archiveFebruary 2021

A review of this week’s WandaVision, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” coming up just as soon as I smell crime… With “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” WandaVision basically skips over the Nineties(*) and heads straight to this century for an episode in the mode of Malcolm in the Middle. The show has cheated decades...

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links.Ready for the understatement of the year? Well, here is it: our lives would be much different on this Friday in February if the COVID-19 pandemic had never come...

Phoebe Bridgers. (Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Tibet House) Queer indie-rock musician Phoebe Bridgers lit into the “performative activism” of Marilyn Manson’s label on Wednesday (10 February) amid abuse accusations. Amid allegations of abuse levelled against Manson, the pasty rock singer known off-stage as Brian Warner, Bridgers, 26, shared her own...

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Clover Hope’s essential new book, The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop, doesn’t just tell the stories of the women who helped shape hip-hop, from the pioneering MC Sha-Rock to Cardi B. It also ends up telling the entire story of the genre through a brand-new lens. In the new...

Garth Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, have canceled everything on their calendar for two weeks and will quarantine after possibly being exposed to COVID-19.It's the second time the couple have had to quarantine; last summer, Brooks' daughter Allie had the virus. This time, someone within the couple's inner circle tested positive for the coronavirus...

Ashley Judd is on the mend after a very scary accident. In an Instagram Live with The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof on Feb. 12, the Double Jeopardy actress revealed that she severely injured her leg during an excursion on the Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree in the dark. She spoke...

Like most fashionistas, Meghan Markle has amassed quite the collection of designer shoes, spotted at public engagements in brands like Manolo Blahnik and Stuart Weitzman. But, like sister-in-law Kate Middleton, Meghan also recycles a good amount of her heels, mixing and matching her favorites with her midi dresses. The Duchess...

Photography courtesy of Instagram/@bennydrama7.Including Lizzo wearing Lesley Hampton for a home workout. By Odessa Paloma Parker Date February 11, 2021 Facebook Twitter To say this week has been a major one for Canadian fashion is quite an understatement, with the likes of poet and all-around icon Amanda Gorman wearing a...

Twenty-nine years after they essentially invented reality television, the seven original strangers from the first season of MTV’s The Real World are coming back for a new season of the show. The Real World Homecoming: New York will premiere on Paramount Plus streaming March 4th. It will feature the complete...

There are many, many great inspirations. The one that always comes to mind is having had the opportunity to work with the late Anthony Minghella and watching him direct, how eloquent he was, the way he gave direction was not just a descriptive word. It wasn’t just ‘walk in the...

Gina Carano (L) and Ben Shapiro. (Getty) Gina Carano, who played combative shock trooper Cara Dune on The Mandalorian, is attempting to bounce back by… working with right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro. Carano, a 38-year-old actor and mixed martial artist, fuelled months-long fan backlash with her incendiary social media presence throughout...

In 1984, Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias teamed up for a duet that bridged country music with Latin balladry: “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” recorded for Iglesias’ album 1100 Bel Air Place became a hit on the country, Spanish, and all-genre charts, and a milestone in Nelson’s long...

Sixteen years ago today (Feb. 12, 2005), Rascal Flatts scored their third No. 1 hit with "Bless the Broken Road." The song, from their album Feels Like Today, also became the trio's first platinum-selling tune."Bless the Broken Road" was written by Marcus Hummon, Bobby Boyd and Jeff Hanna in 1994. The...