In conjunction with Star Wars Day, a.k.a. May the 4th Be With You, The Phantom Menace is being re-released into theaters nationwide this weekend. It’s about time kids got to see Watto the way he was intended to be seen: in horrifying resolution on the big screen. But if that’s not enough Star Wars for you, an Austin, Texas-based location of the Alamo Drafthouse is screening the complete the Skywalker Saga and the two stand-alone films from May until July.
“In December 1977, the original Star Wars opened at the Village 4 in glorious Dolby Stereo,” said John Smith, Senior Film Programmer for Alamo Drafthouse. “Forty-seven years later, we’re finishing the story and sharing the complete saga with Austin audiences.”
All the Star Wars films — minus Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, unfortunately — will play at the Village location in Austin only. You can see the screening information below:
Opening Dates at Alamo Drafthouse Village
May 3: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
May 10: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
May 17: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
May 24: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story
May 31: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
June 7: Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
June 14: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
June 28: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
July 5: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
There’s also the opportunity to watch an entire trilogy back-to-back-to-back.
June 22 and July 19: Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy
June 23 and July 20: Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
July 21: Star Wars: The Sequel Trilogy
I hope I’m not the only one who finds it funny that The Rise of Skywalker has to share a date with another movie. Here’s an idea: instead of sitting through Episode XI again, just imagine Babu Frik hanging out with Salacious B. Crumb in Return of the Jedi. Those two would have a great time!
Emily In Paris cannot be (much like the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 in The Terminator) “bargained with” or “reasoned with” in terms of how inexplicably addictive each season has turned out to be. The Netflix show will continue to captivate viewers despite having very little substance and a pretty forgettable ongoing plot. It’s essentially an incredibly cheery little soap opera, which agains proves that creator Darren Star does not miss.
Of course, the main question going into the third season is whether Hot Chef Gabriel‘s revelation of Camille’s pregnancy will deter his and Emily’s undeniable mutual crushing on each other. Perhaps the show will drag that out for a few more seasons, but what really matters is that Ashley Park recovered from her health woes and returned to filming as Mindy.
Also and as Variety relays, the show will actually be doing something different this season by moving beyond Paris after star Lily Collins revealed, “While Emily’s heart will always remain true to Paris, her life takes an unexpected twist this season. Don’t be surprised to find her on a Roman holiday.”
Hmm. Well, that’s probably for the best. There are only so many times that a character can act clever with a baguette. This also explains why Collins has been posting photos of herself and Park at the “Paris wrap party” before heading to Rome.
And yup, here are the requisite touristy photos near The Colosseum. When will Emily In Paris be back on Netflix? Clues are pointing toward late 2024.
The race is on to get involved in the NBA’s next media rights deal. In recent days, a report indicated that Turner could end up losing its place to NBC, which apparently has plans to make a monster bid to bring the league back to its airwaves.
There are a ton of balls in the air right now, so we’ll have to wait before we get clarity on where the league will air its games going forward. But if Turner loses its seat at the table, that would immediately spark questions about the future of the greatest studio television show of all time, Inside the NBA.
We fortunately did get one bit of good news on this front on Wednesday, when Charles Barkley went onto ESPN Cleveland’s The Really Big Show. Apparently, Barkley made it a point to make sure he could leave Turner in the event this very thing happened when he signed his most recent contract extension with the network.
“I wanted to make sure that if we lost the NBA in 2 years, I could be a free agent,” – Charles Barkley on if TNT loses the NBA TV rights.
“It’s a really big deal, obviously,” Barkley said. “But, you know, I covered my ass, to be honest with you … I just signed a 10-year deal two years ago, but one of the things that I did, I put an opt out after a couple years cause I wanted to make sure I covered my ass when it comes to this situation, if I wanted to go to Amazon or another — we thought it was gonna be Apple, to be honest with you.
“So, the one thing I did in my new contract, I’m two years into a 10-year deal,” Barkley continued. “And when I sit down, I said, ‘Wait a minute, now, if you guys lose the NBA, I wanna make sure that I can get out of here.’ So I am actually in a really great position.”
Barkley went on to explain that the team knew Amazon and Apple would get in on the race for TV rights, but they did not foresee that “NBC was gonna come out the woodwork.”
“I love TNT, they’ve been great to me, but if they lose the NBA, I wanted to make sure I had my I’s dotted and T’s crossed,” Barkley continued. “Something’s gonna happen, I hope that TNT, like I said, they’ve been great to me … I wanted to make sure if we lost the NBA in two years, I could be a free agent.”
When asked if he was open to joining whatever network ends up getting television rights, Barkley emphatically said, “hell yeah!” This is terrific news for everyone who loves watching Chuck do what he does on television, which is most people who are not from Galveston.
This Friday, May 3, Willow Smith (known mononymous as Willow) will release her latest album, Empathogen. Billed by the second-gen singer as a “musical compilation” in a teaser prior to its official announcement, the project was recorded under drastically different conditions than its predecessor. “For this new album, I was sober for every single recording session,” she said. “I feel like my mind state was extremely different.”
She recently brought that new mind set to NPR Music’s offices for a passionate Tiny Desk Concert performance, which was released today. In addition to playing a pair of her catalog hits, she also introduced the crowd to three of the songs from the new project (“Symptom of Life,” “Run!” and “Big Feelings”) while backed by a new band including social media star Taylor “The Pocket Queen” Gordon on drums. The performance ranges from jazz-inflected soul to folksy, ’90s-esque alt-rock that would fit right in at Lilith Fair, with Willow putting on an absolute vocal masterclass. This show should be studied in schools.
Willow’s new musical direction won praise from no less an authority than Questlove, who wrote of the new album on Instagram, “Shout out to @willowsmith for allowing herself to evolve into this artist. Doing all the things artists over the years have told me they wanted to do but were too afraid to because we been told odd time signatures don’t work or @gentlegiantband level prog rock song structure (blink and you missed it codas & bridges coming outta nowhere) might be too much for the “average listener” to consume or to lyrically go to this vulnerable place that we might think will get us ridiculed. Once in an eclipse there is an artist out there that will just be like ‘fuhggggit….this is how I feel’ and the stars align.”
You can watch Willow’s Tiny Desk performance in full above.
x (aka Multiply) was a huge moment for Ed Sheeran, as the album (his second) included the single “Thinking Out Loud,” which became Sheeran’s biggest hit in the US at that point in his young career. Well, the album is ten years old now and Sheeran is ready to celebrate.
Sharing the news on Instagram today (May 1), Sheeran explained:
“10th anniversary of Multiply this year, which feels wild but also a lot has happened in that 10 years. This album was made from 2011 – 2014, and spanned my whole personal life through that time, which was a mad time. Going from playing pubs and clubs to selling arenas in those years, falling in and out of love, travelling all round the world, working with some of the best producers in the world, it was a real rollercoaster, and it’s been amazing to revisit all the memories. Can’t wait to experience the multiply show with you, and remember some amazing moments over this summer together.”
He then noted that an anniversary concert will hit New York’s Barcleys Center on May 22. Tickets are set to go on sale on May 6, and a sign-up link can be found on Sheeran’s website. There’s also an anniversary edition of the album coming out on vinyl, and more information on that can be fuond here. It’s available to pre-order now ahead of its June 21 release.
Check out Sheeran’s posts about it below.
Mark your calendars
Ed’s celebrating 10 years of Multiply at the @barclayscenter NYC on 22nd May. Sign up for fan on-sale by 2nd May at 11:59pm ET. Tickets on sale 6th May 10am ET. Album & merch available now to pre-order – out 21st June!
Toddlers are built differently. Something about when they take those first trepidatious steps tells them that they no longer need things essential to human life. It also gives them a supersonic ego boost of invincibility, which is a concerning combination given the size of their heads in comparison to their little bodies and not-so-agile reflexes.
One dad has successfully convinced parents on the internet that toddlers must all listen to this completely made up podcast. Tyler Champagne has brought “Toddler Motivational Podcast” to life with one of his recent Instagram posts. In the video, Champagne, dad of a 2-year-old son and newborn daughter, imagines what it would sound like if his toddler had a motivational podcast.
The dad of two is sitting behind a podcast microphone speaking in a hushed voice that’s oddly motivational. Maybe don’t play the video while your littles are in the room—no need to give them any ideas.
“I don’t sleep at night. Sleep is for elderly people, like my parents in their 30s. When I’m sleeping, I’m not causing chaos, right? When I’m awake, I can continuously cause chaos throughout the day. Concentric circumference. Wanna know what I had for breakfast today? I licked one grape. That’s all I need. I don’t eat food. Food is a waste of time. When I’m chewing, when I’m swallowing, not causing chaos, okay?” Champagne says while motivational music plays in the background.
This is probably one of the most accurate portrayals of how it feels having a toddler in the home and parents couldn’t agree more.
“My toddler is getting rowdy listening to this speech,” one person raises a fist.
“How do we all have the same kids,” someone cries.
“My toddler watch[ed] this and screamed ‘that’s right’,” another says.
“Don’t y’all know. 90% of their hydration happens in the bathtub,” a commenter reveals.
Well, it may be a weird coincidence that every parent has the same kid. But it also seems totally plausible that once parents are asleep, some sort of motivational podcast like this comes through their baby monitor. Watch the video below, just make sure your toddler is out of earshot.
I’ve long been of the belief that every movie should be under 90 minutes or over three hours. Give me The Nightmare Before Christmas (76 minutes) or Seven Samurai (207 minutes), but nothing in between.
A recent poll of 2,000 Americans found that the “ideal” movie runtime is 92 minutes, according to Talker Research. That makes sense. If I was asked to pick between two movies but was only told the runtimes, not the titles, I would almost always choose the shorter film. I’ve got things to do (mindlessly scroll through Twitter). But worryingly, only 15 percent of those polled “want to sit through a movie that’s two hours or longer,” while the number drops to two percent if the film is over two and a half hours. Meanwhile, people sit through an entire season of a streaming series in a day without complaint.
Recent research by What to Watch suggests that the average running time of the most commercially successful films is increasing, with an average of 141 minutes in 2022 compared with 110 minutes in 1981. A number of reasons have been advanced, from streaming platforms’ ability to ignore the rigidity of cinema screening schedules, to the desire to showcase expensive visual effects and action sequences that have proliferated over the last decade.
The funny thing is, three of the four highest-grossing movies of all-time are over three hours: Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic (it would be four out of four if box office king Avatar was 18 minutes longer).
So, what’s the actual “ideal” runtime for a movie? If it’s good, as long as it needs to be.
Fans are in for a double dose of Dua Lipa this weekend. In celebration of dropping her third studio album, Radical Optimism, Lipa will host Saturday Night Live this Saturday, and serve as the episode’s musical guest.
Anticipation for Lipa’s appearance on the show is high. And ahead of the episode, SNL has shared a special teaser.
In the clip, Lipa is seen getting a feel for the stage ahead of her double duty performance. SNL cast member Chloe Fineman walks in, asking to show her a new impression.
Fineman proceeds to sing Lipa’s hit song, “Levitating,” but mangles some of the lyrics.
“If you want to run away with me, we can play hide and seek, first count to five,” Fineman sings.
Lipa is amused, albeit confused as to who Fineman is supposed to be. Fineman explains she’s impersonating her. However, Lipa tells her the lyrics and dancing are a bit off.
Lipa then trains Fineman on how to channel her properly. She puts a red wig on Fineman, and afterwards, her penchant for the lyrics and dancing improves — somewhat.
“If you want to come with me, I know a pizzeria, yeah, I can give you a slice,” sings Fineman.
Feeling confident in Fineman’s abilities, Lipa leaves her to handle the musical performances for her.
“Close enough, you’re gonna nail it, kid,” says Lipa.
You can see the teaser above.
Saturday Night Live airs Saturday at 11:30 p.m. EST on NBC. Episodes are also available to stream on Peacock.
Radical Optimism is out 5/3 via Warner. Find more information here.
Of all the characteristics of Hovvdy’s music, warmth is the one that comes through the most: the warmth of close-knit companionship, the warmth of family, the warmth of familiar comforts. “Will I always love you? Yeah, I’ll fall forever,” goes the chorus of “Forever,” one of the singles that led up to the release of their self-titled double album, a crowning achievement in an already excellent discography. That sentiment of enduring love courses throughout its 19 tracks and 53 minutes; the songs are so breezy and relaxed that you won’t even notice that nearly an hour has passed by as the final moments of closing track “A Little” fade out into a blissful quiet.
The Texas-bred duo of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor haven’t reinvented themselves for Hovvdy, and they didn’t need to. Their fifth album buttresses and refines their tried-and-true blend of alt-country and off-kilter bedroom pop on songs like “Meant,” “Every Exchange,” and “Bad News,” each tune wrapping itself around you like a heartfelt embrace. It’s a fully realized statement of everything that Hovvdy is, as Martin’s and Taylor’s twangy, earnest vocals intertwine throughout the record and carry each other to its end.
Following the record’s release this Friday, Hovvdy sat down with Uproxx to talk about sushi, Florida Georgia Line, and being prolific in our latest Indie Mixtape 20 Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Honest, intentional, hopeful, open-hearted. -WT
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Kinda bleak to think about being “remembered” when hopefully we’ll still be alive, maybe still rockin’ lol. But my goal has always been to be one of those prolific, hard-working rock bands (i.e. Wilco, Yo La Tengo, etc.), putting out great records spanning decades. -CM
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Our inspirations change and evolve over time. It’s always inspiring to watch musicians that build an entire world around their artistry that requires you to step in and be all-consumed. I believe Mk.gee has done a great job accomplishing that on his most recent album. -WT
Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?
I think my favorite restaurant in the world might be Noshi Sushi in LA. -CM
Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.
I recently saw Tyler Hubbard from Florida Georgia Line open for Keith Urban with my mom and sister. Everyone lost it when he played “Cruise”. -WT
What song never fails to make you emotional?
“Blindsided.” And off the new record, “Song For Pete.” -CM
What’s the last thing you Googled?
Timberwolves coach injury update -WT
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
We try to forget those places. I’ll say back in the day, there were a number of dingy basement floors that smelled like a litter box. I don’t miss that. -CM
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?
Seattle is always very enjoyable. It seems we always land there in the summer when the sun shines. I would love to go to New Zealand. -WT
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Doesn’t matter if you’re not Townes Van Zandt; you can still write songs. -CM
What’s one of your hidden talents?
Dancing like no one is watching. -WT
What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?
I’m hopeful we can use AI to expand our creativity and improve the functionality of our lives. Regarding music and art, I’m concerned it will be challenging to maintain legal order regarding deepfakes, fraudulent likeness, or copyright infringement. -WT
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.
I’d have to think long and hard about this haha so I’ll just go with the homies: Teethe, Dijon, Video Age, Alex G, Bendrix Littleton, Sarlo DJ set. -CM
Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?
@Eggs.tyrone, @mdwbasketball -WT
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
I love a book called The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I have a piece of the artwork from the book on my arm. Gibran did the art himself. That book taught me a lot. -CM
What is your pre-show ritual?
Long walk, FaceTime, existential dread, beer, vocal warm-up, daps and hugs. -WT
You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?
I want to go somewhere with my family that’s naturally beautiful, culturally engaging, and somewhat walkable. Nice weather and outdoor activities. Exciting local cuisine. My 4-year-old has to be able to keep up. Suggestions? -WT
What is your biggest fear?
Sometimes it’s death but sometimes it’s not. Fire is very scary. -CM
Hovvdy is out now via Arts & Crafts. Find more information here.
Grandparents are often stereotyped as doting and eager to be a big part of their grandchildren’s lives. In movies and TV, we often see parents of child-free women begging them to have kids so they can be grandparents.
However, that’s not always the case. Many grandparents are unable to help raise their grandkids because of their location or health. There are also far too many who aren’t that eager to do the work.
For many parents, the presence of grandparents who actively participate in raising their kids can be a game-changer. The support they provide, whether it’s watching the kids on a Friday night or picking them up from school, can significantly ease the juggling act of modern parenting.
Kelsey, a popular TikTok and Instagram mother of two, recently celebrated the joy of having “voluntarily involved” grandparents, calling them the biggest “parenting flex.” Of course, the subtext of the post is that, unfortunately, many grandparents are uninvolved with their grandchildren’s lives and their families could use their help.
“Without question, the biggest parenting flex isn’t the mom car, not how much you make a year. It’s not how well-behaved your kids are,” Kelsey starts her video. “Biggest flex is having involved grandparents. Voluntarily involved. Holy f***, having that midday struggle with my children and then getting that text from grandma: ‘Hey, can I pick so and so up for a sleepover tonight?’ Ha ha ha, funny, you should say that! Her bag has been packed. Never unpacked it. She’s ready.”
She noted that “voluntarily involved” grandparents aren’t just doing the bare minimum. They’re stepping up and taking charge of their role in the family.
“Ones that you can text like, ‘Hey, can you fly up this weekend? We need your help.’ ‘Sure, no problem!’ I don’t know what kind of reaction that was. But it came within the depths. Nothing beats it. Nothing beats a grandparent that wants to do more than required to get that yearly Facebook Happy Birthday Grandma post,” Kelsey continued.
Unfortunately, many moms and dads don’t have parents they can rely on to help them raise their kids and it’s a big loss. “A lot of the times, people don’t have help, and I am sorry,” Kelsey said. That f****** blows. We know it’s their loss. We know. Who doesn’t want to be involved with their grandchildren?”
Many commenters shared why raising kids without grandparents is so hard.
“I recently read a quote that said ‘uninvolved grandparents never intended to be parents themselves’ everything made sense,” Isabel Cardenas wrote. “You definitely got that right. That is the biggest flex of all time. There’s not enough money in the world that would take the jealousy I have for people who receive that type of love freely,” Katy Alltop added.
Kelsey shared her thoughts on why some grandparents aren’t voluntarily involved with their grandkids.
“I think a lot of times grandparents have the point of view like ‘I did my time, I raised my children, now it’s my time to do whatever I want.’ They don’t want to be tied down with babysitting and other commitments,” she told Upworthy. “Which I don’t think is necessarily a bad thing! They deserve a fun retirement. I would never want to force a grandparent (or anyone really) to be a part of my children’s lives. But it is so nice to see so many grandparents who go out of their way to foster relationships with their grandkids and who want to spend quality time with them (not just to give mom and dad a break).”
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