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Saweetie and Quavo. Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Getty Images Migos rapper Quavo can be seen pushing his former girlfriend Saweetie in viral leaked footage from an elevator security camera. The video, obtained by TMZ , is from an apartment complex in North Hollywood where Saweetie was reportedly renting last year. It shows the “ Best Friend ” rapper, legal name Diamonté Harper, swinging at Quavo, legal name Quavious Marshall, as she tries to remove luggage from the elevator. Quavo then pushes her into the elevator and uses his body to prevent her from exiting with the luggage until she ends up on the ground, just out of frame. Quavo stays in the elevator, glancing at her. When the door opens, he gets out, and Saweetie slowly follows, limping. The incident allegedly took place in 2020, TMZ confirmed with sources on both sides. Saweetie was the first to announce their breakup earlier this month amid cheating rumors. “I’ve endured too much betrayal and hurt behind the scenes for a false narrative to be circulating that degrades my character,” she wrote on Twitter at the time. “Presents don’t band aid scars and the love isn’t real when the intimacy is given to other women.” That same day, the Daily Mail reported that Quavo had repossessed the Bentley he leased for Saweetie as a Christmas gift. Update, Thursday, April 1, at 9:15 a.m.: The Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation into the elevator incident, TMZ reports . According to their law-enforcement sources, detectives have seen the video and want to discuss it with both parties, separately, to determine if the situation could be considered domestic violence. Neither rapper has addressed the footage since it surfaced on March 30. Update, Thursday, April 1, at 3:47 p.m.: Saweetie has broken her silence on the tape, issuing a statement to TMZ. She said, “This unfortunate incident happened a year ago, while we have reconciled since then and moved past this … [Read more...] about Quavo Pushes Saweetie in Leaked Elevator Footage From 2020

Johnny Depp. Photo: COOLMedia/NurPhoto via Getty Images Johnny Depp can’t handle the truth. The actor was denied an appeal in his U.K. libel case against The Sun publisher, News Group Newspapers, according to Deadline . Depp sought to overturn the 2020 ruling that the tabloid was accurate in calling him a “wife beater.” After a highly publicized three-week trial , the verdict asserted that the label was “substantially true” regarding his relationship with ex-wife Amber Heard. The ruling has now been upheld by the U.K. Court of Appeal, which said, “the appeal has no real prospect of success” and that “there is no other compelling reason for it to be heard.” Appeals Judges Lord Justice James Dingemans and Lord Justice Nicholas Underhill explained their decision in a 14-page document addressing Depp’s representation’s defense, including claims that Heard misled the original judge by saying she donated the $7 million divorce payout. Earlier this year, her lawyers told Deadline the donations had been “delayed” due to legal fees. During the appeal, they countered by saying the information had been available to Depp’s team before the original trial. Following the outcome of the trial, the 57-year-old actor was dropped from Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts franchise and replaced with Mads Mikkelsen. A spokesperson for Heard told Deadline that she was “pleased but by no means surprised” by the outcome of the appeal. “The evidence presented in the UK case was overwhelming and undeniable,” her representation added. “To reiterate, the original verdict was that Mr. Depp committed domestic violence against Amber on no fewer than 12 occasions and she was left in fear of her life.” The U.K. results come ahead of his $50 million defamation suit against Heard in the United States, set to begin on April 11, 2022. The actress herself is pursuing a $100 million countersuit. Sources deadline … [Read more...] about Johnny Depp Denied Appeal in ‘Wife Beater’ Libel Case

Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage/Getty Images Back in 2016, a New York high-school student casually shared his senior yearbook photos on Twitter. The images quickly went viral as fans admired the teen’s incredible makeup skills and popping highlight . The kid in the photo was James Charles, YouTube’s now megafamous makeup artist and vlogger. His early years of internet fame led him to become the first male CoverGirl model and garnered him an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . Today, Charles has 25.7 million subscribers on YouTube , 27.3 million Instagram followers, and 36 million followers on TikTok . Most of his content is makeup-focused; he shares his favorite products and films extravagant tutorials, beginning each video with his catchphrase, “Hey, sisters.” It’s all seemingly innocuous stuff — he’s even BFFs with TikTok’s wholesome D’Amelio sisters. But his journey to internet superstardom has been far from innocent: The 21-year-old has faced an extraordinary amount of controversy over the past five years. Serious trouble has been steadily brewing for Charles in the past couple of months, David Dobrik–style , and it now appears the allegations and bad press may be affecting his career for the first time. Most recently, it was announced that Charles will no longer be the host of the YouTube reality competition series Instant Influencers . Here’s a comprehensive timeline of each of Charles’s controversies so you can predict how much longer this guru’s reign will last. February 2017 Charles’s first taste of a backlash started after he posted racist tweets about Africa and the Ebola virus. Charles quickly deleted the tweets and issued an apology . CoverGirl also spoke out , stating that it did not support Charles’s comments, yet the makeup brand didn’t sever its ties with him. September 2017 Charles found himself in more drama after he tweeted that the movie It was “awful.” This comment caused a frenzy of … [Read more...] about A Complete Timeline of the James Charles Allegations and Controversies

Photo: Columbia/TriStar, MGM, FilmDistrict, A24 Films and Universal Studios It seems like a good bet that the car movie will always be with us: This year has already given us The Fate of the Furious and Baby Driver , and we still haven’t entirely recovered from Mad Max: Fury Road. Of course, a “car movie” can mean many things — from a racing flick to a road movie to, well, a film that’s just set among cars in general. Regardless, we thought this might be a good time to take a step back and look at some of the best car movies over the years, and to do so in an all-encompassing, inclusive way. As a result, this list of movies is quite eclectic — it includes gearhead classics, cult standbys, noirs, modern blockbusters, art-house favorites, and even some genuine obscurities. Along the way, it became clear to us that a “car movie,” more than anything, is a film where a car plays a key role in the way a character interacts with the world — be it as a weapon, a tool, a dream, a setting, or a metaphor. Here are the 33 greatest car movies. (And as usual, we’ve stuck to one film per franchise, lest you wonder why there aren’t half a dozen Fast and Furious movies on this list.) The Car (1977) This is basically Jaws with a car, and it’s just as loony as that sounds. A black automobile, presumably from the depths of Hell, terrorizes a small town, and it’s local lawman James Brolin ’s job to stop it. Utterly ridiculous, at times laughably so. But that’s kind of its genius, too: Because this car does all sorts of things a car could never actually do, you never quite know what to expect. Directed by Elliot Silverstein, this cult horror flick was a late-show mainstay: Any kid switching channels late at night in the ’80s when those ominous “Dies Irae” chords came on knew he or she was in for something special. Drive (2011) This movie isn’t quite the masterpiece it was billed as at the time, but it is a fascinating blend of pop influences — the … [Read more...] about The 33 Greatest Car Movies Ever

In the wake of the horrific mass shootings at Asian-owned spas in Atlanta earlier this week, Late Night writer and comedian Karen Chee appeared on last night’s episode to reflect on the violence, the shooter who targeted working-class Asian women (Chee calls him “a racist, a misogynist, and a coward”), how his actions stem from white supremacy, and how news outlets shied away from calling the event what it is: a hate crime. “He went after people in one of the most vulnerable intersections of our community. And of course, just like every time a white man commits an act of domestic terrorism, news outlets then sprang to try and humanize him,” Chee said, pointing out how the coverage centered the shooter instead of the victims, particularly the press conference where a police offer (who — surprise, surprise — has a history of racist social-media posts ) summed up the shooter’s actions as the man having a “bad day.” “I had a ‘bad day’ earlier this week, and you know what I did? I ate an entire Domino’s pizza while lying in bed and rewatching Ted Lasso ,” Chee said. Later in the segment, Chee noted that when news outlets refuse to call the shootings a hate crime, they’re “continuing to erase Asian people as they’re being killed,” and while it’s true that Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric about COVID-19 certainly plays a role in increased anti-Asian violence over the past year, this week’s shootings were “the ongoing result of centuries-old racism.” If you want to learn more, Chee shared a thread on Twitter filled with more information. And if you need a pick-me-up after such an awful week, stay tuned to the end of Chee’s segment, where she shares an uplifting little treat she calls “the Domino’s pizza of people.” … [Read more...] about Writer Karen Chee Reflects on the Atlanta Shootings: ‘It Is a Hate Crime’

The Better Call Saul star spent nearly two years training with the John Wick team to go full Keanu. Photo: Courtesy of Universal Pictures Before Bob Odenkirk ever contemplated undergoing an extreme physical makeover, transforming from TV’s most morally lax/physically wimpy criminal attorney into a convincing movie ass-kicker, the Better Call Saul star experienced three very real brushes with life-threatening peril. Odenkirk says he was inspired to concoct a relentless, crisply homicidal inversion of the kind of guy he’s known for playing in Nobody (out Friday) — a normcore suburban dad whose failure to protect his family during a home-invasion robbery unlocks a hidden and apparently limitless capacity for mayhem and ultraviolence — after his own home was twice burglarized, and on the heels of “an incident in Chicago” during which (the actor will only cryptically divulge), “I had a gun held to my head at 2 a.m. and I gave all my cash to this person.” “I think most people watching this movie will not realize the level of autobiography there is in it,” Odenkirk, a 58-year-old father of two, tells Vulture via Zoom from New Mexico, where he’s wrapping the sixth and final season of Saul . “I had two home break-ins in Los Angeles. One was particularly traumatic. Just a typical dad scenario. What do you do? I grabbed the baseball bat; in the movie I grab a golf club. I think I did the right thing, as I told myself, and I told the police a thousand times since then. But it doesn’t feel like I did the right thing. Nobody is very related to my actual experience of having someone in the house, threatening my family, trying to keep the damage to a minimum.” In Nobody , that seeming inability to man up in the face of danger loses the character the respect of his wife and teenage son, but helps him relocate a kind of murderous righteousness that got lost in his domestic day-to-day. Refusing to play Odenkirk’s Everyman-gone-haywire for irony, the … [Read more...] about How Bob Odenkirk Actually Transformed Into a Badass for the Ass-Kicking