Entertainment
Sister Aimee
Based on the life of an actual person, Aimee Semple McPherson, this film is, and I quote, “Based on true events. Mostly made up.”
Child Musicians
North Carolina’s governor proclaimed a day in honor of soul musician Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, NC in 1933). Nina was what we often call a child prodigy: she started playing piano MORE
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is directed and written by, as well as starring Edward Norton, adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s novel of the same name. Also starring Bruce Willis, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Suplee, MORE
Lady and the Tramp
In their attempt to make us all sick of “live action” remakes, Disney+ brings us a straight to streaming version of Lady and the Tramp, featuring the voices of Justin Theroux as Tramp, Tessa Thompson MORE
Sarah Sanders lands a job on Fox ‘News’
After leaving the White House nearly two months ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders “will provide political commentary and analysis across all of FOX News Media, including FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, MORE
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: Meet The Queens
The first UK Drag Race season is coming up, squirrel friends! I’m so excited! For you philistines who know nothing of such things: “I’m like Tina Turner meets Lizzo meets Kat Slater,” says Vinegar Strokes. MORE
Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.
COPENHAGEN (The Borowitz Report)—After rebuffing Donald J. Trump’s hypothetical proposal to purchase Greenland, the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead. MORE
Neo & Trinity: The 4th Time’s The Charm
Warner Bros. has just announced a fourth film in the Matrix series, with original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their iconic roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively. Lana Wachowski is set MORE
Bond 25 Finally Has a Title
We can stop calling it “Bond 25” now. The 25th entry in the James Bond franchise now has a title. On Tuesday, the official James Bond Twitter account announced that the new film is titled MORE
Holy Hand Grenade only $60K+ – slightly used
Prop Store, one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies has today announced it is to hold the UK’s largest annual live auction of film and TV memorabilia for the sixth consecutive year MORE
Iceland’s Okjokull glacier, dead at 700
Mourners have gathered in Iceland to commemorate the loss of Okjokull, which has died at the age of about 700. The glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 when it was no longer thick enough MORE
Kip Addotta, Comedian and Dr. Demento Show Staple, Dead at 75
Comedian Kip Addotta, who frequently appeared on The Tonight Show, has died. His family posted on Facebook but did not provide details on his death. He was 75. — More at the source: Deadline
Speaking of Friends…
Do you have what it takes to sit through 25 hours of Friends episodes? If so, Frontier Communications might pay you $1000, give you a free year’s subscription to Netflix, and a “Friends Fandom Fun Pack”. MORE
Speaking of Stranger Things…
Here’s 12 hours of Dr. Alexei sipping a slurpee. You’re welcome.
DARK: Cerebral Sci-Fi that requires your full attention
There are a few Netflix gems out there that may not be a choice because you know, why bother if it is dubbed. It can’t be good, right? DARK might actually surprise you. The three MORE
The Boys: A fresh take on Superheroes
The Boys is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. MORE
Peter Fonda Dead at 79
Two-time Oscar nominee Peter Fonda, who became a counterculture icon when he co-wrote, produced and starred in seminal 1969 road movie “Easy Rider,” then showed Hollywood he could act about three decades later in “Ulee’s MORE
50 Years Ago: Woodstock, August 15-18, 1969
Fifty years ago, more than 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, headed to a dairy farm owned by Max and Miriam Yasgur, where the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was being held. Planners had MORE