Often, the juries at the Cannes Film Festival will try to make a political statement in their choices for the winners of the world’s most famous film festival. Not this year. At least, not in the way they might have.
13.05.2024 - 21:23 / variety.com
Alison Herman TV Critic The premise of the drag makeover show “We’re Here” is that queer liberation hasn’t extended as far as it could. For three seasons, a group of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alumni have traveled to small towns throughout the country, helping members of the local LGBTQ community assert their identity and visibility through gender-bending performances.
But even a project that deliberately targets places where gay and trans people might feel cut off from a sense of camaraderie — many locations are scattered throughout the South and Midwest, with occasional detours to California and Hawai’i — didn’t anticipate their own art form coming under such intense public scrutiny. “I would never have predicted that, four seasons later, it’s actually harder to be out and proud,” Priyanka says in last month’s premiere.
The “Canada’s Drag Race” winner is one of several new faces this season, which bids farewell to Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela in favor of a complete cast turnover. (Shangela, legally known as Darius Pierce, currently faces multiple accusations of sexual assault, but her voice appears in a baton-passing introduction that implies there’s no bad blood in the previous hosts’ departure.
Pierce denies the allegations, which go unmentioned in “We’re Here.”) But the new episodes also pick up on a thread that began with Season 3’s finale, a two-part spotlight on Ron DeSantis’s Florida and its widely condemned slate of anti-LGBTQ legislation. “We’re Here” has leaned into this structure with a season that’s more serialized, allowing an extended focus on both its local subjects and the increasingly prejudiced political environment they’re trying to live their lives within.
Often, the juries at the Cannes Film Festival will try to make a political statement in their choices for the winners of the world’s most famous film festival. Not this year. At least, not in the way they might have.
Lady Gaga has revealed that she came down with COVID during five shows on her ‘Chromatica Ball’ tour in 2022.The singer-songwriter, who attended the fan premiere of her upcoming concert film Gaga Chromatica Ball in Los Angeles last night (May 23), said she was ill on the tour during a Q&A with Access Hollywood‘s Scott Evans ahead of the screening.She said: “I shared it with everyone on my team. I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable at work and you don’t have to perform and you don’t have to work that day, but I’m going to do the show’ because I just didn’t want to let all the fans down.
It was a night of celebration at The Voice as NBC‘s singing competition wrapped Season 25.
Slipknot percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan was absent from the band’s headline show at Sonic Temple Festival last weekend due to “medical reasons”.The masked group played a 14-track set at the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday (May 19) as part of the hard rock and metal event’s final day.Early in the gig, frontman Corey Taylor told the crowd that Slipknot were “missing one of our brothers”. He went on to explain that Clown had “broke a tooth [and] had to have it removed” the day before.Taylor continued: “There is an issue.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Katie Kimmel says her parents – Jimmy Kimmel and his first wife, Gina – didn’t blink when she told them she wanted to be an artist. “There was no shock,” says Katie, a ceramist who is best known for her whimsical dog and cat sculptures. (Full disclosure: This reporter commissioned a vase of my pooches earlier this year.) “My dad is a really great artist.
Brent Lang Executive Editor BuzzFeed Studios and actor and comedian Lil Rel Howeryare partnering on “Saving the Neighborhood,” a new series examining the “existential threats” facing neighborhoods across America. Howery will serve as both the director and the series’s host. The first season of “Saving the Neighborhood” examines the impact of environmental racism on Black and Brown communities across the U.S.
Prime Video’s German series Maxton Hall – The World Between Us has been handed a swift recommission after becoming the streamer’s most-watched international show of all time in its first week.
Dean McDermott has officially moved on from Tori Spelling!
Late in the highly entertaining and enlightening new HBO Documentary Films movie on the life and career of Faye Dunaway we learn how much this iconic star just loves coming to the Cannes Film Festival. “Just about every year,” she says not only for the world’s best films but also to immerse herself in all aspects of filmmaking. In fact I have seen her many times just soaking it all up cinematically both here in Cannes and Telluride to name two fests. So it seems appropriate that the Cannes Classics section would be the place for the World Premiere Wednesday night (in the presence of Dunaway as the French like to call it) of this terrific new docu in which Dunaway pretty much tells it all straight about her life, loves, desires, ambitions, movies, co-stars, depression, controversies, family, and hopes for the future in a profession she says she can’t imagine not working in.
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are back for another round of the apocalypse. “The Last of Us” season 2 has teased its first photos, showing viewers a glimpsed of what they can expect next year, once the season premieres on HBO.
Fire Country Season 2 is coming to an end, and there’s a big surprise awaiting!
tribute.After a two-month hiatus, the Eras Tour picked up again for its European leg with a run of shows in the City of Love, and as promised, Kelce made it out to support his gal. He’s currently based in California to shoot a Ryan Murphy show before going back to NFL training, but was spotted in the crowd .
Carrie-Anne Moss is set to join Arnold Schwarzenegger in Season 2 of Netflix’s spy adventure series Fubar.
The Radford family are off on another holiday, less than a month after returning from a trip to Disneyland in Florida. Mum-of-22 Sue Radford and her husband Noel have posted that they're making the most of the nice weather on a motorhome holiday.They have revealed that their family are "chilling" in their motorhome , enjoying barbecues and playing on swing sets on a weekend trip.The family posted their luxury RV, which cost an estimated £40,000, on their Instagram page to their 520,000 followers.Their motorhome boasts plenty of seating for their 22 children, and when it's bedtime the seating turns into beds.
Shohei Ohtani’s former translator Ippei Mizuhara is indeed heading for the small screen. Lionsgate Television is developing a scripted series about the absurd situation that engulfed baseball’s biggest star and revealed one of his closest friends had allegedly stolen nearly $17 million from Ohtani to cover gambling debts to an alleged California bookmaker, the studio announced.
Steve Martin and Martin Short news this year would be all the special guests they’ve lined up for Season four of Hulu’s “Only Murders In The Building.”(For the record, Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria, Eugene Levy, Kumail Nanjiani, and Zach Galifianakis are joining the ensemble).However, that’s not all the funnymen have planned for this year.Martin and Short just announced they’ve added ten shows to their ongoing ‘Dukes Of Funnytown Tour.’The newly added gigs will take place from September through October and includes a night at Brookville, NY’s Tilles Center Concert Hall on Saturday, Oct.
The trailer for the upcoming fourth and final season of Power Book II: Ghost was just released!
NCT Dream have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape’ world tour, with concerts in Asia, Europe, the US and more.NCT Dream’s 2024 ‘The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape’ world tour currently features 17 shows across Asia, with concerts in nine different cities. The Latin America, US and Europe legs of the tour will be revealed on May 8.‘The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape’ kick offed with a three-date concert on May 2 in Seoul, South Korea.
Deadmau5 is celebrating his impressive legacy!
It's May already, and with a new month brings new shows to binge.