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Screenshot: Lucasfilm/HBOThey may have only just recently come to a close, but Andor and House of the Dragon already have some of their first major awards nods of the season, leading a solid contingent for genre TV at the Critics Choice Awards.Andor picked up nods in Best Drama and Best Actor in a Drama Series for Diego Luna’s role as the burgeoning Star Wars revolutionary, with House of the Dragon joining it in Best Drama and Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen sweeping in for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, with Milly…

Photo: Max FleuryBeing a multi-hyphenate performer is something Nina West knows well. Winning Miss Congeniality on Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 11, partnering with Dolly Parton on a kindness campaign, making music for kids, acting opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, becoming the LGBTQ face of Disney’s Pride campaign, and releasing a children’s book—West is doing it all in heels and a wig that touches the sky.Speaking of that children’s book: with The You Kind of Kind, West aims to spread awareness…

The new bio-pic “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” written by Yankovic and Eric Appel, begins with an epigram: “Life is like a parody of your favorite song.” Yankovic’s actual life story has plenty of appeal—accordion-playing child of working-class parents grows up to be the definitive parodist of his time—but, like a Weird Al tune, the movie combines the charm of the real thing with the charm of a wild riff departing from it. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, who knows something about playing a boy with a special gift; here, our…

Image: Gideon Kendall/Z2 ComicsWeird Al’s up to a lot lately, especially with the arrival of the Daniel Radcliffe-starring biographical sendup Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on Roku today. But the musician is also dipping into the world of comics with a superstar team up trawling through the lyrics of his musical history, and we’ve got a sneak peek.Z2 Comics’ The Illustrated Al, penned by Yankovic, takes a visual trip through over 20 of Yankovic’s classic songs in an audacious anthology that takes Weird Al’s most weird…

Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who played the role of Harry Potter in Harry Potter movies, has paid tribute to his co-star, late actor Robbie Coltrane. In a statement, Daniel called Robbie Coltrane 'one of the funniest people' he had met, adding that he feels 'incredibly lucky' to have worked with him. He also spoke about an incident when they were filming Prisoner of Azkaban. Daniel first acted alongside Robbie at the age of 11, in the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. (Also Read | Robbie Coltrane, Harry…

Daniel Radcliffe said he spent many hours practicing accordion so he could portray Weird Al with some accuracy in a purposefully inaccurate movie.Screenshot: Roku ChannelThe upcoming film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is parody squared. It supposedly tells the true story of the parody songwriter “Weird Al” Yankovic, but pretty much all of it is complete bullpucky. It’s a farce of music biopics that stretch the truth in order to tell a more engaging story. From what filmmakers have shown so far, it seems to be This Is…