In late 1977, in the days before he suborned mass suicide in a Guyanese jungle, the Rev. Jim Jones tried to buoy the sagging spirits of his 900-plus homesick parishioners with a series of celebrity guest appearances, patched into the Jonestown encampment through a dodgy phone connection and an even dodgier PA system. Before migrating […]
Former President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and in protest, his supporters are now sharing upside-down American flags all across X. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury Thursday, in his hush money trial. Notable accounts sharing the inverted American flag include Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said the former president “should never, never face a jail sentence” for the conduct he was found guilty of earlier in the day. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury on Thursday in his hush money trial. TRUMP GUILTY […]
Unlike the countless men whose careers were killed in the fury of the #MeToo movement, Morgan Spurlock didn’t just deny he had committed serial sex abuse and misconduct, he embraced the reality that he was “a part of the problem,” canceling himself in a shocking 2017 blog post in which he confessed to harassing subordinates […]
Political shifts in Nevada’s growing Asian population paint a conflicting message about the swing state’s pivotal role in the presidential election. While record numbers of Asian American eligible voters have moved to the Silver State, the voting block could also be trending away from its historically deep blue roots. Now, Nevada’s growing Asian population could […]
Stormy Daniels, the star witness in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, was “emotional” about the guilty verdict reached by a Manhattan jury Thursday night, according to her lawyer. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records on Thursday, marking the first time a former president has been convicted of a […]
After a Manhattan jury handed down a guilty verdict to former President Donald Trump in his hush money case, third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the decision would only help his opponent’s chances of winning in November. Kennedy spoke on Trump’s conviction in Austin, Texas, at Consensus 2024, a crypto event, just hours […]
In the Mad Max franchise he established in 1979 and continues to the present day, Australian filmmaker George Miller has demonstrated a rare command of movement across vast spaces. Arguably, no director — not even masters of the form like William Friedkin or John Frankenheimer — has wrung more sheer kinesis out of his chase […]
“Somebody find me a carrot stick.” So said millions of moviegoers upon exiting screenings of Super Size Me, documentarian Morgan Spurlock’s gonzo 2004 sensation. Spurlock’s film, based on a stomach-churning conceit, tested the limits of the director’s physical, psychological, and (not least) spiritual courage. For 30 days, with cameras capturing every greasy belch and sigh, […]
Celebrities from both sides of the political aisle responded to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict Thursday. A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Some of Trump’s celebrity supporters lamented that the criminal conviction of a former president was a sign of the end of the United States’s reputation. […]
