Month: March 2024

Awards season campaigning is a notoriously competitive and fickle thing, a calculated mix of schmoozing at industry parties, charming audiences at late-night talk shows and being not too publicly thirsty to take home the gold (sorry, Bradley Cooper). And apparently one Icarian hero flew too close to the sun this year: Messi, the Border Collie
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The early days of the pandemic were like living in some unholy vortex. Stores were indefinitely shuttered. The streets were eerily abandoned. And the threat of COVID lurked around every corner. While it has been four years since those rudimentary times, and we’ve returned to some normalcy, the danger still exists in hushed whispers and
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News Sleater-Kinney Share New Frayed Rope Sessions EP: Listen Proceeds from the Bandcamp sales of the three-track release benefit Noise for Now By Matthew Strauss March 8, 2024 Facebook X Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, photo by Ryan Cory Facebook X Sleater-Kinney have released a new three-song EP called Frayed Rope Sessions. As the
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And in case you missed it, the season four finale of The Kardashians showed footage from then-pregnant Kourtney and husband Travis Barker‘s sex reveal party from the previous June. The Lemme founder and Blink-182 drummer welcomed son Rocky Thirteen Barker, 4 months—their first baby together and fourth child overall for each, on Nov. 1, weeks before the episode aired. During the episode, Kourtney also reflected on how their
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A24’s psychological thriller Love Lies Bleeding by director Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov, with Dave Franco and Ed Harris, opens in limited release on five screens in New York and LA , expanding next week. A reclusive gym manager Lou (Steward) falls hard for Jackie (O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed
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This originally appeared in our Today in Books daily newsletter, where each day we round up the most interesting stories, news, essays, and other goings on in the world of books and reading. Sign up here if you want to get it. _____________________________ Why Does Every Famous Woman Have a Book Club Now? Of course,
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Dane DiLiegro‘s breakthrough role as the feral Predator in 2022’s Prey marked him as one to watch in the genre space. Now, the 6’8″ actor can be seen going feral on screen once more in Imaginary, as the more monstrous version of Chauncey the Bear. Imaginary, out now in theaters, is directed by Jeff Wadlow (Cry Wolf,
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Gal Gadot Gives Birth, Welcomes Baby No. 4. With Husband Jaron Varsano Everyone’s favorite baby had a baby.  Teletubbies‘ Jess Smith, who played the adorable Sun Baby on the children’s show, has welcomed her first child with partner Ricky Latham, a baby girl named Poppy Rae Latham.   According to social media, Jess and Ricky welcomed Poppy in early January, confirming her birth
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Agnes Lee’s debut graphic novel, 49 Days, opens with a series of short vignettes about a young woman trying to make a journey but being foiled—sometimes in dramatic and frightening fashion—by the forces of nature. Every day, she must start her journey only to fail again. These opening sections are intentionally disorienting for the reader,
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The Curse of Bridge Hollow and Fantasy Island director Jeff Wadlow’s Imaginary adheres to the time-honored tradition of transforming make-believe childhood pals into sinister manifestations that torment their abandoners. Here, a cuddly teddy bear named Chauncey harbors dangerous resentment for being forgotten, igniting a wave of terror for an unsuspecting family. If only that terror extended to the audience experience. A
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