Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead continues to chug, relatively quietly, along in its initial promotional campaign, humming in the background as the monoloith that is Zack Snyder’s Justice League takes up most of the air in the room. Still, the film Snyder calls his “small movie” — small enough to inspire spinoffs and an
Eddie Huang’s Boogie is a basketball movie, but one of its best moments comes courtesy of tennis. Boogie, né Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi) comes back to his home in Flushing, Queens, to find his Taiwanese immigrant father (Perry Yung) rewatching, for apparently the gazillionth time, the 1989 French Open match between Taiwanese-American upstart Michael Chang
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Skateboarder Zion Wright talks about his Olympics dream, practicing his craft during the pandemic, his hype-up music and the lack of BIPOC representation in the sport in this installment of Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition. Wright was among the skateboarders named to the inaugural U.S. Skateboarding Team headed to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan…
As Amazon Prime Video’s premiere of sequel Coming 2 America ends decades’ worth of wait for fans of the 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy classic, Coming to America, it seemed as good a time as any to look back at the first attempt to capitalize on the franchise, the 1989 spinoff television pilot. Indeed, it’s an
LOS ANGELES — In the first two months of this year, Los Angeles Police Department officers fielded 570 reports of shots fired, up 88% from the 303 incidents during same time frame in 2020 — and 267 people were hit by gunfire, a 141% increase from the 111 people wounded in the time frame in
Their messiah is no longer in power, but some followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory believe that Donald Trump will return to the throne today. Followers of the wide-ranging movement think the former president is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles and will eventually be restored to high office. But why on 4
Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have withdrawn their support for the Good Friday Agreement in protest at post-Brexit border arrangements. In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) said they no longer backed the 1998 peace deal due to the impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol. They called for
The Senate voted to advance a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill, which includes direct payments to families and extends enhanced unemployment benefits, but it could be a long slog before there is a final vote. The vote was 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris voting in favor to break a tie. The legislation now move
Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. “Instead, our web products will be powered by privacy-preserving APIs which prevent
Redmi K40 series smartphones sold 300,000 units within the first five minutes of going on sale in China, the Xiaomi sub-brand announced on Weibo. It also said that the series will go on next sale on March 8. The Redmi K40 series includes Redmi K40, Redmi K40 Pro, and Redmi K40 Pro+ smartphones. The smartphones
The Scotch whisky industry has welcomed a deal between the UK and US governments that has seen damaging tariffs, imposed by the Trump administration in 2019, suspended for four months. The 25% tariff fell under a range of European products targeted as part of a historical row over government subsidies given to European aerospace firm
Luke Bryan… country music superstar, American Idol judge, hard seltzer mogul… marriage counselor? If you listen to a few Luke Bryan songs, you’d probably think that the key to a good marriage is to get in your truck, go down to the river in the with a cold six pack and dance in the headlights… maybe
When the Steel Woods‘ co-founder Jason “Rowdy” Cope died unexpectedly at the age of 42 in January, the band had recently been recording new music. On May 14, Cope’s surviving bandmates will move forward with that work, releasing a new album, All of Your Stones. The Steel Woods’ new record is their third, and a press release
We’ve come a long way since WandaVision premiered on Disney+ back in January. The streaming service’s first Marvel Cinematic Universe show has been a highlight of 2021 and the show’s upcoming finale will certainly be bittersweet for many fans. In honor of WandaVision coming to an end, the official Twitter account for the show has
Breaking News New Space Jam, new Lola Bunny. The director of “Space Jam: A New Legacy” has “reworked” Lola Bunny’s role for the reboot — claiming he wasn’t comfortable with the “very sexualized” way she came off in the original back in 1996. The man behind the film is Malcolm D. Lee — who has
The latest installment in the popular Despicable Me franchise is getting yet another delay. On Thursday, Universal announced a couple of changes in upcoming movie release dates, including the highly-anticipated F9, which is moving from April to June. That’s not a very substantial delay, but Minions: The Rise of Gru is a different story. The
In the late 1980s, screenwriter Barry Blaustein was at a Los Angeles Clippers game watching Michael Cage – a six foot nine rebounding machine known almost as much for his vibrant Jheri curl as his domineering talent – when an idea hit him. He and his writing partner, David Sheffield, had been working on a
Much of the Republican Party — despite the deaths of more than half a million Americans — still acts as though the pandemic is more a platform for political grandstanding than the worst national crisis since World War II. New ideological divides are being exposed with President Joe Biden’s huge Covid-19 relief bill coming up
A criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia is set to intensify this week, as a grand jury convenes, offering the local district attorney her first shot at seeking subpoenas for records and interviews. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made her investigative intentions clear with