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DreamWorks is back with The Bad Guys 2! If you loved the first movie, get ready for more laughs and mayhem. The Bad Guys is based on a series of graphic novels by Australian author Aaron Blabey, featuring a world where humans and talking animals coexist.

The first movie, released in 2022, introduced us to a team of mischievous animal criminals: Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Ms. Tarantula.

A scene from The Bad Guys (Credits: Universal Pictures)

After getting caught, the gang is given a chance to be good. Turns out, they enjoy it—especially when they get to save the city from an evil villain! Looks like being the hero suits them just fine.

At the end of the first film, the gang gets out of jail, ready to start fresh. But of course, The Bad Guys 2 throws them right back into chaos. This time,...

Jack Lilley, the stunt performer and actor who made a home for himself on Little House on the Prairie by working on every one of the beloved NBC drama’s nine seasons, has died. He was 91.

Lilley had Alzheimer’s disease and died Wednesday at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his granddaughter Savanah Lilley told The Signal, a news outlet in Santa Clarita.

In Blazing Saddles (1974), Lilley played one of the outlaws who loots the town of Rock Ridge, and in one scene, he and his horse slide into a pool of mud and are submerged. It was an accident, but director Mel Brooks liked it so much, he kept it in the movie.

The mustachioed Lilley had worked with Michael Landon on Bonanza for years starting in 1961, and that led to Landon hiring him for Little House in 1974. (Landon, of course, starred in,...

In celebration of Black History Month, 70s on 7 is counting down the 50 best soul hits of the 1970s — according to you, our listeners!

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Top Soul Hits of the ’70s

Songs our listeners voted on:

“ABC” – The Jackson 5

“After the Love Has Gone” – Earth, Wind & Fire

“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Diana Ross

“Ball of Confusion” – The Temptations

“Bad Girls” – Donna Summer

“Ben” – Michael Jackson

“Best of My Love” – The Emotions

“Boogie Down” – Eddie Kendricks

“Boogie Fever” – The Sylvers

“Boogie Nights” – Heatwave

“Boogie Oogie Oogie” – A Taste of Honey

“Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” – Barry White

“Car Wash...

Drew Barrymore credits 1994’s Western action flick Bad Girls with changing her life at 16 years old.

In a recent episode on The Drew Barrymore Show, the host reunited with co-star Andie MacDowell and the two reminisced about the film (which also featured Madeleine Stowe and Mary Stuart Masterson) about four brothel workers on the lam after a justifiable homicide and who set out in search for a better life in the Wild West.

“When we did Bad Girls, I was 16. I was such a dumbass,” Barrymore said, to which MacDowell responded, “Oh my God, you were so beautiful and so good.”

The Charlie’s Angels star continued, “I always talk about how much it changed my life. If I hadn’t done that film, there’s no way I’d be sitting here right now because it was that film that showed me if you care about something, be involved.

Tony Slattery, a British actor and comedian known for his improv skills on Channel 4’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” died on Tuesday. He was 65.

Slattery’s longtime partner, Mark Michael Hutchinson, confirmed the news to the BBC and said the cause of death was a heart attack. “It is with great sadness we must announce actor and comedian Tony Slattery, aged 65, has passed away today, Tuesday morning, following a heart attack on Sunday evening,” Hutchinson said in a statement.

Slattery was a regular on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” which features performers playing short-form improvisation games based on suggestions from a live audience, from 1988 to 1995. He also held roles in films like comedies “How to Get Ahead in Advertising” (1989) and “Peter’s Friends” (1992), as well as crime thriller “The Crying Game” (1992).

Born on Nov. 9, 1959 in Stonebridge, North London, Slattery got his start in theater while studying at the University of Cambridge.

The official website for the voice actor unit EverdreaM announced that "Tsuki dake ga Miteita" ("Only The Moon was Watching"), a coupling song of their upcoming third CD single "Kimi to Mita Keshiki" ("The view I saw with you"), will be featured as an insert song for the fall 2024 TV anime Goodbye, Dragon Life . As reported , the single's title tune is now featured as the ending theme for the anime, and the unit's two members, Misato Matsuoka and Hitomi Sekine, are also cast in the anime as Leticia and Celina, respectively. A lyric video for "Tsukidake ga Miteita," which features scenes that have depicted in the anime episodes so far, is now streamed on the unit's official YouTube channel . EverdreaM "Tsuki dake ga Miteita" Lyric Video Related: Voice Actor Unit EverdreaM Shares Goodbye, Dragon Life Anime Ending Song Music Video EverdreaM made their CD debut in June 2023 with the five-song mini album "Endless Labyrinth,...

Below Deck has had some of the most interesting cast members throughout their spin-offs, and while some members deserved villain status, many hid their true colors so well that it was impossible to see their pretentious traits. On the Bravo network, the battle between good and evil has always been epic, with villains being showcased in every Below Deck franchise. Therefore, moments of drama between the crew are always anticipated. The show has had some of the worst villains, from Kyle Viljoen, featured on Below Deck Mediterranean seasons 7 and 8, to the problematic Gary King.

Gary is still the most controversial participant Below Deck has ever seen. When he was first introduced to the Below Deck universe, it was clear that he was quite a ladies' man. Over time, Gary has failed to respect boundaries when interacting with fellow female crew members. In Below Deck Sailing Yacht season 4, she flirted with...

Lynda Obst, who had producing credits on high-profile films including “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Flashdance” and “Adventures in Babysitting,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 74.

“I was immensely proud of her. She was a trailblazer for women in the industry at a time when it was very difficult for women to have prominent roles. She was passionate about her work but even more passionate about her family,” her brother, WME’s Rick Rosen, said to Variety.

Obst told the Hollywood Reporter earlier this year that she had been battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Most recently, she served as producer or executive producer on TV series including “The Hot Zone,” “Good Girls Revolt,” “Hot in Cleveland” and “Helix.” Obst’s final feature producing credit was Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” in 2014. Among her other credits were “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “Hope Floats,” “Bad Girls” and “The Fisher King.

Wes Bergmann from The Challenge reveals he was ‘collecting data’ for his show, House of Villains. It seems the reality TV show alum was being a “game player” as usual to be successful in his competition. He even spoke to previous competitors.

Preparing For The Challenge Was Hard For Wes Bergmann

Wes Bergmann is a reality show star known for appearing on The Challenge. The series is a spinoff of Road Rules and Real World. However, the series also brought in “fresh meat.” Bergmann did not have to take this route as he was an alum of The Real World: Austin.

Now 40 and married with a one-year-old daughter, Lucy, Wes looks back on his difficult days on The Challenge. The TV personality explained to People, “My fans are on me all the time. They’re like, ‘You’ll come back and you’ll do this. What do you doing?’” The...

Big changes are coming to Chicago Fire, beginning with Chief Wallace Boden’s exit.

Actor Eamonn Walker played Boden for 12 seasons but has ended his run as a series regular.

Boden got a huge promotion within the Chicago Fire Department, so he has had to move on from Firehouse 51.

A new man fills Boden’s shoes during the Chicago Fire Season 13 premiere.

Teasers for the One Chicago return hint that drama is ahead during the transition.

Luckily, the show has added a great actor who can hold his own.

The Chicago Fire cast has a new chief

Actor Dermot Mulroney joins the cast as Chief Dom Pascal on Chicago Fire Season 13. Dermot is a series regular. This means he will be featured in nearly every episode.

As previously reported by Monsters and Critics, Chief Pascal worked in Miami for the past decade as a chief.

Before his job in Miami,...

The MTV Video Music Awards have celebrated the best in the medium for almost as long as music videos have been a thing. Scroll down to see watch every single winner of Video of the Year. What years did the VMAs get it right, and what years were they shockingly out of tune?

SEEBeyonce songs, ranked: Counting down her greatest hits 2024: Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone, “Fortnight”

Other Awards Won:

Best Direction

Best Editing

Song of the Summer

Who Else Was Nominated:

Doja Cat, “Paint the Town Red”

Billie Eilish, “Lunch”

Eminem, “Houdini”

Ariana Grande, “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

Sza, “Snooze”

2023: Taylor Swift, “Anti-Hero”

Other Awards It Won:

Song of the Year

Best Pop

Best Direction

Best Cinematography

Best Visual Effects

Who Else Was Nominated:

Doja Cat, “Attention”

Miley Cyrus, “Flowers”

Nicki Minaj, “Super Freaky Girl”

Olivia Rodrigo, “Vampire”

Sam Smith and Kim Petras,...

Director Christopher Bickel’s horror film Pater Noster and the Mission of Light is set to receive a release sometime this fall, and today we’ve gotten our hands on two different trailers for the movie! Our friends at Bloody Disgusting unveiled a trailer earlier today that was cut together by the director, and that one can be seen at the bottom of this article. In the embed above is another trailer, and this one was cut together by JoBlo’s own Mike Conway!

Pater Noster and the Mission of Light centers on Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the outlandish cult and their unholy spawn leads to grave and grisly circumstances for Max and her friends. A press release notes that this film is the...

From director Christopher Bickel, the upcoming underground horror movie Pater Noster and the Mission of Light has unleashed an official trailer ahead of a Fall 2024 release.

While we wait for an exact release date, watch the Nsfw Trailer below.

The team previews, “Pater Noster and the Mission of Light is the brainchild of the adventurous underground director whose previously acclaimed works The Theta Girl (2017) and Bad Girls (2022) have sent shockwaves through the underground film community. With an acclaimed track record of unsettling and thought-provoking films, Bickel is poised to take audiences on a nightmarish lysergic hellride that will linger long after the credits roll.”

The film tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the outlandish cult and their unholy spawn leads to grave...

What kind of music goes best with comedy? Even if you’ve never seen The Benny Hill Show, you know its silly, sped-up theme song. For years, funny movies would incorporate swinging jazz or playful orchestral tunes. Then, in the late 1970s, John Landis had the idea to tap acclaimed Oscar-winning composer (and friend) Elmer Bernstein to write a no-winking serious score for Landis’ outrageous Animal House. The juxtaposition worked perfectly, the onscreen hijinks accentuated by Bernstein’s soaring strings — almost as if the movie was pretending to be classy while the characters were thumbing their nose at the pomposity. Soon, other movies, like Airplane! (also scored by Bernstein), were doing the same thing, proving that what initially seemed like a bizarre notion for music in a comedy could actually be brilliant.

But times change, and one trend gets replaced by a new one. By the mid-1980s, several hit comedies contained a hit single.

Close on the heels of his performances in the slasher Scream VI and the hit romantic comedy Anyone but You, Dermot Mulroney has just wrapped production on a new horror thriller called Dead and Breakfast. This one is coming our way from the Las Vegas-based production companies Beno Films and Al Bravo Films, but filming took place in Little Rock, Arkansas. Deadline got their hands on a pair of first-look images from Dead and Breakfast, and you can check those out in this article.

Written and directed by Loppo Jp Martinez, Dead and Breakfast follows five petty criminals who rob a pawn shop in Kansas City. Still, on their drive back to Little Rock, an unexpected engine failure forces them to stay in a bed & breakfast in the middle of nowhere where their plan quickly derails into a bloodbath. So no, in case you were wondering, this Dead and Breakfast[/link]...

Hollywood is reeling from the death of Al S. Ruddy, the Oscar-winning producer of such iconic films as The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby. Ruddy passed on May 25 at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center after a brief illness. The multi-hyphenate filmmaker was 94.

“Al was truly one of the great Hollywood mavericks,” The Offer director Dexter Fletcher said in a statement. “One of the last Mohicans who created great movies which still influence and inspire to this day. From humble beginnings to the highest of Hollywood accolades. His was an incredible journey. Achieved through the sheer power of his determination, strong will, irrepressible energy and charm and a rarely matched love for the art of film.”

Fletcher’s Paramount+ miniseries The Offer chronicles the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. It stars Miles Teller as Ruddy and immortalizes the visionary producer’s meticulous work on the 1972 classic.

For his feature debut,...

Albert S. Ruddy, who earned two Best Picture Oscars for producing The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby and co-created TV shows including Walker, Texas Ranger and Hogan’s Heroes, died May 25 at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center after a brief illness, a family spokesman said. He was 94.

Ruddy is one of nine producers ever to earn two or more Best Picture Oscars, and has the distinction of winning them with the largest interval in between — 32 years.

He recently was portrayed by Miles Teller in the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer, which chronicles Ruddy’s experience making the 1972 film that Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo from the latter’s bestselling novel.

Related: Peter Bart: ‘The Offer’ Spins A Mafia Tale About ‘The Godfather’ That’s Really More Fiction Than Fact

“Al was truly one of the great Hollywood mavericks,” The Offer director Dexter Fletcher said in a statement. “One of...

Al Ruddy, who co-created the famed CBS sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, then captured Academy Awards for producing the best picture winners The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, has died. He was 94.

Ruddy, also credited as one of the creators of the long-running CBS police drama Walker, Texas Ranger, died Saturday following a brief illness at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, a publicist announced.

On the heels of The Godfather (1972), Ruddy produced another box-office hit with the original The Longest Yard (1974), the prison-set football movie that starred Burt Reynolds. The pair then reteamed for the action road films The Cannonball Run (1981) and its 1984 sequel, both directed by stuntman-turned-helmer Hal Needham.

The personable Ruddy also produced such films as Bad Girls (1994), the first Western with all female leads (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore); the baseball comedy The Scout (1994), starring Albert Brooks and Brendan Fraser; and Matilda (1978), a comedy...

The best prison shows explore dark stories of criminals in captivity, but also touch on themes of redemption, friendship, and humor. Series like "Buried" offer unflinching portrayals of prison dynamics and survival, while "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons" provides global perspectives. Shows like "Girls Incarcerated" and "Black Bird" offer raw portrayals of the challenges faced by female inmates and the psychological depth of prison life.

Though it might seem like a restrictive setting, the best prison shows showcase the different ways stories can be told about life behind bars. Unsurprisingly, many prison-centric shows are dramas and not for audiences seeking lighter fare. They cater to the dark stories of criminals who are just as dangerous in captivity and the loss of hope and humanity some of these inmates feel. However, prison shows can also deal with redemption, friendship, and even finding humor in such a life.

Some of the best...

EverdreaM , a rock vocal unit consisting of voice actor Misato (Misato Matsuoka) and Hitomi (Hitomi Sekine), has posted a music video for their second CD single song, "Sadame" ( Fate ), on their official YouTube channel . The dramatic tune is now featured as the ending theme for the spring 2024 TV anime Re:Monster . The unit made their CD debut in June 2023 with the five-song mini album "Endless Labyrinth," which contained the opening theme song for the spring 2023 TV anime Rokudo's Bad Girls . Then they released their double A-side first CD single "Jekyll & Hyde/Ao no Genseki" in November of the same year. Each of its title songs were used as the opening and ending themes for the fall 2023 TV anime Berserk of Gluttony , respectively. "The music video for 'Sadame' was created based on the concept of two people who, despite being born weak, face up to the obstacles and threats that stand in their way,...

The cast for House of Villains Season 2 has been released.

The reality competition show from E! features characters who have been called villains on their respective reality TV shows.

It’s a way to get people who create headlines into one house and have them battle it out for a television audience.

House of Villains Season 1 finished airing in December, with Tanisha Thomas from Bad Girls Club winning the inaugural season.

The other players who made it to the finale night were Johnny Bananas from The Challenge and The Traitors, Anfisa Arkhipchenko from 90 Day Fiancé, Johnny Fairplay from Survivor, and Shake Chatterjee from Love Is Blind.

Now, a new group of reality TV stars will show what they can do in a battle to be named the best villain.

Who is on the House of Villains Season 2 cast?

Below are the names and bios of the House of Villains Season 2 cast members revealed today.

The 1990s are regularly regarded as the era of the high-concept thriller. In the wake of eighties smashes like Jagged Edge and Fatal Attraction, audiences tended to flock to these kinds of movies, although it’s worth noting they quickly spun off into two different mini-genres. There was the erotic thriller genre, whose queen was definitely Sharon Stone, with movies like Basic Instinct and Sliver, but there was also the so-called yuppie thriller.

These movies often centred around upwardly mobile middle-class couples who wind up in the crosshairs of a maniac who wants to dismantle their lives. Fatal Attraction was arguably the first of these. Still, many more would follow, including Pacific Heights, which featured Michael Keaton in a memorably evil role, Bad Influence (with Rob Lowe), Internal Affairs (which revitalized Richard Gere’s career), Malice, and the great Single White Female. But, of the genre, one of the most effective was 1992’s Unlawful Entry,...

Some Westerns are objectively not the best movies, but so charming that they become genuinely entertaining watches. For example, Cowboys & Aliens blends science fiction and Western action, but lacks critical acclaim and a sequel. Bad Girls provides a unique perspective with an all-female Western cast, despite predictable plot points.

Although there are plenty of movies in the Western genre that aren't as great as others, they've still gone on to develop a strong following because of how charming and accessible they are to audiences. While some Westerns boast impressive visuals, there are others that are notable for the lackluster performances of their cast, weak direction, and writing that relies far too heavily on tired Western tropes. Nevertheless, some Westerns have developed a respectable reputation among audiences precisely for their negative traits.

From Westerns with great plot twists to Westerns notable for blending multiple genres, audiences have experienced a vast...

Stars: Chuku Modu, Luna Mwezi, Iola Evans, Kit Young, Arno Lüning, Safia Oakley-Green | Written by Ruth Greenberg | Directed by Andrew Cumming

I can almost imagine Out of Darkness’ director Andrew Cumming pitching the film to potential backers as Quest for Fire meets Predator. And that would be a fairly accurate description of this Stone Age thriller about a tribe of early humans being picked off by an unseen foe. And one that makes it sound a lot less cerebral and more commercial than it might otherwise appear.

45,000 years ago, six early humans have left their tribe to find a new home. Leading the group is Adem, who also has his young son Heron and Ave who’s carrying Adem’s child along with him. Also making the trek are Geirr, Adem’s more cautious second-in-command and Odal’s who seems to be some kind of shaman and last, and certainly least,...

In 1994, the film Bad Girls debuted. Drew Barrymore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Madeleine Stowe starred as four prostitutes out for vengeance in the Wild West.

But a cast reunion on Barrymore’s show brought out the tears, as Barrymore reunited Masterson and MacDowell with Dermot Mulroney, who played their ally Josh McCoy.

“You were so good to me, I really was like a lost seventeen-year-old,” Barrymore told Mulroney. “I was having so much fun, but I didn’t know how to take care of myself and you took such good care of me. You were so kind to me.”

Barrymore continued to thank Mulroney for protecting her and watching out for her.

“I’m so happy to see you,” Mulroney says. “Sorry guys, I cry now. I knew I was gonna and I came anyway. I decided I’m gonna go ahead and cry in public.”

Watch the moment above.

Drew Barrymore and Dermot Mulroney had a tear-filled reunion when the actor surprised the talk show host on Thursday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.

The Anyone But You star was one of three people who made an appearance and caught Barrymore off-guard, as the episode was only intended to be a sit-down with Andie MacDowell. The two co-starred in Bad Girls.

In honor of the 1994 film celebrating 30 years, MacDowell surprised Barrymore with Mulroney, their fellow co-star Mary Stuart Masterson and executive producer Lynda Obst, who made an appearance via video.

“I am freaking out right now,” Barrymore said, sitting alongside Mulroney, as they both got visibly emotional. “You were so good to me. I really was like a lost 17 year old. I know I was having so much fun, but I didn’t know how to take care of myself, and you took such good care of me.

Drew Barrymore is getting choked up after reuniting with a costar from three decades ago!

During a new episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the 48-year-old actress and talk show host chatted with her Bad Girls costars, Andie MacDowell and Mary Stuart Masterson.

Little did she know, they had another surprise for her: Dermot Mulroney, who also starred in the Western film.

Keep reading to find out more…

“Oh, another? Wait, what?” Drew said, confused when someone else seemed to be arriving. When it was Dermot who walked out (in Western attire for good measure), they both began to shed tears.

“I’m so happy to see you, I might cry,” Dermot said – and he definitely did.

“Oh my God, Dermot, I just was watching you in Anyone but You — which I love, by the way, it’s such a good movie,” Drew said between sobs.

She added, “You were so good to me.

[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for House of Villains Finale] Some of the most recognizable and devious personalities in the reality TV game put their skills to the test on House of Villains. After weeks of physical, borderline ridiculous, somewhat terrifying, and mentally draining challenges, it came down to five during the E! competition show’s finale. Still left were Johnny Bananas (The Challenge), Jonny Fairplay (Survivor), Tanisha Thomas (Bad Girls Club), Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee (Love is Blind), and Anfisa Arkhipchenko (90 Day Fiancé). Host Joel McHale revealed their last Battle Royale challenge would be “Last Supper.” The eating competition saw the group downing hard-boiled eggs, nuclear spicy wings, red snapper eyeballs, bull testicles, and pig brains served up by Below Deck’s Ben Robinson. Bananas had the stomach to finish his meal first, earning him a guaranteed seat in the finals. The Challenge legend chose his ride-or-die Tanisha to join him. This left Shake, Fairplay, and Anfisa battling it...

Harem anime are defined by their vast roster of potential romantic partners, and an often male lead who becomes the focal point of multiple women's interest. When Urusei Yatsura all but introduced the subgenre through characters such as Lum and Ataru Moroboshi, it kick-started a niche that has continued to grow over the years in terms of popularity and, occasionally, the number of romantic prospects.

This year, everything from new slice-of-life anime to isekai power fantasies featured a harem dynamic at some point, but each show approached it differently. The one thing they all had in common was their ridiculously massive size. These modern anime joined the already long list of older anime with the biggest and funniest harems fans have ever seen.

Related 10 Best Quotes In Romance Anime Anime often excels when it comes to love and romance, but some characters beautifully communicate their thoughts through touching quotes! Rentaro Aijou Really,...

When Tate McRae broke through in 2020 with the brooding bedroom pop of her debut single “You Broke Me First,” the then-17 year-old Canadian singer stormed TikTok with such an innate understanding of how other teenagers were consuming music that RCA Records didn’t just sign her, they restructured their marketing strategy around her. But the formula behind that initial success— a combination of original dances, trend participation, and teaser snippets — hasn’t always worked for her. “She’s All I Wanna Be,” the should-have-been-hit from her 2022 debut album I Used...

Don't let the title fool you: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" isn't the only one of her kind. The "Slayer" line goes back millennia, and when one falls, another young girl is called on by destiny. In the season 1 finale, "Prophecy Girl," Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) briefly dies but is revived. The writers took advantage of that technicality in season 2 to introduce another slayer, Kendra (Bianca Lawson) — but she met a swift end.

Enter Faith Lehane (no relation to Dennis) in season 3, played by Eliza Dushku and sharing her actress' Boston origins. Her name is a virtue, but Faith is a rebel — so much so, she bounces from ally to enemy and then back again. In an interview with "Buffy" writers and producers, they discussed how, from the beginning, Faith was meant to be a "psycho" Slayer who would be a foil for Buffy. Marti Noxon called her Buffy's "shadow self,...

The documentary Love to Love You, Donna Summer, about one of the world’s greatest pop stars, constitutes a kind of duet – between two filmmakers. The film, making its world premiere in Berlin, comes from directors Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano, daughter of the subject of the film, the legendary Donna Summer.

Related Story Berlin Review: ‘Love To Love You, Donna Summer’ Offers Moving Portrait Of Brilliant Singer Who Struggled With Fame And Faith Related Story Rutina Wesley On Playing Maria In 'The Last Of Us': "It's Terrifying Playing A Character That's Been Established" Related Story Berlin Review: Giacomo Abbruzzese's 'Disco Boy'

“I was such a huge, massive fan of Donna’s and nothing made me feel the way she made me feel on the dance floor,” Williams, the Oscar-winning director of Music By Prudence, tells Deadine. “I thought, I want to make a music documentary.

Is reinvention overrated? For at least 45 minutes, Athena (named for the fictional area where the film is based as well as the goddess of wisdom and war) threatens to be Romain Gavras’ magnum opus, but the building blocks haven’t changed. Look at his earliest music video, released in 2002: high rises, young men, tracksuits, BMX tricks. Then look at his work on Justice’s Stress, released seven years after: high rises, young men, tracksuits, only this time with Molotov cocktails and a strain of nihilistic chaos. Even as his most acclaimed work took him to bigger budgets and distant places, Gavras has never strayed far from his core ideas; his career has been an ode to finessing and amping up.

Just wait for the opening sequence, where Gavras, in a single take, moves a tornado of action all the way from a police station to an apartment block that...

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French filmmaker Romain Gavras is best known to the screen-watching world thanks to his arresting and visually ambitious music videos, which have included Jamie xx’s “Gosh,” Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild” and M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” among various others. But that could change when his third feature film, Athena, releases on Netflix on Sept. 23 after its world premiere this week in Venice.

The film arrives as if the perfect vehicle for Gavras background and ambitions. The youngest son of Oscar-winning Greek director, Costa-Gavras, and French political journalist and film producer, Michèle Ray-Gavras, Romain Gavras grew up steeped in the Greek classics and politically informed art and activism. In 1995, he co-founded the film collective Kourtrajmé with his childhood friends Kim Chapiron and Ladj Ly (director of the Oscar-nominated Les Misérables), and his second feature, The World Is Yours, debuted to...

Justice will be served as anarchy erupts following a murder at the hands of a rogue police officer.

Romain Gavras’ “Athena” tells an all-too-timely tale of cop corruption, militant protests, and the intersection between nationalism and personal duty. The film premieres at the 2022 Venice Film Festival on September 2, followed by a September 23 Netflix release.

Per the official synopsis, after the death of his youngest brother following an alleged police altercation, Abdel (Dali Benssalah) is called back from the frontline to find his family torn apart. Caught between his younger brother Karim’s (Sami Slimane) desire for revenge and the criminal dealings of his older brother Moktar (Ouassini Embarek), he struggles to calm the rising tensions. As the situation escalates, their community Athena is transformed into a fortress under siege, becoming a scene of tragedy for both the family and beyond.

Gavras directed, produced, and co-wrote the feature along with Ladj Ly...

A robot by the name of M.A.I. took over the Instagram page of musician M.I.A. over the last week. Her message was simple: “M.I.A. is irrelevant. She’s got an expiry date… I am techno humanoid. I’m forever.” Now, audiences are finally introduced to the singer’s replacement through her audition video for the job.

“Mia Is Dead Af, The Future Is Here Its Mai Bitches,” wrote the robot on a verified Twitter account. M.I.A. responded from her own account: “M.

We are Very excited for the return of Salem Horror Fest this October and they already have some major announcement to share. The annual "Romero Lives" celebration will be moving from Pittsburgh to Salem, with a month-long series of screenings and events planned to celebrate the life and work of George A. Romero! And the first wave of films has been officially announced! Here's the official press release:

Salem Horror Fest has announced first wave of programs for their fifth annual return to the Halloween capital of the world this October.

Romero Lives, the annual retrospective celebrating the life and legacy of George A. Romero, will relocate from Pittsburgh to Salem for a curated month-long series dedicated to the Master of Horror in partnership with The George A. Romero Foundation. Events to include a screening of the newly restored ‘lost’ Romero film, The Amusement Park and the 100th episode of...

We're only days away from the virtual horror pride festival Frightgown! With over 80 LGBTQ+ horror critics and creators involved, the event is all in support of the Transgender Law Center, and we have all the details on the final schedule of events, including feature films, shorts, panels, hangouts, and much, much more!

Salem Ma - June 22, 2021 - Salem Horror Fest and the Horror Queers podcast have announced the final schedule of events for the inaugural Queer Horror Pride celebration Frightgown, a new 3-day virtual Pride festival celebrating queer voices in a series of features, shorts, panels, virtual hangouts, exclusive content for fans and allies alike in support of the Transgender Law Center this Friday, June 25 - Sunday, June 27.

Headlining the event will be a pair of feature films with the virtual premiere of Bad Girls directed by Christopher Bickel and an encore of Death Drop Gorgeous directed by Michael J Ahern,...

We're very excited to share the news that Salem Horror Fest and the Horror Queers podcast are partnering up for a new 3-day virtual pride festival! Frightgown will take place from Friday, June 25 - Sunday, June 27 and the event is in support of the Transgender Law Center:

"Salem, Ma - May 12, 2021 - Salem Horror Fest and the Horror Queers podcast have teamed up to present Frightgown, a new 3-day virtual Pride festival celebrating Queer voices in a series of features, shorts, panels, virtual hangouts, exclusive content and so much more in support of the Transgender Law Center.

“After more than a year of being kept apart, isolated and disconnected from our community, the need for a communal experience has never been more vital. Queer people deserve a celebratory event – an opportunity to reconnect, and to engage with the films, people and discussions that contribute to our experience as fans...

For the second week in a row, American Idol found Lionel Richie overcome with emotion thanks to a song from Dreamgirls. (Take note, future contestants!)

Sunday’s fourth round of Season 19 auditions ended with the arrival of 18-year-old Alyssa Wray, who commanded the judges’ attention before she even sang a note of “I Am Changing.” Watch:

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“American Idol” kicked off season 4 on ABC on February 28. Night 4, which airs March 7, features another lucky 13 artists hoping to win over the three judges: Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. Each is hoping to number among the 150 contestants who make it to the next stage: Hollywood Week. At the end of those seven days, only 40 will make the cut.

Those two score of contestants will then take turns performing on their own and with celebrity guests. Only half of this Top 40 will move on in the competition. And from these Top 20, just 14 contestants will get put through to the live shows, which begin in early April. At that point, you will be able to predict the outcome of each episode in our predictions center.

See ‘American Idol’ Winners: Where Are They Now (Seasons 1 – 18)?

8:06 p.m. — Tonight’s first audition is from a New Yorker who was inspired by Season 16 finalist Gabby Barrett.

“Bad Girls Club” star Whitney Collings died Thursday morning at a hospital near her hometown of Boston, according to TMZ, which was the first to share the news. She was 33.

Collings’ death was announced by her mother Linda Houghton Collings, who wrote on Facebook, “I am completely broken and will never get over this. Life is so unfair. She was kind with a big heart.” Her cause of death is currently unknown.

The late reality TV star appeared on Season 3 of the Oxygen series in 2008, when she was 21. At the time, she was a biology and physics student at Salem State University in Massachusetts, according to the Boston Herald.

Collings went by the nickname “The Straight Shooter” throughout her season but didn’t return to the show the following year due to a physical altercation.

Many of her co-stars and friends took to social media following the news, including Season 2 “Bad Girls” alum Darlen Escobar,...

Bad Girls Coming early 2021 – Pre-order Here A shocking drug-fueled post-modern female rage-odyssey from acclaimed director of The Theta Girl, Christopher Bickel, and producer Crystal Colligan Films Colacitta announces the release of Bad Girls, a violent underground film by Christopher Bickel, premiering in early 2021. 2021 is poised to be the year of the …

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May isn’t quite summer yet but it is usually time that the networks start wrapping up their newest shows and preparing for a relatively fallow summer period. Since HBO isn’t a network, it has no such business model. But May sees the winding down of some HBO blockbusters all the same.

While there are some notable new releases for HBO in May 2020, the bigger story might be the things that are ending. Westworld concludes its third season on May 3 while new series Run wraps up on May 24. Thankfully the film losses in May aren’t too bad for HBO, unless the Agent Cody Banks saga drives a lot of traffic.

The most notable TV premiere in May is I Know This Much is True, a book adaptation starring Mark Ruffalo. This is a very bleak story coming along at a bleak time in history but perhaps those two things will cancel out.

Róisín Murphy has contributed a few songs to the dance-club canon over the course of her 25-year career as a soloist and a member of Moloko. But recently, this material has become her primary focus. She released a series of collaborations with the gifted house producer Maurice Fulton in 2018, thumping, rubbery numbers that hinted at Esg and Jocelyn Brown. Last year, she put out “Incapable,” a smoldering, cold-hearted floor-filler.

“Incapable” was produced by Richard Barratt, and he reprises that role on “Murphy’s Law,” where the interplay between the keyboard, bass,...

J.J. Abrams is moving on from a galaxy far, far away with his first new project at Warner Bros. The prolific filmmaker has signed on to produce The Pinkerton via his Bad Robot production company. The movie comes from writer Daniel Casey, who is behind the upcoming Fast & Furious 9, officially titled F9. While details are largely being kept under wraps, what is being revealed makes this sound like something that fits well within Abrams' wheelhouse.

According to a new report, Warner Bros. purchased the script for The Pinkerton to be developed by Bad Robot. Plot details remain mostly mysterious, but it's described as a supernatural revenge thriller in a western setting. Pinkerton, aside from being a beloved album by the band Weezer, was a famous detective agency that was founded in 1850. Abraham Lincoln employed Pinkertons for his personal protection during the Civil War. They were figures often associated...

The 2018 Grammy nominations were a triumph for diversity, with far more hip-hop and R&b nominees in the top categories than ever before.

In a way, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that an organization devoted to supporting and honoring music would recognize the current ascendance of hip-hop as the dominant popular music form. But it is something of a delicious shock, because since they began in the 1950s, the Grammys have not exactly been inclusive.

No hip-hop song, for instance, has ever won Record of the Year or Song of the Year. You could argue that they’ve been shortsighted when it comes to rock music and Latin music and jazz and other genres, too, that there’s an inevitable conservatism that comes from having a huge body of voters considering such a vast musical landscape.

But the decades worth of snubs and oversights are not pretty. A timeline:

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At the first Grammys,...

“I think women can do anything,” an undercover Kristen Stewart purrs in the very first line of “Charlie’s Angels,” thereby setting the tone — and the priority — for Elizabeth Banks’ rousing remake of this long-running franchise.

Gone are the Angels dancing in their underwear, as McG directed Cameron Diaz in the first film. No more ladies doting on an aging Bosley, as they did in every episode of the TV show. Angels 3.0 are doing it for themselves.

Well, not themselves exactly, since Bosley is still their boss. But in Banks’ world, the name is really more of a rank, “like lieutenant,” her character explains. There are many Bosleys now, including ones played by Banks and (an underused) Djimon Hounsou, as well as the Og embodied by Patrick Stewart.

Watch Video: 'Charlie's Angels' Trailer: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska 'Work Outside the Rules'

Stewart’s character expanded...

Looks like the “Dancing with the Stars” judges have moved on from hosing James Van Der Beek to hosing Hannah Brown. For a couple of weeks, Van Der Beek was getting underscored for his stellar routines, but he’s sort of back on track, so to speak, while Brown is now in the judges’ line of fire, taking another hit on Monday’s Halloween Night.

Though the judges underscored Van Der Beek, they were never overly mean in their assessments, merely giving him tips and pointing out things he needs to improve on (and complaining about a rumba being too passionate). Brown, on the other hand, has been (rightly) criticized for her pageant queen perma-grin since Week 1, but the tough love she’s been getting has progressively gotten tougher.

On Monday, while Len Goodman liked her and Alan Bersten‘s jazz number to Donna Summer‘s “Bad Girls” (a terrible...

Hey, "Dancing With The Stars" fans. Tonight, October 28, 2019, another Live performances/results show did indeed air. All the judges: Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba were able to make it out to serve up their judgments and compliments. The theme for tonight was Halloween. So, we saw lots of costumes and so on and so forth. The performances kicked off with Kel Mitchell and Witney Carson arriving on stage to serve up a Jive routine. They did a “Rocky Horror” jive to “Time Warp.” Afterwards, Len told Kel, “You were rocking, and I was reeling. I was worried about your feet at first, but they turned out to be sharp and clear." Bruno said, "I love how you re-imagined a cult classic and made it original and imaginative and a Halloween treat." Carrie Ann said, "It was incredible, tentative at first, but then it was so tight and...