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Credit: Getty Images Does Lindsay Clancy get to go free now that her trial ended in a mistrial? No, that’s not how it works. Judge William Sullivan formally declared a mistrial in Clancy’s murder trial on Friday (September 4) after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. The decision came after the jury spent more than seven days in deliberations. “With a heavy heart, we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision. We will not be able to,” the jury wrote in a note to the judge on Friday. 1 One juror was holding out…
This post contains spoilers for the Chad Powers Season 2 finale Football players never want to be butterfingers on the field, but just imagine if they were catching balls with scissor hands instead. The Season 2 finale of Glen Powell’s pigskin comedy Chad Powers — all six episodes are streaming now on Hulu — opens with the star’s alter ego heading to an empty revival movie theater for a secret meeting with a traitorous teammate. And the vintage movie playing onscreen during this encounter is Tim Burton’s much-loved 1990 fantasy classic about another fish out of water, Edward Scissorhands, starring…
Disney Star Carla Jeffery’s Family Responds to Claim Drugs Were Involved in Her DeathContent warning: This story discusses the death of a child. Russell Howard’s family is navigating an unimaginable loss. The British comedian shared that he and longtime partner Dr. Cerys Morgan newborn baby boy Felix died hours after his birth earlier this year in a loss left Howard’s “family changed forever.” “During the most devastating time of our lives,” he continued in his Sept. 4 statement shared to social media, “the hospital staff who cared for us showed extraordinary compassion, kindness and humanity. They helped us navigate an unimaginable…
There aren’t too many filmmakers working right now who can claim to have witnessed World War II and the advent of artificial intelligence, but Ridley Scott certainly can. The 88-year-old director recently returned to the sci-fi genre with the post-apocalyptic movie The Dog Stars, and in an interview leading up to it, he spoke about the influences behind his vision for the future. Scott said that he grew up as a “war baby” in the 1940s and 1950s, witnessing closely the devastation caused by World War II. He specifically remembered the sight of German submarines bobbing in the sea and…
We knew it would be bad. The people in Silo 1 have, it seems, already orchestrated the nuclear annihilation of the surface world, or at least of Atlanta, Georgia. What would slaughtering a few more people, roughly ten thousand at a time, matter to them? For the purposes of Silo’s main narrative, they’ve already done it at least once, to Silo 17. Mass murder is baked right into the concept. But knowing it is one thing, and seeing it done is something else entirely. This episode’s entire opening sequence is a sickening display of organized sociopathy, in which a handful…
Gifted nonfiction filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw have made a specialty of documenting tradition-bound practices rooted in the soil. In The Truffle Hunters, it was the disappearing breed of men and their sniffer dogs roaming the hills of Italy’s Piedmont region in search of aromatic Alba tubers that fetch a high price in the best restaurants. In Gaucho Gaucho, it was the community of Argentinian cowboys stewarding the land and tending to their animals off the grid in the mountainous Salta region. In Burgundy, the directors train their exquisitely observational vérité gaze over the vineyards, owners and workers whose lives revolve around production and…
Jim Thornton, the longtime announcer for the popular game show Wheel Of Fortune, has been suspended from his job for the time being — and its all because some very unsettling details are coming to light this week. So, this all started on Thursday, when TMZ published photos that supposedly showed the 61-year-old game show announced browsing a website on his laptop while on a flight to Los Angeles back in May. According to the outlet, the images were apparently provided by a passenger on the American Airlines flight who alerted the airline with an official complaint. Per the complaint, Thornton was allegedly…
The Creative Arts Emmys, now officially referred to as “Emmys Night 1” and “Emmys Night 2,” have never been more consequentially. Outside of the still-questionable category shifts that moved some of the Limited/TV Movie honors out of the telecast (thus forcing the rebrand), the preliminary evenings of awards could have even bigger implications for the main show than usual. There’s the incredibly tight race for Limited Series, which will ultimately be decided at the main show, but that has some key indicator awards at the Creative Arts. There’s Comedy Guest Actor, which will see two television titans (one sadly passed)…
Taylor Frankie Paul is owning up to her mistakes! News broke on Thursday, September 3, that the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 32, did indeed get engaged on her unaired season of The Bachelorette — and then hooked up with ex Dakota Mortensen after returning home from filming. Taylor opened up about the incident with her Mormon Wives costars Jessi Draper, Mikayla Matthews and Mayci Neeley in a scene filmed for the show’s upcoming fifth season, an exclusive clip of which was shared by Hulu’s “Get Real” podcast on Thursday. Later on Thursday, Taylor took to Instagram to share…
Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s endpoint (one Loktev could not have foreseen when she began shooting on her iPhone X) was the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and the overnight escape of her close friends from Moscow after they were branded foreign agents for reporting on war crimes. “My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile” follows their stories amidst this exodus, a globetrotting journey that proves harrowing…