Today marked the 40th installment of the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the show that dares to ask: What if the Oscars recognized and awarded movies (and TV) that people think are genuinely cool? (A contrast usually highlighted by the event traditionally taking place on the Saturday right before t…
It’s in the nature of the current battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni for it to metastasize; in a fight rooted largely in controlling a public narrative (at least right now, before anyone’s actually set foot in court), every conversation about the pair has the potential to spawn a separa…
Last month, we passed the nine-year anniversary of the release of Anti, Rihanna’s most recent studio album. The hopes for a hypothetical follow-up—dubbed R9 by fans, because it’d be her ninth such offering—have gone through the usual cycles in that time: Too-early speculation, shading into genuine …
Ali Abbasi has now issued a statement addressing allegations that he groped an unnamed “A-list actor” at a Golden Globes afterparty back in January. The Apprentice director—who’s up for a Best Director award at today’s Independent Spirit Awards, while his stars Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong are …
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