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The Heavy Metal Truants have announced details of their fifth Heavy Metal Curry night – this time with Uriah Heep founder, guitarist and sole constant member Mick Box.
The film stars Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, and many others
Band will only play future events that feature a certain percentage of women, non-binary performers
The New Yorker-inspired tale stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Adrien Brody, and more.
Wes Anderson Unveils Trailer for The French Dispatch: Watch
Ben Kaye
Following the film’s first poster and set photos, the trailer for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun has been unveiled. Due out July 24th via the Disney-rebranded Searchlight Pictures, the movie finds the auteur filmmaker assembling another stellar cast of familiars and newcomers for a tale inspired by the works and history of The New Yorker.
Taking place in a fictional French town in the 20th century, The French Dispatch centers on a foreign outpost of an American newspaper — the Evening Sun. The action brings to life the stories from the paper’s final issue, as well as the drama around the editorial staff of The French Dispatch.
Making up that staff and its surrounding characters is perhaps the most talented ensemble assembled on film in recent history: Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park, and Mathieu Amalric are among the top-billed stars.
Also featured in the movie are Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman, Saoirse Ronan, Angelica Huston, Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Christoph Waltz, Bob Balaban, Henry Winkler… and more.
Watch the trailer for The French Dispatch — easily one of the year’s most exciting releases — below.
You can also revisit the debut season of Filmography, which dissected Anderson’s entire resume through three expansive episodes.
Wes Anderson Unveils Trailer for The French Dispatch: Watch
Ben Kaye
Lana Wilson, the director of Taylor Swift’s “Miss Americana” documentary, tells MTV News about capturing the pop star’s journey to self-acceptance, why her film is a coming-of-age story, and more.
The sci-fi thriller returns on February 27th.
Netflix Reveals Altered Carbon Season 2 Release Date, First Trailer: Watch
Nina Corcoran
Netflix has announced the release date for season 2 of Altered Carbon. The sci-fi series will return on February 27th, with all eight episodes dropping at once on the streaming platform. Update: The first trailer has also been unveiled.
Season 2 has several new faces, including Takeshi Kovacs himself — Avengers star Anthony Mackie has officially replaced Joel Kinnaman in the role. Newcomers include Simone Missick as Trepp, an expert bounty hunter; James Saito as Tanaseda Hideki, an old Yakuza boss; Lela Loren as Danica Harlan, governor of the planet Harlan’s World; Dina Shihabi as Dig 301, a job-less A.I. programmed to aid in archeology; and Torben Liebrecht as Colonel Carrera, a Protectorate Special Forces unit leader. Chris Conner will return as Poe, the A.I. role he had in Season 1.
(Read: 50 Most Anticipated TV Shows in 2020)
According to Netflix’s show description, the plot of Altered Carbon‘s next season will focus primarily on Takeshi Kovacs trying to reunite with his longtime love, Quellcrist Falconer, as that quest coincides with his crime-solving mission regardless. It reads:
“Season 2 of the sophisticated and compelling sci-fi drama finds Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries-old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself recruited back to his home planet of Harlan’s World with the promise of finding Quell. Haunted by his past and responsible for investigating a series of brutal murders, Kovacs is stunned to discover his new mission to solve the crime and his pursuit to find Quell are one and the same. With the help of his loyal A.I. Poe (Chris Conner), Kovacs must now partner with new allies to outwit his enemies and find the truth: Who is Quellcrist Falconer?”
Pass the time until season 2 drops on Netflix by revisiting our interview with Dr. Virginie Mansuy Aubert, an actual neuroscientist who broke down the science behind Altered Carbon.
Netflix Reveals Altered Carbon Season 2 Release Date, First Trailer: Watch
Nina Corcoran
“Make the White House Great Again”
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Guns N’Roses frontman Axl Rose has returned to Twitter to deliver a political message.
After being away from the social media platform for several months, Axl broke his silence with a Tweet seemingly mocking Donald Trump and his ‘Make America Great Again’ hats.
Axl tweeted a picture of a man in a blue hat which contained the slogan “Make The White House Great Again.” You can see the tweet below.
— Axl Rose (@axlrose) February 10, 2020
Pharrell Williams, Steven Tyler, and Prince’s estate have all threatened legal action against the US President previously, after discovering he had used their music during campaign events ahead of the mid-term elections.
The Guns N’ Roses frontman offered his view of the situation while confirming the band have also “formally requested” Trump stop playing their songs.
“Just so ya know… GNR like a lot of artists opposed to the unauthorized use of their music at political events has formally requested r music not b used at Trump rallies or Trump associated events,” he tweeted at the time.
“Unfortunately the Trump campaign is using loopholes in the various venues’ blanket performance licenses which were not intended for such craven political purposes, without the songwriters’ consent. Can u say ‘shitbags?!’”
Axl was also critical of Kanye West’s visit to The White House in 2018, describing it as “a joke” and “attention seeking nonsense.”
The ‘Ye’ star met with Trump inside the Oval Office with a televised sit-down between the rapper, the President and the former NFL player Jim Brown taking place prior to a working lunch which was set to focus on such topics as urban revitalisation, new workforce training programs and more.“What a joke. Not gonna solve anything in Chicago or anywhere else with any of that attention seeking nonsense”, Rose wrote on Twitter.
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“… if I had something to speak up about, I would totally do it. But no, I never saw anything; he never did anything.”
Macaulay Culkin Defends Friendship With Michael Jackson in New Interview
Robin Bacior
Macaulay Culkin has spoken out about his childhood relationship with Michael Jackson, maintaining that the late pop star never engaged in appropriate or abusive behavior.
In a new interview with Esquire, the Home Alone star was upfront about his friendship with the Thriller singer. “I’m gonna begin with the line—it’s not a line, it’s the truth: He never did anything to me,” the actor commented. “I never saw him do anything. And especially at this flash point in time, I’d have no reason to hold anything back. The guy has passed on. If anything—I’m not gonna say it would be stylish or anything like that, but right now is a good time to speak up. And if I had something to speak up about, I would totally do it. But no, I never saw anything; he never did anything.”
The two were publicly known to be close, but that bond has been under renewed scrutiny following the release Leaving Neverland, which re-examined Jackson’s past relationships with underage boys. However, Culkin insisted that he and the pop star (who was 22 years his senior) had only a platonic friendship, stemming from similar childhood upbringings. Jackson later named Culkin the godfather of his daughter, Paris, and the two have remained close over the years. According to Esquire, they even have matching spoon tattoos.
The last time Culkin saw Michael Jackson was at the Santa Barbara County Superior Courthouse in 2005. Culkin was testifying on Jackson’s behalf after he had been charged with intoxicating and molesting a 13-year old boy (he was later acquitted). The actor ran into Jackson in the bathroom, and the pop star allegedly told Culkin, “We better not talk. I don’t want to influence your testimony.”
Yet after all these, and as more allegations of wrongdoing have come to light, Culkin is still willing to go to bat for Jackson:
“Here’s a good Michael Jackson story that doesn’t involve Michael Jackson at all: I ran into James Franco on a plane. I’d bumped into him two or three times over the years. I give him a little nod as we’re putting our bags overhead. Hey, how you doing? Good, how ya doing? And it was right after the Leaving Neverland documentary came out, and he goes, ‘So, that documentary!’ And that was all he said. I was like, ‘Uh-huh.’ Silence. So then he goes, ‘So what do you think?’ And I turned to him and I go, ‘Do you wanna talk about your dead friend?’ And he sheepishly went, ‘No, I don’t.’ So I said, ‘Cool, man, it was nice to see you.’ ”
Read the full interview over at Esquire.
Overall public opinion concerning Jackson’s lasting legacy remains split, with artists like Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, and T.I. voicing their support of the singer, while others including Drake and “Weird Al” Yankovic have pulled all trace of his pop hits from their concerts. Disney has removed the Jackson-featuring episode of The Simpsons from its Disney+ streaming platform, and a number of radio stations have ceased airing Jackson’s music altogether.
Meanwhile, a recently premiered musical called For the Glove ties Jackson’s allegedly abusive behavior to an alien-shaped glove that lusts after “virgin boy blood.”
Macaulay Culkin Defends Friendship With Michael Jackson in New Interview
Robin Bacior
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In a new interview with Holland’s FaceCulture, SABATON frontman Joakim Brodén was asked how his opinion of the band’s latest album, “The Great War”, has changed in the six months since the LP’s release. He responded: “I don’t hate it anymore. When it c…
