Doggy hilariously plays the "I'm not touching you" game
Gumbo loves screaming at his best friend Junebug during a classic game of "I'm not touching you". Too funny!
Gumbo loves screaming at his best friend Junebug during a classic game of "I'm not touching you". Too funny!
Gaga, whose recent performances included singing the national anthem at President Joe Biden's inauguration last month, has been in Rome filming a movie. The outlet said Gaga's dog walker was walking the dogs on Wednesday evening when he was shot.
Lisa Opie, managing director of U.K. production at BBC Studios, is departing after eight years with the company. The executive will leave in the coming months. She reported to BBC Studios director of content Ralph Lee and will help him find a replacement. Opie was responsible for delivering BBC Studios Productions’ business plan, defining and […]
Press Secretary Jen Psaki conducts a briefing at the White House.
A conscientious toddler gave part of his meal to a Mickey Mouse doll in Rock Hill, South Carolina.Footage by Katessa Kennedy shows her grandson Karson sitting in his high chair and sharing his food with Mickey, who had a high chair of his own for the breakfast party.Katessa told Storyful that the cute clip was filmed in December 2019.“This boy loves Mickey,” she wrote in a Facebook post. Credit: Katessa Kennedy via Storyful
In celebration of Ruth E. Carter making history as the second costume designer, and the first Black costume designer to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, Carter shares two of her favorite sketches with Variety. “BLACK PANTHER” Director Ryan Coogler presented Ruth E. Carter with a bible explaining the fictional country of […]
Wales wing Louis Rees-Zammit's try-scoring exploits and poster-boy looks are winning him fans far and wide, with even coach Wayne Pivac's stepchildren among the Gloucester flyer's legion of admirers.
President Joe Biden’s pick to be the top U.S. trade envoy promised to work with America’s allies to combat China’s aggressive trade policies, indicating a break from the Trump administration’s go-it-alone approach. Tai dodged questions on two politically sensitive questions — whether the Biden administration would drop President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum and whether it would revive former President Barack Obama's Asia-Pacific trade deal that was jettisoned by Trump.
Thierry Henry cited family reasons for his decision to step down as head coach of CF Montreal, the organization announced Thursday morning. The move also comes amid multiple media outlets reporting that Henry had interviewed for the vacant position at Bournemouth. "It is with a heavy heart that I've decided to take this decision," Henry said in a club statement.
A live-action “G.I. Joe” TV series is in the works at Amazon, Variety has confirmed. The series will be a standalone story centered around “G.I. Joe” undercover operative, Lady Jaye, with the series also connecting to the larger “G.I. Joe” universe. The series hails from Paramount Television Studios, eOne, and Skydance Television. Erik Oleson created the […]
Fnatic have now reasserted themselves as the top dogs of Southeast Asia, topping the league with six wins and a 13-4 game record to secure a direct seed to the Major playoffs.
In “Cherry,” Tom Holland sports a buzzcut, dead eyes, and a skeevy complexion. In a look-at-my-badass-self reversal from the effusive heroics of the “Spider-Man” films, he plays an Iraq War veteran turned opioid addict turned heroin addict turned bank robber, and he looks zoned-out and strung-out, like Eminem as a fallen Eagle Scout. He gets […]
Television commercials have long been one of the media industry’s surest bets — so much so that advertisers around the world dumped a whopping $149 billion on them in 2020, according to estimates from Magna, the large media-buying firm. But Pepsi recently decided to take a gamble on something else. On Valentine’s Day, the soda […]
Some of the roles that attract rising young performers wanting to be taken seriously as adult actors include a) traumatized combat veteran, b) suffering drug addict, and c) desperate bank robber, and “Cherry” gives Tom Holland the opportunity to play d) all of the above. As a showcase for Holland, “Cherry” absolutely offers the chance to stretch and expand his talents to places that the “Spider-Man” franchise would never allow. Beyond that, however, this is a distressingly familiar tale of trauma and addiction that often plays like a cover version of older, better movies about war and drugs. Fraternal filmmakers Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, coming off the worldwide success of “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” obviously have the clout to write their own ticket, and they’ve opted to move in the opposite direction, making a film about life-sized human beings in everyday distress. Still, this adaptation of Nico Walker’s novel (written by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg) takes a cursory approach to the big issues it seeks to explore. Holland’s character very pointedly has no name, but he doesn’t have much else, either. Watch Video: 'Cherry' Trailer: Tom Holland Breaks Bad and Shows His Dark Side in Russo Brothers' Latest In flashbacks, we meet our troubled hero at the age of 18, going to college and falling for classmate Emily (Ciara Bravo, “A Teacher”). They’re seemingly happy, until she suddenly announces she’s transferring to a school in Montreal; distraught, the young man joins the Army, and it’s too late to get out of his commitment when Emily changes her mind and stays. (We get a few hints regarding her emotional wounds, but like so much in “Cherry,” this angle is underexplored.) They get married before he’s deployed to Iraq (it’s just after 9/11), and after grueling basic training, he sees his first combat as a medic. It’s destructive to his psyche, particularly after his best friend dies right in front of him. (Points to the film for making the aftermath of this horrifying incident visible on screen rather than being discreetly implied.) Tour of duty accomplished, he returns home to receive the medal of valor, but is physically and psychologically damaged, a situation briefly remedied by an inattentive VA doctor’s prescription of oxycontin, which eventually turns both him and Emily into self-described “dope fiends.” Also Read: No, Tom Holland's 'Cherry' Poster Is Not Supposed to Look That Bad That’s when the bank-robbing starts, both to afford their fixes and stay in the good graces of a preppy-dressing dealer known only as “Pills & Coke” (Jack Reynor). As the film lurches toward the climax of its 140-minute running time, it becomes uncomfortably apparent that the filmmakers are less interested in addiction as a source of drama, character, or commentary, and more as a chance to gawk at tragedy. “Cherry” does acknowledge that the military-industrial complex feeds on young men and women who lack other economic opportunities, and then fails to take proper care of them after they’re been scarred by combat, but that’s the only piece of contextualization the film has to offer. And since our nameless hero and Emily exist in a void with few friends or family members — each has parents that are seen once — we’re left with one line in Holland’s reams and reams of narration about how their addiction has destroyed their personal relationships. Also Read: Tom Holland Announces the Real 'Spider-Man 3' Title After a Bunch of Fakes More frustrating is the Russo’s stylized Pop filmmaking style, self-consciously jittery throughout, turning genuinely human scaled issues into sensational bursts of energy. The war sequences and drug-abuse scenes allow Newton Thomas Sigel’s camera to glide all over creation, and that dizzying visual sense might have carried some meaning and emotional impact if left alone elsewhere. This, however, is not the case, and what works during emotionally frenzied moments (owing a debt to films like “Apocalypse Now” and “Trainspotting”) proves distracting everywhere else. Holland and Bravo (and, in his few scenes, Reynor) make the most of the opportunities being laid out before them. These are characters pushed to the edge, but the actors know when to pull back and maintain a sense of tragic scale, even when they’re engaged in extreme behavior. Smaller moments land as well: Holland’s phone-call home from Iraq after his friend’s death, in particular, features a full-bodied grief that’s tough and powerful to witness. These moments of emotional honesty aren’t enough to give “Cherry” the resonance that these situations deserve. From its facile depiction of the role of incarceration in the rehab process — addiction is a health issue that we keep mistakenly treating as a criminal issue — to the under-writing of the characters, what should be a harrowing drama instead comes off as an anti-drug pamphlet. “Cherry” opens in select theaters Feb. 26 and on AppleTV+ March 12. Read original story ‘Cherry’ Film Review: Tom Holland Addiction Drama Unfolds in an All-Too-Familiar Way At TheWrap
It sounds like a punchline, but it’s true: Jane Fonda has so many awards, they once broke a shelf. It was during her marriage to Ted Turner; prior to that she never really had her accolades, which include two Academy Awards, two BAFTAs, seven Golden Globes and a Primetime Emmy Award, on display. But then […]
Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks are headed for divorce, according to a detailed report by The Athletic on Thursday. Wilson could command up to three first-round picks, per multiple reports, and the 32-year-old has three years left on a four-year, $140 million deal he signed in April 2019. The Athletic reported the New York Jets, Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints all have a level of interest in Wilson.
Texas state legislators on Thursday started digging into the causes of deadly power blackouts that left millions shivering in the dark as frigid temperatures caught its grid operator and utilities ill-prepared for skyrocketing power demand. "The entire energy sector failed Texas," said NRG Energy Inc Chief Executive Mauricio Gutierrez, who testified at the hearing. The biggest failure was the state's natural gas system, said Curtis Morgan, CEO of Vistra Corp , adding that without better ties between gas producers, pipelines and power plants, the state could face future cold weather outages.
The pandemic has battered the industry, with many cinemas forced to close, restrict screenings or ban sales of snacks, while major studios move releases straight to home streaming platforms, dealing another blow to the box office. As Hollywood waits for cinemas - a core part of the movie value chain - to reopen, many studios have delayed hotly-anticipated blockbusters, such as James Bond's "No Time to Die". For Kinepolis, which operates over 100 cinemas across Europe and North America, that brought its first annual loss in at least 13 years, with sales down 68%.
As the new US administration weighs its extraterrestrial options, a key figure will be Rep. Don Beyer, the Virginia Democrat who will chair the space policy subcommittee in the US House of Representatives. Beyer, the only certified mechanic in Congress and a science-fiction buff, will be tasked with enacting the annual legislation that lays out NASA priorities. Quartz spoke to Beyer yesterday; our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Fewer Americans filed new claims for jobless benefits last week. The Labor Department said Thursday initial applications for state unemployment benefits dropped to 730,000 from 841,000 the week before. That was a much steeper decline than economists had forecast. But claims could rise in the coming week after the huge storm that slammed the South and caused extended blackouts across Texas. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers this week the central bank will keep interest rates low and pump money into the economy to bolster employment. “The main thing that we can do is continue to support the economy, give it the support that it needs. We’re still 10 million jobs below the level of payroll jobs before the crisis. There is still a long way to go to full recovery.” But economists point to hopeful signs such as the sharp rebound in retail sales in January and President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion recovery package. That has prompted them to raise their growth forecasts for the first quarter.
Max Verstappen said Thursday he is not thinking about succeeding Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes as he gets ready to launch a bid to dethrone the all-conquering Formula One champion.