The case of Adnan Syed gets a fresh look as it continues to evolve in the trailer for filmmaker Amy Berg’s upcoming HBO docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed. Syed was famously the subject of the first season of the podcast Serial in 2016, which examined his conviction for the …
Read More »Ariana Grande Has Top Three Songs in the Country, Tying Beatles' Record
Ariana Grande has the Number One, Two and Three songs —“7 Rings,” “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” and “Thank U, Next” — on the Hot 100 this week. No artist since the Beatles in 1964 — with “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist and Shout” and “Do You Want …
Read More »Monkey Business: The Wild Ride of 'Challenge' Bad Boy Johnny Bananas
The first time Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio appeared on MTV’s The Challenge he suffered the worst humiliation of his life. It was October of 2006 and the brash 25-year-old was still riding high from his recent run on The Real World: Key West. Little was required of him on that show …
Read More »Alice Cooper Doc 'Live From the Astroturf' Captures Original Band's 2015 Reunion
A Dallas record store’s efforts to reunite the original Alice Cooper Band after 40 years is the focus of the upcoming documentary/concert film Alice Cooper: Live From the Astroturf. Cooper superfan and Good Records owner Chris Penn lobbied for Cooper and his former bandmates – Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and …
Read More »A&E Gives First Look at 'Biography: The Trump Dynasty' Docuseries
The story of the Trump family, from the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush to the White House, will be the focus of an upcoming installment of A&E’s Biography. The three-night, six-part event begins February 25th. A&E said of the docuseries, “Biography: The Trump Dynasty traces three generations of the Trump family saga …
Read More »Grammys 2019: Meet the Best New Artist Nominees
As we near the 61st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, make sure you’re ready for music’s biggest night. The Best New Artist category has eight contenders in it, making it the largest number of artists ever competing in the category and the first time since 1966 that there are more …
Read More »Examining a Covington Catholic Promotional Video
After watching videos of the students of Covington Catholic High School on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, including one student stripping down shirtless to perform a “sumo” cheer, and others jeering at a Native American elder with whoops and tomahawk chops, people across America are wondering: who taught these …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Breaking Down the Nominations, or This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
We knew this was coming. Deep down, we knew. We had assumed that Roma andThe Favourite and A Star Is Born would rack up a lot of Oscars love, as was their destiny — 10 nominations each for the first two, eight nominations for the latter. We knew that there …
Read More »'Glass' Review: M. Night's Shyamalan's Double Sequel Is Half Full, Half Empty
What a difference a couple decades makes. When M. Night Shyamalan dropped Unbreakable on an unsuspecting world back in 2000, the new Spielberg on the block was told that superhero movies were still a post-Burton/Batman novelty. As the man himself recently admitted, his what-if project about an everyman who discovers …
Read More »Kirsten Gillibrand Explains How She Intends to Take on Trump
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday, where she announced, “I’m filing an exploratory committee for president of the United States — tonight!”The New York senator, 52, told Colbertt, “As a young mom, I’m going to fight for other people’s kids as hard as …
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