It will also document how the company “became embroiled in allegations including non-consensual material and trafficking on the site,” according to Netflix. “As anti-trafficking organizations seek justice for victims, can the online giant protect those from whom they profit, or is this a new wave of censorship for adult performers making consensual porn?” As one performer says in the trailer above, “They neglect to see that sex work and sex trafficking are two completely different things.”
“This documentary requires us to grapple with what sexuality and consent means when billion-dollar internet platforms thrive on user-generated content,” Money Shot: The Pornhub Story director and producer Suzanne Hillinger said. “Who has, and who should have, the power in these environments? Our hope is that this film generates important conversations about sex and consent, both on the internet and out in the world.”
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story will premiere on Netflix on March 15.
If you felt like February was light on TV show debuts, then you weren’t wrong. The solid news, however, is that March is shaping up to be a much more eventful run. Several crowd favorites are on tap for returns, including the show starring the irresistible Baby Yoda. That Pedro Pascal dude is also onboard that Disney+ series, and he’ll further be starring in the final episodes of the current The Last Of Us season. He’s enjoying his moment, so to speak.
From there, three juggernauts — Succession, Yellowjackets, and Ted Lasso — will also come back while attempting to recover from varying degrees of betrayal. There’s much more coming, too, as you’ll see below. Here are the must see shows for March 2023.
The Mandalorian: Season 3 (Disney+ series streaming 3/1)
Amid the deluge of Marvel Cinematic shows (some truly amazing ones, but it’s been a lot), it’s sometimes nice to simply count upon the ever-reliable presence of Pedro Pascal and Baby Yoda. Make no mistake, Grogu is back, and he’s stealing candy and (Force-fully) taking names, and you might wonder if it’s a wise idea to also watch the Boba Fett show before you tuck into this third round of adventures. We’ve got you covered there, and some other good news has arrived: Jon Favreau believes that The Mandalorian can keep cranking out seasons for many years to come.
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (Netflix standup special streaming 3/4)
Chris Rock has “got to play that Tamborine,” and we ranked that special at the top of our Best Stand-Up Specials on Netflix list. Fortunately, Rock is not only back for another event, but this should be quite an experiment. Selective Outrage will stream as Netflix’s first live-streamed event at 10:00pm EST on release day. Anything could happen, as Rock already knows from hosting the Oscars. This set takes place in Maryland, and of course, you’ll be able to stream this puppy after the fact if you can’t make it live.
Perry Mason: Season 2 (HBO/HBO Max series returning 3/6)
Man, it’s good to have Matthew Rhys back as a terrifically sad-looking TV leading man again. He’s glorious in this role, taking us back to Perry’s hard-living, early-career days. This show doesn’t aim to compare to the Raymond Burr-starring series of yesteryear, and in fact, it’s an altogether different beast. This HBO projects manages to (like Peacock’s Bel-Air but by different means) transcend all of the usual trappings of “gritty” as a reinvention, and this happens by way of Team Downey, which is also doing magical things with Netflix’s Sweet Tooth. What I’m saying is this: we are living in a golden age of reinvention, and this season, Perry digs into the seedy underbelly of Hoovervilles while exploring the murder of an oil scion.
You: Season 4 Part 2 (Netflix series streaming 3/9)
Joe Goldberg has another new name, and largely a new personality, given that he’s a fake professor in London. He’s also fallen into a pit of relative despair, but the masses are still clicking, so tune in to see what the show has in store for him (he’s the one being stalked these days) after all that stalking and killing. Don’t expect too much sexy time from this season, however, because Penn Badgley has been there and done that, thank you very much.
Ted Lasso: Season 3 (Apple TV+ series streaming 3/15)
Look, Jason Sudekis and the gang have certainly heard about all of the kind-of mean backlash to Season 2, and they’re fine with this. In fact and as the above teaser reveals, they “still believe.” Not only that, but the eternally chipper AFC Richmond coach will arrive with his patented positivity brand a week ahead of darker juggernauts like Yellowjackets and Succession, but make no mistake, there are betrayals involved in all of these shows. How will Lasso follow up on Nate going full Joker? We’ll soon find out, but apparently, glitter and glue are involved.
Extrapolations: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series streaming 3/17)
Well, it snowed in Southern California in late February, so we may soon be living in a reality that resembles this omnibus series. Eight loosely related stories will unfurl to show how climate change has wreaked chaos, which we’ll need to combat while also working through our own daily concerns like work, love, family, and all the necessary stuff of being a human. This planet will keep reacting to us regardless, and this series comes from Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, who not only writes but also executive produces. Expect to see Kit Harington, Murray Bartlett, Eiza González, Tobey Maguire, Daveed Diggs, Matthew Rhys, Kerry Russell, Heather Graham, Sienna Miller, Meryl Streep, and many more appear within this tapestry.
Power Book II: Ghost: Season 3 (Stars series returning 3/17)
Not to be outdone by Taylor Sheridan’s vast assembling of many Paramount shows (both of the Yellowstone variety and not so much), 50 Cent’s Power universe continues past the original series with a whole lot of drama to clean up. That includes an accidental killing and a car accident, all with Tariq St. Patrick attempting to mop up life and leave the game. However, he will soon end up back in business, which will complete his plans to regain trust and his family. Betrayal and a R.I.C.O. investigation will do that, unfortunately.
Rabbit Hole: Season 1 (Paramount+ series streaming 3/26)
Finally, Kiefer Sutherland will be back on TV in action/intrigue mode. He stars as John Weir, a corporate espionage wizard who finds himself on the hook for a murder that he didn’t commit. This project will be one of the first major swings by the fledgling streamer (although film blockbuster mainstay) to branch out beyond the Yellowstone/Taylor Sheridan shows that are their biggest streaming draw. Putting the 24 leading man into his most powerful mode seems like a good route for success because Dad Shows tend to bring eyeballs, and few people don’t enjoy seeing Kiefer kick some ass.
Great Expectations: Season 1 (FX on Hulu series streaming 3/26)
At once, it’s worth wondering if the world asked for another adaptation of this Charles Dickens classic, but it’s also quite true that it took too long for Olivia Colman to be cast as Miss Havisham. Writer Steven Knight (Spencer, Peaky Blinders) does does the literary honors here while bringing us an updated take on Pip and how he navigates his messed up new world. In the end, we’ll likely receive a class system critique like the original project but in an unconventional way, given that Ridley Freaking Scott and Jiu-Jitsu King Tom Hardy are in producing seats here, along with many other minds from FX’s A Christmas Carol.
Succession: Season 4 (HBO series returning 3/26)
Succession‘s f-bomb dropping patriarch, Brian Cox, will only have to endure what he describes as Jeremy Strong’s “f*cking annoying” method acting for one more season, but that’s also bad news, given that people are quite emotional about this show coming to an end after one more round of betrayal-filled episodes. Will Shiv manage to be at all likable after this season, and will the di*k pic scandal carry aftereffects, considering that so much other fallout arose during the finale? We’ll soon find out, but for now, Tom is somehow king. That’s somehow fitting but also cannot last.
Yellowjackets: Season 2 (Showtime series returning 3/26 & streaming 3/24)
The show’s initial slow-burn splatter art eventually shot into the sky with a disturbing-yet-compelling exploration of the natural food chain as embodied by the mean girls of a high school soccer team. It’s very Lord Of The Flies but with Christina Ricci as the most horrifying, homicidal adult version of her character possible. She’ll be flanked by the likes of Elijah Wood, also generally terrifying, for a Citizen Detective mystery mission while, at the scene of the plane crash, it’s the dead of the winter. Things will grow grim, even more so than we’ve seen already, and we’ll see how the Antler Queen and all that cult-y stuff further shakes out. Melanie Lynskey and Juliette Lewis also return as the adult manifestations of characters who saw too much sh*t in those woods.
White House Plumbers: Season 1 (HBO series debuting 3/TBA)
Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux star as E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively, and yes, those are the notorious Watergate masterminds. Veep showrunner David Mandel will guide this story into all the darkly comedic turns that one will hope for, as the leading duo inadvertently sends the Nixon presidency into a complete shambles. In other words, this story will feel right at home during the same month that Succession returns to HBO. The cast is pretty stacked, too, and includes Judy Greer, Lena Headey, Ike Barinholtz, Domhnall Gleeson, Kathleen Turner, and Kim Coates, who will hopefully bring some truly evil mustache flavor, even if we never see him on a Sons of Anarchy type ride. Anything is possible with TV magic, though.
In a post shared yesterday (February 28), Sun wrote, “In 1 week my entire life completely changed…I just know there’s a plan for it all. I’ll keep my head up + always listen to my heart, even when it feels broken [broken heart emoji] Being surrounded by love every night on tour has been an absolute blessing. I have the best friends in the entire world, thanks for always having my back. See you on stage.”
It appears Sun was blindsided by the break-up: After the break-up reports in late February, Sun’s representative told TMZ, “They were together and engaged as of 3 days ago when he left for tour so if anything has changed that’s news to him.” The publication also noted that Sun and Lavigne were seen together as recently as February, when they attended an event surrounding the 2023 Grammys together.
Lavigne has yet to publicly address the situation.
In the season three premiere of the Disney+ Star Wars show, its first episode since December 2020 (unless you count The Book of Boba Fett), Din Djarin (played by Pedro Pascal) is on a mission to find redemption in the living waters beneath the mines of Mandalore. To do so, however, he needs help from an old friend: Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), excuse me, High Magistrate Greef Karga.
The two catch up while walking around Nevarro, which is in need of a marshal (and a new IG-11 statue) to ward off pirates. “What about Marshal Dune?” Din Djarin wonders, referring to Cara Dune. “After she brought in Moff Gideon,” Karga replies, “she was recruited by special forces.” That’s the in-canon explanation for her absence, at least; in real life, Dune was played by Gina Carano, who was fired from the show (and a potential spin-off) for making “abhorrent and unacceptable” comments on social media.
“Cara was a big part and continues as a character to be part of the world,” executive producer Rick Famuyiwa told Deadline about her nonappearance. “It had to be addressed in the creative, and [Jon Favreau] took the time to think about that. It was something that was discussed as we knew it was going to have impact on the show, but at the same time, what has been at the heart of the show are the two characters — Din Djarin and Grogu — so ultimately it felt like a servicing of that, and around the Mandalorians.”
Anyway, that’s enough talk about Gina Carano. Here’s Baby Yoda hugging a Babu Frik alien.
First, Ed Sheeran launched a hot sauce line. Now, he’s readying a new album: After a bit of teasing, Sheeran announced – (aka Subtract), which is set to be the last of his mathematically-named albums following +, x, ÷, and =. The new project is set for release on May 5.
The album features 14 tracks (listed below), while the deluxe version has an additional four: “Wildflowers,” “Stoned,” “Toughest,” and “Moving.” Press materials note the project “revisits Ed’s singer/songwriter roots” and that Sheeran worked on it with The National’s Aaron Dessner after meeting through Taylor Swift. A press release also indicates that “the album’s fourteen tracks are seamlessly tied together by exquisite production from paired back, folk-leaning textures to bolder, full-band/orchestral arrangements.”
In a statement about the album, Sheeran explained how it came about after a particularly rough stretch:
“I had been working on Subtract for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be. Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.
Writing songs is my therapy. It helps me make sense of my feelings. I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out. And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts.
Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth. My best friend Jamal, a brother to me, died suddenly and I found myself standing in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter. I was spiralling through fear, depression and anxiety.
I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not being able to break through for air.
As an artist I didn’t feel like I could credibly put a body of work into the world that didn’t accurately represent where I am and how I need to express myself at this point in my life. This album is purely that. It’s opening the trapdoor into my soul. For the first time I’m not trying to craft an album people will like, I’m merely putting something out that’s honest and true to where I am in my adult life.
This is last February’s diary entry and my way of making sense of it. This is Subtract.”
Before she nabbed the role of reporter Gale Weathers, Courteney Cox tended to be typecast as nice. She broke through as Alex P. Keaton’s understanding girlfriend on Family Ties. She was Monica Geller on Friends. She even danced with Bruce Springsteen in the video for “Dancing in the Dark.” But Gale in Scream was a whole different beast — driven, sometimes unethical, not very nice. According to Cox, convincing director Wes Craven to let her muck with her image took some doing.
“That’s a really fun character, especially at the very beginning when she was so ruthless. I was known from ‘Friends’ and ‘Family Ties,’ known as the girl next door and sweet. I had to talk to [director] Wes Craven and write him a letter and say, ‘I know that you don’t think of me as this person, but trust me, I really can be an absolute bitch,’” she says with a laugh. “It was over the top in the perfect way. You really care about the characters because they were unique, and you don’t laugh at them, you laugh with them because they’re smart. If they were dumb, they were supposed to be and they’re endearing.”
In the same interview, Cox — who just scored a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — also poured a small amount of cold water on Prince Harry’s Mad Libs-y claim that he once did shrooms in her house, saying she wasn’t really involved. Then again, she didn’t exactly deny that mean it happened.
Justin Bieber has been at the center of a conversation about the inescapable drama involving his current wife Hailey and his famous ex Selena Gomez. However, some serious news just broke about his Justice World Tour.
Last year in June, the “Peaches” singer postponed the start of his North American tour. “I’ve done everything to get better, but my sickness is getting worse,” he wrote about his battle with Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome. “My heart breaks that I will have to postpone these next few shows (doctors orders). To all my people I love you so much and I’m gonna rest and get better!”
In September, Bieber postponed the remaining 70 dates of the massive run. “After getting off stage, the exhaustion overtook me and I realized that I needed to make my health a priority right now,” he explained on social media. “So I’m going to take a break from touring for the time being.”
It was revealed in October that “all remaining dates of his world tour postponed to next year.” However, it’s 2023 now, and it’s not looking good. USA Today notes that the remaining concert dates were erased from Bieber’s website. Along with that, venues are announcing cancellations and fans on social media are sharing emails from Ticketmaster that the events has been canceled.
Sometimes when you want to know if your favorite musician is releasing new music soon, all you have to do is open Twitter and ask them. Or at least that’s the case with the indie-rock moguls Grandaddy.
Tweeting at the frontman Jason Lytle‘s personal account, a fan wrote: “Hi Jason. I do love your music very much. It has gotten me through so many times. And I appreciate you being active on Twitter. May I ask, what are your plans for new @Grandaddy and/or Jason Lytle music? Do you foresee live performances? Thank you.”
Politeness goes a long way, because Jason Lytle replied in a quote-tweet, writing, “Ha!…All somebody had to do was ask. New grandaddy Lp recorded and is getting mixed very soon. I don’t see why it can’t be released in the middle of this year. Live shows…hmmm…no idea.”
Ha!…All somebody had to do was ask. New grandaddy Lp recorded and is getting mixed very soon. I don’t see why it can’t be released in the middle of this year. Live shows…hmmm…no idea https://t.co/ssMKlHOUHq
In our 2020 interview with Lytle, he discussed dealing with bad memories through making music. “So let’s say that you have something in your life that’s just tearing you apart,” he said. “And the only way to deal with it is to write it down in a journal, which lots of people do and it helps. You get it out. It’s on paper. You’re just like, ‘All right, it’s in physical form.’ There’s something kind of cathartic about that like, ‘All right, I feel better.’ And you just move on. You close the journal, you put it in the drawer. Maybe it didn’t fix you, but you feel a lot better.”
Ja Morant is usually the member of the Memphis Grizzlies who levitates and makes opponents look silly. During Tuesday night’s game between Memphis and the Los Angeles Lakers, Morant instead watched from the sideline as Jaren Jackson Jr. threw down one of the nastiest putback dunks you will see this season at the expense of Anthony Davis.
Jackson broke up an attempted lob that Dennis Schröder threw to Davis during the fourth quarter while Morant was getting a breather. The other nine players beat him up the floor, so Jackson was behind the play as John Konchar attempted a runner that hit the back of the rim.
The benefit, however, was that Davis had zero idea that Jackson was right behind him. The Lakers star barely got off the ground as the frontrunner for league’s Defensive Player of the Year rose up and snatched the ball with only his left hand. Jackson didn’t even need to corral it and come back down, as he threw down right over Davis and got the crowd at FedExForum on their feet.
Nicolas Cage was born to do many things. One of them is playing himself. Another is playing Dracula. After all, back in 1989 he did a kind of dry run for it without the bananas Vampire’s Kiss. But he finally go to play Bram Stoker’s seductive bloodsucker in the forthcoming Renfield, starring Nicholas Hoult as a modern day, less wackadoodle version of his familiar. And he thinks he only scraped the surface.
“You know, there are some minor moments here where you get to see some of the pathos in Dracula’s eyes,” Cage told Total Film (in a bit caught by Variety). “That made me think that maybe one day I might like to try for a whole movie where you’re really understanding the psyche of the character. I didn’t really have the time to delve into that here.”
Cage also said playing the role was destiny. “I also kind of always knew I had to do it at some point,” Cage explained. He even did some homework on the many previous big screen incarnations of fiction’s most popular vampire.
“I went back to Christopher Lee, in terms of his manner of speaking, but that was really only a starting point. I knew Christopher. I did a small scene with him in Season of the Witch, and I liked him very much. We had a lot of nice conversations, and he reminded me quite a bit of my father, August. So from then on, my dad sort of became the main inspiration for me.”
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