Carice van Houten, the red witch Melisandre on HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones,” is casting an evil eye at fans for being “ungrateful.” They thought the final season of the show sucked....
Commercial television programming was a no show at the 71st Emmy Awards last night, in a true sign of changing, tastes and technology in consumer viewing habits....
Richard Sackler and the Sackler family may be the biggest mass murderers in U.S. history. The pushed the powerful opioid OxyContin beyond all reason, according to HBO's John Oliver on Last Week Tonight....
The Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer offers a few subtle hints about what’s to come in the final season of the HBO blockbuster series. One thing is certain, Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons have arrived to menace Westeros. But that’s not all....
Ivanka Trump has always been a daddy's girl. (Photo: Instagram)
Ivanka Trump is thought to be a moderating force on dad Donald, but John Oliver's takedown ...
John Oliver took apart Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing bit-by-bit in his monologue on Sunday’s HBO show, “Last Week Tonight,” and came to a perhaps, not-so-startling conclusion. It was “straight out of the gate weird.”...
Donald Trump’s lawyer and and widely heralded “fixer,” Michael Cohen, wasted no time trying to cash in on his close ties to the President, said John Oliver in a scathing take-down on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” Cohen lined up big-paying clients who funneled money to the same shell company used to pay porn star Stormy Daniels to shut up about her affair with Trump....
Rudy Giuliani has been Donald Trump’s lawyer for less than two weeks and has already implicated the president in several new crimes, but more revealingly he’s showcased his own loopy weirdness and his lust for Ivanka, according to John Oliver. Oliver dissected Giuliani’s return to the spotlight in a biting commentary on his HBO show “This Week Tonight.” As usual, he didn’t pull any punches, or mince words....
Donald Trump may be an megalomaniac but Mike Pence is the real whack job. Even Omarosa says so. You’d have to watch “Celebrity Big Brother” to get her lowdown. Or, you could watch John Oliver, who laid out Pence’s idiosyncrasies in hilariously novel way–literally. Oliver took issue with a new children’s book authored by the Pence family. It hits stores on today....
Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are living the life of Hollywood celebrities to the hilt. Sophie posted a photo on social media showing off their holiday getaway on a $45,000 a night private island. Who said the rich are not like you or me? The couple confirmed their engagement last October and took some time off for vacation at the ultra-exclusive Coco Prive island in the Maldives. It’s a popular redoubt for Hollywood stars and celebrities–who can pay the tab....
Sia, the Australian singer who rarely shows her face, is offering to rescue a third “Sex and the City” movie by taking over the role of sex-starved cougar Samantha Jones. The role belonged to Kim Cattrall during the show’s six-year run on HBO and in two feature-length movies. The show’s other stars, Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw), Kristen Davis (Charlotte Goldenblatt) and Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes), said they could not go forward with the movie without her. ...
If Donald Trump thinks health care is complicated wait until you get a read on his plans to expand patrols on the U.S-Mexican border. It’s as poorly thought out and careless as everything else he does. John Oliver explains on “Last Week Tonight.” Oliver isn’t afraid to tackle Trump’s more arcane moves and his show format gives him enough time to break them down so anyone can understand them. ...
Kit Harington, the hunky British actor who plays Jon Snow on HBO hit “Game of Thrones,” nearly died–for real–while filming the show in Spain. His character died last season and was brought back to life. But Harington feared he might not be so lucky when a high wind came up and almost swept him off a cliff. ...
f anything, “Game of Thrones” is known for tedious hours of scene-setting followed by a spattering of action. That’s changed with each seasons as budgets grew larger and the cast was thinned of characters, making plot development easier. Even so the first episode of Season 7 was all about atmospherics and scene setting as armies gather and fates are sealed....
John Oliver now knows first-hand that President Trump is a pathological liar and won’t hesitate to make things up to smear someone he perceives as a political foe. He knows, because it happened to him. Oliver showed off a special certificate from “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” inducting him into The Trump Attacked Me on Twitter Hall of Fame....
Emilia Clarke, the British actress who plays an alpha-female on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” says sexism in Hollywood is like dealing with racism. Say What? “I feel so naive for saying it, but it’s like dealing with racism,” she says. As a white woman, Clarke can’t possibly fathom what it’s like to be an African-American actor in Hollywood. ...
John Oliver dug into Donald Trump’s campaign promise that coal miners would be “working their asses off” once he was elected. But after doing some deep tunneling of his own, all Oliver found was “bullshit,” he says. Turns out, coal miners are still getting the short end, while industry executives are spinning Trump’s coal promises into gold....
The upcoming season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” is shaping up to be the bloodiest yet, according to a new trailer. Armies are on the march all over the Seven Kingdoms. But who will be enemies and who will be allies in the coming fight? Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) sums up the dire situation facing her kingdom in a chilling voiceover. Other stars include Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Kit Harington and Maisie Williams. ...
John Oliver slammed Trump administration bureaucrats who are gunning for regulations that prevent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from restricting user access to services. Boring? Yes. Critically important? Definitely. But Donald Trump’s new FCC chairman, Ajit Pai is determined to re-write those rules. It just so happens, Pai worked previously for Verizon Communications, a major ISP with a dog in this fight....
Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have been a whirlwind of… well, let’s just say whirlwind. John Oliver parses the president’s performance on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” And, he’s got one word for it… “shitberg.” The Trump administration has launched an all-out media blitz to portray the president as a man of action, the greatest achiever in the history of the nation....
John Oliver tried to make sense of President Trump’s Syrian missile strike, which has spawned a cottage industry of conspiracy theories over the “real” motive for the attack. Most focused on his flagging support at home. Could there be more to it? John Oliver tried to make sense of President Trump’s Syrian missile strike, which has spawned a cottage industry of conspiracy theories over the “real” motive for the attack, mostly focused on his flagging support at home. Could there be more to it?...
John Oliver reveals an eye-opening fact about Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act: Not even Donald Trump wants his name on it and he’s slapped it on a lot of shitty products over the years, from Trump Vodka to Trump Steaks to his Chinese-made neckties. What does that tell you? You may recall, Trump promised during the campaign that no one would lose their insurance, everyone would be covered and policies would be cheaper. Oops! Conned, again. ...
Kit Harington who plays Jon Snow on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” talked about upcoming season and offered some tantalizing hints about the what fans can expect when the show returns in July. Long-time fans have had to deal with a dizzying array of characters and plot lines that rarely seemed to intersect. But that's about to change. ...
John Oliver hilariously exposed Vladimir Putin’s dirty little secrets and questioned what Donald Trump hopes to get out of being “friends” on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” He seemed to ignite a fire under Trump trolls. Or, were they really Russians? “It’s a bit weird that you’ve been objectively nicer to Vladimir Putin than you have to Meryl Streep,” Oliver said....
John Oliver isn’t about to go quietly into the night. In his final “Last Week Tonight” show of the season, the British talk show host ripped President-elect Donald Trump a new one, calling him a “pathological liar” and “racist.” Oliver, who is known for his biting satire and wit, warned against calls to give Trump “a chance to prove himself,” out of fear his behavior with become the new normal....
