3 hours ago Resurfaced photos show how Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds rallied behind Blake Lively at height of Justin Baldoni 'smear campaign'

Blake Lively has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni - four months after the film premiered in theaters.

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8 hours ago Taylor Swift wraps up in furry red coat to support Travis Kelce after major celebration

Taylor Swift was in the festive spirit as she joined boyfriend Travis Kelce at his NFL game on December 21, where she debuted a bold red coat and matching accessories

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8 hours ago Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds rallied behind Blake Lively in resurfaced photos amid Justin Baldoni lawsuit

Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds rallied behind Blake Lively amid It Ends With Us Drama four months before she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Justin Baldoni.

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13 hours ago ‘We’re figuring out cool ways of storytelling’: how TikTok is changing the way we watch musicals

Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platformWhen Jorge Rivera-Herrans released part of Epic: the Musical last Christmas, he managed to push Taylor Swift off the top of the US iTunes album charts. So there is a lot at stake when the final instalment of his musical retelling of the Odyssey is released on Christmas Day.Rivera-Herrans’s project has already been an extraordinary success, with more monthly listeners on Spotify (1.6m) than veterans such as Morrissey, Liam Gallagher, or the Sex Pistols, and 119m plays on the platform in the past 28 days alone. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Some cinematic turkeys are so bad they achieve a kind of trascendence. Last Christmas, for one | Kathryn Bromwich

You can’t simply set out to create a so-bad-it’s-good classic. But this year’s thinly veiled Taylor Swift biopic, Christmas in the Spotlight, could be a contenderAs a lifelong enthusiast of the “so-bad-it’s-good” sub-strand of cinema, I approach every Christmas with a mix of excitement and trepidation. If at one end of the spectrum we have magical Christmas films (It’s a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Jingle All the Way), passing through the slurry of mediocre, sentimental seasonal cash-ins, what I hope to find at the other extreme is something so truly awful it achieves a peculiar kind of transcendence.Some recent contenders were Last Christmas (a January resolution to eat more vegetables masquerading as a Christmas film; weird Brexit subplot; insufficient George Michael) and Cats (genuinely creepy, but giving way to a confusing, cumulative high as the film progresses, so that by the time Judi Dench says “a cat is not a dog” you have reached a sort of collective hysteria). Continue re...

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