icon he is today. One competitor who couldn’t quite hack it was Captain Battle. I learned about Captain Battle when researching this article about
By the time Luke Bryan released Tailgates & Tanlines on Aug. 9, 2011, he’d placed two albums in the No. 2 spot on the country albums chart, earned five Top 10 singles (including two No. 1s) and won a few awards. His third studio album, though, kicked his career to another level. It started with “Country Girl
Chucky Thompson, the hip-hop, R&B, and pop producer best known for his work as a part of Bad Boy Records’ “Hitmen” production team, has died. Thompson’s publicist Tamar Juda confirmed the news to Billboard: “It is with a very heavy heart that I can confirm the passing of Chucky Thompson… To anyone in his orbit,
Following TMZ’s report today that a judge denied Britney Spears’ request to remove her father from her conservatorship ahead of her scheduled September hearing, Spears posted on Instagram that she is going to “post a little less from now on” because “the news has been pretty nasty saying horrible and mean lies about me.” She
The fictional town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, gets mentioned frequently in author Stephen King‘s works. Most famously, it’s the setting for his vampire novel ‘Salem’s Lot and, to a lesser extent, a stand-alone prequel short story “Jerusalem’s Lot.” The latter channeled Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm, with an 1850’s tale of terror told in the
Paul Walker‘s only child, Meadow, is now engaged nearly 8 years after his death. The 22-year-old model made the announcement not-so-subtly on IG Monday with a quick, fun video of her in a pool somewhere in the desert. She flashes the giant rock on that finger … and flirtatiously floats away from the cameraman, presumably
Netflix and Ava DuVernay will continue to battle Linda Fairstein‘s defamation lawsuit over her portrayal in “When They See Us” … a judge just denied their bid to toss the suit out of court. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Monday Linda’s defamation suit plausibly alleged
Britney Spears didn’t want to wait until September to ask a judge to boot her dad from her conservatorship, but the judge just shut down her request. The singer’s request to move up the hearing to sometime this month or to at least suspend Jamie immediately until the final hearing, was denied … according to
The title track from Scotty McCreery‘s Same Truck album is a likable message of unity that fits safely within the singer’s comfortable repertoire. Images of rural America color a guitar and mandolin-led arrangement that finds the 27-year-old focused on the world around him. McCreery has done little of this across his four previous studio albums. Songs of love and
New Zealand’s Coming Home in the Dark is the first feature film directed by James Ashcroft, perhaps better known as an actor and most recognisable to international audiences for his minor role in the hit horror-comedy Black Sheep (2006). But there’s nothing funny about this powerful, nail-bitingly tense and disturbing road thriller, in which an
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Do you need to insurance boobs? After queering up the castle in James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein, we got cosmic with Adam Egypt Mortimer’s outstanding imaginary friend tale Daniel Isn’t Real. Now we need something that’ll really get us hot, and the 1981 parody Student Bodies just might do the trick! In the film, an anonymous
The casting of Kurt Russell in the sheriff’s role (which went to Brian Dennehey in the 1982 film) makes sense. Russell collaborates with Tarantino all of the time, as recently as in the director’s last film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Adam Driver does appear to be one of those performers who’s open to
There comes the point in every show when they overstay their welcome, but if the first handful of episodes of The Walking Dead Season 11 are any indication, the series is saving the best for last. The show changed for the better when Angela Kang took over on The Walking Dead Season 9, employing a
It’s only been a few months since Thomas Rhett released his fifth studio album, Country Again: Side A, but the singer threw fans a curveball on Friday (Aug. 6) and shared something brand new. That’s “Redneck Be Like,” a fun, uptempo anthem timed perfectly to go along with his return to the road on Friday (Aug.
Following their take on the Shins’ ‘New Slang’, Porridge Radio have shared a cover of Wolf Parade’s ‘You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son’ for Sub Pop’s subscription Singles Club series. The latest entry in the series also includes two new tracks by Washed Out, ‘Sidney’s Lullaby’ and ‘Miles’ Lullaby’, both of
This is the Swedish actor’s second go-round in the comic book movie world, but this, time it all went according to plan. He swears. By Joseph Bien-Kahn August 4, 2021 Joel Kinnaman on set for The Suicide Squad, 2021.Everett Collection / Courtesy of DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures As I wait for Joel Kinnaman
Asleep at the Wheel, the long-running and influential Western-swing band, will mark 50 years together with a new album. The aptly titled Half a Hundred Years will be released in October and features a number of all-star guests. The Wheel preview the upcoming LP with the title track, released on Friday. Elevated by buoyant horns
August 9, 2021 FEATURED, Music News 98 Degrees Turn Back The Clock With Their New Single ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’ 98 Degrees embrace the ’90s in the video for their anthem, “Where Do You Wanna Go.” Wearing bucket hats, turtleneck sweaters and backwards baseball caps in the music video, they start the day off
A new Richard Bates Jr project is always a cause for celebration because it’s guaranteed to a) make you squirm or b) make you laugh (often despite yourself). With King Knight, the writer/director, known for his caustic comedies and macabre horrors, delivers a bemusing property that broadly satirizes the New Age self-improvement movement, albeit with
It was a triumphant second weekend for indie Stillwater from Focus Features, which hit the $10 million mark in 2,611 theatres (up by 80) and 233 DMA’s in North America, where it was no. 5. The Matt Damon-starrer held up strongly from its debut, dipping 45% — compared with a 64% drop for The Green
On August 6, The Suicide Squad, with all-new Suicide Squad characters, lands in theaters and on HBO Max. Written and directed by James Gunn, the movie is about a team of DC antiheroes. It is not to be confused with Suicide Squad, a movie about a team of DC antiheroes written and directed by David