boycotting

Since production was first announced back in 2022, people have been going wild for the upcoming horror movie Late Night with the Devil, with many marking it as a “must see” on their 2024 movie schedule. Inspired by late-night talk shows from the 1970s, it provides a fresh take on the found footage and exorcism subgenres. A few days ago, right before its official release in theaters across the U.S., fans on X (formerly known as Twitter) started posting about alleged proof of A.I. usage in the movie, and they were not…

A director spends months — even years — performing their craft on a film in hopes of creating the highest quality picture they can. And although Doug Liman believes he did just that with the remake of the cult classic Road House, he won’t be attending its world premiere. Road House is scheduled to play as the SXSW (South by Southwest) film festival’s opening movie in early March. However, Road House is not receiving the big screen treatment that Liman was expecting when he signed on to direct the action movie starring…

Nervous fliers are nothing new, and the fear of air travel is as common as they come. But a cohort of right-wingers have convinced themselves that planes are more dangerous than ever because of airlines’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, which they baselessly argue have put unqualified flight crews in the cockpit. Lately, some have even expressed racist doubts in the abilities of Black pilots or pledged not to fly on commercial carriers that support for the LGBTQ community. Although DEI has become…

“Go fuck yourself.” Thus spake Elon Musk during a conversation with Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday. Amidst a wide-ranging conversation with the New York Times sponsored event, the increasingly unhinged Tesla CEO said that he wouldn’t be “blackmailed” by advertisers who—in response to his recent, controversial comments—might want to pull their money from his flailing social media platform, X. Instead, Musk said that advertisers who were concerned about his more colorful ideations (including, specifically,…

Nick Cave has said that boycotting songs because of the actions of the artist “is not a very good way to go about things”.The Australian singer-songwriter told the Hay festival: “Making art – especially making music – it prevents you from becoming the worst aspects of your character, and that’s why I very much think we need to be very, very careful about the music we don’t think people should listen to any more because of what the artist who has made that music may have been like,” the Australian singer-songwriter…

Controversial author J.K. Rowling has proven she likes to read untagged tweets about herself as she recently took to Twitter to give some unsolicited advice to people who boycott her works. The Harry Potter author and creator of the Wizarding World at large has previously received scrutiny for insensitive comments about the transgender community and has essentially made being transphobic part of her brand. Many Potterheads feel Rowling’s beliefs go against the core message of the Harry Potter books and naturally, no…

It may be just one of many fashionable hotels in the Hungarian capital, but for anti-corruption activist Attila Juhasz, the Alice Hotel symbolises… It may be just one of many fashionable hotels in the Hungarian capital, but for anti-corruption activist Attila Juhasz, the Alice Hotel symbolises the capture of the tourism industry by an elite that has enriched itself under Prime Minister Viktor Orban. "One of the owners is a commercial partner of (Orban's son-in-law) Istvan Tiborcz," Juhasz, a bearded 30-year-old in a…