There's something almost reassuring about the fact that in 2013, a movie sex scene could still be controversial. This time, however, the controversy isn't coming from the forces of conservatism—from a clampdown by the ratings board or from family newspapers that don't want to advertise a film they deem indecent. This time, the clampdown comes from the forces of the liberal-left. (That's very 2013.) When Blue Is the Warmest Color played last month at the Cannes Film Festival, the three-hour French lesbian drama, with its lengthy and explicit scenes of bedroom intimacy, received a mostly rapturous response. Read More...
Last week, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Eric Bogosian were ushered out of Law & Order: Criminal Intent with all the finesse of a bouncer at a cheap nightclub. In a lumpy hour that forced D’Onofrio’s Goren and Erbe’s Eames to act as supporting players to Jeff Goldblum’s Zach Nichols and Saffron Burrows’ Serena Stevens, Goren and Eames had a brief farewell scene together (Bogosian was in a body-bag by then), and the new era of L&O: CI began. Read More...
Aretha Franklin may have departed from this world in 2018, but her music will live forever. Proof of this lies in the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart dated July 4, which declares Franklin's "Never Gonna Break My Faith" featuring the Boys Choir of Harlem has taken the top spot. What this means is that the Grammy Award-winning song has secured Franklin's legacy with no. 1 hits in every decade since the 1960s. Read More...
