Month: March 2023

Last year, Arctic Monkeys made their grand return with the dazzling new album The Car, their first since 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Now, they’re back with the music video for the brooding track “Sculptures Of Anything Goes.”

The eerie song is made even more intense, paired with ethereal footage of the band performing at live shows. Dark and hazy, the montaged clips further prove the otherworldliness separating Arctic Monkeys from other artists. Frontman Alex Turner comes off as a divine icon, singing passionately and easily, wearing sunglasses in a pitch-black setting.

Before the record came out, drummer Matt Helders discussed the simultaneously eclectic and connected nature of the group’s discography. “We tend to always move it on a little bit,” he explained. “For us, because we’re so involved in it, it always makes sense. They always kind of pick up where the other one left off in a way. It makes sense when you think about it in the context of the last record. But we always do try and do something a bit different — it’s kind of hard to describe. You can tell it’s the same band.”

Watch the video for “Sculptures Of Anything Goes” above.

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On Saturday night, after nearly a year of radio silence, Chris Rock finally told the world what he thinks about Will Smith. During a live Netflix stand-up special, the comic tore his attacker — and his wife — a new one, calling them both “bitches” who, he said, weren’t raised properly. That probably won’t help Smith launch his comeback, but for what it’s worth the actor did try and make amends, without much success.

A source tells People that ever since smacking Rock on live television during last year’s Oscars, Smith has “felt terrible for so long.” He even attempted to right the ship. “He’s tried unsuccessfully to make amends in the best way he could with Chris.”

Rock might not be interested in forgiving Smith anytime soon (ditto his mom), but Smith did reach out to people who would listen to him. The source says “family is important to him and [Smith] leaned on them” after the incident. “It all has helped him look inside and mature. He is better but still remorseful.”

They added, “Will listened to those who tried to help him and feels that he has become a better person.”

Of course, Rock doesn’t have to forgive Smith, whose antics seem to have left him still shaken. During his set, though, Rock insisted that he’s no “victim,” and perhaps one day he’ll be able to watch Made in America without breaking out in hives.

(Via People)

Geno Smith was one of the best stories in football in 2022, as the journeyman quarterback who had served as Russell Wilson’s backup in Seattle since 2019 earned a Pro Bowl nod after throwing for 4,282 yards, 30 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions to lead the Seahawks to a stunning Wild Card berth in the playoffs.

Smith was nothing short of sensational as he got his first chance to be the real starter for a team since 2014, his second year in the league with the Jets, and earned the league’s Comeback Player of the Year award. Entering this offseason, Smith was set to become a free agent and the Seahawks (and Smith) had a decision to make. With an active quarterback carousel expected, neither Smith nor the Seahawks wanted to risk being the odd man or team out in the various QB sweepstakes set to take place, and the two sides were able to reach a three-year agreement on Monday worth $105 million and $52 million guaranteed.

This effectively ensures Geno gets more than his franchise tag number guaranteed to him, while allowing the Seahawks to keep some stability in the short-term, while still likely pursuing a young quarterback in the relatively near future. Smith deserved the opportunity to back up his 2022 performance, and if he can continue playing at that level, he can very likely see out the entirety of this contract. If he doesn’t, he at least is rewarded financially for the performance should he go through some struggles and the Seahawks choose to move on after another season with Smith at the helm.

Ana de Armas and Chris Evans sure can’t stop working together. It all started with Knives Out, in which he played a sweater obsessee suspect and she the poor woman wrongfully accused of murder. Last year they both appeared with Ryan Gosling in the Russo brothers’ The Gray Man. In neither did they play romantic partners. That changes now with their third joint outing, Ghosted, whose first trailer just dropped.

The Apple TV+ film has a not terrible rom-com/action plot. Evans plays Cole, an impossibly handsome everydude who has a killer first date with de Armas’ also exceedingly attractive Sadie. Alas, Sadie appears to ghost him over text, prompting his friends to give him terrible advice: He should fly to London, where she works, and surprise her, even though, again, she has ignored what look like dozens of texts.

And so Cole gets what he deserves: Turns out Sadie is a secret agent, and she has to save him from one pitfall after another involving monstrous underworld baddies who want both of them dead. The lesson is clear: When someone ghosts you, take the L, otherwise you may find yourself in high-speed car chases while trying to save the world.

In real life, the trailer drops not long after Evans, newly crowned the Sexiest Man Alive, revealed he has himself a new girlfriend, which much of social media inevitably took in stride.

You can watch the Ghosted trailer in the video above. The film drops on Apple TV+ on April 21.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

It seems like, lately, when you log into Netflix (using your own unique password and definitely not the login info that you stole from your sister’s ex-boyfriend) the alleged number one movie is something weird. It makes a little bit of sense: movies are added and removed pretty regularly, so every once in a while, the Twilight franchise just ends up dominating the top 10. It’s virtually inevitable, and nobody really questions it when Netflix says it, so it has to be accurate, right?

The latest movie to top the Netflix Top 10 is a nearly decade-old comedy called This Is Where I Leave You, from one of Netflix’s main players, Shawn Levy, who is currently working on season five of Stranger Things.

Levy, who directed the film, took to Twitter to thank Netflix fans for getting the movie back in front of the eyes of an audience: “Took a minute, but I’ll take it! Thanks everyone who’s watching and sending such kind words about our long lost little movie,” the director tweeted, along with a screenshot of the movie clearly beating out Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds’ 2013 action/comedy RIPD, which you also might remember. They did release a sequel last year, though.

This Is Where I Leave You features an ensemble cast with all of your favorite comedians including Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda (!), and notorious jokester Adam Driver. The movie, which hit theaters in 2014, follows a group of grown siblings who return to their childhood home after the death of their father. It sounds heavy but keep in mind that Ben Schwartz — who is also in this movie, along with Timothy Olyphant and Kathryn Hahn and Rose Byrne and Corey Stoll and we’ll just stop here but geez — plays a Rabbi named Boner, so that’s what you’re in for here!

You can watch This Is Where I Leave You on Netflix. Or RIPD if that’s more your style.

You Season 4’s second half will arrive in a few short days on Netflix, and for that reason, I’m circling back to a Penn Badgley interview that’s a few weeks old. Those Netflix split seasons make a lot of things timely, and I’m finding it very interesting that Badgley, who’s been even more vocal than usual lately about his current show’s trappings, is reflecting upon a show that would have provided him a bounty of food for thought in interviews. He’s been upfront about how You might be a little too seductive when it comes to Stalker Joe’s appeal to the audience, although Badgley points a bigger finger at Netflix’s Dahmer for feeding the public’s fascination with real-life serial killers.

Long before these shows emerged, however, the former Gossip Girl actor had a real shot at playing a different type of immoral character. That would be Jesse Pinkman (portrayed by Aaron Paul) of Breaking Bad fame. These days, it’s difficult to imagine anyone besides Paul being as unforgettable in the role, but via Buzzfeed and People, Badgley says that he almost snagged that puppy. We almost heard Badgley delivering the “b*tch” line? Yes, that’s true:

“One I got close on was Breaking Bad. It was between me and Aaron Paul, we tested. And actually, that was the best television script I’d read at that point. That was the one that got away.”

He’s not wrong about the script, obviously. Paul’s portrayal was an iconic one that scooped up awards, and he went on to reprise the role in a sequel film and, of course, a recent Super Bowl commercial. And Badgley went on to star in a role with appeal that does disturb him sometimes. It would have been curious to see if Badgley would have felt the same way about Pinkman and delivered interviews as such, but I guess we’ll never know.

(Via Buzzfeed & People)

As I’m sure you know by now, Halle Bailey is due to appear as the titular character in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid — which means that not only will her likeness be appearing in trailers and on billboards but on toy aisle shelves as well.

The singer choked up as she revealed the strikingly accurate Ariel doll in a video on her social media pages, gushing that “she even has my mole!” A voice can be heard from off-camera saying “I want one,” and fans are convinced that it’s none other than Halle’s mentor Beyoncé, as evidenced by a comment from her cousin Angie Beyince saying “I’m with [bee emoji] I want 1!”

Bailey’s casting, although progressive on its face, wasn’t without some controversy. Upon seeing the first teaser revealing Halle as the aquatic protagonist, some viewers took to social media to decry the casting decision. However, Halle took the criticism in stride, thanks to encouraging words from her grandparents and the realization that the casting was symbolic of progress for little Black girls who get to see themselves as princesses.

The same principle probably applies to the doll as well. While there’ve been plenty of Black dolls throughout the years, few have been officially licensed by Disney based on their most lucrative intellectual properties.

When Nick Cannon promises “some big news,” there are a couple of possibilities. After all, he’s got so many projects in play at any given moment, it could be a new show, album, hosting gig, or movie role. But when he tweeted that he has an announcement today, fans only had one kind of announcement in mind, considering his recent activities.

Those recent activities, of course, involve the slew of headlines about new inclusions to his ever-growing brood. Cannon joked during the holidays that he spent them traveling all night to visit each of his 11 children and their six mothers (he’s one of few celebrities with a separate table on his Wikipedia page to help fans keep track). So fans had plenty of baby-related jokes in response to the actor-host-rapper’s tweet to “EXPECT some big news tomorrow.”

This isn’t the first time fans — and peers — have shared their thoughts about Nick Cannon’s apparent efforts to field a full football team’s worth of children. Most recently, fellow television host Andy Cohen suggested Cannon should get a vasectomy, while fans instantly thought of him when news broke that the world population had hit 8 billion people. However, he does have one supporter: Akon, who is “1,000 percent” behind Cannon fathering so many children — understandable, considering he’s got nine of us own.

If you grew up in the ’90s then you were part of the last generation of kids who lived without being constantly connected to the internet. You lived during that last gasp of the analog era where most of your entertainment came on tape and if you wanted a new pair of Guess jeans or LA Gear shoes, you had to drive to the mall.

Also, if you wore parachute pant, aka “Hammer Pants,” people actually thought you were cool.

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Families mattered on Friday nights.

People listened to rock ‘n’ roll because it was important.

Hip-hop was at its peak.

People spent time talking to each other instead of staring at their phones.

It was a time of hope and optimism.

Some folks over at Reddit have been sharing funny memes that explain exactly what life was like in the ’90s. From the terrible pastel-colored designs that were everywhere to the charming, but antiquated, technology kids today will never understand.

Here are 19 of the best memes from r/90s/.

1. 1992 was 30 years ago

Sorry, if that made you feel old.

2. “Go! Go!” (Fill in the blank)

This person is living the Gen X dream.

3. Oh snap!

There was no greater diss in 1991.

4. Make a run for the border

Does this picture make you instinctively think “You quiero Taco Bell”?

5. In the ’90s, every night was a Blockbuster night

It’s like looking back in time.

6. We’ll always have Chuck E. Cheese’s

Our immune systems were forged through miles of sweaty PVC.

7. Don’t touch the ‘purple stuff’ 

Ingredients: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and 2% or Less of: Concentrated Orange Juice, Concentrated Tangerine Juice, Concentrated Apple Juice, Concentrated Lime Juice, Concentrated Grapefruit Juice, Concentrated Pear Juice, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamin Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Natural Flavor, Modified Cornstarch, Canola Oil, Sodium Citrate, Cellulose Gum, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium, Neotame, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Potassium Sorbate to Protect Flavor, Yellow 5, Yellow 6.

8. These actually existed

How in the world did they cram 25 different colored pens into one super writing utensil?

9. Nu metal didn’t last long

A.D.I.D.A.S.

10. People aged quickly in the ’90s

This is what happens when you have children.

11. This weighed 25 pounds and went everywhere you went 

I can still hear the sound of the rumpling plastic as I flip through the pages.

12. They got ‘Jerry Maguire’? 

Of course they have “Jerry Maguire.” In fact, they have 500 copies of “Jerry Maguire.”

13. The hippest computer lab ever

After the iMac dropped, only vertified dorks used an IBM.

14. Just looking at this hurts

This may have hurt your fingers, but was probably safer than licking the battery to see if it still had “juice.”

15. It’s like they didn’t want you to play solitaire

Solitaire wasted more people’s time in 1998 than Instagram does in 2022.

16. In 1993 this could cure anything

Stomach ache? Flu? Munchausen’s syndrome? This unique combination would have you back on your feet in no time.

17. Synergy

To quote a popular philosopher from the ’90s, they went together like “peas and carrots.”

18. This cup went perfect with pizza

If the joint had all-you-can-drink refills, you drank ’em out of this cup. It held tokens, too.

19. The only pattern that mattered in the ’90s

Throw on those shorts, then hop in your Miata and get yourself some action!

This article originally appeared on 01.06.22

In a long overdue display of arachnid-based political justice, the January 6 rioter known as Spider-Nazi has finally been captured by the FBI. The alleged culprit, Brandon Kelly Dillard of Las Vegas, had avoided capture ever since he was spotted scaling the walls of the Capitol building in service to Donald Trump. That is no longer the case as the Feds have now ensnared Dillard in a web of charges that have a high probability of sticking.

According to the criminal complaint filed by the FBI, Dillard is accused of “knowingly entering and remaining in a building without lawful authority, disorderly conduct of government business, and uttering ‘loud, threatening, or abusive’ language at the Capitol building with the intent to disturb a session of Congress.”

The Feds also appreciate everyone tagging pictures of Dillard with #SpiderNazi. That really helped a lot. Via The Daily Beast:

Footage obtained by the FBI shows Dillard, geared up in a Supreme knit cap to match his sweatshirt and a mask, climbing the Capitol walls. He entered through a broken window outside a Senate conference room and can be seen on video slithering in and out of the building.

Dillard traveled from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to northern Virginia on Jan. 5, 2021, and departed for home Jan. 8, according to the FBI.

The Daily Beast notes that Dillard’s mom owns a wig shop in Vegas, which you’d think would be the perfect front for spider-based insurrection. Frankly, we’re surprised that didn’t work.

(Via The Daily Beast)