‘Love Island USA’ Producer James Barker’s Death Was “Unpreventable” and “Sudden” Love Island USA wrapped with a piece of its heart missing. After season eight of the Peacock series came to an end on July 12, host Ariana Madix paid special tribute to the show’s executive producer James Barker, who died following a medical emergency during filming
Pop music can be divided between songs that affirm the status quo and those that, in longtime Village Voice critic Barry Walters’ words, “epitomize an alienation not specific to LGBTQ people but familiar to those of us who feel an anguish that exceeds what pop typically articulates.” Mighty Real, Walter’s mammoth history of LGBTQ music
Warner Bros has just dropped the first trailer for the Tom Cruise-starring, Alejandro G. Iñárritu-directed Digger, and, well, buckle up. Ala Cruise’s major studio boss Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, the actor transforms into another kind of opposite once again: a very blunt Southern-talking, older potbelly oil baron who may have set off a massive
Critic’s Rating: 4.6 / 5.0 4.6 It’s always going to be Louis and Lestat. The crux of this story, the one being told to us through this medium, has consistently returned to the same central theme. You strip it all down, lay it bare, and there are two things at the center: Louis de Pointe
Mastodon will return with their first album in five years—and first since the sudden death of former frontman Brent Hinds—on August 28. Marrow Deep’s lead single, “Snakes for Dinner,” features a guest turn on vocals from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. He also stars in the comedy-horror video, directed by Deathcats, below. Released by
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Film Reviews
Touch Me Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Touch Me – written and directed by Addison Heimann, and starring Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci & Jordan Gavaris Synopsis: Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien-narcissist who may
Bydee has built a devoted global following, but does the brand actually live up to the buzz? We break down what makes it stand out. Every few years, a brand emerges that captures the collective imagination of the swimwear world and refuses to let go. Right now, that brand is Bydee. The Sydney-based label has
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A disabled transgender college student who was bullied by conservatives on social media because of his disability and trans identity has had his accounts on Instagram and Facebook banned because they allegedly broke the rules on “Community Standards on child sexual exploitation, abuse, and nudity.” The student is an adult and was not being abused.
This story contains spoilers for the Love Island USA season eight finale. America has selected a new match made in paradise. The heart-pounding eighth season of Love Island USA ended with one… Originally Posted Here
Considering Yes’ long and convoluted history, it would be unfair to compare Aurora to their early records. More fittingly, it should be considered among the albums Jon Davison has sung on. One of three younger members, Davison flits between the new blood (Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen) and older guard (Geoff Downes and Steve Howe)
A campy new gothic mystery-thriller that draws inspiration from Agatha Christie and Stephen King will suck you in, making the book impossible to put down. When it comes to the best authors of the 20th century, Agatha Christie and Stephen King are two of the most commonly listed names in genre fiction. Christie’s deceptively simple
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert came to an end earlier this year. However, fans are still following Colbert’s story. Recently, insiders have weighed in on how the end of the show has been impacting him over the past few months. In addition, the sources also mused on what he could have planned next. Stephen
On Friday night, more than 45,000 people gathered at Yankee Stadium not to enjoy the national pastime, but a bucket-list New York one: seeing Jay-Z perform in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt. It was the first in a three-night residency, with the Friday show dedicated to Reasonable Doubt and the Saturday show
At Death’s Door is a 2025 independent horror anthology film directed and written by indie rock musician and filmmaker Frank Palangi. Adapted from author Christopher Pelton’s short story collection Toe in the Water, the movie explores four spine-tingling tales illustrating how ordinary, everyday choices can bring unsuspecting characters face-to-face with their own mortality. The twisty,
So, before I came to Haute Couture week, I researched: What to Wear for Paris Couture. I could find anything, however have seen quite a range while here. From tees and chinos to ball gowns! Honestly, in this heat, whatever people are most comfortable in works for me. I wasn’t quite sure, so decided to
At the midpoint of the year, we here at Book Riot like to review the many (many, many) great new titles we’ve read so far and determine which ones are the absolute best. It’s not easy narrowing that list down to a few choice representatives, but as you’ll see below, we’ve managed to select five
At their annual Continental Congress gathering last week, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) rejected a proposal to define trans women out of membership in the organization. The vote was the culmination of a two-year battle among members over who does and doesn’t qualify as a “daughter” in the American lineage society. Related
Kate Middleton is serving up style at Wimbledon 2026. The Princess of Wales stepped out at the penultimate day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London July 11, sporting a head-turning crimson dress. Indeed, the 44-year-old looked regal in red at the women’s singles final as she donned a belted Roland Mouret dress, which featured
With 2024’s Dark Times, Vince Staples turned introspective, inventorying his trauma, disillusionment, and sense of being lost in a limbo (neither connected with the reality of his childhood à la 2021’s self-titled set and 2022’s Ramona Park Broke My Heart, nor particularly at home in the world of rap, gangsta-biz, and/or Hollywood). With his new
Bulgarian-language cinema is enjoying a moment this year, starting with Valeska Grisebach’s extraordinary crime drama The Dreamed Adventure, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes back in May. The similarly incisive Black Money for White Nights, by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, is very much cut from the same cloth, set in the same post-Soviet
We had a lot of catching up to do when the Big Brother live feeds finally opened Friday evening. As TV Fanatic previously reported, Dee won the first Head of Household competition of the summer and celebrated her win by nominating Mallory, Taylor, and Yash for eviction. Once the feeds came online, the house dynamics
Sony Music has announced plans to shutter a Minneapolis warehouse that processes merch for punk bands, prompting its staff to accuse the company of union-busting, See/Saw reports. Workers at Kings Road Merch—which acts as a supplier for punk luminaries including Rancid, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys, and Converge—had unanimously voted to unionize on May 11 this year,
The newly released Obsession Unleashed Bonus Featurette uncovers the raw, unsettling magic behind the performances of Michael Johnston (Bear) and Inde Navarrette (Nikki). Dropping alongside the digital release of director Curry Barker’s smash-hit indie psychological horror, the exclusive footage captures how the lead duo built the film’s terrifyingly toxic emotional core through their original, unedited
Fashion Bomb Daily was on the scene at the Georges Chakra Couture Fall/Winter 2026/27 presentation in Paris, held in the gilded salon of Karl Lagerfeld’s former mansion — a setting as storied and grand as the collection it housed. The designer opened his show notes with a meditation on black. Not as a color chosen
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Jerusalem’s LGBTQ+ community is mourning the closure of the city’s only gay bar, which bid farewell to patrons at the end of June. Video Pub has been a haven for LGBTQ+ Israelis and tourists for the past 14 years, but its owner, Avi Goldberger, believes it’s no longer needed. Related “People are making a big
Kyra Green & Cashel Barnett: Split The delivered one of the U.S. version’s most unexpected couplings, with Kyra choosing to leave the show to see if she still had a shot with Cashel after sending him home…only to find out he’d already returned. But, unfortunately, the musically inclined couple split in October 2019. By the
My memories of 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, are fragments of images pulled from the television news broadcast. Back then, I was too young to recognize the significance of what was happening. For a generation, it wasn’t a surreal moment in time; it was incomprehensible. The event is mentioned briefly in
Netflix recently delivered its perfect R-rated “answer” to Prime Video’s Bosch. The R-rated show in question is easily one of the best crime thrillers of 2026 and even has the potential to last as long as Bosch if given the opportunity. Although the show in question has not been officially renewed, its return still seems
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