Halsey has kept busy over the past month, as the singer attended the Grammys and also popped up at a Coachella-adjacent event. All the while, though, things have apparently been tough, as Halsey has now revealed they’ve recently, on multiple occasions, spent time in the hospital.
In a recent Instagram Story (which is no longer viewable on Halsey’s profile but has been preserved by third parties), they wrote, “I have been in and out of the hospital for the past few weeks dealing with some new challenges. Trying my best to keep things normal; Grammys, Coachella etc. But my body is putting up a strong protest. And ultimately demanding that I slow down or stop foreal this time. Especially so I can be in the best shape for tour. Chronic illness is a complex mystery. If I am or have been MIA please don’t take it personally. I am doing the best I can under difficult circumstances. Sharing this for my fellow spoonies. All that glitters… [spoon emoji].”
Halsey no Instagram Stories falando que esteve saindo e entrando do hospital nos últimos dias porque não estava bem, então está tirando um tempo para desacelerar e tentar descansar. Desejamos melhoras! pic.twitter.com/n0PGoA3if8
“Spoonie” is a term (coined by Lupus blogger Christine Miserandino) used to describe somebody with chronic illness. The label refers to Miserandino’s “spoon theory,” which WebMD explains is a visualization of how much energy a person with chronic illness has throughout the day compared to somebody not facing the same challenges.
As for what may be ailing Halsey, the post doesn’t specifically say, but they have been open about dealing with endometriosis, of which Johns Hopkins Medicine notes, “Endometriosis is derived from the word ‘endometrium,’ which is the tissue that lines the uterus. Patients with endometriosis have endometrial-type tissue outside of the uterus.”
For the better part of a month now, DMV MC IDK (say that five times fast) has been teasing the impending release of his third studio album. He’s been calling the follow-up to 2021’s USee4Yourself a huge departure and today, he revealed why: The whole album will be produced by the house pioneer Kaytranada. It’s called Simple, and he shared its abstract cover via Instagram and Twitter. He also shared its release date via his new Discord server. Here’s a hint: He’ll be competing with Jack Harlow.
The collaboration announcement shouldn’t be that much of a surprise after IDK’s last single, “Taco,” was produced by Kaytranada and gave a glimpse of the rapper’s new direction. An upbeat track with heavy dance music influence, “Taco” presented a juxtaposition between the glittering production and the rapper’s gritty, rhymes — exactly the sort of contradiction that IDK has loved to present on past projects like IsHeReal? and USee4Yourself. Meanwhile, Kaytranada has gotten more active lately, ending 2021 with his EP, Intimidated, and showing off his production chops on Joyce Wrice’s new single “Iced Tea.” It should be interesting to see what these two genre-benders have come up with.
Simple is due 5/6 via Clue and Warner Records.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It’s no industry secret that there is still a shortage of vinyl pressing plants today. While independent artists and labels carried along the vinyl industry for the past decade or two, it wasn’t until in recent years when major labels jumped on the increase of vinyl record sales and began securing pressing contracts en masse. While artists like Taylor Swift and Adele have seen their vinyl sales skyrocket, independent artists have had to deal with months-long waits to get their records pressed. Jack White, who famously owns Detroit’s Third Man Records pressing plant, recently issued a call to action to all major labels to strongly consider building their own production facilities in order to counteract this economic effect. And while they’re not doing that yet, monthly record subscription service Vinyl Me, Please is.
The Boulder, Colorado-based company has begun construction on a massive 14,000-square-foot facility in Denver that is, according to Billboard, an “audiophile-grade” plant that is set to “open by year end for production, tours, and special events.” For context, Third Man Records in Detroit is a 10,000-square-foot warehouse, so VMP’s location is considerably larger.
Billboard reported last year that VMP had 80,000 subscribers, a figure that was steadily growing. It’s unclear whether the facility will be manufacturing records that won’t be sold exclusively to VMP customers, but a press release indicated that it will be an “experiential space” that lets visitors see the process of how records are made; almost like an open kitchen, but instead of food, they’ll be cooking vinyl.
New Doja Cat music is on the way: Ahead of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biographical film Elvis, which hits theaters June 24, Doja will release a new single called “Vegas” for the film’s companion album.
“Vegas,” which arrives next month, contains interpolations of “Hound Dog,” a song originally by Big Mama Thornton, and (in)famously covered by Presley. Snippets of the song have revealed that “Vegas” contains vocal samples of Thornton’s original version of “Hound Dog.” Actress Shonka Dukureh will portray Thornton in the film.
The Elvis companion album will arrive sometime this summer via RCA, which has been home to Presley’s catalog since the ’50s. RCA has not yet confirmed an exact release date for the article, nor have they detailed if the album will be a soundtrack, a score, or strictly a compilation of Presley covers, the label did reveal to Variety that “the album will include variations on Presley material that include contributions from a number of name artists representing different genres.”
Doja first performed “Vegas” in full during her set at Coachella, sparking up anticipation for new music. Also during her set, she announced that Taco Bell, of which she is a business partner, will bring back the fan-favorite Mexican pizza.
Cannabis has the potential to heal the earth and the people at the same time. If it’s done right. But weed is a multi-billion dollar industry now and like any other industry, monetary gains often take precedence over environmental stewardship. Lines have been drawn in the sand between corporate mega-grows and the small farmers of the Emerald Triangle who pioneered this world and were persecuted heavily for doing so.
Right now, the market is flush with mids being turned out at a rate fast enough to drive the market price of a pound down to mere hundreds of dollars from thousands in years prior. It’s an intentional market consolidation, designed to eliminate small, organic, family-operated farms. These venture-funded grows are often in bed with politicians and power brokers, creating a landscape that is all but impossible to navigate, much less benefit the people who have grown the best weed in the world for generations.
The other issue with the corporate mids-mania we find ourselves in the midst of is this: the weed isn’t that good. This means the medicine people have access to is not nearly as effective as it could be. Sungrown flower from the Emerald Triangle has a much fuller terpene and cannabinoid profile, meaning its effects are radiant, nuanced, and all-encompassing in a healing way, as opposed to corporate indoor weed which provides a more one-note, THC-heavy high that is more suited for casual recreation than medicinal benefits.
In an industry riddled with greenwashing, it can be difficult (even for the savviest consumer) to discern from a real regenerative farm and an indoor grow claiming to cultivate with living soil while actually flushing plastic potted plants with nutrient salts and pesticides. But a new initiative called Weed Like Change hopes to help matters. The group is a coalition of more than 50 organic cannabis farmers, brands, partner dispensaries, allied businesses, and nonprofit advocacy organizations designed to save regenerative farms.
Aimed at increasing financial viability, improving market access, and raising consumer awareness about the way cannabis production can contribute to, or help mitigate, the effects of climate change, Weed Like Change was founded by Sun+Earth, a nonprofit certification given to farms that exhibit earth care and cultivation, human empowerment, and community engagement. Shopping for brands with the Sun+Earth Certification is a great way for consumers to know that they are getting not only the highest quality flower, but flower that has been cultivated in partnership with nature.
While most consumers don’t even realize the effect their choices have on the market at this pivotal moment in the industry, we have a choice every time we step into that dispensary. Do you want to support brands that you know are contributing to the healing of our planet? Or do you want to support corporate giants like Canopy Growth, whose 2020 emissions were equivalent to burning more than 65 million pounds of coal?
To get you started on your high vibe journey into sun-grown enlightenment, let’s check out five of my favorite strains right now. Money speaks louder than words. Make sure yours is going to the right place.
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Morning Cuddles by Farm Cut (Briceland Forest Farm)
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People tend to overlook the spiritual element of the cannabis plant. She’s an energetic entity that carries her experience into the high you experience from consuming her. The more love and care that goes into the plant, the better it will make you feel.
Plants from corporate grows aren’t loved individually and aren’t cared for in the same way that plants from small farms are. Nowhere is this more apparent than Briceland Forest Farm, whose love for the plant and the planet shine through in the warmest, most tender way with their strain Morning Cuddles, brought to us by the farmer-led collective Farm Cut.
Farm Cut
Morning Cuddles is unique in every way, and the name says it all. This is a cross of Cuddle Bud, a strain they’ve been breeding on their land for a decade, with Koffee, which overlapped in characteristics they wanted to bring up. I always think the best way to tell good weed from great weed is if the smell alone intoxicates you in the way the flower will. The first scent sent me to the depth of a forest floor. Earthy and sweet with hints of cedar and pine, it’s a really complex profile.
To get a sense of where this flower is coming from, here is a quote I pulled out of an email the farmer, Daniel, sent to me earlier this week.
“I love that flower grown in this way — with the raw elements and fertility created by the abundance of life force the forest has to offer — connects people back to the source and all the goodness it is created with. I like to imagine we are capturing a little bit of the magic of the summer in the hills. The rainwater, the starry nights, the bird song and the buzz of bees.”
This is who you want growing your weed.
I took a rip from a little metal bong Para Shop sent me last week and exhaled sweet magic smoke. I fell back on the blanket, looking at the sky. It’s been moody in LA lately, sunny then not. The clouds eclipsed the sun, but I was floating down a warm river in the sunshine. The high is physically languid, euphoric in a Kundalini energy way where a shiver flutters up your spine when you’re in the presence of something that is purely good, kind of like hearing Pet Sounds for the first time.
Everything about this flower is pillowy. The bud structure, the high, the scent, all exist in an ethereal cloud-like state where you want to make breakfast and not care about anything that sucks. My mind was alive but my body was in a deep state of relaxation. Physical sensation was heightened. I felt thoughtful and creative. This flower feels like a hug from a redwood tree or the soft lull of dappled shade on a summer afternoon.
Bottom Line:
Smoke it with someone you love on a Sunday morning and then make blueberry pancakes.
Pineapple Wonder by Moon Made Farms transports you to a dreamland forest of giant pineapple plants where intoxicating moisture hangs in the air and a rainbow stretches wide in the sky. You’re bright! You’re vibrant! You’re fucking alive!
I love all of Moon Made’s flower. This woman-owned brand grows by the sun, as well as the cycles of the moon, and is one of my favorite cultivators. All of their weed has a radiant effect that makes you a better version of yourself instead of a lesser, more stoned version of yourself. Well, you’re definitely still stoned, but in a way that heightens your senses and thoughts instead of obliterating them.
Moon Made Farms
Pineapple Wonder’s terpene profile pops from the tin with tropical vibes. The flavor is like fresh-cut pineapple, fruity, piney, and lemony, all at once.
I gave this to some of my sister’s boomer hippy friends at a dinner party last Sunday. They took like one poof each then were locked in such a state of exuberance that they danced salsa into the night and texted me the next morning to thank me for their “psychedelic experience.” This weed really is that special!
The genetics of this strain are unknown, which I think is cool. Tina Gordon, the badass woman behind Moon Made, discovered Pineapple Wonder in 2016 among 20 other unknown genetic varieties and continued to foster the strain through back-crossing, refining dominant pheno-expressions. When they sent the strain in for testing, it wasn’t relatable to any other genetics in the library, which is insane! A lightning bolt strain that only struck once, we are lucky to be able to experience her.
Bottom Line:
This is a flower of excitement, expression, and thought. Perfect for every morning!
Mom’s Weed by Huckleberry Hill Farms is a terpene goddess who deserves our utmost respect. This is one of those flowers that when you show it to people, their mouths pop open and they look back at you wide-eyed.
Every sensory attribute of this flower is fucking insane. Visually, she’s purple, silver, orange, and every shade of green. There are so many trichomes sparkling with tiny psychoactive diamonds that it looks as if it was rolled in a fine granulation of sugar.
Huckleberry Hill Farms
The scent is a dense, fruity maze of floralia. Mom’s Weed is the sister strain of Whitethorn Rose, another terp juggernaut that has long been a Humboldt favorite and recently has become one of the most sought-after strains in the LA scene of in-the-know stoners.
This strain is grown by Johnny Casali of Huckleberry Hill Farms, a legacy operation started by his mother fifty years ago. Fitting, as the sweet, deeply comforting high of this flower is literally like getting a hug from your mom. The fruity sorbet, herbal magic of her smoke melts all anxiety, fear, and any forms of malaise on the exhale. It works immediately, and the feeling lasts a long time.
Bottom Line:
Fantastic for healing activities like yoga, breathwork, and sound therapy, as well as coming down from the stresses of life, this is without a doubt some of the most special flower on the planet. She will change your outlook on cannabis forever! Seek her out, and enjoy the essence of life.
This Headband by Sol Spirit has been one of my favorite cultivars since Walter and Judi, the husband and wife team behind Sol Spirit Farm, gave me a couple nugs a few months back. I was so blown away that I immediately located the flower, drove to the dispensary, and bought it myself. When you have as much weed as I do from this line of work, that’s saying a lot.
Headband was my favorite strain in high school, so I was beyond hyped to see them cultivating it. Genetics like this are beginning to disappear because corporate brands are more concerned with grabbing consumer attention with micro-trending proprietary genetics than taking the time to foster the medicines we know are great. Headband is a cross between two super iconic strains, OG Kush and Sour Diesel, giving it that gassy, skunky, lemon-smell, and mellow yet uplifting high.
Sol Spirit
This expression is one of the most epic I have ever come into contact with. The first time I smoked it I thought, damn, I haven’t had Headband this good since high school, which is funny, because back then, the weed where I grew up in Ojai, California, was that good because it was all coming from farms like the ones on this list.
Headband is called Headband because it’s heady as fuck. Diesel, skunk, lemon this flower has an extremely deep and intoxicating aroma. The band starts forming around your head before you even smoke it.
I took a hit from the little metal bong and immediately felt underwater like a mermaid, swimmy, floaty, giddy, and high. This is a super social and fun flower, great for hanging around a kitchen table drinking wine and being silly with your friends or watching a movie and chilling out, as it makes you mellow, whimsical, and relaxed without making you tired.
Bottom Line:
In terms of genetic preservation, incredible terpene profile, and, perhaps most importantly, how totally fun the experience of being high on this weed is, this is one of my top five favorite cultivars of the year.
Last up we have another favorite on this list of favorites, Lavender Kush by Radicle Herbs. I was lucky enough to be introduced to this brand at the 420PPM (an environmental advocacy event) that took place in Venice on 4/20, and immediately fell in love. The farm, the farmers, and the flower they produce are all equally inspiring.
Radicle Herbs is a biodynamic, family-owned farm where life is cultivated in the most harmonious way possible. They grow vegetables, herbs, animals, tiny humans, and of course, really good weed.The first time I tried this flower, I was extremely hungover from partying on 4/20. I smoked a bowl and felt the sick, icky feeling of the morning after too many substances melt into a lightness of ease and relaxation.
Radicle Herbs
The smell of this flower is dynamic and alluring. It pops with a tart, juicy sweetness, like the first bite of black cherry in June. Taking a hit now, as I finish this article, the anxiety of the deadline feels far away, allowing me the space to finish it and have the ideas flow to completion without being stunted by the stress of creating them.
The high is flowy and fun. I feel light and in tune with the world around me in a playful, exuberant way. My mind has softened from the grinding high of the giant coffee I drank earlier, and I feel free from the chains of my own anxiety.
Bottom line:
The energy of love, fun, and compassion that went into growing this flower burst forth from your heart and spirit when you consume it. Perfect for exploring nature, spending time with family, and waiting for the first star to appear after the sunset.
A couple months ago, Nine Inch Nails announced a 2022 tour, which kicks off in just a few days in Raleigh, North Carolina and which will be their first tour since late 2018. Now, they’ve revealed just who will be joining them on that trek and it’s a solid roster of openers.
It starts with Boy Harsher tagging along for a couple of early dates. Then, 100 Gecs will appear at two concerts, followed by a six-date run for Yves Tumor. On the final date (in September at NIN’s home city of Cleveland), Ministry and Nitzer Ebb will both be on the bill. A press release notes these openers were “personally curated by Trent Reznor.”
Check out the upcoming NIN tour dates below.
04/28 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater *
04/30 — Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
05/01 — Franklin, TN @ First Bank Amphitheater *
05/22 — Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
05/24 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia ^
05/25 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia ^
05/27 — Boston, MA @ Boston Calling Music Festival
09/02 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @
09/03 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @
09/07 — Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield @
09/09 — Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater @
09/11 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley @
09/15 — Las Vegas, NV @ Zappos Theater @
09/17 — Los Angeles, CA @ Primavera Sound Los Angeles
09/22 — Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life
09/24 — Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center #
* with Boy Harsher
^ with 100 Gecs
@ with Yves Tumor
# with Ministry and Nitzer Ebb
Girl In Red, aka Marie Ulven, has been having the kind of rise that most indie stars dream about. Since her debut album, If I Could Make It Go Quiet, dropped back in 2021, the Norwegian star has been racking up accolades left and right. One other award she picked up this weekend came courtesy of another rising star, Billie Eilish, who was tapped to deliver the good news to Ulven onstage at Coachella.
“I am at Coachella, and I am about to surprise girl in red with a Spellemann Album of the Year award,” Eilish told the camera conspiratorially, waiting for Girl In Red to walk into the surprise waiting for her in a tour bus. “That’s a Norwegian Grammy, you know?” Ulven asked Billie “I am aware,” Eilish replied, letting the artist know that it was not only a Spellemann, but the award for Album Of The Year. Considering Billie herself has won that award in America, she was more than a suitable presenter. The clip of Billie bestowing the award on Girl In Red aired at the ceremony, which Ulven had to miss due to her touring schedule. Check out the clip up top, and if you haven’t yet, make sure to give If I Could Make It Go Quiet a listen or two.
Have you been banned from Galaxy’s Edge after sticking your nose under the Ronto Roaster-cooking podracer engine one too many times? Boy do I have good news for you: there will soon be an easier way to know what Star Wars smells like.
Homesick has partnered with LucasFilm as part of this year’s May the 4th Be With You celebration for a line of Star Wars-themed products, including scented candles for Tatooine, the Death Star, and Endor. The Ewok-inhabited forest moon is described as “wild fern and pine needles silently fill the dense woodland as floral accents rise from the forest floor.” That’s how I’ve always imagined Endor smelling, assuming the forest floor is covered in, um, droppings. As for the other less stinky candles:
Tatooine – Invigorating notes of Juniper and desert shrub rise from cooling canyons amidst the endless dunes. Imagine basking in the binary sunset as Luke Skywalker speeds across dusky plains in his trusty Landspeeder.
Death Star – Imagine bolts of smoked amber and forged steel rise from clashing lightsabers, filling vast chambers of cold cement with electric notes. Leather and black myrrh tempt you to the dark side.
There’s no tauntaun candle, but there is a Baby Yoda car freshener. “Imagine Grogu’s meditative presence as he reaches out with the Force. Notes of gardenia fill the air, with touches of lavender and rosemary,” the description reads, but if you smell real closely, you’ll pick up hints of alien-frog eggs. You can buy the candles and air freshener here.
We Own This City isn’t a sequel to The Wire. And while both shows share a few familiar faces on camera (Jamie Hector, Domenick Lombardozzi, Delaney Williams) and familiar names behind the scenes (creators David Simon and George Pelecanos), the most unifying trait might be how depressing it is that Baltimore is still a ripe setting for tales fictional and not about drug pushers, cops, shitty politicians, and everyone stuck in the middle.
Here, in a six-episode limited series (which premieres Monday at 9pm EST) that follows the tracks of journalist Justin Fenton’s book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, seeming helpers get crushed under the weight of bureaucracy and seeming villains lack the self-awareness to understand or care about the toll of their misdeeds on the whole of a society that grows in its distrust of the police. Again, this is not a sequel to The Wire.
Starring Jon Bernthal as the ring leader of the band of crooked and often racist and bullying cops that Fenton detailed in his book, We Own This City works overtime to tell its true story in the most authentic way, shooting on location and occasionally employing community members who lived through some of the events being recreated. This includes the Freddie Gray protests that made headlines the world over while these cops were using crime scenes and traffic stops as their personal piggy bank.
Recently, we spoke with Bernthal and series director Reinaldo Marcus Green (who previously worked together on King Richard) about that effort toward authenticity, the impact of making a project like this, first-hand experiences (both positive and negative) with the police, corruption’s ability to spring roots and spark denial, and the moment things got so heated that Bernthal had a punch thrown at him by a passerby who thought he was really trying to break up a protest.
You said you have some personal experience with the issues covered here, can you break that down a little?
Jon Bernthal: Sure. Both fortunately and unfortunately, growing up in DC, I have firsthand experience with the police. I have experience with friends with the police. I’ve been incarcerated before. I’ve been roughed up by police before. I have unbelievably dear friends who are career police officers. It’s always been an issue that has been unbelievably frustrating for me that the discourse around this issue is either one way or the other — it’s either black or white. And I feel like so much of the discourse around this, it’s been people shouting from the polls, waving their flags. And oftentimes I think the folks that are leading these discussions have no experience actually within the sort of reality of the situation. They’re people that are kind of spewing rhetoric from the sidelines. I often find that people who actually have real experience in the actual issue, they can approach it with real empathy, because they have real experience with the quote-unquote other side. And these things are complicated and there are no easy answers and I’ve been so frustrated with how polarizing this issue has been. And again, with this team [Simon, Pelecanos, writer D. Watkins, Green, etc], you get to dive into the complication and the nuance and it’s the only way you can tell the story.
The show does a tremendous job of showing the kind of impotent political posturing that happens. Question for both of you: what’s the weight of taking on something like this for you? Just when you leave set, are you able to hang it on a hook or does it come with you when you go home?
Reinaldo Marcus Green: Anytime you work on something that you pour your heart into, it’s like having a child, they’re with you forever. These things follow you forever. You live with them forever, which is why you have to choose wisely and for better or for worse in anything that’s worked or not worked in my life, at least I can hang my hat on the subject matters that I’ve been a part of. I made a movie in 2018, Monsters And Men, really dealing with similar subject matter, but that was sort of just scratching the surface. I only had 90 minutes to talk about some of the issues that were facing me in my community in Staten Island. I also grew up around a lot of police officers who were my friends, who I played high school baseball and football with. I wanted to talk about the gray area. And I think here we had six episodes to dive into that conversation. And it was a way for me to engage with the subject matter in a way that I felt was going to try to not just point the finger, but certainly try to uncover some of the truths that were happening in areas like Baltimore and other areas in this country. So yeah, there’s a lot of weight when you’re taking on real-life people’s stories.
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Jon, it feels to me like this guy believes that he’s righteous, that he’s not a full-on dirty cop. Do you have to have some buy-in to be able to play that so convincingly?
Bernthal: I think it’s essential you don’t judge a character. I think you’ve got to find empathy. You’ve got to find the character’s heart. You know, the first time I talked to Wayne [Wayne Jenkins, the ex-cop Bernthal plays] from prison, the first thing he said is, “man, you must think I’m the most evil guy on Earth,” and he was trying to kind of talk me out of that. And I said, kind of plainly to him,”look, man, I’ve gotten to know so many of your friends.” I’ve gotten to know so many guys that served on the Gun Trace Task Force with him. I’ve gotten to know folks that he coached youth football with. I’ve got to know Donny Step, the guy that he was selling drugs with and robbing drug dealers with outside of work. And pretty much to a person, what everybody said was that he was the most committed father that they ever knew.
There’s a real, real sort of disconnect there for me. Beyond anything else, I’m a father and I’m a husband. I know the same is true with Ray. It’s what we first really connected on. We’re family men and Wayne really was too. He loved his boys. And so for me to try to understand how somebody who loved his family so much would commit these kinds of acts that would ultimately keep him from his family was just a real sort of confusing disconnect for me. And I often find that when you can sort of locate the crux, the ultimate question, the ultimate inconsistency of a character, that’s where you really find the character. That’s where you find his conflict and his struggle. And so that’s really where it kind of all played.
Within a week of Wayne accepting culpability and crying publicly saying he was guilty, he also absolutely maintained his innocence. There would be phone calls where I would be on the phone with him, and he would both admit his guilt and absolutely demand that he was innocent in the same 15-minute phone call. So I think, again, that adds to just the complexity of these issues in general and how much of this is sort of perpetrated and created by the systems in place. How much of it is human greed and human decisions, and there’s always someone to blame. And I think when you talk about culpability with corruption and policing, the great men and women in the Baltimore Police Department that police with integrity and ethos, the folks that I really connected with, what they all talked about is, “we’ve just got a problem of admitting it when we’re wrong. We’re so trained to never admit it when we’re wrong.” And that’s a big problem. And I think in that, again, lies the crux of a lot of these issues.
The Freddie Gray protests, that whole sequence was amazing. How did you pull that off in such an authentic way?
Green: Well, we had real footage of Wayne actually taking that van, commandeering the van and coming in. We had to structure it in a way where we only had a finite amount of extras and a finite amount of police officers. So we went to the actual place where it happened, Mondawmin Mall. And then we went up the street where the protest had started earlier. So it wasn’t as widespread as we could have made it, but we definitely tried to create that feeling.
Jon was actually swung at on that day. Some random person came off the street and actually thought a real protest was happening and just joined the uprising. And it was scary, it was also a moment where it was like, we’re making something that feels so real that someone on the street wanted to be a part of it. And as scary as it was to have your actor in the line of fire, it was also like, “man, we did pretty good, Jon, are you okay?” It was a fully charged day where you could feel crew members and you could feel people, community members, it was ominous, it was gray. You can’t make that. That was just one of those days where we were happy to get through it and it was painful, but it was beautiful. And there was so much to be proud of about that day and the construction of it.
The May lineup for HBO and HBO Max proves not every streaming platform is hitting a slump in 2022.
Hacks is back for another round of stand-up comedy fun and this time, Jean Smart’s taking her one-woman act on the road. For romance fans, a new adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife is also coming to HBO Max this month, with Theo James and Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie playing the doomed couple. And over on HBO, Colin Firth and Toni Collette head up a true crime story that will keep you up at night.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and HBO Max this May.
The Staircase (Max Original Limited Series premieres 5/5)
Colin Firth and Toni Collette star in this limited series based on a true story about a shocking murder that rocked a tight-knit community. Firth plays Michael Peterson, a crime novelist who is suspected of bludgeoning his wife, Kathleen (Collette) to death after she’s found dead at the bottom of a staircase in the family’s sprawling North Carolina home.
Hacks: Season 2 (Max Original streaming 5/12)
Jean Smart’s back baby! In Hacks’ second season, stand-up legend Deborah Vance is hitting the road with her young mentee writer, Ava (Hannah Einbinder). The pair’s friendship continues to evolve as Deborah works out new material while traveling across the country.
The Time Traveler’s Wife (HBO Original Series premieres 5/15)
Stephen Moffat is adapting this story, based on a best-selling novel, for HBO and bringing stars Theo James and Rose Leslie along for the ride. James plays the time-traveler in the show’s title, a man named Henry who struggles to live a normal life thanks to his “gift.” Leslie plays Clare, his wife, who gets to deal with all of the cons of time traveling without any of the pros.
Here’s everything coming to HBO and HBO Max this month:
Avail. 5/1 Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood, 2019 47 Ronin, 2013 Assassins, 2020 (HBO) At Close Range, 1986 (HBO) An Autumn Afternoon, 1962 The Big Sleep, 1946 Back To School, 1986 Bottle Rocket, 1996 Calladita, 2020 (HBO) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968 (HBO) Child 44, 2015 (HBO) Chungking Express, 1994 The Color Purple, 1985 Conan The Barbarian, 2011 (HBO) Devil in A Blue Dress, 1995 Dodes ‘Ka-Den, 1970 Domino, 2019 (HBO) Downhill, 1927 Dragnet Girl, 1933 Early Spring, 1956 Early Summer, 1951 The End of Summer, 1961 Equinox Flower, 1958 Eraser, 1996 Fallen Angels, 1995 Floating Weeds, 1959 FRIDA, 2002 (HBO) The Fugitive, 1993 Furry Vengeance, 2010 (HBO) Gang Related, 1997 (HBO) Good Morning, 1959 Hard Rain, 1998 (HBO) Hart’s War, 2002 (HBO) High and Low, 1963 Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, 2001 (HBO) Julie, 1956 Killers, 2010 (HBO) Language Lessons, 2021 Love and Baseball, 2021 The Machine That Kills Bad People, 1952 Masters Of The Universe, 1987 (HBO) The Missing, 2003 (HBO) The New Guy, 2002 (HBO) North Dallas Forty, 1979 (HBO) Not Easily Broken, 2009 The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012 Poseidon, 2006 Red Beard, 1965 Ringo and His Golden Pistol, 1966 Rugrats Go Wild, 2003 (HBO) Rugrats In Paris: The Movie, 2000 (HBO) The Rugrats Movie, 1998 (HBO) The Sapphires, 2012 (HBO) Sense and Sensibility, 1995 Sliding Doors, 1998 St. Elmo’s Fire, 1985 The Stepford Wives, 2004 (HBO) Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, 2009 (Extended Version) Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Tokyo Twilight, 1957 Top Secret!, 1984 (HBO) Transporter 3, 2008 (HBO) Unbroken, 2014 Underworld, 2003 Underworld: Awakening, 2012 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, 2009 Welcome to the Dollhouse, 1995 W.E., 2011 (HBO) What To Expect When You’re Expecting, 2012 (HBO) The Wild Thornberrys Movie, 2002 (HBO) You, Me and Dupree, 2006 Young Adult, 2011 (HBO) Zathura: A Space Adventure, 2005
Avail. 5/5 Las Bravas F.C., Max Original Season 1 Premiere Queen Stars Brazil, Max Original Season 1 Premiere The Staircase, Max Original Limited Series Premiere
Avail. 5/6 Dear Evan Hansen, 2021 (HBO) Entre Nos: Carmen and Alfred (HBO) La Afinadora De Árboles, 2019 (HBO)
Avail. 5/7 We Baby Bears, Season 1 Part C
Avail. 5/9 Get Hard, 2015
Avail. 5/10 Catwoman: Hunted, 2022 The Matrix: Resurrections, 2021 (HBO) Sesame Street Mecha Builders Season 1 Part A Robot Chicken Season 11 Part B
Avail. 5/12 Hacks, Max Original Season 2 Premiere Who’s By Your Side, Max Original Season 1 Premiere
Avail 5/15 The Time Traveler’s Wife, Drama Series Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 5/17 Sesame Street Mecha Builders, Season 1 Part B The Mule, 2018 (HBO)
Avail. 5/20 Identidad Tomada, 2020 (HBO)
Avail. 5/22 Fast Foodies, Season 2
Avail. 5/23 Teen Titans Go! Season 7 Part B
Avail. 5/26 Navalny That Damn Michael Che, Max Original Season 2 Premiere Tig n’ Seek, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
Avail. 5/27 Blippi Special Blippi Visits Blippi Wonders Blippi: Learn With Blippi Ghost, Season 1 Ghost, Season 2 Stath Lets Flats
Avail. 5/29 The Misery Index Season 3 Part B, 2021
Avail. 5/30 Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Know, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 5/31 Miami Vice, 2006 (Extended Version)
Here’s everything leaving HBO and HBO Max this month:
May 14 Cry Wolf, 2005 (Extended Version) (HBO)
May 24 Cinderella Man, 2005 (Extended Version) The 40-Year-Old Virgin, 2005 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
May 25 Curious George, 2006 (HBO) Two For The Money, 2005 (HBO)
May 27 Doom, 2005 (HBO) Pride & Prejudice, 2005 (HBO)
May 31 27 Dresses, 2008 (HBO) The Animal, 2001 (HBO) A Perfect Murder, 1998 (HBO) A Very Brady Sequel, 1996 (HBO) Adult Beginners, 2014 (HBO) Army Of Darkness, 1992 (HBO) Billy Elliot, 2000 Bully, 2001 (HBO) Changing Lanes, 2002 (HBO) Clueless, 1995 (HBO) Control Room, 2004 (HBO) Cymbeline, 2014 (HBO) Dead Heat, 1988 (HBO) Dirty Pretty Things, 2002 (HBO) Doctor Dolittle, 1998 (HBO) Doubt, 2008 Dr. Dolittle 2, 2001 (HBO) Enough Said, 2013 (HBO) Extract, 2009 (HBO) Fatal Attraction, 1987 Frontera, 2014 (HBO) Gloria, 1999 (HBO) Godsend, 2004 (HBO) How To Be Single, 2016 Insomnia, 2002 (HBO) Iris, 2001 (HBO) It Takes Two, 1995 (HBO) Killerman, 2019 (HBO) Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, 2005 (HBO) Love And A .45, 1994 (HBO) Mama, 2013 (HBO) Mindhunters, 2004 (HBO) Phone Booth, 2002 (HBO) Princess Kaiulani, 2009 (HBO) Pulse, 2001 (HBO) Rubber, 2010 (HBO) Speed, 1994 Stoker, 2013 Super Capers, 2009 (HBO) The Answer Man, 2009 (HBO) The Benchwarmers, 2006 (HBO) The Conspirator, 2010 (HBO) The Forgotten, 2004 (HBO) The Good Doctor, 2011 (HBO) The Grifters, 1990 (HBO) The Italian Job, 2003 (HBO) The Lawnmower Man, 1992 (HBO) The Rules Of Attraction, 2002 (HBO) The Witches Of Eastwick, 1987 The Wolfpack, 2015 (HBO) The Wrecking Crew!, 2008 (HBO) This Is 40, 2012 Troll Hunter, 2010 (HBO) Two Lovers, 2008 (HBO) The Two Jakes, 1990 Viva, 2007 (HBO) War Horse, 2011 War On Everyone, 2016 (HBO) World’s Greatest Dad, 2009 (HBO) Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2006 (HBO)
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