The Rev. Al Sharpton ripped Hollywood after the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, with black actors completely shut out of each of the four top acting categories for a second straight year.
Two men were arrested at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston, MA, over the weekend, after a private security firm was alerted the pair might be planning an act of violence against other attendees.
Lily-Rose Depp, the 16-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, was revealed on Instagram Monday to be not 100 percent heterosexual, but rather “somewhere on the vast spectrum” of sexuality.
Actress Julianne Moore has launched an online petition to pressure the Virginia high school she attended into removing J.E.B. Stuart from its name.
Westboro Baptist Church members who were protesting a Foo Fighters concert in Kansas City, MO were “Rickrolled” by front man Dave Grohl and the rest of the band Friday.
Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson has teamed up with country singer Colt Ford to release a country rap song about God, guns, and hunting called “Cut ’em all.” Those familiar with Duck Dynasty know “cut ’em” is the call to pull
Director Quentin Tarantino went after what he called a culture of “white supremacy” and institutional racism in America in an extensive interview with New York magazine published Sunday.
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told host John Dickerson he believes America is still a racist nation, and those who have questioned the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate, namely, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, have done so as an alternative to using the N-word.
Director Martin Scorsese–well known for violent films like Goodfellas, The Departed, and Casino–has joined a campaign for the destruction of guns. Scorsese will take part in Carl McCrow’s “Gun Neutral Campaign,” which asks that a real gun be destroyed for
A representative for Mel Gibson has denied claims that the actor/director shoved and spit on a female newspaper photographer outside a movie theater in Sydney, Australia Sunday night.
The upcoming horror film The Witch got its first trailer this week – and man, it is just really, really creepy, in ways that most horror films try to be but aren’t.
One man’s emotionally fraught journey to meet Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is the subject of next month’s documentary Mission to Lars.
A new force is emerging in the culture wars. Authoritarians of all stripes, from religious reactionaries to left-wing “social justice warriors,” are coming under fire from a new wave of thinkers, commentators, and new media stars who reject virtually all of their
Let’s raise a glass to the “feminist” role models who got the happy endings their fellow sisters didn’t want them to have.
Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis has condemned the media for its failure to hold Tom Cruise accountable for the movie star’s leading position in the controversial Church of Scientology.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III looks to be a return to the core Call of Duty experience that many felt last year’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare strayed too far from while still introducing a variety of fresh gameplay mechanics that should entice new fans and gamers who have tired of the franchise.
Thirteen-year-0ld Disney star Rowan Blanchard penned an essay on “intersectional feminism” over the weekend that had at least one Hollywood star praising the young actress for her insight. Blanchard, who plays the daughter of a grown-up Corey Matthews on the Disney
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s daughter Ashley may be a budding rapper now, but her father is nixing any mention of the “n-word” from his daughter’s songs.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa was seemingly slammed to the ground and handcuffed by police Saturday for refusing to step off of a “hoverboard” at an airport terminal, according to social media updates shared by the rapper.
Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is taking flak for comments he made over the weekend suggesting female directors are “not interested” in helming big-budget blockbuster films.
Steven Sheerer, the 25-year-old man found by police Thursday with Rosie O’Donnell’s missing 17-year-old daughter, was arrested in New Jersey on Friday.
“We are united in saying that the negotiated deal on balance is good, that any available alternatives are worse, and that Congress killing the deal would be a tragic mistake,” wrote 98 Hollywood Jews in L.A.’s edition of the Jewish Journal a few weeks ago.
At the seventy-third annual Worldcon science fiction convention on Saturday night, social justice warriors did their best impression of the nightmare firemen of Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451, choosing to burn down the Hugo Awards and damage science fiction instead of
Carmel Musgrove, 28, had accompanied Joel Silver and other Silver Pictures employees on a vacation when she went missing Wednesday.
Three Americans, who subdued a suspected Islamist militant carrying an AK-47 with nine magazines of ammo and a box cutter knife on a high-speed train Friday, are being praised by French movie star for their heroism. The passenger train was
Comedian Bill Burr is facing some online backlash after joking on Conan about Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn Jenner.
