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Spiritbox have shared a pro-shot video of their earth-shattering performance of “Soft Spine” with special guest Poppy at the recent Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The song highlighted a set that was a clear standout among the dozens of bands that performed at the multi-day fest.

“Soft Spine” is Spiritbox’s latest single, and it finds singer Courtney Laplante in full scream mode. During the Canadian metal act’s rain-soaked set at Louder Than Life, Laplante didn’t hold back as she delivered a crushing vocal in front of the massive crowd.

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Halfway through the song, Poppy walked out onstage, having just performed her own set, and screamed her lungs out, as well. The two powerful screams then came together for the remainder of the song, whipping the crowd into a frenzy.

Poppy was one of three surprise guests during Spiritbox’s Louder Than Life set,...

Iron & Wine has returned with the announcement of his seventh studio album, Light Verse. He’s also shared the album’s first single, “You Never Know,” as well as a slew of 2024 headlining tour dates.

Light Verse marks Sam Beam’s first album in seven years as Iron & Wine, and will arrive on April 26th via Sub Pop. The album was produced by Beam in Los Angeles and features a 24-person orchestra on four of its 10 tracks. Also appearing on Light Verse is Fiona Apple, who lent vocals to the duet “All in Good Time.”

“You Never Know,” the first offering from Light Verse, begins with some signature finger-plucked guitar work from Beam before blooming into harmony-laden folk pop majesty. Throughout the track, Beam sings of a bastion of “coulds,” eventually landing on the idea that regardless of the twists and turns that life can take, you never know what the outcome will be.

Amazon Prime Video’s hit drama series “The Boys” has gone from strength to strength in each of its three seasons so far, as proven by their increasingly impressive Rotten Tomatoes score.

Eric Kripke‘s superhero satire started off with a score of 85% for its debut season before its sophomore outing jumped up to 97%. Now, its third and most recent season, which will be hoping to compete at this year’s Emmys, has earned the show its highest Rt score yet with a near-perfect 98%.

The series follows Karl Urban‘s Butcher and Jack Quaid‘s Hughie as they lead the fight against superhero company Vought International and their team of terrible supes The Seven, led by Antony Starr‘s evil Homelander. In season three, the series ramped it up a notch to give viewers some of its most shocking moments yet and a tantalizing pay-off that teases even darker things...

The Season 2 finale of “Yellowjackets” left us with dropped jaws — and a lot of questions. We still don’t know who “pit girl” is, but we did see how things escalate to the point where the survivors began hunting each other to stay alive.

Although, as creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson told TheWrap before the Season 2 premiere, not every question will be answered. Said Nickerson, when asked if he minded the comparisons to the often frustrating “Lost”: “I don’t always want everything to be answered. Like, I do and I don’t, because so much of what made ‘Lost’ so engrossing was the mystery, not just the mystery of what happened, but the sort of reclamation of the spookiness of being alive. You can’t give all the answers and maintain that spookiness.”

With that in mind, here are some of the most pressing issues that still need to be answered.

This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets." It has been nice to see adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) in therapy on this season of "Yellowjackets." Specifically that it's a gentle, seemingly helpful form of talk therapy. The second season opener treated us to a grim scene in which teen Lottie (Courtney Eaton), recently recovered from the wilderness, is forced into Ect (electroconvulsive therapy) by her parents, who just want a psychiatrist to "fix her." Putting aside the fact that Ect has (thankfully) profoundly evolved past the barbaric "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" style depicted in the episode, the mere act of being forced therapy by your family is traumatizing, regardless of its type.

Obviously, though, enduring what the Yellowjackets survivors had to face out there in the Rockies took its toll. Virtually every survivor has struggled to assimilate back into the mundanity of everyday life at one time or another, and...

The news that Paramount+ would be merged with Showtime later in 2023 sent shockwaves through the industry when it was first announced in late January. It’s not every day that a growing streaming service adds content from a premium cable network, after all.

That integration will take place early in the third quarter of this year, according to Paramount officials, but if you’re a customer who has never signed up for an account and you want to give Paramount+ with Showtime a trial run, there’s fantastic news for you this week.

Paramount is offering a limited-time offer in which new subscribers can get a full month of Paramount+ with Showtime for free with promo code Springstreaming. That’s an $11.99 value, but new customers can get it for free right now!

How to Get One Free Month of Paramount+ With Showtime Click here to activate the deal. Click the “Try it Free” button,...

This past Sunday, March 26 was the second season premiere of the buzzy (pun intended), potentially supernatural drama “Yellowjackets” on Showtime. However, the episode actually debuted on Friday, March 24 on the network’s on-demand streaming platform Showtime, and the decision to release the episode early ended up being a major win for the show’s ratings.

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The Season 2 premiere of “Yellowjackets” drew in more than 2 million viewers across platforms, according to Showtime. That makes it the best second season debut for any show in over a decade, and breaks the record for on-demand streaming of a Showtime series first set by “Dexter: New Blood” in 2021. It also marks a 110% increase in viewers over the first season premiere.

“‘Yellowjackets’ broke records as the most streamed Showtime debut ever thanks to our extraordinary ensemble cast...

As “Yellowjackets” Season 2, Episode 1 makes clear: Lottie Matthews is a big fucking deal.

Played by Courtney Eaton and new cast member Simone Kessell, Lottie is ostensibly the high school soccer star and plane crash survivor who ends up wearing chain mail and an antler headdress in the series’ cold open, commanding (or at least allowing) her peers to hunt, kill, and eat one of their own. Lottie’s ascent to antler queen is still mostly uncharted, but Season 2 finds her dabbling in blood sacrifice and ritual, emerging almost as a religious leader among her teammates.

Where adult Lottie stands apart from her fellow survivors is accepting that she was her truest self in the wilderness — and building her entire adult life around it. Lottie’s self assurance in both past and present is the key to unlocking the other Yellowjackets’ fear, trauma, and healing.

“Lottie is such a roller coaster,...

Take a look at Season Two of the live-action survival drama series, "Yellowjackets", starring Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell, now streaming on Showtime:

"...equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama, 'Yellowjacket's is the saga of a team of wildly-talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

"The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans...

"...while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later...

"...proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over..."

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Showtime‘s Yellowjackets Season 2 has returned and will hopefully answer some long-awaited questions. Above all, fans want to know the truth of what happened in the wilderness and the cataclysmic event that led to the characters becoming cannibals. Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 1 ends in a way that will have fans stunned on who was the first victim and the first cannibal and what will happen next.

[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 1.]

The main characters of ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 | via Showtime Jackie dies in the freezing cold during ‘Yellowjackets’ finale

As fans know, there was a secret between Jackie and Shauna that would destroy their friendship. The first season revealed that Shauna was having a sexual relationship with Jackie’s boyfriend. In the wilderness, Shauna is pregnant, but Jackie believes the father is someone else. But in the Yellowjacket finale, the truth was revealed after the girls have a drug trip that led to odd sexual behavior.

As far as rebrands go, this should be one of the easiest to remember in recent memory. This week, fuboTV announced it was changing its name, dropping the “TV” and capitalizing the F. Henceforward, the service will be known simply as Fubo, which is generally what its users always called it anyway.

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The rebrand will be accompanied by a new ad campaign co-produced by Ryan Reynolds, and starring NBA phenom Kevin Garnett and longtime NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez. Fubo users will start to see new logos and ads promoting the name change in the coming months.

If you’re a Fubo user, or have been looking into subscribing, you’re probably wondering what has changed other than the name in this rebrand. The short answer is not much. Aside from the name, the high-profile ad campaign and some new logos on the service’s website,...

That noise you hear is the Best Drama Actress Emmy category emptying out this year. Of last year’s six nominees, only one, “Yellowjackets” star Melanie Lynskey, is back in the running. Reigning champ Zendaya (“Euphoria”) and Reese Witherspoon (“The Morning Show”) are missing this cycle, while Laura Linney (“Ozark”) and “Killing Eve” duo Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh competed for the final time for their concluded shows. Assuming Lynskey is safely in — she’s in first in the odds — there are five spots up for grabs. Could she have some company this year from her co-stars Juliette Lewis and Tawny Cypress? If they join Lynskey in the lineup, it’ll mark the first time one show has yielded three nominees in the category in a single year.

Eleven shows have produced two nominees, including “Killing Eve” (Comer and Oh), “Six Feet Under” (Frances Conroy and Rachel Griffiths), “The Sopranos...

A survival show coupled with heavy-duty drama is something that has not been experimented with. There have been many television shows and movies that have been about the survival of a group in the face of a man-made or natural calamity. For every other television show in the same genre, all they have to do is make sure they stand out. “Yellowjackets” is about a bunch of teenage girls who were good friends and were part of a football team when they experienced a tragedy. To recover from the tragedy took time, and along with that, they decided to stay away from the limelight and never speak of what they experienced while they remained stranded. The girls are now fully grown adults, and the aftereffect of their tragedy still lives in them. Will they ever get over the tragedy, or does some residue of it keep following them? “Yellowjackets” is...

Take a look at Season Two of the live-action survival drama series, "Yellowjackets", starring Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell, streaming March 24, 2023 on Showtime:

"...equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama, 'Yellowjacket's is the saga of a team of wildly-talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

"The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans...

"...while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later...

"...proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over..."

Click the images to enlarge...

The live-action survival drama series, "Yellowjackets" Season 2, stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell, streaming March 24, 2023 on Showtime:

"...equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama, 'Yellowjacket's is the saga of a team of wildly-talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

"The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans...

"...while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later...

"...proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over..."

Click the images to enlarge...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”]

While the primary villain in Peyton Reed’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” hasn’t been a secret for a long time — after all, Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conquerer is set to lord over the Marvel Cinematic Universe for its next two phases — other baddies were kept a touch more secret in the lead-up to the release of the third film in the “Ant-Man” series. And while some trailers hinted at the inclusion of Modok (the “mechanized organism designed only for killing”) and some fans even sussed out that the murderous floating head might be played by returning star Corey Stoll, the actual arrival of Stoll as Modok is, well, hard to spoil.

Mostly, it’s very funny, as Reed’s film imagines that, after Stoll’s Yellowjacket was foiled by Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) in the first film,...

This post contains major spoilers for "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania." Please proceed with caution.

Whenever a new film or show from the Marvel Cinematic Universe drops, True Believers are excited to meet the newest heroes in line to join the ranks of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. After all, since the events of "Avengers: Endgame," there's certainly room on the roster for some new additions due to a few key vacancies. Though they haven't properly assembled just yet, the House of Ideas has introduced Shang-Chi, America Chavez, Ironheart, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and She-Hulk in the Multiverse Saga so far, among others.

Now, with the release of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," Phase Five (and beyond) is in full effect and ready to follow suit by adding more gallant do-gooders to the MCU mix. The new film from Peyton Reed already touts a full roster of valiant individuals, including Scott Lang,...

This post contains spoilers for "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."

In both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Marvel movies produced by other studios like Sony and Fox, there's a long history of bungling if not outright butchering great comic book villains. The Marvel Comics version of M.O.D.O.K. isn't in the same league as classic Fantastic Four baddies like Doctor Doom and Galactus, or top-tier X-Men villains like Apocalypse and Sabretooth. However, M.O.D.O.K. has been floating around in his Doomsday Chair — the hoverchair that supports the weight of his head — since 1967, and he's at least enough of a power player to have spawned his own stop-motion animated series, where he was voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt.

M.O.D.O.K. now joins the ranks of all the other poorly realized Marvel movie villains of the 2000s courtesy "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," which has made a live-action mess of him.

You'll have to forgive me for kicking things off here with a little bit of math. But when a movie like "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania" deals with quantum mechanics, multiverse travel, and all sorts of other high-concept, sci-fi nonsense, then maybe it's not too out of place. The upcoming pint-sized threequel will become the 31st movie (!) released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which spans almost 15 total years and crosses over into dozens upon dozens of hours of shows. That's ... a lot, to say the absolute least. And it's turned every upcoming event into an extravaganza that requires a certain amount of homework for those who care about the interconnectedness of the overarching story.

"Quantumania" certainly fits the bill, although part of that is to be expected for a film that's capping off a trilogy of movies. The first "Ant-Man" debuted back in 2015 and quickly became an MCU staple, appearing...

The Marvel Universe is filled with strange and unusual characters. And we're not just talking about your run of the mill weird variety like Deadpool, Spider-Ham, Leap-Frog, or the members of the Great Lakes Avengers. There are definitely other characters that are considerably more "out there" than them, yet they still have a legion of fans that love them like they're Captain America or Iron Man. One such example is Modok.

Originally a former arms dealer employee named George Tarleton who specialized in futuristic weaponry, ol' George takes his experiments a step too far when he attempts to increase his intelligence and overdevelops his head. Now utilizing a weaponized hoverchair and constantly concocting schemes for world domination, Modok is a reviled villain ... and sometimes the butt of many jokes. But no matter how a creative team may utilize him in a story, the character is capable of some truly heinous acts.

The 2022 Emmys saw TV stars from around the world gather at the Microsft Theater in Los Angeles to celebrate the best in television.

While there were a handful of repeat champions and first-time winners during Monday (12 September) night’s ceremony, there were certainly a number of snubs and surprises as well.

Christina Ricci misses out to Julia Garner

After Julia Garner won her third Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Ozark, fans were quick to suggest that Yellowjacket’s Christina Ricci was robbed of the category’s win.

Succession does well – but not as well as it could have

Meanwhile, Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen was a pleasant surprise, scoring his first Emmy win as Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. The British actor prevailed over co-stars Nicholas Braun and Kieran Culkin, The Morning Show’s Billy Crudup, and Squid Games’ Park Hae-soo.

However, the HBO family drama,...