Новости за 09.08.2018

When it was first announced that the Academy Awards would be introducing a new category for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film, film fans were notably irate. The new category was not just confusing but also potentially demeaning, implying that popular films (assumedly blockbusters, but I guess they could be…

If the thought of ditching a social outing at the last minute makes you feel just fantastic, or perhaps you find yourself often wrecked with self-doubt, then Courtney Barnett’s music might be for you.

Hasan Minhaj’s weekly comedy show will arrive just in time for the insanity of the 2018 midterm elections.

Sephora isn’t known for their discounts and deals like other retailers, but they’re trying something new with their Weekly Wow deals. Every Thursday, Sephora will drop a bunch of deals and offers for one week only. This week includes:

Variety published a roundtable on Tuesday featuring six prominent trans actors in conversation. Their discussion was fruitful and full of insight into matters of representation, discrimination, and opportunity. But an editor’s note explaining why the roundtable did not include actors from the cast of Pose left some …

Casey Affleck just gave his first major interview since not appearing as a presenter at the Oscars this year to the Associated Press, which is exactly the kind of move you make when you want to get back into America’s good graces without really doing any work.

On Thursday, the Trump administration announced that Carla Provost, who has been serving as acting chief of the Border Patrol since 2017, will become the next head of the agency that has terrorized immigrant communities since its founding and, in recent months, has come under severe criticism for its role in…

Wegmans is investigating how photos of aborted fetuses ended up in packages of diapers and other products in one Pennsylvania store.

The Kindergarten Teacher revolves around its titular character, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose dreams of being a poet drive her to nearly criminal lengths when she overhears a student reciting a poem out of the blue and decides that he must be gifted.

Josephine Decker’s third feature film, Madeline’s Madeline, is an exquisite collision of content and medium, a story that could only be told in cinema. A fractured exploration of mental illness and the art-making process, the film is shot tightly, scored with thick and experimental acapellas and occasional out-of-sync…

Watching Dr. Sandra Lee extract sacs of fat from the necks, legs, backs, and armpits of long-suffering strangers is an activity best enjoyed with friends, but this week, I must go it alone.

In an effort to secure additional, and more appropriate aid from Congress, the Puerto Rican government has admitted that Hurricane Maria incurred a much higher death toll than previously reported—though the number is still likely inaccurate. Per a new report issued last month, the government acknowledges 1,427 lives…

Remember Donald Trump’s stupid space force idea? Well, it is happening. On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence week, announced: “The time has come to establish the United States Space Force.” Time to make Battlestar Galactica a reality.

Hope Hicks, the former White House Communications Director who was best known for being extremely quiet and reluctant to speak to members of the press (which some might call not doing her job), dating a fellow White House staffer who resigned after the emergence of allegations of domestic abuse, and testifying before…

In 2014, R&B singer-slash-Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star K. Michelle and English actor Idris Elba dated for a few months. Somehow, that brief relationship is a gift that keeps on giving. .

After hours of debate that went on until the early morning hours on Thursday, Argentina’s Senate voted on a bill to legalize abortion and rejected the measure 38-to-31.

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham spent a portion of her White Power Hour Wednesday night admitting what we all knew: It’s not just undocumented immigrants that right wingers have a problem with; they hate immigrants in general!

Narcissism is delicious—so suggests Jon Turteltaub’s giant-shark flick The Meg. How else to make sense of the strange behavior of its featured creature, an 80-foot prehistoric shark that’s capable of polishing off a humpback whale in a few bites, but instead focuses most of its time picking off humans and comes up…

Over the past several days, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (who split up nearly two years ago) have taken their ongoing divorce to the court of public opinion, as both TMZ and more traditional gossip publications like People and Us Weekly have been receiving/publishing statement after statement (and presumably leak…

To be or not to be a Manic Pixie Dream Girl?

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HGTV effectively punctured Lance Bass’ heart by purchasing the Brady Bunch house that Bass was dead-set on purchasing, but the network might be providing a remedy.

Yet again, Cher has driven fans wild with anticipation for whatever she is to do next, this time by posting a taste of a new song off her forthcoming ABBA cover album, which leads me to believe this will indeed be one of the most perfect albums ever to exist.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, a few days ahead of the first anniversary of the violent, deadly, white supremacist Unite the Right rally, CBS reports.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Brock Turner, who was convicted on charges of assaulting and attempting to rape a woman while he was a student at Stanford, has lost his bid for a new trial. In March 2016, Turner was found guilty of three felony counts related to his assault of a woman near a Kappa…

This divorce is so extra messy!

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