Novelist Don Winslow has spent the last 20 years of his life absorbing more news about Mexico’s narco wars than most of us could stomach. This month he delivers the Border, the fiery conclusion of his sweeping drug-war trilogy. Clocking in at over 700 pages, it is his most overtly …
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Earlier on Friday, President Trump tweeted out a meme that juxtaposes his recent State of the Union address with sad-looking reaction shots of lawmakers including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Kamala Harris, over a soundtrack of R.E.M.‘s 1993 hit “Everybody Hurts.” The use of R.E.M.’s music was presumably very much …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “The Crime Scene,” coming up just as soon as I look like a freshman at an all-women’s college… “The Crime Scene” isn’t exactly a sequel to last season’s “The Box,” where Jake and Holt spent the entire half-hour interrogating a suspect. But it …
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Paul McCartney will include three previously unreleased tracks on a new deluxe version of his latest solo album, Egypt Station. The “Traveler’s Edition” will be limited to 3,000 copies and is set to arrive May 10th via Capitol Records. Fans will be able to access pre-orders by signing up for …
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President Trump shut down the government for a record 35 days because he refused to sign a spending bill with less than $5.7 billion appropriated for his proposed Mexican border wall. On Wednesday, CNN reported that the president will begrudgingly sign a bipartisan bill that will prevent the government from …
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A young songwriter reintroduces the world to the Beatles in the new trailer for Danny Boyle‘s upcoming film, Yesterday, out June 28th. The film stars Himesh Patel as Jack, an aspiring, but flailing, musician who’s involved in a car accident at the same moment a mysterious blackout grips the world. …
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In his new Netflix series, Larry Charles‘ Dangerous World of Comedy, the Seinfeld writer and Borat director travels the world in search of humor in unlikely places. A trailer for the four-part series, which launches on February 15th, shows examples of comedy in Iraq and Somalia, as well as some …
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Post Malone teamed up with the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a fiery renditions of some of their hits for a medley at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night. First up was Post Malone’s “Stay” and “Rockstar.” They finished with the Chilis’ “Dark Necessities,” a single …
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Black Dahlia obsessives, take note — TNT’s new drama series, I Am the Night (which debuted on January 28th), is getting a companion podcast that will dig into the true events which inspired the series and made George Hodel a primary suspect in Elizabeth Short’s 1947 unsolved murder. Root of …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “A Tale of Two Bandits,” coming up just as soon as I talk to Bruce Banner about people’s shirts and pants not changing… Of Nine-Nine‘s two annual traditions, the Halloween episodes tend to have a higher variance, because they’re so dependent on how …
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