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Edgar Wright has been busy. He has two movies out this year: the epic music doc The Sparks Brothers, about the legendary rock band Sparks, and Last Night in Soho, a psychological horror thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy and JoJo Rabbit’s Thomasin McKenzie. There’s been a fair amount of secrecy shrouding the latter, and while the official trailer is set to drop Tuesday, on Sunday we got a brief taste of what looks like some real sinister, moody, retro vibes.

The teaser, if you can even call it that, is extremely short — a mere 15 seconds. And it’s a real tease, offering a mood more than a story. We see McKenzie, who we know plays a young woman who mysteriously time travels (or something) to the ’60s, where she encounters her favorite singer, played by Anya Taylor-Joy. We also see Taylor-Joy, decked out in mod fashions, bathed in red and blue neon, looking every bit the Swingin’ Lodnon idol.

Again, you’ll see far more when the trailer drops on Tuesday, though you’ll have to wait till October 22 to see the full thing. In the meantime, you only have to wait till June 18 to see The Sparks Brothers. And you can catch up with Taylor-Joy’s stint hosting the season finale of SNL, showing off the comedic chops she should display more often.

You can watch the teaser in the video above.

It’s been almost three years since Kevin Spacey was seen on the big screen, his career destroyed by a host of sexual assault allegations in the early days of the #MeToo era. He hasn’t disappeared completely; every December he’s released a holiday video, usually with him in the guise of his House of Cards antihero Frank Underwood. But now he’s attempting what looks like a soft comeback, landing his first film role in four years — though it’s definitely not in Hollywood.

As per Deadline, Spacey has signed on to appear in L’uomo Che Disegno Dio, aka The Man Who Drew God, an Italian film directed by legendary actor Franco Nero, best known for Camelot and the original Django. The movie will also star Vanessa Redgrave, Nero’s even more famous wife, whom he married in 2006, decades after they dated. Spacey has not formally commented on the new gig.

The allegations against Spacey first emerged in 2017, with at least 20 people accusing him of sexual misconduct over the years. Charges against him have since been dropped one way or another, with one ending when the accusee had died. When the allegations emerged, filmmakers were quick to either erase forthcoming Spacey performances — as in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, which replaced him with Christopher Plummer — or cancel the films altogether, as with Netflix’s Gore Vidal movie Gore. Clearly, Spacey has been itching to return, but he also clearly knows baby steps is the way to do it, if it must be done at all.

(Via Deadline)

The world of cryptocurrency is a strange one. Indeed, anyone who put money in a new cryptocurrency project called DeFi100 were in for a bit of a surprise this weekend: When they visited the website for the service, they saw nothing more than a message informing them they’d all been scammed. According to Financial Express, the total amount allegedly absconded with is in the range of $32 million. But the people behind the project have since denied any wrongdoing, even claiming they’d never had any investors fund the project in the first place.

It all started when a short but shocking message appeared on the project’s website. “We scammed you guys and you can’t do s*it about it,” it read, adding, “HA HA. All you moon bois have been scammed and you can’t do s*it about it.” The message was attributed to one “DEVSIN,” and a message at the bottom drove it all home further: “F*CK YOU MOONBOIS.”

The message has since been removed, though not before it was screengrabbed. After a few hours, DeFi100 responded on their Twitter page, denying the allegations. “It’s been said that DEFI100 scammed for $32 million. The highest market cap project ever had was less than $2 million and project never held any investors fund! Rumours of scamming for 32 mil are false and baseless,” the message read. “Yes, our investors faced huge losses as project failed to achieve what we hoped for. But there is no exit scam and we are still working on finding a way to bring the project back on its feet.”

So, there you go. This has been yet another strange episode in the strange but exciting world of cryptocurrency.

(Via Financial Express)

Juan Soto forgot two important rules on Sunday: baseball is an extremely weird sport and you should always assume the other team is going to mess it up. The Washington Nationals outfielder was at bat in the fourth inning against the Baltimore Orioles and turned a routine play into a disaster because the other team messed it all up.

It’s a weird play all around, but it starts with Soto popping it up high in front of the catcher. With two outs and a runner on third, the play is likely the end of the inning. But no one on Baltimore can make a play on the ball, and it falls to the infield grass as the runner on third scores.

Except, well, he didn’t. Because Soto wasn’t running to first.

Instead of reaching on an error, Soto was actually thrown out at first for the third out of the inning and taking the run off the board. It’s a huge blunder, one that immediately erased another blunder from the Orioles that made it possible. It’s a lot of bad baseball, all at once. In a way, it’s glorious.

Soto made a mistake here, sure, but you have to feel kind of bad for him here because he’s clearly being tough on himself.

He’s certain to be a bit more aggressive on the base paths in the coming weeks and months, but the lesson here is that you should always expect weird baseball to strike. And it’s important to make sure that, when it does, you don’t get caught making a mistake that costs your team.

Hours before Glastonbury’s Live At Worthy Farm festival got underway on Saturday, Radiohead’s Thom York and Jonny Greenwood stepped forth with news that they — along with producer Nigel Godwich and drummer Tom Skinner — announced they were about to debut a new band. They’re called The Smile and they would perform for the first time together at Glastonbury’s livestream show.

The group’s set opened up with a performance of Radiohead’s unreleased track “Skirting on the Surface.” According to a setlist the band posted to their Twitter page afterward, the song has been renamed “Skating on the Surface.” The rest of The Smile’s set amounted to seven tracks under the following titles: “The Smoke,” “You Will Never Work In Television Again,” “Opposites,” “Panavision,” “Just Eyes And Mouth,” “We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings,” and “Thin Thing.”

This is not the first time that Yorke has worked with members outside of Radiohead. In 2009, he created Atoms For Peace with Nigel Godrich, Flea, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco. Four years later they released their debut album, AMOK. Yorke has also played multiple shows with Godrich and Tarik Barri.

You can watch the band perform “Thin Thing” and “We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings” in the video above.

The Suns got off to a hot start in Game 1 of their first round series with the Lakers, opening up a seven point lead after the first quarter. Among the catalysts was, unsurprisingly, Chris Paul, who had three points, five assists, and four rebounds in his first 10 minutes of play, doing a bit of everything for a Phoenix team that came out with a ton of energy playing the defending champs.

However, disaster struck in the early second quarter when Paul went down in agony after colliding with teammate Cameron Johnson while going for a rebound in transition. Paul immediately grabbed at his right shoulder and fell to the ground, writhing in pain as the team training staff and players from both teams surrounded him in concern.

Paul would eventually be helped back to the locker room with a towel over his head, as there was obvious concern from all parties about his health. There has been no doubt to the impact Paul has had on the Suns in his first season, helping to lift them to one of the league’s best teams with his steady hand at the point guard spot as well as his ability to close games out with his scoring.

UPDATE: Despite how serious it looked with how Paul went down, later in the second quarter he returned to the bench and joined the team in the huddle, getting a massive ovation from the Phoenix crowd.

As the Suns announced, he would return with a shoulder contusion and was back on the floor after missing less than a quarter of play.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is one that’s been at center stage in the news for the past few weeks. A number of celebrities have spoken out about the tensions between the two countries while expressing support for one of the respective sides. This includes Dua Lipa who, along with model sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, took a stance in supporting Palestinian human rights in the deadly conflict. As a result, the trio’s support was recently criticized in a newspaper ad paid for by World Values Network, headed by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

It claimed the trio “accused Israel of ethnic cleansing” and “vilified the Jewish State.” An online version of the ad went even further and said they displayed “anti-Semitic bile to demonize Jewish people.” In response, Dua Lipa took to Twitter to slam the ad while doubling down on her original stance.

“I utterly reject the false and appalling allegations that were published today in the New York Times advertisement taken out by the World Values Network,” she wrote. “This is the price you pay for defending Palestinian human rights against an Israeli government whose actions in Palestine both Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem accuse of persecution and discrimination.”

She continued, “I take this stance because I believe that everyone – Jews, Muslims and Christians – have the right to live in peace as equal citizens of a state they choose. The World Values Network are shamelessly using my name to advance their ugly campaign with falsehoods and blatant misrepresentations of who I am and what I stand for.” Lipa concluded her statement writing, “I stand in solidarity with all oppressed people and reject all forms of racism.”

You can view her post above.

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

The movies are slowly but more or less surely coming back, with summer promising an army of long-delayed blockbusters. Among those that have been collecting dust since the pandemic began is F9, aka the ninth Fast and/or Furious entry (tenth if you count the spin-off Hobbs & Shaw). It’s already opened in Hong Kong and South Korea, but Americans have to wait till June 25 to see what ridiculous mayhem Dominic and gang have up their sleeves. And to get people pumped — and to gently rib star Vin Diesel — this year’s SNL season finale offered a parody welcoming people back to questionable multiplexes.

Beck Bennett plays Diesel, sending up his molasses slow baritone as he reminds people about all the great and not-so-great things about an activity people have mostly not been able to do for over a year. For more than 100 years, there’s one place where we all came together to be entertained: the movies,” Bennett’s Diesel says, then starts simply listing things you find at the movies. “The popcorn, the previews, the pretzels, and don’t forget—the movies.

“It’s time to get back to the carpets, the cupholders, the armrests, the napkins,” he continued. “When the movie’s not loud enough, when the movie’s a little too loud. I guess you could say there’s something for everybody…only at the movies.”

Eventually he outstays his welcome, puzzling AMC employees played by Keenan Thompson and host Anya Taylor-Joy. “It’s time to go home, watch a movie at home with no mask,” he finally says. “It’s amazing.”

You can watch the sketch in the video above. And be prepared to remember how annoying it can be to go to the movies.

Game 1 of the Wizards-Sixers series got started with a more dramatic first half than many anticipated, as the Wizards were able to bring the game to their preferred chaotic pace to take a 62-61 lead into the break. Bradley Beal got going, Alex Len had a surprisingly good start, and the normally excellent Philadelphia defense struggled to contain the Wizards high-flying offense.

The Sixers stayed in touch with the Wizards thanks in large part to the sensational play of Tobias Harris, who had 28 in the first half and finished the day with a new playoff career high as he led all scorers with 37 points.

It looked for a bit in the third like the Sixers would run away, but even as they slowed the game to their preferred pace with a defensive struggle in the fourth quarter, the Wizards managed to hang around as the Sixers failed to execute offensively down the stretch and had free throw issues, namely Ben Simmons who was 0-for-6 from the stripe. Still, Philly did what it needed to defensively even as their offense scuffled, and the big games from Harris and Joel Embiid, who had 30 points on 9-of-16 shooting, was enough to gut out a 125-118 win.

For Washington, Beal came up big with 33 points, 10 rebounds, and six assists, but didn’t get the help he needed in the scoring area from Russell Westbrook and others, as Russ had 16 points and 15 assists, while Davis Bertans had 14 and briefly looked like he might get hot before cooling off at the wrong time. Neither team will probably feel great about their Game 1 showing, but the Sixers got the win and know they have plenty more to give, while the Wizards will feel like they let one slip away on an afternoon where Philadelphia didn’t have its A-game.

The first half of Game 1 of the Wizards-Sixers series in Philadelphia was far more competitive than many anticipated, with Washington taking a one-point lead into the break. It was a back-and-forth affair, with the Wizards starting slowly but coming alive late in the first quarter and battling the rest of the way.

That isn’t often how the 1-8 series goes, but Washington comes into the series on a bit of a heater with Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal playing tremendous basketball of late. For many, it was a pretty riveting half of basketball, as Philly is trying to shake free of its own playoff demons against a team that is playing, truly like a squad with nothing to lose. However, for others, the 1 p.m. tipoff came a bit too quickly after last night’s action ended at 1 a.m. ET.

When the Inside the NBA crew came on for halftime, Charles Barkley started talking about the first half, particularly the defensive effort of Philly before he was cut off by Shaq, who had video evidence of the Chuckster fast asleep in the green room during the first half.

For many it was just a funny, classic Chuck moment, while others found it frustrating as another example of the biggest NBA studio show not actually paying attention to the game they’re supposed to be talking about. Shaq couldn’t help but call out Chuck for his napping transgressions and you can bet any time Barkley is offering up questionable analysis the rest of this postseason, everyone is just going to assume he was passed out in the back during the game.