Why David Fincher turned the Red Hot Chili Peppers into string puppets
Chad Smith remembers the night in 2003 when the Red Hot Chili Peppers played for an audience of 80,000 or so amid the rolling hills of the Irish countryside. After...
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Team Bieber rejects speculation about Justin and Diddy: Care about those ‘genuinely harmed’
Amid all of Casandra Ventura’s troubling testimony this week about life with Sean “Diddy” Combs and his “freak-off” fetish, don’t be troubled thinking about what might have happened between Combs...
Contributor: ‘Andor’ is very Latino-coded. Here’s how.
Looking back, casting Diego Luna in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” may well prove to be the single most consequential decision in that storied franchise’s history. Hearing Luna’s Mexican...
Revving engines, thrills and drama drive ‘Duster’ and ‘Motorheads’
After humans, and arguably before dogs and horses, there is no character more vital to the screen, and more vital onscreen, than the automobile. Driven or driverless, the car is...
Foo Fighters parts ways with drummer Josh Freese
The rock band Foo Fighters has let go of drummer Josh Freese, according to a note from the veteran percussionist. “The Foo Fighters called me Monday night to let me...
Epic Games says Apple blocked ‘Fortnite’ in U.S. app store
Epic Games on Friday said that its popular game “Fortnite” will be offline on Apple devices because the iPhone maker blocked its recent app update. The dispute comes just weeks...
Three takeaways from TV’s big upfronts week: NFL, streaming switcharoos and movie stars
The TV industry and buyers of commercial time were able to breathe a little easier going to their annual week of presentations known as the upfronts. Not long before the...
Meet 5 local Black artists whose work is featured in Netflix’s new series ‘Forever’
L.A. has long been a beacon for the arts. So it’s only fitting that “Forever,” the Netflix series that showrunner Mara Brock Akil envisioned as “a love story within a...
The 18 summer movies we’re most excited about
Shockingly to our jaded eyes, the summer already looks promising. We visited the doll shop of “M3GAN 2.0” (June 27), a viciously funny sequel that doubles down on killer attitude,...
After ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines,’ you’ll never look at a septum piercing the same ever again
Premiering on the eve of the millennium in 2000, the “Final Destination” franchise gave a generation of millennials some very specific phobias, including lumber trucks, airplane tray tables (a friend...
