RRR Fans Will Appreciate One Big Cameo in Kalki 2898 AD

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  815 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Nag Ashwin’s Telugu-language mythological sci-fi epic Kalki 2898 AD is like many modern South Indian blockbusters, in that it draws roars of approval from crowds in theaters for major cameos. That might not sound too different from your average Marvel movie, but while Hollywood’s cameos usually depend on familiar characters showing up from other films, the cheers for “special appearances” during hits in languages like Tamil and Telugu are usually for famous stars and known faces slotted into minor roles. [Read More]

RuPauls Drag Race Recap: A Dance With Drag Moms

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1794 words  |  Aldo Pusey

RuPaul’s Drag Race Drag Race Vegas LIVE! Makeovers Season 16 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Drag Race Vegas LIVE! Makeovers Season 16 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » People hate the makeover challenge. Some faulty judging over the years (yes, Cheryl Hole did well at this challenge and was still put in the bottom), the dependency on people other than the queens themselves (what was Joslyn Fox to do? [Read More]

RuPauls Drag Race Recap: Beauties and Beasts!

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1646 words  |  Elina Uphoff

RuPaul’s Drag Race Monster Ball Season 11 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Monster Ball Season 11 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, what have we here? A little showmance on RuPaul’s Drag Race?! It’s true. Brooke Lynn and Vanjie: Miss Branjie, if you’re nasty! [Read More]

RuPauls Drag Race Recap: Teachers Pet

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2656 words  |  Janel Helmers

RuPaul’s Drag Race Teacher Makeovers Season 15 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Teacher Makeovers Season 15 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a run of two truly fabulous episodes (minus one lip sync) in a mostly fine season, we end on an appropriately middling note. [Read More]

Ryan Gosling Drops Sad Himbo Anthem

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  275 words  |  Zora Stowers

Himbos have feelings, too. In “Just Ken,” the latest drop from the Barbie soundtrack, Ryan Gosling proves that men with hot, washboard abs and bleach-blond hair are more than mere eye candy, more than a simple accessory — like Barbie’s pink corvette and archival Chanel tweed — that she totes around her dream house. This Ken has feelings. “I just don’t know who I am without you,” the himbo representative says in the music video above. [Read More]

SAG-AFTRA to Create a Standardized Set of Guidelines for On-Set Intimacy Coordinators

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  264 words  |  Aldo Pusey

HBO’s The Deuce Last October, HBO announced that all sex scenes in their period porn drama The Deuce wouldbe overseen by Intimacy Directors International co-founder Alicia Rodis, who later went on to oversee scenes in Crashing and the Deadwood movie, among others. On Sunday, SAG-AFTRA announced their plan to work with Rodis to create a standardized set of guidelines for intimacy coordinators, the role of which is to prevent sexual harassment and exploitation during the filming of nudity or any other kind of “hyper-exposed” work. [Read More]

Sally Field Details Being Sexually Abused by Her Stepfather in New Memoir

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  314 words  |  Janel Helmers

Sally Field. In her new memoir In Pieces, actress Sally Field opens up about her decades in Hollywood, and says she was sexually abused by her stepfather, the actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. In a New York Times interview about the book, Field details a conversation where she told her mother about the abuse, shortly after she booked her role in Lincoln. Her stepfather, Field says, would call her to his room until she was 14. [Read More]

Saltburn Is All Vibes and Empty Provocations

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1152 words  |  Janel Helmers

Emerald Fennell may be an exasperating filmmaker, but she’s incapable of being boring. This article was originally published on November 16. We are recirculating it now timed to Saltburn’s streaming debut on Prime Video. Be sure to also read our interviews with the bathtub scene’s foley artist and the final dance scene’s choreographer, and Roxana Hadadi’s analysis of the ending. Emerald Fennell is great at montages and terrible at endings. [Read More]

Sam Elliott Is Road Houses Real Sex Symbol

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  878 words  |  Janel Helmers

This article was originally published on May 19, 2019. With the new Road House now streaming on Prime Video, this ode to the original’s sex symbol has been republished. May 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of Road House, director Rowdy Herrington’s poetic evocation of masculinity, faith, and the mythos of the American dream. LOL, just kidding, Patrick Swayze rips a dude’s throat out and does tai chi. This was post-Red Dawn, post-Dirty Dancing, when Swayze was already well on his way to becoming an icon of American cinema. [Read More]

Sam Smith and Demi Lovato Are Ready for the Queer Olympics in Im Ready Music Video

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  320 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Are you bummed about the Tokyo Olympics getting postponed until 2021? Well, Sam Smith and Demi Lovato’s new music video for their single, “I’m Ready,” which dropped on Thursday, might fill the Olympic-size hole in your heart. The video follows Smith and Lovato as they engage in various Olympic sporting endeavors — Smith wins a wrestling match while Lovato belts on a diving board — and ends with both of them on the podium. [Read More]