4 posts tagged ‘world cup’
Our Favorite Beefs of 2023
Jezebel,
2023 was a big year for many things—celebrity divorces, reality TV scandals, orca revolutions—and a not-so-big year for sportsmanship and the high road. Rather, it was a year defined by beef, by simmering conflicts that boiled over into full-on, petty wars, Twitter feuds, and other nastiness. In 2023, far-right… Read more...
What's on TV this week—The Crown ends, and Kevin Hart and Chris Rock team up
AV Club,
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, December 10 to Thursday, December 14. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.] Read more...
The week in film: Thanksgiving's gory feast, and what's wrong with Marvel
Horror fans have been waiting more than a decade for Thanksgiving, director Eli Roth’s holiday slasher about a killer in a pilgrim mask terrorizing a small Massachusetts town. Ever since Roth’s fake trailer for the film showed up in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, we’ve been wondering what the… Read more...
Next Goal Wins review: Taika Waititi returns to his roots
The marketing for Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins promotes the film as an underdog sports comedy about an ill-fated South Pacific soccer team, full of the highs and mostly lows of a struggling squad trying to make good. Revisiting the fallout from the worst loss in World Cup history—when Australia defeated American… Read more...