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Quentin Tarantino is not just an iconoclastic filmmaker. He’s also an eccentric film watcher. He’s seen everything, and he has lots of unusual, sometimes surprising opinions about them. For instance, he loves Top Gun: Maverick just like everyone. But he also vastly prefers a certain franchise entry that very few like to one that most people adore.

The maybe-retiring auteur and noted feet fetishist made an appearance recently on the podcast ReelBlend, where he did what he often does: run his mouth about cinema. At one point, they wound up talking Indiana Jones movies, where he dropped two hot takes: the beloved threequel Last Crusade is bad and the despised fourquel Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is not.

“I like Crystal Skull more than the Sean Connery one,” Tarantino said. “I don’t like the Sean Connery one. I don’t like [that] one at all. … That’s such a boring one. It’s boring! And he’s not an interesting character. The joke is made immediately. It’s like Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.”

For those not in the know, Tarantino was referring to a much-derided, little-remembered 1992 cop comedy in which Estelle Getty plays Sylvester Stallone’s mother, from a brief period in which the sometime Rambo tried his hand at jokes. (See also: Oscar.)

Is Tarantino wrong? Last Crusade is few people’s picks for the finest Indiana Jones romp, and maybe Crystal Skull — a big money-maker but often seen as a stepdown in the series — deserves a re-evaluation. It’s been 14 years. Maybe the guy who keep rewriting history in his movies is right and it’s time to revamp how he think about Indy films.

(Via IndieWire)

Today, Nipsey Hussle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in an emotional ceremony, where his partner Lauren London gave a speech dedicating the star on what would have been his 37th birthday. “I think I speak for the entire city of L.A. when I say that we’ve always known Hussle was destined for greatness,” she said.

“This moment only amplifies that for us,” she continued. “Nip would have been honored by this moment. I think he would want everyone to remember that you can’t get to what’s possible unless you commit to moving forward. That doesn’t mean forgetting where you come from, but requires acknowledging the reality you were born into and the power you have to change that reality for the better.”

“So whenever you’re in the city of angels and you see this star, I hope it encourages you to break away from whatever might be holding you back and for you to run your marathon until God says that it’s finished. Nip will forever live in our hearts. I’m grateful for the love and support the world has shown us but especially I wanna thank the city of Los Angeles. I love you, and as y’all know the marathon continues.”

Others who received stars on the Walk Of Fame today included singer Ashanti, hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas, the late Carrie Fisher, former NFL player Michael Strahan, and actor Michael B. Jordan.

Hussle was killed on March 31, 2019 when he was shot by Eric Holder in front of his Marathon Clothing store. Holder has since been convicted of murder and is awaiting sentencing.

Due to a fractured right foot suffered last summer, New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson missed the entirety of the 2021-22 NBA season. It was announced during New Orleans’ media day in September that Williamson had undergone surgery to repair the fracture and the timeline for a full return was vague basically the whole season before Williamson was ruled out for the year in late March.

Williamson, who recently inked a five-year, $193 million extension with the Pelicans, didn’t speak much publicly throughout the season, but has opened up this offseason about everything he’s endured and experienced amid his injury. He most recently spoke with GQ’s Tres Dean and discussed, in part, how he navigated that trying season.

The piece centers on Williamson’s love for anime, particularly Naruto, and catalogues his experience at San Diego’s Comic-Con earlier this summer. But the 22-year-old does touch on other topics, too. At one point, Williamson addresses how all the noise and unfounded speculation surrounding his prolonged absence and injury riddled 2021-22 affected him.

“It’s been a lot. I can sit here and explain it, but nobody will really be able to feel it the way I did,” he said. “My foot was broken and I couldn’t magically heal it. It hurt, because I love the game of basketball. But because of it, I was experiencing hate and pain from people I don’t know every day, and it started to wear on me.”

On multiple occasions now this offseason, Williamson has mentioned how the fallout and discourse stemming from his absence weighed heavy. This is yet another reminder to prioritize these athletes as humans and grant them as much understanding as we can. Nonetheless, it’s wonderful he’s been cleared to return to the floor and should be ready to lead a dangerous Pelicans squad this fall and beyond. Williamson is a delight to watch and a vivacious personality. We’re all lucky to watch him play.

As the situation around Donald Trump‘s alleged mishandling of top secret documents continues to escalate, Rudy Giuliani insists that the former president is doing just fine. Couldn’t be better! During a recent appearance on Newsmax, Giuliani once again trotted out the line that Trump isn’t worried about the raid because people immediately showed up outside of Mar-a-Lago to defend him. The crowd size grew over the weekend following reports that Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act, which revealed the serious nature of the FBI search.

Via Insider:

Giuliani, a former New York mayor and longtime Trump ally, told Newsmax that Trump said the raid is “going to help me.”

“You see the number of people in front of Mar-a-Lago already? This is gonna turn around, American people have common sense, they’ve gone too far now,” Giuliani recalled Trump telling him.

However, Giuliani should probably be more concerned with what’s happening to Rudy Giuliani. On Monday, news broke that prosecutors have targeted the former president’s attorney in the going investigation into alleged election meddling in Georgia. Giuliani, Trump, and several of his inner circle, including Lindsey Graham, are accused of violating the law while allegedly attempting to coerce Georgia officials to “find votes” that would flip the state to Trump during the presidential election against Joe Biden.

According to CNN, Georgia prosecutors called Giuliani’s legal team on Monday and informed them that America’s Mayor is now a target of the investigation. And to be clear, the Georgia situation is also another legal landmine for Trump on top of the whole FBI raid. But, hey, he’s doing fine!

(Via Insider, CNN)

Billie Eilish is still on the “Happier Than Ever, The World Tour,” which feels like it might never end. What began in February and swept across the US until June, then went to Europe and now heads to Asia and Australia. Naturally, Eilish made a stop in South Korea, at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome, and the stars were out. Well, perhaps the most notable stars in the country, at least: BTS.

J-Hope and RM (Hobi/Hoseok, Namjoon/Namseok for the superfans out there) were spotted in the crowd for the concert and the #BTSArmy is going absolutely nuts. A grainy video clearly shows the pair dancing to “Bad Guy,” which likely presents itself as some sort of infinity moment for pop music stans. “JHOPE and rn dancing to bad guy at the Billie eilish concert sorry if u can hear me singing,” a user said on Twitter along with the video.

And J-Hope and RM weren’t the only K-pop artists in attendance. One user noted that along with the BTS pair, K-pop stars in Red Velvet, TXT and Jung Ho-Yeun, were also there.

It should really come as no surprise that Billie Eilish fans crossover with BTS fans. Of course, the clips and pics on Twitter are as seemingly never-ending as Billie’s tour.

Donald Trump is fuming after FBI agents allegedly “stole” his passports. Yes, as in plural. The twice-impeached former president has been the subject of a bombshell investigation into whether his administration violated the Presidential Records Act which requires a departing president or vice president to hand over sensitive documents to the National Archives and Records Administration before leaving office. During a recent FBI raid of Trump’s Florida mansion, Mar-a-Lago, agents seized 11 boxes of classified material Trump was supposed to have handed over, including top secret information on fellow presidents and maybe even nuclear weapons documents.

Naturally, people have been predicting the MAGA cult leader may soon end up behind bars because of all this, which might be why the FBI apparently confiscated Trump’s passports — all three of them.

In a post to his TRUTH Social platform, Trump ranted about having multiple passports stolen by agents during the raid. While he clarified that one passport was expired — which, if so, why keep it? — the other two were likely active, meaning Trump now had no way of fleeing the country should the DOJ actually charge him with any criminal activity.

Obviously, normal people don’t have multiple passports just lying around their megamansions next to boxes of classified government intel they were supposed to have left in the damn White House, so Twitter users had thoughts.

It’s likely Trump has both a regular, government-issued passport and a special diplomatic passport since he is a former president, but it’s strange that he’s just now noticing all three of his travel documents are missing — and even stranger that he’s so pissed off about it. Where were you planning to go, Donald?

(Via The Daily Mail)

Lawrenceville, Georgia rap trio Migos has been the subject of speculation among fans for the past several weeks, as fans wonder whether the band has split up thanks to group member Offset unfollowing his compatriots Quavo and Takeoff on Instagram. Just days after the unfollowing incident, Quavo and Takeoff released their own single “Hotel Lobby,” followed by the news they’d been replaced as Governors Ball headliners by Lil Wayne. At the same time, Offset began previewing his own new music, lending more momentum to the rumors.

Those rumors were accelerated today when a preview clip from an upcoming episode of the Rap Radar podcast featured Quavo and Takeoff appearing as a duo. While the full episode is due on August 18, fans couldn’t wait to speculate on why Offset wasn’t featured in the clip. Considering they’re also billed to perform at the 2022 Pepsi National Battle Of The Bands without reference to Offset, fans are rightfully anxious to know whether the trio has become a duo.

For what it’s worth, this isn’t the first time that the two Migos have performed without their compatriot. In 2013, shortly after their breakout with “Versace,” Offset was forced to serve a stint in DeKalb County Jail for violating his probation. Meanwhile, all three members of the group dropped solo albums between October 2018 and February 2019, and both Quavo and Offset released collaborative albums with artists outside the group in 2017 (Quavo, Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho with Travis Scott and Offset, Without Warning with 21 Savage and Metro Boomin).

So, the trio might well be a duo for now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be back together again before we know it — after all, they are blood relatives (Quavo and Offset are cousins, while Quavo is Takeoff’s uncle). Some bonds are tighter than the rap business, and history shows they’ve yet to be separated even by the law. But the attention is definitely good for promotion, and fans will probably stay tuned in as long as there is the promise of drama to come.

Lizzo has a hit with “About Damn Time” (which is still No. 3 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart). Now, though, she’s putting the focus on another Special highlight, as today brings a new video for “2 Be Love (Am I Ready).”

In the clip for the upbeat tune, Lizzo leaves her bride (herself) at the altar and takes a ride in the desert, eventually meeting up with model Tyson Beckford. Of course, though, there’s a twist. Also, as Lizzo herself points out, the video is a callback to her 2017 video for “Truth Hurts,” with some shots and scenes re-created pretty much perfectly.

Lizzo previously told Apple Music of the song, “This is the first record I made with Max Martin, and it’s a dream record. As someone who’s been writing songs since I was 9, who studied music since I was 12, and who dreamed of being a performer, Max Martin is the dream collaborator. Recording it was like watching a legend in action. He’s an extremely collaborative, open, creative soul. The song is a callback to when pop records had key changes — that golden era of late-’80s and early-’90s pop when singers had massive records that were vocally impressive but also danceable, and the production quality was very intentional. I think it’s a work of art. It’s a masterpiece.”

Watch the “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)” video above.

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

It is not uncommon for soccer fans to cook up concept kits in the lead-up to a new season or a huge major tournament. One such tournament is around the corner, as the World Cup is slated to kick off in November of 2022. This means fans are making their own renditions of what they’d like to see players wear on the biggest stage in the sport while they wait to see what they’ll get to buy for, like, $90.

A very strange thing happened a few weeks ago, as one concept kit made it around the corner of the internet inhabited by USMNT supporters that drew a reaction from Tim Weah, a winger for the team who is known for being an extremely fashionable guy. The kits were unique, but Weah decided to hop into the comments on IG and say “Wait till y’all see the real ones” with a few unhappy emojis. His comment was liked by another American, DeAndre Yedlin.

Well if these kits are, indeed, the ones that got leaked on Monday, we completely understand their dismay. Multiple posts on social media indicate that the USMNT are going to have two shirts in Qatar. Both of them are so bad that one friend of mine recommended the team advocates for playing shirts vs. skins at the World Cup and demands they are skins.

Things are so bleak that Weston McKennie, perhaps the team’s best player and one of the five or six guys whose name is written in ink in a best XI, commented on an IG post for the leaked kits and claimed that either he or his teammates (or both!) expressed their gripes with Nike over these. He did this several hours before his club, Juventus, played their first game of the season, which goes to show in my expert opinion that he thinks these really stink.

Really the main reason for optimism is the lack of a super prominent Nike logo on the shirts anywhere means maybe, just maybe, these are training tops or something. But otherwise, these are terrible. The World Cup is the pinnacle of the sport, there is no better time to put your best foot forward than when the eyes of the world are on your product. That is especially true for Nike and the USMNT, as the brand is based out of the Oregon and the team is viewed as one of the brightest up-and-coming sides in international football. It served as an opportunity to truly make something special as part of the perpetual effort to make soccer more popular in the U.S.

Instead, the white kit is the most boring thing this side of watching paint dry, while the blue kit follows the weird camouflage pattern that Nike’s done recently and — my experience here, certainly might not be that of others, if you like it I’m sorry — I’ve never heard anyone say they enjoy. A friend of mine posited that the white kit is meant to be a nod to a previous set, although if I were advising them to do a nod to a previous kit, I’d recommend making something that was good, as opposed to whatever this unseasoned potato salad of a jersey is. Putting the crest centrally is something that can look great if it works, which it does not here.

Perhaps the most frustrating thing here is that the USMNT is getting back onto this stage for the first time since missing out in 2018. The kits they wore in their previous World Cup appearance — the beloved “bomb pop” shirt and a crisp white jersey with a collar — were both spectacular. The most recent white kit, worn by the MNT during World Cup Qualifying and the WNT at the Olympics, was sensational, while the red and blue kit they wore was unique and grew on me.

It is certainly possible that the 2022 World Cup kits will likewise grow on me, and everyone I know, and the players who say they stink. I would venture to guess, however, that if these are indeed what the Americans toss on in Qatar, they will be extremely available for sale at Dick’s Sporting Goods after the tournament ends … unless, of course, Nike listens to the players and fans whose opinions matter here.

This week, a really good lawyer is being replaced by a superhero-sized lawyer as Better Call Saul comes to a close and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law begins its reign. Either way, your legal services are covered!

In a new ad from the Disney+ series, Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, a lawyer/superhero who just wants to help! As a part of the Goodman (Saul, is that you?), Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway Superhero Law Division, or GLK&H, Walters goes green so you can get green! Like money. Get it? They put the human in “superhuman,” and the firm in “law firm.” Great! You can even call 1-877-SHE-HULK to get started on your law journey.

If you don’t need superhero-adjacent law advice…you can just check out She-Hulk on Disney+. The series follows Walters as she juggles her demanding career all while trying to control her CGI Hulk-sized powers that have been getting some hate on the internet lately. But the series seems to be leaning into the silliness and the fourth wall breaks, so maybe it will work!

The series also stars Jameela Jamil, Josh Segarra, Ginger Gonzaga, Jon Bass, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Tim Roth, the Hulk himself Mark Ruffalo, and Benedict Wong. She-Hulk begins streaming on August 17th on Disney+, with new episodes weekly through October 12th. Check out the teaser above.