Author: Amy Davis

Former Sex Pistols lead singer John Lydon, also known as Johnny Rotten, is competing against 5 other acts to represent Ireland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. On February 3rd Lydon will perform with his band Public Image Ltd (PiL) on a special Eurovision edition of “The Late Late Show.” The show will air via Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ. A public vote, national, and international juries will decide the winner. PiL’s involvement in Eurovision is strange, considering Lydon’s opinions on the annual contest. “It’s absolutely awful, the songs,” Lydon told Metro. “The whole thing of it is disgusting to me. I’m…

Actor Ke Huy Quan is fresh off his Golden Globes victory for Best Supporting Actor in A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” But sometimes huge victories make us look back at the past. In Quan’s case, it’s back to his first role as Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” “I love the character of Short Round,” Quan said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “He’s funny and courageous and saves Indy’s ass. If Disney or Lucasfilm ever come to me and say, ‘We want to do a Short Round spinoff,’ I’m there man! I love that…

Music and fashion icon Gwen Stefani is facing serious backlash after controversial comments she made during an interview. In an interview to promote her new vegan beauty brand GXVE, Stefani straight out said “I’m Japanese.” Stefanfi’s 2008 fragrance collection Harajuku Lovers line was released right after her solo album, “Love.Angel.Music.Baby..” The fragrance line and album borrowed heavily from Japan’s colorful Harajuku culture. There was even a time when Stefani was followed by an entourage of four Japanese backup dancers nicknamed after her album. Maya Chino (“Love”), Jennifer Kita (“Angel”), Rino Nakasone (“Music”), and Mayuko Kitayama (“Baby”) were effectively human props…

Filmmaker Ben Affleck has been spotted working at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru in Medford, Massachusetts. But this isn’t a tale of “how the mighty have fallen,” he was simply just shooting an ad for the chain. The Boston native has a long-running love affair with the formally donut-centric fast food franchise. “It’s amazing! I have Dunkin’ Donuts everyday,” he gushed about having a location in Los Angeles back in 2019. “It’s very weird, I have it every day and people are always like, ‘Where is that? Is that near here?’ So, I feel like I’m spreading the word.” Affleck dawned the…

We are trying to get the mf-ing snake ON this mf-ing plane! The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found a 4 foot long boa constrictor while X-raying a passenger’s bag. The snake was apparently an “emotional support pet” that goes by the name Bartholomew. The TSA contacted the airline, which said that the passenger couldn’t bring the snake aboard the aircraft. While the incident happened at the Tampa International Airport in December, the TSA has just now posted the pictures and details to their social media accounts. As you can see in the images the snake is pretty clearly visible among…

Short video juggernaut TikTok will be partnering with the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) to better target film and tv-related content. The social media platform will license data from IMDb to power a new feature that makes it easier to search media-related content and see more information about it. This includes things like cast and release date, all on a dedicated, in-app page. So no more switching between apps to get the full story on new releases. This feature will roll out in the U.S. and U.K. markets first. It will allow TikTok creators the ability to add a link to…

Apple TV+ has released a trailer for season 2 of its epic sci-fi series, “Foundation.” Loosely based on Isaac Asimov’s book series of the same name, both tell the story of a group of renegades who challenge the the Galactic Empire. The rebels attempt to prevent the destruction of humanity from the ruling class. Season 1 centers around psychohistorian Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) who has discovered a formula that predicts the end of the Galactic Empire, led by the three Brothers; Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), Brother Day (Lee Pace), and Brother Dusk (Terrance Mann). When the empire falls, so too…

Rian Johnson (“Knives Out”) has a new series for Peacock, “Poker Face” has gotten its first trailer. Apparently, Johnson was so impressed with Natasha Lyonne’s work alongside Daniel Craig and Angela Lansbury in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” she got her own show.  In “Poker Face,” Charlie Cale (Lyonne) has found her calling as a private detective, due to her uncanny ability to sniff out a lie. This human lie detector instantly knows when someone isn’t telling the truth, no matter how airtight their alibi may be. Using her innate gift she travels around the country in her ‘69…

Actor Bryan Cranston is reprising his role as Walter White from AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” Before you get too excited about this, it’s only for a PopCorners’ Super Bowl ad. Snack makers Frito-Lay teased the spot back in December, by posting a silhouette of Walter White in his Heisenberg get-up. As White is want to do, he’s standing in a desert holding a big blue bag of white cheddar PopCorners. It’s a nod to the “Blue Sky” version of methamphetamine sold on the show. While the tease heavily implied Cranston would be in the ad, it wasn’t confirmed until yesterday. Cranston…

Horror hounds have finally gotten the long-anticipated full trailer for “Evil Dead Rise.” This will be the fifth film in the Sam Raimi-created “Evil Dead” universe. It is written and directed by Lee Cronin (“The Hole in the Ground”) with Robert G. Tapert producing. Tapert has produced on all of the previous “Evil Dead” installments. Which include 1981’s “The Evil Dead,” 1987’s “Evil Dead II,” 1992’s “Army of Darkness,” 2013’s Fede Álvarez-directed “Evil Dead” reboot, and the “Ash vs The Evil Dead” series which ran for 3 seasons. Raimi and Ash Williams himself, Bruce Campbell, are also producers on the…