Snakes on a plane, assassins on a train: Some concepts are so blood simple, they can sell themselves in a sentence fragment. Who needs verbs when you have katanas,Bad Bunny, and Brad Pitt smirking in a bucket hat? (There is, in fact, a snake somewhere on board this Bullet Train, though its venom-tipped slithering must compete with a thousand other ways to die.) The movie, in theaters August 5, largely delivers on the high-speed berserkery of its premise — a manic neon candygram stuffed with cameos and smash-cut chaos, hurtling breathlessly toward its gonzo end. Read More...
What has Janet Jackson done for us lately? Well, let’s see. Aside from firing the imaginations of S&M enthusiasts with her bondage and discipline themed 1997 album ”The Velvet Rope” (”been there, done that,” we imagine Madonna sniffed), prancing around as a titanium covered vixen in an insanely high tech Busta Rhymes video, and demonstrating her apparent prescience by duetting on a song with Shaggy before he was Shaggy!, she has aged enough so that the ”diva” tag that gets hung on just about every female pop singer these days actually seems to fit. Read More...
Warning: This article contains spoilers for episode 4 of The Challenge: All Stars 3. Saying that there's a lot of ground to cover in this week's recap of The Challenge: All Stars 3 is a massive understatement. A new female replacement came in and she's one of the most controversial players in history, two legends went head-to-head in an elimination with a shocking result, and we've got ourselves a true enemies-to-lovers scenario happening that's a decade in the making. Read More...
