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On a Monday night in Nashville, a live band’s belting out “Sweet Child O’ Mine” at Jon Bon Jovi’s Nashville, while one block down, you’ll be hard-pressed to hear yourself speak on the raging roof of Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk. “They keep their windows wide open so all of Broadway hears them,” gripes…
Taylor Swift is opening up about her engagement to Travis Kelce. While doing a press tour amid the release of her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, Swift has openly discussed her engagement to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and offered details on her engagement ring that has caught attention for its sizable…
At a time when so many major Hollywood distributors are avoiding political stories for fear of offending or provoking, the new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 is refreshingly direct. The director, Raoul Peck, intersperses readings of 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell’s writing about authoritarianism with footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters. Where the…
Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach. The angst and anxiety he felt as a child watching his parents’ marriage collapse became the raw material for his 2005 breakout The Squid and the Whale. His own divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh informed his Oscar-winning Marriage Story…
At age 89, Shiguéhiko Hasumi, the critic and theorist long regarded as Japan’s greatest living film scholar, is finally making what amounts to his U.S. debut. Later this month, New York’s Japan Society will present Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan (Oct. 9–18), a hand-curated screening series timed to the…
A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans. PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or…
Taylor Swift is back. The superstar released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Friday, ending a nearly two-month wait after she first revealed the project on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast back in August. The album, which includes one guest feature from fellow pop star Sabrina Carpenter, marks Swift’s first…
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are taking some time apart from their marriage. The actress and fashion designer, who share daughters Olivia JadeGiannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli, have been married for nearly 28 years after they tied the knot in November 1997. “They are living apart and taking a break from their marriage. There are…
Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album will in fact feature “an interpolation” of George Michael’s 1987 hit “Father Figure.” The fourth song on the tracklist for The Life of a Showgirl, which is due Friday, is notably entitled “Father Figure.” Speculation that Swift could potentially sample the 80s hit sparked and was seemingly confirmed when the late…
Cutting-edge technology, cost effectiveness, and “unlimited creativity.” That is what Spain’s Pedralonga Estudios promised at a launch event for its new virtual production facility Coruña Immersive Studio(CEI) on the third day of thefifth edition ofIberseries& Platino Industria inMadrid, Spain. It is equipped with “state-of-the-art immersive technology capable of recreating hyper-realistic environments that drive both the…
