Houston Astro's star outfielder Alex Bregman just announced that he's firing his agent, at least in part, due to a recently announced documentary on their sign stealing scandal produced by LeBron James' media company.
Word got out that the original cast of 'Hamilton' was planning to hold a singalong via Zoom, but then, Friday came and went. What happened?
The lengthy legal battle between Led Zeppelin and Randy Wolfe's estate, of Spirit fame, may have finally come to a conclusion as the court has ruled that there is no direct evidence that Led Zeppelin stole the opening riff for "Stairway to Heaven."
According to the prosecutors in the case, the duo bought about $5.2 million worth of tickets and sold them for approximately $14.1 million, all under the BZZ Limited banner.
By any objective measure, Greta Gerwig's adaptation of 'Little Women' has been a huge success. However, ever since its release on Christmas, it's been seemingly endlessly mired in controversy, in a way that's not in any way deserved.
Stephen King, who nominates in 3 Oscar categories, faced backlash for considering only quality, not diversity. Apparently, the two are not separate things.
As the Oscar season approaches, one argument we're hearing more and more often is that this or that actor, director, or movie is obviously "thirsty" for an Oscar, and that such a thing is worthy of mockery.
It's that time of the year again! It's time we try to sit down and come to a consensus about our Top 25 Albums of the year. It's a lengthy discussion full of eccentric picks and notable snubs.
'Frozen II' had a surprisingly "woke" message and I was bracing for a significant reaction from the usual anti-SJW suspects but it never happened, and I think I know why...
We're back catching up about what's new in the art world, discussing whether the "Coachelification" of Art Basel is a good thing, and Baltimore Museum of Art's pledge to purchase art solely from women in 2020. Then we catch up about Kanye West and Jesus Is King, Joker, the Martin Scorsese and Disney+ controversies, and recent album drops.
'Joker' was supposed to be a one-off from the get-go, until rumors from The Hollywood Reporter on a sequel sparked fans' hopes.
The denunciations of Scorsese have been pretty hilarious and what has followed is the ridiculous notion that if someone doesn't like Batman or Iron Man as much as you do, it's the equivalent of actual prejudice or discrimination.
While record labels and musicians seem to have found a model to earn without delaying many releases, the film industry seems to be of two minds. With one of those minds leading to a complete ban of Universal movies from AMC Theaters.
It was all an elaborate hoax aimed at promoting their new album. Chuck D detailed everything on a recent appearance on Talib Kweli's 'People's Party' podcast.
Even the most popular films that contend for Best Picture usually inspire at least some level of backlash, but 'Parasite' never did; that is, until it actually won...
A woman, claiming to have been a part of James Brown's inner circles, has just delivered a bin of alleged evidence to the Fulton County DA that could prove that he was murdered. A claim that has been raised multiple times before.
Gone are the days when the number one concern of womankind was ditching the vacuum. We have a bigger problem in 21 Studios' conventions, TED-talk style YouTube videos, and 21 University ("It's like Netflix, for men").
There have been quite a few social-media freakouts in the last couple of years and this Vaughn/Trump one is yet another backlash to the backlash, in search of an original backlash.
Fandom, clearly, is broken, in a lot of key ways and it really needs to get back to loving the movies, and getting joy out of them, and not using them as a platform for irrational hostility.
The 2019 'Watchmen', much like 'The Last Jedi', got a certain segment of fans very, very angry but taking brave risks, and questioning assumptions, is what great art is supposed to do.
This series of three articles will cover censorship under administrations fighting to preserve the diminishing, collective public perception of supposed “universal truths” in the postmodern world. In Part 3, we'll explore the direct role the US Government has played in "protecting" its national interests in film throughout the years.
Disney's long-in-the-works attempt to combat Netflix has finally launched, and while there have been plenty of legit reasons to complain about it's early days, there is one thing that's occasioned criticism that is, to my mind, utterly ridiculous.
Few movies in recent history have met as much condemnation as 'Joker', but this concern isn’t new. In fact, it joins a long lineage of widely acclaimed films that expressed the popular rage of the times in which they were created.
The co-creators of the cult classic rock mockumentary only made a measly $98 in soundtrack royalties between 1989 and 2006 and $81 in merchandising royalty since 1984.