The Ready Player One Pop-Culture Wink That’s Going to Divide Audiences

This post contains spoilers for Ready Player One.At a pivotal point during the premiere screening of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One last night at SXSW, audience members were treated to a pop-culture reference not from an ’80s arcade game or a John Hughes movie, but from December 2017. Without spoiling

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American Idol Draws Solid Ratings in ABC Debut, But It’s No Phenom

It’s too soon to call it a smashing success, but ABC’s relaunch of American Idol got off to a strong start Sunday with audiences. Per Nielsen, 10.3 million viewers caught the singing competition’s two-hour (re)-premiere, with the show earning a 2.3 rating among the advertiser-desired demographic of adults under 50.

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Zooey Deschanel Is Leading the Cast of a Truly Wild Beauty and the Beast Concert

Hot off of making tons of money from remaking Beauty and the Beast, Disney has found a new way to make money off of Beauty and the Beast. Zooey Deschanel is playing Belle in a live performance of the Disney film, alongside Taye Diggs as Gaston (sure!), Jane Krakowski as

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Let Us Give Thanks for This Cardi B Speech Thanking Her Haters

Consider this the spiritual sequel to Allison Janney’s Oscars quip that she did it all by herself. At Sunday’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, Cardi B won Best New Artist, and being the national treasure that she is, her acceptance speech thanked the village that got her there: the fans for always

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Here’s What Barry Jenkins Would Have Said at the Oscars, If Given the Chance

More than a year after the Oscars gave Best Picture to La La Land instead of Moonlight, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has finally revealed the acceptance speech he would have given had that snafu not happened. As a keynote speaker at SXSW yesterday, Jenkins, whose first feature Medicine for Melancholy

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Eminem Calls Out the NRA for Controlling the ‘Puppet’ (Guess Who) in iHeartRadio Music Awards Performance

Give Eminem a stage and he’ll wipe the floor with a certain someone’s toupee. He previously blasted Donald Trump in a searing freestyle last year; now performing at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Sunday, he’s come for the NRA. After being introduced by Parkland school shooting survivor Alex Moscou and

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SNL Knows You Can’t Pick Your Family, Even If You’re in the Royal Black Panther Blood Line

To think Ryan Coogler relegated the iconic Uncle M’Butu to a mere deleted scene in Black Panther. Look at this guy! All he wants to do is hang out and grill some baby lion’s meat burgers with his pals in Djalia — his warrior wife may or may not have

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SNL’s Frances McDormand Wants to Preach the Powers of Burlap Dresses and Vaseline

Honestly, looking back at that memorable Oscars speech and subsequent stolen hardware, did you really think Kate McKinnon wasn’t going to don a short wig and break out a Frances McDormand impression when she got the chance? She has two words for all of you unworthy plebeians out there: Burlap

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