579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Star Trek's Tawny Newsome Looks Back on Mariner's Reluctant Hero's Journey
Gizmodo,
Star Trek: Lower Decks has been a riot since its first season, and Tawny Newsome’s Beckett Mariner is a big reason why. Over the course of the show’s four-season run, she’s gone from being a chaotic, self-destructive ensign to...well, still that, but now promoted to a junior grade lieutenant alongside the other Lower… Read more...
What's on TV this week—Fargo season 5 and Squid Game: The Challenge
AV Club,
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, November 19 to Thursday, November 23. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.] Read more...
Saturday Night Live recap: Jason Momoa can't muscle through a clunky ep
He’s our biggest host of season 49—literally. Six-foot-four superstar Jason Momoa returned for his second hosting gig on this week’s Saturday Night Live, with musical performances by Canadian pop star Tate McRae. (He previously hosted back in 2018, with Mumford and Sons as his musical guest). This time around, he’s… Read more...
Taylor Swift postpones Brazil concert after fan dies amidst "extreme temperatures"
Taylor Swift has announced that she’s postponing a concert scheduled for tonight in Rio de Janeiro, after a fan died after attending her concert on Friday night in the city. Rio is currently experiencing record heat waves that have generated a heat index (i.e., the subjective experience of heat combining actual… Read more...
Chicken Run studio Aardman is apparently running out of clay
In news that could spell disaster for cheese-obsessed animated inventors the world over, long-running British animation studio Aardman Animations—famous for the Wallace & Gromit films, Shaun The Sheep, and, currently, the upcoming Chicken Run sequel, Dawn Of The Nugget—is apparently running out of clay. This is per a… Read more...
Mike Flanagan's Next Haunting Would've Taken Viewers to Hell House
Mike Flanagan’s been a well-known horror director for years, but 2018's Haunting of Hill House series for Netflix arguably put him in the spotlight. After following that up with Haunting of Bly Manor two years later, Flanagan’s been busy with other series for the streamer like last year’s The Midnight Club and more… Read more...
Steven Yeun Might Be The Sentry in Marvel's Thunderbolts
Last year, Marvel revealed it had a movie in the works for the Thunderbolts, a team of villains and antiheroes trying to redeem themselves. While the main cast consists of MCU mainstays like Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier and relative newcomers in Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova and Wyatt Russell’s John Walker, the… Read more...
Kanye West releases first single since his latest big meltdown last year
It’s been nearly a year and a half since Kanye West released a new song—a period that’s seen the artist and producer devolve ever-further into antisemitic rhetoric and general career-wrecking scandal. Now, he’s released a new single for the first time since the latest in what’s really been just a series of… Read more...