Los Angeles' District Attorney George Gascon has promoted a self-professed looter to serve as Chief of Staff for the largest prosecutorial office in the country.  George Gascon, who's famed for his progressive views, announced on Friday that he will be assigning Tiffiny Blacknell to the Chief of Staff position in his office.  Blacknell, a former public defender, regularly speaks of her support of defunding the police - referring to LAPD officers as 'barbarians' and claiming they are an 'occupying army'.

When we read that Bill Murray was arrested in Sweden for driving a golf cart under the influence — we’re not going to make any stupid jokes about it, TMZ has that covered — we naturally thought of Caddyshack, a movie about gophers that tangentially involves golf and features Murray, as Bill Spackler, slurring his words as if he were drunk. Here’s Spackler telling the highly amusing story of hitting the links with the Dalai Lama.

The “Master of Disaster” Roland Emmerich discusses his trademark of destroying landmarks in films, including the White House, Hollywood Sign and Big Ben. “I’m not blowing up just stuff to blow them up,” he told Variety.

The Originals debuted on The CW in 2013. It was the first spin-off of the hit supernatural fantasy drama The Vampire Diaries. Other companion shows in the shared vampire universe including Legacies, The Vampire Diaries: A Darker Truth, and The Originals: The Awakening. Despite its popularity, the fifth and final season of The Originals came to a close in 2018 and the show wasn’t renewed. Today, fans look back at some of the core relationships in the supernatural soap — specifically, the romantic connection between lead vampire Elijah and werewolf-turned-hybrid-vampire Hayley — and question how natural and authentic those relationships feel in retrospect.

The ObserverLondon film festival This article is more than 7 years oldFilm-maker tells story of Polish nuns’ secret pregnancies after mass rape by Stalin’s troopsThis article is more than 7 years oldThe Innocents, a Polish-French collaboration, brings to light one of the atrocities of the Soviet wartime occupation of PolandIt is a shocking yet little-known chapter of Polish history. In 1945, 25 Benedictine nuns were raped repeatedly by Soviet soldiers before finding salvation through a French Red Cross doctor who delivered their babies in secret in their Polish convent.