Teresa Giudices House and Danielle Staubs Sex Tape Are Both For Sale

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  262 words  |  Sherie Connelly

“These bitches around here don’t know what I’ve been through.” Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice has reportedly put her Towaco, New Jersey, mansion on the block for $3.99 million, on the heels of the news that she’s $11 million in debt. Apparently, Giudice has avoided foreclosure for now. Meanwhile, in other Housewives-related money-making schemes, controversial cast member Danielle Staub, a single mother, has a sex tape out now that’s also for sale. [Read More]

Terry Crews Details His Sexual Assault in Powerful Testimony to Senate

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1431 words  |  Zora Stowers

Crews. On Tuesday, Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his own story of sexual assault and to advocate for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. “I guess that’s why we have this full room today,” the committee’s ranking member Dianne Feinstein quipped, introducing Crews as part of a hearing on legislation to codify sexual assault survivors’ rights. The Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights would codify certain rights for people reporting assault, like having their rape kits preserved and forensic testing subsidized, in all 50 states. [Read More]

Thank You, Taylor Swift, for Making My Sad Yuletide Gay(er)

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1657 words  |  Elina Uphoff

I must immediately thank Ms. Swift for providing me with the one thing with a snowball’s chance in hell of raising my spirits … queer subtext. I don’t know about you but I am, generally, very depressed. Things are bad. They don’t look to be getting much better anytime soon, though I was somewhat heartened this week to hear that an elderly man in the U.K. named William Shakespeare was one of the first to receive the vaccine. [Read More]

The (Fake) Songs of Summer

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  23 minutes  |  4772 words  |  Zora Stowers

A compendium of the infectious tunes in Will Ferrell’s Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Elizabeth Viggiano/NETFLIX Every year since 1956, usually in May, the nations of Europe have gathered to determine which of them has the most exuberantly kitschy, delightfully overproduced infectious pop song. In 2019, 41 countries competed, including Azerbaijan, Russia, and even Australia, and around 180 million viewers watched the televised contest, even though most Americans don’t know much about it. [Read More]

The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies History

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  120 minutes  |  25428 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Good finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Clockwise from left to right: Lust, Caution; Moonlight; Some Like it Hot; The Last Days of Disco; Beau Travail; The Searchers; Losing Ground; Big Night; Grave of the Fireflies; The Thin Blue Line. Illustration: by James Clapham This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. [Read More]

The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1096 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Clockwise from top: Ahsoka, Invasion, Bottoms, Gran Turismo. The end of summer no longer feels far, far away, but as that subtle reference to Star Wars might’ve hinted, we’ve got some good TV shows and movies to stream as we get through the last of August. There’s the highly anticipated Ahsoka, which sets up the future of the franchise. We’ve got a video-game movie, a teen-girl fight-club film, some delicious reality-TV mess, and two big titles coming to VOD. [Read More]

The 12 Best Horror Prequels

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3367 words  |  Aldo Pusey

If there is one thing that’s more maligned than an ”unnecessary” sequel, it is an “unnecessary” prequel! Horror (and DTV action, tbh) is the genre most likely to keep stacking up movie after movie, even after many might declare the well arid and dry. But if you aren’t a total hater, there are many delights to be found in the prequel bin. First, though, is a bit of explanation about what you won’t find here: namely, Pearl or any of the Fear Street movies. [Read More]

The 15 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1236 words  |  Zora Stowers

Clockwise from top: Black Cake, All the Light We Cannot See,Invincible, and Lawmen: Bass Reeves. November is starting off with a pretty chill weekend at the box office, but fear not: It is a stacked week for streaming. We’ve got an Oscar hopeful making a splash on Netflix alongside a documentary about the Italian Stallion, a new Taylor Sheridan series, the return of the nature-documentary GOAT, and a frankly absurd number of animated titles, including the streaming debut of Across the Spider-Verse. [Read More]

The 15 Best Movies for Kids on Amazon Prime Video

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1539 words  |  Zora Stowers

Jumanji. This list is regularly updated as movies rotate on and off of Prime Video. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. The selection of family films on Amazon Prime’s streaming service leaves a little something to be desired, but that just makes a guide like this even more useful! You have to dig through the titles on Prime Video to find something appropriate for everyone from kindergartener to great grandpa, but there are some titles worth a look, including some family classics that you may have forgotten. [Read More]

The 15 Best Sylvester Stallone Scenes

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3382 words  |  Janel Helmers

Yo, Adrian! This month ushers in the release of the Sylvester Stallone documentary Sly (November 3), which sees Stallone reexamine his unique career in Hollywood, writing himself into movie stardom. It’s an American Dream story of sorts, following Stallone as he packs up his house and moves cross-country, taking stock — literally and figuratively — of his life penning movie scripts, portraying acclaimed characters, and wrestling with fame and self-worth. [Read More]