Month: August 2021

The Ofcom headquarters in London, England. (Getty/ Bruno Vincent) Britain’s media watchdog Ofcom has been widely criticised for cutting ties with LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall because of a “risk of perceived bias”. The Office of Communications, a communications regulator otherwise known as Ofcom, announced that it would be pulling out of the Stonewall diversity champions
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News Watch Chvrches Perform “Good Girls” on Fallon From their upcoming studio album Screen Violence By Madison Bloom August 26, 2021 Facebook Twitter Chvrches (Still from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon). Facebook Twitter Chvrches were the musical guests on the latest episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Scottish band played “Good
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In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to the
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James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, died last Thursday, August 19 in Bethesda, MD. Loewen was a highly respected sociologist and racial justice activist, as well as the author of several textbooks that challenge the white, Eurocentric history taught in most schools. He attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he studied
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The ITV exec insisted that Love Island is “about boys and girls”. (YouTube/ Love Island) ITV managing director Kevin Lygo has declared that queer Love Island definitely won’t happen any time soon, insisting: “It’s about boys and girls.” Speaking on a virtual Edinburgh TV Festival session on Wednesday (25 August), Lygo shut down the idea of
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Moments before Universal’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday afternoon, the studio has popped the champagne over Justin Lin’s F9, which is crossing the $700 million mark at the global box office. Technically, that feat occurs tonight. F9 is the only Hollywood MPA movie to cross that threshold to date for 2020 and 2021. The last film to do
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Learn all about longtime NBC News journalist Kristen Welker’s businessman beau, John Hughes. Kristen Welker is one busy woman. The 45-year-old is one of NBC News’ most notable journalists, working as the network’s co-chief White House correspondent and as co-anchor of Weekend Today. She also moderated the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden
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Lizzo fawned over Niall Horan and revealed that her provocative lyric about Drake in her song ‘Rumors’ was originally written about the former One Direction bandmate himself! Step aside Chris Evans and Harry Styles, because Lizzo has got the hots for another superstar: Niall Horan! The “Good As Hell” songstress, 33, is known to fawn over
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Courtesy A24/Design by Leah Romero I think I could chart my entire life in adaptations of Arthurian lore. There was The Sword in the Stone and A Kid in King Arthur’s Court in elementary school, First Knight during a seventh grade slumber party, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail when I was a sophomore
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News Helado Negro Shares New Song “Outside the Outside”: Listen “This is a song about intimate partnerships and long-loving friendships. To be loyal freaks and an outsider amongst outsiders.”—Roberto Carlos Lange By Allison Hussey August 25, 2021 Facebook Twitter Helado Negro, photo by Nathan Bajar Facebook Twitter Helado Negro has shared another new song from
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I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation as a sci-fi obsessed teenager, but I didn’t think I was interested in watching the show adaptation … until I saw the recently released trailer. And now, we need to talk. Go ahead and watch it, I’ll wait! The Foundation Trailer [embedded content][embedded content] Can we just take a moment
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