Posts by Nathan Pine
Alma Har’el’s ‘Wet’ Heads To TIFF Market With A-List Cast Circling
Honey Boy director Alma Har’el’s next project Wet is heading to the TIFF market with Patrick Wachsberger’s 193 and is attracting what could be a killer cast. News of the project broke online last month via Page Six who reported that Oscar winner Javier Bardem was in talks. Bardem remains in early talks for the…
Read More‘Paranormal Activity’ Broadway Review: A Frightfully Grand Guignol
There are plenty of laughs in Paranormal Activity, a play that just might be Broadway‘s scariest horror story ever, but they’re not the lighthearted jolly chuckles of, say, Titanique or the gut-bucket guffaws of Oh, Mary! No, the laughs in Levi Holloway‘s chiller are more along the lines of those recalled from sharing a movie…
Read MoreTrump’s approval rating nosedives to new low with young voters
President Donald Trump’s net approval among voters aged 18 to 34 has fallen to minus 44, an all-time low for that age group in Echelon Insights polling. The deterioration is significant before the 2026 midterms because Trump’s sharply improved performance with younger voters helped broaden the coalition that returned him to the White House in…
Read MoreAmid Growing Galliano Backlash, Met Gala Mulls Date Change – Report
Amid growing backlash over the Met Gala‘s choice to honor designer John Galliano at the big event next May, Met trustees and board members are “mulling” whether to reschedule the fundraiser away from the previously announced May 3 date to avoid coinciding with the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day. The possibility of postponing the gala…
Read MoreAlex Winter Bringing ‘Incident At Vichy’ 2027 Revival To Off Broadway
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Winter, who costarred with his old Bill & Ted partner Keanu Reeves last year in the Broadway revival of Waiting For Godot, will return to the New York stage next year in a Small Boat Productions Off Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1964 play Incident at Vichy. Winter will both star in and…
Read MoreYes, Sneaker Mules Are a Thing—Here’s How to Actually Wear Them
For the last decade, sneakers have dominated the fashion world. From ballet sneakers to Mary Jane it seems we’ve seen every possible sneaker iteration…except we haven’t. Scrolling through TikTok, there seems to be a new sneaker style emerging, and yes, it’s controversial. We’re talking about the sneaker mule. Also called a slip-on sneaker, this backless…
Read MoreTrump-shaped ecstasy pills issued fatal warning in tourist hotspot
Ecstasy pills shaped to look like the head of Donald Trump are potentially deadly, a drug institute in the Netherlands has warned. The Trimbos Institute warned against the use of the pills that depict the U.S. president’s head on one side and “NL” and “Trump” stamped on the other, after they had been handed into…
Read MoreAOC within striking distance of beating Vance in new 2028 poll
Democratic Representative of New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is within striking distance of Republican Vice President JD Vance in an early hypothetical 2028 presidential contest, new polling shows, although neither party has chosen a nominee. Key Points Vance received 45.1 percent to Ocasio-Cortez’s 41.8 percent, with 9.6 percent undecided and 3.5 percent choosing someone else. Among…
Read MoreJenny Lupton update: Final text of flight attendant found dead revealed
The family of Jenny Lupton has revealed the details of the last text message the flight attendant had sent before she was found dead during a layover in Hawaii. Lupton, 50, of Moore, Oklahoma, was found dead on August 20 after an apparent fall from a hotel balcony during a layover in Waikiki, her family…
Read MoreWhat Meta’s $17-billion settlement revealed about the harms of social media
After months of hype and mere hours in front of the jury, California’s blockbuster suit against Meta ended on Wednesday with a sweeping $17-billion settlement and 130 pages of promised changes to the platforms. Witnesses at the blink-and-you-miss-it Oakland trial echoed much of what had already been heard this year by juries in Los Angeles,…
Read MoreH-1B workers could face rapid deportation under new Trump plan
Foreign workers who lose their jobs could soon have far less time to remain legally in the United States under a Trump administration proposal moving closer to public release. Key Points Read More on News What To Know The White House completed its review Thursday of a DHS proposal that would remove a job-loss grace…
Read MoreInside ‘The Great British Bake Off’ Legal Fight Involving Sky & Love
EXCLUSIVE: In an op-ed during the Edinburgh TV Festival this week, Sky’s content chief Cecile Frot-Coutaz extolled the virtues of UK public service broadcasting as the Comcast-owned company finalizes its takeover of ITV. “Our ambition is to keep investing in brilliant British storytelling for generations to come,” she intoned in Broadcast. But away from the…
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