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Grupo Firme will be returning to Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium for another concert. On Tuesday (October 18), the Mexican band announced that fans can catch them at a third show that will be taking place next year.

Grupo Firme have become rock stars in the regional Mexican music scene. In April, the group brought Mexican banda music to the mainstage of Coachella. The following month, Grupo Firme sold-out two concerts at the SoFi Stadium where Super Bowl was held earlier this year. Those two concerts were a part of the band’s Enfiestados y Amanecidos Tour that is selling-out in stadiums across the US.

Now Grupo Firme will be returning to SoFi Stadium for a third time on May 23, 2023. For this next time, the band will be putting on a 360-degree concert so that fans all around the venue can enjoy a great view. Tickets for concert will be available starting Friday, October 21 on Ticketmaster.com.

At the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards, Grupo Firme is nominated for Best Regional Mexican Song for “Cada Quien” featuring Maluma. At last year’s awards ceremony, the group won for Best Banda Album for the LP Nos Divertimos Logrando Lo Imposible. Earlier this month, Grupo Firme joined Karol G as surprise guests on her Strip Love Tour.

Last season, the Minnesota Timberwolves recovered from a 16-20 start to end the year 46-36, going 30-16 over their final 46 outings, which featured victories against a slew of playoff opponents. Eventually, they made their way into a first-round matchup with the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies, who dispatched them in a competitive six-game series. Memphis undoubtedly earned those victories, but various second-half, self-inflicted blunders throughout a few different games helped prevent Minnesota from making its first second-round appearance since 2003-04.

To build upon that momentum of last season, Minnesota acquired All-NBA center Rudy Gobert this summer, pairing him with fellow All-NBA big man Karl-Anthony Towns. The Timberwolves sent out an array of future picks, as well as some key contributors from the 2021-22 squad, such as Jarred Vanderbilt and Patrick Beverley.

Both Gobert and Towns, who signed a four-year, $224 million supermax extension this summer, are in their primes, as is point guard D’Angelo Russell. With Minnesota short on future assets to alter or improve this roster following the blockbuster trade, the time to win is now, and Towns is embracing the high expectations.

“Just wanna be great. It’s always talk about us being good and are we good enough?,” Towns said. “It’s not time to be good anymore. It’s time to be great. We made these moves. We made these trades, so we gotta be great. Good is not good enough anymore.”

Tall-ball is not an unknown concept, but two All-NBA centers joining forces to promote that tall-ball approach is novel, at least over the past half-decade. Minnesota is an incredibly interesting and talented team, one that should contend for a top-four seed out West this season. We’ll get the initial returns on this experiment when the Timberwolves and Oklahoma City Thunder kick off at 8 p.m. EST inside Minneapolis’ Target Center.

Jessica Chastain apparently has expert timing when it comes to pranks. During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she revealed how she pulled off a stunt on a helplessly strung-up James McAvoy while filming 2019’s Dark Phoenix. While the film may not have been great, the prank sounds highly entertaining.

According to Chastain, the moment happened when McAvoy’s Professor X is lifted out of his wheelchair by Sophie Turner’s out-of-control Jean Grey, who uses her Phoenix powers to make him walk up a flight of stairs. The stunt required McAvoy to wear a wired harness, and that’s when Chastain saw her opening. Via Entertainment Weekly:

“He does the scene and it’s good,” Chastain recounted to host Kelly Clarkson. “The director said, ‘Okay, fine. Roll take, let’s do it again.’ So they lift him up and he’s acting, you know, like he’s being lifted by this magic… and, all of a sudden, the ‘Macarena’ starts playing. And the guys who were holding the wires were having him dance the Macarena.”

She added, “There’s no topping it. It was the best.”

However, like all pranks, they turn quickly. Not only did McAvoy start busting out dance moves while suspended in the air, but he ensnared Chastain in her trap.

“He leaned in,” Chastain told Clarkson. “In fact, at one point, because he was at the top of the stairs, he kinda, like, grabbed me and lifted me off the ground, and that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, no, no. We gotta stop because I could now get hurt.’ He was good fun.”

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Fans are eager to get their hands on new Ava Max music. Although Max’s second album, Diamonds & Dancefloors doesn’t arrive until early next year, leaks of the album have made their way online.

Max has caught wind of the leaks, and took to TikTok to address the stolen music.

“I wanted to come on here personally and talk about all the leaks that have been happening [with] Diamonds & Dancefloors.,” Max said. “I am extremely upset about it, obviously,”

“I don’t want anyone thinking I am trying to avoid this or anything,” she said. “I see what is happening. I, personally, haven’t seen the leaks or where they’re coming from online. I just know that it’s out there and — I don’t know… My team and I are trying our hardest to bring it down. We’ve all worked so hard on Diamonds & Dancefloors and I can’t wait for everyone to hear every single song on the album.”

In the video, she is visibly saddened, however, she maintains her composure throughout.

“I just wanted you to hear it from me that it is upsetting,” she said.

Diamonds & Dancefloors was originally planned for release this October, however was pushed to January of next year. Tracks are thought to have been leaked in response to the delay.

Diamonds & Dancefloors is out 1/27/2023. Pre-save it here.

Ava Max is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Banshees of Inisherin is kind of being sold as getting the In Bruges band back together again. Director Martin McDonagh reunites with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson about what happens when one of two close friends doesn’t want to be friends anymore. Even Kerry Condon, who plays Farrell’s sister, has worked with McDonagh before on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. So Barry Keoghan really was the “news kid at school,” here. Not to mention, he idolizes McDonagh so much, he has a picture of him as his phone wallpaper. Something he decided to delete before they had their first meeting. (I asked McDonagh about this later and he said he did find out about it and joked that’s what got Keoghan the job.)

Barry Keoghan seems to play a lot of characters with sinister streaks. In The Killing of a Sacred Dear, in which he also co-starred with Colin Farrell, he plays a young man who torments a family as part of a deranged plan for revenge. In The Eternals, he plays an immortal being with a growing chip on his shoulder. And in Matt Reeves’s The Batman we got a glimpse of him as the Joker (officially billed as “Unidentified Arkham Prisoner”) who, historically, is pretty sinister. (A deleted scene was later released that gives us a much better look at what Keoghans’s take on Joker will be like, which he talks about ahead.)

But in The Banshees of Inisherin, Keoghan plays Dominic, a sweet but troubled soul who tries his best to fit in with his fellow townspeople and to win the affection of Siobhán (Condon), but also has to deal with his alcoholic, abusive father who regularly beats him and also happens to be the town’s police officer. Keoghan may be new to the world of Martin McDonagh films, but he brings a heat and earnest soul to this movie that doesn’t work quite as well without it.

Ahead, Keoghan talks about living his dream of being in a Martin McDonagh movie and why he’s excited to show audiences a different, not-so-sinister side of his acting chops. He also talks about the possible future of The Eternals (and why he keeps texting Kumail Nanjiani for updates) and why he’s happy everyone has seen his extended deleted scene as Joker in The Batman.

Where in the world are you right now?

Literally forgot there for a second. New York.

That’s where I am.

Oh, you could have come seen me!

They didn’t offer that as an option.

[Jokingly yells to someone off camera] Hey! What’s the deal?

There’s a line you deliver in this movie that gave me the giggles I couldn’t shake. When you find a stick with a hook on it and you’re asked what you’re going to do with it and reply, “I’ll use it to hook something a stick’s length away.”

That’s Martin, because I remember Martin literally pulling me a few times on one of those lines about the stick, and Martin would say it for me in Dominic’s way. He was actually my acting coach as well that, Martin. He knew the character, but he knew a great way of putting him across to me, which made it really easy for me to do.

It’s not said with any sarcasm. It’s so sincere and it really sets up this character.

[Laughs] What are you going to do with a stick with a hook on it?

Colin and Brendan keep getting all the headlines for reuniting. You’ve done more movies with Colin at this point than Brendan has. You should point that out.

I think I have, right?

You have. You’ve done three with Colin.

Yeah, that’s another thing, I’m going to blow them all up on this … three times, actually.

I don’t know if The Batman counts. You’re not really in scenes together, but technically that’s the same movie.

Yeah, it’s the same title, you know? Well, I worked with Brendan also on Trespass Against Us. That was great. I was much younger then and we had a great time and that was years ago.

What is it like showing up on set of this? Because it is kind of being built as the reunion of In Bruges between Martin and those two.

It feels amazing to be part of that circle and cause they’ve all worked together, Kerry as well. And then it’s just to be invited in a way into the group and for them to give me their trust and stuff is, it’s just amazing. I mean it really is. To be a part of a Martin McDonagh movie, it really, really is. It’s so Irish. It’s so Irish. I can’t wait to bring it home and open it as well. And it’s going to be amazing.

I love In Bruges. So expectations were pretty high for me and it exceeded them. It might be my favorite movie this year…

Oh that’s nice man, that’s a nice big deal.

Top Gun: Maverick‘s really good, too, though.

I’ve seen it. I love Top Gun!

Oh, so how does this happen? Does Colin mention to Martin he should bring you in on this? Or does something else happen?

I remember Colin saying it to me in Sacred Deer. He was like, McDonagh, he has you in mind for a part. And the script, it’s lovely. And I was like, really? And that was it. Then I met Martin at a Three Billboards screening and I got to talk to Martin for a bit and then Martin emailed me. I was just like, fucking hell man. And I was just, yeah, it was a really nice thing to get an email and say, would you like to meet and talk to discuss this part? And I just couldn’t believe it, you know what I mean? Because I wanted to work with Martin McDonagh for so long. I had him on a list. I had him on the front of my phone! Yeah, the picture, literally, until we met. I took the picture off.

Wait, you had a picture of Martin McDonagh on your phone? The main picture?

Yeah.

Like I have Darth Vader here, like that?

Yeah. Literally had him on my phone. And then I was sitting in New York in a little burger place and I was waiting for him. And I literally looked at my phone. I was like, I should probably… yeah I need to get rid of this picture. If he sees it on my phone he will go “that kid is insane.”

Yeah, I’m curious what he would’ve thought if he would just seen that. Why does this guy have a picture of me on his phone?

Crazy. Crazy! But I told him and we laughed about it. I actually showed him the picture, I’ll pull the picture up again. But yeah, it was just a dream come true basically.

You mentioned Killing of a Sacred Deer. This is a very different role than that. You’re good at playing sinister characters. Even in Eternals you are sinister. Your character here, Dominic, is so sad and profound.

It is. To get to play that kind of part of being innocent and a sweet little soul, it’s nice because people are used to seeing me in that sort of role, with a bad streak or devious. And to get to play someone where we’re opposite? Totally opposite, is kind of like I get to show my range as an actor and that’s all I want to do. I’m being quite honest, literally show my range and bring people on board and get them to relate in any way they can and then make them ask questions and feel. So that’s all I want to do. And also to go on and enjoy myself with it to learn something from it as well, and to enjoy it and be challenged. So yeah, it’s quite nice.

It is interesting hearing you say you to bring people on board. You’re on the Irish Times list of greatest actors in Irish history already. I think things are going pretty well for you.

Good little Ireland put me on that list, did they?

Did you go to SNL when Brendan hosted?

We got in and I’ve got a newborn son, his name’s Brando and he’s only eight weeks old….

Congratulations.

Thank you. He needed his sleep and he comes first now so, yeah. But I would’ve loved to go. I did see it and the lads killed it and I’d watch Brendan and Colin do anything all day. They’ve got a great energy together. Is it Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman? Like that kind of thing? I’d love to see something like that. That’s what they kind of remind me of. I’d love to see that.

Who plays Ratso?

Hm…

I’m sure you like In Bruges, right? That’s a dumb question. It would be weird if you’re like, no, I hate it. What a bad movie.

I love it.

Is that why you have Martin on your phone? Or is it is plays? Or the whole package?

Movies yeah. And the plays. I mean, I’ve seen The Cripple of Inishmaan, as well. Never got to see Hangmen, never seen that. But when I read the script, it’s just a rhythm to it that makes it so easy to read in a good way. And there’s so much being said in a way, if you get what I’m saying, it’s not off the page. But he brings you to a place of knowing that there’s so much depth basically is what I’m trying to say. So yeah, I mean Seven Psychopaths, not in any order, but Three Billboards and the short film, Six Shooter, I remember seeing that. He’s just unreal man. He’s just unreal. And I’m curious to see what he does next. But he’s a lovely man. He’s a lovely fucking man.

So with Eternals, do you hear anything? Do you know what’s going? Do they keep in contact with you about what’s next?

Kumail is always the one I’m texting. I’m like, “Yo, have you heard anything on Eternals 2?” Kumail knows everything. You know what I mean? He loves comic books. The comic world.

They’re secretly giving you all the information and you’re just not telling Kumail. Maybe that’s what’s actually going on here.

Well, I’m always texting him like about San Diego Comic-Con. I’m like, “Hey, are we going to San Diego for Eternals?” but I’d love to see where it goes. I really would.

I mean there’s literally a giant stone Celestial coming out of the ocean. Someone’s going to notice that.

No, there’s a lot that we could dive into and there’s a lot of character stories that we can go with and that as well. So I will be curious to see where Kevin, Victoria Alonso and they all take it.

I hope Chloé Zhao gets to do it again, too…

It was shot and made, you really get, with the characters, it sort of felt like an independent movie at some points as well. But she, she’s amazing. Chloé, she’s another great one I would work with. At the drop of a hat again.

After The Batman came out they released your deleted scene as “Arkham prisoner”…

Seen it, right?

I have.

Well, I’ve done the job, if you’ve seen it. I think the lad’s done quite well with it. They wouldn’t release anything that they didn’t think needed to be released. And again, yeah, I am super happy it got released because it was a massive deal for me and everyone involved. So it’s good to put it out into the world and put my take and spin on it.

I’m out of time. Again, that line about the stick with the hook on it, it still makes me laugh.

[Laughs] Collect your money.

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ opens in select theaters this Friday, October 21st. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

Ahead of their new album, Crybaby, dropping this Friday, Tegan And Sara provide a third teaser with “Smoking Weed Alone.” Accompanied by a trippy video filmed from the perspective of someone who just got stoned and is watching the twins sing, it adds to the electronic dizziness that the song creates.

“With this album, I wanted there to be a dialogue that we could have about the songs,” Sara said (as Stereogum notes). “Some of Tegan’s songs became almost like duets because she allowed me to go in there and challenge her to rewrite lyrics. I wanted a narrative that could tie into our relationship and some of the things that were happening in our life, even if the song wasn’t about that. And for ‘Smoking Weed Alone,’ there’s a chorus where we’re sort of singing to each other, and we haven’t done that before, in our career.”

This dynamic of Tegan And Sara dueting with each other crosses into the visual component as well. Before releasing “Smoking Weed Alone,” they released the bass-crafted “I Can’t Grow Up” and explored heartbreak on “Faded Like A Feeling.” They also have a show, High School, currently airing on Amazon Freevee, which was inspired by their 2019 memoir.

Watch Tegan And Sara’s video for “Smoking Weed Alone” above.

Crybaby is out 10/21 via Mom+Pop Music. Pre-save it here.

As we near the end of the year, a.k.a. list-making season, let’s not forget one of the best movies of 2022: Jackass Forever. The Wikipedia summary alone is Best Picture-worthy: “Stunts and pranks with the main cast include Knoxville facing a bull resulting in dangerous consequences, Steve-O having his penis used as a beehive, Dave England getting pig semen dumped on him, a vulture eating pieces of meat off Wee Man’s body, Ehren McGhehey being subjected to painful tests with an athletic cup,” and so on.

About those “dangerous consequences.” In an interview to promote Hulu’s Reboot, Knoxville told Variety that he had “three or four big stunts planned” until the bull literally gave him brain damage. “I don’t want to say what they were, but they were on the same level as the bull. Even if I had gotten through the bull, I wouldn’t have gotten out of the others. One of them would have taken me out,” he said.

“It’s one of the most serious things I’ve experienced. Of course, I have fear. But that’s more like two or three days out of a big stunt. When it’s time to shoot, I just want to go right now. I’ll be sitting in my car listening to music. When they’re ready to go, they call me in and I go. I think the bull stunt was scarier for other people who saw it. I was out for more than a minute, but for me personally, it wasn’t scary. I go to a different place when I’m doing those things.”

Jackass Forever. Check it out, if only for Knoxville’s brain and Steve-O’s balls.

(Via Variety)

I don’t know if there’s ever been a show that strikes a more effective balance between brilliant and stupid than Documentary Now! This, to be clear, is a compliment, and one of the highest I know how to give. The whole thing feels kind of like the smartest and funniest people you’ve ever met got in a room together to work on a project but only after they kept themselves awake for 48 hours and let sleep-deprived giggly mania kick in. This, once again, to be extremely clear, is also a compliment. Every episode starts with Helen Mirren introducing what she presents as a real documentary from a 50+-year series of documentaries and then the quote-unquote real documentary starts and reveals itself to be the silliest parody of the genre you’ve ever seen. There have somehow been three seasons of the show. The fourth one starts this week. I love all of it so much.

The briefest of background will help, in the name of professionalism: Documentary Now! is a series on IFC from a slew of SNL vets who are probably too busy to be doing this but are finding the time anyway, which is already a sign it’s going to be good. Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, John Mulaney, etc. Every episode takes the loosest framework of a notable documentary and bends and contorts the original into something resembling madness. Remember that big music documentary about the Eagles? They did that, but about a bunch of guys from Chicago who jumped on the “California sound” style. Remember the Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture? They did that with Bill Hader as a fake Evans who desperately wanted to win an Oscar. Remember the documentary about the insane marathon sessions to record the soundtrack to Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company? They did that, but the musical was about living in a co-op in New York City and featured this song, which I insist you listen to if you’ve never heard it and listen to again if you have. The twist it takes is still bordering on magic to me.

I could go on. Actually… you know what? I will go on. Mostly because I want to talk about Juan Likes Rice and Chicken, the second episode in the second season, and a semi-parody of the real documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi. I promise I am not exaggerating when I say that it might be the best half-hour of television I have ever seen. It’s a satire, sure, and really just very goofy in parts. If you want to watch Fred Armisen try to catch a chicken with his bare hands or comprehend a high-end culinary establishment called Diego’s Fun Restaurant where you can put Skittles on your chicken if you want, that’s all in there. But it’s also… like… kind of beautiful. Even if you haven’t seen the original. It’s sweet and thoughtful and funny and smart and outrageously stupid. This is all I have ever asked for out of a television program.

The fourth season, delayed over two years due to a combination of busy schedules and the world crumbling under the weight of an ongoing pandemic, is more of the same. Thank God. The proceedings open with a two-part take on Burden of Dreams, a 1982 documentary that shows the troubled production of the Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo, which was filmed entirely in the jungles of Peru. Alexander Skarsgard plays the fake Herzog. Nicholas Braun — Cousin Greg from Succession — plays a former child star named Kevin Butterman. The whole thing flips itself on its head about four minutes into the action and becomes one of the dumbest and most creative things you’ll ever see on television. I smiled the whole way through.

There are other gems in here, too. There’s one that turns My Octopus Teacher into My Monkey Grifter. There’s one that turns a handful of fashion documentaries into a riff on a couple of hairdressers. When We Were Kings, the iconic documentary about the Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman turns into a tale about some people who throw rocks. I ripped through all of the screeners within about 48 hours of receiving them. I’ve watched some of them twice. I’ll probably watch a few of them again when they run live on IFC this fall. I cannot stress to you in strong enough terms that this is all extremely my shit.

I think what I like most about it is just how audacious the whole endeavor is, both on paper and in practice. Like, think about the needle this sucker threads. It’s a show that kind of requires the viewer to have at least a loose knowledge of decades worth of notable documentary filmmaking and also, at times, the sense of humor of a nine-year-old boy. That’s a little crazy, and a little like something you would see in one of those weird SNL sketches that airs at 12:45 am. The fact that it exists at all is wild. The fact that it has worked for four full seasons is basically a miracle. And yet, here we are, in season four, still stretching the limits of smart and stupid as far as the world of television will allow.

The lesson here, as it usually is, is that really cool things can happen when you let really smart and funny people play in their own sandboxes for a while. That’s how you get shows like this, and Atlanta, and Fleabag, and I Think You Should Leave, and my beloved — and recently canceled, which I am still livid about — Joe Pera Talks With You. Shows that are one of one, singular pieces of entertainment that shift your whole perspective on what television is and can be. Taking big swings like this can be good. You might not always make contact, and you run the risk of looking like a doof if things go sideways on you, but when you rear back and let rip and something like this connects… yeah, buddy. That’s something special. That’s what we have here.

I still can’t believe Helen Mirren introduces each of these. What a wonderful little television program.

Billie Eilish and The Neighbourhood singer Jesse Rutherford sparked dating rumors a few days ago when they were seen holding hands at Hollywood Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Now, it appears they’ve all but issued a statement confirming it: New photos of the pair have surfaced that sure make it look like they are in fact together.

The snaps, shared by Daily Mail and TMZ, show Eilish and Rutherford in the street after a dinner date at Los Angeles restaurant Lal Mirch on Tuesday (October 18) night. In the pictures, 20-year-old Eilish and 31-year-old Rutherford look comfortable as they hold each other, smile, and even kiss.

As for why Eilish has yet to publicly address the relationship, she has said she tries to keep that part of her life as private as she can. In a 2020 interview, she noted, “I definitely want to keep that private. I’ve had relationships and kept them private, and even the ones that I’ve had, and the tiny amount that I’ve let the world see, I regret. So, I can’t even imagine… I think about it sometimes. I think about the people that have made their relationships OD public, like, you know what I’m talking about? And then they break up, and it’s like, ‘What if it goes bad?’ And then everybody has this whole opinion on your relationship that they have no idea about. It’s very much not something I’m interested in.”

Ahead of the release of Black Adam, Turner Classic Movies interviewed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson about older movies. (The kind of movies that don’t get made anymore because of superhero blockbusters like Black Adam, but anyway.) It’s a Wonderful Life is the last black-and-white movie the wrestler-turned-actor-turned-In ‘n’ Out fan watched; his favorite anti-hero from a classic movie is Darth Vader; and his biggest blindspot is 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando.

The Rock also revealed the last film to make him cry. “It was Braveheart with Mel Gibson,” he said. “I watched that movie about a month ago.” The Rock is adamant that Sir William Wallace leading the Scots against the English didn’t make him sob, he only got “misty-eyed.” If his last movie had been Paddington 2, he would have bawled.

The Rock even has a personal connection to the Best Picture winner. “I have in my possession the sword that Mel Gibson uses in Braveheart,” he said. “It is a massive sword, and one of the few that a Scottish blacksmith and his family, generational blacksmiths, have been commissioned to make that sword from the Wallace family.”

You can watch the TCM video above. Black Adam comes out this Friday, October 21.