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After months of waiting, Donald Trump is finally going to be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America. Naturally, the event is a big deal, and just like every time the schedule is going to be jam-packed with performances and fireworks.

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As is being reported singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood is also set to perform at the inauguration. However, fans are not only disappointed by her actions but have been using one of her greatest musical hits to haunt her.

Carrie Underwood to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration Carrie Underwood in Cool Girl music video | Credits: YouTube

Donald Trump‘s inauguration is going to be a big and pompous affair running over the course of four days. There will be fireworks and three VIP events held at Trump’s golf course...

Carrie Underwood has had a remarkable music career since she won the fourth season of American Idol in 2005, after which there was no stopping for her, and she began to captivate everyone with her melodious and country-style tunes. While her time on the American competition show skyrocketed her to international stardom, it also brought in some major challenges on her way as well.

Carrie Underwood in Cool Girl music video | Credits: YouTube

During her time on the show, Underwood had to go through harsh backlash where fans of the show body-shamed her. Since then, the artist has opened up on several occasions as to how these comments affected her deeply.

Carrie Underwood Reflected on the Brutal Body-Shaming She Faced While on American Idol Carrie Underwood in Cool Girl music video | Credits: YouTube

Carrie Underwood was just 21 years old when she won the most prestigious music show American Idol in 2005. Her...

Actor Jon Cryer played the role of Alan Harper in one of the most popular sitcoms of the 2000s Two and a Half Men. Cryer started his stint on the hit series starring opposite Charlie Sheen, who is arguably the more popular one among the two lead actors. However, following Sheen’s infamous exit from the series, Cryer carried on the series for four more seasons.

Jon Cryer played Alan Harper in Two and a Half Men (Credit: CBS).

The actor was embroiled in a heated argument with a supposed fan of the series on social media. The latter claimed that the series was a success only because of Sheen and things went downhill after his exit. However, Cryer had a fitting reply to the fans, which proves that he is equally worthy of credit for the show’s success. Here is what Cryer had to say about the idea...

“I’m the cunt you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this cunt might like. I’m not a quitter, I’m that cunt. I killed for you; who else can say that? You think you’d be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I’m it.”

Marriage is not for the faint of heart. Designed to be a lifelong commitment, this legal union begins with an extravagant party at which friends and family dress to the nines to celebrate your love over dinner and dancing. But once the party’s over, it’s just you and your spouse. Hopefully you chose the right person. David Fincher’s Gone Girl follows a troubled young couple who married each other for all the wrong reasons. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, this psychological horror story centers an outwardly...

Is it possible for Alexis Bellino to get much worse on The Real Housewives of Orange County?

We want to understand why she’s parading around as John Janssen’s cheerleader, but she’s making it difficult to care.

Thursday’s episode gave us even more bizarre scenes when she had a meltdown on a trip to Big Bear after hearing an update about John’s legal drama with Shannon Beador.

It was odd, and fans took to social media to criticize the returning star for what she was doing to Shannon.

Meltdowns are par for the course on the Real Housewives franchise, but they have to have some comedic elements.

At this stage, Alexis talks in riddles, and viewers are tired of her behavior.

One viewer called her “overdramatic.”

The fan pointed out that Alexis is holding “this video” of Shannon from the night of her DUI over her arrest.

The best week of comedian Nikki Glaser’s career — with her headline-dominating set at the roast of Tom Brady followed by the release of her new stand-up special — was not without unexpected surprises.

“Plopping down on the couch after that set was maybe the greatest feeling I’ll ever have in my life,” Glaser said to IndieWire about Netflix’s live Brady joke fest. “The amount of relief of nailing that when it’s live, when you’re on your period and you thought it ended, but it just started up again right before you walked onstage. And there were no tampons in the Kia Forum, so you had to use a folded-up napkin, and make yourself a pad, which is only being hung in place by a tiny strip of spandex on your thong that could fall out at any second. There was so many things that could have...

The Real Housewives of New Jersey fans are not here for how Paul “Paulie” Connell treated Dolores Catania on the show.

This week, Dolores wanted answers about the hold-up with Paulie’s divorce.

Despite being separated for over a decade, Paulie remains married, and it seems Dolores would like things to move along.

Dolores stood her ground only to have Paulie come at her, making it clear he was in no rush to get married again.

The way he spoke to her was beyond unacceptable and showed a different side to the Irishman Rhonj fans once adored.

X (formerly Twitter) was on fire after the scene between Paulie and Dolores, letting them have it.

Dolores Catania’s boyfriend Paulie blasted for ‘condescending’ behavior on Rhonj

“Paul feels super condescending while speaking to Delores. #Rhonj,” read one X.

Paul feels super condescending while speaking to Delores. #Rhonj pic.twitter.com/FSKUvBbIJn...

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David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel "Gone Girl" is undoubtedly one of his best, and its riveting climax has become an all-time great movie moment. The script, also written by Flynn, maintains some of the best dialogue verbatim from the book, including the now-famous "Cool Girl" monologue. Shortly after Nick (Ben Affleck) realizes that his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) faked her own death to set him up for the death penalty, she is shown in a montage going through the steps of her crimes while narrating the ways women are forced to exist in a world that prioritizes men and requires women to behave in archetypal ways to keep them happy:

"Being Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, and dirty jokes, who plays videogames and chugs beer, loves threesomes and anal sex and...

There’s a genre of smile, that wide, gleaming, shit-stirring grin that says: I hate you. And also: I’m going to kill you. Can we call it the Pike? After Rosamund, of course, who serves it better than most anyone working in movies at the moment, and who has the added asset of a voice that adds a layer of wonderful threat to that smile — a contralto purr that can make any line, no matter how nonsensical or overly explanatory, feel magnetically, appealingly dangerous. That voice and smile were...

In today’s Global Bulletin, the BBC picks up Awkwafina’s latest series, Tove Lo preps her acting debut, HBO Nordics and Australia’s ABC make executive hires, Conecta Fiction Reboot and Mip Cancun share details for their updated events, and Banijay closes a first-look deal with U.K. production company Nineteen11.

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BBC Three has picked up comedy series “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens” from ViacomCBS International Studios and will make it available to stream exclusively on BBC iPlayer in the U.K. later this year.

The 10-part series stars the popular actor-rapper Awkwafina, a Golden Globe winner for her work in “The Farewell,” and is based on her own real-life story growing up in Queens, New York. It co-stars “SNL” alum Bowen Yang, Bd Wong (“Mr Robot”) and Lori Tann Chinn (“Orange is the New Black”).

Lucia Aniello, Natasha Lyonne and Steven K. Tsuchida direct the series, produced...

How the Crisis on Infinite Earths affected Arrow while making the fun, action-packed, mystery-laden spin-off feel like essential viewing

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Arrow Season 8 Episode 9

“Green Arrow & the Canaries” pulls off something pretty impressive in just an hour, managing to answer many questions about how the Crisis on Infinite Earths affected Arrow’s corner of the Arrowverse while the backdoor pilot gave the audience a sense of what the new show’s vibe would be and, perhaps most importantly of all, setting up a number of mysteries to make a spinoff feel like essential viewing.

So much is working here – Laurel’s antagonist-for-a-cause vibe, bringing in the Bertinelli family to keep things both young and new but steeped in Arrow’s lore, and the fun tone, the action sequences, and particularly the way exposition is layered into the episode with a relatively light touch. Yes,...

Exclusive: European sales stalwart The Match Factory has taken international rights to intriguing Venice Competition entry The Mountain, starring Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum.

Rick Alverson (Entertainment) directs the drama, which also stars Hannah Gross (Netflix’s Mindhunter), Udo Kier (Downsizing) and Denis Lavant (Holy Motors).

30West will handle domestic sales on the movie, which Venice festival director Alberto Barbera was effusive about during his line-up press conference earlier this week.

It turns out the somewhat under-the-radar project was shepherded by Vice Studios, whose film unit is on a hot run just now following Cannes buzz title Climax and well-reviewed movies such as Lords Of Chaos and Under The Wire. Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum, which also came in for special praise from Barbera on Wednesday, is another among their upcoming slate.

The Mountain‘s impressive producing team comprises Sara Murphy (If Beale Street Could Talk), a producing partner at Barry Jenkins’ Pastel,...

The film explores the birth of Israel’s controversial religious political party Shas in the 1980s.

The 35th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) opened on Thursday evening (July 26) with Israeli director Eliran Malka’s debut feature The Unorthodox, exploring the events leading up to the birth of Israel’s controversial religious political party Shas in the 1980s.

Festival director Noa Regev and Jff artistic director Elad Samorzik’s decision to select a picture by a first-time director with a religious background was seen as bold move given the festival’s traditionally secular atmosphere, but it appears to be have paid off.

It was launched in 2014 to connect international projects with French partners.

The team behind the Les Arcs European Film Festival, held in the French Alps every December has confirmed it has put its sister summer event, the Paris Co-production Village, on ice.

The popular event was launched in 2014 out of the ashes of the Paris Project, which in turn was created out of the now-defunct Paris Cinema Film Festival. Its aim was to connect international projects with French partners.

Les Arcs head of industry Jérémy Zelnik said the co-production meeting, which took place in central Paris in June, had been...

Adolescence is inevitably turbulent, and one of its cruelest paradoxes is the way society pushes us to be exceptional (who doesn’t want to feel special?) at the same time that insecure/jealous peers reinforce the idea that it will all pass easier if we just keep our heads down. Add to that the complication of feeling as though you were born with the wrong gender, and those years are sure to be confusing: How to stand out and blend in at the same time? Few films convey that tension better than “Girl,” a deeply humane first feature from Belgian director Lukas Dhont about a boy who wants to be a ballerina.

Arriving 21 years after Belgian classic “Ma Vie en Rose,” but rejecting that film’s hyper-stylized, high-kitsch aesthetic in favor of fellow countrymen the Dardenne brothers’ more down-to-earth sense of observational naturalism, “Girl” focuses on how the greatest conflict...

The only film in the Cannes Film Festival’s official selection that is eligible for both the Caméra d’Or for the festival’s best first feature and the Queer Palm award for the best gay-themed film, “Girl” is a bold entry into the international arena for a 26-year-old Belgian director, Lukas Dhont.

It is a quiet movie until it isn’t, a gentle character study that goes into extreme territory, a wrenching drama that you think is about finding acceptance until it threatens to become about the impossibility of that very thing.

The film, which premiered to a lengthy ovation in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section on Thursday, begins as softly as it can, with placid music and a whisper from her little brother to wake up 15-year-old Lara, an aspiring ballet student who’s trying to get into a top dance academy.

The admissions offer explains that while she’s undeniably talented, Lara is at least three years behind other students in the training it takes to dance en pointe, on her toes, but the academy will give her an eight-week tryout. What goes unspoken — but is not a secret to the school or its students — is that Lara was born a boy, and is undergoing hormone treatment in preparation for eventual gender confirmation surgery.

Lara, played by the remarkable young dancer and actor Victor Polster after Dhont auditioned both males and females for the role, is always looking in the mirror and never liking what she sees: Her breasts aren’t growing, and against the wishes of her doctors and father, she continues to painfully tape down her genitals before donning the underwear that’s designed to hide it without tape.

Her classmates seemingly accept Lara as a girl, with the other aspiring ballerinas even encouraging her to shower with them. But the impossibility of her dream, which is based on a real case that Dhont read about, becomes clearer as the film goes on. Ballet training is already brutal enough on a teenage body; when you throw in the hormone treatments and the strength required for the surgery, Lara is facing a brutal reality.

And so the film, which usually relies on understatement and restraint, gradually grows darker. “I don’t want to be an example,” says Lara at one point. “I just want to be a girl.” And that’s how the film treats her, up to the point where being a girl becomes increasingly complicated by well-meaning friends and by Lara herself, as what she sees in the mirror never matches what she wants to be.

Lara keeps telling everybody that she’s Ok, but we know she’s not — and by the end, this quiet movie goes to a place of horrific pain and desperation. That Dhont manages to find the briefest of grace notes in its aftermath is one more reason why “Girl” is one of the true discoveries of this year’s festival.

Read original story ‘Girl’ Film Review: Transgender Teen Drama Is a True Cannes Discovery At TheWrap...

Forget the wine: grab your martini glasses and get ready for the next steamy suburban thriller of 2018. Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively star in the mystery thriller A Simple Favor, which looks like it’s the next lurid adaptation that will try to recapture the popularity of David Fincher’s Gone Girl. A Simple Favor Trailer A Simple Favor follows […]

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The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 71st edition of the festival:COMPETITIONEverybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)At War (Stéphane Brizé)Dogman (Matteo Garrone)Le livre d'images (Jean-Luc Godard)Netemo Sameteo (Asako I & II) (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré)Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson)Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)Shoplifter (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)Burning (Lee Chang-dong)BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)Three Faces (Jafar Panahi)Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)Lazzaro Felice (Alice Rohrwacher)Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky)Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov)Un couteau dans le cœur (Yann Gonzalez)Ayka (Sergei Dvortsevoy)The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)Out Of COMPETITIONSolo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)Le grand bain (Gilles Lelouch)The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)Un Certain REGARDGräns (Ali Abbasi...

Despite any attempts to the contrary, Cristin Milioti has no interest in being put into a box. In the course of her relatively brief career, she's taken on a wider variety of roles and disciplines than many actors do in decades. She's made her mark on television, in movies and onstage, playing instantly iconic (and wildly different) characters in Black Mirror, Fargo, How I Met Your Mother, and the Broadway musical Once, to name a few. Currently, she's recording her first album. And this is only the beginning.

"Variety definitely attracts me.

Yesterday, the 2018 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced bright and early. As always, it’s a moment in the cinematic year that marks a turning point of sorts. In fact, it really does seem like it positions us to start thinking about what might play on the festival circuit this fall. We’re a ways off, but with Cannes letting loose their news, the mind can tend to wander and start speculating. We already knew that Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars story was a special early addition to the fest, having its premiere there. We also already had been told that Everybody Knows from Asghar Farhadi was the Opener. Now, we know much more. The crop of titles so far seems to have even more of an international flavor than usual. In fact, aside from the previously announced special screening of Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story,...

New movies from Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”), Jean-Luc Godard (“The Image Book”) and Oscar-winning “Ida” director Pawel Pawlikowski (“Cold War”) join previously announced “Solo: A Star Wars Story” at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, making for a lineup that’s considerably less starry — at least by Hollywood standards — than in years past.

At the press conference in Paris, Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux suggested that several more titles may be announced in the days to come, reminding that 2017 Palme d’Or winner “The Square” was a late addition last year.

Scheduled to kick off a month after the inaugural television-focused Cannes Series event, the festival will unspool from May 8-19 — which is the earliest the festival has taken place in more than 20 years. The parallel Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week programs will take place during the same dates, but technically fall outside the “official selection,” and as such, will announce their lineups later in April.

The Vixen really did come to fight! And Aquaria was all too happy to play the victim. The growing tension between The Vixen and Aquaria erupted into a series of catfights on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Episode 3.

Luckily they weren't on the same team for the Maxi Challenge. Their Werk Room trouble would've followed them on set, just like it followed them to Untucked.

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For the Maxi Challenge on "Tap That App," the remaining queens were split into teams to create hilarious commercials for new dating apps. They dusted off their acting skills and we found out which contestants were natural actors...and which ones we'd swipe left on.

After failing to shine during her commercial, Yuhua Hamasaki was eliminated in a lip sync battle against Mayhem Miller.

In addition to the Maxi Challenge,...

Bob Dylan has recorded a song for a compilation Ep with a same-sex love theme called “Universal Love.” Dylan’s contribution to the six-song Ep, which also features Kesha, St. Vincent, Ben Gibbard, Valerie June and Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, comes with a characteristic twist: Reflecting his recent covers-heavy albums, he’s covered the 1929 song “She’s Funny That Way” with the lyrical variation “He’s Funny That Way.” News of the Ep, which is released Friday (April 6), was first reported by The New York Times.

Dylan is not the first to alter the pronoun in the song — which has been covered by Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Etta James, Liza Minelli, Nat King Cole and many others since it was featured in the 1931 film “Gems of MGM” — but the point is made.

“If you look at the history of pop music, love songs have predominantly come from one heterosexual perspective,...

Apparently after winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar all roads lead to Lara Croft. That certainly was the case with Angelina Jolie after she won for Girl, Interrupted in 2000 and then starred in the first of two Lara Croft Tomb Raider movies in 2001 and 2003. Now, Alicia Vikander , after picking up the same Oscar for The Danish Girl, is showing off her action-hero cred in the new reboot simply called Tomb Raider. This one from director Roar Uthaug actually takes its…...

Company also scores early French deal with Diaphana.

Germany-based sales agent The Match Factory has added Lukas Dhont’s upcoming directing debut Girl to its European Film Market (Efm) slate.

The company has also closed its first sale on the title with French distribution outfit Diaphana.

Girl was a work in progress winner at last year’s Les Arcs European Film Festival as well as the CONNeXT event at Film Fest Gent. It is expected to be completed by summer 2018.

Director Dhont’s shorts L’Infini and Corps Perdu won prizes at Film Fest Gent in 2014 and 2012 respectively. His feature debut tells the story of a 15-year-old girl, born in a boy’s body, who dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.

Newcomer Victor Polster stars in the lead role and Arieh Worthalter (The Take) plays her father.

Dirk Impens is producing...

Company founder Frans van Gestel also updates on their other film and TV projects.

Source: Topkapi

‘Flying Dutchmen’

Amsterdam-based Topkapi Films is to launch one of the most ambitious TV dramas in recent Dutch history, Flying Dutchmen, directed by Joram Lürsen (Public Works, In Orange). Shooting will start at the end of the year.

In an exclusive interview with Screen International, company founder Frans van Gestel has revealed details of the project, which recently received support from the Netherlands Production Incentive. The series consists of eight episodes, each with a budget of €800,000 Euros.

It tells the story of Anthony Fokker, the Dutch aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer, and of his very volatile partnership with fellow aviation expert, Albert Plesman.

Fokker became a naturalised German but returned to the Netherlands after the First World War and together with Plesman, began to build up the Dutch aviation industry. The two men took planes built for warfare and customised and re-designed...

Superhero fans were given quite the welcomed surprise this morning, when 20th Century Fox's Logan received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The nomination was the first ever for writer-director James Mangold, and his co-writer Michael Green, although the third writer, Scott Frank, was previously nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for his 1998 Elmore Leonard adaptation Out of Sight. After the news was announced this morning, Hugh Jackman took to Twitter to deliver some heartfelt praise for the filmmaker after getting his first ever Oscar nod. Here's what Hugh Jackman had to say on social media earlier today.

"If Hollywood kept statistics for the most assists in nominations/awards ... @mang0ld would be the league leader. Today, he finally got the recognition he deserves. Congrats brother! @WolverineMovie #Logan #Wolverine #Oscars2018"

For those who have followed his exceptional career, many might be surprised that this is James Mangold's first Oscar nomination.

Yesterday it was a kick ass trailer for Ong Bak 2 and now it appears we have the female Tony Jaa in Yanin Visimitanada as she teams with the director of the first Ong Bak film Prachya Pinaew in Chocolate, a film about an autistic girl to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money. Basically it's a porn for the martial arts enthusiast and it looks like it could be a lot of fun. Magnet is releasing Chocolate in theaters on February 6 and then on VOD and DVD adn Blu-ray and February 10. Watch the trailer below.