Entire Days of Our Lives Cast Released From Their Contracts, Which Seems Ominous

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  241 words  |  Janel Helmers

Well, this doesn’t seem like good news. TVLine reports that the entire cast of Days of Our Lives have been released from their contracts. The long, long-running soap opera has not been canceled, mind you. All the people who act in it just don’t technically work for the show anymore, and it’s been put on an indefinite hiatus. According to the report, NBC wants to keep making Days, but the contracts go through the company Corday Productions. [Read More]

Every John Carpenter Movie, Ranked

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  17 minutes  |  3548 words  |  Elina Uphoff

John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween ends in a frenetic struggle to survive against a knife-wielding maniac, but it takes its time getting there. After a shocking opening, the film builds tension a little bit at a time as unwitting babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) first starts to suspect something might be up when she sees a strange figure in the distance. It’s an exercise in how to create suspense, and few do that better than John Carpenter, who grew up a movie-obsessed kid haunting the downtown theaters of Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father worked as a music professor, then moved to L. [Read More]

Every Pop-Culture Reference Kanye West Has Ever Made

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  51 minutes  |  10738 words  |  Sherie Connelly

It’s early June 2013, and Kanye West is anxious. He’s in Switzerland, of all places — not where most expectant fathers are when their nine-months-pregnant fiancées are home in Los Angeles, at least one layover away. But, it’s Art Basel, and Kanye has been sufficiently moved to stage an impromptu listening session for his seventh solo album, the then-unreleased Yeezus. So he sends out a few emails and makes it happen. [Read More]

Every Real Housewives of New York Character We Want to See on RHONY: Legacy

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2364 words  |  Sherie Connelly

After a flailing and cursed 13th season, Bravo announced this spring that it would be taking the Real Housewives of New York in a new direction by splitting the series into two separate shows. Though somewhat confusing, what this ultimately means is that a totally new cast is being developed from scratch under the RHONY banner, and now all previous New York Housewives are free agents in contention for an untitled Legacy spin-off. [Read More]

Everything We Know About Ari Asters Next Movie, Eddington

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  313 words  |  Aldo Pusey

As a wise philosopher once said: Sometimes, after the hardest flop comes the biggest slay. Perhaps that’s what Ari Aster is hoping will happen, given Beau Is Afraid’s disappointing box-office performance? For his next movie, Eddington, Aster is once again teaming up with A24. Just like he did for Beau Is Afraid, Aster is writing and directing, in addition to co-producing with Lars Knudsen. One change to the formula is that Oscar-nominated cinematographer Darius Khondji will be the director of photography this time (all of Aster’s previous features were filmed by Pawel Pogorzelski). [Read More]

Exploring the Hidden Racist Past of the Looney Tunes

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1642 words  |  Elina Uphoff

From blatant plagiarism to offensive and stereotypical subject matter, the 1930s Looney Tunes cartoons have a dark history. I have an uncomfortable confession to make: I have never liked the Looney Tunes. Despite the cultural pervasiveness of these characters, and a lifelong love of animation on my part, they’ve always struck me as annoying, repetitive, and boring. For all the pandemonium that Bugs Bunny and his ilk ostensibly represent, their chaos is bland, their destruction is predictable, and their lineage is corporate. [Read More]

Fifth Times the Charm for American Peep Show, Bets FX

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  360 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Perhaps it’s finally time for people who are skeptical of U.S. remakes of beloved British sitcoms to see things from another perspective. Specifically, the perspectives of Minnie Driver and Amandla Jahava, who will play the still-unnamed protagonists of a U.S. remake of Peep Show, the cult U.K. sitcom famous for scenes filmed from the point of view of its main characters. On December 13, FX announced that it had ordered a pilot of this remake from What We Do in the Shadows and Atlanta writer and producer Stefani Robinson. [Read More]

Fifty Shades Darker Is Telling a Big Lie About Lipstick

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  465 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Fifty Shades Darker is more than a romance about two well-groomed people who engage in vanilla BDSM — it’s also a lifestyle fantasy. The rich, plush interiors and lacy lingerie are more interesting than anything its two leads do. There’s not a lot to love, but certainly much to laugh at. One such laughable moment comes during one of the movie’s many bedroom scenes. Ever since the first movie, tortured billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) has forbidden doe-eyed publishing assistant Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), to touch the small scars that cover his chest, let alone inquire about their origins. [Read More]

Find Out What Beavis and Butt-Head Would Look Like in Real Life

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  24 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Thanks, makeup artist Kevin Kirkpatrick. Can we turn away now? [BuzzFeed]

Find Out What Beavis and Butt-Head Would Look Like in Real Life

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Flesh and Bones Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky Talk Center Stage and How Male Dancers Are Ster

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1826 words  |  Sherie Connelly

To hardcore ballet fans, Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky are two of the greatest male dancers of the past decade, both of whom retired after storied careers at American Ballet Theatre. To everyone else, they will forever be Cooper (Stiefel) and Charlie (Radetsky), the swoon-worthy guys vying for the heart of Jody Sawyer in Nicholas Hytner’s Center Stage.  In real life, the fan fiction writes itself: Stiefel and Radetsky, along with their ballerina wives (ABT principal dancers Gillian Murphy and Stella Abrera, respectively), are total besties. [Read More]