Month: January 2024

You better believe I was yelling “Hell yeah!” when Danielle Brooks was included on the list of 2024 Oscar nominees. However, you also better believe that I was, in the words of her character Sofia, saying “Hell No!” when the 2023 musical remake of The Color Purple only got one nomination from The Academy.  This
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Content warning: this article features mentions of suicide. Sharon Osbourne is opening up about a difficult period.  After learning of husband Ozzy Osbourne’s 4-year-affair with hairdresser Michelle Pugh back in 2016, the 71-year-old was so distraught she attempted suicide. “He always had groupies and I was so used to that,” she explained to journalist Jane Moore, per The Independent, in a recent
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In January 2021, YFN Lucci was charged with murder and accused of killing a 28-year-old man named James Adams in Atlanta. A few months later, he the murder charge became part of a vast indictment that targeted alleged Bloods gang members. The Atlanta rapper has now reached a deal with prosecutors and agreed to plead
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Share Tweet Share Share Email The Unexpected Goodbyes: Cancelled TV Shows of 2024 American Born Chinese (Disney+): Despite its insightful cultural exploration, it sadly didn’t land a second season. Minx (Starz): This quirky comedy-drama wrapped up after just two fun-filled seasons. The Flight Attendant (Max): This captivating thriller ended its high-flying journey after season two.
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused
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Joey Graziadei is ready to meet his game, set, match. The Bachelor season 28 is already starting to blossom, as the teaching tennis pro met 32 contestants—the most to ever enter to the mansion on night one—during ABC’s Jan. 22 premiere. The ladies tried to capture Joey’s heart with their creative entrances, including through surprising modes of transportation (Jenn arrived
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While Christopher Reeves passed away almost two decades ago, his name was thrust back into the spotlight last year following his CGI cameo in The Flash – which prompted an honest take from a Smallville alum. Now, his name is ringing in ears again following the Sundance Film Festival premiere of the documentary Super/Man: The
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Kiley Reid’s sophomore effort Come and Get It is a compelling, dialogue-driven novel about consumption, desire and class set at a state university in 2017. Readers who enjoyed Reid’s debut, Such a Fun Age, will find themselves in welcome territory. Millie, a woman whose college years were interrupted by helping an ill parent, has returned
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Michael Phelps and Wife Nicole Expecting Baby No. 4 Michael Phelps is swimming with joy over his newest family member.  The Olympic gold medalist and his wife, Nicole Johnson, welcomed their fourth child, Nico Michael Phelps, on Jan. 16.  “@mrs.nicolephelps and I wanna welcome Nico Michael Phelps to the world. Born on 1/16,” the decorated athlete shared on Instagram Jan. 22. “We’re so
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January has been a crazy month for SCREAMBOX with several big releases, including modern classics Horror in the High Desert and its sequel Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva, as well as SCREAMBOX Exclusive Underground. Hitting the streamer tomorrow are both Lamberto Bava‘s Evil Dead-esque splatter classics Demons and Demons 2! In Demons, a large group of people invited
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Read Harder isn’t the only reading challenge happening in 2024, of course! That’s why I’m highlighting some of the other challenges you might want to add to your reading goals this year. Fellow Book Rioter Laura Sackton is hosting Queer Your Year 2024: a yearlong reading challenge that celebrates queer list. There are 48 challenges
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Valerie Bertinelli is sharing her thoughts on some not-so-sweet news. The Kids Baking Championship co-host announced she was not asked back for another season of the cooking competition series. “I’ve been avoiding facing what I got confirmation for last night,” the 63-year-old shared in a Jan. 21 Instagram video. “It really hurt my feelings, and I know it’s
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Tierra Whack has announced her long-awaited new album. World Wide Whack, billed as the Philadelphia rapper’s “debut album,” following 2018’s Whack World, arrives March 15 via Interscope. Check out the album artwork below, created by conceptual artist Alex Da Corte (who directed the music video for Whack’s 2020 single “Dora”). World Wide Whack’s cover art
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Fantastico Studio dropped some news regarding the updated demo for their visual novel, Cannibal Tales, stating that the demo will be available next Monday, kicking off Steam’s Storyteller’s Festival event. The event will take place from January 29th to February 4th, during which time players will have the chance to try an updated version of
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It’s interesting to think about Ben Affleck‘s career in Hollywood. From being the youngest person to ever win an Academy Award for Best Screenplay (with his good pal, Matt Damon), to playing Daredevil AND Batman, to also directing movies…I mean come on now. What hasn’t this man accomplished?  We’ve already ranked Ben Affleck’s best movies,
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From a high-rise apartment, a boy and his pregnant mother witness, in real time, a massive explosion devastate 20 blocks of an Australian city. The cause is never discovered, and in the aftermath, a superhighway is constructed over the site.  Twelve years later, the same mother speeds down the highway toward an abandoned shopping mall
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