Friday’s game between the Miami Heat and New Orleans Pelicans was feistier than expected, as a fracas between Jimmy Butler and Naji Marshall sparked a fight — with Jose Alvarado and Thomas Bryant getting into it to further escalate things — in what eventually became a Miami win.
Unsurprisingly, the NBA handed down a number of suspensions as additional punishment for Miami and New Orleans’ edition of Friday Night Fights, with Butler and Marshall each being given a one-game suspension for their actions, with Alvarado and Bryant being given three games each for escalating things by coming off of the bench and fighting. Nikola Jovic also got a game for leaving the bench area.
The suspensions all follow what the NBA has done over the last two decades to try and curb physical altercations on the court, as the players involved get a punishment but the bigger punishment always comes for anyone that escalates things further. That has been the case for years as the NBA never wants a fight to turn into an all-out brawl, and for the most part players learn that lesson quickly once they miss game checks for leaving the bench. Alvarado and Bryant not only left the bench but also escalated things by fighting themselves, which tacked on two extra games to their suspensions.
The Atlanta Hawks currently hold a 3 game lead on the Brooklyn Nets for the 10th and final spot in the Play-In Tournament in the Eastern Conference, but their path to a second-half run to a better spot in the Play-In just got considerably more difficult.
On Friday night, All-Star guard Trae Young suffered a torn ligament in a finger on his left hand in a loss to the Raptors and the Hawks announced on Sunday that Young will have surgery this week in New York and will be re-evaluated in a month.
During Friday’s game vs. Toronto, guard Trae Young suffered a left hand injury. He underwent an MRI yesterday at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex, which revealed a tear of the radial collateral ligament (RCL) in the fifth finger of his left hand. He will undergo surgery to repair the RCL on Tuesday at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York and will be re-evaluated in four weeks.
Young has had a terrific year, averaging 26.4 points and 10.8 assists per game for the Hawks, but will now have to rehab his injury until close to April. Being re-evaluated in four weeks means he will likely require a bit longer before returning to the court, and for a Hawks team that has been struggling with their star, having to go a month without him will be a tall order. Atlanta is currently 24-32 having lost three in a row and sits two games behind Chicago for ninth in the East.
Melania Trump has always been a smart dresser (or maybe not always), but perhaps one sartorial choice from her First Lady era stands out amongst the rest. In the summer of 2018, during a trip to Texas to meet migrant children who’d been separated from their parents (thanks to her husband’s zero-tolerance policies), she wore a jacket that bore a strange, cryptic message: “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” At the time many speculated that the message was a tone-deaf “let them have cake”-style salvo, concerning the problems her husband had caused in the world. But now it appears the message had a more specific target.
The New York Postgot their mitts on Katie Rogers’ forthcoming book American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden. One of the juicier tidbits is that Melania was engaged in a quiet tussle with her stepdaughter, Ivanka.
Ivanka was reportedly planning to move in on Melania’s territory. That included usurping the East Wing of the Executive Mansion, traditionally the purview of the First Lady, and making it more about the First Family. Trump himself told his wife that he thought it best if Ivanka was “helping her and working with her” in her FLOTUS duties.
Melana, Rogers writes, did not like this. And so began a battle between her and who she dubbed “The Princess,” with both avoiding each other despite working in such close quarters.
At the time of Melania’s apparently misread jacket incident, she and Ivanka “were locked in a quiet competition for press coverage,” Rogers reported.
Alas, things didn’t work out quite as Melania hoped. “If she ever waged a battle over the issue,” Rogers wrote, “it is one she clearly lost: For four years, it was hard to see where the operations of the family business stopped and the Trump administration started.”
If this report is accurate, then it wasn’t about cruel indifference to human suffering caused by her husband. It was just a petty little attack from one powerful woman to her also powerful stepdaughter. Maybe this helps explain that little death stare Melania shot Ivanka during the 2020 RNC.
“Forever” singer Ciara’s post-baby bouncebacks are always mind-blowing to see. After welcoming her fourth child in December, Ciara is already back to sporting stunning hip-hugging looks at industry events.
Yesterday (February 24), during the 2024 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, her husband, Russell Wilson, and viewers at home weren’t the only people in awe of The Color Purple star’s beauty. In fact, users online pointed out that Pedro Pascal stopped in his tracks to admire Ciara on the pre-ceremony carpet.
In a video clip originally captured by E! and reposted by a fan page, folks across X (formerly Twitter) joked about what Pascal’s intrusive thoughts are tempting him to say.
Although Ciara didn’t take home the SAG Award, she didn’t let that stop her from enjoying the career milestone with a fabulous post on Instagram. “My 1st SAG Award Nomination #TheColorPurple,” she wrote. “Let’s Go.”
But something Ciara did celebrate at the event was the upcoming 20th anniversary of her debut studio album, Goodies. While chatting with E! correspondent and actress Lavern Cox, Ciara talked about what that meant to her. “It’s a blessing to me,” she said. “To know that I was a baby [when that dropped] and I’m still dreaming big and living my dreams out…it motivates me so much”.”
Billie Eilish is a bonafide pop star. Since her 2015 breakout song “Ocean Eyes,” the songwriter and her brother Finneas have been constant on the music charts. She’s even picked up a few notable accolades, including nearly ten Grammys Awards and an Oscar. So, it is safe to say Eilish has a massive fan base.
Yesterday (February 24), during the 2024 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, the “What Was I Made For?” singer came face-to-face with her biggest superfan—Melissa McCarthy. As the pair presented the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, McCarthy asked Eilish to sign her face and she ever-so graciously obliged with a permanent marker.
In the silly bit, McCarthy gushed about how much she loved Eilish and joked that she actually met her several times. The wildest exchange happened while Eilish was “still in utero,” thanks to Eilish’s mother being McCarthy’s improv teacher. Then McCarthy made the biggest request, and Eilish jumped on the opportunity to silence the overjealous actress temporarily.
“Oh, ok,” she said. “I thought you were gonna be like, ‘I don’t want to ruin your pretty face!’” Eilish couldn’t help but break character by laughing, but not before covering McCarthy’s mouth.
Watch the full clip below courtesy of Entertainment Tonight.
McCarthy took to Instagram to boast about the moment. “I got to check an item off my bucket list last night, and I’ll never wash my face again,” she wrote.
Last night’s SNL was a touch awkward. The host was Shane Gillis, one of the more popular comedians right now…who happened to have been fired by the show a few years back over past racist and sexist jokes. To his credit he didn’t go the Gina Carano route and start hanging out with Ben Shapiro. That’s one reason SNL welcomed him back to a show he never got to perform on in the first place. The opening monologue was a touch rough, with strained laughs over gay jokes and jokes about down syndrome. But Gillis scored big laughs for a pre-taped sketch dragging arguably the most ridiculous thing Donald Trump has done in the last week and change.
The sketch was a fake trailer that finds Gillis as a loser who sucks at basketball — that is, until he receives a gift from Trump himself: a par of those $400 gold sneakers he was hawking last weekend. Do they make him better at basketball? Of course not. But they do give him the confidence to lie — lie about making basketball shots he missed, about his weight, about whether or not he’s good in bed. (He’s not.) The film’s title? White Men Can Trump, natch.
Elsewhere in the episode, Gillis took part in a parody of those Liberty Mutual ads featuring spokesman Doug and his anthropomorphic emu associate. They make a house call for someone who’s paying too much for car insurance, but things quickly go sideways. You can watch that sketch in the video below and the Trump sneakers one above.
With every primary win — and every legal loss — Donald Trump gets closer and closer to having to show what it’s like when someone runs for president from jail. On Saturday the serially indicted candidate nabbed yet another state: South Carolina. Has that humbled him? Pshaw. It’s only made him angrier. At this weekend’s wacky/scary CPAC he made bone-chilling promises of what he’d do if re-elected, so creepy that SNL couldn’t help but compare him to one of Batman’s most formidable foes.
During Weekend Update, Colin Jost played a clip from Trump’s post-victory CPAC speech, which Jost jokingly described as a “more moderate [and] unifying tone.” (Spoiler: It was not.)
“November 5th will be our new liberation day, but for the liars and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters, it will be their Judgment Day,” Trump raged.
“Where did I hear that before?” Jost wondered. “Oh right: Bane.”
Bane, of course, was one of the secondary baddies in 1997’s Batman & Robin, then, some 15 years later, the main villain of The Dark Knight Rises. Played by a mushy-mouthed Tom Hardy, he was depicted as a rabble-rouser chaos agent, taking over Gotham and defying law enforcement. Certainly doesn’t sound familiar.
Later co-anchor Michael Che brought up Trump’s ridiculous $400 gold sneakers, joking that one “can check them out on the feet of the guy getting dragged off your flight.”
You can watch SNL Weekend Update in the video above.
Remember when Donald Trump was toast? He’d dined with anti-Semites, his business was found guilty of fraud, he’d launched a scammy line of NFTs. The Republican Party thought they could finally move on. What a difference a year and change makes. Now he’s improbably back on top, spewing nonsense and dodgy garbage like it was 2020 or 2016 all over again. And so, on the most recent SNL, they gave prime real estate to dragging Republican wimps for letting this crap happen once more.
The show’s Cold Open found four Republican senators — Jim Risch (Mikey Day), Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernandez), Lindsey Graham (James Austin Johnson), and Tim Scott (Devon Walker) — having a victory lap meal after Trump’s win in South Carolina. They proceeded to whine about how the former president is again causing chaos, only to then praise him to the hills.
“Sometimes I do not know what my party is doing,” Day’s Risch said. “I mean, I’ve been pushing for Ukraine funding for the past six months. It’s essential to American security. And Trump just killed it with one phone call. The man doesn’t care about this country one iota. Sometimes I think he’s downright dangerous.”
“And you just endorsed him, right?” asked Hernandez’s Rubio.
“Yeah. Big time. Big time,” Risch shot back. “He’s great.”
Risch brought up that Trump called Rubio “Little Marco.”
“I’ve never been able to shake it,” Rubio said. “People still yell at me in airports. He kind of made my life hell.”
“And you endorsed him, right?” asked Risch. Of course he did.
Later Johnson’s Graham brought up that Trump doxed him back in 2015, giving out his personal cellphone number at a speech. “Had thousands of his people call me up to yell at me, threatening my life,” he recalled. “Had to get a new phone!”
Graham let slip that he’s worried Trump will never go away, that “sometimes I think his ass is gonna live 1,000 years.” But that didn’t stop the group from praising him, one calling him “the greatest president since Reagan,” another since Lincoln.”
So which repeat will this be? Will Trump and the GOP win like in 2016, or will they flame out as in 2020 yet still continue to make the nation worse? For now, though, we can laugh at how the Republican Party has turned into a bunch of wimps.
From Reacher and Jack Ryan to The Night Agent, audiences have proven that there is no end to the appeal of current-or-ex government operatives falling in and out of spy-soaked adventuress whether they like it or not. That remains a huge draw for many Dad TV shows, and fortunately, FX (with its streaming partner, Hulu) includes a “one last job” variant starring an iconic actor who is equally gifted on the dramatic and comedy fronts. In this case, he’s embracing the former quality with a show that provides nuanced performances from older and younger actors alike.
Additionally, Bridges channels large swaths of characters portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the John Wick films and Liam Neeson in the Taken movies. There are shades of Bridges’ performance from the Taylor Sheridan-penned Hell or High Water, too. Do not mess with this old(ish) man, or there will indeed be hell to pay. It’s also high time for a second season, which will arrive this year, so let’s get down to discussing what is and what might be coming next.
Plot
Jeff Bridges has still got it, even if the decades have taken away some of his character’s agility and strength from his CIA days. Speaking of which, this show is based upon Thomas Perry’s same-named bestselling novel about Dan Chase (Bridges), who has been living off grid since bolting long ago from his government service. He gets pulled back into the game due to an attempted assassination, and John Lithgow steps in as Dan’s old colleague, FBI Counterintelligence Guy Harold Harper, who finds himself in over his head by season’s end.
As the show has revealed, Chase and Harper’s complicated past ties them together forever, and to further muddy matters, Harper’s protégé, Angela Adams (portrayed by Alia Shawkat), had been operating under an alias, but her identify also contained layers that have been unknown even to herself. The audience discovers Angela’s true identity late in the season, and expect plenty of followup by the revelation of her true father, the Afghanistan warlord Faraz Hamzad. Meanwhile, Zoe McDonald (Brenneman) surely regrets taking on Chase as a tenant because she never expected to have to fight for her life. Will we see Zoe again in the second season?
Executive producers Joe Steinberg and Dan Shotz opened up to Deadline, and Steinberg revealed, “Zoe will definitely be back. She’s a key piece of this story, a key connection for Dan. And Amy is such a brilliant actress and partner in this. We’re very excited about Zoe’s story going forward.” And what of the dogs? “Yes. I don’t know if The Old Man is a show without the dogs” was the answer from Shotz. As well, the pair noted that Angela would learn who her biological father is, so get ready to find out her feelings on that situation.
As well, the pair revealed that Bridges, despite pushing through cancer treatment and contracting Covid-19, threw himself into the old-hat role. As Shotz described the situation, “After Jeff went through his treatment and got back to us, on his very first day of shooting he was hanging out of a window going 60 miles per hour shooting a gun.” He added, “So we were pretty blown away by what he was able to do when he came back and he felt so good doing it.” Hopefully, Bridges felt even better this time around because Chase will likely need to pick up some slack for Harper, who cannot operate in the wild world of his former colleague.
Much of the show’s appeal, as well, is how it dabbles with moral ambiguity and also refuses to straight-up adhere to one meaning of the term “old man.” That slippery term could, in the second season, point more towards what Angela is about to learn and how she reacts upon learning the identity of her “true” father. Which dad will she choose to be loyal to? That’s a huge question going into this next chapter.
Cast
Jeff Bridges will do it again as Dan Chase, who is played in his younger years by Bill Heck. John Lithgow will increase the out-of-his-element side of Harold Harper for this next season. The supporting cast includes Alia Shawkat, Amy Brenneman, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jessica Harper, Pej Vahdat, Joel Grey, Hiam Abbass, Navid Negahban, Kenneth Mitchel, and Rowena King.
Release Date
Since the first session debuted in June 2022, it feels like it’s been too long of a wait, but do not fear. The strikes slowed progress on the sophomore season, but the next chapter has been confirmed to arrive in 2024.
Trailer
No trailer exists as of yet, but please do relive this shootout scene with The Wire‘s Chris Partlow, who always brings his A-game.
Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.
Are you still resisting watching a remake that actually makes more sense (and is far funnier) than the original? Well, get on it. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine throw curveballs at each other after ending up in an employer-arranged marriage while simultaneously attempting to figure out the whole “hihi” mystery. The end result is sexy but also completely different than the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie blockbuster of yesteryear, which was simply two sexy people dashing around doing sexy murder things. We’re still hanging tight for second season news, and “Hot Neighbor” could use some spinoff rumors.
Noomi Rapace has long since ditched her Dragon Tattoo and now portrays an International Space Station astronaut in a classic space catastrophe story that also hurls preconceived notions down to planet Earth. This is a cross-genre affair with sci-fi, psychological drama, and horror thrown in for good measure. Prepare to blast off, y’all.
James Clavell’s beloved 1975 novel (within his Asian Saga) will be lushly rendered to bring his 1600s civil war-story to life. You might need a flowchart to keep track of the various alliances and betrayals in this show, which begins when Lord Yoshii Toranaga finds himself being dragged into oblivion by “vultures,” i.e. the opposing Council of Regents. Enter an apparent ally, John Blackthorne, whose ship has conveniently been marooned nearby, although he could be the key to helping Toranago tip the balance against his enemies. That’s only the beginning, and clearly, any attempt at a small blurb would fail to adequately describe what’s in store for viewers here.
Suck it, Gigli reviews (and audience reception). Jennifer Lopez is here with a heightened version of her own persona to poke fun at the scrutiny of her storied love life. Naturally, the specter of Ben Affleck figures prominently, and it’s wild to think about where these two have landed, despite everything. How much of this story is true? That’s what JLo wants you to wonder.
The Von Erich wrestling family is here to make you burst into tears and thank it. Zac Efron is a jacked-up wrestling-ring force as Kevin, who endured tragedy of an unfathomable scale. How did The Oscars overlook this performance? He’s accompanied by Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson (who is so underrated despite being everywhere lately), and Stanley Simons as they took their father’s wrestling dynasty to the moon and then crashing back down again. Eventually, this title will stream on Max, but for now, it’s in VOD City.
6. Anyone But You (Sony film on VOD & Amazon Prime)
It’s a little bit like Will Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, only with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell looking far too attractive in swimsuits, and less, and more. This sleeper romcom proved that mid-budget comedies can pull in far more than some superhero movies, even when both films in question include Sydney Sweeney. Sometimes, you just need a silly slice of comedy in life, alright? This film is here to suit that purpose.
Pablo Schreiber returns as Master Chief, who could use a little Pornstache, among other things, to liven up the heavy load that he carries. He’s still fretting about the changing tide of this war and how to prepare for what he believes is an imminent attack by the Covenant on the most valuable stronghold known to mankind. Can he finally find the Halo, which will either help humanity survive or kill it off forever? Gamers must be in TV/movie heaven these days.
With Dune 2 due to hit theaters on March 1, the world is revisiting the first film that released only on streaming. Back then, Duncan Idaho was carrying us through the pandemic, and even though Jason Momoa isn’t in the second movie, our own Mike Ryan has described the sequel as “certainly up there with some of the best science fiction movies I’ve ever seen.” Yep, that’s the case despite (and partially because of) sandworms and everything. For many, it’s time for a refresher of the first movie before taking in the second installment.
3. The Tourist (BBC One/Stan series streaming on Netflix)
This series originally streamed on Max and found new life after moving over to Netflix for its second season of U.S.-based streaming. Jamie Dornan’s character took a hell of a road trip in the Australian Outback and has now crossed a few ponds to land in Ireland, where he’s attempting to make progress against those ultra-bad dudes who want to take his also-bad dude self off the map. First, he’ll be drawn into a family feud — the most delicate kind of feud. This show is wildly entertaining, and thank goodness that Jamie Dornan is finally able to punt his Fifty Shades era into the dust.
Here comes the latest attempt from Netflix to adapt beloved IP into live-action mode, and in doing so, it must strive for the high bar of the animated series and clear the low bar set by the M. Night Shyamalan movie. The show was conceived with at least three seasons in mind, but for now, the story begins with Aang, an Air Nomad who must attempt to (with the help of a few pals) take his rightful ruling position after bringing harmony to the realms. Fire Nation, however, has plenty of wrenches to throw into that effort. Let’s just say that the current social media response from bingewatchers is mixed, so we shall see whether more seasons surface after the dust settles.
Series creator Nic Pizzolatto is so bloody angry about the Night Country season, and guess what? He’s gotta be even more upset by the nearly instantaneous fifth-season renewal after the finale. Issa López will be writing, showrunning, and directing again, so stay tuned for more details, and in the meantime, do catch up on Jodie Foster and Kali Reis’ adventure in arctic hell if you haven’t already. If nothing else, you’ll learn more about Rust Cohle’s father, and also be able to understand why our own Brian Grubb has this advice for everyone involved in the between-seasons beef: “Everyone involved here desperately needs to log off and go outside for a few hours.”
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