Month: January 2021

EXCLUSIVE: One of the final unseen films with awards season potential presents itself tonight as Netflix unveils the Sam Levinson-directed Malcolm & Marie in its first industry screening before a February 5 release. John David Washington plays a writer/director who returns home with his girlfriend after the triumphant premiere of what he hopes will be his breakout film. Zendaya plays that girlfriend, whom he forgot to thank even though her difficult life experiences informed much of the movie. The drama unfolds from there, just the two of them over an evening in a picturesque house shot in 35mm black and white film, as the fight over a slight forces them to reveal themselves and how they really feel about each other. They bare their souls and insecurities, sometimes with brutal...

EXCLUSIVE: One of the final unseen films with awards season potential presents itself tonight as Netflix unveils the Sam Levinson-directed Malcolm & Marie in its first industry screening before a February 5 release. John David Washington plays a writer/director who returns home with his girlfriend after the triumphant premiere of what he hopes will be his breakout film. Zendaya plays that girlfriend, whom he forgot to thank even though her difficult life experiences informed much of the movie. The drama unfolds from there, just the two of them over an evening in a picturesque house shot in 35mm black and white film, as the fight over a slight forces them to reveal themselves and how they really feel about each other. They bare their souls and insecurities, sometimes with brutal...

Friday’s episode of “The View” was a stark reminder that, despite the events of this week, we are still in the midst of a deadly pandemic that is very much not under control. Co-host Sunny Hostin addressed viewers in an emotional segment where she revealed she lost both of her husband’s parents to the coronavirus over the holidays. “After speaking with [my husband], he felt that from a public health standpoint it was very important for me to share that we are deeply saddened that Manny lost both of his parents over the holidays,” Hostin, who was visibly attempting to keep back tears, said. “He lost his father on Dec. 28 and he lost his mother on New Year’s Day, both to COVID. “They were both physicians and they were both very careful. They didn’t celebrat...

EXCLUSIVE: One of the final unseen films with awards season potential presents itself tonight as Netflix unveils the Sam Levinson-directed Malcolm & Marie in its first industry screening before a February 5 release. John David Washington plays a writer/director who returns home with his girlfriend after the triumphant premiere of what he hopes will be his breakout film. Zendaya plays that girlfriend, whom he forgot to thank even though her difficult life experiences informed much of the movie. The drama unfolds from there, just the two of them over an evening in a picturesque house shot in 35mm black and white film, as the fight over a slight forces them to reveal themselves and how they really feel about each other. They bare their souls and insecurities, sometimes with brutal...

“I just started singing, going along in the car: ‘Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to pick guitars’ is what I said first,” he recalled later to the Christian Broadcasting Network. “I thought, ‘Wait a minute now,’ and I changed it to ‘cowboys.’”

The Weeknd is feelin’ his own face again. In a new ad for Pepsi ahead of his big Super Bowl halftime performance, the 30-year-old singer opted to ditch his cryptic bandages and CGI plastic surgery, showing off his real face for the first time in a while. The one-minute teaser for the show, on Feb. 7, shows a montage of fans enjoying his song, “Blinding Lights,” including a grocery store worker and a pool cleaner dancing to his tune like no one’s watching. Right at the end, The Weeknd flashes a smile to a toll booth security guard who was interrupted grooving to the hit. It’s the first time in a while fans got to see his real face since The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, has been donning bandages as part of an aesthetic for his latest album. ...

Known for pushing the envelope, Danish public broadcaster DR has ruffled feathers with its latest children show “John Dillermand,” a comedy about a man whose giant penis gets him in and out of all sorts of trouble. The show, aimed at children aged 4 to 8, launched earlier this week to controversy among some journalists and academics who find the series inappropriate for young children. Some argue that the program, whose protagonist’s surname is actually a Danish slang word for penis, sends the wrong message to kids as it follows a man who has no control over his genitals. Further complicating matters is that the show’s launch coincides with Denmark’s first #MeToo movement, which has followed TV journalist Sofie Linde’s revelations during an awards show in late August that she ...