Disney has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, a sequel to 2014’s Maleficent. The clip reveals the return of Angelina Jolie‘s villain Maleficent and Elle Fanning‘s Sleeping Beauty as the story picks up several years after the first. The trailer teases a conflict between …
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Farewell, President Selina Meyer. Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ brilliantly monstrous Commander-in-Chief signed off last night in the excellent Veep series finale, going out the way she came in: making a nation gasp in horror. In one last hilarious power grab for the White House, she sells out every principle she ever pretended …
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Because man can not live on Marvel superheroes alone, May is gifting us some strange blockbuster creatures: a wisecracking genie, a lightning-shooting rodent gunshoe, a three-headed dragon monarch fighting everybody’s favorite giant green lizard. Plus: Elton John gets the biopic treatment, John Wick gets even more revenge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels …
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Jamie Bell, who once played the adorable little Billy Elliot who only wanted to dance ballet, flirts with becoming a neo-Nazi in the upcoming film Skin. In a trailer for the film, Bell has covered his face with tattoos and struggles with his identity — racial and otherwise — as …
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On Tuesday’s Late Show, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke detailed how having two horrifying brain hemorrhages changed her perspective on life — and how she used Dothraki lines during her moments of panic as attempts to sharpen her memory. “I suffered two brain hemorrhages when I was filming, during …
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The guy in the suit is always there, sitting in a booth in the back of restaurant or at a table in a nightclub. Maybe he’s popping out of an alleyway or from behind a tree in the woods, or perhaps strolling into living rooms and crime scenes. His speech …
Read More »Liam Neeson Apologizes for 'Unacceptable Thoughts,' Racist Revenge Fantasy
Liam Neeson issued an apology Friday, nearly two months after the actor disclosed his racist revenge fantasy while promoting his film Cold Pursuit. “Over the last several weeks, I have reflected on and spoken to a variety of people who were hurt by my impulsive recounting of a brutal rape …
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Are you fucking kidding me?! You probably uttered this statement in awe at least a few times, dear readers of The Dirt, when you picked up Motley Crue‘s 2001 memoir about their life and times as world-class degenerates. Less a biography than a police rap sheet in book form, it’s …
Read More »Idris Elba Turns the Tables
When Coachella released its 2019 lineup poster, one name in near-microscopic print, buried under the likes of Weezer and Childish Gambino, confused a few people: Idris Elba. The British actor is famous for his leading role on The Wire and the BBC crime drama Luther, but few Americans know about …
Read More »The First Time: Cinematographer Rachel Morrison
Rachel Morrison picked up her mom’s old Olympus camera when she was four years old and she was hooked, dedicating herself to living behind the lens. In high school, she learned about cinematography, marveling that “you could take 24 still photographs per second and be part of telling an emotional, …
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