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Five years after 300 and two years before Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder co-wrote and directed a 2011 dark fantasy adventure film that caused a bit of controversy. Now, Sucker Punch, which Snyder co-wrote with Steve Shibuya, is streaming on Paramount+.

Sucker Punch stars Emily Browning (American Gods) as Babydoll, who accidentally shoots her sister during a struggle with her abusive stepfather - who also murdered Babydoll's mother. When he finds out that the mother left everything to her daughters in her will, he takes Babydoll to a mental hospital where he tries to have her lobotomized. Babydoll retreats into her own fantasy world where, instead of an asylum, she is in a brothel and the other patients are sex slaves.

Babydoll makes friends with four other women, namely, Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Amber (Jamie Chung), and Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish). Blue (Oscar Isaac), who actually works in the mental institution,...

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The White Lotus' record-breaking ratings

According to HBO, 6.2 million viewers tuned in for Sunday's Season 3 finale of The White Lotus eager to discover the fate of the vacationers in Thailand. This marked the third consecutive week of record-breaking viewership for Mike White's Emmy-winning series. The finale performed 51 percent higher than the Season 2 finale. Given the show's success, it's no surprise the network has already announced plans for another season.

Robert De Niro to be honored at Cannes

Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement at the opening ceremony of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 13. The following day, the acclaimed actor will take part in a masterclass on the stage of the Debussy Theater. De Niro has a long relationship with the festival. In 2011, he presided over the jury and most recently attended the...

Clem Burke, the longtime drummer for Blondie who played a key role in the New Wave movement and appeared on albums by Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, and Bob Dylan, died Sunday at the age of 70.

“It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer,” the band wrote in a statement. “Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie. His talent, energy, and passion for music were unmatched, and his...

Clem Burke, who as the drummer for the rock band Blondie was the group’s “heartbeat,” died Sunday of cancer. He was 70.

His death was announced today by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band.

“It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer,” the statement from Blondie singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein begins.

“Clem was not just a drummer,” the statement continues, “he was the heartbeat of Blondie. His talent, energy, and passion for music were unmatched, and his contributions to our sound and success are immeasurable. Beyond his musicianship, Clem was a source of inspiration both on and off the stage. His vibrant spirit, infectious enthusiasm and rock solid work ethic touched everyone who had the privilege of knowing him.” Read the statement in full below.

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Clem Burke, longtime drummer of Blondie, has died at the age of 70.

According to a statement from the band released on Monday, Burke passed away “following a private battle with cancer.”

“Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie,” the band added. “His talent, energy, and passion for music were unmatched, and his contributions to our sound and success are immeasurable. Beyond his musicianship, Clem was a source of inspiration both on and off the stage. His vibrant spirit, infectious enthusiasm and rock solid work ethic touched everyone who had the privilege of knowing him.”

Burke joined Blondie in 1975, shortly after the band’s formation, and appeared on every one of their albums alongside founding members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. Coming up in the thriving New York punk scene and a mainstay at legendary venue Cbgb, the New Jersey-born Burke imbued several genres of rock...

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, the film industry has tackled a range of genres, from horror to comedy, delivering audiences a long list of iconic stories and heroes. The Western has proven particularly fascinating, bringing the medium some of its strongest scripts and best-written heroes. One of the defining traits of a good hero of the Old West is endurance and grit, two features key to survival on the frontier.

Western heroes represent some of the most morally ambiguous characters in fiction due to the time's ever-changing morality as criminals could reinvent themselves as lawmen or bounty hunters. Even beyond the Old West, the archetypes established by the genre have laid the foundations of iconic franchises, whether it's Star Wars' Mandalorian or the crew of Firefly. Thanks to actors like Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, audiences have decades of hardened heroes to choose from when it comes to tough Western protagonists.

Grey’s Anatomy’s surgeons are well-known for their medical innovations, but in Thursday’s episode (recapped here), one of the long-running drama’s doctors pushed the envelope culinarily, stitching together a dish that looked so mouth-watering, it rivaled the “Marry Me” chicken of TikTok renown.

Early on in the episode, Jo, who was recovering nicely but still off duty since the trauma that she suffered in the midseason premiere (read that recap), whipped up partner Link a true breakfast of champions: a mountainous meal, the ingredients of which, she explained, were bacon, eggs, cheese and a pancake between two donuts.

With each film hailed as three of the best spaghetti Westerns to ever be produced in the genre, Italian director Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy not only popularized the subgenre due to impressive filmmaking and characters, but it also redefined the entire Western genre for moviegoers. Consisting of 1964’s A Fistful of Dollars, 1965’s For a Few Dollars More, and 1966’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, all three films offer an exciting narrative that grips viewers.

At the same time, The Dollars Trilogy constructs tales that range in stakes and whether crafting a revenge plot, a traditional hero vs. villain narrative, or an epic spectacle-filled ride, the storytelling in each film engages audiences throughout. Additionally, every film utilizes exciting fights to heighten the violence.

Tuco’s Bathtub Quickdraw Offers a Brief but Great Fight Eli Wallach’s Delivery Makes the Scene Work

Presented as a great payoff to a joke,...

London’s Mercato Metropolitano food market is opening a studio for TV and movie productions – while still functioning as a sustainable food court – after servicing the shoot of upcoming doc series “The Unknown Chefs” produced by Italy’s Andrea Iervolino and British music producer David Tickle.

The “Unknown Chefs” series chronicling the journey of four cooks who sought refuge in the United Kingdom –- respectively from Syria, Namibia, Nepal, and Uzbekistan –- and then managed to turn the food of their homeland into their livelihoods, will drop March 7 on streamers including Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Iervolino’s Tatatu platform.

Iervolino produced the show with Tickle via his Tickle Entertainment shingle. Tickle is known for his work with artists including Blondie, Peter Gabriel, U2, Prince and Joe Cocker.

The show’s protagonists were able to launch their own street food businesses with the support of Mercato Metropolitano.

Iervolino, whose credits include Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,...

While the world is mostly full of nightmares, and looking at any website or social media app that contains the news these days feels a little like cracking open the Ark of the Covenant, there is at least one good thing happening on the planet: two of the former child stars from Richard Linklater’s School of Rock just got married.

The 2003 comedy, of course, tells the story of Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black) an out of work rocker who lies his way into a substitute teacher job at an elite private school, and convinces the kids to secretly form a band with him.

Apart from the fact that Black’s character probably should have been thrown in jail and Sarah Silverman’s supposedly villainous character was 100 percent in the right, School of Rock is a delightful film that mostly holds up today. If you watch those kids playing...

Although the duo don't appear onscreen together in the movie, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly star Clint Eastwood brought back one of that classic Western’s biggest stars for a later hit. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly might be one of star Clint Eastwood’s best Western movies, but the classic wouldn’t work if it weren’t for all three title characters. As The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s ending proves, Tuco, Angel Eyes, and Blondie all play pivotal roles in the labyrinthine plot’s tangled web of double-crosses and betrayals. Notably, Eli Wallach’s Tuco provides consistent comedic relief.

Related Every Actor Who Appears In More Than One Of Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name Movies (& Who They Play)

Loosely linked, The Dollars Trilogy liked to use some of the same actors, with a few appearing in all three films as different characters.

On Tuesday 31 December 2024, BBC Four broadcasts Totp 2!

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The upcoming episode of “Totp 2” on BBC Four promises to bring a vibrant start to the new year. Hosted by Steve Wright, this episode will feature a carefully curated playlist filled with classic hits and memorable performances. Fans of music from past decades will surely enjoy the lineup.

Viewers can look forward to iconic performances by The Three Degrees, known for their smooth harmonies and catchy tunes. Elton John will also take the stage, bringing his timeless music and flamboyant style. Blondie, with their unique blend of punk and pop, will add a touch of nostalgia to the mix.

Lionel Richie is set to charm audiences with his soulful ballads, while The Bee Gees will deliver their signature disco vibes. Madonna, the Queen of Pop, is sure to captivate with her dynamic presence. Lastly, Kylie Minogue will bring her infectious energy and catchy songs,...

Among the most acclaimed westerns to ever hit the silver screen, Sergio Leone’s 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly displays ingenious filmmaking, brilliant storytelling and terrific performances. Hailed for its effective action and vast scope of the Old West, the film manages to craft a tale of battling gunslingers seeking hidden gold all while set during the American Civil War and always keeps the audience engaged. With the sheer amount of unforgettable moments throughout the film, viewers often forget that all films have scenes that get left on the cutting room floor, including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

With a master like Sergio Leone, the film still maintains its integral structure and never misses a beat in entertaining the masses, although The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’s few deleted scenes help flesh out the narrative even further. Spread out before...

Multiple controversies related to the wuxia subgenre of martial arts cinema led to the emergence of the kung fu subgenre, which offered audiences a more realistic depiction of martial arts when compared to wuxia movies. The kung fu subgenre of martial arts cinema experienced its first explosion in popularity during the late 1940s and early 1950s through a series of films based on the life of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Kwan Tak-Hing starred as Wong Fei-hung in approximately 80 movies between 1949 and the early 1980s.

Kung fu cinema entered its Golden Age during the early 1970s. Stars such as Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, and Bruce Lee elevated the kung fu genre to unprecedented international acclaim and box office success. The 1990s saw kung fu actors like Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, and Michelle Yeoh continue to make iconic works within the genre. Drunken Master II, Once Upon a Time in China,...

BBC Two is venturing back into its musical archives. The long-running “At the BBC” is back with “Ultimate Cover Versions at the BBC: Volume 2,” a two-hour exploration of musical reinterpretation. Fans of the series and those intrigued by the art of the cover version will likely find something to appreciate. The episode boasts a […]

At the BBC Returns With “Ultimate Cover Versions” Featuring Adele, Blondie, and More...

An exciting prop auction is forthcoming for fans of classic Western cinema. There will be a chance to own an iconic wardrobe from the revered Clint Eastwood movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, among other unique items.

Propstore's Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction is set to take place place on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. Featured will be costumes from the renowned Italian costume company, Costumi d'Arte, which is behind the costumes for productions like Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. One of the standout lots includes Eastwood's duster coat from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which is estimated to sell for anywhere from 60,000 - 120,000.

Related The Sequel to 1 of the Greatest Westerns of All Time Gets a New Streaming Home

The forgotten 55-year-old sequel to a celebrated Western classic is getting a new streaming home.

The official listing reads,...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly quotes help cement the iconic Spaghetti Western in cinema history. It is not only one of the best Westerns ever made, but it also ranks highly in many "Greatest Movies Of All Time" lists and for good reason. Director Sergio Leone created an everlasting masterpiece in this final installment of the Dollars Trilogy. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's script is terse, but it also includes quite a few great lines of dialogue, ranging from the humorous to the profound.

Credit has to be given to the screenplay team of Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati, and Furio Scapelli. The starring duo of Clint Eastwood (Blondie aka The Good) and Eli Wallach (Tuco aka The Ugly) also outdid themselves with their deliveries as the juiciest quotes are from conversations between these two. The dialogue and chemistry between the central characters are part of...

The Man with No Name is one of Clint Eastwoods career-defining roles. The drifter and bounty hunter appears throughout Sergio Leones Dollars Trilogy, taking the nicknames "Joe," "Manco." and "Blondie." The character's adventures collect cash rewards, retrieve gold buried in Sad Hill Cemetery, bring peace to the town of San Miguel, and help eliminate the notorious outlaw El Indio. The hero also exhibits all the characteristics of a perfect Western movie protagonist. He has a quick draw, he doesn't talk much, he is independent, and is known for his moral ambiguity.

While The Man with no Name is great in A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More, he truly comes to life in The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, where he teams up with the bandit, Tuco (Eli Wallach), and navigates the chaos of the American Civil War to recover a cache of gold that is buried in an unmarked grave.

It is borderline impossible to define the six-decade-long artistic legacy that Clint Eastwood had painstakingly mapped, as his stacked filmography includes everything from certified classics to overlooked gems. Of course, no artist can have an impeccably perfect run, but some, like Eastwood, inch very close to that ideal by re-defining entire genres that will always have a place in cinematic history. Not every good film that Eastwood helmed or starred in made a ton of money at the box office, but artistic success cannot be solely measured via such narrow metrics, as his name is embedded into the public consciousness, for better or worse.

It is tempting to dissect Eastwood's artistry purely through the Western genre — works like "A Fistful of Dollars" or "The Outlaw Josey Wales" capture his contributions succinctly — but there is much more to him than a drawling accent or laidback gunslinging. The actor has often been...

Paramore staged their final scheduled performance of 2024 at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday night, which they styled as a tribute to Blondie’s own 1979 appearance on The Midnight Special.

Singer Hayley Williams channeled Blondie’s Debbie Harry, donning a blue dress and headband, while the stage setup embraced a distinctly retro vibe. True to their recent live performances, Paramore also slipped in a brief cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” during their own song “Hard Times.”

On her Instagram page, Williams shared clips of Blondie’s performance on The Midnight Special and thanked Paramore’s “entire crew for an amazing year of shows and for helping us pull off this tribute.”

Elsewhere during the set, Williams gave an impassioned plea to vote while denouncing Donald Trump’s agenda. “Project 2025 is Donald Trump’s playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color & the LGBTQ+ community,...

Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly isn't just the definitive Spaghetti Western, and the pinnacle of the Western movie. It's also one of the greatest and most important movies ever made. Besides cementing Leone's cinematic legacy and Clint Eastwood's stardom, the third installment in the loosely titled "Dollars Trilogy" irrevocably changed cinema and art as a whole. To this day, its influence can be felt in just about any kind of movie, whether it's a Western or not. Surprisingly, this also applies to movies made in countries outside the United States of America, the birthplace of the cowboy and frontier myth. Case in point: South Korea's The Good, the Bad, the Weird.

Loosely inspired by The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Good, the Bad, the Weird is far from the first or last Western made in Asia. But beyond the novelty of...

Update, 1:08 Pm: “This machine sues fascists.”

Jack White said he was going to take Donald Trump to court for using his music, and today, with a tribute to the late great Woody Guthrie, he has.

In a jury trial seeking complaint filed Monday in federal court in New York, the musician and his White Stripes bandmate Meg White have collectively and individually made their move to shut the ex-potus’ campaign use of the band’s 2003 mega-hit “Seven Nation Army” in videos.

White made it official with a post on his social media in the last hour:

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In case there was any remaining ambiguity about why Jack White and Meg White are taking the big legal step today, the complaint stated that the duo “vehemently oppose the policies adopted and actions taken by Defendant Trump when he was...

This is a call from Donald Trump to Foo Fighters.

A spokesman for the ex-potus and current GOP presidential nominee hit back at the multiplatinum band today after Dave Grohl and company complained about their hit “My Hero” being played at a weekend rally without the band’s consent.

“It’s Times Like These facts matter, don’t be a Pretender,” Trump’s rep Steven Cheung wrote on X, copping the titles of two Foo tracks.

“My Hero” blared on the Pa during a rally with new endorsee Robert Kennedy Jr. in the swing state of Arizona on Friday, and the band made its distaste — and lack of approval — known soon afterward. Only trouble is, the Trump camp said it has licensed use of that song and so many others from performing-rights company BMI.

Cheung included a quote from a UK newspaper backing his point. The Independent had tweeted, or X’d,...

The inaccuracies in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly's gunfight do not diminish its quality or impact on audiences. The film's climactic gunfight is crucial to the story and character development, despite being historically inaccurate. The Western genre classic revitalized by the film's dramatic tension and iconic gunfight outweighs historical inaccuracies.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is one of Clint Eastwood's best movies, in large part because of a historically inaccurate scene. This film, which is the third in a trilogy about life in the Wild West during the Civil War, is widely considered to be one of the best Westerns ever made. It revolves around three gunslingers looking for treasure in the war-torn American Southwest. The meaning behind the title of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is far deeper than those being the nicknames of the three main characters, which adds to its depth.

Netflix’s A Family Affair launched at the end of June featuring a romance between High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron and Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman. The main obstacle to that romance is Joey King’s Zara Ford, daughter of Nicole Kidman’s Brooke Harwood.

Zara works for Efron’s movie star — very important distinction from a celebrity — Chris Cole, who fits the stereotype of a high maintenance Hollywood boss. She hopes to make her way to a producer one day, but so far she hasn’t been able to climb the ladder. A unique opportunity presents itself when Chris, in an effort to apologize and ask Zara to come back to work for him after she quits one day, gets drunk with Brooke and they start to hook up only to be interrupted by Zara.

A great list of songs accompanies the emotional moments of Chris courting Brooke and...

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly's iconic ending solidified Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood's status in the spaghetti Western genre. The standoff scene showcases the archetypical spaghetti Western, with its tension, daring duration, and Ennio Morricone's score. The movie's ending offers a brutal deconstruction of traditional Western heroism, setting the stage for darker revisionist Westerns.

The Good, The Bad, And The Uglys ending is famous and still so beloved for as a spaghetti Western for its final scene ushering in a new era for the genre. Director Sergio Leones Dollars trilogy began in 1964 with A Fistful of Dollars. This inexpensive Clint Eastwood vehicle was a box office hit, and 1965 saw the arrival of its first sequel, For A Few Dollars More. Although both of these movies remain well regarded critically, it was 1966s The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly that cemented Leone and Eastwoods statuses...

When Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch premiered in 2011, it was met with a polarizing reception. Critics and audiences were off-put by its unique style, ambitious narrative structure, and the way it blended genres. As someone who initially viewed the film through a less mature lens, I found myself unimpressed by its convoluted plot and perceived lack of substance. Hell, I even watched it twice upon release to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. As time went on, I had moved on from the stale taste it bestowed upon me. So much so that I had even skipped any future Snyder offerings, yes, this includes his Dceu output. Maybe I’ll get to those one day. Who knows? However, one thing I do know is for certain: Zack Snyder loves himself a director’s cut of his films. Recently, he has expressed his determination to give his first original film the ol’ Snyder Cut treatment,...

The phrase The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has come to mean more than its origin, in Sergio Leone's legendary Spaghetti Western, where it referred to the three main characters. The Good is Blondie (Clint Eastwood), the most morally honorable figure, the Bad is Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) the despicable villain, and the Ugly is Tuco (Eli Wallach), the most morally complex of the 3. He exists in the middle of the spectrum, the most "normal" of the 3, even though he does some terrible things. What's your interpretation of the title?In the original releases Italian, the film title was Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, i.e., The Good, The Ugly, The Bad. Putting good and bad at opposite ends makes sense, of course. But putting ugly in the middle suggests that this is a sort of moral continuum, with an aesthetic dimension: splitting the difference between...

Prime Video’s adaption of the Fallout game franchise is looking like a hit.

The first season of the sci-fi action-comedy has opened this week to a 92 percent average positive review score on Rotten Tomatoes (which is just shy of HBO’s post-apocalyptic video game adaptation, The Last of Us). The first season — which seems very likely to earn a speedy renewal — has been a five-year labor of love from showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) who, along with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, have brought the game’s world of a Wild West wasteland to life.

The secret to the show’s success seems to be successfully capturing the game franchise’s tricky balance of drama, graphic violence and off-beat humor — something plenty of Western projects have tried and failed to do the in the past (remember Will Smith’s Wild Wild West?...

Zack Snyder fans are already familiar with the director's style to show more versions of the same project, and one of the films he'd love to redo is 2011's Sucker Punch. The film already comes with an extended version, but he has more footage that could be used for a new version.

During an interview with Empire, Zack Snyder opened up about his previous movies, his upcoming sequel to Rebel Moon, and also the project he'd revise. The director has gotten fans used to several versions of the same film, whether a theatrical, director's or extended cut. His recent Netflix film, Rebel Moon, will also receive several versions, including an upcoming R-rated version. However, one of the films he'd love to change.

Related Zack Snyder Celebrates Snyder Cut Anniversary With New Look at Jared Leto's Joker Zack Snyder unveils an interesting image of Jared Leto's Joker in honor of the Snyder Cut's anniversary.

Fallout is one of the most popular video game franchises and is finally getting a live-action TV adaptation, which is set to release on Prime Video on April 11. The series has some of the best names in the film industry, including Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.

The show will tell an original story and put three characters at the center of it: Lucy, Maximus, and the Ghoul, played by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins, respectively. The creator of the series has now revealed that one classic Clint Eastwood film was a big inspiration for the show.

One Clint Eastwood Film Was an Inspiration for the Fallout TV Show The Fallout show has been highly inspired by the classic film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The Fallout TV show will present a fresh approach to the game’s source material and tell an original story.

The Killers and Beck will headline the 2024 Evolution Festival in St. Louis, Missouri this September.

The newly announced lineup also features Blondie, Jane’s Addiction, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Killer Mike, Todd Rundgren, Pete Yorn, Elle King, S.G. Goodman, Beachwood Sparks, Son Volt, and more.

Evolution will also showcase local cuisine, distillers, and visual artists from St. Louis, as well as a beer garden and marketplace.

Now in its second year, Evolution Festival goes down in Forest Park in St. Louis from September 28th-29th, 2024. Tickets to the festival, including Ga and VIP passes, go on sale beginning February 28th.

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With 2010’s Pink Friday, Nicki Minaj didn’t adapt to the industry, but rather she forced it to adapt to her. A mix of femininity and bravado, the rapper’s first studio album quite literally remade mainstream hip-hop in her image. Thirteen years later, the album’s sequel, Pink Friday 2, feels like the product of an identity crisis.

Throughout the album, which clocks in at one hour and 10 minutes, Minaj lets herself be overshadowed by the sounds and styles of her featured guests. “Let Me Calm Down,” featuring J. Cole, feels completely derivative of the North Carolina rapper’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, while Drake gets more airtime on “Needle” than Minaj herself. Even when Pink Friday 2 homes in on some catchy or indelible moments, like on the solo “Fallin 4 U,” things tend to slip into a sugary pop-r&b groove reminiscent of newer artists like Doja Cat and Sza.

Which...

Nicki Minaj has dropped her long-awaited new album, Pink Friday 2. Something of a follow-up to 2010’s Pink Friday, the album has a whopping 22 tracks and offers fans plenty to dig into. From big-budget samples like Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” to features including Drake, Lil Wayne, and Future, the album is sure to satiate Minaj’s throngs of loyal fans — known as the Barbz — for some time, and makes for a late addition as one of the year’s biggest rap albums.

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Goths, Eighties fans, and hungry wolves, this one is for you. On Monday, Cruel World Festival announced Duran Duran as the headliner for its 2024 edition, set to take place on May 11 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Interpol, Blondie, and Simple Minds are among the festival’s top performers.

Making appearances at the single-day festival are Soft Cell, Placebo, Adam Ant, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Tr/St, and the Faint. Ministry will also perform songs from Twitch, Gary Numan will play The Pleasure Principle, and Dreamcar — the supergroup...

The 2024 lineup for Cruel World Festival has been revealed, with Duran Duran serving as the headliner. Blondie and The Jesus and Mary Chain will also appear at the one-day festival, which returns to Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on May 11th, 2024.

Other notable acts slated to appear at the nostalgia festival include Interpol, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Ministry, Gary Numan, Dreamcar, Lol Tolhurst x Budgie, and Tones and Tails, who will be reuniting for the first time since 1984. Ministry’s set will hearken back to their original new wave sound with performances of songs from their first two albums, With Sympathy and Twitch.

Tickets to Cruel World 2024 go on sale Friday, December 8th, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. Pt via the festival’s website. Available passes range from General Admission to VIP to top tier Clubhouse access. Registration is ongoing.

Once tickets are on sale,...

Clint Eastwood has demonstrated a surprising amount of dedication to his roles, often risking his safety by performing his own stunts. Even at the age of 91, Eastwood showcased his physical capabilities and continued to do his own stunts in the film "Cry Macho". Eastwood's commitment to his characters extends beyond physicality, as he incorporates his love for music into his performances, playing the piano and singing in films like "In The Line Of Fire" and "Honkytonk Man".

When it comes to naming actors willing to do anything to commit to a role, few moviegoers would think of Clint Eastwood as a dedicated character actor. Yet the 93-year-old actor and director has put a surprising amount of vigor into his many roles across his legendary filmography, going above and beyond with character work, stunts, and musical performances of all kinds. Though Eastwoods' name has become synonymous with the Western, his characters...

Before Zack Snyder turned his sights to the DC Universe, he gave us Sucker Punch, a psychological fantasy action movie that was his first film based on an original concept. While the film was a box office and critical disappointment, it has developed a cult following over the years who have grown to appreciate the over-the-top fantasy, but Snyder believes he didn’t go far enough.

“Sucker Punch is probably the most obvious example of straightforward, pure satire that I’ve made,” Zack Snyder told Total Film. “And I still think I didn’t go far enough, because a lot of people thought that it was just a movie about scantily clad girls dancing around in a brothel. I’m like, ‘Really? Did you see Watchmen? That film is completely a superhero deconstruction from the drop, which is all Alan Moore. That’s the thing I’ve found really interesting and motivating throughout my career.

Ever since their transition to the cinematic medium, both Marvel and DC Comics have made great headway in bringing superheroes to the big screen. The first of these two comic book companies satisfied moviegoers on May 2nd, 2008, with the release of Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man. DC, on the other hand, soon followed some odd years later in 2013 with Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel. As much as these types of films are a pure delight for comic book fans all around the world, one of the biggest milestones that the MCU and Dcu have achieved is the sheer number of movies that have come out of both camps since the rebirth of the genre.

While the DC Extended Universe has fifteen complete films in its library, which include the various forms of Justice League, Suicide Squad, and the more recent and down-to-earth feature that introduced the Blue Beetle,...

Fans of Western movies are in for a treat as Prime Video India has added the legendary Dollars Trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood, to its streaming library. The trilogy, directed by Sergio Leone, consists of three films: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). The films are widely regarded as the best examples of the Spaghetti Western genre, which refers to Westerns made by Italian filmmakers in Spain.

The trilogy follows the exploits of a mysterious gunslinger, played by Eastwood, who is known as the Man with No Name. He is a master of the quick draw and a man of few words, who often finds himself in the middle of conflicts between rival factions, bounty hunters, and outlaws. He also has a knack for finding hidden treasures and getting into trouble.

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Longtime TV director and producer Stan Harris, who directed TV specials for Jack Benny, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and John Wayne, among many others, died of natural causes Monday while surrounded by family in Toronto, his son Danny Harris tells Deadline. He was 92.

Harris’ prolific live music and comedy directing career began at the CBC in Toronto working with peers Norman Jewison, Arthur Hiller and Eric Till. Among the highlights of his career up north were jobs directing Canada’s Hit Parade and a Nat King Cole special, Wild Is Love.

In the early ’60s, he and his family moved to NY, where Harris began his DGA career on series such as The Bing Crosby Show, The Steve Lawrence Show and The Milton Berle Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

In late ’60s , Harris relocated to L.A. for a steady gig directing the massively popular Smothers Brothers show.

Famed songwriter and “Father of Disco” Giorgio Moroder has sold his producer royalties to the brand development company Iconoclast, Variety reports.

The deal places Moroder’s name, image, and likeness rights in the hands of Iconoclast, so expect to hear Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” or Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” a lot more in advertisements. In addition to a prolific solo career, Moroder produced may of Summer’s disco classics as well as the Academy Award-winning Top Gun song.

Moroder’s other credits include Blondie’s “Call Me,” as well as the soundtracks to Cat People and Scarface. In the 1970s and ’80s, artists including Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Rolling Stones, and Elton John recorded at his Musicland Studios in Munich. Decades later, for his 2015 solo album Déjà Vu, Moroder enlisted Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Sia, and Charli Xcx as collaborators. Even more recently, he lent a...

Zack Snyder really wants his fans to enjoy his original conceptions of his movies. After what he was able to achieve with the Release the Snyder Cut movement for his Justice League movie, the director is ready to release another unseen version of one of his most controversial projects.

A few years before getting into the superhero world with Man of Steel, Snyder invited the audience to a surreal and complex trip with Sucker Punch, a sci-fi adventure that has generated mix reviews and has opened the door to multiple debates trying to understand the message behind the movie.

It's been almost 10 years since the film came out, but the director still wants fans to be able to see his original vision for Sucker Punch, which had a different ending. Teasing the possibility of finally releasing the director's cut of the movie, Snyder revealed the original outcome of the story...

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A short-form channel with a strange brand of content supplanted the channel that was riding an 11-week streak of #1 finishes. The same shift has now occurred at the front of our Global Top 100 for May 2023.

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DaFuq!?Boom! has proved that it’s no one-hit wonder. Four weeks after it came out of nowhere to reach the top of our global and U.S. charts, the short-form hub has closed out its most successful month ever. Thanks to animated videos that often feature heads popping out of toilets,...

Jack Lee, part of the influential Los Angeles band The Nerves in the 1970s and later a hit songwriter, died May 26 in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 71. He died after a long battle with colon cancer.

Lee is best remembered for his song “Hanging on the Telephone,” which Blondie covered from The Nerves version. Lee also wrote Paul Young’s “Come Back And Stay.”

Lee was one of three singer-songwriters in the Nerves. The band started in San Francisco, then moved to Los Angeles in 1977 to ride the power pop trend of that moment. Lee, the guitarist, was joined by Peter Case on bass and Paul Collins on drums. Case went on to form The Plimsouls, while Collins was the founder of The Beat.

The group had just one self-titled EP released in 1976 on Bomp! After the Nerves breakup, Lee had two solo recordings.

A memorial is planned at the Echoplex nightclub in Echo Park,...

Sequels are practically as old as cinema, with the very first thought to be The Fall of a Nation (1916), a cheapie knockoff/follow-up to the incredibly racist The Birth of a Nation from a year earlier. Ever since Hollywood has been keen to cash-in on sequels and ongoing sagas. Before the term “movie franchise” was even a glint in a studio executive’s eye, MGM was churning out high-quality Thin Man movies at MGM throughout the 1930s and ‘40s while Universal was introducing us to both Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and Son of Frankenstein (1939). One must wonder why the studio never got those two crazy kids together.

And yet, while sequels have been around forever, they’ve generally been seen as lesser-than until recently. By their nature, sequels are derivative, and there have been many filmmakers who were all too happy to embrace sameness while filling their working hours before and after lunch.

Queen, icon, legend. These three words form a common thread throughout the tributes being shared from figures in music, film, and television following the death of Tina Turner. The legendary musician died on Wednesday, May 24, at the age of 83, leaving behind a legacy defined by her unequivocal influence.

Beyoncé, who has been clear about Turner’s impact on her own career — the duo performed “Proud Mary” at the 2008 Grammys — paid tribute to the icon on her website. “My beloved queen,” Beyoncé began. “I love you endlessly. I’m so grateful for your inspiration,...

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Tina Turner died on May 24th at the age of 83. Fellow musicians and fans alike took to social media for an outpouring of tribute posts, mourning the once-in-a-lifetime performer.

“I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner. She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her,” wrote The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. (Turner opened for The Stones on their 1969 US tour).

Beyoncé, who performed with Turner during the 2008 Grammy Awards, delivered an emotional tribute on Instagram. “My beloved queen. I love you endlessly. I’m so grateful for your inspiration, and all the ways you have paved the way,” Beyoncé wrote. “You are strength and resilience. You are the epitome of power and passion. We are all...

Dolly Parton famously (twice!) declined an invitation to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump. It turns out she also rejected a similar overture from President Joe Biden.

The Today Show’s Jacob Soboroff recently interviewed Parton recently to promote her upcoming album Rockstar. While the singer didn’t discuss her decision not to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on camera, Soborof told The Today Show colleagues that it stemmed from her desire not to be associated with any particular party. “I just don’t want even the appearance of being partisan in any way,” he recalled her saying.

Parton did discuss her distrust of the modern political system in general, however. After Soborof read an uncharacteristically biting lyric from Parton’s new song “World on Fire” (“Greedy politicians present and past/ They wouldn’t know the truth if it bit ’em in the ass”), he asked...

Coachella will be streaming this year’s performances on its official YouTube Channel from more stages than ever before across its two weekends, April 14-16 and April 21-23. There are six feeds, each of which corresponds with one of the festival’s stages: Coachella Main Stage, Outdoor Theater, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, Sonora (weekend 2 Yuma Stage). A feed for each is embedded below.

Bad Bunny will play Fridays, April 14 & 21. Those dates will also see performances by Gorillaz, Burna Boy, Blondie and Kaytranada.

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The lineup for Saturdays, April 15 & 22, includes headliner Blackpink along with Rosalía, boygenius, Charlie Xcx and many more.

Sunday No. 2 at this year’s festival — April 23 — will see Frank Ocean Blink 182 headline after Weekend 1 closer Frank Ocean dropped out. The schedule also now has a Tba from about 10:25 p.m. to 12 p.m. that night. Reports say that that final slot...