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2024 July


David Letterman to Headline Biden Fundraiser With Hawaii Governor on July 29

David Letterman to Headline Biden Fundraiser With Hawaii Governor on July 29

He said he was looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to challenge the Republican’s claims, “while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone.”


Cheng Pei-pei, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and ‘Come Drink With Me’ Actress, Dies at 78

Cheng Pei-pei, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and ‘Come Drink With Me’ Actress, Dies at 78

Cheng Pei-pei, the pioneering Chinese actress dubbed the “Queen of Swords” and considered among the first female action stars who made her name in the Shaw Brothers classic Come Drink With Me and later had a memorable turn as the villain Jade Fox in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has died.


Roland Emmerich’s ‘Those About to Die’ Puts Anthony Hopkins in a Toga for Some Dumb, Pulpy Fun: TV Review

Roland Emmerich’s ‘Those About to Die’ Puts Anthony Hopkins in a Toga for Some Dumb, Pulpy Fun: TV Review

That logline nonetheless fails to encapsulate a stuffed roster of racers, gladiators, slaves, bettors, patricians, clerics and royalty, all vying to gain or retain status in a brutally violent, hierarchical society.


Top 10 Movies of Donald Sutherland, Ranked

Top 10 Movies of Donald Sutherland, Ranked

John Schlesinger’s “The Day of the Locust” is one such Tinseltown fable, set in the 1930s and following an aspiring actress’s love life caught between two men – her next-door neighbor, an earnest upstart art director, played by William Atherton, or Homer (Sutherland), the more mature and settled option with whom she has a chance encounter.


Laugh Factory Taps David Fuhrer, John Weiser for Senior Leadership Roles Amid Expansion Plans

Laugh Factory Taps David Fuhrer, John Weiser for Senior Leadership Roles Amid Expansion Plans

The iconic comedy brand, headquartered on L.A.’s Sunset Strip and owned by Jamie Masada, has hired two senior leaders in a push toward major growth that includes the establishment of Laugh Factory Entertainment, a new division that will spearhead development of television shows, films, streaming content, social media initiatives, podcasts, web series and live events.


Ryan Reynolds Watched ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ With His 9-Year-Old and Mother: “One of the Best Moments”

Ryan Reynolds Watched ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ With His 9-Year-Old and Mother: “One of the Best Moments”

He remembered Jackman showing him how an actor could be successful, content and good at what they do without being “some tortured schmuck who’s willfully hurting themselves to find some kind of vaporous artistic truth.”


Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000): Hollywood and the Road Always Taken

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000): Hollywood and the Road Always Taken

In a world where commercial cinema is either superheroes saving the day or the tenth remake of a 1980s genre classic, the sheer scale and intent of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator,” to tell a most conventional revenge tragedy elevated to a mythical status should alone be a reason for revering it with childlike wonder.


Cassandra Jenkins Makes a Giant Leap Forward With Career-Defining ‘My Light, My Destroyer’: Album Review

Cassandra Jenkins Makes a Giant Leap Forward With Career-Defining ‘My Light, My Destroyer’: Album Review

There’s plenty of ear candy for indie-rock fans, from the aforementioned “Clams Casino” to the single “Petco,” a musing on humanity’s increasing distance from nature as she looks in a pet-store window at “two doves wrapped up in filthy and true love” and the “sideways gaze of a lizard” as the electric guitars build the song’s intensity on each verse (and even slip in a very “OK Computer” solo toward the end).


Donald Trump Confirms He Will Speak at Republican Convention, Calls for Unity After Shooting

Donald Trump Confirms He Will Speak at Republican Convention, Calls for Unity After Shooting

In a separate memo obtained by The Associated Press, Trump’s campaign advisers thanked the Secret Service and all first responders for their efforts, and also told staff in Washington and West Palm Beach, Florida to stay away from the office as they assess those locations.


Joe Biden Uses Detroit Rally to Flip From Defending His Age to Attacking Trump

Joe Biden Uses Detroit Rally to Flip From Defending His Age to Attacking Trump

Biden took to the stage decorated with signs reading, “Motown is Joe Town,” around 4:20 p.m. PT with the crowd chanting, “Don’t you quit!” and “We’ve got your back!” He began by thanking labor unions that were present and quickly stumped on key issues like restoring reproductive rights, lowering drug prices and expanding health care before strongly reaffirming his commitment to his presidential bid.


The Neon Highway (2024) Movie Review: A Mild, Eminently Forgettable Inquiry into Second Chances

The Neon Highway (2024) Movie Review: A Mild, Eminently Forgettable Inquiry into Second Chances

That doesn’t stunt his lively confidence that his friends and familiar faces in the industry would unanimously turn up to prop him up with abundant support and encouragement and dole out all sorts of free opportunities.


The Invasion (2007) Movie Ending Explained: Can Humanity Recover from the Trauma of Invasion?

The Invasion (2007) Movie Ending Explained: Can Humanity Recover from the Trauma of Invasion?

Well, a 2007 sci-fi thriller, “The Invasion,” directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicts a similar situation featuring a world ridden by paranoia and an alien organism that affects humanity.