ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, who pioneered Afrobeat alongside his old band mate Fela Kuti, was knocking out rhythms right up until his death last year at the age of 79. And as shown on a new album out this week, Allen never stopped pushing boundaries and promoting young talent. At the time of his death in April 2020, he...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Another Instagram model who goes by the name Kim Cakery has claimed that Tristan Thompson, the father of Khloe Kardashian’s child, True, has other children outside of his relationship with Khloe and there might be another on the way. This comes after claims that Tristan cheated on Khloe with Sydney Chase, an Instagram model. Chase...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The absence of Kgomotso Ndungane in season one reunion of the Real Housewives of Durban (RHOD) was felt by viewers this week, with many wondering why she didn’t pitch up. The reality show, streaming on Showmax premiered its last episode, of what many would say was a very successful first season of the housewives franchise. Ndungane...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Olympia Dukakis, a character actress who won an Oscar for her role as an overbearing mother in the romantic comedy "Moonstruck," died Saturday at the age of 89. The passing of the theater veteran, who made a name for herself in film late in her career, was confirmed on Facebook by her brother Apollo. “My beloved sister, Olympia...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - American TikTok user Doug Romeo has made a video about the celebrity he hates the most and that happens to be Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television personality, political commentator and actor. He is the host of American satirical news programme The Daily Show. In the video Romeo expresses his anger at...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - "Alephia 2053", an Arabic-language animated feature set in a bleak future, has struck a chord in a region all too familiar with autocratic rule and bold, bloody resistance. Released on YouTube on March 21, a decade after the Arab Spring uprisings, the Lebanese-made thriller has already garnered more than eight million views. The...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Saturday Night Live has announced on Twitter that Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Company will host a programme episode on 8 May. The extraordinary entrepreneur reached a net worth of $175.5 billion (R2.5 trillion) this year and is ranked the second richest person in the world, just after Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, with a...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident - and made it to the finals despite urging fans to vote him off - has finally ended after nearly three months. Vladislav Ivanov, a 27-year-old from Vladivostok, was kicked out of the Produce Camp 2021 on Saturday, after viewers ignored his pleas to...

VERMAAKNUUS - Die volgende seisoen van Boer soek ’n vrou word begin volgende jaar uitgesaai, dus kan belanstellende, alleenlopende boere manlik of vroulik wat na liefde soek, nou inskryf. “Die afgelope seisoen was ’n reuse sukses met vier uit die top vyf boere wat liefde deur die reeks gevind het,” sê Wilmer Muller, kykNET se promosiebeampte. Dié...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The South African Netflix original documentary, "My Octopus Teacher" has won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. “This is an important milestone as it will encourage further investments, skills transfer and collaboration in South Africa's film industry,” Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday in a...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from Chinese social media on Monday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first woman of colour to win the best director Oscar. Zhao on Sunday night became the second woman ever to win the coveted award at the LA ceremony, as her film "Nomadland" -...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Female and minority actors were proportionately represented in Hollywood for the first time last year in a "watershed moment for diversity," says a report released Thursday. But authors warned the "enormous gains" could be the result of an anomalous year that saw major theatrical releases postponed due to the pandemic, and...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - In a year that saw movie theaters boarded up due to Covid-19, eight new films that did reach our screens impressed Academy voters enough that they are in contention for Hollywood's biggest award - the Oscar for best picture. The blockbusters may be absent, but an eclectic array of titles are in the mix, from a lavish Netflix ode to...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - "Another Round," a film about a pact by four world-weary Danish schoolteachers to spend every day drunk for a loosely scientific "experiment," was always going to walk a fine line between comedy and darkness. Director Thomas Vinterberg wrote his script, originally a play, upon realizing many of the world's great historic feats were...