Brendan Fraser. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) Brendan Fraser is slated to star in a movie adaptation of The Whale, in which he will play a 600-pound reclusive gay man desperate to reconnect with his teen daughter. With Darren Aronofsky directing, Fraser will play Charlie, who left his family for his male partner. But after his partner dies, Charlie
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Foo Fighters have shared a new song called “Waiting on a War” to celebrate Dave Grohl‘s 52nd birthday. The song appears on their forthcoming album Medicine at Midnight. Check it out below.  Foo Fighters announced Medicine at Midnight, the follow-up to 2017’s Concrete and Gold, when they debuted “Shame Shame” on Saturday Night Live in
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On a biting Wednesday afternoon in mid-November, Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a dark gray suit behind a table awkwardly small for his gangly six-foot-five-inch frame, running five hours behind schedule, leveled a blow to parents across New York City. After months of keeping COVID largely collared, the city had kissed the 3 percent test-positivity
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Corb Lund, perhaps Canada’s pre-eminent singer about rural life and cowboy culture, is warning Albertans. “I’ve seen this coming for a while,” he said from his home in Lethbridge, Alta., the day after posting a Facebook video lambasting the province’s plans to open a vast stretch of its Rocky Mountains to open-pit coal mining. Read
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Andra Day stars as Billie Holiday in the new biopic, which will touch on her romance with actress Tallulah Bankhead. (YouTube) The trailer for The United States vs. Billie Holiday has been released, and it gives a tantalising first look at the jazz legend and her lover, played by Andra Day and Natasha Lyonne. The hotly-anticipated film
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Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Ask any Audrey Hepburn fan what they love most about her, and you’ll get a variety of responses: her undeniable beauty and imitable style. Her magnetic presence on film. Her girl-next-door appeal. For so many of her fans, especially women, she wasn’t just a glamorous movie star and
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Ever wanted to mash up Super Monkey Ball with the original Wolfenstein 3D? Creator Nickireda did, and the result is Return to Castle Monkey Ball. Combining all the chaotic physics-based “golf” of Super Monkey Ball with Wolfenstein 3D‘s Nazis, the game now sees you moving through eight procedurally-generated Nazi fortresses. Instead of mowing down Nazis with
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Like so many major cities, Philadelphia has been rocked by the events of the past year. Police shootings, COVID-19, a close presidential election, and decades of systemic injustice for marginalized communities have taken a heavy toll on the city and on the book community. But the book scene here is both surviving and creating powerful
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Fans of Canadian music legend Neil Young are wondering what a massive business deal will mean for his songs. Young has sold a half stake in his songs to British investment company Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Hipgnosis lets people invest in hit songs. Company owner Merck Mercuriatis says it specializes in placing popular music in different
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made a strong statement as she repeated her 2019 ensemble to once again impeach President Donald Trump. Nancy Pelosi, 80, just went viral on social media for her strategic outfit choice to impeach Donald Trump on Jan. 13. The Speaker of the House poignantly wore the same black sheath dress
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