Thanks to the Billy Ray Cyus-featuring, Nine Inch Nails-sampling “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X has established himself as a genre-bending phenomenon. The country-rap track has dominated the charts for much of the spring and summer, and on his follow-up to the unexpected smash he further celebrates the glory of …
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Stephen Colbert recapped the creative and bizarre protests President Trump has faced during his London visit –– including a giant baby blimp and a penis shaved into a lawn –– on Tuesday’s Late Show. “For yet another day, America was 239 pounds smarter because President Trump is still in England,” …
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Just days before the release of the Jonas Brothers‘ new album Happiness Begins on June 7th, the band sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to discuss their reunion journey and the circumstances behind their breakup. After the brothers Jonas, Kevin, Joe and Nick, encountered stagnating record and ticket sales and …
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A review of the Killing Eve Season Two finale, “You’re Mine,” coming up just as soon as I pick out a flattering funeral photo for you… “You’re Mine” begins as something of a funhouse mirror of this season’s second episode, “Nice and Neat.” Villanelle again finds herself in the home …
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The teaser trailer for the new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Picard, was released on Wednesday. The show will premiere on CBS All Access, though a premiere date has not been set. The show will co-star Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Harry Treadaway. Hannelle Culpepper …
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Attorney General William Barr will release a redacted version of the Mueller report on Thursday. He’s doing all he can to protect the president from whatever damaging revelations it may contain. The New York Times reported Wednesday night that the Justice Department had “numerous conversations” with the White House about …
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As the vampire stud of the Twilight franchise, Robert Pattinson hit multiplex paydirt. Since then, he’s been raising his personal bar in the indie sphere (Good Time, Damsel). The star does himself proud in this elusive but bracing brainteaser from Claire Denis, the great French filmmaker (Beau Travail, Trouble Every …
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Just when you thought it was safe to answer your cell phone, the Jerky Boys are back. “I just started thinking to myself, ‘You know, people have been asking me for decades,’” Johnny Brennan, the G.O.A.T. of prank callers, tells Rolling Stone of his decision to restart the 1990s comedy …
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When Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed a gag order on Roger Stone, she warned Trump’s irrepressible former adviser that she would not tolerate another word out of him about his upcoming trial, on charges of lying to Congress and attempting to suborn perjury from a fellow witness. Stone appeared in …
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When Stephen Stillsturned down a role in a TV show about a Beatles-like fictional band in 1965, he suggested his friend Peter Thorkelson instead. The two had met in the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene back in New York, and Thorkelson had a similar “Nordic look” the producers were looking …
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