Even when life grabs her by the hair and drags her forward, Chappell Roan just can’t move on in the music video for “The Subway.”

Released on Friday (Aug. 1) hours after the song dropped the night prior, the Amber Grace Johnson-directed visual finds the pop star haunted by an ex, as represented by a long train of hair Roan drags behind her through New York City. Even as her tresses get longer and longer, trapping pieces of garbage and rats in their tangles, the Missouri native just can’t cut it off as she searches the city

Paramount’s “The Naked Gun” reboot, one of the year’s funniest movies, has made $1.6 million at the box office so far after Thursday previews.

It’s on track to make between $15 million and $17 million, which is a respectable start considering theatrical comedies rarely get released anymore and the film only cost $42 million to produce. It stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of original “Naked Gun” comedy icon Leslie Nielsen. He’s an incompetent police detective tasked to solve a twisty murder case in Los Angeles. The cast also includes Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser,

Flaco Jiménez, the Tejano music icon whose virtuosic accordion playing and pioneering contributions to conjunto and Tex-Mex music brought global acclaim to a cherished South Texas tradition, has died at 86. His family confirmed his passing on Thursday night (July 31) via a statement shared on his official social media pages.

“It is with great sadness that we share tonight the loss of our father, Flaco Jimenez. He was surrounded by his loved ones and will be missed immensely,” family members Arturo and Lisa Jimenez, Gilbert and Cynthia Jimenez, and Javier and Raquel Fernandez, wrote on his Facebook page. “His legacy will live on through his music and all

The CineLink Work in Progress section at Sarajevo Film Festival, which showcases feature film projects from Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, has selected eight fiction and three documentary projects.

Among the subjects of the projects are a teen threesome in North Macedonia that leads to a troublesome pregnancy, a shipwreck hiding a sacred amulet on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara, a crumbling blue bus in 1950s Turkey, and mysterious aunt in rural Serbia.

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The projects will be presented to international film funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers with the aim of helping them be completed and

Just hours after the long-awaited release of her new single, “The Subway,” Chappell Roan has shared a music video for the song, a ballad she performed for the first time more than a year ago, at the 2024 Governors Ball festival.

The clip, directed by Amber Grace Johnson (Jorja Smith, FKA Twigs), is a New York City-themed fantasy that features the singer in multiple, often surreal scenes: walking down crowded sidewalks in a variety of comically longhaired wigs, splashing around in the Washington Square Park fountain, peeling off a business suit on a windblown street, and of course riding the subway.

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