'Muppets Now': TV Review

It’s an oddly catchy sound, a persistent noise coming from boomboxes and car stereos. Almost no one in “Cut Throat City,” the latest gangster flick from RZA, comments on it, but we know they hear it and we know what it symbolizes.

Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has been accused of raping a woman twice in a New York City hotel room in 2013, according to a civil lawsuit filed on Tuesday.The woman, identified in the lawsuit only as “Jane Doe,” said she met Gooding in a Manhattan bar in August 2013 and was invited to join him for drinks at a nearby hotel.Gooding asked her up to his hotel room, where he said he needed to change his clothes.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe case of NXIVM, the Albany, N.Y.-based “self-help group” whose bizarre and seemingly cult-like aspects have been covered widely — merges a sort of enormity of evil with the prosaic in ways that can make it hard to connect with at first. What was done to aspirants within the group, who allege having been starved as well as held down and scarred with a cauterizing pen in order to be marked as slaves, represents perhaps the height of inhumanity.

Following his 2012 directorial debut, martial arts homage The Man With the Iron Fists, and 2017’s romantic musical drama Love Beats Rhymes, filmmaker, composer and producer RZA changes up genres once again for his third feature, a convoluted New Orleans-set heist pic.

On March 23, in the year of our pandemic clusterfuck, 9 of our 50 United States issued stay at home advisories for residents as their COVID-19 response: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Since then, most of the remaining states have followed suit.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHeist films, from “Rififi” to “Ocean’s Eleven” to “Widows,” are all about the planning. They’re missions impossible, and the fun of almost every heist movie is: Can it make the intricacy of a robbery thrilling yet plausible? But in “Cut Throat City,” the third feature directed by the RZA, the posse of desperate amateur thugs who rip off a New Orleans casino scarcely have a plan, and does that ever show.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHolly Humberstone is a 20-year-old British singer-songwriter whose reputation precedes her via several singles released earlier this year — which have garnered rave reviews, ranging from the New York Times to the BBC to the Lefsetz Letter — and a European tour opening for Lewis Capaldi just before the pandemic, during which she played to 12,000 people at London’s Wembley Arena.As is often the case with such seemingly wide-ranging appeal, it’s all for a good reason:

In “Project Power,” a new supercharged, high-concept Netflix film and oblique run at the superhero genre; 1) disposable black and brown people in New Orleans are used as guinea pigs for a new experimental street drug that gives users unpredictable and fleeting superpowers for five minutes; 2) a sympathetic cop uses those same narcotics to “level the playing field” in a city riddled with crime and corrupt superiors who pass on amplified bad guys to secretive feds or men in black without

Dave East falls into the latter category.

Lola Consuelos doesn't think her mom should give social media trolls the time of day.

Ascension, a stunt which will see Blaine flying from New Jersey to New York using helium-filled balloons.The stunt will take place on August 31 and be livestreamed on Blaine’s YouTube channel.“This stunt has been 10 years in the making,” Blaine tweeted, announcing the new stunt. “Let’s turn worry into wonder and take magic to new heights.”This stunt has been 10 years in the making.

Rumer, “Nashville Tears” (Cooking Vinyl) The combination of Rumer’s crystalline voice and Hugh Prestwood’s songs results in some breathtaking, deeply moving music on “Nashville Tears,” the Pakistan-born, British singer’s interpretation of the Texas-born, New York-based songwriter’s catalog.

Migos rapper Takeoff has denied accusations made against him that claim he raped a woman at a house party in June.According to the New York Times, Takeoff, real name Kirshnik Khari Ball, is being sued for alleged sexual battery, assault, and emotional distress.A lawsuit was filed yesterday (August 5) in Los Angeles, alleging that the rapper sexually assaulted the woman at a house party in Los Angeles in June.The alleged victim claims that she was invited to the party by DJ Durel, who tours with

Takeoff, a member of the hip-hop trio Migos, has been sued for sexual assault in the state of Calif., according to court docs obtained by multiple outlets. The civil complaint, obtained by BuzzFeed News and The New York Times, among others, alleges that the rapper -- born Kirshnik Khari Ball -- raped a woman, only identified as Jane Doe in the papers, in Los Angeles on June 23.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“An American Pickle” is a comedy that connects you to something so old world that it seems, at times, to be an artifact of prehistory.

It was inevitable that Disney+ would try something with The Muppets. Few entertainment franchises are more beloved than Jim Henson’s troupe of felt eccentrics.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived!