Palm Springs ShortFest 2023 Winners: Full List

The Palm Springs International ShortFest winners were announced on Sunday, with Japan and the U.S.’s “The Old Young Crow” taking the prize for best of the festival. Lithuania’s “Way Better” won best animated short and China’s “Will You Look At Me” landed best documentary short. Additionally, the award for best live-action short over 15 minutes went to France’s “Sèt Lam” and Spain’s “Mystic Tiger” took home the award for the best live-action short 15 minutes and under. [Read More]

Plain Pat

Sensei to the legends, producer/A&R extraordinaire Plain Pat has overseen some of the most influential hip hop projects of the last 15 years. Most notably, the American record executive acted as A&R for The College Dropout, Kanye West’s untouchable debut LP. Almost as impressive as that, Plain Pat produced nearly every song (along with Emile) on Kid Cudi’s 2008 debut project A Kid Named Cudi, a mixtape that arguably transformed hip hop into what it is today. [Read More]

Colton Ryan Shares What He'd Tell Conrad Roy's Parents

E!: The show also seems like a reflection of how society and social media have advanced faster than we can adjust to it.  CR: We're the patent period, right? We're the pilot program, and more so as generations get smaller and smaller because of technological jumps, it's like we're passing the buck down the line even still. This story is set in 2014, which I remember really well. And I also remember the dial up tone. [Read More]

DatPiff Clarifies That It Isn't Shutting Down

DatPiff has confirmed that it is still up and running but dealing with technical issues on its website and app. In the meantime, the company will continue to update its YouTube page. The clarification came on Twitter after a number of users began reporting that the platform was closing down. The rumor is believed to have started with the circulation of a popular post on the subreddit r/hiphop101. In response to the story, tons of fans came forward to reflect on the impact of DatPiff as well as some of their favorite projects released through the site. [Read More]

Film Review: Everly

Salma Hayek plays a sex slave turned killer in this stylish but lumbering actioner. A premise seemingly culled from any number of fanboy wet dreams winds up shooting mostly blanks in “Everly,” a bloody and derivative action vehicle that not even the spectacle of a scantily clad, gun-toting Salma Hayek is enough to fully sustain. [Read More]

How To Get The Perfect Manicure At Home

Whether you're trying to save money or going to the salon is simply not an option, there's never a bad time to master doing your own manicure at home. Not only is there a real satisfaction to painting your own nails, it can also have therapeutic benefits. But even if you're devoted to DIY nails, it can be hard to get the same results at home that you're used to at the salon. [Read More]

John Crosby - Entertainment Executive

John Crosby Principal / Manager, Talent John Crosby Management Access contact info, org charts, active projects and more for John Crosby and 80,000+ other executives and producers. Visit Luminate Film and TV Data Provided By Want to contact John Crosby directly? Get phone numbers, email addresses, org charts and more from virtually everyone working in entertainment!Visit Luminate Film and TV Most Popular Inside the 'Joker: Folie à Deux' Debacle: Todd Phillips ‘Wanted Nothing to Do’ With DC on the $200 Million Misfire ‘Menendez Brothers’ Netflix Doc Reveals Erik’s Drawings of His Abuse and Lyle Saying ‘I Would Much Rather Lose the Murder Trial Than Talk About Our… ‘Joker 2’ Axed Scene of Lady Gaga’s Lee Kissing a Woman at the Courthouse Because ‘It Had Dialogue in It’ and ‘Got in the Way’ of a Music… ‘Kaos’ Canceled After One Season at Netflix Kamala Harris Cracks Open a Miller High Life With Stephen Colbert on ‘The Late Show’ Saoirse Ronan Says Losing Luna Lovegood Role in ‘Harry Potter’ Has ‘Stayed With Me Over the Years’: ‘I Was Too Young’ and ‘Knew I Wasn't Going to Get… Kathy Bates Won an Oscar and Her Mom Told Her: ‘You Didn't Discover the Cure for Cancer,’ So ‘I Don't Know What All the Excitement Is About… Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried to Star in ‘The Housemaid’ Adaptation From Director Paul Feig, Lionsgate Disney World, Universal Orlando Theme Park to Close as Florida Braces for Hurricane Milton Kamala Harris Watches Maya Rudolph’s ‘SNL’ Impression, Praises the Mannerisms: ‘She’s So Good! [Read More]

The 12 Best Bars In New York's Financial District

Facebook/The Full Schilling New York City's Financial District is the economic center of the entire U.S. But the area is a hidden gem when it comes to bars, pubs, and brew houses. We set out to find the coolest watering holes by reading Yelp reviews, surveying FiDi locals, and checking the places out on our own. From the Full Shilling on Pearl Street to Beckett's on Stone Street, here are the best places to drink in the Financial District. [Read More]

The Best Animated Movies of 2022

Beavis and Butt-Head returned, stop-motion roared, and anime rocked. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. Photo-Illustration: Rowena Lloyd and Susanna Hayward; Photos: Courtesy of the Studios Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. This year proved a particularly strong one for animated features released in the United States. Rotoscoping roared back into the public eye with the help of Richard Linklater. [Read More]