Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Katy Perry Just two weeks after she announced the set list from space, Katy Perry’s Lifetimes Tour is under way. The pop diva has been an online punching bag since the release of her song “Woman’s World” up through her most recent album, 143, but nobody can deny that …
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Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images Kneecap are continuing to stand for Palestine amid what the Irish rap group calls “a coordinated smear campaign” over their Coachella sets. The group projected pro-Palestine messages during their weekend-two performance on April 18, after being unable to during weekend one. Since then, Kneecap has faced backlash for the statements, …
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Photo: Richard Baker/In Pictures/Getty Images Amazon went back to its roots this week when the company made a move that appeared to blatantly antagonize smaller, independent bookstores. The tech conglomerate announced on April 15 that it would hold its second annual book sale April 23–28, a week that coincides with Independent Bookstore Day. That …
Photo: Variety/Youtube The question is not “Should I watch the Nicole Scherzinger and Jonathan Groff ‘Actors on Actors’ video?” The question instead is “Why has no one ever thought to put these two in a room alone for an hour until now?” The fourth episode of the first-ever Broadway edition of Variety’s “Actors on …
Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Until Dawn. If you’ve never played the 2015 survival horror game Until Dawn, the 2025 film adaptation might confuse you. Also, if you have played the game, the film adaptation might confuse you. David F. Sandberg’s Until Dawn borrows from its popular …
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Photo: Philippe Antonello/Prime Video Being a professional dancer is a career with an earlier expiration date than most, and there inevitably comes a point when the body can’t take the stress anymore. Ballet dancers can often last longer because companies have rotating casts for performances, but it’s still extremely taxing, and dancers need to …
Photo: AppleTV+ Try as I might to keep my default-movie-guy bias in check when swimming in the waters of TV — blurred as the lines are between the things we used to call “television” and “cinema” in the 21st-century “content” colonization of art and categories — sometimes you gotta bite the bullet, dig your …
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Photo: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial will include the footage of him assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway, a judge ruled. But in a hearing on April 25, Judge Arun Subramanian ruled the 2016 video can be shown as evidence, Rolling Stone reported. The ruling comes as Cassie Ventura is …
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Photo: Clifton Prescod/Netflix What would be a fitting end for Joe and our series? We are asked this meta question several times throughout the finale, as if to prepare us for a conclusion the show knows won’t satisfy us. Is there such a thing as a satisfying conclusion to his story? Death is too …
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Photo: Twentieth Century-Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection Those who weren’t alive or particularly conscious during the initial release of George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels might not be able to appreciate what it felt like to live through the weird drama of those movies’ contentious reception. We need not dwell on it too much — I’ve lost …
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