Month: April 2022

We are less than two weeks away from the return of Better Call Saul, which means we are a mere four months away from the final episode of Better Call Saul (the season is being split into two parts). That sounds like a lot of time, but before you know it, it’ll be August 15, the date of the series finale, and we’ll either be celebrating or chucking our televisions off the balcony, depending on the fate of one Kim Wexler.

Ahead of the premiere, AMC released a new teaser for season six, featuring a long line of clients outside of Saul’s nail salon office, Kim’s tight-as-ever ponytail, Mike’s bald-as-ever head, Saul yelling about violence, and Nacho on the phone asking, “What happens now?” No one, especially Nacho, is doing great. Except for us, the viewers.

Here’s what else to expect in the final season:

Better Call Saul’s final season concludes the complicated journey and transformation of its compromised hero, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. From the cartel to the courthouse, from Albuquerque to Omaha, Season 6 tracks Jimmy, Saul and Gene as well as Jimmy’s complex relationship with Kim (Rhea Seehorn), who is in the midst of her own existential crisis. Meanwhile, Mike (Jonathan Banks), Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), Nacho (Michael Mando) and Lalo (Tony Dalton) are locked into a game of cat and mouse with mortal stakes.

You can watch the teaser below:

Better Call Saul returns on April 18 for the first and second of six episodes, followed by the midseason finale on May 23. It picks up again July 11, with the finale on August 15.

Over a year after being detained by ICE over his expired visa, 21 Savage was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm. Those charges are now affecting his fight for legal immigration status, according to his lawyer Charles Kuck. TMZ reports Kuck says that due to the criminal charges, Savage’s immigration case has been put on pause until the charges can be resolved.

The charges stem from the rapper’s initial arrest in February of 2019, when federal agents and police say they found a handgun in his car after he threw an empty bottle of codeine out of the vehicle. However, charges weren’t filed against him until September of 2021 — which Kuck believes was prompted by an ICE request after the rapper’s plight threw unwanted attention on the organization. ICE was already under scrutiny for its handling of the ongoing border crisis, and the negative publicity from arresting the “Bank Account” rapper only brought harsher criticism.

The ICE case was initially prompted by felony drug charges against the rapper which, by the time he was arrested had already been vacated. Meanwhile, Savage, who is originally from the UK and had been living in the US on an expired visa since he was 13 without knowing it, was already looking to correct his visa status at the time he was arrested, which his lawyers believe was the real reason ICE targeted him. Since his immigration case is ongoing, he cannot leave the country, although he is allowed to travel domestically for shows.

Gran Turismo 7 may be a great racing game, but it is not without its flaws. The biggest problem that most players have had with GT7 so far is the grind they’re asking players to go through to try and get new cars. In franchises like Gran Turismo it’s way more fun to use the Ferarri than the Honda Civic when racing, but to get that Ferarri you need to pay for it with in-game credits. To get credits you either have to grind them out through races, or pay for them with actual money using microtransactions.

The problem with these microtransactions is that some of these cars are extremely expensive and it’s causing players to use exploits to get them in a reasonable amount of time. Players have been really unhappy with the way credits have been handled for a while now. They were especially not pleased after a previous patch lessened the rewards players got. It felt like they were being funneled towards paying actual money for fake currency to buy fake cars.

The devs of GT7 must have seen the backlash because they’re now going to make that grind for credits a little easier on the player. In the most recent patch update, the rewards for races in the latter half of the World Circuit were increased. This was one of many changes that were added to the game, but it was absolutely the biggest info to come out of the patch.

World Circuits
– The amount of rewards for events in the latter half of the World Circuit has been increased.
– New race events have been added to the World Circuit. The new events are as follows:
　・World Touring Car 600 Tokyo Expressway East Clockwise
　・World Touring Car 700 24 Heures du Mans Racing Circuit
　・World Touring Car 800 Sardegna Road Track A
– Adjusted the rewards for Arcade races and Custom Races

While this still doesn’t entirely fix the issue that many players have with the game, mainly the cars being too expensive, it at least makes the grind for these cars a little more doable.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion on Thursday to hold former president Donald Trump in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 per day for failing to turn over documents in her office’s civil investigation. After being ordered by a stage judge to “comply in full” with James’ request, Trump’s legal team was granted a 30-day extension. However, as the March 31 deadline drew near, his legal team tried to delay the deadline even further by claiming that it still can’t get ahold of the documents because the Trump Organization has them. That’s when James had enough.

Via CNN:

James argued on Thursday that Trump’s attorneys’ response amounted to “more delay and obfuscation,” saying that his objections came too late. She said that Trump was “highly likely to have been in possession, custody or control of numerous documents” bearing on her investigation and that he failed to adequately detail the efforts he undertook to search for the subpoenaed documents.

James also took to Twitter to announce her plan to hold the former president in contempt.

“Despite a crystal clear order from the court, Donald Trump has refused to turn over documents as part of our investigation into him and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings,” James tweeted. “Donald Trump should be fined $10,000 per day for every day that he continues to violate the court’s order to provide these documents to my office. No one is above the law.”

For people who have been hoping to see Trump face some sort of legal consequences after leaving office, the contempt filing is a sign that at least the civil investigation into his questionable business practices is still kicking. Last month, prosecutors resigned from the criminal investigation into Trump after it became clear that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is no longer looking to prosecute Trump on felony charges. It was a deflating setback, but it appears that Attorney General James is not willing to throw in the towel that easily.

(Via CNN, New York AG Letitia James on Twitter)

On the latest episode of Hot Ones from First We Feast, Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin wore a camo hat, asked what it will be like going to the bathroom after consuming extremely hot sauces, and, most importantly, went over details of his audition for The Fly 2 (1989) which made his agent at the time ask, “What the f*ck did you do in there?”

Hot Ones host Sean Evans asked Brolin if it’s true that he blew his audition for The Fly 2 by overcommitting to the whole metamorphosis part.

“Yes,” Brolin said. “I went in there, man, and I totally committed. And I did this for like, 22 years with pretty much every audition I ever did. But I was on the ground and I was frothing at the mouth because he’s in a chrysalis, he’s in a cocoon. What happens to one that’s human that’s not used to something like morphing from one thing to another? One would imagine that it would be a painful process, would one not? And then toy finish the audition, which is always the most uncomfortable part where they all look at you and there’s a pause and they go, ‘thanks for coming in, thank you, that was wonderful.’”

Brolin, who handles the hot sauces quite well, said that he left and when he got home, there was already a message from his agent. “I called the agent back and he said ‘what the f*ck did you do in there?’ literally, verbatim,” Brolin said. “And I said, ‘did I get it?’ and he’s like, ‘oh, no, they’ll probably never see you again.’”

You can see Brolin tell The Fly 2 audition story around the 5:40 minute mark above, but we recommend watching the whole thing.

BTW, the role of Martin Brundle in The Fly 2 went to Eric Schultz, who we would very much like to see play a big purple villain one day.

Norwegian pop sensation Sigrid is gearing up for the release of her second album, How To Let Go, due out on May 6th. Last night, she appeared on the Late Late Show With James Corden to perform her latest hit, “It Gets Dark,” and she did it all from an intimate dark/light soundstage, driving home the point of the shimmering track.

“I believe you need to feel the lows in life to feel the highs, and you have to know what sucks to then properly appreciate the good stuff,” Sigrid said in a statement when the track was released last month. “‘It Gets Dark’ is an ode to that. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about a single release before.”

In the Corden performance, you can’t take your eyes off of Sigrid’s matching red vinyl pants and jacket. She bounces from a white room to a dark one, losing herself in the songs lyrics: “And I, I’m moving at the speed of light, I had to go. But now I know, it gets dark so I can see the stars.”

Watch Sigrid’s performance of “It Gets Dark” in the video above.

How To Let Go is out 5/6 via Island Records. Pre-order it here.

When I was a child, I wrote letters to some of my favorite celebrities. I don’t remember who, exactly, but I’m guessing Will Smith was in there. Maybe Macaulay Culkin. Probably a couple of fictional characters, too, like Homer Simpson and Big Bird. I never expected a response (I was That Kid before I was That Adult), but maybe I should have.

“The best part of hosting Jeopardy! — and it’s not even particularly close — is the mail from kids,” Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings tweeted on Thursday, along with the most freaking adorable letter you’ve ever seen. Written on loose leaf paper, the preferred paper of elementary schools everywhere, a young Jeopardy! fan made up their own board — or in this case, “bored” (Norm Macdonald would be proud).

The categories include “Hall of Fame,” “Mitholigy,” “Grates Jeopardy Players,” “20th Centhery Pop,” and “Puppy Bowl.” The dollar amounts are all over the place (“I’ll take Grates Jeopardy Players for $301, Ken”), and in the bottom left corner, the child wrote, “Turn over for awser.” The “awser”: “Who is Snoop Dog.”

I hope this kid ends up on Jeopardy! in 20 years. Unlike this Wheel of Fortune contestant who wasted everyone’s time, they’ll have quite the story.

The woman who sued Snoop Dogg for allegedly sexually assaulting her in 2013 has dropped her lawsuit, according to Billboard. The anonymous accuser asked a judge in a motion filed in Los Angeles federal court yesterday to dismiss the case “in its entirety.” No reason was given for the request to dismiss the suit but the Jane Doe accuser still has the right to refile some other time.

The plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the case was filed after Snoop Dogg requested the same thing a few weeks after the initial lawsuit. In that filing, Snoop’s lawyer characterized the lawsuit as “a thinly veiled attempt to extort” Snoop for money. “Nothing remotely resembling plaintiff’s story about defendant Calvin Broadus ever happened,” the motion read. ” “He vehemently denies ever engaging in any sex act with plaintiff or assaulting or battering her. She provides no allegations of any statement by defendant that he would help her career, and no allegations of any statement about how defendant might advance her career. Instead, the only allegation plaintiff makes is that [co-defendant Donald] Campbell — not defendant — said going to the studio where defendant was would be ‘a career move.’”

In the lawsuit, which was filed in February of 2021 just days before the rapper performed at the Super Bowl, the woman claimed that Snoop’s associate and frequent collaborator, Bishop Don Magic Juan forced her to have oral sex with him. She also says that Snoop offered to make her a weather girl on his GGN YouTube show but later refused to hire her after also forcing oral sex on her. In March, the woman updated the lawsuit after Snoop’s initial defense, prompting him to once again request to have the lawsuit tossed.

It’s only been less than five years since the Fifty Shades franchise wrapped up, though, in pandemic times, that feels like a whole decade. Still, the “erotic fan fiction-turned-blockbuster” demographic has been wildly underrepresented, that is, until now!

Perhaps you remember Netflix’s controversial erotic thriller 365 Days since it sat on the Netflix Top 10 for some time in 2020. Well, Netflix knows what to do when they make a hit: make another one, that nobody really asked for but will probably be a huge hit anyway. Now, the trailer is here, and it looks like it has the same exact premise as the first one.

Titled 365 Days: This Day, the movie will catch up with the same protagonists as the first one, only now with more nudity and violence, now that they have a bigger budget. Based on the novels by Blanka Lipinska, the story is a classic tale of rich people, mysteries, and more sex.

As per the official description: “Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple’s new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.”

The movie will land on Netflix on April 27th. Check out the steamy trailer above.

Megan Thee Stallion has been good to fans this year as she’s dropped a pair of singles so far in 2022: the Shenseea collaboration “Lick” and the Dua Lipa link-up “Sweetest Pie.” She has more new material ready to go, too, and she might event debut it when she performs as Coachella later this month, from April 15 to 17 and 22 to 24.

Megan teased these plans today, writing on Twitter, “I got this song that I recorded and every time I play it for a woman they start jumping and clapping [crying laughing emoji]. I think I wanna perform it at Coachella for the first time before I actually drop it.” She also noted in response to a Twitter user, “Guys be like ‘this sh*t hard’ but I think my girls just feel it in they spirit [crying laughing emoji].”

Coachella is the latest event in a particularly busy period for Megan. She just picked up a Webby Award nomination, she and Dua Lipa presented together at the Grammys, she performed at the Oscars (becoming the first female rapper to do so), and she pie’d one of her dancers on stage at the iHeartRadio awards.

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