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Harrison Ford hasn’t always been exactly happy when it comes to dealing with fans. And no wonder: It can’t be easy being both Han Solo and Indiana Jones, to say nothing of Rick Deckard, Jack Ryan, Dr. Richard Kimble, and John Book. But at the D23 expo on Saturday, the famously grumpy screen legend got emotional when announcing that he really is done playing a certain archeologist and professor.

As per Deadline, Ford attended a presentation for Indiana Jones 5 (as it’s still perhaps tentatively called), joined by director James Mangold, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and fellow cast member Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Ford, who turned 80 in July, choked back tears as he talked up his final stint as the good Dr. Jones.

“I’m very proud to say that this one is fantastic, and this is one of the reasons,” he said, pointing to Waller-Bridge. “Indiana Jones movies are about mystery and adventure, but they’re also about heart, and I’m really, really happy that we have a really human story to tell, as well as a movie that will kick your ass.”

He then confirmed what was obvious to most. “This is it,” Ford told the crowd. “I will not fall down for you again.”

There was also a teaser, but that has yet to be made available online.

Ford has been playing Indy since 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was his second major franchise lead, after Han Solo, of course, cementing him as one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. The last time he essayed the role, in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls, was a box office success but earned considerably poorer reviews and a lackluster rep. But it has some fans, including no less than Quentin Tarantino.

(Via Deadline)

The Texas Longhorns entered Saturday’s game with top-ranked Alabama as three touchdown underdogs, but well into the second half it was clear that this would be anything but an easy day for the Crimson Tide.

Early on it was the young star Quinn Ewers giving Alabama problems as he racked up 134 yards passing in the first quarter before getting knocked out of the game with a shoulder injury late in the opening frame. After that, Texas punched it in from the goal line to tie the game and neither offense could do much more — with the exception of a late second quarter drive that ended in no points after a missed chip shot field goal — leaving the game tied at 10 into the third quarter.

That stalemate was nearly ended with a safety when Bryce Young was apparently sacked in the end zone, but a flag on the play hit Texas with a roughing the passer plus targeting, triggering a review. It was immediately clear that the call was terrible, as Young wasn’t even down with the player comes in and hits him, but as they reminded everyone multiple times, they can’t review the roughing, only the targeting. However, the review dragged on and they came to a unique conclusion that resulted in the safety coming off the board but Alabama not getting a first down.

The result of the lengthy review was to rule that Young was never down and threw the ball away for an incompletion — and because you can’t give a penalty after review, there couldn’t be a grounding call that would’ve resulted in a safety. As such, it was fourth down and Alabama punted it away, ultimately leading to three points for Texas on a field goal.

For the Longhorns, it was still a net positive but it was truly one of the most bizarre penalty calls and reviews that I have ever seen. The roughing call was laughable and Texas probably should’ve gotten two points and the ball with a chance for more, but despite the entire, head-scratching sequence they still ended up with the lead.

When last we saw the titular hero of The Mandalorian, he’d done something he’d never done before: He showed someone his face. But removing his helmet to bid adieu to Baby Yoda (sorry: Grogu) cost him. As the first teaser for Season 3 begins, Pedro Pascal’s nameless bounty hunter is asked whether he ever showed someone his visage. When he confesses that he did, he’s informed he can no longer be called a Mandalorian — which is a shame, because that’s the only name we have for him. Now what do we call him?

The teaser bowed at the D23 expo, which has debuted lots of Disney and Marvel news. A lot has changed since the previous season aired two years ago. The Star Wars-verse has expanded even further, with shows like The Book of Boba Fett and this summer’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. What’s more, one of the big supporting players, Gina Carano, went and mouthed off with anti-trans rhetoric, getting herself fired and deep-sixing a proposed spin-off for her character, Cara Dune. (At least Carano has bounced back, appearing in Breitbart’s highly questionable Hunter Biden movie.)

Meanwhile, D23 also saw a trailer for yet another Star Wars show: Andor, which follows the early days of Diego Luna’s Rebel spy Cassian Andor, which you can watch below.

The Mandalorian Season 3 premieres at an as-yet-disclosed time in 2023. You can watch the teaser above.

While watching a deceptively touching scene in Bros (Nicholas Stoller’s new comedy that just premiered here at the Toronto International Film Festival) between Billy Eichner’s Bobby and Luke Macfarlane’s Aaron – we see the two men, shirtless from the waist up, embracing in an intimate moment before the camera pans out to reveal both men are receiving oral sex from two additional men in the room – I couldn’t help but think, “I really can’t wait for Ted Cruz to accidentally see Bros.”

Look, other than the pandemic years, I have been at every TIFF since 2011. Bros premiered at the Princess of Wales theater on Friday night, one of those big majestic places with two balconies. I have seen a lot of movies in that place, and I’ve never experienced the amount of almost constant, uproarious laughter like I did with Bros. Now, there are probably a few reasons for this. Toronto doesn’t accept a lot of mainstream studio comedies produced by Judd Apatow. So, yes, it makes sense there was a lot more laughter last night for Bros then there was for, say, The Master in 2012. Also, after two years away (TIFF had a subdued, smaller festival in 2021) it just felt like people were ready to laugh in a huge theater like this. And they did. So much so that I probably missed 20 percent of the dialogue over the laughter.

I have a friend who I won’t name who often tells me of his exploits as a gay single man living in New York City. These stories often involve drugs, multiple men, and eventual frustration. (While listening to these stories, I often find myself feeling very, very square.) I’m not going to pretend I have any idea what I’m talking about in that respect, but Bros very much captures the spirit of almost every story my friend has told me. And I’ve never really felt like that before. My friend’s stories are never really about serious subjects like wrestling about one’s identity (obviously important topics), they are almost always about orgies. Bros captures this in a way I’m not sure any studio movie has done before. (More on this in a bit.)

Bobby (Eichner) is a successful man living in New York City who is trying to raise money for a LGBTQ museum, but, alas, he can’t find love and is tired of seeing the same faces and impersonal hookups day after day on Grindr. (There are a lot of scenes of Eichner sending and receiving messages that just say, “Hey, what’s up?”) At a party, he spots Aaron (Macfarlane) an impossibly handsome man who loves Garth Brooks and would be more into talking about a Patriots game than hearing about a new museum opening. The two have an on again, off again, on again relationship that, at its core, follows the same traditional tropes of most romantic comedies, except there are a lot more scenes of men having sex with each other than, let’s say, the average moviegoer might be used to seeing. Trouble arises when Aaron runs into an old high school buddy, with his female fiancee, that Aaron used to have a crush on back in the day. In following days after, that friend comes out, which sets up a love triangle. Well, technically two love triangles. The one the three men make in bed together, then the much more complicated emotional love triangle that Bobby has more and more a problem with. Will these two finally get together in the end? We all kind of know what will happen, the concept here doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s just a much different-looking tire around that wheel.

Here’s a weird complaint, Bros might be too funny. I do wonder if Stoller and team were worried about how all this will play in some of the redder parts of the United States and decided to divert attention away from some of the steamier scenes with a nonstop brigade of jokes. In that there’s really not that much time to process a situation in a, “Oh wow, they showed that,” which will be immediately followed by Eichner being attacked by a bee. It really is joke after joke after joke, most delivered wonderfully by Eichner. And they sure landed in front of this big audience, but I do wonder how all that will play in a more subdued environment.

Bros is kind of positioning itself as a “first” in a lot of categories for a romantic comedy that centers on a relationship between two gay men. I have no idea what of that is true and what of that isn’t, but I do think it’s noteworthy a huge studio, Universal, is going to be putting Bros in thousands of theaters. I don’t know if this is “monumental,” or “well, it’s about time” or a combination of the two (probably a combination of the two), but it all does seem, at the very least, noteworthy.

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The passing of Queen Elizabeth II has inspired countless memoriams, including a confusing one from onetime monarch critic Johnny Rotten. But she — and the monarchy — remain controversial. Among the social media detritus to surface in the wake of her death was a video of Anthony Bourdain from 2018, in which the late chef and globetrotter made one hell of a face when someone he was dining with toasting the queen.

The clip was from Season 11, Episode 3 of Parts Unknown, which aired in 2018 and found Bourdain wandering about Newfoundland. It finds him in Raymond’s Restaurant in St. John’s, at a table with fellow chefs David McMillan and Frédéric Morin, about to casually enjoy some white wine.

Alas, one of Bourdain’s fellow diners makes a faux pas, at least in his eyes, uttering the words, “To the queen.” The toast causes Bourdain to pause, slowly put down his drink, and treat the toaster to some serious side-eye. He then says, “No, I hate the aristocracy, man.”

The clip was shared by multiple people, racking up hundreds of thousands of likes each. It’s a reminder that not only was Queen Elizabeth II far from infallible, but that Bourdain was never afraid to speak his mind, even when sitting down for a nice dinner with colleagues.

(Via Newsweek)

Quinn Ewers made quite the impression early in his biggest game of his young college career on Saturday, as the Texas star made some sensational throws in the first quarter against Alabama.

The Longhorns trailed 10-3 after the first quarter but were knocking on the doorstep of tying it up thanks to an absolute bomb from Ewers to Xavier Worthy, who dropped a touchdown on a similar ball from Ewers on their opening drive.

All told, Ewers piled up 134 yards on 9-of-12 passing in the first 15 minutes of action, and really should’ve had at least one touchdown had it not been dropped. However, on the play immediately following his deep ball to Worthy, Ewers was planted into the ground by Dallas Turner as he threw the ball away and landed directly on his left shoulder, staying down in significant pain afterwards.

Turner was flagged for driving Ewers into the ground, which is among the points of emphasis in college football for roughing the passer, but it wasn’t a dirty or late hit by any stretch, just an unfortunate one particularly with how Ewers ended up spinning and landing directly on that shoulder.

Ewers would eventually get up and walk to the sidelines where he was evaluated and then walked back to the locker room with a towel over his head. Sophomore Hudson Card came in for Ewers and on the first play of the second quarter, handed it off to star back Bijan Robinson for the game-tying touchdown. However, considering how much of the Longhorns offensive success early came from Ewers throwing the ball and pushing it downfield, his absence is a significant concern for Texas not just in this game but potentially long term as we await official word on the severity of the injury.

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in late February, many predicted a swift victory. That didn’t happen. Over the last six months-plus, the aggressor nation has faced untold defeats, faced untold sanctions, even had to rehab big businesses that no longer wanted anything to do with them. Throughout, Russian state TV has tried to put a positive spin on things, but now even they seem to have given up.

As per The Daily Beast, Russian propagandists have started admitting that things aren’t exactly on the up-and-up. One common thread is that Russian soldiers are facing a threat bolstered by Western weaponry and foreign intel.

“We wish courage to our warriors, who are indeed doing very important work,” said 60 Minutes host Evgeny Popov, adding, “they are resisting an enormous horde that has been trained in the West.”

Meanwhilem, retired lieutenant-general Evgeny Buzhinsky asserted that Americans are amping up Ukrainian forces. “There are not only advisers, but specialists,” Buzhinsky declared. “I think that there are thousands of American advisers and specialists on the ground in Ukraine, they’re probably present in every unit.”

Then there’s Vladimir Solovyov, host of the radio show Full Contact. “I’m worried,” he brooded. “Naturally, we want for our guys to crush [the other side] and only to advance, but life doesn’t work that way.”

On the nightly program The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, military expert Mikhail Onufrienko was even more pessimistic. “This is a difficult war, it’s a big war, the world hasn’t seen wars of this magnitude since WWII, at least after Vietnam,” Onufrienko said. “The panic is being stoked not by the Ukrainian side, not by the Kyiv regime or Western sources, but by our own patriotic [social media] channels… Nonetheless, objectively speaking, this is the most successful advance of the junta since February 24… We clearly don’t have enough troops to contain them… but they couldn’t take Balakliya.”

They have reason to worry. As per Reuters, Ukrainian forces late last week reclaimed Kharkiv, a territory in the east previously occupied by now-crumbling Russian forces. The same happened with Izyum, also in the northeast, according to The New York Times. This may be a turning point in the world — good for Ukraine, not so good for Russia, or for Tucker Carlson.

(Via The Daily Beast)

On Thursday, we saw a side of Steve Bannon not seen before: in handcuffs. The former Trump administration honcho had been indicted by Manhattan prosecutors for allegedly defrauding MAGA donors. He turned himself in and was filmed doing a perp walk through a hallway. For most, this would be one of the worst days of one’s life. For Bannon, though, it was the opposite.

The day after turning himself in, Bannon appeared on the podcast run by twentysomething Trump fanatic and permanent bedhead guy Charlie Kirk, where he explained what it was like to have his hands cuffed behind his back because he’d allegedly ripped off his former boss’ supporters.

“Yesterday was one of the best days of my life,” Bannon told Kirk. “It was a very powerful, spiritual day for me. A lot of things came into high clarity.” He added, “I was totally in the zone, as you say in sports, the entire time. They’re not gonna shut me up,”

Bannon is in hot water over his involvement in a fundraising organization called We Build the Wall, which pledged to complete Donald Trump’s beloved Southern wall project. The group raised millions in donations, but allegedly they funneled some of that money into the pocklets of not only Bannon but other people involved with the scheme.

Bannon faced federal charges over the project in 2020, but he was pardoned by Trump during his last days in office. But those were federal charges. These are local charges, meaning Trump’s pardon doesn’t protect Bannon. Bannon and his legal team have vowed to fight the charges. At this point, Bannon must be used to being indicted on criminal charges, having blown off the Jan. 6 committee last year.

In the meantime, here’s that perp walk.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Today, Taylor Swift made an appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival, where she screened the short film accompanying her song, “All Too Well (10-Minute Version),” on 35mm film. “All Too Well” was first released on Swift’s fourth studio album, Red, which came out in 2012. The first version of “All Too Well” Swift wrote came out to be 10 minutes long, however, she cut it down to five minutes and 30 seconds for the album’s original iteration.

Fans didn’t hear the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” until last year, when Swift released a re-recorded version of Red. While the song had been a fan favorite among Swifties, there also wasn’t a music video for the song until last year, which came in the form of the Swift-directed short film, starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien.

Variety reports that when speaking to the audience at TIFF, Swift shared that the song didn’t receive a music video until nine years after its release because it hit too close to home at the time.

“For me, the song was so tough because it was about something that at that point was very current for me,” she said. “I would have a really hard time performing it at the time. I had to force myself to focus on other things to try to get through it during tour. So there would be no world in which I could have made a visual element to that song at that time. I needed ten years of retrospect in order to know what I would even make to tell a version of that story visually. And I’m so grateful that I was able to do that with some crazy stroke of all these different twists of fate.”

As the adage holds, good things take time. Last month, the short film took home the Video Of The Year award at the MTV Video Music Awards. During her acceptance speech, she teased her 10th studio album, then took to social media to reveal its title, Midnights.

Midnights is out 10/21 via Republic. Pre-order it here.

Ahead of her fourth studio album Star-Crossed‘s first birthday tomorrow, Kacey Musgraves has shared a brief documentary detailing the making of the record.

In the 14-minute clip, titled Star-Crossed: Making The Album, Musgraves is seen in the studio working with her collaborators and laying down tracks for the album. She also shares interview footage, in which she details certain songs, and how they came together.

One of the album’s standout tracks is “Breadwinner,” on which, Musgraves sings of a man who feels insecure about her financial success. In an interview with Time, she revealed that she drew from her own personal experience with this type of dynamic, as well as that of many other women.

“I’m not the only one who’s experienced that,” Musgraves said, “and I’m not going to be the last. It always makes it easier to put vulnerable thoughts out there when you know they’re going to be met with connection. As more women have moved into power, it’s been interesting to see the effects. It’s important for men to know there are so many things you can bring to the table other than money. If you’re with a woman who earns more than you, maybe look at what you can bring emotionally, mentally, or around the house. I feel really lucky to be with someone who is so secure and is a champion of me reaching for every star possible. It’s a really beautiful thing for a man to be able to support a woman in that way and not take it personally.

Check out Star-Crossed: Making The Album above.