In the opening minutes of The Milkmaid, the joyous occasion of a wedding in a west African village turns into something unimaginable as terrorists attack. People try to flee, some are shot down, some slaughtered with machetes; a baby stares out over a mother’s lifeless body. This film is the story of the women who
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On Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons titled “Dairy Queen”, the audience gets treated to a visit from a familiar face — and voice that became iconic in the long-running Fox animated series. In the episode, Bart stumbles upon the diary of Edna Krabappel, who was voiced by the late, great Marcia Wallace, who won an Emmy
With presumed Western blockbusters such as Black Widow, No Time to Die, and The Eternals delayed until later this year, the rambunctious Detective Chinatown franchise has leaped into the void in a very, very big way. Few, if any movies have ever raked in so much coin in so little time. The figures speak for
Tainy and Miguel have come together for the single “Sunbathe.” The track arrives with a video directed by Munachi Osegbu. Watch below (via Rolling Stone). “We made this song in Miami, it was raining, and I was thinking of home,” Miguel said, according to RS. Tainy recently produced Selena Gomez and Rauw Alejandro’s “Baila Conmigo.”
A lot of excellent picture books are releasing in 2021, from books that celebrate identity to ones that address the COVID-19 pandemic to silly books about poop. There’s a picture book for every type of reader, and I had trouble picking only 25. I’m especially happy to see the number of #OwnVoices children’s books being
IRL adventure feels like its at an all time low, but wanderlust? Woooo. Searches around escapism are booming. Basically, we all want to get out and since all excursions are #cancelled, we’re getting more creative around how we decamp to another world. It’s one of the reasons searches for “fantasy map making” have tripled on
(L to R) Ava Duvernay, Spike Lee, Jordan Peele Getty Images The films that launched the entertainment industry around the turn of the 20th century were created for white audiences by white filmmakers. It took decades for Black directors to break into the industry and alter how Hollywood operated behind and in front of the
The number of cases of South African and Brazilian COVID variants in the UK appears to be falling, the health secretary has told Sky News. Matt Hancock said there was evidence that enhanced contact-tracing and stricter border measures were helping to control the number of people being infected by those new variants first discovered abroad.
For All Mankind season 2 — premiering February 19 on Apple TV+ worldwide — continues to explore the ripple effects of the Soviets putting a man (and a woman) on the Moon before the Americans. In some ways, it created a better, equitable world in the USA. Women enjoy a better position at NASA (in
The Google campus in Mountain View includes over 20 dining options that encourage a communal experience with group tables. Brooks Kraft LLC | Corbis | Getty Images In 2017, Lauren Clayton joined the inaugural class of Howard West, Google‘s on-campus immersion program for Black college students. She became a star scholar whose big smile would
Radio broadcaster Jo Whiley says her younger sister has finally been offered a coronavirus vaccine but it could be too late, as she is already “fighting for her life” after catching the virus in her care home. Whiley’s sister Frances, 53, has diabetes and learning difficulties, which both put her at higher risk from COVID-19.
With Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page as host, evoking the hugely popular Netflix series on Saturday Night Live was inevitable. After Page channeled his Simon Basset character in the opening monologue while trying to convince viewers that “he’s just a normal guy” and nothing like the Duke, the British-Zimbabwean actor reprised the Bridgerton character in a
Lee Daniels says the 1972 Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues, for which Diana Ross earned an Oscar nomination, was the beginning of his desire for a film career. The filmmaker says he’d never seen Black people portrayed in that manner before, and it affected him deeply. Still when Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Park’s
Bad Bunny was the musical guest on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. Rosalía joined him first for “La Noche de Anoche,” and he returned for “Te Deseo lo Mejor.” He brought the 24/7 Championship belt he won on WWE’s Raw earlier in the week to the stage with him during the second song.
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If you’re starting to run low on lockdown activity ideas, we can guarantee you’re not alone. Feeling all jigsaw puzzled, banana breaded and even Netflix-ed out is perhaps inevitable after almost a year (!) of on and off lockdowns and social distancing. Fortunately, curling up with a good book is one activity that *never* seems
The first trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat,’ inspired by the hit video game franchise, is here! The Simon McQuoid-directed blockbuster stars Lewis Tan (Cole Young), Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade), Josh Lawson (Kano), Tadanobu Asano (Lord Raiden), Mehcad Brooks (Jackson “Jax” Bridges), Ludi Lin (Liu Kang), Chin Han (Shang Tsung), Joe Taslim (Bi-Han and Sub-Zero) and Hiroyuki
Governor Andrew Cuomo holds daily press briefing at the foot of Mario Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown, New York, June 15, 2020. Lev Radin | Pacific Press | LightRocket via Getty Images What a difference a few months have made for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and not in a good way. Cuomo last year
Boris Johnson has pledged that every adult in the UK should be offered a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July. The accelerated vaccine rollout would help protect the most vulnerable sooner and also enable the easing of some lockdown restrictions, the prime minister said. People aged 50 and over and those with underlying health
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles