Month: February 2021

RELATED STORIES Nine minutes. That’s about how long the wait time is for Queen Latifah to start beating down bad guys in CBS’ reboot of The Equalizer. And boy, is it worth the wait. The pilot episode premiered Sunday following the Super Bowl, and stars Latifah as Robyn McCall, a newly retired CIA operative who is trying to settle into a quiet life of motherhood and school drop-offs. She almost gets her wish until an old handler and mentor named Bishop (Chris Noth) asks to meet up at the Coney Island Wonder Wheel to talk about what turns out to be her surreptitious resignation. The last mission broke her, Robyn says at their clandestine nighttime meeting, despite Bishop’s message from “The Company” that she can still come back. Bishop even says Robyn can come and work for h...

But in these challenging times (we know, we know) a handful of spots made us laugh, and one made us mist up. And only one of them referenced covid. The pandemic was inescapable, represented in the stands with the cardboard cutout fans, and it was visualized in the halftime show, with the dancers’ plague doctor-esque masks. But maybe what we wanted from our commercials was the chance to pretend that everything was normal — at least, until we can drink beer and eat chips together again. Here are the ads that impressed us the most. Amazon Michael B. Jordan stars in an ad for Amazon's artificial intelligence personal assistant, Alexa. (Amazon) You know those ads that are so great, you don’t even skip them on YouTube when given the option? Michael B. Jordan’s good looks do the heavy lifting ...

The Weeknd is finally facing the music after shocking the public with his ever-evolving face. Fans have questioned the singer’s look for well over a year, as he’s been seen sporting variations of a bloody-and-bruised visage for his album “After Hours,” long before his much-hyped Super Bowl 2021 halftime performance. But the singer, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, teased from the get-go that he was creating a persona for his fourth studio album. “There’s also a very committed vision and character being portrayed, and I get to explore a different side of me that my fans have never seen,” he revealed in an interview for CR Fashion Book in March 2020. Having just turned 30 — his birthday is February 16 — he had said the album in its entirety served as an “int...

The biggest night of football season kicked off and ended with a bang! From Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church's duet of the National Anthem to Amanda Gorman's moving poem to The Weeknd's electrifying Halftime Show performance, the Super Bowl LV has been nothing short of exciting. Let's not forget that the Kansas City Chiefs faced off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an unforgettable game—with Tampa taking home the championship. And while people have been wowed by everything that happened at the Raymond James Stadium in Florida, there was one moment that stole the show. Amy Schumer shared an adorable video of her one-year-old son, Gene David Fischer—who she welcomed in May 2019 with husband Chris Fischer—watching her Super Bowl commercial during the game. The ad featured the come...

Jeep's new Super Bowl commercial, "The Middle," starring Bruce Springsteen and a 1980 CJ-5, just premiered during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LV, and it's typical of automaker's Big Game ads. That is to say, it's ambitious and moving, with a soaring message that's much more about who we are as a nation and as people than it is about the business of selling cars and trucks. Filmed over five days in late January, the long-form advertisement features heartland rocker Springsteen in his fi...

Getty Images The Weeknd headlined the Super Bowl LV Pepsi Halftime show. He is doing something that has never been done before, with the stage setup in the stands right next to the Raymond James Stadium pirate ship. He did end up making it down to the field, along with his dancers, but there was no stage set up there. The pop star performed some of his top hits as well as some of his deep cuts in this electric performance. He started out the performance in a convertible, with city lights behind him and Pepsi logos all behind him. He incorporated lights, fog and...