As a young musician coming up in the early 1970s, Bruce Springsteen played in the bars of Asbury Park, N.J., a hardscrabble urban beach town full of colorful characters. The town fired his imagination and inspired him musically, but still he found himself longing for more. Springsteen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he knew that if he was ever going to make his mark on the larger world, it […]
One month before Marvel's latest superhero outing, Doctor Strange, finally makes its way into theaters, a casting controversy — specifically, the fact that Tilda Swinton will be portraying the Ancient One, a character whose ethnicity is Asian in the original comic books — continues to dominate the conversation. Perhaps most prominent, Strange's director Scott Derrickson said he was "listening and learning" after the outrage broke out earlier this year, while George Takei offered […]
The Ramones left an indelible mark on New York City, and now, the band will be memorialized in their native Queens. According to a statement on the band's official website, a street in front of the borough's Forest Hills High School -- which all four of the group's founding members attended -- will be renamed Ramones Way. The renamed street will be unveiled in a ceremony at the intersection of […]
Facebook is gunning after Craigslist and eBay. On Monday the social network introduced a new tab in its mobile app called Marketplace, which lets you buy and sell things to people in your city. It will replace the Messenger shortcut in the bottom center of the main Facebook app. Facebook says it created Marketplace because 450 million people already buy and sell things every month to each other through organized Facebook groups — think "Electronics for sale […]
Tate Taylor's adaptation of the bestselling Paula Hawkins novel stars Emily Blunt as an alcoholic who becomes obsessed with a local murder case. Paula Hawkins is on record as disliking comparisons of her sensationally successful 2015 bestseller The Girl on the Train to the previous “girl” crime fiction smash, Gone Girl. There's no doubt that Tate Taylor, the director of the film version of Hawkins' novel, will also object to […]
Superhero movies are a pretty divisive genre. While they consistently rake up tons of money at the box office and (at least for the MCU) positive critical attention, audiences rarely agree on how good the movies are. In particular, the casting and performance of beloved comic book characters is usually picked apart by the fandom. Case in point: Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne. The news of Affleck's involvement in the DCEU […]
Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” topped a feeble crop of new releases to pick up first place at the weekend box office, opening to $28.5 million. That’s a mediocre start given the fantasy film’s $110 million budget. However, the adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ best-selling young adult novel is doing well overseas where it made $36.5 million from 59 territories, so its global grosses could push it into […]
Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist John Legend is set to perform at the dedication of a recently renovated $2.5 million theater that's named in his honor. The Springfield News-Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2dtj2O7 ) Legend donated $500,000 for the project and will perform at the Oct. 9 ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 680-seat John Legend Theater at the Springfield Center of Innovation: The Dome. Legend is a graduate of Springfield North High School. The […]
Business as usual? Angelina Jolie is in early talks to star in upcoming war drama Shoot Like a Girl, a source confirms to Us Weekly. The news comes amid her messy divorce from Brad Pitt. The film is based on the upcoming memoir Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Major Mary Jennings Hegar, which is due out March 2017. Angelina […]
