Pop Culture

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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