Fox News is under fire from media observers for hosting a viruently anti-gay group and a controversial author with anti-gay views on Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle, particularly sensitive issues as cities across the nation celebrate Pride Month. On Thursday, the Fox News personality and podcast host invited the…

As the summer solstice approaches, on June 21, it's not too soon to start fretting about the earliest-ever Academy Awards ceremony, set for Feb. 9 of next year. Granted, the Oscars were handed out in seemingly earlier November of 1930, 1931 and 1932. But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences qualified films…

The Chicago Cubs had a Billy goat. The Boston Red Sox had the Curse of the Bambino. And now the Los Angeles Lakers have media personality LaVar Ball joining the lineup of great sports curses, as the volatile Ball has guaranteed the fabled basketball team will never win another championship because of their treatment…

President Donald Trump was benevolent in his Father’s Day Twitter addresses to the world. He honored the obvious, saluting Dads across the nation, a group including his “worst and most vicious critics,” and found time to give a shout-out to Fox News correspondent Pete Hegseth, who became engaged. Those kindnesses out…

4th Update Sunday AM writethru, after Friday midday and Saturday AM updates If you’re a rival major studio in the Disney-Fox era and you want to continue to play around with franchises, you have to make a movie that’s so outstanding, there’s no question in any person’s mind that they should go to the cinema. The…

For anyone wondering why O.J. Simpson started a Twitter account, he took to the social media platform Saturday night to offer an explanation. In his second tweet since opening an account 24 hours earlier, Simpson said in a new video he wants to “set the record straight.” Which record? He didn’t say. “Hello Twitter…

The Tick creator Ben Edlund delivered a dose of bad news to fans this weekend. Despite shopping the canceled Amazon series, there are no takers. “After much door-knocking we have found no new home for the Tick series in this current market. #SaveTheTick & #LunaTickArmy I’m sorry we could not reward your glorious…

Daniel Craig is on the mend and expected to return to filming Bond 25 next week. The official 007 Instagram page posted a picture Saturday of the actor working out at the gym. He was wearing an ankle brace as his left leg heals following an accident on the set of the new James Bond movie. "#007 Daniel Craig hitting…

I Lost My Body, Jeremy Clapin's feature animation debut, picked up the Cristal today for a feature film at the 2019 Annecy Int'l Animated Film Festival. The film also won a Critics' Week Award last month at Cannes, and was picked up by Netflix. Other Annecy winners included Gints Zilbalodis' Away, which picked up the…

Fox Corp. executive chairman Rupert Murdoch bought shares in the company worth $21.2 million about a week after buying a similar amount “in error” and then quickly selling it again. According to the latest in a series of SEC filings, the company disclosed on Friday that Murdoch bought 600,000 shares in Fox Corp.…