Many years ago, there was an extreme backlash against the kids show Barney & Friends for being too cheerful and upbeat. Part of that backlash was a preponderance of jokes about the cheerful singing purple dinosaur somehow revealing a dark side, terrorizing the children trapped with him in his soundstage home. Those jokes now reach their final form with Buddy, the deranged comedy-horror hybrid directed by Casper Kelly, perhaps most famous for the viral Adult Swim short Too Many Cooks.Too Many Cooks derived much of its comedy and its horror from the perversion of wholesome TV sitcom opening credits, and…
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National Award winner Shekhar Kapur is set to revisit his iconic film Masoom with a fresh take titled Masoom: The Next Generation. The original film, which released 43 years ago, holds a special place in Indian cinema and continues to be regarded as a cult classic. The latest update on the much awaited film is that Academy Award winner AR Rahman has already begun work on the project. Rahman will compose the music for the film and has already recorded three songs in Los Angeles. He will also co-produce the project alongside Shekhar Kapur. Shekhar and Rahman’s association dates back…
Legend of White Dragon comes out in 2026, and this is the film that Power Rangers fans have been waiting for years to see. That is because this is Jason David Frank’s final film, and it is the closest that anything will come to a new Power Rangers movie in years. However, while this is very similar to what fans might expect to see in a Power Rangers film, that does not mean this is a Power Rangers movie at all. Legend of the White Dragon started as a Kickstarter-funded movie, with co-director Aaron Schoenke and former Power Rangers star…
Let’s talk about hemp milk. It’s easy to make at home (no soaking required), and yields a silky-smooth, creamy milk. Hemp milk boasts the most impressive nutrition profile of my alternative milk recipes, offering nearly 10 grams of plant-based protein per serving. While hemp milk can’t compete on the calcium front, it offers an array of nutrients that can be hard to come by otherwise. I always feel good about sprinkling some hemp seeds into my baby’s food or serving my daughter a glass of this hemp milk. It was our house milk of choice for a couple of years,…
Hayden Panettiere’s BF Brian Hitting On Other Woman Months Before Her Death?!? ‘I Owe You A Date’ Published August 27, 2026 12:45 PM PDT Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend was allegedly sliding into another woman’s DMs just a few short months before Hayden died. Here’s the deal … Page Six published a story Thursday reporting on alleged messages Brian sent to an unnamed Greenville, South Carolina woman in March … roughly 5 months before Hayden’s tragic death in Greenville. This woman allegedly met Brian at the downtown nightclub the Cat’s Pajamas on March 28 … though she admitted to P6 she was…
Straight off the release of new album Punching the Clown, Lambchop have shared a deadpan comedy short, Joke Country, depicting a fictional radio interview. Steve Marsh plays the host interviewing Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner, portrayed by Henry Phillips, who led the cast of a 2009 film also called Punching the Clown. The 10-minute short, directed by the real Kurt Wagner, packs in a barrage of dry riffs, meta gags, and pinwheeling semi-sequiturs. Watch it below.As Sam Sodomsky notes in Pitchfork’s review of the album, the movie Punching the Clown, which Lambchop have cited as an inspiration, “centers on the trials and…
What happens when college life, friendship, first love and a whole lot of growing up collide? Prime Video, along with Alia Bhatt and Shaheen Bhatt’s Eternal Sunshine Productions, today unveiled the teaser of its upcoming movie Don’t Be Shy. Starring a fresh cast, the film features Aarushi Bajaj as Shy, Piyush Khati as Mayank, Bianca Arora as Tara, and Ansh Duggal as Dhruv. The film explores a vibrant world of friendship, romance and coming-of-age chaos. The talented ensemble captures the film’s infectious energy with vibrant visuals, groovy music, playful chemistry, and emotional twists, promising a fun-filled ride through some of…
EXCLUSIVE: Adria Arjona is open to a Star Wars return after Andor, but she has a few conditions. The Peabody Award winner starred in the Disney+ series as Bix Caleen, a mechanic working on the planet of Ferrix whose modest life is disrupted by the return of her former partner, Diego Luna’s eponymous character, turning her into a fugitive from the Empire and a resilient member of the Rebellion. By Andor’s ending, in which Cassian ventured off for his Rogue One mission, Bix was last seen on Mina-Rau, presumed to be that of hers and the eponymous character’s. A Long…
Rob & Michele Reiner’s Son Jake My Family Is All But Gone Published August 27, 2026 9:39 AM PDT Jake Reiner says he lost over half his family when his parents were brutally killed, and his brother was arrested for their murders … leaving just him and his sister. Jake opened up about how life has been since Rob and Michele Reiner were stabbed to death and his brother, Nick, was arrested and charged with their murders … in his first sit-down interview since their deaths. He told KABC-TV … “It’s been 8 months. It feels like 8 years at…
David Byrne is once again adding to his decades-long concert-film legacy with the upcoming Who Is the Sky? Helmed by The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet, the forthcoming project, a follow-up to 2023’s Spike Lee-shot American Utopia, was filmed over multiple nights in Byrne’s hometown of Baltimore during his most recent tour. Release details will be unveiled at a later date.“When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn’t realize what a difference it would make until I saw some frames he sent me,” Byrne wrote in a statement. “He was right, it…