Damon Albarn has made a lot of friends in the music world over the past few years with all the collaborations Gorillaz have done as part of the Song Machine series. Today, though, he has made an enemy: Taylor Swift.
In a recent Los Angeles Times interview, Albarn insisted that Swift “doesn’t write her own songs” and added, “[Co-writing] doesn’t count. I know what co-writing is. Co-writing is very different to writing. I’m not hating on anybody, I’m just saying there’s a big difference between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes.”
Now Swift has caught wind of that and she seems pretty bothered by it, as she took to Twitter today to note that she was previously “such a big fan of” Albarn before he said what he said. Swift wrote, “@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really f*cked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW.” She added in a follow-up tweet, “PS I wrote this tweet all by myself in case you were wondering.”
@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW. https://t.co/t6GyXBU2Jd
This actually wasn’t the first time Albarn has thrown shade at Swift, as in a 2015 interview, he gave her a bit of backhanded praise, describing her as “remarkable, but not unique.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
There’s no way to watch Rory Kennedy‘s Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival) and not come away absolutely enraged. It’s not just that Boeing knew it had a problem before the first of two 737 Maxs crashed. And its not just they knew they had a problem after the second plane crashed. Its that they knew, over this design’s lifetime, a projected 15 would crash, yet they still sent them up every day. Then, instead of taking responsibility, decided instead to blame the pilots. (It’s so bad that there’s a scene of Ted Cruz, of all people, dressing down the then CEO of Boeing and I found myself actively rooting for Ted Cruz, a man I do not like.)
In a nutshell, the problem was a new system introduced by Boeing for the 737 Max called the MCAS (pronounced “em-cass”). Because the 737 Max has bigger engines for better fuel efficiency, they had to be placed on a different spot on the wings. The MCAS exists to automatically course correct the plane due to errors that might come out of the engines being in a different location. But, when new systems are introduced, that means new pilot training, which means money is lost, which means airlines might not buy these planes. So instead of training pilots on this new system, Boeing decided to not even mention it exists.
So when the system went haywire, the pilots on the first plane literally did not know why the computer on the plane was literally forcing it into the ocean. The pilots on the second crash by this point did know, but they did everything right and it still didn’t matter. The computer on the plane was literally trying to ram the plane into the ground. And as the film shows us, Boeing knew all of this and decided, as a business decision, to still send these planes in the air.
Ahead, Kennedy talks about this eye-opening film that, again, will enrage you.
This film is infuriating.
Excellent.
It was so infuriating I found myself rooting for Ted Cruz. And I don’t like Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is in the film. We have Trump in the film. I think the truth is that there was really a bipartisan congressional effort to get to the bottom of this story and what happened. And I think when we learn what we learned from the film that Boeing was trying to cover up this MCAS system as far back as 2013. They knew that if pilots didn’t respond within four to 10 seconds, that the result would be catastrophic. Meaning that the plane would crash and everybody on the plane would die. And they still let this plane go up into the air, knowing that. And then the thing where Boeing is told the FAA knows that this plane is projected to crash 15 times in its lifetime.
Right. And they make a business decision that it probably won’t happen again before we fix it. And it did.
Right. So then you’re rolling the dice on people’s lives. And in the first plane, the pilots didn’t even know the MCAS was on the plane and had no idea why the nose of this plane was being pushed down over and over again. And they were fully unequipped on how to deal with that. And, honestly, even with the second plane crash, it was a memo that Boeing sent out. There was no simulator training. There was no mayday situation. “Every pilot needs to understand what’s going on here.” Or better yet, “let’s ground this plane until we know it’s safe.”
I am curious, I mentioned the Ted Cruz scene earlier, I really enjoyed watching him yell at then Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg. Did you use the Cruz footage on purpose because it would get a reaction?
I mean, listen, it’s part of the record. And it was a moment. So it seemed deserving to be included in the film. And I also think that this is not a partisan issue. This is not an issue of Democrats versus Republicans. This is a concern that goes much deeper than that. And in fact, this bill that Congressman DeFazio spearheaded to create changes and substantive changes in the airlines industry and the regulations that happen as a result, very heroic. This was one of the few bills that passed during one of the most divisive terms in our congressional history. And I think it speaks to the fact that this is an issue that transcends Democrats or Republicans and goes much deeper than that. Because listen, the truth is we all fly. Right?
Right.
I have three children. I send my children on these airplanes, and they walk down that jet-way. And I want to trust that when they get on that plane, the airlines is looking after them, the manufacturer is looking after them, the regulators are looking after them, Congress is looking after them. And I was really shocked in the making of this film to find that pretty much all of those folks failed us.
Do you remember the movie The Rainmaker? There’s a scene where a letter is read from the company on trial telling a policy holder, “Are you stupid, stupid, stupid?” And Boeing is literally sending emails calling Lion Air stupid. It’s unbelievable.
Well, I need to see that movie again, it’s been a while. I mean, I remember reading that memo where Boeing had called the Lion Air pilots stupid for wanting to have pilot training on on this new airplane. And of course, that plane went on to crash, in large part, because they didn’t have that pilot training. It’s heartbreaking on some fundamental level because, as I say, it’s beyond corporate malfeasance, and it is profit over public interest, but I think about all the people who died on those planes. And that’s where you just think, gosh, are there people who really need to make this much money? Do they really need this much money? I mean, at this cost? Really?
But then Boeing, knowing what they already knew, knowing what the problem was, then started a PR campaign to blame the pilot. And obviously, you have the pilot’s widow in the movie. It is heartbreaking what she had to go through and fight this company.
I mean, can you imagine?
No.
And for them to have known that it was an airplane that was retrofitted to accommodate these new engines that was built very quickly, that skirted around a lot of the safety issues and safety concerns that were voiced, and the slew of decisions, and knowing that this plane had a high chance of crashing, that they blamed the pilots. I mean, can you imagine being the wife of the pilot and her knowing how much this pilot committed his life to the safety of his passengers? And that was his highest priority, and that’s what he lived for. And then it trickles down, and people blame him.
I felt like I kind of had a grasp on what happened. And then you watch this movie, and it’s just like, no, the computer is literally trying to kill everyone on board. You have that line in the movie.
I think it reminds me of Captain Sullenberger’s line in the film, “It was maniacal. It was trying to kill them,” I think is his quote. And that’s the reality of what was happening to these pilots, which is why we really committed some time and energy and resources to doing CGI recreation of the perspective of the pilots and to really get into that cockpit.
Which looks great and is horrifying.
Well, I appreciate you feeling like it worked for you, because it was really important to me in part to respect these pilots and to really help people. Because I read so many of the articles. I would read the articles and say, “Well, what actually happened?” And it was very hard to translate it, because it’s complicated. And so I really wanted to make a film where people could understand it and walk out of the theater, or of whatever screening device that they’re going to watch this on, and be able to explain it. And I felt like getting into that cockpit and helping people understand it from that perspective was a part of that process. But also, I think emotionally, it helps you really understand what these pilots went through. And I wanted to respect that.
Going into making this, what did you think you kind of had a grasp on that still wound up shocking you?
Well, I think what was the most was shocking to me was really having a deeper understanding of what Boeing knew very early on in the process before these planes went up. I think understanding the degree to which Boeing was aware of how vulnerable this plane was, still put it up in the air. And then after the first crash, I mean the prediction was that 15 planes would crash like this in the course of its lifetime. I just don’t understand how somebody knows that, like a human being knows that, and makes the choice to send that plane up into the air. I just don’t understand it. I don’t understand how you can sleep at night with that kind of calculation
Early in the new year, rapper Denzel Curry released a spaghetti Western-influenced trailer for his upcoming album, Melt My Eyez See Your Future. Stylized like a film preview, the credits promise a loaded list of guest vocal appearances from 6lack, Bridget Perez, 454, Buzzy Lee, JID, Rico Nasty, Slowthai, and T-Pain, plus production from Boi-1da, Cardo, Dot The Genius, Jpegmafia, Karriem Riggins, Kenny Beats, Powers Pleasant, Robert Glasper, Thundercat, and Curry himself. The new video for “Walkin” is a continuation of the trailer that expands into a deeper visual aesthetic well beyond the Western.
In the “Walkin” clip, Curry is coursing through a post-apocalyptic desert in a different galaxy. It feels like a barren planet from Star Wars, complete with incredible sand dunes, blasters, and nefarious villains trying to put the rapper to rest. “Keep on walkin, aint no stoppin, in this dirty, filthy, rotten, nasty world that we call our home,” he raps on the hook. Both the music and the visual give rise to a desperado mentality from Curry, and a story is clearly bubbling for the release of Melt My Eyez See Your Future.
Watch the video for “Walkin” above and check out Denzel Curry’s 2022 North America tour dates below.
04/01 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
04/02 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Complex
04/04 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
04/05 — Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
04/07 — Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
04/09 — Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
04/10 — San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
04/17 — Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival
06/14 — Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
06/15 — Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
06/17 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival
04/24 — Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival
06/18 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
06/21 — Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
06/22 — Miami, FL @ Fillmore
06/24 — New Orleans, LA @ Fillmore
06/25 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
06/26 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s
06/28 — Dallas, TX @ Southside Ballroom
06/30 — Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey
07/01 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Real Time with Bill Maher returned for its 20th season on Friday, and naturally, host Bill Maher came out firing with his usual round of controversial hot takes. This time around, Maher took aim at the current state of the coronavirus pandemic, which for the past month, has seen the omicron variant skyrocket cases across the country and pushed healthcare workers to their breaking point. However, instead of promoting the vaccine or safe practices like masking up, Maher announced that he’s over the pandemic, and he’s tired of precautions that he believes aren’t doing anything.
“It’s not real anymore!” Maher said about COVID before launching into a rant about how everyone’s being paranoid. “You go out, it’s silly now: You have to have a mask, you have to have a card, you have to have a booster. They scan your head, like you’re a cashier and I’m a bunch of bananas. I’m not bananas. You are!”
While the comedian was flamed all weekend on social media, Whoopi Goldberg stepped up to the plate first thing Monday morning and called out Maher during a fiery segment on The View. Via Mediaite:
Nobody on the planet really wants to go through this. This is not something we’re doing because it’s, you know, sexually gratifying. This is what we’re doing to protect our families, and you don’t have to do it, but stay away from everybody because if you are the one who’s not paying attention, and you’re coughing and sneezing, you don’t want to — then stay out of the public, man.
As Golberg continued, she dragged Maher even further for dismissing the real dangers that everyday people continue to face. “Nobody wants this,” Goldberg said. “I don’t want it, and I think he’s forgetting that people are still at risk who cannot get vaccinated, people who can’t. Little kids under the age of 5. Or people with health conditions. How dare you be so flippant, man?”
Last week, Thundercat fans who also love the Star Wars franchise (I’m sure there is a sizable overlap, considering the popularity of the galaxy far, far away) were delighted to see the jazz revivalist pop up in the latest episode of The Book Of Boba Fett as an underground cybernetics technician employed by the bounty hunter turned wannabe crime boss to save The Mandalorian‘s former bounty Fennec Shand from a gutshot. This week, those same fans have more reasons to be excited about Thundercat’s role after he shared the official poster for his character Mod Artist.
Considering the show has only released posters for those guest stars who have recurring roles on the show so far, it’s probably safe to assume that Mod Artist — and therefore Thundercat — will appear on the show again to support Boba’s growing criminal empire. In a fun plus for ‘Cat fans, the character features few prosthetics, letting him resemble his real-life counterpart rather than one of Star Wars‘ massive menagerie of interesting-looking aliens. But, true to his character’s job grafting machine parts to Tattooine’s punk youth, Mod Artist sports a droid arm with attachments including a buzz saw and various probes that help him in his work.
While it remains to be seen how the character will fit into the show’s grand scheme, there’s no doubt it’s a dream come true for the sci-fi-loving Thundercat, who has referenced all kinds of Star Wars-adjacent work in his musical output.
In 2020, Retirement Party dropped their sophomore album Runaway Dog, but sadly, it appears that will be the group’s final full-length release: The band — which consists of Avery Springer, James Ringness, Eddy Rodriguez, and Cee Dertz — announced today that they are breaking up.
A post shared on social media reads:
“It comes with great sadness that we share that Retirement Party has reached its end. Some of our lives are going in different directions and it doesn’t feel right to try to continue the band at this moment. We will be recording/releasing 3 more songs, and announcing our last tour on Wednesday. Unfortunately we will no longer be heading on our European tour in June.
Thank you all so much for the love and support these last 5 years. Making music together and getting to jump around on stage for y’all is something we’ll all cherish forever. While we aren’t going everywhere on this tour, we hope we’ll get to have a proper farewell with as many of you as we can.
With love,
Avery, James, Eddy, and Cee”
Beyond the aforementioned final plans, it’s not entirely clear what the band members plan to do next. At the time of a July 2020 interview with Uproxx, though, Springer was fresh off graduating college and she told Uproxx, “I’m currently pursuing endeavors within the business side of the music industry outside of the band right now.”
Find Retirement Party’s announcement below and revisit our interview with the band here.
Bruce Springsteen has written a number of songs about New Jersey, girls, and girls from New Jersey, so it’s surprising that Tom Waits got around to calling a song “Jersey Girl” before he did. The Boss did cover the single from 1980’s Heartattack and Vine, though, and his version is arguably more well known than the original (the same thing happened to Waits with “Downtown Train” and Rod Stewart). At the very least, it’s more of an honor for Springsteen to call you a “Jersey girl” than Waits. Just ask Rachel Zegler.
Zegler, a girl from Jersey, was delighted when Springsteen visited her on the set of West Side Story. “Bruce Springsteen came three times, and he came to see me sing ‘I Feel Pretty.’ He had his Aviators on, and he’s like, ‘Gotta see the Jersey girl sing.’ And I just peed my pants,” the actress said on The Graham Norton Show. “I was losing my mind. That day, I could not go up and talk to him. It was him and Stephen Sondheim…”
That set visit, the one with Springsteen and the guy who wrote the lyrics to West Side Story (the second most famous Steven/Stephen there), should not be confused with the time the Boss dropped by the same day as composer John Williams and former-president Barack Obama. Who knew they were such big fans of Shrek the Musical?
The announcement was made official on Bad Bunny’s Instagram account. In the video, he’s sitting down with his girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri before getting up for an aside with his more than 37 million followers.
Check out the “Bad Bunny: World’s Hottest Tour” dates below. Tickets go on sale 1/28 at noon local time here.
08/05 — Orlando, FL @ Camping World Stadium
08/09 — Atlanta, GA @ Truist Park
08/12 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium
08/18 — Boston, MA @ Fenway Park
08/20 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
08/23 — Washington DC @ Nationals Park
08/27 — New York City, NY @ Yankee Stadium
09/01 — Houston, TX @ Minute Maid Park
09/07 — San Antonio, TX @ Aladodome
09/09 — Dallas, TX @ AT&T Stadium
09/14 — Oakland, CA @ RingCentral Colisuem
09/17 — San Diego, CA @ PETCO Park
09/23 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
09/28 — Phoenix, AZ @ Chase Field
09/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
10/21 — Santo Domingo, DR @ Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez
10/28 — Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos
11/04 — Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Estadio de Vélez – José Amalfitani
11/11 — Asuncion, Paraguay @ Estadio La Nueva Olla
11/13 — Lima, Peru @ Estadio Nacional
11/16 — Quito, Ecuador @ Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa
11/18 — Medellin, Colombia @ Estadio Atanasio Girardot
11/22 — Panama City, Panama @ Estadio Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez
11/24 — San Jose, Costa Rica @ Estadio Cuscatlán
11/29 — San Pedro Sula, Honduras @ Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano
12/01 — Guatemala City, Guatemala @ Explanada Cardales de Cayalá
12/03 — Monterrey, Mexico @ Estadio BBVA
12/09 — Mexico City, Mexico @ Estadio Azteca
It’s out with the old and in with the new (content, that is) on HBO and HBO Max this February.
The streaming platforms are saying goodbye to the latest seasons of their most anticipated shows — farewell to season two of Euphoria and the debut of that Sex and the City reboot — and hello to a new crop of movies and series worth adding to your binge-watching queue. The sophomore out of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi project Raised By Wolves drops early in the month, as does Steven Soderbergh’s latest thriller, but by the end of February, a Ryan Reynolds action flick and the latest Wes Anderson creation will arrive.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and HBO Max this month.
Raised By Wolves: Season 2 (HBO Max original streaming 2/3)
Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic returns for a second season on the streamer this month. The first outing followed two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious planet but religious wars soon threatened that plan. The show’s second season follows the androids and their brood of children as they join an atheistic society and battle to prevent the extinction of the human race.
KIMI (HBO Max original streaming 2/10)
Zoe Kravitz plays an agoraphobic tech worker who uncovers corruption in the company she works for in this Steven Soderbergh-directed thriller. To make matters worse, as Kravitz’s shut-in tries to get justice for murders committed during a data stream, she must venture out into a pandemic-riddled Seattle and face off against some deadly enemies.
Free Guy (film streaming 2/23)
This Ryan Reynolds starring action flick landing on HBO Max this month may not have performed well at the box office, but it’s a perfectly-good couch watch. The movie follows Reynolds as a video game character who doesn’t know he’s, well, a video game character. Once that epiphany upends his life, he partners with a badass Jodie Comer to save the game from some evil tech bros.
The French Dispatch (film streaming 2/25)
As 2021’s other Timothee Chalamet project, this Wes Anderson project is as quirky, light-hearted, and oddly, moving, as you’d expect knowing the director’s M.O. It brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city, and it leans on an impressive cast of dramatic and comedic actors to do it.
Here’s Everything Coming To HBO And HBO Max This Month:
Avail. 2/1 3:10 to Yuma, 2007 (HBO) 12 Years A Slave, 2013 (HBO) 21 & Over, 2013 (HBO) A Bridge Too Far, 1977 (HBO) After The Sunset, 2004 (HBO) Airheads, 1994 (HBO) Alex & Emma, 2003 (HBO) Amistad, 1997 An American Haunting, 2005 (HBO) Army Of One, 2020 (HBO) Bad Milo!, 2013 (HBO) Black Dynamite, 2009 The Book Thief, 2013 (HBO) Broken English, 2007 (HBO) The Butterfly Effect, 2004 (Director’s Cuts) (HBO) The Butterfly Effect 2, 2006 (HBO) Calvario, 2019 (HBO) Casa De Mi Padre, 2012 (HBO) Chinatown, 1974 (HBO) Chuck The Dark Half, 1993 (HBO) Defending Your Life, 1991 (HBO) Donnie Darko, 2001 (HBO) Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, 2000 (HBO) Escobar: Paradise Lost, 2014 (HBO) The Falcon And The Snowman, 1985 (HBO) Fame, 1980 Free Willy 2 The Adventure Home, 1995 (HBO) Free Willy 3 The Rescue, 1997 (HBO) From Paris With Love, 2010 (HBO) Good Deeds, 2012 (HBO) The Hunter, 2011 (HBO) Hyde Park On Hudson, 2012 (HBO) Kick-Ass 2, 2013 (HBO) La Foquita, 2020 (HBO) The Life Before Her Eyes, 2007 (HBO) The Loft, 2014 (HBO) Love & Mercy, 2014 (HBO) Master of Disguise, 2002 (HBO) The Mighty Quinn, 1989 (HBO) Monsters, 2010 (HBO) My Blue Heaven, 1990 (HBO) National Lampoon’s Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj, 2006 (HBO) Network, 1976 Night Owls, 2015 (HBO) Nightmare Alley, 2021 (HBO) No End In Sight, 2007 (HBO) Ondine, 2009 (HBO) The Ones Below, 2015 (HBO) Presenting Princess Shaw, 2015 (HBO) Rabbit Hole, 2010 (HBO) Rango, 2011 (HBO) Red 2, 2013 (HBO) Return To Me, 2000 (HBO) Riddick, 2013 (Director’s Cuts) (HBO) Rob Roy, 1995 (HBO) Rules Of Engagement, 2000 (HBO) Runaway Train, 1985 (HBO) Santa’s Slay, 2005 (HBO) School Ties, 1992 (HBO) The Searchers, 1956 The Secret Garden, 2020 (HBO) Shake!: Otis at Monterey, 1987 Shrink, 2009 (HBO) Splinter, 2008 (HBO) Sugar, 2008 (HBO) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, 2007 (HBO) Terry Bradshaw: Going Deep, Documentary Premiere (HBO) This Is Where I Leave You, 2014 (HBO) Uncommon Valor, 1983 (HBO) Unlocked, 2017 (HBO) The Untouchables, 2011 (HBO) West Side Story, 1961 (HBO) Yun, 2018 (HBO)
Avail. 2/2: Tacoma FD, Season 3
Avail. 2/3: 40 Means Nothing (40 No Es Nada), Max Original Season 1 Premiere And Just Like That…, Max Original Season 1 Finale Cracked, 2021 (HBO) Cry Macho, 2021 (HBO) Looney Tunes Cartoons Valentine’s Extwavaganza!, Max Original Mass Ave, 2021 (HBO) Pure, 2021 (HBO) Raised By Wolves, Max Original Season 2 Premiere The Snakes, 2021 (HBO) When the Sun Sets, 2021 (HBO)
Avail. 2/4: Double Cross Rhodes To The Top Sin Senas Particulares
Avail. 2/5: Rick and Morty, Season 5 Shaq Life, Seasons 1 and 2
Avail. 2/6: Big Trick Energy
Avail. 2/7: Backyard Bar Wars
Avail. 2/9: Smiling Friends, Season 2
Avail. 2/10: About Last Night, Max Original Season 1 Premiere Adventure of the Ring, Max Original Season 1 Premiere The Girl Before, Max Original Season 1 Premiere Just Call Out My Name, Max Original Documentary KIMI, 2022 (Made for Max film) ODO, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Avail. 2/11: Antlers, 2021 (HBO) Apple & Onion, Season 2C
Avail. 2/13: The Bachelor Winter Games
Avail. 2/15: Icahn: The Restless Billionaire, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 2/16: Off The Air, Season 11
Avail. 2/17: Craig of the Creek, Season 4A Dream Raider, Max Original Season 1 Premiere The Many Saints of Newark, 2021 (HBO) Peacemaker, Max Original Season 1 Finale Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Avail. 2/18: La Foquita El 10 De La Calle Top Gear, Season 30
Avail. 2/20: Last Week Tonight, Season 9 Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 2/22: Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
Avail. 2/23: Free Guy, 2021 (HBO) Robot Chicken, Season 11
Avail. 2/24: Bilardo, Max Original Documentary Premiere Bing, Season 1 Las Bravas, Max Original Season 1 Premiere
Avail. 2/25:
The French Dispatch, 2021 (HBO)
Avail. 2/27: Euphoria, Season 2 Finale (HBO) The Righteous Gemstones, Season 2 Finale (HBO) Somebody Somewhere, Season 1 Finale (HBO)
Here’s Everything Leaving HBO and HBO Max This Month:
Leaving 2/28: 13 Going On 30, 2004 (HBO) 300: Rise of an Empire 1968 The 2000s A Hijacking, 2012 (HBO) Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World American Dynasties: The Kennedys American Style Amistad Annabelle Comes Home Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Any Given Sunday Aquaman Beverly Hills Cop, 1984 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop III, 1994 (HBO) Beyond Reasonable Doubt Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) Brown Sugar, 2002 (HBO) The Bush Years: Family. Duty. Power. The Cell 2, 2009 (HBO) Charlotte’s Web, 2006 (HBO) Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta The Cider House Rules, 1999 (HBO) CNN Special: The Trump Insurrection The Color Purple Constantine Cradle 2 the Grave Crazy Rich Asians Crimes of the Century The Curse of La Llorona Dead Again, 2017 (HBO) Dead Wives Club, Season 1 Dear Christmas Death Row Stories, Season 1-5 Detour, 2016 (HBO) The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Disappearance of Alice Creed Drinking Buddies, 2013 (HBO) The Eighties The End: Inside The Last Days of the Obama White House Event Horizon, 1997 (HBO) Fast Company, 1979 (HBO) Feast Of Love, 2007 (HBO) Flawless, 2007 (HBO) Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery First Ladies Forensic Files II, Season 1 Fun Size, 2012 (HBO) The Gallows, 2015 (HBO) Gangs Of New York, 2002 (HBO) Gigli Godzilla: King of the Monsters The Good German, 2006 (HBO) The Good Heart, 2009 (HBO) The Goonies The Great Gatsby, 2013 (HBO) Hell in the Heartland: What Happened to Ashley and Lauria? The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, 2005 (HBO) The History of Comedy How It Really Happened, Season 1-5 How To Deal, 2003 (HBO) Imperium, 2016 (HBO) The Hunt with John Walsh Independence Day, 1996 (Special Edition Extended Version) (HBO) It: Chapter 2 Joker Justice League Keeping The Faith, 2000 (HBO) The Killer Truth Kong: Skull Island Lady In The Water, 2006 (HBO) The Legend of Bagger Vance The LEGO Batman Movie Less Than Zero, 1987 (HBO) Lincoln: Divided We Stand Lovelace Macbeth Menace II Society Movie 43, 2013 (HBO) Mo Willems Storytime Shorts! The Movies Mr. Nobody, 2009 (Extended Version) (HBO) Muriel’s Wedding, 1994 (HBO) My Golden Days, 2015 (HBO) National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2: College at Sea, 2006 (Unrated Version) (HBO) The Neverending Story II The Next Chapter, 1990 (HBO) The Nineties The Nun Nurse 3D, 2013 (HBO) Ocean’s Eight One Hour Photo, 2002 (HBO) Ouija Origin Of Evil, 2016 (HBO) Paddington 2 Parental Guidance, 2012 (HBO) The People v. The Klan The Photograph, 2020 (HBO) Pitch Perfect, 2012 (HBO) Pope: The Most Powerful Man In History Prime, 2005 (HBO) Prince Avalanche, 2013 (HBO) Race for the White House, Season 1 Ready Player One The Redemption Project The Return Of The Living Dead, 1985 (HBO) A Return to Salem’s Lot Rush Hour Rush Hour 2 Rush Hour 3 Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, 2012 (HBO) Set Up, 2011 (HBO) Severance, 2006 (HBO) The Seventies Shazam! Showdown In Little Tokyo, 1991 (HBO) Something’s Killing Me Space Cowboys Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy The Story of Late Night Suicide Squad Teen Titans Go! To The Movies Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Tricky Dick Ultraviolet United Shades of America, Season 1-6 Unmasking a Killer Valentine’s Day Vegas Vacation Vengeance: Killer Coworkers Vengeance: Killer Lovers Vengeance: Killer Neighbors Very Scary People, Season 1 Very Scary People, Season 2 Vice, 2018 (HBO)
Wendy, 2020 (HBO)
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
Sarah Palin’s defamation trial against the New York Times (over a 2017 editorial) was set to begin on Monday. This is the same trial where Palin fought against the jury being able to see this footage of her singing “Baby Got Back” while wearing a bear (?) costume. There’s no telling whether that would have happened today, if at all, but we won’t know the answer to that pressing question anytime soon because the trial has been postponed due to the former Alaska governor contracting COVID.
If that news sounds familiar, well, there’s a reason for that. Palin, who recently proclaimed that she’d be vaxxed “over my dead body” has caught Covid already. She’s gone back and forth on the whole pandemic mess, backtracking on her briefly pro-vaccine stance. Last March, she proclaimed herself to be pro-mask and pro-vax while telling people that “anyone can catch this.” Well, Palin (like Glenn Beck) caught it twice.
As The New York Times notes, this is the third time that this trial has been delayed, and here’s how the courtroom announcement went, via The Washington Post:
The trial was expected to begin with jury selection Monday morning, but U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff told his Manhattan courtroom that he had learned Sunday night that Palin had tested positive on an initial test. “She is, of course, unvaccinated,” he noted.
After she took another test on Monday morning, Rakoff rescheduled the trial for Feb. 3.
The case is a notable one, not only for the potential introduction of a former VP candidate rapping a Sir Mix-A-Lot song but also because this is a major test of First Amendment/freedom-of-the-press protections. As Washington Post notes, it’s also the first libel case (versus the NYT, that is) to hit a courtroom in 18 years. However, the case sure is seeing a lot of obstacles in getting to that courtroom.
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