The Filthy Word That Filmmakers Swear By

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.
The Canadian Press on MSN

Today-Music-History-Dec23

Today in Music History for Dec. 23: In 1893, the Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Haensel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.
Variety

Sabrina Carpenter’s Wild Year of ‘Man’s Best Friend,’ Taylor Swift and Growing Up: ‘It’s Not My Fault I Got a Job When I Was 12 and You Won’t Let Me Evolve’

It’s Halloween night at Madison Square Garden, and a group of 20-somethings are deep into a sacred ritual: gabbing in the bathroom mirror with your girlfriends. They fluff their hair and touch up lip ...
National Catholic Reporter

In 'The Carpenter's Son,' a teenage Jesus wrestles with power and compassion

When we see the Boy (Noah Jupe) take a life, only a grasshopper, he holds the insect in his hand, studying its fragile body with something like wonder. Then he crushes it. The sound is small, but the ...
thenewsleaders

Karen Carpenter was a great singer. Still is!

It took me 50 years to appreciate the extraordinary singing of Karen Carpenter, whom I now consider to be among the very greatest of singers. About a month ago I happened to hear on the radio a ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Sabrina Carpenter Dazzles During Opening Night of Her Nearly Week-Long L.A. Run

The ‘Short N’ Sweet’ singer brought her signature cheeky charm to the Crypto.com Arena, kicking off her first of six sold-out shows to an excited and devoted crowd. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor ...
Spectator

Spec Sing Along: I love Sabrina Carpenter

Over the summer, Sabrina Carpenter released her seventh studio album on Aug. 29, “Man’s Best Friend.” This was only a little over a year after her sixth album, “Short n’ Sweet” — which I adored — ...
Elite Daily

A Guide To Sabrina Carpenter's Second Hand Pop-Up In LA

Sabrina Carpenter is making her final stop on the Short n’ Sweet Tour in Los Angeles starting Nov. 16. In celebration of her shows at the Crypto.com Arena, the Man’s Best Friend singer is giving fans ...
Los Angeles Times

Alt-Jesus retelling ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ is worse than blasphemous — it’s boring

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. What would Jesus do if his early years were told as an unremarkable horror film? It would probably be another ...
Hartford Courant

Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ turns an apocryphal text about Jesus’ youth into a horror film

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated throughout the Roman Empire, another text about the life of Jesus was simultaneously spreading.
IGN

The Carpenter's Son Review

The Carpenter’s Son will be released in theaters on November 14. The Carpenter’s Son is a religious drama knocking on the door of effective psychological horror. Written and directed by Lotfy Nathan, ...