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Last night's Golden Globe Awards was an interesting watch. Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler conducted a largely virtual ceremony replete with tech mishaps from nominees dialling in from around the world. On top of that, there was the simmering controversy that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - the Golden Globes governing body - has no black members and is dealing with a number of allegations of financial impropriety. Despite that, though, the night contained one truly touching moment.
Chris Evans' Steve Rogers was the moral center of the MCU for a decade and arguably its purest example of heroism. His story got a fitting ending in Avengers: Endgame as well, which revealed him as one of the few people worthy enough to wield Mjolnir, showed him leading the fight against Thanos and taking the Infinity Stones back to their home dimensions. We last saw him settling into a well-deserved retirement with Peggy Carter, but now rumors are building of him appearing in Captain America 4.
After the amazing 2018 Halloween, I'm itching for more Michael Myers mayhem. What makes the wait all the more difficult is knowing that the sequel Halloween Kills is 100% finished, though was postponed a year from October 2020 due to COVID-19. And rubbing salt into the wound are the constant reports from those who've seen it singing its praises.
The Wrong Turn franchise has never been among the genre's A-listers, but even so it carved out its own niche in gripping rural horror. The first entry landed in 2003 and was a hit, showing a group of attractive college students being hunted and killed by backwoods cannibals. That was followed by five straight-to-DVD sequels, none of which lived up to the promise of the first movie. But now The Domestics director Mike P. Nelson's reboot is picking up some serious attention.
After Johnny Depp's crushing defeat in the British High Court last year, many of his fans are looking to Virginia for salvation. The case there will be the domestic leg of his legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard, consisting of a $50 million defamation lawsuit after she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about being a victim of abuse. Her article didn't name Depp, but he claims that her strong insinuation cost him several major roles.
Beavis and Butt-Head will never die. The pair have been giggling sociopathic idiots since 1992 and remain so to this day. They were revived for a single season in 2011 and are now back for two more, the first of which will air on Comedy Central in late 2021. In these upcoming episodes, Beavis and Butt-Head will deal with "a whole new Gen Z world" in stories designed to appeal to fresh and old fans alike. But now, they're going one further, as news has just broken that the duo are also getting a new movie that'll air on Paramount+.