Month: January 2024

Musician sneaker collabs are all the rage these days. With Drake, Travis Scott, Rihanna, and most recently, Megan Thee Stallion signing endorsement deals with sneaker giants like Nike and Adidas, it seems like rappers and singers are the new basketball and soccer stars.

Later this year, Bad Bunny will join the fray, teaming up with Adidas for a chunky take on the brand’s Campus silhouette in a “Deep Brown” colorway. In addition to working with premium materials such as suede on the upper, the shoe features a double tongue and ankle collar and Bad Bunny’s signature branding on the footbed and tongue.

While there’s no solid release information just yet, you can keep tabs on the Adidas X Bad Bunny site and check out photos of the kicks on Complex courtesy of sneaker retailer Level Shoes.

The “Deep Brown” Campus is just the latest colorway of the shoe designed by Bad Bunny; prior editions include Light Grey, Wild Moss, and Cream. He’s also worked with the brand on versions of other signature silhouettes including the Forum Low, Response CL, and Forum Powerphase.

You can also catch Bad Bunny on tour this spring when he goes out on his Most Wanted Tour.

Tucker Carlson knockoff Jesse Watters invited a psychic on a recent episode of his Fox News show and the result was, predictably, hilarious.

Watters began the segment by informing fans he’d already consulted one psychic about the future of politics in 2024 and received an ominous warning that “there would be a grave injustice this fall.” Naturally, that led the host to some election doomsday predictions of his own, but he eventually did his due diligence and enlisted a second opinion from a woman named Paula Roberts who calls herself “The English Psychic.” Roberts’ gifts are in handwriting analysis, ghost-hunting, and clairvoyance (obviously).

Watters began by asking for a reading on Trump. Roberts selected a card from her Tarot deck and flipped it onto the news desk before both she and Watters responded with a comical “Uh-oh.” The reason for their reaction became clear when the camera panned down to the card to show a drawing of a figure, robed in black, representing (we assume) death. Roberts seemed flustered and tried to appeal to Fox viewers by giving the reading a more positive spin.

“I do recognize I’m on Fox TV,” an uncomfortable Roberts said. “A sense of loss. A sense of loss, but it’s very specific.” After an exaggerated sigh from Watters, Roberts tried to soften the blow again. “It’s as if he may be thinking more about what he’s lost, and not still taking full advantage of what he still has.”

Watters seemed appeased by that and the two laughed before moving onto her prediction for Joe Biden in 2024. His future? Apparently, he’s about to make a ton of money.

(Via The Daily Beast)

What was the best movie in the DC Extended Universe? (The past tense is intentional.) Based on Rotten Tomatoes scores, it was either Wonder Woman, Shazam, or one of two Harley Quinn movies, Birds of Prey and The Suicide Squad (not the Leto one). Would Margot Robbie be interested in picking up the breakfast sandwich again if DC Overlord James Gunn asked her to make a cameo?

“I always wanted Harley to be a character that would get passed on to other actresses to play, the way there are so many iconic male characters. That was always the dream for her,” the actress told Variety. “Harley’s so fun and can go in so many different directions. You put her in someone else’s hands, and it’s like, “What are they going to do with her?” The options are endless.”

Those options include Joker: Folie à Deux, with Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn. When the casting of Mother Monster was first announced, Robbie said, “It’s such an honor to have built a foundation strong enough that Harley can now be one of those characters that other actors get to have a go at playing. And I think she’ll do something incredible with it.”

Here’s an idea: let Robbie and Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling play Harley and Joker, respectively, and Lady Gaga can cover “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” for the end credits song. Bono would be cool with it.

(Via Variety)

The 75th Primetime Emmys are still somehow happening. Really! The TV Academy announced nominees back in July 2023, and then Hollywood essentially shut down for several months, and here we are with a new year and awards season launching at once. Somehow, the public will get through it, including the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday, January 8.

The Emmys will follow closely behind on Monday, January 15. If you’re looking to catch up (and there’s not much time left) on any of the nominated shows ahead of time, here’s exactly where you can stream them:

Best Drama Series

Star Wars: Andor: Disney+
Better Call Saul: Netflix
The Crown: Netflix
House of the Dragon: Max
The Last of Us: Max
Succession: Max
The White Lotus: Max
Yellowjackets: Paramount Plus (With Showtime)

Best Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary: Hulu
Barry: Max (Hi, Bill Hader!)
The Bear: Hulu
Jury Duty: Amazon/Freevee
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Amazon
Only Murders in the Building: Hulu
Ted Lasso: Apple TV+
Wednesday: Netflix

Best Limited Or Anthology Series

Beef: Netflix
Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: Netflix
Daisy Jones & the Six: Amazon Prime
Fleishman Is in Trouble: Hulu
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Disney+

That’s plenty of TV and more than enough, but perhaps you’ll have an inkling to try out a few of ’em. The Emmys will air on Monday, January 15.

The biggest problem with Slow Horses is the title. It just doesn’t sound exciting. It sounds like the title of a boring eight-part documentary about a ranch owner from the 1920s, or the title of a movie about a thoroughbred breeder who is in too deep to the mob and is trying to race his way out of it but is just outrageously bad at his job, which, now that I type it out, actually doesn’t sound too bad. Stephen Root would be involved somehow, maybe as a lawyer or scummy track owner, definitely with a thin little mustache. Either way, the important thing is that Slow Horses — the real show, not the made-up one I’m still talking myself into — is kind of a blast.

Background, quickly: Slow Horses is a spy show on Apple TV that just wrapped up its third season, with a fourth and fifth already on the way. The characters are mostly bumbling goofs who have been relegated to a post called Slough House, which, between a play on words and the fact that they are the “slow horses” compared to their thoroughbred peers, is where the show gets its name. Their leader is a man named Jackson Lamb, who:

• Is a legendary spy who is great at his job but is also a mess of a human who drinks too much and is rude and cranky and ends up stuck in this dump of an assignment, which he kind of secretly loves
• Is played by Gary Oldman, who appears to be having the time of his life
• Occasionally farts himself awake

Here, look.

It’s all just lovely. Each season is six episodes long and focuses on a distinct mystery or conspiracy and is full of little twists and turns and double-crosses. Sometimes there are stolen diamonds. Sometimes the slow horses will reveal themselves to be drug addicts or gambling addicts and it’ll muck everything up for a little. Sometimes you’ll be watching someone do something and assume they’re taking a brave and bold stance for righteousness and then realize they’ve been manipulated into accidentally doing the bidding of someone smarter and more conniving than they are.

This last thing is especially true of one of the main characters, the grandson of a famous spy whose name is River and is the handsomest and sweetest and dumbest boy alive. He’s always charging into a situation to save the day and you can occasionally be fooled into thinking he’s onto something because he’s very pretty and confident — Raylan Givens Syndrome — and then he’ll end up bungling about and flailing in the wind like a loose napkin. It’s great.

Also great: The show has a way, at times, of being delightfully satisfying. Not always, to be sure, as some of it is cynical and ugly and features powerful people succeeding for selfish reasons. But sometimes the show will introduce a character who is despicable and smug and awful and you’ll spend a few episodes wanting them to get comeuppance in some way and then they’ll go ahead and give you just that. Like, look at this guy…

I’m sure this actor is a very nice man who is loved by his family and friends but you will rarely see a television character who is more punchable. This sounds mean. I know. I’m not even a violent person. But watch the show and any scene with him in it and I promise you’ll agree. You’ll be sitting at home saying “God, I hope this idiot gets played or shot or punched in the face,” and then, sure enough, all of those things will happen. Again, very satisfying.

Same with this guy.

Previous caveats apply again, the ones about the actor probably being a nice man. But also, come on. The character is a smug power broker who thinks he’s smarter than everyone and all you’ll want is to see him get ruined. To see that face covered in sadness and shame as he’s outwitted by the very people he just sneered at. You’ll get that, too. It’ll feel great.

Add it all up and you have maybe the most bingeable show I’ve seen in a year or two. I say this because I just spent the holidays binging seasons two and three and I enjoyed it a lot. There’s a solid mixture of fun and action and cliffhangers that meld together in a way that plays well in a lengthy clump of viewing. The action shifts from cold office buildings staffed with stuffed shirts to rural airfields staffed by Russian double agents to bars staffed by crusty bartenders. Everyone is always up to something in ways you don’t always see coming. The very British six-episode seasons help, too, because you can rip through an entire story from beginning to end in a single cloudy winter weekend. Once again, satisfying.

Please hear me out on this one. Try to get past the title. Pretend it has a different one if it helps. Let’s go with The Misadventures of the Farting and Bumbling Spies. That could work. It would be accurate if nothing else. I really cannot stress in strong enough terms how much farting there is. It is easily the best show I’ve ever seen that contains this much flatulence. Between that and the stolen diamonds and the double-crosses and the detestable people getting wrecked by their own egos and/or other people’s fists, I mean…

What else could you ask for out of a little binge, you know?

Back in 2008, 30 Rock brought back the cast of Night Court for a one-episode revival after the original series was canceled in 1992. The whole episode was basically just a way for Tina Fey and Co. to riff on the many reboots in the works at the time, but it also brought up a good point: there never was closure on the hit series. So it was brought back in the year 2023, because we, as a society, needed closure.

The revival of Night Court is back in session for another season, with The Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch portraying Abby Stone, daughter of the late Harry Stone from the original series, as she holds the dreaded night shift at the Manhattan Criminal Court. Season one premiered last year, and now season two is in full swing.

Night Court returned with a holiday episode in December, and in 2024, new episodes will air on Tuesdays. Season two will consist of 13 episodes, which is a lot considering production was cut short due to the strikes last year.

John Larroquette, original star and producer told TheWrap that the crew was quick to return to work after negotiations were met. “Luckily, the production was being held, the stages [were] held — everything is there. We didn’t have to rebuild all of that, which sometimes happens — they need the space, so they strike stuff — but we didn’t have to do that,” he confirmed.

You can watch Night Court on Peacock.

It appears Australian rapper and model Iggy Azalea may be shifting her focus away from music. Yesterday (January 2), Azalea took to Twitter to reveal that she is opting not to finish her upcoming album.

Azalea explained that she has found herself more fulfilled working in creative direction.

“In truth what I’ve known for a long time is that I feel more passionately about design and creative direction than I do about song writing,” Azalea said. “To many of you that’s no shock to read.”

The announcement arrives almost a year after Azalea launched her “Hotter Than Hell X OnlyFans” project, which featured Azalea in steamy boudoir photos. Elsewhere in the post, Azalea brushed off claims that she had been “bullied” out of making music.

“I know a lot of people have this idea that I was ‘bullied away from music’ and that’s something I’ve always laughed at because I’d never be bullied out of anything,” Azalea said. “In fact, I’m too stubborn.”

You can read the full statement below.

“This is gonna be long….
so only bother reading if you love me.
(If you still bother anyway you’re a weirdo who has been warned.)

I’ve always been someone who finds my joy in being creative & seeing my ideas come to life.
For a long time I used music to deliver my big crazy ideas to the world.

I know a lot of people have this idea that I was “bullied away from music” and that’s something I’ve always laughed at because I’d never be bullied out of anything!
In fact, I’m too stubborn.
I think I’ve even resisted changes within myself at times, purely because I don’t like being viewed as someone who quits.

In truth what I’ve known for a long time is that I feel more passionately about design and creative direction than I do about song writing.
To many of you that’s no shock to read.
It shows in my work. Haha!
Jokes aside, i do spend a lot more time on that part of things… because Im most confident at that.

That’s why I want to let you know that I’m not going to finish my album.
It’s been paused for a few months while I was giving direction for a different project & in truth I just haven’t felt the urge to go back to it.
I feel really happy & passionate in my day to day life when my minds focused on that and so I want to stick to what’s undeniably best for me.

Cant wait to start sharing some of the things I’ve been involved in creating & hoping you’ll see my quirk & humor in anything I touch!

I know for some fans this probably makes you feel a little deflated –
I’m sorry to let you down.
But, it’s more important I don’t let myself down.
I hope youll understand.

Talk soon! I Love you.”

Over the weekend, Green Day made headlines for their New Year’s Eve performance of “American Idiot,” where they changed a lyric to call out Trump. Instead of “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” of the original, Billie Joe Armstrong sang, “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

Since then, a video went around online of Fox Business hosts discussing the performance. “People are so sick of being preached at about politics from rock bands,” they said. “Stick to what you’re good at. You’re not a political analyst. You’re probably not really well read on the issues that Americans really care about.”

However, this didn’t sit right with Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, who had some thoughts about the video. “Is that so?” he tweeted, regarding the fact that rock bands usually do call out political issues. (Case in point, his own.)

As other Green Day fans have pointed out, Armstrong has also been making this lyric change for quite a while. It just hadn’t been on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, but that was likely to still happen when they were hired for the gig.

Back in 2016, the band also yelled “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” during the American Music Awards. And most recently, they sold merch with Trump’s mugshot on it, with the proceeds going to charity.

Check out Morello’s response about the Green Day criticism below.

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What if there was a show that was like Only Murders in the Building meets Knives Out? Also, it has Mandy Patinkin as the world’s greatest detective. That sounds something like you’d watch, right? Well, you’re in luck: Hulu has released the first trailer for Death and Other Details, a new murder mystery series that has Patinkin in the Benoit Blanc role and Violett Beane as the top suspect who needs the detective’s help to prove her innocence.

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

Set amidst the glamor of the global elite, Death and Other Details centers on the brilliant and restless Imogene Scott (Violett Beane), who finds herself in the wrong place/wrong time (OK, it was kinda her fault) and becomes the prime suspect in a locked room murder mystery. The setting? A lavishly restored Mediterranean ocean liner. Suspects? Every pampered guest and every exhausted crew member. The problem? To prove her innocence, she must partner with a man she despises: Rufus Cotesworth (Mandy Patinkin), the world’s greatest detective.

Death and Other Details, which also stars Lauren Patten, Rahul Kohli, Angela Zhou, Hugo Diego Garcia, Pardis Saremi and Linda Emond, premieres on Hulu on January 16 with two episodes. That’s followed by weekly episodes before a two-part finale on March 5.

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel threatened Aaron Rodgers with a lawsuit after the New York Jets player alleged that the late night host is on the list of Jeffrey Epstein clients that is set to be unsealed by a judge. The remarks happened on The Pat McAfee Show where Rodgers is a frequent paid guest, and McAfee immediately apologized at the top of Wednesday’s episode.

“I can see exactly why Jimmy Kimmel felt the way he felt, especially with his position. But I think Aaron was just trying to talk shit. But did it go too far? Jimmy Kimmel certainly said that was the case,” McAfee said via Variety. “We obviously don’t like the fact that we’re associated with anything negative ever. We like our show to be an uplifting one, a happy one, a fun one. But it’s because we talk shit and try to make light of everything. Some things obviously people get very pissed off about, especially when they’re that serious allegations, so we apologize for being a part of it.”

McAfee’s extremely shaky legal defense that Rodgers was “just trying to talk sh*t” sparked a flurry of jokes on Twitter where people also noted that both ESPN and ABC are owned by Disney, who was presumably not thrilled at their wildly popular late night host being falsely connected to Epstein.

You can see some of the reactions below:

Rodgers is set to appear on McAfee’s show on Wednesday, so it’ll be interesting to see if he also apologizes or stirs up even more trouble. It honestly could go either way.

(Via Variety)