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via Netflix Holy heck y’all, the Halo Bearers really did it. After months of campaigning, erecting billboards, and full-blown marching in the streets, the impassioned Warrior Nun fanbase accomplished the impossible. They cinched a renewal for the canceled fantasy series, which will officially return for another season.  It’s a massive victory, and a well-deserved one, after so much work put in by the fandom. It’s also a huge surprise, given the months-long wait, and truly incredible news for fans of the…

McALLEN, Texas —  When a bus carrying 42 migrants from the Texas-Mexico border rolled to a stop in Los Angeles this month, activists and local politicians were quick to excoriate Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.“It is abhorrent that an American elected official is using human beings as pawns in his cheap political games,” L.A. Mayor Karen Bass wrote in a statement.But 1,600 miles away in the Texas border city of McAllen, where the migrants had boarded the bus, Abbott had an unexpected collaborator: Sister Norma Pimentel, a…

One of the major selling points for upcoming Batman reboot The Brave and the Bold is that it’ll feature the first major big screen outing for Robin in costume for over a quarter of a century, with Chris O’Donnell the last actor to suit up and swoop into action as the Boy Wonder. However, it technically wasn’t the character’s last appearance, but bringing that up is capable of lighting a fire under the most ardent of comic book fans. In terms of pointless reveals that were made just for the sake of it and didn’t…

The one and only Chita Rivera answers the phone at her home in New York, but she sounds an early warning: we could be joined at any moment by a third party. That would be Dolores, the hell-raising alter ego of the 90-year-old Broadway megastar, who makes a series of arresting interventions in Rivera’s new memoir. “It’s Chita right now,” she says with a sly chuckle. “But Dolores could pop in at any second.”Dolores, Rivera’s birth name, is what her mother called her whenever she caused trouble. When Rivera was in rehearsals…

Cate Blanchett gives it the full wimple as cantankerous alcoholic nun Sister Eileen in Warwick Thornton’s woozily mystical and slightly unfocused drama set in a remote outback Catholic orphanage in 1940s wartime Australia - and really only a period setting would give us the spectacle of Blanchett in the complete picturesque nun outfit, now a rarity in the modern age.Blanchett brings to it a fierce authority born of repressed emotion in the time honoured nuns-on-film manner - although she can’t match Kathleen Byron’s…

via Lionsgate The Twitter debacle continues to unravel online, as Elon Musk’s acquisition of the site — and his subsequent bungling of its actual management — sees users flee Twitter in droves.  Blue checkmarks are officially starting to disappear from established, formerly verified accounts, as longtime users refuse to pay Musk’s fee to maintain their former status. It’s causing mass confusion online, as legacy accounts lose their checkmarks and random strangers instead populate Twitter’s most visible spaces,…

Whatever you expect from Mrs. Davis, the new show coming to Peacock on April 20, you’re probably mistaken. The series description will tell you it’s about a nun, played by Glow’s Betty Gilpin, who sets out to take down an artificial intelligence called Mrs. Davis, which has become a pseudo-replacement for God in a near-future society. That’s true, but only at the start. How Can You Be a Steward of Good Tech in 2023? | Gizmodo InterviewWhat Mrs. Davis does with that story is borderline shocking. It constantly folds onto…

Mrs. Davis is a deeply silly show deeply committed its silliness. And that's precisely what makes it so much fun. The new Peacock series from Tara Hernandez (The Big Bang Theory) and Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers), pits a nun with a mysterious past against an all-powerful, seemingly omniscient artificial intelligence. Her mission: to find the Holy Grail. You know, another one of those stories. Along the way, there are a slew of messy beheadings, a cheesy '90s-era car chase and a group of villainous German henchman…

Photo via Netflix The show runner behind Netflix’s tragically-canceled Warrior Nun has been showing off his spine for months now, and he’s once again proving his grit, this time as he faces down Elon Musk.  Simon Barry has been an adamant supporter of his Halo bearers and their efforts to see Warrior Nun return for months now. He took a brief break from the campaign to take a shot at Elon Musk’s upcoming Twitter change, which will see many of its verified users lose their blue check mark. Barry joins a majority…

The music of the pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who has died at the age of 99, seemed to reflect every area of her extraordinary life. A daughter of Addis Ababa’s upper classes, she was immersed in Ethiopian traditional song, then trained in classical violin and piano, embraced early jazz and later took holy orders. So it’s quite fitting that her compositions were a curious fusion of fin de siècle parlour piano, gospel, ragtime, Ethiopian folk music and the choral traditions of the country’s Orthodox church. A BBC…