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Lots of what the new Australian drama Babyteeth (available for digital rental on June 19) depicts—illness, risky first love, drug dependency—is stuff we’ve seen on film many times before. What makes this dreamy-sad film fresh and exciting is the perspective brought to familiar material by first-time feature director Shannon Murphy, making an auspicious big-screen debut

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he supports any franchise that will hire quarterback Colin Kaepernick, after he’s gone three seasons unsigned following his ‘taking a knee’ racial injustice protests. Even though no NFL team has gone near signing quarterback Colin Kaepernick after 2016’s season, the league’s commissioner is encouraging a franchise to take a chance

Tyler Perry is covering the cost for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, who was killed in a scuffle with Atlanta police outside a fast-food drive-thru and was shot twice in the back. On Monday, lawyer L. Chris Stewart said during a press conference that the Diary of a Mad Black Woman star will cover Brooks’ funeral

Congratulations to those who had Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, and Hellboy star Ron Perlman on their Twitter feud bingo cards. Here’s how it started: Last week, Gaetz criticized the U.S. Soccer Federation for reversing the league’s previous stance on players kneeling in protest during the national anthem. “I just could not

TikTok fans raved over ‘national treasure’ Judi Dench and her 23-year-old grandson, Sam Williams. He has an uncanny resemblance to a certain red-haired pop star! Judi Dench, 85, danced as Old Deuteronomy on Cats, and she’s now bopping to the viral “Laxed (Siren Beat)” song on TikTok. The legendary theater performer and actress proved that her

Barbra Streisand, the veteran American pop singer, has gifted Gianna Floyd with shares in the Walt Disney Company following the killing of the six-year-old’s father, George Floyd, last month. The young girl took to Instagram on Saturday morning thanking the 78-year-old musician for her gift. “Thank you @barbrastreisand, for my package,” Gianna wrote in the

In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump administration’s public response to the rapidly-spreading pandemic was basically: Just don’t worry about it. “We’re talking about very small numbers in the United States,” Trump said on March 4 in a White House meeting with airline CEOs, days after he predicted cases would soon go

Jazzy Collins, a former casting producer for ‘The Bachelor’, criticized the show for only casting ‘ethnically ambiguous’ and ‘not too black’ cast members, shortly after the first black ‘bachelor’ Matt James was announced. The Bachelor just announced its first ever African American male lead Matt James on June 12 but that didn’t stop former casting

WARNING: This story contains explicit language. After remaining silent for weeks on his social media platforms, Bad Bunny has broken his silence and shared his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd. On May 19, the reggaetón superstar wrote, “bye, I left,” which is also the name of his

As protests over police brutality have roiled the nation’s streets, the book world has been confronted by a much more subtle reckoning with race. The hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, which took off on Twitter early last week, prompted authors to share details about their advances, and led to a wave of statements from publishers promising to do

David Schwimmer has a daring young daughter when it comes to her hairstyles. Her mom gave her a buzzcut after nine-year-old Cleo wanted to ‘challenge today’s norms’ While Friends star David Schwimmer has kept his only child out of the limelight while growing up, his nine-year-old daughter Cleo is making a name for herself thanks

Scumdogs rejoice: Gwar, the American heavy metal band (commonly stylized as GWAR), has backed a fan-launched campaign to replace the controversial Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Va., with a statue of Oderus Ungerus — a deceased member of the band. That’s right. Rather than honouring a “failed” 19th-century U.S. confederate general, one “GWAR scumdog” launched

The last time we saw Moira Rose (before that commencement address featuring Mariah Carey), the Schitt’s Creek matriarch was sitting in the backseat of an SUV, being chauffeured out of the titular small town that melted her cold, couture-enrobed heart. The exit was a bittersweet déjà vu moment for Moira because, as Catherine O’Hara explained

Courtney Stodden was spotted out and about with Brian Austin Green on June 13, just over three weeks after the actor shared that he and his wife, Megan Fox, had split. Here are five things you should know about Courtney Stodden. Courtney Stodden is spending some quality time with Brian Austin Green. Roughly three weeks

For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than originally planned because of the pandemic’s effects on the movie industry. The

After doing a Zoom table read with the show’s cast, Smiley Guy and the show’s production team immediately got to work on the animation. To capture the voice work, a sound engineer delivered microphone kits to cast members in Los Angeles and recorded them performing their lines while sitting in his van outside of their

Howard Stern called out Donald Trump Jr. on his radio show after the First Son tweeted out an old blackface sketch, reminding him he was a huge fan. He suggested he and his father get ‘psychotherapy,’ too. Howard Stern shot back at Donald Trump Jr. for retweeting a 1993 comedy sketch featuring the shock jock

After voicing support for Woody Allen and criticizing cancel culture, Spike Lee apologized Saturday for words he said were “wrong.” In an interview Friday on the New York radio station WOR 710, Lee called Allen “a great, great filmmaker” and used him as an example while talking about “cancel culture.” “I’d just like to say

The Television Academy has announced it will push ahead with this year’s Creative Arts Emmys, turning what’s usually a multi-night ceremony into an “innovative virtual event”—though details clarifying what the event will look like are still scant. Meanwhile, the film Academy is reportedly set to meet Monday morning to discuss whether or not it will

“Hi. I am so f–king sorry for all the dumb s–t I did when I was younger,” the musician wrote on Twitter on June 13. “I am a different person now with a much better understanding of the world. Some people have access to a digital megaphone a bit earlier than they should, unfortunately, I was

Country singer Hank Williams Jr.‘s daughter Katherine Williams-Dunning was killed in a car crash in Tennessee on Saturday night. She was 27. A spokesperson for the Tennessee Highway Patrol says Williams-Dunning was driving an SUV towing a boat when it crossed the median and rolled over northeast of Paris, Tenn. Williams-Dunning was killed in the

HBO host John Oliver had no problem mocking his network’s own brand extension on Sunday night, even as he defended the cable and streaming provider’s recent decision to temporarily remove Gone with the Wind from HBO Max. “I’m told that no longer can you find on HBO Gone with the Wind, because somehow that is

Larissa and Colt are trying to live their best post-divorce lives, but Larissa tells her friends that she does ‘miss’ Colt during the ’90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?’ season 5 premiere. When 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? season 5 starts, Colt is trying to move on with his life after Larissa. He’s still

Fresh off their relaxing Utah getaway, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin hit up a Beverly Hills basketball court! Hailey looked so stylish in a loose pair of jeans and white crop top as she sipped on an iced coffee. The coupe that shoots together stays together! Justin Bieber, 26, and Hailey Baldwin, 23, were spotted

Travis Scott recently liked several of new mom Iggy Azalea’s sexy photos! The ‘AstroWorld’ rapper was spotted out for dinner with his ex-GF Kylie Jenner just days ago. Travis Scott, 29, recently showed Iggy Azalea, 30, some love on Instagram — but his ex-girlfriend Kylie Jenner, 22, wasn’t bothered. “Travis liking Iggy’s photo is something Kylie

Some are more obvious than others. A Vietnamese dance club with the Apocalypse Now logo behind the DJ is clearly welcoming a comparison to Francis Ford Coppola‘s war epic. Enforcers showing up to yank gold from a fraying group of treasure hunters while cackling about badges is not exactly a subtle reference to The Treasure

Vanessa Bryant and her daughter Natalia each thanked fans for the overwhelming support since the tragic deaths of Kobe and Gianna — but admitted going on social media has become tough. Vanessa Bryant, 38, revealed that seeing photos of her late husband Kobe and daughter Gianna on social media has been “really hard.” In an

As Americans have recently hit streets in more than 2,000 cities and towns to protest racial injustice and police brutality, another killing of a black man at the hands of a white officer, captured on video, is continuing to increase scrutiny on policing and heighten calls to reform. “Police officers can’t continue to be judge,

Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin hit the beach for a day of family fun with Gwyneth Paltrow’s lookalike daughter Apple and son Moses. Dakota Johnson, 30, is spending more time with boyfriend Chris Martin‘s kids! The 43-year-old shares two children with his ex Gwyneth Paltrow, 47, and the new couple were spotted spending time with Apple,

Ultimately, Pennsylvania saw a more than eighteen-fold increase in the number of ballots requested for its 2020 primary as compared to 2016. And one quirk of the absentee ballot processing rules in those two states—and it’s true in about a dozen others—is that those states are not permitted, by law, they’re not permitted to start