Iran filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof gets prison, lashings before Cannes
The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes…
2024 Grammys were stuck between Taylor Swift and a hard place
Maybe the real psyop was letting us think she might not win. Accepting the pop vocal album prize for “Midnights” at Sunday’s 66th Grammy Awards,…
The mind-blowing comedy of Jacqueline Novak in ‘Get on Your Knees’
Jacqueline Novak’s debut stand-up special, “Get on Your Knees,” began as an essay she wrote in the early 2000s, while an undergraduate at Georgetown University,…