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Jason Reitman has been on, what seems like, a never-ending press tour to promote his new movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. What you’re about to read is an interview that took place Thursday of this week, near the end of this tour. And, yes, Reitman is exhausted and, frankly, seems very interested in talking about anything that’s not something he’s been asked multiple times over the last couple of months. (At one point, after talking at length about the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling movie Over the Top, Reitman joked, “Don’t you want to know what it was like for me to work with my dad?”)

About eight years ago I first interviewed Reitman and, strangely, 1987’s The Garbage Pail Kids Movie was brought up and, since then, it’s been a recurring joke. Reitman would talk about specific scenes (he saw it in a theater) and my contribution was usually, “I saw it when I was 13 and don’t remember it very well.” Well, for the special occasion of Reitman’s press tour finally coming to an end, I hunted down The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (which is hard to find, I had to buy the DVD) so I could, finally, engage with Reitman on this important topic. (I might, now, be in the top 10 of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie experts; for the record: it’s an unpleasant movie.) Though, it’s interesting, even with a movie like The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Reitman can’t help but reflect that making movies is hard and, even a movie like that, a lot of people tried their best to make something worth watching. (I will concede, it is a big swing.)

So, ahead, Reitman does his best to talk about anything that’s not about Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which we did for just under an hour. Though, I did manage to get a couple of plot questions in that I was curious about. (And, of course, I picked one of them he can’t answer because they plan on addressing it in a future project.)

Over the last eight years of our interview series, every time, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie gets brought up…

Yes. That’s our thing.

My contribution every time is usually, “well, I haven’t seen it since I was 13.” First of all, this movie’s very hard to find.

Garbage Pail Kids?

It’s not streaming anywhere. The Blu-ray is like 100 dollars.

Wait. They made a Blu-ray of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie?

I think it was Shout Factory. It’s now out of print.

Okay. Just so you know, what I just learned is that there is no Blu-ray for Thank You For Smoking, but there is a Blu-ray for The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. That is my walkaway information from this phone call.

There’s no Blu-ray for Thank You For Smoking?

Nope.

How is that possible?

Well, I mean, what is more astonishing is that there is a Blu-ray for The Garbage Pail Kids. The fidelity of those puppets will never go lost.

I did not buy the Blu-ray, but I bought the DVD and I watched it this morning. It’s unpleasant.

I have not seen that movie since it was in theaters. How different was it from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie?

Oh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would win a Nobel Peace Prize compared to this movie. The plot is very confusing. The Garbage Pail Kids are from outer space, but that’s never mentioned again. And one of them just pees his pants the whole time. Another one throws up all the time. Another one farts all the time. And McKenzie Aston is the main character and he likes this girl who is trying to get into fashion, so he decides to enlist the Garbage Pail Kids to help him make a clothing line so she’ll like him.

This tracks. Look, making a movie is so hard. I really don’t want to shit on anyone.

Here’s the other interesting thing about this movie. The guy who directed it, if he were still alive today, he’d almost be 100.

Wow. He was born before the sound era. That’s fascinating. You’re expanding my brain right now. It’s so hard to make movies. And it’s so hard to make anything that I really admire anyone who attempts to tell a story of any kind. And that actually also goes for The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, as misguided as it is.

It’s a big swing. He wrote it, produced it, and directed it. The other thing I found interesting was The Garbage Pail Kids as a group were nominated for a Razzie, and they lost.

Who did they lose to?

They lost to the kid in the Sylvester Stallone movie Over the Top.

I actually really love that movie. I found that movie to be strangely moving. I remember as a kid really liking that movie. Does it not hold up or something?

Over the Top is awesome. It is about Sly who is an arm wrestler who is also a truck driver and him trying to reconnect with his kid.

Yeah, I remember the father-son story being really moving in Over the Top. Where do you think, in the process of developing Over the Top, did they say, “Okay, I just watched The Karate Kid. It’s really good. We need our crane kick. What is it going to be?” And they’re like, “What if we just adjusted his four fingers, but like with music?” It’s like, why is this a move that no one else can do?

I mean, there’s only a limited amount of things you can do in arm-wrestling.

And this was an actual thing, right? An actual competition. People were actually competing in arm-wrestling at the time?

I think they still do.

Maybe that’s what you and I need to go do. I think we need to go visit one of these.

This is what this press tour has done to you? Do you want to give it all up and join an arm-wrestling league?

Oh, no. I’m not going to compete in an arm-wrestling league.

Oh, I see. You just want to go.

I would love to. I mean, come on. If there was an arm-wrestling tournament happening tonight, and I said, “Hey man, I have tickets.” You’re there, right?

If you’re inviting me, yes, I’m going to go. You’re a famous director. If someone I don’t like very much invites me, then I don’t know. That’s probably my answer. I wouldn’t go by myself.

Oh. I 1000 percent would go by myself. It’s funny, I have a movie night at my house, and we traditionally watch art films that I missed out on by not going to film school. I think I’m going to have to make Over the Top our next movie night.

You won’t be disappointed. Sly is not just fighting the evil arm wrestlers. He’s also fighting his father-in-law who doesn’t want him with his son.

Wait a second. The father-in-law is the antagonist in the arm wrestling as well?

No, no, he’s a separate plot point. Because what happens is the kid’s mom is dying…

Oh my God.

And Robert Loggia plays the father-in-law and offers Sly money to stay out of his grandson’s life.

And Robert Loggia is very wealthy in this movie?

Yes. Because his kid goes to an expensive military school.

Oh, I remember the military school part of it. God, they really nailed it with that. What I remember is a lot of smoke, a lot of sweat, and I remember the hat. I remember him rotating the hat.

Yeah, he does. And the prize for winning the tournament is a new big rig.

That tracks because it’s also his home, right? He lives in the back of it? Karl Malone used to drive a big rig. Karl Malone, the basketball player.

The Mailman drove a truck?

The Mailman would drive a big rig in the off-season. I always really admired that. I’m a Winnebago guy, and I daydream. On my roughest nights of filmmaking, when I can’t imagine anything working out, that’s what I fantasize. I fantasize about long-haul driving. How much of a fan base do you think there still is for The Garbage Pail Kids Movie?

I think they are all on this call.

It’s you and me? Wait, do you think that the Garbage Pail Kid puppets are somewhere still and available? Like, will they come up for auction? Who has one?

Would you want one? They’re gross.

I mean, yeah. I think in my own version of building one of those Guillermo del Toro prop museums in my home is having a horrific Garbage Pail Kid puppet. Okay, so, again, you pull up to the Academy Museum and they’re having a show and you can either see all the original puppets from The Secret of NIMH or all the original puppets from The Garbage Pail Kids…

Well, The Secret of NIMH is a cartoon…

Sorry, not Secret of NIMH. Dark Crystal. Or Labyrinth. Okay, they have everything from Labyrinth in one room, everything from Garbage Pail Kids in another room. Which one are you going in?

Well, today I’m going in the Garbage Pail Kids room because I just watched that movie. I am probably the wrong person to ask because I probably watched this movie more recently than anyone on earth right now.

Not to be too heady, but what happens to these things that we work so hard on? Have you ever listened to Patton Oswalt’s routine about Death Bed: The Movie? It’s just a shit show of a film, apparently. Patton’s routine, though, is about all the people who worked on this film and how hard they worked, because they worked just as hard as anyone who worked on any other movie that was ever made. But it speaks to a general truth, which is that anyone who ever sits down to make a movie, it’s an extraordinary thing to decide. If you think about how much planning you put into anything – Christmas presents, a surprise party for somebody – it doesn’t even come close to the years that are put into trying to make a two-hour film experience palatable and enjoyable and maybe something that’ll stay with you. And that went into this Garbage Pail Kids movie.

Sure, but you know as well as I do that there are people that sometimes take movies for paychecks and they’re not into it and they don’t really care what happens to the movie. I don’t believe that’s what happened with Garbage Pail Kids.

But they’re still waking up at the crack of dawn and not kissing their kid on their forehead on the way out because their kid’s still sleeping. They’re all still making crazy human sacrifice to make these things. And there’s a question of what happens to these movies, and particularly we hold onto them in the digital realm and you don’t even have a physical copy of it anymore, you wonder what happens to something like The Garbage Pail Kids Movie or anything like it.

Well, it’s gone because it’s not on streaming anywhere. You can’t even rent it. Since the pandemic started, I have found a lot more movies than you think are nowhere to be found on streaming. Cocoon is impossible to find.

Is that true? Cocoon is not on iTunes?

Disney owns Cocoon now and they told me it’s something to do with music rights.

That’s insane. Do you know the joke about Wilford Brimley in Cocoon?

That a few years ago Tom Cruise was the same age as Wilford Brimley in Cocoon?

Yes. Wilford Brimley was 50 years old when he made Cocoon.

I started that. I tweeted that in 2011. It went viral, back when you had to manually retweet people.

Is that yours? Oh my God.

I don’t get credit for it anymore. There’s a whole Brimley Line Twitter account I have nothing to do with.

Well, aren’t you happy it just came up? You can now put in this article you’re about to write the fact that we talked about it and give yourself the credit you deserve.

It has been taken from me and now the world owns it.

What is this article? What is this conversation going to be about on paper?

I don’t know. But you ask that every time.

Does anybody read these?

Probably not. I actually do have two Ghostbusters questions.

Let me guess. Is one about what is it like to work with my father?

Jason, what is it like working with your father?

I have plenty of canned answers for your canned questions.

I actually do want to know, at what point before the events of this movie, when Egon’s living in Oklahoma, did he look at the Ecto-1 and decided he needed to remove the Ghostbusters II logo with the ghost holding the two up and go back to the original logo?

I wish I could talk to you about that.

That’s actually a secret?

Well, I’m just saying that’s a plot that is not in this film and we have ideas moving forward.

I see.

And Ghostbusters II is canon.

People keep wondering if it is or not.

No, Ghostbusters II, definitely canon. There are references to Ghostbusters II in Afterlife. We meet Ray working at Ray’s Occult. The toaster from Ghostbusters II is in the kitchen in the farmhouse. There’s actually lots of lost of Ghostbusters II details but nobody knows Ghostbusters II outside of Vigo the Carpathian and the Ghostbusters II logo. So there’s this assumption that it is not canon but it is definitely canon.

The second plot question, when we see the pictures of young Carrie Coon they are from the late 1980s. So Egon has a kid in Ghostbusters II?

Oh, yeah.

Okay. We just don’t know that at the time when we’re watching Ghostbusters II.

Correct.

And what is it like working with your father, if no one’s asked that yet?

Well, let me give you the scoop.

Yeah, give me the scoop.

The scoop is it was wonderful making a film sitting next to my storytelling hero and the world’s foremost Ghostbusters expert. That is something I haven’t said to anybody. You’re the first person to hear that.

That answer is going to get its own separate article because this is such an important quote.

You brought Disney now owning Cocoon earlier, and all my recent letters that I’ve gotten about Juno and Thank You for Smoking have had Mickey Mouse on them, and that’s bizarre.

Predator is a Disney movie now.

You’re right. That’s insane.

John McTiernan is getting Predator letters with Mickey Mouse on it.

Where is John McTiernan now?

I think he’s around? Martin Brest is the one who is really hard to find.

No kidding? Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman. That’s a strong three in a row. Wait, hold on. In 2021 he appeared as a featured guest at a screening of Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run and he was interviewed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is actually interesting sometimes as a director to look at that and be like, okay, what’s the career? What are the movies? How many are there? And it’s like, that’s it. Three greats. That’s fucking solid.

What’s the best three-movie run by any director? I go Coppola with the two Godfather movies and right smack in the middle The Conversation, that’s hard to beat.

I mean, there’s a bit of personal preference here. I love Alexander Payne, so Election, About Schmidt, Sideways run is kind of insane to me. And the Rob Reiner run…

Rob Reiner has, sneakily, one of the best runs of any director who has ever lived.

So Reiner, it’s a five-movie run. That’s the crazy part. Stand By Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men.

And then soon after that is The American President.

And if you take out The Sure Thing, it goes Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Princess Bride, Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. Any one of those movies gets you into the hall. And if all you ever did in your life was direct Stand By Me, you have my heart. It’s just a work of genius. Any time I watch that movie, River Phoenix dissolves and I’m gone, I’m crying, I’m done.

I’m trying to do your dad’s best three in a row. I think it’s Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters.

Yeah, it has to be Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters…

Because right after that is Legal Eagles before Twins. We just rewatched Legal Eagles a year ago and it’s fun but also strangely confusing. But after that he does Twins, Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop…

And Dave. I think you have the Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters run and then the Twins, Ghostbusters 2, Kindergarten Cop, Dave run and both of them are exceptional. And Dave in particular is a killer. Who else has runs like that? Hold on, I want to look up Andrea Arnold for a second. I think she would fall in this category for me. Yeah. I love Red Road, Fish Tank. I love American Honey. American Honey is genius. Or, you know who? Sean Baker.

I just saw Red Rocket yesterday.

Oh my God, how is it? I need to see this.

Oh, it’s fantastic.

So, if you put him on it, it’s Starlet, Tangerine, Florida Project, Red Rocket. That’s also an insane run…So, with that said, I unfortunately have to go.

Look, I tried wrapping this up like 15 minutes ago and then we keep getting on tangents.

I hope you get something out of this conversation. This does not seem like something easy to write.

I know you’ve had a long press tour so I hope you found some enjoyment answering questions about Over the Top and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.

Yeah, I need to go watch that movie. I will find it. I’m going to be the one who buys that stupid expensive Blu-ray.

It’s on eBay if you want it.

Just don’t try to outbid me.

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ opens nationwide this weekend. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

In the wake of the Astroworld Festival accident which left more than 300 people injured and at least ten dead so far, the face of the festival, Travis Scott, has become the target of most of the criticism for the fest’s ill-preparedness and received a slew of lawsuits from those affected, ranging from the reasonable to the utterly frivolous.

However, the Houston rapper has at least one supporter in his corner: Public Enemy founder and hip-hop pioneer Chuck D, who writes in an open letter published today in Rolling Stone that the blame should rest squarely on the event’s promoter Live Nation (which has since launched a fund for injured festival attendees). “I’m tired of these corporations shucking their most crucial responsibility,” he writes, These folks simply say Rest in Peace and move on. This negligence can’t continue. Folks want answers. I’m not buying the Young Black Man did it.”

Instead, he calls on Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and Live Nation partner ScoreMore to not only accept responsibility for the disaster at the recent concert but also for hooking up with Travis in the first place, despite his history of inciting irresponsible behavior at his shows. In Chuck’s view, “Concert promoters have all the power to make the changes to keep everyone safe and alive.” And you have to admit… he has a point.

You can read the full letter below.

I cannot believe we’re at the point where !gotta say this out loud: Travis Scott is a performer, an act, not a concert promoter. He doesn’t run the sound or venues or festivals or their staff. He doesn’t build stages or coordinate logistics, he’s not an expert in crowd control or security or emergency medical services. But he does trust Live Nation and all the other concert promoters who are supposed to do all of this. And yet here we are, 10 deaths and counting. 10 broken families.

The world is mourning.

I’m tired of these corporations shucking their most crucial responsibility. These folks simply say Rest In Peace and move on. This negligence can’t continue. Folks want answers. I’m not buying “the young Black Man did it.” He’s being blamed for a crime while the old white men running the corps that Travis and his fans trusted with their lives stay quiet in the shadows, counting their money and watching their stock prices go up and up. The excuse of Scott’s irresponsible actions don’t wash – if his act had a history of that behavior why promote him to bigger venues, why partner with him in the first place and let him headline a bigger audience? Live Nation controlled this show. They control almost all of the concert venues. Artists ain’t speaking out because these same cats are already bought by these corporations. No one can say a word against them unless they want to be Blacklisted and hurt their careers.

So I am calling on Michael Rapino’s entire team at Live Nation and a consortium of all the major concert promoters out there to do the right thing. To step up and step out of the shadows to fix these situations and save lives. To stop letting one Young Black Man take the blame, the hate, the fall. We don’t know everything that happened or exactly what failed. But concert promoters have all the power to make the changes to keep everyone safe and alive.

Live Nation, your stock is up. The White Corporate Music Biz keeps cashing in on Black Pain, Trauma, and Death. This has to stop yesterday. You’re part of the problem. Grow the f*ck up, fix this and let us all LIVE in PEACE.

Earlier in the month, Marvel Studios announced that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever would take a production break while Letitia Wright continues to recover from an injury that she suffered during a stunt accident in late August. At the time, Marvel revealed that director Ryan Coogler had already been filming around Wright’s scenes and completed as much of the sequel as he could while she’s still in London. However, considering Wright plays the key role of Shuri, who is the sister to the late Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa and a potential heir to the Black Panther mantle, there’s only so much that Coogler can do without Wright.

Compounding the problem is the fact that Wright apparently suffered more severe injuries than what was previously reported. In a new letter to the cast and crew of Wakanda Forever, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige revealed the status of Wright’s recovery, but also confirmed that she will remain a key part of the sequel. Via Deadline:

What we had initially thought were minor injuries turned out to be much more serious with Letitia suffering a critical shoulder fracture, and a concussion with severe side effects. It has been a painful process and Letitia has been home recovering with her doctors and the support of family.

We’ve adjusted our production schedule so she has the time she needs to heal, but there’s only so much we can do without Shuri! We also want to thank Letitia for everything she’s doing to get back to the set – we know how much she loves this role, how tough it’s been for her to be away, and how hard she’s working to recover as quickly as she safely can. We are eagerly awaiting her return and we know we will all come back stronger together.

This new revelation that Wright’s injuries are more serious arrives on the heels of reports that the actress, who is allegedly unvaccinated, may not be able to return to the United States due to new travel restrictions. While Feige’s letter shows no signs of that being an issue, the speculation about her Marvel situation is probably not going away anytime soon.

(Via Deadline)

Benedict Cumberbatch and Kristen Dunst are getting some of the best reviews of their respective careers for their performances in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog — and they never spoke to each other on set.

In the Netflix film, Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, a cruel rancher who torments his brother’s wife, Rose (Dunst). “I didn’t want to be really mean to Kirsten, but I needed to stay in character,” he told NME. “So I didn’t speak to her on-set. She was the same. We were the negative to each other’s positive. [We were] repelled by each other.”

Method acting isn’t for everyone, but it worked for Cumberbatch (who gave himself nicotine poisoning three times) and Dunst: The Power of the Dog has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score (94 percent “Fresh” rating) and has been called one of the best movies of the year by multiple publications, including Slate and IndieWire.

Here’s the official plot summary:

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother’s new wife and her teen son — until long-hidden secrets come to light.

The Power of the Dog, which also stars Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine, and Frances Conroy, is out in theaters now and hits Netflix on December 1. You can watch the trailer below.

While there are certainly no shortage of toxic and tumultuous romances in Hollywood, it seems safe to say that, at least in recent years, none have been quite so dramatic as the one shared between movie stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. In fact, Depp and Heard’s four-year-long relationship is so now so notorious (and convoluted), Discovery+ is actually creating a full-length, two-part documentary in an attempt to make sense of it all, Deadline reports.

The upcoming documentary, titled Johnny vs. Amber, will follow the “celebrity court case of the decade” from both Depp and Heard’s sides in an attempt to remain unbiased and discover the truth between countless claims. The first part of the documentary highlights Depp’s side, and explores why he now believes he was married to a “Machiavellian liar who would stop at nothing to protect her image.” The second half explains Heard’s point-of-view, recounting the story of “how the actress married the man of her dreams only to see him turn into a violent drug-fueled monster.” During both segments, the documentary will present extensive archived footage and audio, as well as exclusive interviews from lawyers on either side and people close to the couple.

The documentary is being made by All3Media indie Optomen, with Nick Hornby, Fran Baker, and Matt Reid executive producing. As for why Johnny vs. Amber is being made now, Hornby says he feels it plays and important role in helping people understand domestic violence.

“Through the tapes, home videos and text messages shown in court, these films give viewers a rare and important insight into a marriage that went tragically wrong, and to better understand the hugely important issue of domestic violence.”

It looks like Lil Wayne has made good on his promise to feature on Cordae‘s upcoming sophomore album, according to a teaser of the music video posted by Hit-Boy, who produced the track. Hit teased the new song with a tweet featuring a clip taken during the video’s shoot from just off-camera, in which Cordae and Wayne wear matching peacoats and rap to the camera surrounded by a crew of men in outfits nodding to the Black Nationalist movements of the 1970s.

Lil Wayne first expressed interest in appearing on Cordae’s new album back in May of 2020, when Cordae appeared as a guest on Wayne’s Young Money Radio podcast. Wayne told Cordae, “All you gotta do is text me the song, I’ll murder it and send you the finger so you know it’s dead.” At the time, Cordae was just working on songs for the project, saying, “I’m like 50 songs in. I’m just trying to cut it down.”

A year — and a name change — later and Cordae seems to be gearing up for the eventual release, dropping a freestyle to Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy” telling fans they are “not ready” for it, dropping a new single, “Super,” showing off his sharpened pen game, and appearing on Desus & Mero to kick off his press promotion. Judging from the snippet shared by Hit-Boy, it’s going to build on the blueprint laid down by his debut The Lost Boy, with a renewed focus on both bars and smooth production from some of the most notable names in the game.

As promised, HBO Max will soon deliver a Magic Mike-themed reality series, so hold onto your pants, or they’ll fall right off. Aptly titled Finding Magic Mike, the show hails from producers Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum, so maybe this will keep the latter from randomly busting out his moves in a gas station (not that this is a bad thing, obviously). This is a reality series in every sense of the word, apparently, since it zeroes in on a bunch of dudes who want to recapture their own mojo, so they go to a stripper bootcamp and let it all hang out.

From the looks of the above trailer, that’s exactly what they do. They’re also falling all over the place and just generally enjoying life, which is something that everyone should remember to do every now and then. Also, the audience members feel like as much of a cast as the actual contestants here, so it’s a good time for everyone involved. Tatum does not materialize in this trailer, but one expect guest judges aplenty, including Whitney Cummings, Nikki Glaser, and Nicole Scherzinger. And maybe we’ll see some of Ginuwine’s “Pony,” too? There are no promises there, but remember, Jenna Dewan may have done it better. Here’s the official logline:

Ten regular guys who have “lost their magic” are put through the paces of a Magic Mike Live bootcamp, baring their souls – and more – as they learn to perform sexy and daring dance routines with one being crowned the real Magic Mike. The winner will pocket a cash prize.

Finding Magic Mike will make you sweat (maybe) on December 16.

If you haven’t seen what’s happening with our friends up in western Canada, it’s not great. After enduring a record-breaking heat dome and deadly wildfires this summer, residents of British Columbia are now dealing with massive flooding and mudslides. A state of emergency has been declared after a massive storm—an “atmospheric river” that officials have called a once-in-a-century event—dumped a month’s worth of precipitation in 24 hours.

An entire town of 7,000 people was evacuated, and areas of other cities have been evacuated as well. The entire city of Vancouver got cut off from the rest of Canada, with every roadway and train line blocked or destroyed by water or mud. It’s unprecedentedly bad.

Thankfully, we’re seeing stories of helpers and heroes emerging from the disaster.

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There are so many good people.

Huge gratitude for the Sikh community’s commitment to seva (selfless service). #BCFlood #BCStorm @Tarnjitkparmar https://t.co/sdrnyjGGgl

— Christine Boyle (@christineeboyle) November 17, 2021

The Sikh community is known for its sewa, or selfless service, and natural disasters provide plenty of opportunity for demonstrating such service. Volunteers from Surrey’s Dukh Nivaran Sahib Gurdwara have cooked more than 3,000 meals for people stranded by the storm.

“So many people stuck there and they have no food,” Narinder Singh Walia, the gurdwara’s president, told CTV News. “We are trying to reach them with food and blankets and other stuff.”

Not only did the Sikh community come together to prepare the meals, but they also arranged for a helicopter to deliver the meals to areas cut off by road and train—a much-appreciated act of service, especially for the truckers who are unable to get home.

A huge shout out to the Sikh community from Kamloops. They brought fresh cooked meals for all stranded truckers. They are preparing/delivering these to all, in need. Community ❤

— M.G. Duggan Tweeting Trucker🇨🇦🇮🇪 (@ve6dpa) November 17, 2021

Neerha Walia of the Gurunanak Food Bank told CTV News that they were in contact with local authorities and churches to get the food, blankets and other supplies where they were needed. She also said they were renting a plane on Thursday to go to the hard-hit towns of Merritt and Kamloops.

In the meantime, a steady stream of donations is pouring into the gurdwara as community members look for some way to help out.

People helping people in selfless service is what it’s all about. Thanks to the Sikh community for continually showing us how it’s done.

Lil Nas X has basically taken over pop culture at this point. He’s got inescapable music, he’s in commercials, he’s on billboards, he even took over an entire episode of Maury to extend the pregnancy gag from the rollout of his excellent debut album Montero. His cultural ubiquity is beginning to rival even that of the vaunted Marvel Cinematic Universe — so naturally, he wants a piece of that too, in one of the most iconic roles yet to be cast.

Replying to a fan account’s post with a photo of current and prior motion picture Peter Parkers Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield, Nas joked, “the rumors are true i will be playing miles morales.” Morales is, of course, another Spider-Man from an alternate universe who was recently transplanted into the mainstream Marvel universe (comics are weird, y’all). Considering the plot of the upcoming Spider-Man film, No Way Home, in which a magic spell gone wrong brings visitors from multiple alternate universes to the modern MCU we all know and love (yes, even you haters, stop pretending, man, no one is impressed), it’s well within the realm of possibility that Miles could be one of those visitors. This gives Nas’ “announcement” a non-zero chance of being true.

Look. I know that Lil Nas X is an incorrigible prankster with a wild sense of supremely unserious, internet-bred humor and that very little he says can ever be taken seriously. But, to borrow a phrase from the late, great Stan Lee himself — what if?

Either way, we’ll find out when Spider-Man: No Way Home hits theaters on December 17.

Big Sean and Hit-Boy brought their What You Expect EP single “What A Life” to the Tonight Show stage on Thursday with a thrilling, elegant performance. Decked out in matching tailored suits and enjoying a luxurious meal in a stately lounge, the dynamic duo is presented with a mic for Sean and a beat machine atop a grand piano for Hit-Boy. While the performance begins while they’re still seated, they smoothly slide from their well-appointed booth to a makeshift stage in the center of the room, where Sean goes for broke and Hit shows off his finger drumming skills.

The new project, which finds the two frequent collaborators paired up for a full five tracks that demonstrate the breadth and depth of their chemistry, is also the first of Big Sean’s new label venture independent of his past association with Kanye West’s GOOD Music. The timing of its release turned out to be opportune as well, as Ye’s appearance on the Drink Champs podcast just days later found Sean’s onetime mentor throwing him under the bus by saying that signing Sean to GOOD was the “worst thing” he ever did. Sean laughed off his old boss’ digs, although he did point out that Ye still owes him millions from their initial deal.

Instead, Sean and Hit focused on the positive, following up with more videos from the EP, including “The One” and “Chaos,” showing that they’ll both be just fine without help from the mercurial Mr. West.

Watch Big Sean and Hit-Boy’s late-night performance of “What A Life” above.