Month: January 2022

Eric Clapton’s career “had almost gone anyway” until his campaign against conventional medicine took off. The 76-year-old musician went on the Real Music Observer YouTube channel to discuss how his life has changed since reluctantly taking AstraZeneca’s therapy in 2021. Clapton has since become outspoken about his anti-vaccination stance. He claimed that he’d been duped into getting the COVID-19 jab by subliminal messaging in pharmaceutical advertising — and urged others not to fall for it. “Whatever the memo was, it hadn’t reached me,” he said, referring to the “mass formation hypnosis” conspiracy theory, which gained traction in 2021 as part of anti-vaccine propaganda. (In related circles it’s also been called “mass formation psychosis.”) Credited to B...

Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated musical Pinocchio is a passion project for the director. It’s a take on the tale that places Carlo Collodi’s classic story in the complex setting of Italy grappling with the rise of fascism. But before we get to the fascism, here’s a brief trailer for the movie that introduces Sebastian J. Cricket. On Monday, Netflix released a first-look teaser for its new Pinocchio, and while there isn’t a lot of new information about the film or its plot, but we do get to hear Ewan McGregor as the character who was known simply as Talking Cricket in Collodi’s original book. It’s a brief but intriguing look at the charming stop-motion animation style. Sebastian J. Cricket tells us that we don’t know the real story of Pinocchio, but he was there, nestled ...

Adele was forced to cancel the final two shows of her 25 world tour, which had been set to take place in a sold-out Wembley Stadium in her hometown of London, due to damaged vocal cords. The singer went on to say that the dates for her Vegas residency would be rescheduled, and she would get the show "to where it's supposed to be" in the meantime.  "I'm so sorry, it's been impossible." she finished. "We've been up against so much it just ain't ready. I'm really sorry." A note on the Caesars Palace website stated that all events for the show scheduled between Jan. 21 and April 16 had been postponed. No new dates have yet been confirmed, although early reports claim the show could be postponed until "June or even 2023."

Evan Rachel Wood says in the new documentary “Phoenix Rising” that she was “essentially raped on-camera” while filming the 2007 music video for Marilyn Manson’s “Heart-Shaped Glasses.” The video features Wood wearing “Lolita”-inspired heart-shaped glasses and having sex with Manson while flake blood rains down on them. Wood was 19 years old when she filmed the music video and alleges in the documentary that she was fed absinthe on set to the point that she was barely conscious to object when Manson had sex with her on camera. “It’s nothing like I thought it was going to be,” Wood says in the documentary (via Rolling Stone). “We’re doing things that were not what was pitched to me. We had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating m...