Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog is best known for his obsessions with the monumental issues of human existence: technology, art, beauty, death, the unforgiving brutality of nature, and the exploration of the unknown. But he also considers—and complains about—the banality...
When I think of Mad Max: Fury Road, my first thought isn’t the death-defying stunts, or Tom Hardy’s muteness, or that one flame-throwing guitar Slash wannabe. It’s always Charlize Theron’s eyes. Lightning-blue amidst that black sludge filling her face....
With new music flying like warp-speed through the various channels of the Internet, it can be hard to keep up. But worry not! Each week The Fresh Toast will deliver the most-discussed and exciting songs that have recently dropped....
Two weeks ago, a founder of the Latinos for Trump group said if Donald Trump isn’t elected president, there will be taco trucks on every corner, like that’d be a bad thing. Last night, Hillary Clinton finally responded to the bold...
Fall approaches. The leaves are changing, the weather cooling, the summer vacation in the rearview. One thing is for certain: You’ll be spending a lot more time inside. That means more sitting in front of the tube (or the...
Kanye West loves fashion. We hold that truth as irrefutable. Kanye West is also a man who loves to speak his mind. This, too, we hold as irrefutable truth. Sometimes those two facts combine and results in classic quotes...
As The Fresh Toast has previously noted, Oliver Stone's Edward Snowden biopic, cleverly titled Snowden, is one of the most-anticipated films of this year's Oscar season. There is much to be psyched about in the flick—secrets! lies! data!—and now...
Four years ago, husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld released the first episode of High Maintenance on Vimeo. The low-budget web series, which follows a weed dealer—known only as The Guy—as he visits regular customers around New York...
Few would accuse Vince Staples of having a big head. You wouldn’t suspect so, anyways. But at 23 years, Staples carries with him an air of living multiple lives. He’s a rapper for start, a very adept one at...
Lady Chablis and Alexis Arquette, both well-known icons in the trans community, passed away this weekend.
Chablis came to prominence following a prominent role in John Berendt's bestselling, 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which...