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In his review of Django Unchained, David Edelstein wrote: “Django Unchained doesn’t merely hit its marks; it blows them to bloody chunks.” Django takes many Tarantino-isms and pushes them to their Tarantino-iest. Nudity, violence, language: It’s all graphic. It’s not surprising that QT would make a non-family-friendly movie, but releasing it on the most family-friendly holiday maybe is. (As Julie Klausner alluded to yesterday in the video with her mother, your relatives are probably the last people you want to be sitting next to while looking at Jamie Foxx’s genitals. [Read More]

craggy. News of Kevin Spacey’s sexual misconduct must not have made it over to Central Europe, because Hungarian director Peter Soos seems to have had no problem casting him in his upcoming historical drama, 1242 — Gateway to the West. Deadline reports that the U.K.-Hungarian-Mongolian co-production will be on sale at Cannes Market and is set to begin principal photography in October. Just as a refresher, Spacey has faced numerous allegations of sexual assault, including sexual assault of minors. [Read More]

A lavender haze is in the forecast for Glendale, Arizona, beginning on Friday, when Taylor Swift kicks off her Eras tour at the city’s State Farm Stadium. In honor of the occasion, Glendale is preparing to change its name for the two days Swift is in town, March 17 and 18. Mayor Jerry P. Weiers made the big reveal today, announcing the city will be known as … Swift City. [Read More]

This is my first time watching Love Is Blind. I know, I know, I’m wildly behind and it’s been wildly embarrassing. What’s held me off for this long is the steadfast belief that love is not, in fact, blind, and if my boyfriend told me he liked me — forget about marriage — without knowing what I looked like, I would roll my eyes. Particularly if that was after ten days. [Read More]

An oral history of Cats on Broadway, as told by its original cats. 25 Days of Cats 25 Days of Cats is exactly what it sounds like: 25 days of coverage dedicated to the pop culture phenomenon that is Cats. Six of the original cast members celebrate the 2,000th performance of the Broadway musical Cats. In honor of the occasion, the show’s producers sent a gift of 2,000 yellow roses. Pictured: Marlene Danielle (foreground), and (rear, L-R), Steven Hack, Susan Powers, Bonnie Simmons, Anna McNeely, and Joel Robertson. [Read More]

The actor’s wattage was so bright it practically burned a hole in the screen. It’s why he left the Rocky franchise as its star. Carl Weathers’ physicality was so intense that when he ran, jumped, or fought, the borders of the screen seemed to tremble. The pleasure he took in performing was infectious, whether he was throwing body-blows as heavyweight champ Apollo Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone in the first four Rocky movies, clinging to the roof of a careening taxicab in Action Jackson, incinerating acres of Central American jungle in the sci-fi thriller Predator, or playing himself on Arrested Development as a man so miserly that he buys all his cars at police auctions, volunteers to get bumped from flights to collect refund vouchers, and never throws out leftovers. [Read More]

This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Kevin Costner in Yellowstone. For many months now, Hollywood insiders and industry commentators have been talking about Paramount+ — at least the service as it currently exists — as a dead streamer walking. This week, however, the obituary notices started coming from within the building. [Read More]

Never forget that he took her last name. A seven nation army couldn’t hold Jack White back from defending his former drummer and ex-wife, Meg White. After days of discourse around Meg’s reserved drumming style in the White Stripes, Jack put any criticism to bed with a poetic defense of Meg. Literally. In eccentric Jack White fashion, he wrote a poem about it, which he posted to Instagram with a photo of Meg. [Read More]

Jake Gyllenhaal will stop bar fights and take away your fake IDs. No, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because Gyllenhaal will star in the reimagined take on the rowdy and rustic film Road House for Prime Video. He will play a retired UFC fighter who becomes a bouncer at an unruly bar in the Florida Keys but “soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise. [Read More]

At a time when hurricanes are leveling entire islands and wildfires are ripping through California, it seems important to be reminded of our connection to nature. One person who has never let up in her advocacy for animals and their habitats is Dame Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, who in 1960, at age 26, went to the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania — as a researcher for Kenyan scientist Louis Leakey — to live among primates and study their behavior. [Read More]