After thirteen years, the Na’vi are finally returning to theaters with the heavily-hyped sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. Not only does the film re-team director James Cameron with the cast from the original film, but he’s reunited for the first time with Titanic star Kate Winslet, who’s riding high from her outstanding cheesesteak-eating detective role in HBO’s Mare of Easttown.
While details about Winslet’s role have been kept mostly under wraps (except that she’ll be playing one of Pandora’s natives), Empire just dropped the first look photos of the actress as Ronal, the “deeply loyal” and “fearless leader” of the water-dwelling Metkayina tribe, according to Winslet.
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In preparation for the role, Winslet and the cast had to endure intense underwater training. In the process, Winslet unknowingly broke a record that had been previously set by Tom Cruise, which is no easy feat considering Cruise’s whole thing is pushing himself as close to death as humanly possible. Not only that, but Winslet smoked him.
Up until her filming on the Avatar sequel, Cruise had set the record for an actor holding their breath by going six minutes for a scene in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Winslet beat him by a full minute and change.
“It’s so funny because I don’t really read reviews or media things. I’m not on Instagram, like I’m just completely disconnected from that part of my life,” Winslet told Entertainment Tonight after learning of the record. “So all of this week and the week before, I’ve had people coming up to me at work saying, ‘Oh my God, like seven minutes and 14 seconds? Like, what?!’ And I’m going, ‘What? Hang on, wait a minute. How do you know that?’”
According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Cattrall, who received five Emmy nominations for her role as Samantha Jones on Sex and the City, has joined the cast of Netflix’s original Glamorous, a drama centered on a young gender-nonconforming character played by actor/YouTuber Miss Benny.
Here’s the premise, from THR:
Cattrall’s Madolyn Addison is a veteran from the Golden Age of supermodels who founded the prestigious boutique beauty line that carries her name. Intent on shaking up her business, she sees an opportunity in Marco Mejia (Miss Benny), taking him from the makeup counter to a seat at the table.
Beyond Miss Benny and Cattrall, the cast includes Zane Phillips, Jade Payton, Michael Hsu Rosen, Ayesha Harris and Graham Parkhurst as series regulars with Diana Maria Riva, Lisa Gilroy, and Mark Deklin appearing in guest roles.
Netflix picked up a full season of Glamorous in April 2022, after the series had a multi-year journey, starting as a project for The CW in 2019. Per THR, a pilot was shot for The CW but the show wasn’t picked up to series. Miss Benny still played the role in The CW pilot, with Brooke Shields in Kim Cattrall’s role.
With roles on shows for almost every other streaming service (including Hulu’s How I Met Your Father and Peacock’s Queer As Folk reboot) Cattrall is doing whatever she can to ensure she is not available to HBO Max’s And Just Like That…
More bad news! Dune: Part Two has been delayed. The second installment in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic was originally slated to come to theaters on October 20, 2013, but Variety reports that Warner Brothers has changed the date to November 17, 2023.
The first Dune film was supposed to come out in late 2020 and did not come out until October 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I also waited well over a year for a Paul Atreides Funkopop I ordered in September 2020, but that’s a story for another day. One month is not that long of a wait though, and the release date makes sense: November 17, 2023 puts the film in theaters just before Thanksgiving, one of the biggest weekends at the domestic box office. Dune: Part Two, which stars returnees Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem and “newbies” Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, and Christopher Walken, is expected to start shooting later this summer.
Along with the announcement of the unfortuante but tolerable Dune delay, Warner Bros. announced that an untitled Godzilla vs. Kong film will be released on March 15, 2024. That news doesn’t quite make up for the delay, but I’ll happily watch another incompetent movie featuring a couple of absolute units battling each other in major cities across the globe. If Alexander Skarsgård is returning for this one, my excitement will not be fake anymore.
There are certain pleasurable sights, smells, sounds and tastes that fade into the rear-view mirror as we grow from being children to adults. But on a rare occasion, we’ll come across them again and it’s like a portion of our brain that’s been hidden for years expresses itself, creating a huge jolt of joy.
It’s wonderful to experience this type of nostalgia but it often leaves a bittersweet feeling because we know there are countless more sensations that may never come into our consciousness again.
Nostalgia is fleeting and that’s a good thing because it’s best not to live in the past. But it does remind us that the wonderful feeling of freedom, creativity and fun from our childhood can still be experienced as we age.
A Reddit user by the name of agentMICHAELscarnTLM posed a question to the online forum that dredged up countless memories and experiences that many had long forgotten. He asked a simple question, “What’s something you can bring up right now to unlock some childhood nostalgia for the rest of us?”
It was a call for people to tap into the collective subconscious and bond over the shared experiences of youth. The most popular responses were the specific sensory experiences of childhood as well as memories of pop culture and businesses that are long gone.
Ready to take a trip down memory lane? Don’t stay too long, but it’s great to consider why these experiences are so memorable and still muster up warm feelings to this day.
Here are 19 of the best responses.
1.
“An eraser that looks and smells like a very fake strawberry.” — zazzlekdazzle
2.
“Remember the warm, fuzzy static left on your tv screen after it was on for a while. A lot of you crazy kids WEAPONIZED the static to shock your siblings!” — JK_NC
3.
“Waking up super early on Saturday morning before the rest of the family to watch cartoons.” — helltothenoyo
4.
“When you’d watch a vhs and it would say ‘and now your feature presentation.'” — Mickthemmouse
5.
“Eating one of those plastic-wrapped ice pop things after a long day of playing outside in your backyard with your friends.” — onyourleft___
6.
“Scholastic book fairs.” — zazzlekdazzle
“The distinctive newspaper-y feel of those catalogues, the smell of them. Heaven. I would agonize over what books to get, lying on my living room floor, circling my options in different colored gel pens, narrowing it down to 2-4 from a dozen in an intense battle royale between slightly blurry one-line summaries. I know my mom’s secret now. She would’ve bought me the whole damn catalogue. But she made me make my choices so that I really valued the books. I’d read them all immediately, reading all night if I had to, hiding in a tent under my covers with a flashlight I stole from the kitchen. I thought I was getting away with something. As an adult, I notice, now, that the flashlight never ran out of batteries.” — IAlbatross
7.
“Watching ‘The Price Is Right’ when you were sick at home.” — mayhemy11
8.
“That feeling of limitless freedom on the first day of summer vacation. That feeling of dreaded anticipation on the last day of summer vacation.” —_my_poor_brain_
9.
“Blockbuster.” — justabll71
10.
“The noise when picking up the phone when someone was surfing the web.” — OhAce
11.
“The TV Guide channel. You had to sit through and watch as the channels slowly went by so we could see what was on. It blew getting distracted by the infomercial in the corner and then realizing you barely just missed what you were waiting for so had to wait for it to start all over.” — GroundbreakingOil
12.
“Light Bright. I barely remember it myself but you’d take a charcoal-black board and poke different colored pegs through it. You plug it in to the electrical outlet and all the pegs light up creating whatever shape you made in lights.” — 90sTrapperKeeper
13.
“You knew it was gonna be a good day when you walk into PE class and see that huge colorful parachute.” — brunettemountainlion
14.
“Ripping handfuls of grass at recess and putting them on your friend.” — boo_boo_technician
15.
“In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire The A-Team.” — Azuras_Star8
16.
“Watching ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.’ There was something so special about the intro where he would sing Won’t You Be My Neighbor while he changed his jacket and shoes. I loved every second of it, and would watch in utter content and fascination each time as if I’d never before seen him zip his cardigan up and back down to the right spot and change his shoes with the little toss of a shoe from one hand to the other.” — Avendashar
17.
“Somewhere between blowing on some cartridges and pressing the cartridge down and up in the NES to get it to play.” — autovices
18.
“That feeling when you are going as high as you can go on the swings. Power? Freedom? Hard to describe.” — zazzlekadazzle
19.
“Cap guns. But smashing the entire roll of caps at once with a hammer.” — SoulKahn90
Adam Kinzinger is worried about Lauren Boebert. On Sunday, as Newsweek reports, the Colorado congresswoman/conspiracy theory superfan—perhaps emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade—seemed game to burn all the rules down (or, at least the ones she doesn’t like). While speaking to a group gathered at a Christian center in Basalt, Colorado, Boebert got a little folksy when declared that she’s “tired of this separation of church and state junk.”
“That’s not in the Constitution,” Boebert continued. “It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like they say it does.” If we’re going to get literal, one could remind Boebert that the right to bear arms was written specifically in relation to a “well-regulated Militia,” though something tells us she wouldn’t be interested.
But Kinzinger—a fellow Republican and a Christian—is concerned about the sort of religious fanaticism that Bobert could possibly stir up with her indifference to centuries-established laws and ways of life. The way he sees it, what Boebert is proposing is essentially the Taliban:
There is no difference between this and the Taliban. We must opposed the Christian Taliban. I say this as a Christian
While not everyone used the term “Christian Taliban,” Kinzinger wasn’t alone in his stinking thinking:
GOP Rep. Boebert: ‘I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk’
Boebert did not come to this on her own. She’s the product of a multi-decade campaign to elect Christian nationalists to public office and this is a central tenet of their ideology. https://t.co/Bnlgm80kht
Well, there are lots of countries she can go to that don’t have that pesky separation of church and state… try Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan now, Iran… https://t.co/MyzCNNkKNq
I really don’t get the obsessive desire for an American theocracy from the likes of Boebert and Greene, both of whom would almost certainly have been burned as witches in a prior era of colonial historyhttps://t.co/Lbxl6N7HjS
Fivio Foreign‘s debut album B.I.B.L.E. came out in April, but he’s wisely kept promoting it over the last two months, keeping it visible even with all the high-profile projects that have been dropping lately. The latest video he’s released from the album is for “What’s My Name,” the Destiny’s Child-sampling fifth track, which also features fellow rising stars Queen Naija and Uproxx’s latest cover artist, Coi Leray. While Naija sing-raps her verse, Coi delivers hers in her now-signature clipped-but-melodic cadence. In the video, the three wear matching camouflage outfits while performing for rowdy crowds while Coi lounges with a python.
Since dropping B.I.B.L.E., Fivio’s appeared in the video for Nicki Minaj’s “We Go Up,” assisted Antonio Brown on his new album Paradigm, teamed up with another drill artist, Kay Flock, to release “Make A Movie,” and released his own video for another of his album’s more soulful singles, “Hello,” featuring Chloe and KayCyy. Meanwhile, Queen Naija is four months removed from her latest single, “Hate Our Love” featuring Big Sean, and Coi Leray has already dropped a new single of her own, “Involved,” after pushing back her Trendsetter tour to add more dates.
Watch Fivio Foreign’s “What’s My Name” video featuring Queen Naija and Coi Leray above.
The basketball world received a bombshell bit of news on Thursday afternoon. Just hours before the new league calendar begins and players can begin agreeing to contracts with teams, multiple reports indicated that Kevin Durant went to the management of the Brooklyn Nets and requested a trade, bringing a potential end to his three-year tenure with the franchise.
The news comes days after Kyrie Irving announced his decision to pick up his player option and play next season, which many took as a sign that Durant would go into this season in a Nets uniform alongside his friend. But instead, one of the best basketball players in the world — who, as an added bonus, is about to enter year one of a four-year contract extension — is about to hit the trade market.
In the immediate aftermath of the news, NBA players took to social media to react to the fact that Durant is on his way out. Perhaps no one had a more blunt reaction than Joel Embiid, who seems to be taking some joy in a division rival’s downfall.
NFTs? Bad. Tucker Carlson? Even worse. But an NFT of Tucker Carlson? Good!
Stay with me here.
Artist Jenny Holzer raised $14,000 for abortion rights using an image from a May 2021 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight featuring a pouty-faced Carlson above a chyron read, “Making an informed choice regarding your own body shouldn’t be controversial.”
It was meant to be an anti-vaccine pronouncement, but as Jenny Holzer wrote on Instagram, “the words could be a pro-choice statement.” In real life, Carlson responded to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade by fuming about companies like Netflix and Disney covering the travel costs for employees in affected states seeking abortions.
Holzer put the NFT (which was inspired by a tweet from Washington D.C.-based communications strategist Gillian Branstetter) up for auction for $600. Six hours later, it was up to “nearly $13,000, before the winning bid was made Saturday around noon,” according to the Washington Post. “The sale on the Foundation NFT site listed an anonymous cryptocurrency address as the buyer.” As for where the money is going to:
The NFT would go on to sell Saturday for [about] $14,500 — with the creator, Jenny Holzer, saying she will donate the money she makes from the sale to groups including Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the advocacy group PAI.
Even if your viral tweet about Tucker Carlson looking like a little boy pretending to be A Very Serious Adult doesn’t catch the eye of a visual artist, you’re still welcome to donate to Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and PAI.
The only thing wilder than the stories that fuel this streaming list is the fact that all of them are based on real-life crimes.
No, really. From religious fanatics committing heinous murders to Silicon Valley upstarts conning the most brilliant minds in tech and medicine, housewives wielding axes, deadly staircases, political scandals, and Columbian kingpins — every great crime drama on TV right now comes with an “inspired by” attached. We’ve rounded up a few of our favorites but here’s your warning: all of these shocking, unbelievable crimes, cons, and conspiracies really happened. That might be hard to wrap your brain around once you watch these shows.
Andrew Garfield, Wyatt Russell, and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in this detective neo-noir based on a true crime story that weaves hundreds of years of religious oppression and violent misogyny into a heinous murder that rocks a tight-knit town. Garfield plays Detective Jeb Pyre, a devout member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints who begins to question his own faith when a high-ranking Mormon family is implicated in a disturbing double homicide that has roots in the radical fundamentalist beginnings of the LDS religion. Weighed down with heavy themes and dizzying amounts of exposition, there’s something gripping about this twist-filled drama that’s only made better by some incredible performances from its main cast.
Riding on the coattails of her standout performance in The Sinner, Jessica Biel is back with another disturbing yet engulfing role in Candy. Biel is transformed into Candance Montgomery, a 1980’s wife, mother, churchgoer, and homemaker who is accused of killing Betty Gore, the wife (and fellow mother, churchgoer, and homemaker) of Alan Gore – the man Candy’s been having an affair with. Biel keeps viewers on the edge of their seats as a small-town incident turns into a dark and disturbing scandal, rocking their close-knit community and shocking followers around the world.
The story of Elizabeth Holmes is a rise-and-fall saga for the ages. Once referred to as a medical pioneer, girl boss, and the new Steve Jobs, people quickly switched to using titles like con-artist, liar, and fraud when her blood-testing company Theranos didn’t deliver on its promise of revolutionizing the healthcare industry. Amanda Seyfried gives a stunning performance in The Dropout, embodying Holme’s all-black outfits, quirky habits, and baritone voice to a tee as she cheats her way through Silicon Valley.
While you may know the story of Michael Peterson and the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen–who died after falling down the stairs in her home–from the docuseries of the same name, this limited series manages to be even more gripping. Flanked by Toni Collette as Kathleen Peterson and Michael Stuhlbarg as David Rudolf (his lawyer), Colin Firth gives an exceptional performance as Michael – a renowned novelist and deeply-embedded family man who finds himself at the center of his wife’s jarring death.
Eerie, perplexing, and downright scary, The Girl From Plainville is an unprecedented crime story unlike any other. Elle Fanning plays Michelle Carter, a teenage girl that’s accused of “murdering” her boyfriend Conrad Roy III by convincing him to kill himself via texts and phone calls. Part tragic love story and part pure insanity, this enthralling miniseries not only touches on this bizarre story and case but also speaks volumes about the downsides of current mental health treatment and practices, from the standpoint of both victim and perpetrator.
The Central Park Five case continues to be a charged (and sadly, still relevant) moment in our shared cultural history which is why Ava DuVernay’s limited series exploring the young men who were wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting a white woman in Central Park in the late 80s is such a vital watch. Not only does this show sport an unfairly talented cast, but DuVernay pushes past the initial instinct to simply focus on the courtroom drama by giving us the full, devastating picture of how quickly a corrupt police force and a racially biased society can destroy the promise of young Black men’s futures.
Bizarre accents, posh penthouses, and an elaborate grift that takes audiences around the world – in VIP style, of course. There’s a reason this drama, based on a viral expose in New York Magazine, became this year’s binge-watching guilty pleasure. Anna Delvey, played here by Ozark breakout Julia Garner, was a magnetic social climber who forged nearly every detail about her past, her rich parents, and her unlimited financial resources to con some of the wealthiest and most powerful names in New York City. The series gives some attention to the quest to tell her story, taken on by a scrappy journalist played by Anna Chlumsky, but the watchability factor comes from how well Garner translates this unbelievable premise – that this girl was able to dupe influential elites with just a well-timed name drop and some designer duds.
David Tennant is terrifying in this three-part series that chronicles the disturbing exploits of one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers. As Dennis Nilsen, Tennant is chilling, somehow making the necrophiliac appear even more unsettling on screen. Nilsen murdered dozens of boys and young men, storing them beneath the floorboards of his London flat and using them to fulfill his sexual fantasies and the show doesn’t shy away from his most gruesome acts. You’ve been warned.
Unbelievable – the inconceivable story of a series of rapes across the American West – explores the true power of suggestion. Kaitlyn Dever plays Marie, an 18-year-old rape victim who, after being interrogated and intimidated by the police, backtracks on her report. However, as comparable rapes continue to occur in different locations, detectives Karen Duvall (Merrit Wever) and Grace Rasmussen (Toni Collette) team up to connect the dots between the starkly similar events. This investigative saga crafts a deeply engaging drama that exposes the gaping holes in the treatment of rape cases in today’s criminal justice system.
Ryan Murphy scours the most scandalous true crime stories in history to fuel the action in this anthology series. His first target was the trial of OJ Simpson, which gave audiences a riveting look at the main players in a murder case that divided the country and featured the most memorable high-speed chase to ever be televised. Season two of the series focuses on the shocking murder of designer Gianni Versace by Andrew Cunanan, a crime that weaves in everything from homosexual prejudices of the time to familial legacy. The show’s third season goes to the White House to give Monica Lewinsky a voice in the biggest political scandal of our time, focusing on then-President Bill Clinton’s abuse of power that ruined a young woman and an entire political party.
Based on a popular podcast, this Peacock series turns Joshua Jackson into a narcissistic sociopath armed with a scalpel and protected by a healthcare system that regularly fails its patients. Dr. Christopher Duntsch was one of the top neurosurgeons in the country until more and more people who went under his knife started turning up paralyzed or dead. Christian Slater and Alec Baldwin play two respected surgeons in his field who, alarmed at Duntsch’s treatment of his patients and lack of care for his staff, began investigating his background and discovered the golden boy of medicine was just a pathological liar with an oversized ego and a willingness to risk lives in order to pad his own pockets.
This is a Swedish true-crime drama so yes, there will be subtitles. If you allow that to be a barrier of entry, you’re missing out on a truly thrilling murder investigation that manages to highlight the horror of its central crime while not exploiting its victims and giving audiences a sympathetic view of law enforcement’s role in bringing killers to justice. Kim Wall was a young journalist with a promising future whose life was cut short thanks to the subject of her next big story, a man who built his own submarine. You get a good grip on who the murderer is early on in the case, but it’s the job of catching him that will hold your interest until the very end.
The spectacular rise and community-destroying fall of Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel is documented in this gritty crime drama that would eventually spawn a spin-off series – which is just as good. Wagner Moura plays the charismatic kingpin, a young upstart from a rough neighborhood who schemed his way to the top and gained the support of his people by giving back to those in need. But Escobar’s excess and paranoia would soon threaten his carefully cultivated cocaine-fueled kingdom when DEA Agents Javier Pena (Pedro Pascal) and Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook) make it their personal mission to take him down.
This series from David Fincher recounts the formation of the FBI’s behavioral science unit, a team of agents whose job it is to study the patterns of serial killers so that law enforcement can catch them. By now, we recognize the importance of predicting the behavior of monsters, but most of this show follows pioneers in the field trying to convince hardboiled detective types that the psychological aspect of killing is just as important as the physical violence associated with the act. Jonathan Groff plays Holden Ford, a character based on the real-life John E. Douglas (the inspiration for Jack Crawford in the Hannibal series) who, along with his partner (played by Holt McCallany) sits down with some of the most notorious psychopaths in history – think David Berkowitz, Ed Kemper, and Charles Manson – in order to understand the drive to kill.
The true story of this 19th-century house servant accused of a double homicide was interesting enough to warrant a literary adaptation by Margaret Atwood, but this limited series gives it new life and audiences a new appreciation for historical crime dramas. Sarah Gadon gives a brilliant turn as Grace Marks, a young woman accused of killing her employers. While Grace is serving her time in a mental asylum, a pseudo-psychologist comes to take her measure, giving her an opportunity to tell her side of the story. The problem? Grace is an unreliable narrator and the show never wants you convinced of the truth, one way or the other.
Following Cassidy Hutchinson‘s explosive testimony at the January 6 hearings, even Fox News‘ legal expert thinks Donald Trump is in serious trouble. During the most recent episode of The Interview podcast, Fox legal analyst Andrew McCarthy explained why he thinks the former president is in danger of being prosecuted and it comes down to the most damaging revelation from Hutchinson: Trump knew the protestors were armed because he allegedly told the Secret Service to stop using metal detectors and wave them through.
“The critical thing he says is ‘they’re not here to hurt me,’ which implies that in his mind, he knows they’re here to hurt someone,” McCarthy said. “And the second thing he says, which I don’t think has gotten enough attention, ‘they can come in, they can hear me, and then they can march to the Capitol.’”
According to McCarthy, just for that matter alone, Trump could be facing “20 years if you’re talking about people using potentially lethal, dangerous weapons.” Via Mediaite:
“So he’s very aware that you have a mob that’s armed to the teeth that he is planning to encourage to march on the Capitol. And then as the testimony ensues, we find out that he not only intended them to do that, he wanted to participate, he actually wanted to lead them down there.”
“That knowledge opens up the possibility that you could prosecute for aiding and abetting the intimidation of federal officials, which is a pretty serious crime,” he added.
McCarthy also said that Trump is looking at charges for obstruction of congressional proceedings, but he cautions that going after the former president for seditious conspiracy might be less successful. McCarthy, who, again, works for Fox News, also feels that Trump should’ve been impeached for January 6 and disqualified from running for president in 2024.
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