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Rambling Reporter isn’t exactly sure what a city controller does but didn’t expect “public bathroom mapper” to be part of the job. Even so, Kenneth Mejia, the billboard- and social media-savvy city controller of Los Angeles (you may have seen his pie chart billboards around town), has been busy with a new public tool that…
What’s up with reactionary old French screen legends? Is it something in the wine? Obituaries for sex kitten turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot, who died Dec. 28 at age 91, tended to mention her far-right politics in the first paragraph. Indeed, B.B. was an outspoken Islamophobe — her animus evidently stemming from her objection…
Ah, awards season. The red carpets. The screenings. The parties. The best actress contenders posting naked selfies to potential voters. It’s little noted by the mainstream media, but right now — early January — is the thick of the adult film world’s cutthroat run-up to the Adult Video News Awards, porn’s version of the Oscars….
Every year, the Critics Choice Association (CCA) nominates actors under the age of 21 in their best young performer category, and this year. Ahead of the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter asked the six actors, ranging from age 9 to 20, what their ambitions are for their future in Hollywood. And yes,…
[This story contains spoilers fromJurassic World: Chaos Theoryseries finale.] Unlike other animated, kid-friendly franchise spinoffs, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory isn’t a cute-but-unessential extension of its live-action blockbuster counterparts. The series, a follow-up to 2020’s Camp Cretaceous, exists in the same universe as the Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow and Frank Marshall-produced trilogy, taking viewers to some…
Almost immediately after ChatGPT was first released in late 2022, alarm bells sounded in the education world about how it would negatively impact learning. That year,The Atlanticran stories with headlines like “The College Essay Is Dead” and “The End of High School English.” The predictions were that unleashing AI to the world at large would…
The Palm Springs International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through Jan. 12, has become an increasingly important stop on the film awards season circuit —to the point that much of the industry now cuts short its holiday break in order to rush to the Coachella Valley right after New Year’s Day. Palm…
The next horror movie from André Ovredal is coming into focus. Paramount has revealed the film is called Passenger, and has set a plum summer theatrical date of May 29 for the project, which stars Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo. Plot details are being kept in luggage. Walter Hamada is producing via 18Hz,…
Victoria Jones, the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, who appeared alongside her father in multiple films in the 1990s and on red carpets, was found dead in San Francisco on New Year’s Day, according to local authorities. Jones, 34, was found unresponsive at the Fairmont Hotel after paramedics were called, according to a…
The second installment of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things began with “The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler,” but those episodes were really the arrival of Nell Fisher. In a large, familiar ensemble, the 14-year-old British actress has burst on the scene as a driving force of the Netflix phenomenon’s swan song. The little…
