Juice WRLD‘s mother, Carmella Wallace, touched on her son’s struggles with addiction in her first statement since the rapper, whose real name was Jarad Higgins, died after suffering a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport Sunday morning. “We loved Jarad with all of our hearts and cannot believe our time with …
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What a kick to watch whip-smart director Rian Johnson shake the cobwebs off the whodunit genre and make it snap to stylish, wickedly entertaining life for a new generation. That’s what happens in Knives Out, a mystery that takes the piss out of Agatha Christie clichés. Johnson has experience with …
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Saturday Night Live corralled the actors and former cast members who have played Democratic presidential candidates this season, as well as some returning faces, for the show’s spoof on the latest 2020 Democratic debates. Returning to the debate stage: Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, Woody Harrelson’s Joe Biden, Larry David’s Bernie …
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Nominees for the 62nd Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday morning, with Tanya Tucker leading among country performers and Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, and Dan + Shay all picking up multiple nominations in the country categories. Tucker’s 2019 album While I’m Livin’ was a big favorite for voters, earning the singer …
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It’s arguably the busiest month in the movie year, jam-packed with awards contenders, well-feted indies, and the occasional sequel to huge hits and/or iconic flicks. You want new works by Todd Haynes, Rian Johnson, and one Martin “Saint Marty” Scorsese? You got ’em. How about some more Stephen King horrorshows, …
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Actress Lori Loughlin, her husband Mossimo Giannulli and nine other parents will face new bribery charges in the college admissions scandal, known as Operation Varsity Blues. The new charges, returned by a grand jury in the District of Massachusetts Tuesday, allege that Loughlin, Giannulli and the others bribed employees at …
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When people talk about film as product instead of, say, art or entertainment, they’re referring to movies like Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. This misbegotten sequel to 2014’s not-so-hot Maleficent is a torturous exercise in brightly-colored monotony that chokes on repetitive screenwriting, amateurish directing, paycheck performances and digital hardware for a …
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“I’ve just done a tour in America with Smashing Pumpkins, and the sight of two goths, one in a Rancid T-shirt, one in a Kiss T-shirt, with their arms around each other, singing “Wonderwall” in Arkansas, is not something you see every day. What is it about that song? It’s …
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Hayley Kiyoko has learned a lot in the year-and-a-half since she released her debut album, Expectations. Most of those lessons were learned on the road during the months she spent headlining tours globally. “As an artist, there’s no book on how to survive tour and how to take care of …
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Frank Zappa‘s estate will mark the 50th anniversary of the guitarist and composer’s Hot Rats — released on this date in 1969 — with a six-disc reissue that offers a deep dive into the sessions that yielded the jazz-rock masterpiece. The Hot Rats Sessions, due out December 20th via UMe …
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