archiveAugust 2021

Despite being vaccinated, both Reba McEntire and her boyfriend, Rex Linn, contracted COVID-19, the country star recently shared."It's not fun to get this ... You don't feel good," McEntire said during a livestream on TikTok, during which the singer chatted with fans from her "birdyard" (i.e., her home's courtyard). "Stay...

Fresh from its SXSW premiere, the animated fantasy-horror movie The Spine of Night was acquired for U.S. release by RLJE Films and Shudder, and it’s headed home for Halloween! Via RLJE Films, The Spine of Night is coming to theaters, Digital, and On Demand on October 29, 2021, with a release through Shudder to...

Amazon Prime Video is adding a number of big series to its platform in August. (YouTube) This August sees much-anticipated TV shows being added to Amazon Prime Video. Highlights include queer storylines in the anthology series Modern Love as well as shows featuring LGBT+ favourites Luke Evans, Nicole Kidman and...

Bullies From Weasel’s College Days Inspired His Supervillain AliasIn John Monroe’s DC Comics debut, a flashback to the 1960s shows him as a student at Stanford University, where he was treated as a bit of an outcast by people who constantly tormented him and gave a disparaging nickname. Care to...

Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Allen Leech review Maggie Smith’s most iconic moments in Downton Abby. From her offhanded compliments to her jaded views on womanhood, they break down how Maggie’s character, Violet Crawley, is the perfect encapsulation of early 20th century British aristocracy. Downton Abbey is in theaters now!...

The Wu-Tang Clan set their sites on world domination in the new trailer for Season Two of the biographical series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, premiering September 8th on Hulu. Where Season One was steeped in pre-Wu-Tang lore, delving into the events that led to the group’s formation, Season Two will...

Police have arrested an individual in connection to the death of Gone Girl actress Lisa Banes.On Friday, Aug. 5, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed to E! News that they took a 26-year-old male into custody amid an ongoing investigation. The spokesperson stated he was "arrested and charged within the confines on the...

Look, we all knew HBO prides itself on its prestige-era edge, but watching the Zendaya-led Euphoria feels a bit like bathing yourself in debauchery, punched up and made pretty via glitter. There are traumatized kids reeling through the post-9/11 era with a jaw-dropping menu of cheap drugs and designer drugs,...

Photography courtesy of Knix The supermodel is Knix's first-ever global ambassador — and face of their brand-new, 30-piece activewear collection. By Annika Lautens Date August 6, 2021 Facebook Twitter It’s fair to say we could all use a bit of a confidence boost. As it turns out, 18 months of...

Country hitmaker Razzy Bailey has died. The "Midnight Hauler" singer is known for a string of 13 Top 10 hits in the early 1980s, including five No. 1 songs on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart."Loving Up a Storm" was the first of four straight No. 1 hits for Bailey in 1980....

Bear Smallhill writhes on the ground, the victim of a shooting. His vision blurs, he floats up into the sky, and when he descends, the Rural Oklahoma teen is looking at the ghost of a Native American warrior named William Knife-Man, who died in the Battle of Little Bighorn. “Looks...

Mattel’s popular line of “Monster High” dolls has been catering to monster kids since 2010, the dolls depicting the daughters of iconic movie monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein. More recently, pop culture properties including The Shining and Stephen King’s IT found their way into the Monster High line, and up next...

Protestor holds 'Trans Lives Matter' placard during protest in Warsaw, 2018. (Getty/Maciej Luczniewski) An investigation is being opened into the brutal murder of Cindy Jones Torres, a trans woman found dead with multiple stab wounds in the Philippines. The 39-year-old was found dead on 28 July in her salon in Guiginto, Bulacan....

The journal is called Greenlights: Your Journal, Your Journey, and it includes prompts written by Matthew McConaughey to inspire the kind of questions he felt was important in his own life, perhaps going by some of the philosophies he educates readers on in the book. McConaughey has been writing in...