Month: January 2024

I’m thirty-plus entries into Revenge of the Remakes and have finally reached an original/remake pair where neither is American. Vincenzo Natali’s Cube (1997) is a maple-scented product of Canada’s independent filmmaking scene, while Yasuhiko Shimizu’s 2021 remake hails from Japan. You’re free of rants about stale Americanizations and Hollywood’s sometimes shortsighted approach to horror remakes.
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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has slammed the anti-trans panic sprawling through the US.(Burak Cingi/Redferns) Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has effortlessly slammed the “close-minded” anti-trans panic taking over the US in a new interview. The “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” singer and his bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are getting set to
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News Jesus Piece Announce 2024 Tour A co-headlining tour with Sanguisugabogg, plus dates across the UK and Europe By Evan Minsker January 16, 2024 Facebook X Jesus Piece, photo by Kayla Menze Facebook X Jesus Piece have announced a co-headlining 2024 tour with Sanguisugabogg. The dates kick off in April, and the two bands will
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Joseph Altuzarra was having a Devil Wears Prada moment, specifically the one in which fashion editors compare nearly-identical turquoise belts with a lament of “They’re SO different.” On TikTok, where he has over 56,000 followers, the designer was weighing the merits
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If there is one fantasy we in American political life are the most guilty of, it’s the delusion that Donald Trump will simply go away. I remember the first time someone suggested to me that Trump would magically disappear. It was shortly after the election that he was surely going to lose. (You remember the
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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View
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When the Barbenheimer phenomenon vaulted two summer movies to blockbuster glory, it was clear how the films diverged when it came to the trajectories of their female characters. Stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie in Greta Gerwig’s candy-bright confection, winds up trading the plasticine perfection of her Malibu Dreamhouse for the mixed-bag freedoms of the
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While Hollywood studio executives are busy pushing sequels and musical movies they refuse to mark as such (like Mean Girls whose trailer didn’t feature one song) to theaters, they’re missing out on the genre that audiences and talent wants to create: romantic comedies. The once prolific genre has been left off of development slates for
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View gallery Image Credit: CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Pedro Pascal has become one of the most exciting stars in Hollywood. He began getting his big break in 2019 as the title star of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, and he’s become even more famous as the leading man of the zombie dystopia series The Last Of Us on HBO. Besides being
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It’s been four years since Free League released their tabletop RPG adaptation of the Alien universe. Since then, they’ve been supporting the game with various book releases for the game’s two modes. There have been three books for cinematic mode, which provides the players pre-written characters with secret agendas to run through more focused scenarios,
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View gallery Image Credit: CraSH/ImageSPACE/Shutterstock The Bachelorette alum Clare Crawley is officially a mom! Clare, 42, announced that she welcomed her first child via surrogate with husband Ryan Dawkins on Monday, January 15. The reality star posted a picture on her Instagram Stories of the couple hugging in the hospital room. “She’s here!” Clare wrote in
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French cinema saw its fortunes rise at the international box office in 2023 after three difficult Covid-19 and post pandemic years, according to the annual report of export agency Unifrance released on Tuesday. The new figures showed that worldwide admissions for all feature films involving a French partner generated 37.4M admissions in 2023, representing a
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Ariana DeBose‘s former “Hamilton” co-star is leaping to her defense … after a Critics Choice Awards joke at her expense left her visibly insulted. Christopher Jackson, who played George Washington alongside Ariana in the musical back in 2015, gushes over the “world-class artist” … telling TMZ she represents every facet of tremendous skill and talent
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