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When I was in my 20s, I remember my therapist patiently listening to me complain about how out-of-my-depth I often felt around other gay men. I was asking her why they always seemed so effortlessly aloof and cool, whereas I was – and to some extent, still am – a slobbering golden retriever of a…
From Last Tango in Paris to Basic Instinct, we are now discovering the unsavoury truth about sex scenes. “This must be the most powerfully erotic movie ever made, and it may turn out to be the most liberating movie ever made,” gushed the critic Pauline Kael about Last Tango in Paris in 1972. The anonymous sex between Paul (Marlon Brando)…
A wall of white and black hats. Terrifying darkness. A woman staggering through a medical facility with her guts ripped open. And always, in the background: the player piano ticking along according to its programming, playing modern-day ballads to the denizens of a future world. Welcome to Westworld, a slick new HBO production that promises…
Start Article Post Content When he was helping to choose writers for the staff of Fox’s television revival of “The Exorcist,” executive producer Jeremy Slater kept encountering the same plot point over and over. “One of my hard-and-fast rules when reading spec scripts was, the second that there was a rape that was used for…
Start Article Post Content Donald Trump will remain an exec producer on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” which is returning Jan. 2 after a two-year hiatus with new host Arnold Schwarzenegger. MGM confirmed to Variety that Trump has retained his EP credit on the series. The president-elect’s status on the 15th season of the reality series that made…
Here’s a second, supplementary video we made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_…And a new Twitter account about temp music we made: https://twitter.com/SoundsLikeTempWatch Dan Golding’s great response video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXsH…Off the top of your head, could you sing the theme from Star Wars? How about James Bond? Or Harry Potter? But here’s the kicker: can you sing any theme from a Marvel film?…
Now YouTube is set to pay millions in royalties to songwriters, in its latest salvo in a campaign to make amends with the music industry. The platform will pay music publishers “millions of dollars” for unpaid royalties from songs used in YouTube videos that have been difficult to identify, the company said. The agreement follows…
White supremacists are continuing their call for a boycott of upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One, accusing the film’s producers of promoting multiculturalism and an “anti-white” agenda, forward.com reports. “(((Star Wars))) Is Anti-White Social Engineering,” reads a Reddit post by GenFrancoPepe on the subreddit r/altright, including a gif showing the cast from the movie; according…
For years now, Marvel’s Inhumans and X-Men have been at odds with each other in the minds of fans. Since the late 1970s, the X-Men had been among Marvel’s top-selling and most popular franchises. Marvel’s mutants were knocked down a peg when the popularity of Marvel Studios’ Avengers movies began to shift the limelight to…
If you’re considering picking up Anna Kendrick’s memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, which was released on November 15, and you are not one who loves precious self-deprecation, then let me save you some time: Don’t do it. But if you truly must, at least skip the hardback and skim it on your Kindle to spare yourself…