Month: March 2023

Travis Scott is holding true to is word of throwing support behind his Catus Jack label artist. The rapper made a surprise appearance during signee Don Toliver’s Love Sick album release concert last night (February 28) at Irving Plaza in New York City. Despite only dropping the project on February 24th, the musician wasted no time in quickly following up with a deluxe edition.

Although Scott isn’t listed as a guest feature on the standard album (which spawned singles “Private Landing” and “Leave The Club“), the pair do lock in a collaboration on “Embarrassed,” which is featured on the deluxe album. The crowd erupted after Scott took the stage to perform their joint song.

Unfortunately, the fun ended after the show as reports have come out that Scott was arrested for allegedly assaulting a sound engineer of New York City nightclub Nebula and causing roughly $12k in equipment damages.

This isn’t Toliver’s last concert is slated to join Future’s One Big Party Tour later this month.

View the full tour schedule below.

03/09 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
03/12 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
03/17 — Fort, Lauderdale @ FLA Live Arena
03/19 — Jacksonville, FL @ Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena
03/24 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Arena
03/25 — Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
03/26 — Milwaukee, WI @Fiserv Forum
04/01 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
04/06 — Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse
04/07 — Kansas City, MO@ T-Mobile Center
04/08 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center

Don Toliver is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Broccoli City Festival has long been one of Washington, DC’s premiere music festivals, highlighting both local talent and rising stars of the wider music world since its inception in 2013. This year’s lineup continues that tradition, including headliners Brent Faiyaz, Jazmine Sullivan, and Lil Uzi Vert.

Outside of the headliners, the 2023 edition of the Broccoli City Festival also includes Afropop breakouts Asake and Rema, hip-hop it-girls like City Girls, GloRilla, Ice Spice, and Lola Brooke, and R&B standouts Coco Jones and Mariah The Scientist. Naturally, local acts like Fat Trel, Backyard Band, UCB, and more will also appear, with a battle of the bands highlighting the regional go-go sound.

The festival is set to take place on July 15th and 16th at the RFK Festival Grounds in Washington, DC. Tickets and more information can be found here.

Last year’s festival was headlined by Ari Lennox and Summer Walker, with appearances from 21 Savage, Don Toliver, Jeezy, Lil Durk, Masego, Tems, and Wizkid. However, it was also struck by controversy when Wale, widely considered the patron saint of DC hip-hop, declared he was pulling out of the show shortly after its lineup was announced due to feeling “disrespected” by his low placement on the flyer. However, the dispute was quickly resolved, with the flyer being updated to include “and friends” to reflect the outreach he does for local acts.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

In a new piece from Rolling Stone, anonymous members of the cast and crew of Sam Levinson and The Weeknd’s forthcoming HBO show, The Idol, opened up about the reportedly toxic work environment that spiraled out of control.

The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) both starred and co-created the show. However, it was originally set to be directed by Amy Seimetz before she left the show — and Levinson (Euphoria) took over in her place. This is reportedly when the chaos started, resulting in an overhaul of Seimetz’s direction and shoots.

“It was like the Weeknd wanted one show that was all about him — Sam was on board with that,” a source shared. However, they also faced alleged difficulty with Tesfaye’s schedule as a musician, causing him to be less hands-on: “It was really frustrating because they were working so hard to make it possible to shoot and be released with his concert or whatever his timeline was [and] it all got thrown out the window.”

The piece goes on to note that three crew members claim that despite Tesfaye’s writing credits on the series, he didn’t contribute much to scripts during the reshoots.

Last April, there was also a Deadline report that Tesfaye felt the show was focusing too much on his co-star, Lily Rose-Depp, as he thought it had too much of a “female perspective.”

Okay, the secret is out: Paramount+ has one of the best libraries of film out of all the many streaming services, making it easier than ever to have more options on what to watch.

No matter the circumstances or mood, you’re guaranteed to find something decent, maybe even a few masterpieces, because some of the best movies are on Paramount Plus. It boasts a catalog including Paramount films, A24 films, and more. So, here’s our selection of the best Paramount Plus movies right now:

Last updated on March 1, 2023

1. Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick

Year: 1986, 2022
Starring: Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Glenn Powell
Genre: Action
Rating: PG, PG-13
Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes, 2 hours 11 minutes
Director: Tony Scott, Joseph Kosinski
Trailer: Watch here

It is not at all hyperbolic to say that Top Gun and (especially) its sequel Top Gun: Maverick are cinematic miracles. Even if you’re not into planes or military propaganda or both, both films — the sequel being the stronger of the two — are significant to their respective years’, and respective decades’ pop culture. The original film embodies the ’80s in its songs, costumes and overall cheese and broke new ground for what action movies could do and be. The film also cemented Tom Cruise as an action star who could lead any kind of movie with ease and unprecedented physical commitment. For Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise made sure it could not be done without the proper technology, training, and cast: the actors in the film playing pilots, even those in supporting roles, went through flight training to prepare. The film was a box office hit and it also marked the first truly significant theatrical release since the pandemic, bringing many people back to the cinemas for a good, fun time after a long, sad break.

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2. The Wolf of Wall Street

Year: 2013
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 3 hours
Director: Martin Scorsese
Trailer: Watch here

It’s the performance that should have made Leonardo DiCaprio the should have Oscar Award-winning actor he is today. After a series of dramatic collaborations in the aughts including The Aviator, Gangs of New York, and Shutter Island, Scorsese and DiCaprio loosen up a little in the strongest entry to their little series. DiCaprio, who often chooses extremely serious, emotionally demanding roles, applies his signature intensity to a more comedic role in a comedic film with Scorsese’s signature energizing style. In his performance as the disgraced Jordan Belfort, DiCaprio proves he has more range than anyone thought, and the presence of co-star Jonah Hill undoubtedly helped him get there. The Wolf of Wall Street also introduced the world to Margot Robbie, one of the best actors working today and now, a two-time Oscar nominee. DiCaprio and Scorsese reunite ten years later and for the first time since this film in 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

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3. A Quiet Place

Year: 2018
Starring: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
Director: John Krasinski
Trailer: Watch here

Who could have possibly predicted that Jim Halpert from The Office would direct and launch a modern horror franchise? John Krasinski stars in and directed A Quiet Place, co-starring his wife, Emily Blunt. Creatures who are blind but have incredibly sharp hearing have taken over Earth, leaving few survivors. The film follows a family living in upstate New York, who have survived by speaking in American sign language. When they accidentally make noise that draws the creatures to them, things go awry. A sequel came out in 2020, and Lupita Nyong’o will star in a spin-off film, A Quiet Place: Day One.

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4. Everything Everywhere All At Once

Year: 2022
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis
Genre: Action Adventure
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours 19 minutes
Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Schneinert
Trailer: Watch here

Michelle Yeoh delivers a meta, layered, all-encompassing performance in the wild and weird non-Marvel multi-verse movie Everything Everywhere All at Once from the Daniels. Yeoh is one of the frontrunners for the Oscar for best actress for her incredible performance as Evelyn, a Chinese immigrant who runs a laundromat. While getting audited by the IRS, Evelyn discovers that she is the only person who can save the universe from being destroyed by a powerful being. The film is action-packed but also an emotionally moving story about love, family, and relationships.

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5. Midsommar

Year: 2019
Starring: Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, Jack Raynor
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours 51 minutes
Director: Ari Aster
Trailer: Watch here

Florence Pugh is the final girl in this bright and stylish horror film from Ari Aster. A young couple in a toxic relationship that just needs to end already attends a seemingly idyllic midsummer festival in Sweden only to discover that the pagan cult behind it is creepy, violent, and willing to make human sacrifices. The retreat tests the young couple’s rocky relationship, and the film is both scary and a poignant depiction of how humans process trauma.

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6. Jackass Forever

Year: 2022
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Dave England, Wee Man
Genre: Reality, Comedy
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Trailer: Watch here

The original cast of Jackass unites for the first time in over a decade (with newcomer Rachel Wolfson joining) in another entry into the most important franchise of the 21st century. Although the Jackass cast is grappling with aging (they can’t exactly perform the same ridiculous stunts they could 20 years ago), there are still plenty of gross, unbelievable things, most of which have to do with their penises.

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7. Interstellar

Year: 2014
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2 hours 49 minutes
Director: Christopher Nolan
Trailer: Watch here

Christopher Nolan’s space epic has an epic runtime and might not make any sense, but it looks good. In the near future, Earth is becoming increasingly inhabitable, with a global crop blight and a second Dust Bowl. A team of researchers is sent to space to enter a wormhole and explore three different planets in a different galaxy to discover which one is habitable. Matthew McConaughey delivers the most intimate performance of his career as a NASA pilot turned farmer who goes on the mission. The movie will leave you confused and wondering how time works, but that was probably Nolan’s intention.

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8. Licorice Pizza

Year: 2021
Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Pen, Bradley Cooper
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Trailer: Watch here

Licorice Pizza is the most Paul Thomas Anderson film Paul Thomas Anderson has ever made: it’s set in California in the 70s and has an impressive ensemble cast. The film stars Cooper Hoffman, son of frequent PTA collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman as Gary, a teenager, and actor who gets into waterbed sales. He meets Alana, played by Alana Haim of the band Haim, who is feeling a bit mid-20s lost. It’s a coming-of-age story for them both and a bit of a love story as they begin to learn and appreciate one another. What the film lacks in plot, it makes up for with slow but in-depth character development, including a small role played by Bradley Cooper.

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9. Moneyball

Year: 2011
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt, Robin Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Genre: Drama, Sports
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutes
Director: Bennett Miller
Trailer: Watch here

In this sports drama based on the nonfiction book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Brad Pitt plays Oakland Athletics director Billy Beane, whose analytical strategy to create a competitive baseball team with undervalued talent on a limited budget put the team on the map. Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman co-star in the film, along with a pre-movie star version of Chris Pratt. The screenplay was co-written by Aaron Sorkin. It’s Sorkiny, but not too Sorkiny.

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10. Beavis And Butt-Head Do The Universe

Year: 2022
Starring: Mike Judge, Andrea Savage, Jimmy O. Yang
Genre: Comedy, Animation
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
Director: John Rice and Albert Calleros
Trailer: Watch here

Beavis and Butt-Head are back and possibly dumber than ever. In Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, the friends who want nothing more than to lose their virginity inadvertently become astronauts which leads them to time travel from 1998 to 2022, where they meet intelligent versions of themselves.

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11. Scream (2022)

Year: 2022
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Jack Quaid
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Runtime: 114 minutes
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Trailer: Watch here

In this fifth installment of the classic Scream franchise, Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox return as Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers. The two are haunted by the events of the original film as a new Ghostface killer emerges once again in Woodsboro and leaves another trail of teenage bodies in their wake. But what seems like random murders, soon becomes a twisted journey into the deadly past of the sleepy town where it all began. Who’s wielding the knife this time and will Sidney and Gale’s luck finally run out as they’re pulled into another bloodbath?

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12. The Lighthouse

Year: 2019
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Director: Robert Eggers
Trailer: Watch here

Hollywood’s most iconic, reliable weirdos Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe unite in this equally weird psychological thriller about wickies (lighthouse keepers) who are driven mad on a job on a rocky island. The men drink, fart, laugh, and fight, and as the days pass, the island with rocky beaches, which may or may not have supernatural elements, begins to get to them. There are seriously so many farts in this film.

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13. Red Rocket

Year: 2021
Starring: Suzanna Son, Simon Rex, Bree Elrod
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes
Director: Sean Baker
Trailer: Watch here

In this charming and eccentric film designed to make you feel uncomfortable, Mikey, a Los Angeles-based porn star and con man returns to his home small hometown in Texas. While living with his estranged wife and her mother, he falls for a seventeen-year-old girl named Strawberry, who works at a donut shop.

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14. Confess, Fletch

Year: 2022
Starring: Jon Hamm, Marcia Gay Harden, Roy Wood Jr., Ayden Mayeri
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Director: Greg Mottola
Trailer: Watch here

Jon Hamm found his post-Mad Men niche in the grossly under-marketed crime comedy, Confess, Fletch. Hamm plays the snarky and quick-witted investigative journalist Irwin M. Fletcher, who stumbles upon a crime scene while visiting Boston. The detectives on the case think he’s the murderer, and he investigates the crime himself while making zero effort to look innocent. The role was originally played by Chevy Chase in two Fletch films from the ’80s. In this case, we stan a reboot.

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15. Lady Bird

Year: 2017
Starring: Saorise Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Director: Greta Gerwig
Trailer: Watch here

Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut is a classic. The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film tells the story of Lady Bird, a high school senior who recently changed her name to Lady Bird. She has a tense relationship with her mom and wants more than anything to get away from her home of Sacramento, hoping to attend college on the east coast. Throughout her final year of high she has new relationships, a falling out with her best friend, but one thing is a constant: she always comes back to her mom, played by Laurie Metcalf, who should have won an Oscar for the role thank you very much!

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16. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Year: 1989
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
Genre: Action
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 127 minutes
Director: Steven Spielberg
Trailer: Watch here
After two movies as the swashbuckling archaeologist under his belt, Harrison Ford returned for 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which many Indy fans will argue is the best of the series. In the third film, Jones once again find himself on a collision course with the Nazis who are seeking the greatest artifact of all time: The Holy Grail. It’s a topic that Indy knows far too much about thanks to his father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery), who was more interested in the religious relic than his own son. Forced to work together, The Last Crusade is a peak Indiana Jones adventure loaded with action set pieces that only Steven Spielberg can deliver on top of the perfect pairing of Ford and Connery.

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17. Almost Famous

Year: 2000
Starring: Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Director: Cameron Crowe
Trailer: Watch here

Cameron Crowe’s beloved, ’70s-set journalism movie follows a teenage music fan, who is assigned to follow the fictional band Stillwater on tour for a profile in the magazine. Along the way, he falls in love with groupie Penny Lane — played by Kate Hudson, who received an Oscar nomination in the best supporting actress category along with co-star Frances McDormand — and learns about life, ethical journalism, and the reality of being in a rock and roll band. Crowe’s semi-autobiographical screenplay (he, too, wrote for Rolling Stone as a teen) won the Oscar for best original screenplay.

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18. Minari

Year: 2020
Starring: Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung, Han Ye-ri
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Trailer: Watch here

Minari stars Oscar nominee Steven Yeun and Han Ye-ri as parents in a Korean family who move from California to rural Arkansas in the 1980s. While their deep South setting is a tense culture shock, tensions rise at home, too when Monica’s mother Soon-ja, played by Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung, comes from Korea to live with the family. It causes trouble within Jacob and Monica’s marriage. David, the couple’s son, shares a room with her and grows frustrated because she is not what he expects a grandmother to be due to her culture. It’s a sad but mostly sweet story with remarkable performances you’ll never forget.

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19. Cruel Intentions

Year: 1999
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Selma Blair
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 98 minutes
Director: Roger Kumble
Trailer: Watch here
In this late 90s romantic drama, Reese Witherspoon gives a breakout performance as Annette Hargrove, the virginal young daughter of a private school headmaster who finds herself targeted in a manipulative wager between wealthy step-siblings Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe). While initially caring little about the damage caused by the wager, the once-arrogant and over-entitled Sebastian finds himself falling for Annette, which does not go over well with Kathryn. While Gellar was already on the cusp of fame with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cruel Intentions undoubtedly catapulted Witherspoon’s career as she followed up the film with Legally Blonde and cemented herself as an A-list star.

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20. Smile

Year: 2022
Starring: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Director: Parker Finn
Trailer: Watch here

Sosie Bacon stars as a therapist who, after witnessing the traumatic death of a patient who claims she was haunted by smiling people, starts to see the smiling people herself. As you can probably imagine, she spends the majority of the movie trying to figure out the source of the problem before it’s too late. There is a lot of smiling and a lot of trauma.

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21. Mission: Impossible — Fallout

Year: 2018
Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg
Genre: Action, Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2 hours, 28 minutes
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Trailer: Watch here

Tom Cruise returns as the at this point superhuman Ethan Hunt for yet another impossible mission (the sixth film in the franchise). Cruise performs even more impressive life-threatening stunts in Mission: Impossible Fallout, including but certainly not limited to a helicopter chase. It’s long, but every minute is truly more thrilling than the next. Henry Cavill assimilated as well into a villain role — the role that required him to have the infamous mustache that was questionably edited out of his scenes in Justice League.

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22. Candyman

Year: 2021
Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Director: Nia DaCosta
Trailer: Watch here

Nia DaCosta, whose Marvel film The Marvels is due out this summer, directed this follow-up to the ’90s cult classic starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an artist who investigates a serial killer for a new project. His investigation leads him to other Black men who were murdered and secrets about his own lineage. DaCosta is a visionary director with a deep understanding of disturbing, thrilling, and impactful imagery.

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23. The Virgin Suicides

Year: 1999
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner, AJ Cook
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Director: Sofia Coppola
Trailer: Watch here

Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut introduced the world to the unique, feminine, dreamlike atmosphere of her filmography. Based on the 1993 best-seller of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides, the film follows the lives of the sheltered Catholic Lisbon sisters living in an upper-middle-class suburb in Michigan in the 1970s. The overprotected girls are an enigma to everyone, especially a group of boys in town, who are enamored with them. The film is told from their perspective as they reminisce on the Lisbon girls as adults.

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24. Devotion

Year: 2022
Starring: Jonathan Majors, Glenn Powell
Genre: Action
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 139 minutes
Director: J.D. Dillard
Trailer: Watch here
Devotion stars Jonathan Majors as Jesse Brown the first Black aviator in U.S. Navy history. In this tight military adventure, Brown and his closest friend, fellow fighter pilot Tom Hudner (Glenn Powell), are tasked with turning the tide in a brutal aerial battle during the Korean War. This inspirational true story is perfect for fans of Top Gun or anyone who enjoys an old school war movie. On top of that, Majors is becoming the actor of the moment, and Devotion is yet another powerhouse performance from the burgeoning star.

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25. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Year: 1999
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Genre: Comedy, Animation, Musical
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 21 minutes
Director: Trey Parker
Trailer: Watch here

In this meta feature film version of the popular and controversial Comedy Central animated series South Park, the gang sneaks into an R-rated Canadian film. The children’s parents and teachers are alarmed by the vulgarity they’ve learned from the film and a censorship war begins, obvious commentary on the reception of South Park itself in the United States. Long story short, the kids become the only people who can save the filmmakers from death row.

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Halsey made her runway debut at this year’s Paris Fashion Week by walking in the Pressiat show. Wearing in a lacy black dress with fun cutouts, she accessorized the outfit with a spiky bracelet and some rockstar-inspired eye makeup.

“I walked PFW for the first time today with @pressiat_ and it was terrifying and amazing!!!!” Halsey captioned the slideshow of pics. “Thank you Vincent for having me, and congratulations to you and team on such a stunning collection and iconic show!”

The pop star has worked with Pressiat previously, as the fashion brand styled Halsey in their FW22 skirt and corset for the 2022 Grammy Awards. The look gave a similar gothic energy.

Post-runway, it also seems Halsey is still soaking in the Parisian vibes. In another new Instagram post, they put on a blonde wig and a leather jumpsuit for some truly fiery pics outside of a sex shop and posing on a motorcycle, Barb Wire style. “Nous allons la monter,” they captioned, which translates to, “We’re going to ride it.”

Fans also thought it was giving the vibes of another movie set in the City Of Lights, as one commented on Instagram, “OKAAAAAY IRMA VEP,” referencing the 1996 film.

Check out all the photos from Halsey’s Paris adventure above.

Travis Scott spent the past year laying low in the wake of the deaths at his most recent Astroworld Festival, but has been slowly edging his way back into the spotlight. He’s booked a number of headlining festival sets — mainly at Rolling Loud’s various world stops — but it looks like he’s back in the headlines again in a negative way too.

According to TMZ, Travis has been accused of assault by the sound engineer of New York City nightclub Nebula, who says the Houston rapper punched him before trashing a bunch of equipment. The alleged victim says that after an initial disagreement, Scott punched him in the left side of his face and then damaged some speakers and video screens — about $12,000 worth of damage.

Even before the Astroworld disaster, Travis Scott has had a history of legal troubles from some of his over-the-top behavior. In 2015, he was arrested for disorderly conduct after telling fans at Lollapalooza to jump the barricades in front of the stage. Another arrest for inciting a riot came in 2017 after a show in Arkansas that got a little too rowdy. This was after a prior arrest for the same offense earlier that year for encouraging a fan at a New York show to jump from a balcony, injuring themselves in the process.

Travis was in New York Tuesday night (February 28) to support his Cactus Jack artist Don Toliver at a concert. His own next show will be this weekend at — where else? — Rolling Loud Los Angeles.

Pairing a great movie with a great whiskey takes a little time and effort. Are you looking to match the vibe of the whiskey with the feel of the film? Or are you looking to match the taste of the whiskey — mellow, bombastic, murky, dark, bright, etc. — with the mood of the film? Maybe you just want to drink a good whiskey with a good movie and call it day. That’s cool too.

To help you pick the perfect whiskey/movie combo, we reached out to some stonecold experts in both fields — the hosts of the delightful Film & Whiskey Podcast. Bob Book and Brad Gee are over 300 episodes deep in their endeavor to watch the great films of cinema and pair those movies with the great whiskeys of the world. Over the course of all those film and whiskey reviews, Bob and Brad have sparred, commiserated, and found some deep truths about both cinema and whiskey.

If there are better experts for this whiskey and film pairing exercise, we couldn’t find them. These two are stone-cold pros.

Bob and Brad were kind enough to each call out five of their absolute favorite films that they’ve reviewed with five of their favorite whiskeys, creating a solid list of 10 movies paired with 10 whiskeys. The movies might surprise you and the whiskeys might too but this is a good list, folks. Read through, find a film to watch, and then hit those price links to pair it with the perfect dram.

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PART I — Bob’s Picks:

West Side Story (1961) and Rye & Sons Straight Rye

ABV: 48.75%

Average Price: $28

Why This Movie:

This is the quintessential American musical, and one of the most visually striking films to come out of Hollywood. New York looks almost nothing like the bold, elevated hues of the buildings and streetlights in this movie, but the use of color — Jets dressed in cool blues and khakis, Sharks dressed in bold purples and reds — helps sell the story of two diametrically-opposed and misunderstood groups of tightly-wound teens and the doomed romance at their center.

The Whiskey:

It may not embody the San Juan Hill of early-60s Manhattan, but Rye & Sons has a distinct NYC flair thanks to Andre Hueston Mack, the acclaimed sommelier behind the brand. Released as a partnership with Sean Josephs of Pinhook, this no-frills brand focuses on being accessible and approachable. A 60% rye, 20% corn, and 20% barley mash bill give this one just enough spice to satisfy rye whiskey drinkers, making it a perfect “gateway” into rye for the beginner.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: A shape-shifter in the glass, this one starts with bright notes of green apple, cantaloupe, and pineapple before settling into a brown sugar bomb with hints of orange and peppermint.

Palate: Pleasant caramel sweetness with pops of black pepper.

Finish: Warm baking spices like cinnamon add some nuance to the caramel finish.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

Like the kids of ‘West Side Story,’ Rye & Sons isn’t interested in passing itself off as something different. It’s affordable, it’s uncomplicated, and it’s fundamentally for the people. When it comes to the everyday consumer, you won’t find a better value in American whiskey.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Penderyn Portwood

ABV: 46%

Average Price: $82

Why This Movie:

‘E.T.’ might be the best coming-of-age movie ever made, and one that I find more richness and depth in every time I return to it. E.T., the character, serves as a perfect stand-in for whatever screenwriter Melissa Matheson needs it to be: in some scenes, E.T. is a metaphor for the boy Elliott, and in others, for the father who walked out on the family. E.T. brings hope to a broken home, and the final message he leaves with Elliott — “I’ll be right here” — is exactly what he needs to hear to accept and process loss.

The Whiskey:

Penderyn, one of the few Welsh distilleries, is quietly putting out some of the most consistent and notable whisky in the U.K. This single malt is aged in ex-bourbon barrels before being finished in ruby port casks.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Dried cherries, dark chocolate, and a surprising amount of spicy pepper settle into subtle peach.

Palate: Like a boozy parfait, this has layers of black cherry, peach, and fresh yogurt with a drizzle of raw honey. It’s an incredibly creamy mouthfeel.

Finish: Soft oak with lingering honey and unripe cherry.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

Spielberg may have made his masterpiece here, and the Penderyn is a great partner to it: underappreciated, with much more nuance than they get credit for. At their cores, both the movie and the whiskey are fundamentally sweet, but there’s more depth to be found the longer you sit with them.

Apollo 13 and The Sexton Irish Whiskey

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $30

Why This Movie:

Ron Howard is one of the great Hollywood directors, but he’s too often considered a Spielberg knockoff. While Howard is known for similarly uplifting material, the difference in Howard’s films is that the stakes are often considerably lower, but no less noble in their depiction of heroism. Even ‘Apollo 13’ essentially boils down to a story of a core NASA team trying to ensure three men get home safely, perfectly capturing Howard’s bent towards everyday heroes who achieve small victories over incredible odds through acts of endurance.

Also, it’s just a technically perfect film without an ounce of fat.

The Whiskey:

Packaged in a distinctive and squat black bottle, The Sexton looks at first like it might be trying to separate itself from its shelf mates through marketing. But this single malt is a brilliant entry point into Irish whiskey. Soft and sweet with a nice layer of spice and none of the bittering or astringent qualities of other lower-shelf Irish whiskeys.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Pear and peach soften a fairly standard Irish pot still nose.

Palate: Fruit sweetness and honey carry across the palate, covering a subtly smoky and grain-forward malt.

Finish: Medium, with a touch of bitterness added to the honeyed cereal taste, along with some fig.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

To underestimate either of these is to do them both a disservice. The Sexton is every bit as satisfying as the flagship offerings of much larger Irish whiskey distillers but feels like it has to work twice as hard to get out of their (deservedly) long shadows. Likewise, ‘Apollo 13’ is remembered as simply a pretty good Spielberg knockoff. In reality, this is one of the best “dad movie” combos ever. They’re down-the-middle and entertaining, a perfect way to spend a channel-surfing Saturday afternoon.

Coco and Woodford Reserve Double Oaked

ABV: 45.2%

Average Price: $59

Why This Movie:

It’s a testament to Pixar that we could make a compelling “best Pixar movie” argument for about 75% of their films. For me, though, nothing tops 2017’s ‘Coco,’ a movie about family, loss, and memory with an emphasis on responsibility to others that undercuts so many “me-first” Disney heroes.

The Whiskey:

When I moved to Kentucky in 2014, the first stop I made on the Bourbon Trail was Woodford Reserve. New to the world of whiskey and not sure if I even liked it, something changed the moment my lips touched the tiny plastic sample cup of Double Oaked. Woodford Reserve Bourbon finished in a second new charred oak barrel, it’s significantly richer and darker in color than standard Woodford.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: The barrel char is evident but not overwhelming. Tons of vanilla and bonfire-toasted marshmallow.

Palate: Not as sweet as the nose lets on. Ethanol-forward, but vanilla underlies everything else on the palate. A deeper, darker experience overall than expected.

Finish: Long-lasting with just a pop of barrel char, a pleasant if generic sweetness, and warmth without the burn. The finish is where this whiskey shines.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

One of my fondest whiskey-related memories was telling then-Master Distiller Chris Morris that Woodford Double Oaked was “the whiskey that made me fall in love with whiskey.” Drinking this bourbon is a walk down memory lane for me, and like ‘Coco,’ it reminds me of the things worth remembering.

Double Indemnity and Ardbeg Uigeadail

ABV: 54.2%

Average Price: $79

Why This Movie:

The epitome of 1940s film noir, this hard-boiled story of a femme fatale and the dope who falls for her is still the genre’s best example in large part due to its pitch-perfect dialogue. Billy Wilder and cinematographer John F. Seitz essentially invented the noir look — moody, high-contrast shadows at extreme angles reminiscent of German expressionism. And if that’s not enough for you, it’s got an all-time supporting performance from cinema’s favorite wiseguy, Edward G. Robinson.

The Whiskey:

Named after the loch from which Ardbeg draws its water, Uigeadail is a high-proof peated scotch finished in sherry casks. Its potency works in its favor, this is by far our favorite offering from the distillery and the lack of dilution means that more subtle scents and flavors remain.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Look, it’s a peated scotch, but behind that is a much softer, fresh, and floral sweetgrass scent with citrus, stone fruit, and black coffee.

Palate: Honey sweetness up front with clove on the mid-palate. The peat bursts forth at the back of the palate but isn’t overwhelming.

Finish: Dark-roast coffee and smoke linger with orange and honey. The final impression is a sweetness that’s not always present in heavily-peated scotch.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

When you watch a film noir, you want a whiskey with some bite to it. Something that feels appropriate for a smoke-filled room playing host to an illicit love affair and a series of double-crosses. Ardbeg Uigeadail is, quite simply, the most well-rounded peated scotch we’ve ever tried. The more subtle floral notes complement the peat smoke, but the high proof gives it the appropriate prickliness for a hard-edged movie like this.

PART II — Brad’s Picks:

Charade and Talisker 10

ABV: 45.8%

Average Price: $66

Why This Movie:

This is one of those classics that I watched as a kid, was worried that it would not stand up to scrutiny as an adult, and then was blown away by how much I still loved it. Carey Grant and Audrey Hepburn’s chemistry makes you wish that they had done 10 more films together, and Henry Mancini’s score drives you forward through the mystery and intrigue. ‘Charade’ is the last great film of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you should check it out immediately.

The Whiskey:

Talisker 10 is a 92-proof Island Single Malt Whisky from Diageo’s Classic malt lineup. This whiskey is the Isle of Skye’s premiere single malt, and it packs a fruit and peat-filled punch.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Soft peat, bits of brine, and caramel mix with leather, tobacco, and a hint of green apple.

Palate: Savory flavors of leather, tobacco, peat, and oak are balanced with a backend of crisp apple and pear.

Finish: Strong peat finish with oak, saline, and marshmallow.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

Just like Carey Grant’s transatlantic accent, Talisker 10 is something brought to the U.S. that is impeccably unique and hard to replicate. It’s not hard to imagine the well-traveled Peter Joshua (Grant) enjoying a glass of scotch on his holiday to Switzerland. So to get in the mood for this Euro-centered film, Talisker 10 would be a perfect pour.

Shaun of the Dead and Nomad Outland

ABV: 41.3%

Average Price: $36

Why This Movie:

‘Shaun of the Dead,’ on the surface, should not be as incredible as it is. What starts out as farcical British comedy about the end of the world due to zombie stuff ends up tugging on the heartstrings as a strange coming-of-age story for millennials (like most millennials, his adventure into adulthood comes in his mid-thirties). Don’t miss Bill Nighy’s performance, which comes out of nowhere to make you cry about halfway through the film.

The Whisky:

Nomad Outland Whisky is an 82.6-proof blended Scotch whisky. From the Speyside region, this blend of 30 malt whiskies is aged in Scotland for six years and then spends its final year in Jerez, Spain, finishing in old Pedro Ximenez casks.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Exotic nose of grape, cinnamon, cherry, and flurries of orange creamsicle.

Palate: Delightfully rich, the palate is a mixture of cherry cordial, brown sugar, and barley.

Finish: Grainier on the finish, you get lots of barley with a mixture of fresh orange and grape drink.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

If I am going to be blunt, I did not think that either of these offerings would hold my attention, yet somehow, they both ended up being incredible! ‘Shaun of the Dead’ is potently funny but has a technical brilliance to the camerawork and writing that helps it transcend surface-level analysis. Nomad Outland is a low-priced (~$35) blended scotch that is a perfect introduction to scotch for a bourbon lover who is looking for a sweet experience.

Is the film or the whiskey perfect? Nope, but they are a heck of a lot better than I thought they would be.

The Matrix and Rebel 100

ABV: 50%

Average Price: $18

Why This Movie:

‘The Matrix’ might be the perfect sci-fi film. From the nearly non-stop action to the long-winded explanations of how the world works, ‘The Matrix’ simply checks every single science fiction box and does it spectacularly. The opening scene sets the stage for a wild ride into the unknown, and never lets up until the credits roll.

The Whiskey:

Rebel 100 is a 100-proof straight bourbon whiskey from Lux Row Distillers. This high-wheat bourbon is one of the greatest values on the market with an incredible amount of flavor for a $20-ish price tag.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Soft nose of corn, ethanol, caramel, and vanilla.

Palate: Pleasant mouthfeel with lots of vanilla and wheat mixed with bits of caramel.

Finish: Vanilla and oak linger with cherry cordial coming to mind.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

Rebel 100 is one of the most unexpectedly great values in the world of whiskey, packing incredible wheated bourbon flavors into a bottle that will cost you next to nothing. When ‘The Matrix’ came out, it was an absolutely revolutionary movie that made over 6.5 times its budget back at the box office, proving that you do not need to blow out the spending to create movie magic. Rebel 100 does the same thing, making them a perfect (and affordable) pairing for an enjoyable evening.

When Harry Met Sally… and Old Forester 1910

ABV: 46.5%

Average Price: $54

Why This Movie:

‘When Harry Met Sally…’ is one of the best-written and smoothest romantic comedies ever put to screen. The chemistry between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan is dynamite, the supporting cast is impeccable, and it contains one of the most perfectly timed comedic scenes in film history. It’s easily my favorite romantic comedy to date.

The Whiskey:

Old Forester 1910 is a 93-proof straight bourbon whiskey that has undergone a second barreling in a lightly toasted, heavily charred barrel. The result is a rich and smooth experience that lingers on the palate for quite some time.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Beautifully attenuated vanilla pairs with a smattering of nuttiness and caramel.

Palate: Creamy caramel mix with oak and a bit of hazelnut.

Finish: Rich oak, old leather, and soft notes of hazelnut and caramel.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

Old Forester 1910 is a delectable experience from start to finish, and it is one that you want to keep coming back to, and ‘When Harry Met Sally…’ is an absolute treat of a film that is incredibly easy to watch at least once a year. Neither the film nor the whiskey has a low point, which means that this is a pairing that I will be enjoying for years to come.

Fargo and Found North Batch #002

ABV: 64.9%

Average Price: $125

Why You Love This Movie:

‘Fargo’ may not be the greatest movie we have ever reviewed, but it is definitely one of the movies that I constantly want to go back to. One of William H. Macy’s finest performances is somehow overshadowed by Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, the quietly confident sheriff of a tiny Minnesotan town that explodes into chaos when some two-bit crooks come into town. Hilarities and violence ensue, as one would expect from a good Coen Brothers film, easily making this my favorite of their filmography.

The Whiskey:

Found North Batch 002 is a 128.4-proof Ccask strength whisky from the blenders at Found North. Nick and Zach Taylor are blending geniuses, importing Canadian whiskies with crazy age statements and blending them into staggeringly good juice. Courageously, they moved their whiskey from being able to be called a rye into just being a “Cask Strength Whisky” because they knew that it would diminish the flavor to do so. In their words, they “bottled this black sheep as is.”

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Complex nose of green apple, fresh sweet corn, brown sugar, vanilla, and sweet mint.

Palate: Warm brown sugar starts us off and the high viscosity coats your mouth with a caramel and toasted marshmallow flavor that turns into a nice tart green apple on the back end.

Finish: Spice bomb to finish, the rich flavors on the palate transform into black pepper, oak, and tobacco.

Why It’s the Perfect Pairing:

‘Fargo’ and Found North Batch 002 are both born out of an experience in the frigid north and force you to contemplate life as you know it. Will you be content with who you are, or will you strive to become something you are not? The blenders at Found North knew that they could make a more marketable whisky, but chose to perfect the flavor instead, and would fit right into Marge Gunderson’s view on how the world should work.

The Weeknd’s breakout role in the HBO series The Idol, might not have been quite the creative environment parties were looking for. The “Die For You” singer may have broken several streaming records, including becoming the first artist to cross the 100 million monthly listeners metric; however, according to reports, his television and film career could be off to a rocky start.

The recording artist, real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye joined forces with Reza Fahim and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson to bring, in the network’s words, the “sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood” to light. While the show, slated to be released later this year, has recently undergone a “new creative direction,” Rolling Stone reports that the pivot wasn’t received well by cast and crew members.

According to Rolling Stone, the Oscar-nominated singer was not pleased that his co-star Lily-Rose Depp’s character received a bulk of the plot’s attention. As a result, allegedly, Tesfaye championed a major behind-the-scenes narrative shift to drop the story’s “feminist lens.”

A source told RS, “It was like the Weeknd wanted one show that was all about him — Sam was on board with that.” This could have supposedly played a part in director Amy Seimetz’s exit from the series back in April 2022. Another source shared, “What I signed up for was a dark satire of fame and the fame model in the 21st century,” but since the changes, “It went from satire to the thing it was satirizing.”

“It was like, ‘What is this? What am I reading here,’” said the source adding, “It was like sexual torture porn.”

The source shared that although Seimetz’s version would have contained sex scenes and nudity, production sources claim Levinson dramatically ramped up the explicit content with Tesfaye’s full support after taking over as director.

The outlet reached out to both Levinson and Tesfaye for comment. However, neither answered the request. On the other hand, Depp did provide a statement to Rolling Stone, in which she specifically sings the praises of Levinson. “[Levinson is] the best director,” said Depp before adding that she “felt more supported or respected in a creative space, my input, and opinions more valued.”

Despite the anonymous reports shared with RS, HBO shared in a statement, “the creative team has been committed to creating a safe, collaborative, and mutually respectful working environment, and last year, the team made creative changes they felt were in the best interest of both the production and the cast and crew.”

Nearly two years ago, Bryan Danielson turned the wrestling world on its head when he became the latest WWE superstar to jump to AEW. His arrival signaled an opportunity to become the face of the company, and it’s one that remains top of mind as he approaches another shot at the promotion’s biggest prize on Sunday. Danielson will hit the squared circle in the main event of AEW Revolution, where he’ll face Maxwell Jacob Friedman with the opportunity to ascend to the top of the company.

“The AEW World Championship is the centerpiece of the promotion,” Danielson tells Uproxx Sports. “You can’t say that about every wrestling company in the world, but you can say that about AEW. That’s why guys like Jon Moxley have been considered the man in AEW for the last couple years, Kenny (Omega), a little bit after that. When you’re the champion, you’re the one in charge of carrying the company. And it would be … for really the first time since I was in Ring of Honor that I’d get the opportunity to do that.

Danielson views it as a privilege to be the face of a promotion, even if he understands there’s an inherent challenge which comes from having that much responsibility. When Danielson was in WWE, he main evented WrestleMania 30 and won the World Heavyweight Championship in one of the best examples in wrestling history of an individual’s undeniable popularity with the fans serving as a springboard to the title.

But despite that, Danielson recalls, he “was never the guy” in WWE.

“After WrestleMania 30, when I had won the championship and just main evented WrestleMania, they had a meeting with me where it was like, ‘Okay, what we’d really like is to do is to set this other guy up to be the guy,’” he says. “I think the phrase was the next John Cena. And I was like, ‘I would like to be the next John Cena,’ (and they said) nobody can be John Cena.

“I literally just main evented WrestleMania, and you’re already telling me directly — and I actually appreciated that — that you don’t see me as the guy,” he continues. “That’s good for me because (I knew) this is what I have to overcome if I want to be that. I never got there in WWE as far as being the company’s guy. When Ric Flair talked about to be the man, you gotta beat the man. In AEW, that’s really how it is. To be the man, you’ve gotta be the AEW World Champion.”

Danielson’s decision to go to AEW involved much more than simply becoming the face of a promotion. He jokes about being the “best first match wrestler in the history of WWE” — Rey Mysterio is, in his eyes, the exception — and he loved the opportunities he was afforded, specifically calling back to his program with Drew Gulak. But he saw more main event opportunities in AEW, the latest being his program with the controversial MJF.

“Everybody unanimously agrees that he is an asshole,” Danielson says with a laugh when describing his working relationship with the champ. “So, you have to deal with that. But I’m ok with people being assholes. The one thing I want out of people is to put effort and thought into it. And MJF is very thoughtful and he loves wrestling.”

Outside of main eventing another show for AEW, Danielson points to the opportunities to work with emerging talent and pass knowledge to the next generation as a source of joy for him in AEW and a factor in his decision to join the company.

He sees individuals like Darby Allin, Wardlow, FTR, the Young Bucks, and Dante Martin as folks he’d love to get in the ring with. Backstage, there are plenty who stop by to seek advice when he’s watching the show on a monitor — Danielson identifies Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia as the ones who are most often reaching out for mentorship.

With a heavy mix of young talent and veterans — Danielson makes it a point to call out Blade as a veteran leader no one talks about — the locker room is a blend of lightheartedness and “very good, serious conversations” about shared experiences, mental health, and how to navigate life on the road.

Part of that shared knowledge includes what it takes to rise to the top of a promotion — his championship run at WrestleMania 30 is a perfect example. Should the stars align, he sees Wardlow, Hangman Page, Ricky Starks, and Garcia as talents who could eventually reach the level of global superstardom these days associated with the likes of Roman Reigns and Kenny Omega.

“Where I got to in wrestling is partially because of working hard and being good at what I do, but also it’s a lot of luck, too — luck in not getting injuries, luck in being at the right place at the right time,” Danielson says. “I felt like I’ve wrestled people who, if things fell into the same place, same kind of positions that I’ve been, could have been just as successful, if not more successful. And they never got those things right. And so, wrestling is not like basketball where if you score 25 points a game, somebody’s gonna put you on their team in the NBA. Wrestling’s not like that. In wrestling, it’s not always the cream rises to the top. So, that’s all of that to say with the right bit of luck, any of those guys could do it.”

Danielson compares his love for professional wrestling to an artistic expression, like gardening, pottery, or playing music. It’s a release that gives him a feeling of freedom, and it’s something he wants to do as long as he possibly can. But of course, Danielson’s life has changed considerably over the years, which in turn means wrestling is no longer his top priority.

“You have to be smart because, MJF cut a promo on me last week saying you’re not gonna be able to hold your children or play with your kids and all that kind of stuff,” Danielson says. “And one of my things that I’m very diligent with is working with neurologists to keep an eye on how I am physically, from a brain perspective, at all times. I’m constantly getting checkups on it. My number one priority, more so than wrestling, is my family.”

Keeping his health top of mind, Danielson believes his decision to join AEW allowed him to very easily change his in-ring style and extend his wrestling career.

“(WWE) hires these enormous humans, and then you get somebody like me, who is 5’8, two inches below average height, I think, for an American male. But you take me and then automatically, part of my role is to go in there as an underdog and get bumped around,” Danielson says. “In AEW, the hiring practices aren’t necessarily that we’ve got to get all these big guys. It’s most people my size, some a little bigger, some a little smaller, but what that does is it allows me to do more mat wrestling, more hard-hitting stuff. For example, if you look at some of the people from a longevity perspective to do really well in Japan, they do hard shots, but they’re not taking these huge bumps, the stuff that really wrecks your neck. I’ve cut some of the stuff that literally I just can’t do anymore, like springboard dives in to the crowd.”

On the subject of Japan, Danielson would love to return to the country and wrestle, particularly if it would involve the opportunity to compete in the upcoming G1 Climax tournament. He’d need an extended break from AEW, though, and understands why his pursuit of the title might make that untenable.

“I don’t know because that requires Tony (Khan) to allow me to be off of TV for four weeks or whatever,” Danielson says. “You have to look at it from a Tony investment point of view, right? Does he really want somebody like me who is older to go through that many hard matches, be off of TV for four weeks, and potentially get injured? Probably not.

“Although, I do have a dream that me, Mox and Claudio [Castagnoli] and maybe Eddie Kingston, just so we have somebody to pick on, would all be able to go do one G1 together, because that would be just so much fun,” he continues. “To go do those incredible matches, but do it with your friends so that you all have this experience together. I think that would be incredible. Now, if you’re asking me if Tony is going to let me go do a G1 and is it a smart move for him? Probably not, but the odds of him letting me do it, I would say a 33 percent chance. The odds of him letting me, Mox, and Claudio all be gone for a month off of TV, an astronomically small percentage, but I haven’t even talked to him about it. So maybe with this interview he’ll see it.”

For now, Danielson will focus on the job at hand: winning the belt from MJF on Sunday, and just maybe becoming the next face of AEW in the process.

A spokesman for Marjorie Taylor Greene really did not appreciate the congresswoman getting fact checked for her false remarks about President Joe Biden. After watching a women testify in Congress about both of her sons dying of a fentanyl overdose, Greene lashed out at Biden and blamed his drug policies for their deaths.

“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl,” Greene tweeted along with a video of the woman’s testimony.

There was just one small problem with Greene’s rant: Both men died in July 2020 when Donald Trump was president. Whoops! When CNN fact checker Daniel Dale attempted to get a comment from Greene’s office on her now-debunked tweet, he was cursed out by a spokesman.

“I asked Greene’s office last night about her tweet blaming the Biden administration for these deaths in 2020 under Trump,” Dale tweeted. “Spokesman Nick Dyer responded by saying lots of people have died from drugs under Biden and ‘do you think they give a f*ck about your bullsh*t fact checking?’”

Dale also attempted to get a comment on Greene’s recent accusations of election fraud and received another profane answer.

“I also gave Greene congressional spokesman Nick Dyer an opportunity to comment regarding Greene’s multiple false claims yesterday about the 2020 election, such as the lies that Trump won Georgia and that there were thousands of dead voters there,” Dale wrote. “His response: “F*ck off.’”

(Via Daniel Dale on Twitter)