Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor MGM+’s “Domina” actress Joelle goes by one name like Madonna and Cher. She steps back in time this season and into a Roman world, post Julius Caesar as Tiberius’ wife Vipsania.
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Aramide Tinubu Sports dramas are familiar to the television landscape, and are often beloved. Fans have leaned into series like “GLOW,” “All American,” and even the mid-2000s cult classic “Friday Night Lights.” Yet it’s not the competitive action that keeps audiences pulled in weekly, or amid hours-long binges: It’s the characters and the worlds carefully crafted around them. It’s been nearly two years since the Season 1 finale of the Michael Waldron-created series “Heels” aired.
Set in the fictional town of Duffy, Georgia, “Heels” follows brothers Jack (Stephen Amell) and Ace Spade (Alexander Ludwig), the stars of the Duffy Wrestling League (DWL). The league and its dilapidated dome are the life’s work of the Spade brothers’ late father, Tom (David James Elliot). Jack has struggled to keep Tom’s fledgling dream and business alive in his absence.
Season 1 began unpacking the brothers’ deep-seated rivalry, one that was fostered from childhood by Tom’s anger and ego. It also examined the cracks in DWL’s business model. Viewers witnessed Jack’s desperation to live up to his father’s impossible standards and Ace’s obsession with being liked, which consistently puts the brothers at odds.
The series focused on demystifying the wrestling world for viewers who might be intrigued by its physicality and drama, but who would have otherwise been clueless that a “heel” in wrestling is the name given to a villain. In contrast, a “face” is a term for the hero. When “Heels'” viewers last saw the Spades, they’d gone rogue, pummeling each other (for real) in the ring in front of an audience at the Georgia State Fair.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor MGM+’s “Domina” actress Joelle goes by one name like Madonna and Cher. She steps back in time this season and into a Roman world, post Julius Caesar as Tiberius’ wife Vipsania.
Usher thinks that the drama between Keke Palmer and her boyfriend Darius Jackson surrounding her appearance at the Usher: My Way Las Vegas residency show is “a pop culture moment” that is “worth talking about.”
At the risk of diving into the annoying and frankly nonsensical discourse surrounding nepotism in the film industry, Amy Redford’s sophomore feature “What Comes Around” represents a curious object. Directed by Robert Redford’s daughter, starring Joaquin Phoenix’s sister Summer Phoenix and Casper Van Dien’s daughter Grace Van Dien (not to mention a cameo appearance by Phoenix and Casey Affleck’s son Indiana), this little IFC Films thriller has more than enough tangential associations.
Usher thinks that the drama between Keke Palmer and her boyfriend Darius Jackson surrounding her appearance at the Las Vegas residency show is «a pop culture moment» that is «worth talking about.» The 44-year-old performer made headlines in July when Palmer, 29, attended his show in a sheer dress with a bodysuit underneath. Usher invited Palmer on stage where he serenaded her while singing his hit «There Goes My Baby.» At the time, Palmer's boyfriend and the father of her child, Darius Jackson, called out her look, writing, «It's the outfit tho… you a mom.» The comment sparked controversy online with fans taking sides.
Switzerland has selected Camille Jaquier’s coming-of-age period drama Thunder (Foudre) as its entry for the Best International Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
Exes Ambyr Childers and Randall Emmett are not on good terms whatsoever following their restraining order debacle.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag This year's summer series of Love Island may have come to an end, with Jess Harding and Sammy Root crowned as our winners - but that doesn't mean there's any less drama when it comes to the villa stars in the outside world. While the hit ITV2 dating show ended just under a week ago, we've already seen some tell-all interviews from Kady McDermott, who outlined her feud with Molly Marsh and also came to blows with Mitch Taylor during an Instagram live.
Prime Video miniseries, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.” Based on the eponymous novel and set in Australia, the series follows Alice (Alyla Browne as a child; Alicia Debnam-Carey as an adult), an orphaned girl who survives a terrible house fire. She’s taken in by her estranged and secretive grandmother, June (Weaver), to her rural property that’s filled with flower fields — and women who are fleeing abusive pasts.
Amy Duggar King finally reunited with her cousin Josh Duggar’s wife, Anna Duggar, after several years of estrangement.
It's been a series of insult-hurling, boy-stealing, lip-smacking chaos (and we wouldn't have it any other way!), but it seems that this year's Love Island contestants have brought the drama back to the UK with them. And the latest trouble-causer to stir up the ongoing spat between 'frenemies' Kady McDermott and Mitchell Taylor is Zachariah Noble, who made a sly dig at the duo on his Instagram story yesterday.
Jon Gosselin’s girlfriend, Stephanie Lebo, praised his parenting skills amid his ongoing feud with ex-wife Kate Gosselin.
Alison Herman TV Critic In “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” the namesake plants have multiple meanings. After a fire takes the lives of both of her parents in coastal Australia, nine-year-old Alice (Alyla Browne) moves to Thornfield, a secluded wildflower farm run by her estranged grandmother June (Sigourney Weaver). But Thornfield is more than just a source a native flora; “flowers” are also what June calls her employees, all women escaping violent pasts and troubled home lives.
Joe Leydon Film Critic Writer-director Nicholas Maggio may not have intended to be self-critical when, fairly early in his debut feature “Mob Land,” he has one character observe to another about their failing small Southern town, “This whole place has become a fucking cliché.” But the longer this slackly paced rural noir continues, the more that dialogue seems in retrospect like fair warning. Borrowing freely from “No Country for Old Men,” “Collateral” and maybe a dozen or so other superior films, Maggio has cobbled together a modestly diverting, effectively atmospheric but blatantly derivative crime drama sprinkled with a few joltingly nasty plot twists.
Zack Snyder has revealed that he still want to work on a director’s cut of his 2011 psychological fantasy action film Sucker Punch.Speaking to Letterboxd in a recent interview with IFC Center, Snyder shared that 12 years after the theatrical release of the film, he’s still holding on to hop that he’ll be able to work on a director’s cut so his original of the vision can be seen by fans.Snyder also shared that the film’s original ending was changed as Warner Bros. thought it was “too weird”.“I’ve never gotten around to doing the director’s cut.
Zack Snyder is reflecting on his 2011 movie, Sucker Punch.
Cardi B is already poking fun at her Las Vegas scandal!
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After winning its first Best Picture Oscar this year for “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” all eyes are on A24 this awards season. So is there a runaway smash hit for the distributor that matches last year’s buzz of the Daniels film? Not really, but “Past Lives” has received lots of critical loves, and Jonathan Glazer‘s “Zone Of Interest” likely will too.
Two years ago actress Charley Webb left ITV’s soap Emmerdale after a whopping 19 years on the show and has just revealed she’s landed a brand-new role in a touring play. Charley, 35, appeared as the popular character Debbie Dingle who arrived in the village in 2002 and was on and off screen until 2021. During that time, Charley took three maternity leave breaks to have her sons, Buster, Bowie and Ace who she shared with husband and fellow actor Matthew Wolfenden, 43, who plays David Metcalfe in Emmerdale.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Former Love Island star and resident show columnist Olivia Hawkins has spilled the tea on all the latest shenanigans from the iconic Spanish villa. Unsurprisingly, last week was full of drama as two new bombshells made their entrance following the shocking - and brutal - double dumping of Catherine Agbaje and Elom Ahlijah-Wilson, and Leah Taylor and Montel Mackenzie. The Islanders barely had time to catch their breath following their co-stars' abrupt exits before the arrival of bombshells Josh Brocklebank, 26, a financial advisor, and model Ella Barnes, 23.