Samantha Bee, disoriented from “Clockwork Orange-ing” cable news stories about Donald Trump’s whirlwind presidency, escaped to her “panic fort” to speak with a true expert, attorney Preet Bharara, on Wednesday’s Full Frontal. Bharara, whom Trump fired after an eight-year stint as U.S. Attorney for New York’s Southern District, attempted to …
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The deadline for President Trump to re-certify the Iran nuclear deal is looming on May 12th. And on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver detailed the “long-term and potentially irreversible” damage of allowing that agreement to fall apart. Trump has consistently – in interviews, speeches and angry tweets – lambasted …
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Milos Forman, the Oscar-winning director behind Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The People vs. Larry Flyntand Man on the Moon, died Friday at 86. A representative confirmed Forman’s death toRolling Stone, saying thatthe director died at Danbury Hospital near his home in Warren, CT. Forman’s wife Martina told …
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Grab your six-shooters, saddle up your robotic horses and select the white or black cowboy hat of your choice: We’re going back to Westworld, and there are lots of secrets left to uncover. We’re less than a month away from the return of HBO‘s smash-hit/heir apparent to the Game of …
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Cardi B hyped her upcoming performance on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live in a goofy promo videowith host Chadwick Boseman and Leslie Jones. In the first clip, Jones instructs Boseman to intensify his laid-back intro style. “You’re saying it like it’s no big deal!” she shouts. “It’s a …
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Tommy Wiseau, the idiosyncratic director and star of modern cult classicThe Room, isn’t going to play the Joker in Todd Phillips’ upcoming Batman movie. But that didn’t stop him from auditioning for the lead role in a hilarious, yet slightly disturbing, Nerdist video. The actor-filmmaker channels Heath Ledger‘s lunatic character, …
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Adam Levine, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Nick Jonas and other musicians poked fun at themselves in the latest installment of Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s “Mean Tweets.” Many Twitter users cracked jokes about the celebrities’ looks. “Nick Jonas was cute back when he was in the Jonas Brothers, and now he …
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Reg E. Cathey, the Emmy-winning actor who played pivotal roles in acclaimed series like House of Cards,The WireandOz, has died at the age of 59. TMZ reports that Cathey died in New York following a bout with lung cancer. Executive producers who worked with Cathey, including The Wire‘s David Simon …
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It looked like any old Super Bowl movie trailer, just another 30-second spot dropping during one of the single most watched sports events of the year. The logo for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company pops up, old footage of Matt Reeves’ 2008 hit Cloverfield begins playing and then we …
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The rise of Osama bin Ladenand dissent between the FBI and CIA are the focuses of Hulu’s new series, The Looming Tower. The 10-episode show, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Lawrence Wright, chronicles events leading up to theSeptember 11thterrorist attacks. Itpremieres on Hulu February 28th. The trailer reveals …
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