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Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘After the Hunt,’ stars Roberts alongside Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny and Michael Stuhlbarg.To give you a sense of the knotty conflicts, character dynamics and power struggles at play in Luca Guadagnino’s new film After the Hunt, during the film’s official Venice Film Festival press conference, Julia Roberts got asked out of the gate to offer her thoughts on whether the film undermines the feminist struggle. “Not to be disagreeable because it’s not in my nature,” Roberts said with a grin as she defended the movie by countering that it’s only meant...

WWE legend Lex Luger walks by himself in a new video. The DDP Yoga account posted a video on, X formerly known as Twitter, showing Lex Luger walking on his own for the first time in years. In the clip, he moves around a kitchen island while trainer, Autumn Swansen, watches closely. As he takes his steps, Swansen is seen encouraging him saying, “Lex, you’re literally walking unsupported right now.”

Saturday Night Live writer Celeste Yim is leaving the long-running NBC show after five years in the writers’ room. Yim, who revealed the news on Instagram, joined the show in 2020 and was promoted to writing supervisor in 2023. Yim, who wrote sketches including L’Eggs and We’re Trying, said, “After five seasons, I’m leaving my job at Saturday Night Live. Lorne hired me over the phone when I was 23 and the job literally made all of my dreams come true BUT it was also grueling and I slept in my office every week BUT my friends helped me with...

“It's just sad, it's very sad,” Christopher Columbus said in a recent interview.Former Harry Potter director Christopher Columbus has become the latest member of the film franchise to address J.K. Rowling’s transphobia, calling it “very sad.” Columbus helmed the first two films in the Potter series: 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. When asked about Rowling’s well-documented TERF screeds in a new interview with Variety, the filmmaker responded: “I like to sometimes separate the artist from the art, I think that’s important to do. It’s unfortunate, what’s happened.” “I certainly...

Kate Merrill | Image by katemerrill1/Instagram ================================================================== A former long-time Boston television anchor is suing CBS and its parent company, Paramount Global, claiming that she was forced out of her job to make way for the media giant’s DEI quotas. Katherine Merrill Dunham, better known to viewers as Kate Merrill, claims network executives were worried that WBZ-TV was becoming “too white,” and chose to sideline her after more than two decades as an anchor at the station, according to court documents. The Emmy Award–winning broadcaster filed her legal complaint against CBS earlier this month, saying she was demoted, humiliated in...

When the USS Enterprise crew is called in to investigate a slew of miners getting burned to a crisp by a mysterious creature, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the gang run into something they didn't think was even possible! Join Possum Rob as he takes a look at the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Devil in the Dark!"

Amid Bruce Willis' nearly three-year battle with dementia, the actor's brain is "failing him," and his ability to communicate is fading, according to his wife Emma Heming Willis. "Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know," Heming Willis told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in the ABC special "Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey," a preview of which aired Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "It's just his brain that is failing him." Willis' family shared publicly in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a type of dementia that impacts one's personality...

Augusta National and The R&A have jointly announced that those hoping to qualify for The Masters and Open Championship will have the chance to via select national opens Augusta National, home to The Masters, and The R&A have announced, jointly, plans to align aspects of the qualification criteria for the Masters Tournament and The Open. Specifically, invitations (one year exemptions) will be awarded to winners, or top finishers, of select national opens, with the qualifying criteria beginning immediately. The specific home opens are: Current Scottish Open Champion Current Spanish Open Champion Current Japan Open Champion Current Hong Kong Open Champion...

Swift and Kelce started their relationship in 2023, after the NFL player said he tried and failed to meet the singer at an Eras Tour concert.

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases. Dept. Q is a British crime thriller television series created by Scott Frank and Chandni Lakhani, based on the book series by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen. It premiered on Netflix on 29 May 2025.[1] In August 2025, it was renewed for a second season.[2]

Rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus criticised sexual deviancy representation in children's films during a podcast last week, specifically citing the 2022 movie "Lightyear" as an example. Mr. Broadus explained during an appearance on Sarah Fontenot's "It's Giving" podcast that he took his grandson to see "Lightyear," which features a same-sex couple. Mr. Broadus recalled his grandson quizzing him during the movie about how the couple had a child together. "Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman.' Oh sierra, I didn’t come in for this...

The American filmmaker took part in a Q&A session via a video link, with pro-Putin Russian director Fyodor Bondarchuk moderating the conversation. Allen’s presence has sparked outrage, with Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs calling it "a disgrace and an insult." Oscar-winning American filmmaker Woody Allen appeared at the Moscow International Film Week yesterday, headlining the “Legends of World Cinema” programme. The 89-year-old took part in the event via a video link - rather than in person – with pro-Putin Russian director Fyodor Bondarchuk moderating the conversation. The festival’s website described the slot as an “atmosphere of a confidential dialogue” to...

Divorce is a misery, and so too is The Roses. This second cinematic version of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel The War of the Roses, like its 1989 predecessor starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, fails to find anything funny about a couple whose union devolves into all-out war. This time around, it’s Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the husband and wife who increasingly want to wring each other’s necks (among other violent fantasies). While both are game for this comedy of hostility, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Tony McNamara strand them in a battle marked by mirthless one-liners and...

Snoop Dogg says he watched the Disney movie Lightyear with his grandson and had the same question we all had when it came out. He's now in hot water for his opinion. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK............. This came during an interview on the It's Giving podcast. And sure, Snoop hasn't been the best example of a family man with some of his work, but this is a children's movie he's talking about here, not adult entertainment. Remember, this was the woke Toy Story spinoff with the gay kiss that was shoved into a movie by Disney in 2022. And now...

“Gavin Newsom is now trolling Trump. I’ve never seen a Democrat do this. I think it’s very funny… he’s imitating Trump’s exact style,” Maher said Friday during his “Real Time With Bill Maher” show. “This is Newsom: ‘And he will fail as he always does, sad. And I, the peacetime governor, our nation’s favorite, will save America once again. Many are calling me the, you know, Gavin Newsom, many say the most loved and handsome governor,’” Maher added, reading a post Newsom made on X. Newsom and his communications team have tried to mimic Trump’s rhetoric and social media persona...

Diego Borella passed away from a "sudden heart attack" on set in VeniceAn assistant director has died on set in Venice during the filming of the fifth season of Emily In Paris. Diego Borella, who was working as the third assistant director and was hired locally, collapsed and died from a “sudden heart attack”, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. He was 47. “We are deeply saddened to confirm the sudden passing of a member of the Emily In Paris production family,” a Paramount Television Studios spokesperson said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Our hearts go out to...

In the 1990s, it seemed like everyone was obsessed with Winona Ryder. Well, I wasn’t born, so I can’t say I witnessed the height of the actor’s fame for myself, but you only have to look at the number of songs which name-drop the star to realise how popular she was. Ryder is, of course, so much more than a muse: Johnny Depp’s infamous ‘Winona forever’ tattoo emerged from the embers of their passionate relationship, while Tim Burton has never hesitated to cast her in his work. But it’s undeniable that she has been the inspiration for many art forms....

I just watched a rerun of the final M*A*S*H episode. I remember that the country stopped when this thing originally ran. The final episode of MASH*, titled "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," aired on February 28, 1983 on CBS. It was a 2½-hour television event that marked the end of the series’ 11-season run and became the most-watched single episode of any television series in U.S. history, drawing over 106 million viewers.

I must admit that I was a bit disappointed that Trump wasn't doing ride-alongs yesterday. Nevertheless, this'd be a great idea and would gather a worldwide audience. I'd especially like to see him doing busts on Schiff and the like. The pic below is an available AI image (hence the fake label) and is only thing I could find that sorta captures it.

Sentiment rules in this version of Twain's beloved classic tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri. Tom Sawyer (Tommy Kelly) and his pal Huckleberry Finn (Jackie Moran) have great adventures on the Mississippi River, including most sequences familiar to readers of the book.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938, Technicolor)