Go Birds! The City of Brotherly Love is felling the love in Christmas on Call, a heartwarming tale of kindness and connection among a handful of Philadelphia first responders. Almost makes up for the crowd booing Santa at a 1968 Eagles game (a real thing, look it up!). “[It] is the perfect location for a
Month: November 2024
The View‘s current lineup of cohosts features three outspoken liberal panelists (that is, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin), one self-described independent (Sara Haines), and two lifelong conservatives (namely, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro). Despite their differences in traditional political persuasion, all six of them have been consistently critical of Donald Trump before,
Up-and-comers Orlando Norman and Spence Moore II along with Heidi Grace Engerman and Cassady McClincy Zhang are starring in Out Come the Wolves, an indie drama which is marking the directorial debut of producer Danny Peykoff. Sam Rechner, West Mulholland and Curran Walters are also cast in the feature that began shooting in Portland, Oregon this week. Big
Nick Park, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a legendary animator and filmmaker who has, for the last 40 years, been the star employee of Aardman Animations, a company based in Bristol, England, that specializes in stop-motion and clay animation. Both Park and Aardman are best known for
A note from Scott: Since our last update, Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator II have fully joined the Oscar race. Wicked, the first installment of a two-part adaptation of the hit Broadway musical of the same name, had its official LA Academy screening on Nov. 9, attracting the highest turnout of any film this season
Hugh Grant is known to not be the biggest fan of his past movies but he has specific issues with his character in the 1999 rom-com Notting Hill. The actor recently partook in Vanity Fair’s “Scene Selection,” where he shared why he thinks his character William Thacker is “despicable.” Grant stars opposite Julia Roberts in the
T.J. Miller is open to returning to the Deadpool universe with Ryan Reynolds after previously publicly stating that he would never work with the actor again. While a fourth film in the franchise hasn’t been confirmed, a follow-up to Deadpool & Wolverine seems like a sure thing following the film’s box office success. And the Silicon Valley alum
Critics of Benjamin Netanyahu will probably be disappointed to learn that there are no major revelations in The Bibi Files, Alexis Bloom’s documentary concerning the corruption charges that have been swirling around the Israeli prime minister since 2016. Nonetheless, they’ll find much to feast on — including the leaked footage of police interrogations of him,
The Clio Entertainment Awards, which recognize creative excellence in entertainment marketing, counted Longlegs, Shogun, Deadpool & Wolverine, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story and Dune: Part Two among its big winners Thursday night. The trophies were handed out at the Dolby Theatre, in a ceremony hosted by Joel Kim Booster. Along with a number of individual
Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate the death after a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances in Piotr Winiewicz’s feature film debut About a Hero. Vicky Krieps also stars, and Stephen Fry appears. “But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…,”
The beloved comedian Conan O’Brien has accepted an invitation to host the 97th Oscars telecast, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday morning. O’Brien, 61, will emcee Hollywood’s biggest night for the first time, when the industry convenes at the Dolby Theatre at 4 p.m. PT on Sunday, March 2, 2025, for
Rachel Zegler took to Instagram to apologize for her heated reaction last week to the re-election of Donald Trump. Disney‘s upcoming Snow White star received blowback following her original post, where she declared, “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace,” and “there is a deep deep sickness in this country,”
Happy New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists, and the best that music has to offer — and ET has you covered for everything in between. The 2025 Grammy Awards nominations are out today. Beyoncé leads with 11 nominations, Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone have 7 nominations
Happy New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists, and the best that music has to offer — and ET has you covered for everything in between. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are celebrating new music this week with Blake’s new song and Gwen’s new album, both out today. We
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View
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Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Every year, I spend my November and December watching pretty much every new holiday movie I can feast my eyes upon. Cookie
When I write or plan content, or record podcasts, or whatever for Book Riot, I know who I’m speaking to. Our readers largely lean liberal, if not progressive; they value empathy and knowledge, they are for feminism and inclusion. And so I know that our readers were largely horrified, sad, scared, all of the above
Rejoice! For we have another best-of 2024 book list to fawn over, this time from TIME. The publication’s must-read list of 2024 is full of fiction (mostly of the literary variety) and nonfiction, with bestselling and debut authors alike. TIME describes the list as being full of “Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving
Back again by popular demand the nostalgic sensation THE AMERICAN RELICS return once again to the trendy night spot Chelsea Table & Stage located at 152 West 26th Street NYC (inside the Hilton Hotel) on Friday November 15th, 2024 @ 7:00 PM. Join frontman John Gitano (vocals and guitar), Nelson Montana (bass and vocals) Neal
Famous for the Thursday Murder Club series, Richard Osman has inaugurated a new series with We Solve Murders (10.5 hours). Amy Wheeler, a professional bodyguard, and her father-in-law, Steve, a retired police investigator, stumble upon a money smuggling scheme involving ChatGPT and murdered social media influencers. With all the energy of a Carl Hiaasen novel,
Fresh on the heels of his debut collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, the Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha’s
At the start of John Straley’s Big Breath In, 68-year-old Delphine is staying in a Seattle hotel across the street from the hospital where she is being treated for Stage 4 cancer. The marine biologist is far from everything she loves: her home in Sitka, Alaska; her son and grandson in California; and the whales
Literary powerhouses Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes combine forces to create Black Girl You Are Atlas, a phenomenal poetry collection celebrating sisterhood, womanhood, Black culture and the power of family and friendship. This book revels in the promise of adolescence while acknowledging its accompanying landmines of fear, self-doubt and uncertainty. Renowned poet, novelist and Newbery
To read Rolling Stones columnist Rob Sheffield’s Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is to slide into a rich, somewhat zany, kaleidoscopic and wildly enthusiastic discussion of the greatness of Taylor Swift. While the structure of the book is loosely chronological, the substance of the chapters has little in common
When Rolling Stone music critic Rob Sheffield called me from New York City, I didn’t spend any time with softball questions or developing rapport. I jumped right in with my hardest-hitting question about his new book, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music: Did he write an essay about the 1989
Rocky Kramer will be hosting his “Take It Easy” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world.
When it came to the bombing of Borderlands, among other late summer and fall releases, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer made no bones about emphasizing culpa nostra. “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside
Prince William is sharing some personal reflections on this past year. The Prince of Wales, whose wife Kate Middleton and dad King Charles III both shared their cancer diagnoses in 2024, recently recounted his experience witnessing their health journeys firsthand. “It’s been dreadful,” William told reporters at the end of his visit to Cape Town,
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