Young, female, brown, carrying oh-so-terrifying socialist ideals of equality for the underrepresented, and not afraid to speak her mind loudly, U.S. House of Representatives politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez currently has the Washington D.C. establishment quaking in their boots. Laugh if you want to, but there’s absolutely a reason a brand new, relatively inexperienced 29-year-old congresswoman—the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States—has found herself in the crosshairs of Fox News, The Daily Caller, and dozens of alt-right conservative voices. She’s absolutely dangerous to them because she represents a wakeup call to America and a voice of change they desperately want to suppress.
Read moreDonald Trump Wins Razzie Award for Worst Actor; Kellyanne Conway Wins Worst Supporting Actress.
Donald Trump, Melissa McCarthy and Holmes & Watson were the big “winners” at the 39th annual Razzie Awards, an annual celebration of the worst cinema has to offer.
Read moreIs Liam Neeson's Career Damned? Calls For Him to Be Digitally Removed From 'Men In Black' after Controversial comments
Sundance Tries to Break Tide With ‘Mostly White Male' Critics, Says 63% of the press this year is from underrepresented groups; But is Positive discrimination still discrimination?
I attended this afternoon's Sundance Film Festival press conference, with exec director Keri Putnam, before introducing the panel, saying that organizers had noticed “a disturbing blind spot” in the festival's history of giving out press credentials: “Diversity isn’t about who is making the films,” Putnam said. “It’s about how they enter the world.” She said, adding that they were admitting “mostly white male critics.” Which, consequentially influenced the kind of films that were being championed by these 'mostly white male critics.
Read moreSNL Writer Offers Oral Sex For Anyone That is Willing to Punch A Covington MAGA Kid
One of the stranger reactions to the whole viral video controversy, which arouse this past weekend next to the Lincoln Memorial, was that of Saturday Night Live comedy writer Sarah Beattie offering oral sex to anyone who was willing to punch a Covington High child in the face.
Read moreBuzzFeed as a Legitimate News Source?
It was supposed to be the deal-breaker that would finally indict and impeach Donald Trump. Little did people realize, the media reporting it had a shady past.
Read moreBill Maher Called Out as NPC in Hollywood Billboards; Maher Responds By Calling Pranksters “Incels”
Over the weekend, left-bashing street artists turned a billboard of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher into an NPC meme. The billboard was promoting the return of his show with a billboard depicting him as a seeker of the truth, however, conservative street artist group “The Faction” decided to remodel the ad, located at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard & West Holloway in West Hollywood, by spray painting a gray, expressionless face over Maher’s and changing the image’s tagline from “The Whole Truth and Nothing But” to “The Whole Narrative and Nothing But.” They also changed “HBO” to “NPC.”
Read moreWith “Green Book” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” winning, the Golden Globes sent a message to the moral crusaders on Sunday Night
You could hear the uproar that was to come. Even if you weren't logged into a social media platform, you just knew that what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to do yesterday was give a big middle finger to the outrage machine being generated online on a daily basis. What the HFPA's final decision on Sunday felt like was a towering statement that made you want to holler the kitschy Twisted Sister song: "We're not going to take it anymore."
Read moreChris Rock: “If it was five years ago, I could say something really offensive and funny, but I can’t do that anymore.”
The 2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored this year's winner last night in New York City. Chris Rock was there to present “Eighth Grade” director Bo Burnham with this year’s Best First Film prize, but actually ended up roasting our current climate of backlash to any kind of comedy.
Read moreActress Elsie Fisher Apologizes After Tweeting How “Happy” She Was That “Bohemian Rhapsody” Won at the Golden Globes
"Eighth Grade" star Elsie Fisher actually had to apologize for tweets in which she stated how "happy" she was that "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Rami Malek won at the 76th annual Golden Globes.
Read moreWriter: Film Criticism Filled With “Virtue Signaling”
Props to film critic Thelma Adams for her write-up titled “Why Writing Top Ten Best Lists Is the Worst,” in which she discusses a few elephants in the room when it comes to film criticism these days.
Read moreRob Schneider Defends Louis C.K. by Quoting George Carlin: “Political correctness is just fascism disguised as manners.”
"Comics are the ones who are supposed to say the horrible things we all think but don’t," wrote comedian Rob Schneider on Twitter. He consequentially went on a rant on Friday to defend Louis C.K. and Kevin Hart.
Read moreVariety Critic: Obama’s 2018 Film Picks Much Like His Presidency, He Just Got With the Program
When Barack Obama posted his list of the best films of 2018 I wrote this on Facebook: "Consider me impressed by most of his list. I don't know if his backers just used an algorithm to select these films, or if these are genuinely his top picks but, suffice to say, "film twitter" is going gaga today over this list. Job well done."
Read moreLouis C.K. Criticized as “Alt-Right” By Media for Comedy Set Which Included Jokes About Trans Youth and Parkland Victims
American comedian Louis C.K. performed a controversial stand-up act earlier this year and the internet has not taken well to it after it leaked earlier today. In the stand-up routine, performed in New York, C.K. jokes about the survivors of the 2018 Parkland Shooting, but also individuals who identify as non-binary.
Read moreBarack Obama’s favorite movies of the year include ‘Eighth Grade’, ‘Roma’ and ‘Shoplifters’
Consider me surprised by former President Barack Obama's taste in movies. His film list, posted on Twitter, shows a man that has refined cinematic tastes.
Here’s the full list of his favorite films of 2018:
Read moreDennis Quaid writes and records song against Political Correctness: “Our whole culture has become intolerant”
Actor, now musician, Dennis Quaid and his backing band, The Sharks, have decided to record a song for the upcoming docudrama, “No Safe Spaces,” an anti-PC film about political correctness at college universities. The song “Out of the Box” describes how Americans have gotten too closed-minded, he told the New York Post. “It’s not just Hollywood. Our whole culture has become intolerant,” Quaid, 64, said. The lyrics in “Out of the Box” stress the importance of “being open to other points of view and not mindlessly giving yourself over to an ‘ism,’” he added.
Read moreHBO Presents ‘Brexit’ The Movie Starring Benedict Cumberbatch #NotTheOnion
Dominic Cummings is known as the architect of Brexit. So it's then no surprise that a film would be made about his initiative to separate the U.K. from the EU. I presume the film will also have Nigel Farage, for me the face of Brexit. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Cummings in "Brexit," a co-production between HBO and UK’s Channel 4. A look at the just-released trailer and the feeling of an SNL-skit quickly sneaks up on you, not a good thing, but I'll give the film the benefit of the doubt, let's see how this turns out.
Read moreSarah Silverman: Saying “Gay” in a Joke Is Like Saying “Colored People”
Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman compared making gay jokes to describing a black person as “colored.” “I think I can find other ways to be funny. I mean, I used to say ‘gay’ all the time…’Oh, that’s so gay.’ Were from Boston, we’d go, ‘That’s what we say in Boston. I have gay friends. I just say gay,'” Sarah Silverman told TMZ. “And then I heard myself and I realized I was like the guy who said ‘What? I say colored…I have colored friends.’ And I realized it was stupid and I’m certainly creative enough to think of other words besides that, that don’t hurt people. But I fuck up all the time.”
Read more“On The Basis of Sex" Is A Disservice to the Exceptional Life and Times of RBG
I had high expectations for Mimi Leder‘s "On The Basis of Sex", after all was being been dubbed as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic. I can't think of more appropriate Oscar-bait. However, you hear that thud in the background? That's the sound of a well-meaning but mediocre film losing all steam and buzz after critics watch it.
Read moreChristian Bale on Meeting Donald Trump: “I think he thought I was Bruce Wayne"
In 2011 Donald Trump visited the set of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy capper “The Dark Knight Rises,” which was filming at Trump Tower. Christian Bale remembers that day very well, especially since Trump invited him up to his office and spoke to the Welsh actor as if he actually was Bruce Wayne.
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