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Today we talk about Bridgerton season 3, Panic! at the Disco’s new single, and Justin Bieber heading back out on tour. Bridgerton Season 3 Shondaland and Netflix officially have season 3 of Bridgerton moving full steam ahead. Production has begun in London and it looks like we’re in for a classic “will they, won’t they” situation as Penelope Featherington has given up on her love for Colin Bridgerton. She begins to distance herself from him, while searching for a husband but her insecurities get in her way and she isn’t finding success. Colin feels the distance between them and offers… Read more »
Basically: NOPE is Jordan Peele’s JAWS turned up into a sensory spectacle Jordan Peele, much like Hitchcock, Serling, Clouzot, and even Shyamalan, has sculpted a niche out of the horror-tinged thriller genre—to such a stylistic degree it is a fingerprint. Exhibit A: During the first third of his films, Peele creates a symbolic framework of backstory, objects, trauma, character idiosyncrasies, and music. Those become the 3D glasses we as the audience use to fully experience the context as well as the denouement of the story. Exhibit B: Black American culture. Period. Blackness in all of its hues is another signifier… Read more »
The Minions have another adventure in the 70s with young Gru as he tries to be a supervillain.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Pride Month and how there’s still so much work to do.
Last year a report from USC brought to light that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up less than 6% of speaking roles in the entertainment industry and 4% of lead roles. The study looked at 13,000 popular films and found that of the 4% with AAPI leads, only 6 were women, 0 were women over 40, 0 were in the LGBTQ+ community, and 14 were Dwayne Johnson. The numbers for people behind the camera were incredibly low as well. Every year, for one month, we tell people in the AAPI community they are important. We tell them we want… Read more »
Two Black best friends and their Latino roommate go into crisis mode when they find a mysteriously unconscious white girl in their house…
I think about what influences artists a lot. That might seem like a “well, yeah,” from the guy who does a show dissecting metal and hardcore artists’ musical inspirations, but the reason I do that is because it’s how I think. I often wonder about what inspires the artists as people. Not so much where they get ideas; as Neil Gaiman said, “I make them up, out of my head.” No, it’s a step before that. What gets artists into that space where they can create? “Inside, I was angry as fuck at the world, obviously, so that’s where the… Read more »
Two best friends go on an all-day adventure after making a suicide pact for the end of the night.
On Today’s Episode Cinco de Mayo hangover hacks, Chris Rock’s killer comeback at the Hollywood Bowl, and David Alan Grier on today’s round Stop Me When You Know It…Enjoy! The Brett Davern Show is streamed LIVE daily at 10am (eastern) 7am (pacific) on idobi Radio at https://idobi.com. Follow Brett on social media @BDavv, Katie : @KatieLeclerc, the show @BrettDavernShow
