Photo: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images The antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is still trudging along nearly one year and one administration after the Department of Justice filed it. A federal judge denied Live Nation’s motion to dismiss elements of the case during a March 13 hearing, Courthouse News Service reported, allowing …
Photo: Kimstim Films/Everett Collection One could be forgiven for mistaking the opening scenes of Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire for the start of a horror movie. The film begins with a long, looong shot of a car driving along a remote, winding road as a droning, two-note melody plays on the soundtrack. The silent …
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Photo: Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images After a concert at Chicago’s United Center earlier this month featuring Disturbed, Three Days Grace, and Sevendust, the venue’s staff realized there was “minor damage” to the Bulls’ six NBA championship banners. Apparently, the concert’s pyrotechnics, located directly underneath the banners, literally darkened the legacy of the team …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photos: FXX; NBC; Sony Pictures Television; Fox This list was originally published on March 15, 2019. It has been updated to include additional episodes. Lucky you. St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday unlike any other. While the core meaning of a lot of Christian holidays is lost over time, giving way to …
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Photo: Walt Disney Studios In a perfect storybook ending, Saturday’s premiere of the Disney live-action adaptation of Snow White would culminate in a familiar scrum on the red carpet in front of Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre. Fans would scream and rubberneck. Entertainment reporters behind velvet ropes would ask frisky if innocuous questions of the …
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Photo: Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images Chappell Roan doesn’t do things halfway. She spent four hours getting her body painted so she could dress as the Statue of Liberty at last year’s Governors Ball. She brought out a massive pony to perform her hit “Pink Pony Club” on the Grammys stage. She even showed …
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Photo: Apple TV+ Watching the sharply written, chummily acted, assertively detailed Dope Thief is like stepping into a time machine transporting us back to the early days of FX’s golden age. Fuckup men having feelings, what a concept! Fifteen or so years ago, the channel was the place for just-guys-being-dudes masterpieces like The Shield, …
Photo: Glen Wilson/Disney AAAHhhhhh! AAAhhhhh! There used to be one movie and now there’s gonna be two! Could you, like, chill for a second? A sequel to the 2003 version of Freaky Friday, called Freakier Friday and starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, is in the works and heading to theaters this year. …
Photo: Marcos Cruz/Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection Novocaine could have been written by a 12-year-old, and I’m not sure I mean that pejoratively. It’s a riff on superhero stories, but it’s been thought up with a whiff of dopey plausibility: The film’s protagonist, Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), suffers from something called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with …
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Photo: Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images It’s a “West End story.” Rachel Zegler will play Eva Perón in Evita on London’s West End, in a production directed by Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Blvd.), per a Deadline report. Of Zegler, Lloyd told Deadline that he was “struck by her incredible passion for this show,” and that she will …
