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Rivers Cuomo Goes Full Gold as Weezer Play “We Might as Well Be Strangers” on Fallon: Watch
Weezer performed their new single “We Might as Well Be Strangers” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 19 August, with frontman Rivers Cuomo painting his skin gold to match an all-gold outfit inspired by New York street performers. The stunt promotes the band’s forthcoming record, The Gold Album, which is released this Friday,…
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Netflix’s Engaging Crime Drama ‘Blood Sacrifice’ Spotlights Inept Policing: TV Review
Netflix’s new five-episode Swedish crime drama “Blood Sacrifice”, created by George Kay (known for “Lupin” and “Hijack”), is reviewed as a sharp and engaging thriller that goes beyond a standard murder mystery to examine the psychological toll of police work on officers and their families. The series also explores the dysfunction within police bureaucracy, making…
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Color Me Badd Distance Themselves From Co-Founder Accused Of Abuse By Estranged Daughter
Pop group Color Me Badd has publicly distanced itself from co-founder Kevin Thornton after his estranged daughter accused him of running a physically and emotionally abusive, “cult-like” household disguised as strict Christian discipline. Mikayla Thornton, his youngest daughter, made the allegations in an interview with the YouTube series Soft White Underbelly, prompting the group’s current…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review/Recap… Yeah, This Is the One With the Puppets…
IGN’s review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 5, “Level Five Transporter Accident,” criticises the show’s latest high-concept gimmick episode, in which most of the crew is accidentally transformed into puppets during a transporter experiment. Reviewer Scott Collura argues the concept, while visually inventive thanks to puppets built by the Jim Henson…
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James Berkeley On The Emotional Weight Of The Final Scene
UK vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer James Berkeley has released “credits roll,” the penultimate single from his forthcoming EP “in between A & B.” The track explores the emotional comedown of leaving a cinema as the credits fade and reality sets in, using that feeling as a metaphor for closing painful chapters and moving forward. The…
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‘I painted myself blue – but got skin problems’: how four Edinburgh stars created their weird characters
This Guardian feature ahead of the 2026 Edinburgh festival gathers comedians who describe how they invented the eccentric characters at the heart of their shows, exploring the creative process, physical demands and legal caution behind acts such as a baking-obsessed Elton John spoof and a grotesque elderly man built from an anonymous Twitter experiment. The…
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This bizarre $1000 Chinese film was so bad it was removed from theaters, but still made almost $5 million
A Chinese film reportedly made on a budget of just $1,000 became a surprise commercial talking point after it was pulled from cinemas for being so poorly received, yet still went on to gross almost $5 million at the box office. The disconnect between its minuscule production cost, its critical reception and its takings has…
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Did David Harbour Just Drop a Massive Avengers: Doomsday Spoiler?
David Harbour appears to have inadvertently confirmed a major plot point in the upcoming Marvel film Avengers: Doomsday. During an interview with Variety, when asked to recite an out-of-context line from the film, the Stranger Things actor delivered dialogue that fans believe reveals the film will explicitly confirm Doctor Doom shares a face with the…
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The Right Has Forgotten What Beauty Is For
The strange celebration of sorority-rush videos suggests parts of the online right have confused female beauty with sexual desirability.
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Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Showed Up on Late Night TV Painted In Gold
Weezer performed on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday, 19 August, with frontman Rivers Cuomo dressed head to toe in gold, ahead of the release of the band’s new self-titled record, known as The Gold Album. The appearance served as promotion for the album, which arrives on Friday, 21 August via Reprise/Warner…