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Pete Davidson’s “The King of Staten Island” was pulled unceremoniously — and mysteriously — from drive-in theatres last week, reports Variety. The semi-autobiographical film, which offers a comic take on SNL star’s Pete Davidson’s childhood in the borough, was instead released Friday for video only. “There was no explanation,” from Universal, one drive-in theater owner …
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When the Olympics returned to Los Angeles in 1984, Kimberly Carlisle went to the Grand Canyon, avoiding the wondrous sights and sounds she couldn’t enjoy. She wouldn’t watch the next Games, either. By 1990, she’d been retired from swimming for seven years. She worked in journalism and sales. She was married. She’d soon be pregnant …
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Jussie Smollett’s double-jeopardy defense can’t get him off on new charges related to his alleged Chicago attack-hoax, a judge ruled. The disgraced former “Empire” actor‘s lawyers argued that the new six-count indictment brought forward by a special prosecutor in February — 13 months after he allegedly faked a racist and homophobic beating — should be …
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Filmmaker Spike Lee is speaking up for Woody Allen, saying he’s not a fan of the “cancel culture” stemming from the #MeToo movement. Lee, whose new drama “Da 5 Bloods” has just been released on Netflix, told Len Berman and Michael Riedel on 710 WOR’s “In The Morning,” “I’d just like to say Woody Allen …
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The afternoon wave of tee times were just getting started in the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge on Friday at Colonial and still, the leaderboard looked like major championship material entering the weekend. Jordan Spieth’s revival from a two-plus-year tumble is in gear, with the native Texan, commuting to …
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Summer blockbuster season has felt like a distant memory for Americans, who, for the past few months, have not been allowed to sit in dark, air-conditioned multiplexes due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. But now that cinemas are starting to reopen — LA’s can resume Friday, and AMC said Tuesday it plans to unlock “almost …
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Spike Lee’s gutsy new Netflix drama, “Da 5 Bloods,” sets you up and knocks you down. After kicking off with archival footage of a suffering world during the Vietnam War, the Oscar winner has four black men in their sixties meet up for a happy present-day reunion at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. …
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In a compacted election period due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the candidates who have been elected to its Board of Governors. Among the six voted in for their first term on the board are Ava DuVernay (“Selma,” “When They See Us”) for …
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The nation’s biggest mall owner is backing out of a $3.6 billion deal to buy a major rival as the coronavirus pandemic shakes the retail industry. It is the second major retail deal signed before the virus hit the US to crumble. The sale of Victoria’s Secret to a private equity group fell apart last …
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Spike Lee about his newie “Da 5 Bloods.” Spike: “I knew we hadn’t seen brothers like this in a Vietnam film. No disrespect to any film before about that war, but I wanted this through the perspective of the black soldiers.” “Da 5 Bloods” stars Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo, who plays a Trump supporter. …
Pete Davidson’s “The King of Staten Island” was pulled unceremoniously — and mysteriously — from drive-in theatres last week, reports Variety. The semi-autobiographical film, which offers a comic take on SNL star’s Pete Davidson’s childhood in the borough, was instead released Friday for video only. “There was no explanation,” from Universal, one drive-in theater owner …
