/Recent content on JamBlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/14-other-blue-songs-breaking-bad-could-ve-used-for-its-last-shot.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/14-other-blue-songs-breaking-bad-could-ve-used-for-its-last-shot.htmlWalter White (Bryan Cranston) - Breaking Bad _ Season 5, Episode 16 - Photo Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC (Spoiler Alert, etc.) Last night’s Breaking Bad ended with Walt lying on the lab floor, dead, with Badfinger’s “Baby Blue” playing. The song felt like a wildly appropriate closer for a crime epic centered around blue meth, what with the opening lyric “Guess I got what I deserved” and the refrain “the special love I have for you, my Baby Blue./17-christmas-horror-movies-you-can-watch-right-now.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/17-christmas-horror-movies-you-can-watch-right-now.htmlIt’s that time of year again: The temperature is dropping, festive decorations are going up, e-commerce platforms have slashed prices for Cyber Monday — the holiday season has arrived. While the rest of the world seems to be gearing upfor Christmas, there are those who might be less than enthused when it comes to snowflakes and string lights. If you’re not a fan of winter — or if you’re simply missing Spooky Season — don’t resign yourself to yuletide cheer quite yet./20-great-christmas-movies-that-aren-t-christmas-movies.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-great-christmas-movies-that-aren-t-christmas-movies.htmlClockwise from top left: L.A. Confidential, Lethal Weapon, Batman Returns, The Thin Man. This article was originally published on December 21, 2017. It has been updated to include more films. Whenever we discuss our favorite Christmas movies, there’s always that one guy (and it’s always a guy) who chimes in, “What about Die Hard?” And listen, Die Hard is a great film, but saying it’s a great Christmas film is, at this point, well-trod territory./20-movies-we-can-t-wait-to-see-this-winter.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-movies-we-can-t-wait-to-see-this-winter.html’Tis the season of the Oscars movie, and while this winter comes bearing the gift of more straight-faced and serious hopefuls — touching on subjects like Me Too in the newsroom drama She Said, homophobia in Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection, and slavery in the Will Smith–starring Emancipation — there’s a certain wackiness to come in the months ahead, too. Daniel Craig’s Foghorn Leghorn impression will drawl through a second whodunit in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery./8-niche-netflix-reality-competitions-ranked-by-similarity-to-great-british-bake-off.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/8-niche-netflix-reality-competitions-ranked-by-similarity-to-great-british-bake-off.htmlThe Great British Flower Bake Off Fight. Netflix, always looking for the next big thing, has taken all the twee whimsy from The Great British Bake Off and applied it to the new competition show The Big Flower Fight. Yep, that’s flower not flour. Despite being concerned with floral sculptures, not baked goods, The Big Flower Fight’s production design, music, and narration, among other aspects, feel lifted directly from Bake Off — a similarity that has not gone unremarked upon as we collectively endure this current uncertain, GBBO-less reality./9-of-the-funniest-cartoonists-and-illustrators-on-instagram.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/9-of-the-funniest-cartoonists-and-illustrators-on-instagram.htmlInstagram can be a breeding ground for comedic theft. It’s no secret that some of the most-followed comedic accounts, like FuckJerry and the Fat Jewish, gained their massive followings by lifting jokes from comedians and artists without asking for permission, crediting, or paying the original creators. But Instagram has also become a place where original content flourishes. Countless illustrators and cartoonists are sharing their work on the platform, and instead of recycling outdated memes, they’re crafting content that’s funny, fresh, and unique./a-cruel-intentions-tv-show-is-in-the-works-at-imdb-tv.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-cruel-intentions-tv-show-is-in-the-works-at-imdb-tv.htmlPer Deadline, IMDb TV is currently developing a TV reboot of Cruel Intentions, the 1999 film that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon. The cult hit was originally based on Les Liaisons dangereuses, a French novel about narcissistic exes who delight in manipulation, seduction, and betrayal. This time around, the story will be set at an elite college in Washington, D.C., where two step siblings are determined to stay at the top of the Greek life hierarchy./a-guide-to-the-pre-ghibli-work-of-hayao-miyazaki-and-isao-takahata.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-the-pre-ghibli-work-of-hayao-miyazaki-and-isao-takahata.htmlStudio Ghibli has created some of the most beloved animated films in the history of the medium worldwide. Yet here we are, nearly four decades after the studio’s founding, with much of the work of its two great directors — Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, etc.) and Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, etc.) — almost entirely unheralded outside of Japan and animation circles. That’s beginning to change, with American institutions like the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles holding retrospectives of both directors’ films and the distributor GKIDS bringing more and more of Miyazaki and Takahata’s extra-Ghibli works Stateside./a-strange-20-year-loop-to-broadway.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-strange-20-year-loop-to-broadway.htmlFrom the porn studio to the Tony Awards. The cast and crew of A Strange Loop in collage at the Lyceum Theatre. Photo: Pelle Cass The cast and crew of A Strange Loop in collage at the Lyceum Theatre. The course of musical theater never did run smooth. Michael R. Jackson should know. The playwright first started working on his Pulitzer-winning show, A Strange Loop, when he was 21 years old./abbi-and-ilana-scope-out-some-hot-guys-in-the-new-broad-city-promo.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/abbi-and-ilana-scope-out-some-hot-guys-in-the-new-broad-city-promo.htmlBroad City finally returns to Comedy Central for its second season on January 14th, and the network released a brand new promo today featuring the ladies checking out some hot poolside bros. Anything is possible with a little imagination, right? Abbi and Ilana Scope Out Some Hot Guys in the New […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobWdhZ3yirsGiZJqmlGK2ra3NmmSsm5%2Blsm671K1krKedmnqpu9Nmnq6xo2K2r3nToZxmppWseqO%2BzpqbZpuZqcZuvNGopKhmmKm6rQ%3D%3D/all-151-snl-cast-members-as-pok%C3%A9mon.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-151-snl-cast-members-as-pok%C3%A9mon.htmlA very important undertaking. It all started with a tweet. Comedian Joe Kwaczala recently pointed out that there are now 151 cast members of Saturday Night Live, which also happens to be the number of Gen 1 Pokémon. With his blessing, Vulture began a great undertaking: matching each Pokémon with their SNL counterpart. It wasn’t easy. For one thing, comparing humans to semi-sentient pocket monsters can be incredibly cruel./all-creatures-great-and-small-recap-the-big-cricket-match.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-creatures-great-and-small-recap-the-big-cricket-match.htmlAll Creatures Great and Small The Last Man In Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small The Last Man In Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I admire when British shows completely neglect their American audience and go all in on something like a cricket-themed episode as we stare, blank-faced, at our screens, wondering what a wicket is and why isn’t the person who hits the ball running and WHY ARE THERE TWO BATTERS?/american-idol-contestant-joanne-borgella-ramirez-dies-at-32.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-idol-contestant-joanne-borgella-ramirez-dies-at-32.htmlFormer American Idol contestant Joanne Borgella Ramirez has died of a rare form of cancer. Her family made the announcement Saturday morning on the singer’s Facebook page and suggest she was suffering from endometrial cancer, which attacks the lining of the uterus and then spread to her chest. Borgella first became famous for winning Mo’nique’s Fat Chance, a beauty pageant for plus-size women that launched her career as a plus-size model./american-idol-recap-duet-till-you-re-satisfied.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-idol-recap-duet-till-you-re-satisfied.htmlAmerican Idol Showcase #2 Season 15 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Idol Showcase #2 Season 15 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » MacKenzie Bourg, Lauren Alaina. It’s the second half of the first half of the FAREWELL SEASON top-24 experience!/at-last-the-banned-episode-of-bluey-is-on-youtube.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-last-the-banned-episode-of-bluey-is-on-youtube.htmlIt’s the episode of Bluey Disney+ didn’t want you to see! The mpreg one! The Bluey YouTube channel has quietly released “Dad Baby,” the only episode of the beloved kids’ show’s run not available on Disney+. In it, Bluey has Bandit pretend to be pregnant with Bingo — complete with a water birth in the kiddie pool outside. Bluey creator Joe Brumm told The Hollywood Reporter that he knew “Dad Baby” wouldn’t fly in America, but he didn’t care./bachelor-in-paradise-recap-villain-edit.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bachelor-in-paradise-recap-villain-edit.htmlBachelor In Paradise Week 4, Part 2 Season 8 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bachelor In Paradise Week 4, Part 2 Season 8 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » An ABC executive stares at a wall of monitors and slams down her glass of whiskey./belly-is-the-fubu-of-american-cinema-and-that-s-why-i-love-it.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/belly-is-the-fubu-of-american-cinema-and-that-s-why-i-love-it.htmlEvery week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. This week’s selection comes from the writer Jordan Coley, who will begin his screening of Belly on April 16 at 7 p.m. ET. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch his live commentary. My favorite scene in Belly isn’t the iconic blacklight-lit opening sequence. It comes later, somewhere in the second act, when a cell of masked mercenaries has descended on the mansion of Jamaican drug mafioso Lennox./below-deck-mediterranean-recap-pancakes.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-mediterranean-recap-pancakes.htmlBelow Deck Mediterranean Stuck in the Griddle With You Season 7 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Stuck in the Griddle With You Season 7 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The end is in sight! Some 18 episodes later, we are finally on our last charter./bill-maher-returns-to-real-time-with-a-real-fake-laugh-track.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-maher-returns-to-real-time-with-a-real-fake-laugh-track.htmlAfter shutting down production for nearly a month due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bill Maher returned to Real Time last night within the confines of his sunny Los Angeles abode. And, perhaps missing the rousing validation from a live audience, Maher decided to do what no late-night host has done before in the coronavirus era, which is employ a schmalzy laugh track to play after his jokes. It is … an interesting choice, given that he’s filming with an iPhone in front of an empty backyard bar./bridgerton-recap-license-to-bed.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bridgerton-recap-license-to-bed.htmlBridgerton The Duke and I Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bridgerton The Duke and I Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At the end of “The Duke and I,” Daphne lies back in her pillow and seems to have achieved almost everything she’s ever dreamed of: After many trials, she’s stumbled into a marriage for love — or at least passion./bring-the-dragula-around-rob-zombie-is-picking-up-the-munsters-as-his-next-film.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bring-the-dragula-around-rob-zombie-is-picking-up-the-munsters-as-his-next-film.htmlLeave the ditchdigging to the county and give those witches a chance to cool off: Rob Zombie has kept the Dragula, Grandpa Munster’s coffin-mobile, on the tips of our nation’s goths’ tongues for decades, and now he’s finally reaping the rewards. “Attention Boils and Ghouls! The rumors are true!,” the White Zombie musician and director of horror films like The Lords of Salem and 3 From Hell wrote on Instagram Monday./broad-city-wore-dumb-and-dumber-tuxedos-on-kimmel-like-a-couple-of-super-geniuses.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/broad-city-wore-dumb-and-dumber-tuxedos-on-kimmel-like-a-couple-of-super-geniuses.htmlThe Broad City ladies are so fully and truly committed to being the best. Case in point: They showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live dressed in the tuxedos from Dumb and Dumber. They looked great. Broad City Wore Dumb & Dumber Tuxes on Kimmel ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobmdgZnyjvs6am2abmanGbsPOq5xmo5miuqa4jaGrpqQ%3D/castle-rock-recap-the-last-trumpet.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/castle-rock-recap-the-last-trumpet.htmlCastle Rock Local Color Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Castle Rock Local Color Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » An episode heavy on development for Castle Rock’s ace realtor Molly Strand provides a great showcase for Melanie Lynskey, a phenomenal actress./christmas-music-is-the-best-genre-of-music.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christmas-music-is-the-best-genre-of-music.htmlAsbestos Fest proves that a Christmas medley works year-round. Believe it or not, there are still men on Tinder who say in their profiles that they’re music fans, “except for rap and country.” This is a psychotic way to tell on oneself in 2020, when you’d be right to assume that we, as a sOcIeTy, have moved far past those musty signifiers of classism/racism. Omnivorousness has long superseded pickiness, and there are seats at the table for acknowledging excellence in all genres./crosswords-vulture.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crosswords-vulture.htmlvulture 10x10 Sept. 28, 2023 The Gerry Puzzle7-Down, Six Letters: “Nature’s pocket,” per an episode of Broad City. By Malaika Handa ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeTp7y0v9aoqZ2rX3TAta3RrXRuaA%3D%3D/don-t-these-people-have-jobs.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/don-t-these-people-have-jobs.htmlWhite American cultures clash in the new comedy About My Father. On one side: an aggressively Italian father-son duo (the father, Robert De Niro, is far more proud of his heritage than son Sebastian Maniscalco). On the other: an eccentric, affectionate, and picture-perfect WASP-like family, what with a palatial summer estate, country-club wardrobe, and “money in the stock market, not in mayonnaise jars buried in the backyard.” Maniscalco’s marriage to Leslie Bibb unites the two families in their own You People./drake-s-got-that-dog-in-him-for-a-little-longer.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-s-got-that-dog-in-him-for-a-little-longer.htmlWho’s letting the dogs out? Not Drake, at least not yet. For All the Dogs is still dropping on October 6, but fans will now have to wait until 6 a.m. instead of midnight, the big dog himself confirmed on Instagram. “Sorry to all my streamers,” Drake wrote in the caption of his Thursday night announcement. To hold fans over, he did at least share his album’s tracklist, which consists of 23 very Drake titles (see: “BBL Love Interlude,” “Rich Baby Daddy,” and more below)./drake-s-new-tour-is-worth-seeing-for-the-stage-alone.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-s-new-tour-is-worth-seeing-for-the-stage-alone.htmlIn 2016, Kanye West rewrote the rules for how artists could think about their live stage show. He posed a single challenge to his production team, an idea he’d been mulling for a decade: “Why do we have to have a stage, anyway?” Turns out, they didn’t. “The corny shit has to die,” he would later tell the crowd at the opening night of his Saint Pablo tour./eat-pray-love-author-s-new-book-getting-turned-into-movie-you-ll-inevitably-watch-on-a-plane.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eat-pray-love-author-s-new-book-getting-turned-into-movie-you-ll-inevitably-watch-on-a-plane.htmlElizabeth Gilbert You’ve eaten. You’ve prayed. You’ve loved. Now you can see City of Girls as a movie. The novel by author Elizabeth Gilbert has been optioned by producer Sue Kroll, and Emmy winner Michelle Ashford will adapt the script. The plot is a classic woman-becomes-herself setup, but make it old-timey in New York. “Set in 1940’s NYC, in the sparkling world of dazzling artistes, glamorous showgirls, and oversized theater personalities, City of Girls is an exploration of a young woman’s journey to discovering herself./edelstein-matricide-and-mcconaughey-in-william-friedkin-s-urgent-killer-joe.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edelstein-matricide-and-mcconaughey-in-william-friedkin-s-urgent-killer-joe.htmlChicago’s Steppenwolf Theater is rightly celebrated for plays in which actors get in one another’s faces from the start and then keep hissing, driving, flaying — the kind of plays that, on the big screen, put the feeb in febrile, not because real human beings don’t act that way but because Actors Acting do. What a happy surprise that two of Steppenwolf playwright Tracey Letts’s early works — Bug and now Killer Joe, his breakthrough — have been turned into knockout films, both directed by William Friedkin, who’s more potent than ever at 76./eric-andre-hates-that-his-cops-joke-is-still-relevant.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eric-andre-hates-that-his-cops-joke-is-still-relevant.htmlEric Andre. Over a decade ago, Eric Andre was still an up-and-coming stand-up when he saw Cops on the TV at the gym and couldn’t believe that the show, which glamorized the police to the point of being essentially propaganda, was still on the air. So he wrote a joke about how gross the show was and the incongruence of its reggae theme song. What he couldn’t have imagined — or what he probably hoped wouldn’t be the case — is that all these years later, as he’s set to release his first hour-long comedy special Legalize Everything on Netflix on June 23, the joke would still be relevant./every-colin-farrell-movie-performance-ranked.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-colin-farrell-movie-performance-ranked.htmlThe Lobster; The Batman; Alexander; Miami Vice. This article has been updated with Farrell’s most recent performances, including The Batman and The Banshees of Inisherin. Colin Farrell is burdened with one of the great faces among modern leading men: pleading eyes that can be romantic one minute, cold as ice the next; a pursed mouth that can speak to his lostness or his anger, depending on the situation./every-sex-scene-in-the-fifty-shades-movies-quantified.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-sex-scene-in-the-fifty-shades-movies-quantified.htmlThe Fifty Shades franchise has given us so much — the rise of bored icon Dakota Johnson, hours of footage of Jamie Dornan’s best confused/acting face, a vision of life in a wealthy Seattle that’s actually Vancouver — but more than anything, it has delivered a lot of sex to the multiplex. By “a lot,” I’m simply referring to quantity, and by “sex,” I mean scenes in which two adults mimic the activities of humans engaging in intercourse, but with better mood lighting and a slowed-down pop song in the background./every-song-on-daisy-jones-the-six-s-aurora-ranked.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-song-on-daisy-jones-the-six-s-aurora-ranked.htmlFour years ago, Taylor Jenkins Reid released her best-selling #BookTok sensation Daisy Jones & the Six, and ever since then, fans have been eager to know what the music made by her titular fictional rock band would actually sound like. Finally, we have an answer, thanks to Prime Video’s ten-episode adaptation. The series, which stars Riley Keough, tells the story of the titular band, a fictional rock group loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac and the making of their seminal 1977 album Rumours./every-stephen-king-movie-ranked.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-stephen-king-movie-ranked.htmlThe Shining. This story originally ran in 2017 and has been updated to reflect recent releases. Stephen King’s work has been adapted so many times — sometimes by King himself — that it’s impossible to find a single unifying thread in all of the film adaptations. Sure, a lot of them are horror (certainly a lot of the worst are horror), but that’s largely because the boom period for King movies was the 1980s, when he was known solely as a horror writer./every-time-they-told-you-it-isn-t-going-to-happen.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-time-they-told-you-it-isn-t-going-to-happen.htmlRIP Syd-Carmy. We never knew you. Some fans of the FX on Hulu show The Bear have a sickness that no kind of medicine can cure. Symptoms include editing fan-cams of characters Sydney and Carmy to desperate Taylor Swift love songs, writing romantic fanfic about the pair, and making enough noise about the ship online that the cast and the crew have no choice but to acknowledge the delusion./everything-is-exactly-the-same.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-is-exactly-the-same.htmlOn Certified, the Boy’s truest loves are family, wealth, and self. The first sound heard on Certified Lover Boy, the sixth studio album by Canadian hip-hop heavyweight Drake, is a sliver of the 1965 Beatles song “Michelle” (as performed by Chicago vocal group the Singers Unlimited, as sampled by Virginia R&B star Masego in his 2017 track “Navajo”). If you follow the lore, you know the Boy got a tattoo on his forearm a few years ago depicting himself waving back to the Fab Four, in commemoration of shattering a few chart records previously held by the Liverpool legends./five-things-to-remember-about-the-first-three-movies-before-seeing-the-bourne-legacy.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-things-to-remember-about-the-first-three-movies-before-seeing-the-bourne-legacy.htmlUnlike most sequels, the events of The Bourne Legacy unfold at the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum, the film that preceded it. Except now, another agent, Aaron Cross, is the center of attention. But just as the phone call from Jason Bourne to Pam Landy in The Bourne Supremacy was turned inside out and given new meaning in The Bourne Ultimatum, other scenes, characters, and bits of jargon get twisted around in Legacy./fred-armisen-vulture.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fred-armisen-vulture.htmlappreciations Dec. 30, 2022 Los Espookys Was a BlessingIn the queer Latinx horror aficionados at the center of the series, I saw the people I surround myself with on-camera for the first time. By Reanna Cruz ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeWp7KlecCrpKKrlaN8/gangs-of-london-recap-some-old-man-s-fantasy.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gangs-of-london-recap-some-old-man-s-fantasy.htmlGangs of London Episode 8 Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gangs of London Episode 8 Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Congratulations to Finn Wallace for having a midlife crisis so selfish and so devastating that I want to open all my windows and yell “Misandry!/go-girl-dua-lipa-gives-us-everything-in-snl-monologue.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/go-girl-dua-lipa-gives-us-everything-in-snl-monologue.html“My name is Dua Lipa, or as some people call me, Dula Peep,” the first time host said at the top of her Saturday Night Live monologue, referencing the iconic Wendy Williams-ism turned nickname. She then pointed out her “cool” parents in the audience who “love to party,” telling a story of bumping into them while she was out with her friends at the club at three o’clock in the morning./here-are-the-young-actors-stepping-into-the-rock-s-gigantic-shoes.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-are-the-young-actors-stepping-into-the-rock-s-gigantic-shoes.htmlBig Rock. The Dwayne Johnson coming-of-age comedy series Young Rock has finally assembled its neat little pile of smaller Rocks. In a statement, NBC revealed who will play the wrestler-turned-actor through the ages in the upcoming series, which is set to premiere sometime in 2021. Adrian Groulx will play the Rock at age 10, a.k.a. “Dewey,” a.k.a. Baby Rock: “Honest, headstrong, impressionable and bold.” Honest as a rock./hot-pursuit-s-reese-witherspoon-and-sofia-vergara-are-a-likable-pair-in-a-disappointing-movie.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hot-pursuit-s-reese-witherspoon-and-sofia-vergara-are-a-likable-pair-in-a-disappointing-movie.htmlHot Pursuit. The opening moments of Hot Pursuit are so scarily good that for about two minutes I thought I might be in the presence of a masterpiece. In these scenes, through a quick succession of cuts, we see a young girl growing up in the back of her father’s cop car, playing with handcuffs and a radar gun, learning about police scanner codes, even getting a ride to her prom./how-los-espookys-made-its-jokes-work-in-two-languages-with-subtitles.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-los-espookys-made-its-jokes-work-in-two-languages-with-subtitles.htmlLos Espookys was always meant to be a bilingual show. As co-creators Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega designed it, the oddball HBO comedy moves between America and a fictional South or Latin American country, with characters who speak English, Spanish, slang combinations thereof, and sometimes even mystical whooshing noises. It’s an especially distinctive choice onscreen: Every line of dialogue is subtitled, whether in English (if characters are speaking Spanish), Spanish (if they’re speaking English), or both (if they are doing some mystical whooshing)./how-netflix-is-selling-itself-to-the-world.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-netflix-is-selling-itself-to-the-world.htmlThis story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Netflix spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year promoting individual movies and TV shows on the service. But now the company has decided to invest significant resources into marketing something far more general: Netflix itself. Earlier this month, the streamer kicked off its first-ever global brand campaign, a 27-country promotional effort built around the tagline “One Story Away./how-reservation-dogs-became-the-best-cast-show-on-tv.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-reservation-dogs-became-the-best-cast-show-on-tv.htmlAngelique Midthunder cast the final season’s guest roles with a mix of actors — some veterans; some untested; some with Hollywood experience; some local to Oklahoma, where the series was shot — to help Reservation Dogs paint a genuine, idiosyncratic portrait of midwestern Native life. When Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs) first spies on her estranged father in the penultimate episode of Reservation Dogs, she’s surprised to see he makes regular stops at the weed dispensary and enjoys a morning joint while driving./if-you-have-to-ask-what-netflix-preview-club-is.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-you-have-to-ask-what-netflix-preview-club-is.htmlStreamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Your survey forms await. Yes, yes, your eyeballs are glued to the latest season of Love Is Blind, but for many of us, a few episodes a week are not enough. What if you could access a show’s whole season, perhaps even including the finale, before everyone else — before final edits or decisions were made on how the show would be presented on Netflix?/in-praise-of-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-and-its-sublimely-ridiculous-video.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-praise-of-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-and-its-sublimely-ridiculous-video.htmlUnless you were recently launched into outer space and are currently flying too close to the sun and/or moon, you are likely aware that we are experiencing a rare total eclipse of the sun this afternoon. This momentous occasion has temporarily made “Total Eclipse of the Heart” the most popular song in America, 34 years after it first became a top-40 smash. People with a lot of time on their hands and/or an unhealthy obsession with ’80s artifacts may have used this occasion as an excuse to revisit the video for Bonnie Tyler’s melodramatic power ballad, which enjoyed regular rotation back in the day on MTV and Friday Night Videos./it-s-time-to-celebrate-your-favorite-famous-fathers.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-time-to-celebrate-your-favorite-famous-fathers.htmlBruce Willis and daughter Scout Willis; The Heeler Family. After spending the past year calling all of our favorite celebrities “mother” and “daddy,” it’s finally the appropriate time to shout out the famous fathers on our feeds. Actor Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier this year, was honored by his wife Emma Heming Willis and his ex-wife Demi Moore on Instagram. “Father’s Day is a time I get to reflect on my deep appreciation and respect I have for Bruce as I watch him father our little ones,” wrote Heming Willis./jaden-and-jada-pinkett-smith-call-out-shane-dawson-for-sexualizing-willow-smith.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jaden-and-jada-pinkett-smith-call-out-shane-dawson-for-sexualizing-willow-smith.htmlFollowing his recent apology video, Shane Dawson is now under fire by the family of Willow Smith for a resurfaced clip that showed Dawson pretending to masturbate to a poster of then-11-year-old Smith. “To Shane Dawson … I’m done with the excuses,” Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow’s mother, tweeted. Jaden Smith, Willow’s brother, also addressed the video on Twitter. “SHANE DAWSON I AM DISGUSTED BY YOU. YOU SEXUALIZING AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY SISTER!/juice-wrld-on-calling-out-drake-s-baby-drama-working-with-future-and-making-sense-of-kanye.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/juice-wrld-on-calling-out-drake-s-baby-drama-working-with-future-and-making-sense-of-kanye.htmlJuice WRLD. In a year that has felt like an extended waking nightmare, one of its biggest songs embraces the atmospheric psychosis while searching for some control. 19-year-old Chicago rapper Juice WRLD struck chart-gold with “Lucid Dreams,” his glum one-time SoundCloud freebie turned mainstream hit that has steadily hovered around the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, just below the big dogs like Travis Scott and Cardi B./just-for-laughs-announces-its-2018-new-faces.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-for-laughs-announces-its-2018-new-faces.htmlThe 2018 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today they revealed their annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for their “New Faces” showcase. Like past years, the list includes categories for stand-up (New Faces of Comedy), sketch (New Faces: Characters), comedians without managers (New Faces: Unrepped), and last year’s new category for digital-content creators called “New Faces: Creators.” Check out the full list below, along with clips of each comedian:/keanu-reeves-s-ridiculous-laugh-performed-by-ali-wong.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/keanu-reeves-s-ridiculous-laugh-performed-by-ali-wong.htmlMeme superstar Keanu Reeves is known for many things — being immortal, being sad, riding a horse through Brooklyn — but his infectious laughter is not really one of them (yes, there’s that one scene from The Devil’s Advocate, where he laughs like an air horn, but that doesn’t really count). Though maybe Keanu has been hiding his chuckles from us all these years because, according to Ali Wong, his laugh is super weird./kelly-rowland-s-gladys-knight-doesn-t-have-time-for-your-business-pitches-in-this-american-soul.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelly-rowland-s-gladys-knight-doesn-t-have-time-for-your-business-pitches-in-this-american-soul.htmlBET’s American Soul charts the creation and rise of Soul Train. In the early 1970s, Chicago DJ Don Cornelius had an idea: a program where black artists could showcase their talent and reap the benefits. In this exclusive clip from the show, Cornelius is pitching his idea to Gladys Knight (Kelly Rowland) who’s tired and irritable, and would rather be anywhere else. “I love Flip, but who owns his show?/louie-recap-who-are-you.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/louie-recap-who-are-you.htmlLouie Country Drive Season 2 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Louie Country Drive Season 2 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week, Louie received multiple Emmy nominations, including a surprising nod in the Best Comedy Actor category for Louis C.K. himself. Now, we all know that awards shows are nothing more than tackily moribund displays of self-satisfaction, and that they exist mostly to reward the rich, promote multinational conglomerations, and spawn hilarious animated GIFS./mary-gordon-author-archive.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-gordon-author-archive.htmlMary Gordon Author Archive MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY: `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZLqivthmnqiqlKS7cA%3D%3D/maude-apatow-billie-eilish-zendaya-and-more-remember-angus-cloud.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maude-apatow-billie-eilish-zendaya-and-more-remember-angus-cloud.htmlAngus Cloud, born Conor Angus Cloud Hickey. Angus Cloud, best known for playing sensitive bad boy Fezco on Euphoria, died at age 25. No cause of death was shared, but Cloud’s family said in a statement on July 31 that the actor had struggled with the loss of his father, whom he buried last week. “There was no one quite like Angus. He was too special, too talented and way too young to leave us so soon,” Euphoria creator Sam Levinson said in a statement, per Variety./michael-sheen-is-not-related-to-charlie-or-martin.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-sheen-is-not-related-to-charlie-or-martin.htmlWelshman Michael Sheen broke out in the U.S. as Tony Blair in 2006’s The Queen, then followed it up with a juicy role as journalist Sir David Frost in another Best Picture nominee, Frost/Nixon. But it’s safe to say that most people probably recognize Sheen as Aro, the telepathic leader of the Volturi vampire clan in a little movie called New Moon. Down the line, he can be seen as a nightclub host in Tron: Legacy and again as Blair (for the third time!/movie-review-draft-day-knows-that-any-good-sports-movie-s-gotta-have-heart.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/movie-review-draft-day-knows-that-any-good-sports-movie-s-gotta-have-heart.htmlIvan Reitman has always worked best with a charismatic front man. Back when he had Bill Murray star in his films (Ghostbusters, Stripes, Meatballs), sloppy timing and bantamweight premises were part of the charm: There are worse directorial strategies than “get out of Murray’s way and let him do his magic.” But such an approach falters when, say, a lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger is the star (Kindergarten Cop). And though Kevin Costner could have been the right guy to work with Reitman during the actor’s Bull Durham era, these days his famous lopsided smile has been supplanted by an omnipresent scowl./nbc-says-it-encouraged-the-golden-globes-to-make-necessary-changes.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nbc-says-it-encouraged-the-golden-globes-to-make-necessary-changes.htmlGolden Globes hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey zinged the HFPA for their lack of Black members. Remember the Golden Globes? You know, the awards show that had ratings that were a third of last year’s, that’s voting body has zero Black members (and hasn’t for over 20 years), and that last week received a letter from over 100 PR firms threatening to withhold access to their celeb clients if changes didn’t happen?/new-york-s-most-powerful-book-fluencer-runs-a-podcast-on-park-avenue.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-york-s-most-powerful-book-fluencer-runs-a-podcast-on-park-avenue.htmlZibby Owens’ Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books “moves product” like nothing else. Zibby Owens with two of her children. Photo: Emily Young Zibby Owens with two of her children. A single dark cloud hovers over Zibby Owens’s sprawling Water Mill house, threatening to burst all over her soon-to-arrive dinner guests. She flutters around trying to decide whether to move the entire enterprise inside, into the dining room or one of two grass-cloth-wallpapered living rooms./nicholas-stoller-on-the-five-year-engagement-writing-with-jason-segel-and-penises.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicholas-stoller-on-the-five-year-engagement-writing-with-jason-segel-and-penises.htmlNicholas Stoller. Last night, the Tribeca Film Festival opened with the world premiere of The Five-Year Engagement. The film stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as a couple that gets engaged quickly, then stays engaged for an unusually long time (see movie title for more details). They blame the delay on their move to Michigan. It was supposed to be temporary — she got accepted to a two-year graduate program — so why not wait until they were back in San Francisco to exchange vows?/nine-screenwriter-michael-tolkin-on-why-there-are-so-many-famous-people-in-his-movie.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nine-screenwriter-michael-tolkin-on-why-there-are-so-many-famous-people-in-his-movie.htmlStanding on the red carpet at last night’s Nine premiere, every few seconds one could hear the sounds of lavish praise being heaped upon the singing abilities of stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, and Judi Dench. Screenwriter Michael Tolkin: “We saw the biggest stars in the world auditioning, and what was amazing was to see how much phenomenal musical-comedy talent there was in the world./of-course-we-asked-the-proud-family-about-beyonc%C3%A9-s-halloween-costume.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/of-course-we-asked-the-proud-family-about-beyonc%C3%A9-s-halloween-costume.htmlBeyoncé and The Proud Family have a deep connection: Not only did both Beyoncé and her sister Solange sing on the original theme song, but she and her family rocked some truly adorable Proud Family costumes for Halloween this year. So when the cast of Disney+’s Proud Family: Louder and Prouder came to Vulture Festival, we knew exactly what we needed to talk to them about. Related The Faces of Vulture Festival 2022 Should The Proud Family Reboot Have a Ye Episode?/paul-feig-won-t-direct-bridget-jones-3-after-all.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paul-feig-won-t-direct-bridget-jones-3-after-all.htmlPaul Feig won’t be directing the third Bridget Jones movie, which means Universal is on the lookout for someone else with a gentle style who’s able to make moments of pathos really touching and lovely, and able to coax silliness from seemingly sad situations. The movie, according to Colin Firth, will follow Bridget as she runs back to Daniel (don’t do it, Bridge!), gets pregnant, and then has to get rescued yet again by Mr./play-a-girls-drinking-game-when-the-show-returns.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/play-a-girls-drinking-game-when-the-show-returns.htmlGood luck seeing someone more naked than Hannah. It’s going to be a long night. Sources @empiac/Twitter Play a Girls Drinking Game ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dhZnyotdGlqmacop67rLXNoGSgmZ2ae6nAzKU%3D/play-vulture-s-official-bachelor-drinking-game.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/play-vulture-s-official-bachelor-drinking-game.htmlThis is not up for debate — the current season of The Bachelor is the most boring in the franchise’s history: a ho-hum race-car driver turned ho-hum real-estate agent parades around the northern hemisphere to eventually propose to a woman ten years his junior. But do you know what makes anything a little more fun, or at least mildly tolerable? Alcohol, baby! With a couple episodes left, allow Vulture to guide you through Arie Luyendyk Jr./real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsors.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsors.htmlThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Surprise! Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Surprise! Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lisa’s birthday party. Sadly, we at the Real Housewives Institute do not employ any fact-checkers or else I would dispatch one posthaste to go find Lisa Vanderpump’s birth certificate./red-rocket-vulture.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-rocket-vulture.htmlthe vulture transcript Dec. 17, 2021 Red Rocket Wants to Take You for a RideDirector Sean Baker and Simon Rex unpack the queasy charms of fast-talking narcissists and why they bet big on ’N Sync. By Alison Willmore ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeimrFuvs6cop6sXw%3D%3D/reid-pope-is-the-deuxmoi-of-t-shirt-entrepreneurship.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reid-pope-is-the-deuxmoi-of-t-shirt-entrepreneurship.htmlView this post on Instagram A post shared by Vulture (@vulture) Thanks to the coronavirus, comedians are now trapped at home like the rest of us, so we decided that while we’re all self-isolating, we’d do something a little different from our usual “Follow Friday” column. Instead of interviewing up-and-coming comedians we love on Twitter, we’re going live on Instagram every week to check in with some of our favorite people in comedy to get a firsthand look at how they’re handling the pandemic./reservation-dogs-recap-creator-s-medicine-buds-beer-and-backstrap.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reservation-dogs-recap-creator-s-medicine-buds-beer-and-backstrap.htmlReservation Dogs Uncle Brownie Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reservation Dogs Uncle Brownie Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After two consecutive whoopings by their rivals, the Reservation Dogs desperately seek a mentor who can teach them how to defend themselves — a kind of Native American Obi-Wan Kenobi./restaurant-shows-ranked-by-stressfulness.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/restaurant-shows-ranked-by-stressfulness.htmlClockwise from top left: The Bear, Oh My Ghost!, Bob’s Burgers, Sweetbitter This list was originally published on July 7, 2022. We’ve added fresh ingredients (more restaurant shows) in honor of The Bear’s third season. “It would be weird to work in a restaurant and not lose your mind,” says Ayo Edebiri’s character in The Bear. And her Sydney, a sous-chef at one of the most hectic, anxiety-inducing restaurants in Chicago, would know./robbie-coltrane-harry-potter-s-hagrid-dead-at-72.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robbie-coltrane-harry-potter-s-hagrid-dead-at-72.htmlRobbie Coltrane, a mainstay actor of the Harry Potter and James Bond franchises, has died. He was 72. Coltrane’s agent told Deadline he died in a hospital in Scotland after being ill for the past two years. Coltrane — who took his stage name after the jazz great John Coltrane — got his start in alternative and sketch comedy in his native U.K. in the 1980s. His first film role was in Flash Gordon, and a number of small parts followed, including as Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V film adaptation./sarah-chalke-will-bring-her-voice-to-netflix-with-animated-paradise-p-d.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sarah-chalke-will-bring-her-voice-to-netflix-with-animated-paradise-p-d.htmlNetflix is expanding its adult-cartoon roster. It was announced today that along with Big Mouth and BoJack, grown-ups will be able to get their animation fix with Paradise P.D., a new series about a bunch of really ineffective small-town cops dubbed “the worst responders” in the show’s official log line. Sarah Chalke is onboard as a character named Gina Jabowski, and Bullet the dog will be voiced by comedian Kyle Kinane (of great sad joke fame)./saturday-night-live-recap-ryan-gosling-cannot-stop-laughing.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-night-live-recap-ryan-gosling-cannot-stop-laughing.htmlSaturday Night Live Ryan Gosling/Leon Bridges Season 41 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Ryan Gosling/Leon Bridges Season 41 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ryan Gosling likes to laugh. We may not know a ton about the actor’s artfully guarded personality, but after his turn hosting Saturday Night Live last night, his penchant for chuckles is incontestable./saturday-night-s-children-jeff-richards-2001-2004.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-night-s-children-jeff-richards-2001-2004.htmlSaturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure. Most of SNL’s best known impressionists aren’t lauded for their numbers or accuracy, but their flavor, or what Darrell Hammond calls in Live from New York the “bastardization” they bring to their subjects – think Eddie Murphy’s hot tubbin’ James Brown, Dana Carvey’s “Notgonnadoit” George H./sea-wall-in-the-summertime.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sea-wall-in-the-summertime.htmlJake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in dialogue about taking their conjoined monologues to Broadway. Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. Photo: Jonas Fredwall Karlsson Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. They headline Sea Wall/A Life, but aside from the curtain call, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge are never onstage at the same time. But they’ve clearly become friends, joking when I meet them backstage about posing on the sofa in the style of those sultry ads for Burn This with Keri Russell and Adam Driver./sean-bean-wants-game-of-thrones-flashbacks-and-his-head.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sean-bean-wants-game-of-thrones-flashbacks-and-his-head.htmlSean Bean. Sunday’s season-two premiere of Game of Thrones is just around the corner, and Vulture has been busy obsessing: Is the show for nerds only? What might a Direwolves hockey jersey look like? And, wait, what happened in season one again? But one thing we’ll never forget was the moment [year-old spoiler alert] when Lord Stark, played by Sean Bean, was beheaded. But the actor dangled some posthumous hope for fans at the Los Angeles premiere of Mirror Mirror (in which he finally gets his turn as king)./shakira-takes-some-pointers-from-taylor-swift.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shakira-takes-some-pointers-from-taylor-swift.htmlShakira, Shakira. It’s hard to say Shakira is opening up about her ex because, well, the woman’s already been an open book. But Shakira did address her split from soccer star Gerard Piqué and his cheating allegations in an interview for the first time — and she’s been taking some notes from Taylor Swift. “There is a place in hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” she told the Mexican outlet Canal Estrellas in Spanish, per the Daily Mail./simon-rich-is-sure-his-ancestors-would-beat-him-up-if-they-met-him-today.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/simon-rich-is-sure-his-ancestors-would-beat-him-up-if-they-met-him-today.htmlSimon Rich. If we could meet our ancestors, what would they think of us? Writer Simon Rich poses this question in his new film, An American Pickle. The movie — based on Rich’s novella Sell Out (which was first featured in The New Yorker in 2013) and his 2015 story collection, Spoiled Brats — stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, an immigrant in 1920 New York City who dreams of creating a better life for his family./smokey-robinson-gives-out-gasms-after-gasms.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smokey-robinson-gives-out-gasms-after-gasms.htmlRunning low on, uh, gasms? Smokey Robinson’s gotcha covered. On Friday, the 83-year-old soul icon released his new album Gasms, which opens with a repetitive track of the same name. While Justin Bieber famously sang the words yum and yummy a total of 55 times on “Yummy,” Robinson has even the Biebs beat. By our count, we hear gasm — including variations like gasms, eyegasms, eargasms, and even mindgasms — no fewer than 64 times./solange-is-on-her-way-to-the-ballet.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/solange-is-on-her-way-to-the-ballet.htmlSolange is on her way to the show. Dance is in the Knowles genes. Look at Beyoncé paying tribute to disco and house music in all their wonderful permutations on her recent album Renaissance. Or her sister, Solange, who’s taking things in a different direction and composing a score for the New York City Ballet. The NYCB announced the commission in a press release August 15, adding that Solange’s piece was composed for chamber ensemble and will be choreographed by Gianna Reisen, who in 2017 became the youngest choreographer to work with the NYCB./someday-disney-s-snow-white-will-come-but-not-next-year.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/someday-disney-s-snow-white-will-come-but-not-next-year.htmlGirl, you good? Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to 2025 we go! Disney’s Snow White, a live-action adaptation of the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has been postponed until March 21, 2025. Originally slated for March 22, 2024, the film, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, will be put in time-out for a bit. Still, Disney has given the masses something to salivate over now that they’ll have to wait for a year: a first look at the film featuring Zegler in the iconic Snow White dress with the seven dwarfs surrounding her./stalking-janet-jackson-and-other-stories-behind-the-hustlers-soundtrack.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stalking-janet-jackson-and-other-stories-behind-the-hustlers-soundtrack.htmlHow Everything Works Brought to you by How Everything Works Brought to you by Jennifer Lopez dancing to Fiona Apple’s “Criminal.” Hustlers’ entire mission statement is right there in its first few frames. “This is a story about control,” intones Janet Jackson, as fledgling stripper Destiny (Constance Wu) examines herself nervously in a dressing-room mirror, adjusting her bra straps and applying a wet pink lip gloss./take-vulture-s-catching-fire-superfan-quiz.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-vulture-s-catching-fire-superfan-quiz.htmlJ.Law, pshaw! The only true Hunger Games fans are those of us who read the books long before everyone’s BFF won her Oscar. So, as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire prepares for Careers-level domination in the box-office arena this weekend, it’s time to head to the Training Center and brush up on your skills at the trivia station. In other words: Take our 35-question superfan quiz to test whether you truly have what it takes to emerge a victor./taylor-swift-s-freaky-folklore-movie-mood-board.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-s-freaky-folklore-movie-mood-board.htmlTaylor Swift loves to beat an aesthetic into the proverbial ground, and never has that been more clear than in the marketing materials for folklore, her very first haunted album about knitwear and crying at trees. Taylor really went for it in the album’s accompanying merchandise and stills and first music video, which depict her doing all manner of ghostly woods activities, including but not limited to: sitting in a gigantic wheat field by herself, wearing the Babadook’s coat, doing her hair like an old-timeydoll, getting lost alone in a forest, frantically running away from somebody with a camera, standing precariously on rocks, and drowning./the-best-animated-movies-of-2023.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-animated-movies-of-2023.htmlAn all-time great year for feature cartooning. Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk ; Photos: Sony Pictures, Crunchyroll, Paramount, GKIDS Even last winter it was obvious that this year would be stacked with new animated feature classics. Fresh TMNT and Spider-Verse films were well on their way, as early as April, The Super Mario Bros. Movie Ground Pounded the box office and, in Suzume, a mythical worm threatened to do the same to Japan’s metropolitan centers./the-best-sex-kristen-arnett-has-ever-read.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-sex-kristen-arnett-has-ever-read.htmlKristen Arnett’s latest book, With Teeth, is about — among other things — a middle-aged woman seeking intimacy. She’s a mom, her marriage is in a rut, and the hottest sex of her life is likely behind her. Arnett is an expert at capturing longing and sadness and passion — specifically how the three tangle together, how wanting someone sometimes means wanting a version of them that no longer exists./the-conners-recap-chickening-out.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-conners-recap-chickening-out.htmlThe Conners One Flew Over the Conners’ Nest Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Conners One Flew Over the Conners’ Nest Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The theme is chickens: Jackie wants to raise them, Becky’s being one./the-dark-humor-of-harry-nilsson.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dark-humor-of-harry-nilsson.htmlThe cover of Harry Nilsson’s most critically acclaimed album, 1971’s Nilsson Schmilsson, shows a disheveled Nilsson wearing a robe, one hand in his pocket and the other holding a hash pipe. The album title and cover are perfect illustrations of the humor and apathy that encompassed Nilsson’s musical career. Noel Murray of the A.V. Club wrote of Nilsson: “Nilsson became the musician’s musician, admired for his wild arrangements, his insistence on satisfying his own muse before making his record label happy, and his willingness to mock himself, the culture, and every notion of showbiz propriety./the-good-wife-recap-kalinda-shows-some-fear.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-wife-recap-kalinda-shows-some-fear.htmlThe Good Wife The Penalty Box Season 3 Episode 21 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife The Penalty Box Season 3 Episode 21 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before I get going with the very strong penultimate episode of the season, I just want to acknowledge the truly heroic work you all are doing in the comments section./the-great-season-finale-recap-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-season-finale-recap-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world.htmlThe Great Destiny/Once Upon a Time Season 3 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Great Destiny/Once Upon a Time Season 3 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » There are not many shows that I have enjoyed as consistently as The Great. Despite Tony McNamara’s partiality to animal cruelty, his writing is so sparklingly funny and clever that, three seasons in, I am still delighted by it even when he kills my favorite character!/the-killing-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-killing-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYriquMuipaBn/the-last-midnight-sondheim-and-ives-s-here-we-are.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-midnight-sondheim-and-ives-s-here-we-are.htmlA strange, dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master. Isn’t it rich? Isn’t it queer? Photo: Emilio Madrid Isn’t it rich? Isn’t it queer? Unlike an Orwell or an Odets, the cheekily (and correctly) self-described “icon of the American musical theater” Stephen Sondheim is not ordinarily associated with overt political righteousness. Yet what Orwell called “a sense of injustice” is right there flowing through his work — sometimes as a quiet underground stream, sometimes as a heaving, filthy flood./the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-finale-recap-mask-off-middle-earth.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-finale-recap-mask-off-middle-earth.htmlThe Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Alloyed Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Alloyed Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The first season of The Rings of Power has been a long journey (or maybe it’s been more of an adventure, since we’ve all been watching together), and the finale, “Alloyed,” thankfully did not leave us hanging on much./the-lucas-brothers-search-for-the-meaning-of-life-one-stand-up-set-at-a-time.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lucas-brothers-search-for-the-meaning-of-life-one-stand-up-set-at-a-time.htmlThe Lucas Brothers. Twin brothers Keith and Kenny Lucas were philosophy grads on their way to becoming lawyers when they discovered rapid-fire twin act the Sklar Brothers (whom they affectionately refer to as the “Jackie Robinson” of twin stand-up comedy). After a life of listening to comics like Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, and Dave Chappelle, they’d found their muses. Since then, the Lucas Bros. have honed a deceptively laid-back flow that is informed by everything from the Power Rangers to Wittgenstein; they’ve also shown up in TV and movies, including 22 Jump Street, and created and starred in the excellent animated series Lucas Bros./the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-talking-out-of-your-aspen.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-talking-out-of-your-aspen.htmlThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills The Girl with the Diamond Earrings Season 12 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills The Girl with the Diamond Earrings Season 12 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week on our favorite show, Women Eating Edibles at the Wrong Time, the women really ate their edibles at the wrong time./the-screen-sweaters-forever-stitched-into-our-minds.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-screen-sweaters-forever-stitched-into-our-minds.htmlUnraveling the beauty of fall fashion’s biggest star. This article was originally published September 22, 2023. It has been updated to include even more sweaters. Hi, reader! Come on in. We weren’t expecting company today at Vulture Lodge, but we’ve got the kettle on if you don’t mind waiting a few minutes for tea. Oh? You brought your own iced Ice Spice Pumpkin Spice Munchkin Dunkin’ drink? Perfect. There’s a coldness in the air, and we’re bundling up in our matching Vulture sweaters./the-terrible-world-of-casting-notices.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-terrible-world-of-casting-notices.htmlI’m about a size 10. I don’t go on many auditions, but when I do, the roles I go for are described as “underdog,” “chubby,” and — my favorite — “not aspirational-looking.” I recently did a Listerine audition where a leaf-blower was blown into my mouth from ten inches away as I shouted the phrase “I’m a trainwreck!” over and over again, while the older white male “boss type” I was playing opposite reacted in horror./the-toughest-scene-i-wrote-spike-jonze-on-her-s-sweet-song.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-toughest-scene-i-wrote-spike-jonze-on-her-s-sweet-song.htmlIn this series, Vulture has been speaking to the screenwriters behind 2013’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. What pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen? Today, writer-director Spike Jonze discusses an ever-evolving scene in Her where Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) listens to a song composed by his OS, Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). The sequence is then excerpted below./the-walking-dead-recap-a-close-shave.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-walking-dead-recap-a-close-shave.htmlThe Walking Dead Save the Last One Season 2 Episode 3 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead Save the Last One Season 2 Episode 3 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode begins with a flash-forward of a buff, shirtless man standing before a sink, shaving his head. As his face is perfectly framed by the mirror, we realize that it’s not a sneak peek of next season’s Breaking Bad but instead our very own Shane Walsh./the-wga-needs-time-to-think-about-the-amptp-s-counterproposal.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wga-needs-time-to-think-about-the-amptp-s-counterproposal.htmlThe AMPTP proposed during its date with the WGA on Friday, though it’s not quite as romantic as it might sound. More than 100 days into the writers’ strike, the studios came to the negotiating table with a counterproposal. “We will evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA’s response next week,” the WGA told members in an email obtained by Variety. “Sometimes more progress can be made in negotiations when they are conducted without a blow-by-blow description of the moves on each side and a subsequent public dissection of the meaning of the moves./the-wga-strike-enters-double-digits.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wga-strike-enters-double-digits.htmlAdam Scott and Nick Kroll adding glamour to the picket line in NYC on Wednesday. We’re at the “lords a-leaping” day of the strike, and it’s time to learn the rules. Should you cancel your streaming services to show solidarity? Is that actor doing press to promote their movie undermining labor’s struggle against the interests of capital? In this, the first writers’ strike of the social-media age, the rules are annoyingly fuzzy./the-world-of-vinyl-20-albums-that-defined-1973.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-world-of-vinyl-20-albums-that-defined-1973.htmlMartin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s HBO series, Vinyl, is set in the music business of 1973, the point at which the overbearing weight of the reigning Establishment was beginning to foment rebellion. The underground began to bubble up, so there were different choices and new contenders for the charts and the airwaves, as well as more esoteric noises for the ears and minds and hearts of music connoisseurs. “Does it make you want to call the radio station and find out who the band they just played was?/this-nsfw-family-feud-answer-nearly-killed-steve-harvey.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-nsfw-family-feud-answer-nearly-killed-steve-harvey.htmlBruce came to play. Is Hamilton the only family-friendly programming that exists these days? Host Steve Harvey’s Celebrity Family Feud went to the dogs this Sunday, after former NFL player Bruce Smith went with an admittedly hilarious NSFW answer on the game show. The Hall of Fame defensive end was asked “If Captain Hook was moonlighting as a handyman, he might replace his hook with what tool?” His first answer, “hammer,” was taken, so Smith’s mind immediately went to the next tool he could think of, Standards and Practices be damned: “A penis./wait-how-does-time-travel-work-in-harry-potter.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wait-how-does-time-travel-work-in-harry-potter.htmlThe answer is magic. Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t finished Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Now that the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been loosed upon the world, we can talk all we want about the mechanics of the new Potter play. There’s a lot to discuss: Scorpius and Albus’s friendship, the fact that nearly every Potter adult works for the government (or runs a prank store), and the greatness of the Trolley Witch./want-to-binge-euphoria-without-getting-depressed-watch-it-like-a-soap-opera.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/want-to-binge-euphoria-without-getting-depressed-watch-it-like-a-soap-opera.htmlEveryone told me not to do it. It would be too much, they said — too intense, too bleak, too many dicks. But I am a professional, and I needed to catch up with the conversation around Euphoria as we near the second-season finale on February 27. My ignorance was vast: Was there a specific episode that earned Zendaya her first Emmy? Why does everyone hate Nate Jacobs?/watch-michelle-pfeiffer-and-kyle-richards-on-season-two-of-fantasy-island.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-michelle-pfeiffer-and-kyle-richards-on-season-two-of-fantasy-island.htmlBefore she was famous (Michelle)! Before she was … famous-ish (Real Housewives’ Kyle)! The DVD of Fantasy Island: Season 2 is out next Tuesday. Michelle Pfeiffer on Fantasy Island ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dganyutcKhnKWklWK9p7HIn52eql2ku26ywKermqupYra0uMCnm2egpKK5/which-game-of-thrones-guys-are-keeping-their-beards.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-game-of-thrones-guys-are-keeping-their-beards.htmlKristofer Hivju, Richard Dormer, and Pilou Asbæk, with beards. Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live allowed Kit Harington to finally do a thing he wasn’t allowed to do for eight seasons on Game of Thrones. No, not “play a burlesque dancer,” though he did get to do that, too. For the first time since that infamous scene in the pilot, Harington got to shave his beard. Jon Snow’s iconic scruff was the actor’s constant companion throughout his 20s, and he committed to the contractually obligated look even when it meant spoiling that Jon wasn’t really dead./whitney-houston-bombshell-new-documentary-says-dee-dee-warwick-molested-houston.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whitney-houston-bombshell-new-documentary-says-dee-dee-warwick-molested-houston.htmlThe new documentary Whitney just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and it contains an explosive revelation about the late singing superstar Whitney Houston: According to one of her closest friends, Houston said that she was molested at a young age by Dee Dee Warwick, Houston’s cousin and the sister of Dionne Warwick. For most of the documentary’s running time, director Kevin Macdonald brings Houston’s sadly curtailed life to the screen in a manner reminiscent of Amy, Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary about the late singer Amy Winehouse: It begins with the beautiful voice and the career full of promise, and then come the drugs, the bad-influence husband, the grifting family members, and finally the tragic death./xeni-jardin-vulture.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/xeni-jardin-vulture.htmlXeni Jardin - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeomruqecmaqZ2hnmQ%3D/youtubers-vulture.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/youtubers-vulture.html‘try everything’ — shakira Oct. 4, 2022 Bye, GuyIn their first video as an official trio, the Try Guys say they were just as shocked by Ned Fulmer’s behavior as you were. By Rebecca Alter ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeppMK1wcGeqaxn/10-eye-popping-deals-on-animation-dvd-and-blu-ray-box-sets.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-eye-popping-deals-on-animation-dvd-and-blu-ray-box-sets.htmlStreamliner Presented by Streamliner Presented by It takes real work to keep track of how to watch your favorite cartoons. Many shows are available to stream, yet they also tend to bounce from service to service, or disappear altogether for stretches. One solution to that annoyance: Own something you can hold in your hand and cherish, or at least always know where to find. Prime Day is offering some great deals on DVD or Blu-ray sets of animated series; we selected ten that are particularly worth owning./16-cropped-simpsons-jokes-you-can-t-see-on-disney.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/16-cropped-simpsons-jokes-you-can-t-see-on-disney.htmlCropping like this is a slap in the face to visual gag lovers everywhere. Note: On May 20, 2020, Disney+ confirmed the news from Simpsons executive producer Al Jean that the show will be available to view in its original 4:3 aspect ratio beginning May 28. The below roundup features just some of the jokes viewers have been missing out on in the meantime. In April it was announced that Disney+ would become the exclusive streaming home of The Simpsons, but as soon as Disney launched its new streaming service last week, the criticism began rolling in./2023-s-comedians-you-should-know-reflect-on-a-big-year.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2023-s-comedians-you-should-know-reflect-on-a-big-year.htmlThe new year is fast approaching, and with it will bring a new crop of “The Comedians You Should and Will Know.” But the year is not over yet, and Vulture’s 2023 honorees have some lingering thoughts on what this year has been like for them and what they’re looking forward to in the year ahead. In this video, our host, comedian and list alumnus Jay Jurden, sits down with our list of comics to watch in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago for a series of quick chats about the nuisances of airport travel, post office bureaucracy, and social media, as well as their excitement about continuing to rack up comedy accomplishments, evening scores with their siblings, and potentially grabbing dinner with a former NBA MVP in 2024./23-things-you-learn-about-jack-antonoff-while-hanging-out-with-him.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/23-things-you-learn-about-jack-antonoff-while-hanging-out-with-him.htmlMusician Jack Antonoff of Bleachers attends the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Today, Jack Antonoff — through his solo project, Bleachers — releases Strange Desire, an event that has filled the fun. guitarist (and boyfriend to Lena Dunham) with total anxiety. “The past almost two years have been defined by making this album, so to transition from making the album to touring on the album and everything that comes afterwards, I didn’t realize that (a) it’s emotional; and (b) it’s scary,” he told New York’s Jada Yuan when she spent a week with him this past spring./a-reasonable-list-of-demands-for-season-two-of-fallout.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-reasonable-list-of-demands-for-season-two-of-fallout.htmlLet him smooch! One deeply upsetting thing about Amazon’s Fallout adaptation is that it dropped only eight episodes for season one. In another time, this baby would’ve rocked along on cable for 22 45-minute installments per season and become people’s whole identities (you really can’t beat the comfort and practicality of cosplaying as a girl who wears a jumpsuit). Season two was just announced this week, but that was kind of a given./actress-totally-comfortable-being-directed-by-her-grandfather-while-naked.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/actress-totally-comfortable-being-directed-by-her-grandfather-while-naked.htmlGeorgia Warner is a 21-year-old actress co-starring in the new East Hampton–based, Alec Baldwin–headlined production of boy-who-loves-horses-too-much psychodrama,Equus. The role requires nudity, a fact that “hardly registers” for Warner, because her step-grandfather, Oscar-winning costume and set designer Tony Walton, is the play’s director. Warner says having her “popup” direct her in her birthday suit is “very comfortable for me. I know he’s looking out for my best interests.” What, talking to your grandfather while naked might make you uncomfortable?/all-hail-matt-rogers-the-prince-of-christmas.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-hail-matt-rogers-the-prince-of-christmas.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Four years ago, Matt Rogers was at a personal and professional low point after a breakup and not getting hired on Saturday Night Live. But then, like a phoenix from the ashes, he emerged as the prince of Christmas with a one-person show called Have You Heard of Christmas?/ariana-grande-was-accused-of-copying-7-rings-again-and-again-and-again.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ariana-grande-was-accused-of-copying-7-rings-again-and-again-and-again.htmlBut did she actually do anything wrong? Welcome to the Age of Pop 'Plagiarism' In 2019, the question of if and how a song has been copied is an incredibly complicated one. Illustration: Mike McQuade and Photos by Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Joseph Okpako/WireImage and Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Welcome to the Age of Pop 'Plagiarism' In 2019, the question of if and how a song has been copied is an incredibly complicated one. Allegations of copying and cultural appropriation are hardly new to popular music, but today, it can feel like nearly every big hit becomes a target./armie-hammer-should-have-eaten-the-peach-in-call-me-by-your-name.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/armie-hammer-should-have-eaten-the-peach-in-call-me-by-your-name.htmlArmie Hammer looking peachy. Spoilers below for Call Me by Your Name. There’s a scene from Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of Call Me by Your Name, involving Armie Hammer and a piece of stone fruit, that has already become one of the seminal moments of the film. Here’s a brief contour: Hammer, who plays grad student Oliver, is in the throes of passion with his younger lover Elio (Timothée Chalamet). One lazy summer day, Elio takes a couple of peaches from the family orchard up to his room, where he eats one and throws away the pit./arrested-development-s-jessica-walter-on-lucille-s-excellent-legs-sex-scenes-and-ramen-fights.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arrested-development-s-jessica-walter-on-lucille-s-excellent-legs-sex-scenes-and-ramen-fights.htmlThe following interview contains spoilers from the new season of Arrested Development. If you have not already watched all fifteen episodes, please come back later. If Lucille Bluth was only going to star in one episode of the new season, at least it was an episode jam-packed with sex, lies, and buffoonery. And singing! And Lucille 2! And Kristen Wiig as young Lucille! In the series’$2 2006 finale, the Bluth family’s boozy matriarch (and head winker) attempted to flee from the SEC./beyonc%C3%A9-came-to-brazil-and-they-couldn-t-be-quiet-about-it.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonc%C3%A9-came-to-brazil-and-they-couldn-t-be-quiet-about-it.htmlBeyoncé finally did what thousands of commenters have been asking her to do and came to Brazil — as a surprise, no less. Queen Bey took the stage during an after-party for her Renaissance film, over a decade after she was last in the country, just to thank her Brazilian fans for being some of the best. “The Renaissance is about freedom,” she told the crowd in Salvador./big-brother-recap-the-finale-makes-a-political-cartoonist-more-cynical-than-the-iraq-war-did.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-brother-recap-the-finale-makes-a-political-cartoonist-more-cynical-than-the-iraq-war-did.htmlBig Brother Finale Season 13 Episode 11 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Big Brother’s Final Three. 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It’s like horror movies: Everyone can agree they’re scary, but whereas some like to be terrified, others don’t. Either way, puns are not for everyone./bored-to-death-s-jonathan-ames-once-got-ted-danson-so-stoned-he-couldn-t-remember-his-lines.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bored-to-death-s-jonathan-ames-once-got-ted-danson-so-stoned-he-couldn-t-remember-his-lines.htmlThe cast of Bored to Death made for pretty persuasive partiers, consuming booze and pot onscreen during the cult favorite’s three-season run. Behind the scenes, creator Jonathan Ames might have pushed star Ted Danson a little too far one night — with an assist from one of Danson’s Cheers co-stars. “There was one time – I hope Ted doesn’t mind my saying this …” Ames said during a reunion panel with Danson, Jason Schwartzman, and Zach Galifianakis at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles./bridgerton-s-ruth-gemmell-won-t-get-her-ass-out-for-anyone.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bridgerton-s-ruth-gemmell-won-t-get-her-ass-out-for-anyone.html“I don’t think she’s after a husband at all. She wants to feel alive again, and Lord Marcus is lovely for that.” Spoilers for Bridgerton season three, part two follow. With half of her children married by the end of Bridgerton’s third season, now might be an auspicious time for Violet, portrayed by Ruth Gemmell, to experience her own garden in bloom. Ever since her husband died from a bee sting, the matriarch has smoothly guided her octet of rapscallions through proposals, scandals, and balloon disasters./cameron-crowe-on-we-bought-a-zoo-surviving-elizabethtown-and-where-lloyd-dobler-is-now.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cameron-crowe-on-we-bought-a-zoo-surviving-elizabethtown-and-where-lloyd-dobler-is-now.htmlCameron Crowe. Six years ago, Cameron Crowe earned the worst reviews of his career. Since the release of that unfortunate film, Elizabethtown, he’s kept a relatively low profile and released two music documentaries (Pearl Jam Twenty and The Union, with Elton John). So when the director announced that his big return to feature filmmaking would be a family movie ridiculously titled We Bought a Zoo, it didn’t exactly seem like — to quote Say Anything’s Lloyd Dobler — a “dare-to-be-great situation./christian-bale-won-t-play-steve-jobs-after-all.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christian-bale-won-t-play-steve-jobs-after-all.htmlChristian Bale will no longer “crush it” in the role of Steve Jobs: Two weeks after he was announced in the role, The Hollywood Reporter notes that Bale has dropped out of Danny Boyle’s Jobs during pre-production. It’s the latest turmoil for a project that has been abandoned by both David Fincher and Leonardo DiCaprio in the past year, and what Bale’s departure means for Seth Rogen’s job (playing Steve Wozniak), hope (for an Oscar), and cash remains unclear./craig-finn-on-his-solo-album-clear-heart-full-eyes-and-paying-homage-to-friday-night-lights.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/craig-finn-on-his-solo-album-clear-heart-full-eyes-and-paying-homage-to-friday-night-lights.htmlCraig Finn. The Hold Steady’s lead singer Craig Finn has released his first solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes. The title is a Vulture-approved play on Coach Taylor’s Friday Night Lights mantra, but the album itself doesn’t delve much into FNL material: While Finn sticks to the narrative style his fans have come to expect, he applies it to the mundane and lonely reality of adult life (this compared with the band’s usual focus on things like drugged-out teens grappling with religion)./crazy-ex-girlfriend-s-donna-lynne-champlin-on-paula-s-future-and-the-amazing-reason-why-he.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crazy-ex-girlfriend-s-donna-lynne-champlin-on-paula-s-future-and-the-amazing-reason-why-he.htmlWhile Rebecca Bunch may be the soul of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Paula Proctor (Donna Lynne Champlin), her work and life bestie, certainly is the heart. Fast friends ever since Rebecca moved to West Covina to take up residence at Whitefeather & Associates and hunt down Josh, the duo soon became inseparable through their romantic schemes, and forged a unique, genuine bond in the process. But this season, something has changed in Paula — unfulfilled with her life as a paralegal, she applies to a local law school and makes Rebecca sign a contract that stipulates Paula will be barred from any and all future ruses./david-lynch-s-dune-is-a-beautiful-sci-fi-disaster.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-lynch-s-dune-is-a-beautiful-sci-fi-disaster.htmlKyle MacLachlan in his film debut. This article was originally published on March 29, 2021. With Dune: Part Two coming to theaters, we’re republishing. Sir Patrick Stewart charging into battle cradling both a wide-eyed pug and a gun should be the subject of absurd fan art, and yet it’s a real scene from David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune. Like the rest of his widely panned take on Frank Herbert’s landmark 1965 sci-fi novel, the sight is a feast of contradicting yet amazing ideas that continues to astound nearly four decades later./dear-edward-recap-piano-man.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-edward-recap-piano-man.htmlDear Edward Music Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dear Edward Music Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There will always be growing pains when you try to go forward and move on, and many of our grievers are feeling them this week./death-grips-totally-bailed-on-lollapalooza.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-grips-totally-bailed-on-lollapalooza.htmlDespite subjecting the crowd at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge to a backdrop of a fan’s suicide note on Friday night, Death Grips never actually showed up for the Lollapalooza-sanctioned aftershow they were slated to headline. Dispatches from both Reddit and Twitter state indicate that “after learning that the band wouldn’t play, fans proceeded to destroy their equipment, including a drum kit that was presumably Zach Hill’s” (you can see evidence of that here as well as a video of the crowd here)./deborah-borda-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deborah-borda-vulture.htmlclassical music Feb. 13, 2018 The Future Is (a Little More) Female at the New York PhilharmonicDeborah Borda takes over as CEO, with big plans. By Justin Davidson ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeUmq%2BwvsChZJunopmucA%3D%3D/dev-patel-on-lion-aaron-sorkin-and-his-beautiful-new-hair.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dev-patel-on-lion-aaron-sorkin-and-his-beautiful-new-hair.htmlNearly a decade ago, Dev Patel made his film debut in Slumdog Millionaire, playing a teenager from the slums of Mumbai, India, whose life is changed after a legendary run on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. This year, Patel can be seen in Lion, a similarly moving rags-to-riches story — this time based on true events — about a young boy named Saroo who is separated from his family, is adopted by an Australian couple, and later grows obsessed with solving the mystery of his own identity./did-this-youtube-star-s-murder-prank-go-too-far.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-this-youtube-star-s-murder-prank-go-too-far.htmlBritish YouTube star Sam Pepper has over 2 million subscribers, aqua hair, and, as of yesterday, the entire internet against him. On Sunday, Pepper uploaded a prank video (you’ll find many such videos on his channel) in which he carries out an elaborate ruse to scare the shit out of one half of the Vine star duo Sam Golbach and Colby Brock. In the video, Pepper kidnaps Colby (who was in on the prank) and Golbach and takes them to a rooftop where Pepper pretends to shoot and kill Colby in front of an absolutely petrified Golbach./disaster-girl-just-sold-her-meme-as-an-nft-to-pay-off-student-loans.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disaster-girl-just-sold-her-meme-as-an-nft-to-pay-off-student-loans.html“Disaster Girl” Zoë Roth in 2019. It’s only the spring, and we’ve already hit peak 2021. Zoë Roth, the star of the “Disaster Girl” meme, now a 21-year-old college senior, just sold her viral photo as a non-fungible token to pay off student loans and donate to charity. No, this country does not deserve Gen Z. The infamous meme shows Roth devilishly smirking in front of a house on fire in her neighborhood in North Carolina back in 2007./donald-sutherland-was-some-kind-of-movie-star.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/donald-sutherland-was-some-kind-of-movie-star.htmlFew actors committed as ferociously. Few actors were so damned much fun to watch. Photo: Jean-Louis Urli/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images How do you know you’re dealing with one of the all-time great actors? When they die, you don’t know where to start. So I’ll repeat what Donald Sutherland’s son Kiefer said today when announcing his father’s death at 88: “I personally think he was one of the most important actors in the history of film./drake-future-cardi-b-and-more-honor-takeoff-forever-legendary.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-future-cardi-b-and-more-honor-takeoff-forever-legendary.htmlTakeoff As the news of Takeoff’s sudden death broke in the early hours of November 1, the music industry was in disbelief over the loss of the 28-year-old rapper. The youngest member of the Grammy-winning trap group Migos died after being shot and killed at a Houston bowling alley November 1, a rep confirmed to AP News. His uncle and bandmate, Quavo, was present at the bowling alley but was not harmed, according to reports./ed-sheeran-has-a-whole-new-set-of-symbols-waiting.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ed-sheeran-has-a-whole-new-set-of-symbols-waiting.htmlWith his new album, - (Subtract), Ed Sheeran is finally finishing his decade-long project of mathematically named albums. And next up, he already has another set of symbols waiting. Sheeran told Rolling Stone in a new cover that he was planning a series of five more albums, with names he doesn’t want to share just yet. He did, however, explain his current plans for the final of those albums./emily-in-paris-recap-making-a-list-checking-it-twice.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-in-paris-recap-making-a-list-checking-it-twice.htmlEmily in Paris Ooo La La Liste Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily in Paris Ooo La La Liste Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily’s first day at Sylvie’s agency gets off to a rough start./every-charlize-theron-movie-performance-ranked.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-charlize-theron-movie-performance-ranked.htmlThis article has been updated to reflect Charlize Theron’s most recent work. You’ve probably heard the story about how Charlize Theron was discovered. A former model and aspiring ballerina who had to give up that dream after she damaged her knee, she was at a low point in 1994 when she went into a bank in Los Angeles, blowing her lid at the teller who wouldn’t cash her check since she didn’t have an account./for-all-mankind-season-finale-recap-hold-on-when-you-get-love-and-let-go-when-you-give-it.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/for-all-mankind-season-finale-recap-hold-on-when-you-get-love-and-let-go-when-you-give-it.htmlFor All Mankind The Grey Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind The Grey Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, here we are, friends. The end of For All Mankind’s second season is a doozy. It holds up very well, too: Having rewatched twice recently, the story beats work, the tension is sky-high, the characters get their moments to shine, and my tear ducts have gotten quite a workout./greta-van-fleet-on-nostalgia-criticism-playing-snl-and-all-those-grammys-they-re-nominated-for.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/greta-van-fleet-on-nostalgia-criticism-playing-snl-and-all-those-grammys-they-re-nominated-for.htmlSam Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet Last March, a journalist asked Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant to name a group that he currently enjoyed. “There’s a band in Detroit called Greta Van Fleet,” responded the rock icon, (they’re actually native to Frankenmuth, Michigan). “They are Led Zeppelin I.” It’s a co-sign that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s come across the quartet’s Zeppelin-indebted sound — in fact, says bassist Sam Kiszka, it’s a high compliment./hellraiser-movies-ranked.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hellraiser-movies-ranked.htmlWhen Clive Barker made his directorial debut by adapting his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart into 1987’s Hellraiser, there’s no way he could have realized what he was unleashing. Much like the characters in the movie, Barker opened up a world of horrors — mainly of the low-budget, straight-to-video variety. The original Hellraiser remains the purest onscreen representation of Barker’s twisted imagination. Over the course of more than 30 years, that purity has been gradually diluted and defiled./here-s-to-them-who-s-like-them-damn-few.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-to-them-who-s-like-them-damn-few.htmlHere’s a thing about the so-called classics: We may have all sorts of feelings, valid ones, about how often they come back around, what was wrong with them in the first place, what’s wrong with them now, and what may or may not be worthier of a current airing; but the fact that they come back around forces us to pause and do that most imperative and unsettling of things — reconsider./hey-the-pixies-made-a-new-song.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hey-the-pixies-made-a-new-song.htmlIt is their first song in nine years, and it is called “Bagboy.” A note from Black Francis: “The lyrics, coincidentally, were composed at a Starbucks Coffee in Harvard Square in Cambridge, about a hundred feet from where, 25 years ago, I composed some of the lyrics to an old Pixies song called ‘Break My Body.’” Do they have bag boys at Starbucks now? Whatever, it’s a new Pixies song! Enjoy./how-daria-shaped-a-generation-of-women-especially-this-black-lady.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-daria-shaped-a-generation-of-women-especially-this-black-lady.html“Seeing the world through the eyes of a Blaria (a.k.a. Black Daria).” With those 12 little words, my blog began in 2012. More than expressing my musings on race, gender, and pop culture, the most important aspect of Blaria, which I didn’t realize until just now, is that it’s a nod to one of the best and most influential ‘90s feminist icons: Daria Morgendorffer. Anyone who went to Blaria instantly knew what tribe I aligned myself with, and what a tribe it was: sarcastic, droll, hyper-self-aware, and way too smart to deal with the shallow and flawed world around it./how-winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-trolled-its-way-to-box-office-success.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-trolled-its-way-to-box-office-success.html“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” –Pooh Hell hath no fury like a Winnie scorned. In the live-action, R-rated, childhood-nostalgia-desecrating schlock-horror-thriller Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, A.A. Milne’s erstwhile tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff is repurposed as a Jason Voorhees–like maniac. One who sets out to avenge his abandonment in the Hundred Acre Wood — by a college-bound Christopher Robin — with the help of Pooh’s partner in savagery, a tusk-toothed, sledgehammer-swinging Piglet./hugs-not-drugs-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hugs-not-drugs-vulture.htmlhugs not drugs Feb. 2, 2010 Jeremy Renner: The Anti-Taylor SwiftHis excitement at scoring his first ever Oscar nom is palpable. By Mark Graham ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeYqrS0ec2oq2acoqq0tHs%3D/i-got-high-and-made-croissants-like-meryl-streep.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-got-high-and-made-croissants-like-meryl-streep.htmlNancy Meyers Week It’s Nancy Meyers Week at Vulture. Why? Because it’s The Holiday season, and It’s Complicated. Something’s Gotta Give. Nancy Meyers Week It’s Nancy Meyers Week at Vulture. Why? Because it’s The Holiday season, and It’s Complicated. Something’s Gotta Give. Can a layperson make fancy baked goods high? Or is this a skill bestowed exclusively upon Meryl Streep in Nancy Meyers’s It’s Complicated? It is impossible to articulate every aesthetic sensibility of Nancy Meyers’s oeuvre by singling out one scene, but if it I were to attempt it, I would probably choose that scene from It’s Complicated, wherein Meryl Streep and Steve Martin get stoned and make chocolate croissants./in-alex-pheby-s-novel-malarkoi-god-is-dead-and-objects-are-alive.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-alex-pheby-s-novel-malarkoi-god-is-dead-and-objects-are-alive.htmlDeath isn’t always terminal in Alex Pheby’s novel Malarkoi. Painful, yes. Gruesome, definitely. It’s just that, a lot of the time, it doesn’t quite stick. A main character is killed by his double, who then becomes him. A girl suffocates to death in a tangle of people with cow heads, then wakes up again, “alive for no reason.” This book is the second in a trilogy called Cities of the Weft; in the first book, Mordew, a boy from the slums named Nathan Treeves is crushed down so small that he fits into a locket./irish-repertory-theater-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/irish-repertory-theater-vulture.htmltheater review Mar. 24, 2024 Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come!At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master. By Sara Holdren ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeZp7a0tIyrnKmdoqm8s8WMrZ%2BemaSav3A%3D/is-the-economist-making-the-best-news-podcasts-right-now.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-the-economist-making-the-best-news-podcasts-right-now.htmlIts shows are aloof, even indifferent — and immensely listenable. Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. It’s hard to argue that there’s much fresh energy among news podcasts of late. The genre’s modern generation largely came of age across the Trump era, and it is striking how little it has evolved — both in form and in options — in the years since./it-s-not-too-late-to-give-your-mom-kacey-musgraves-s-mother-music-video-for-mother-s-day.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-not-too-late-to-give-your-mom-kacey-musgraves-s-mother-music-video-for-mother-s-day.htmlHey, does your mom like nice things in which people treat each other lovingly and with a tender kindness? What? Well, this could not have panned out better, because it’s still Mother Day (in some places) so you have just enough time to send your mom this link to Kacey Musgraves’s sweet “Mother” music video. In addition to a montage of motherly moments, the end of Musgraves’s video features a … what’s the opposite of an M./jane-fonda-bravely-quits-plastic-surgery.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-fonda-bravely-quits-plastic-surgery.htmlLikely too busy getting herself frequently arrested for the sake of our planet’s future, Jane Fonda is cutting back on the knives and syringes as she continues to live her best octogenarian years. That means: No more plastic surgery! Long may that endlessly playable Megyn Kelly interview reign! “I can’t pretend that I’m not vain, but there isn’t going to be any more plastic surgery—I’m not going to cut myself up anymore,” Fonda told Elle Canada in a new interview./jeopardy-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeopardy-vulture.htmlpunching up Aug. 14, 2023 The WGA Strike Passes Day 100Plus Jeopardy! in jeopardy, Li’l Sebastian, and CM Punk going for a cheap pro-labor pop. By Bethy Squiresand Anne Victoria Clark ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeamryxrdGdsGg%3D/jesse-eisenberg-on-zombieland-the-movie-s-big-cameo-and-facebook.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jesse-eisenberg-on-zombieland-the-movie-s-big-cameo-and-facebook.htmlJesse Eisenberg, headliner of indie films like Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, is not your typical zombie-movie star — in fact, he’s never even seen a zombie movie. So it’s a good thing, then, that Zombieland, out today, isn’t your typical zombie movie. Vulture spoke with Eisenberg yesterday about the film, its big surprise guest, and his upcoming role in David Fincher’s Facebook movie, The Social Network./justice-for-roundhouse.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justice-for-roundhouse.htmlMaybe my elder-millennial roots are showing, but I still see YouTube as the omnipotent, defining digital deity of my generation. Whereas TikTok just makes me feel ancient, YouTube can — unlike its dystopian counterparts in the social-media stratosphere — legitimately inspire, urging me to make more, to create, to continue beyond the web series and viral videos that defined my own early career. And I know that we, as a people, are far beyond the Remember the ’90s?/kathy-griffin-owns-it.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kathy-griffin-owns-it.htmlKathy Griffin has gone from the D-List to the No Fly List and back again. After bravely risking staining her blue pussy-bow blouse with ketchup during her infamous 2017 photo shoot, the comedian’s career imploded, and since then she’s been through hell. She was the subject of a monthslong federal investigation, battled an addiction to pills, attempted suicide, and was diagnosed with lung cancer, which resulted in losing half of her left lung — all of which contributed to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder./katy-perry-dressed-as-a-bottle-of-hand-sanitizer-on-last-night-s-american-idol.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/katy-perry-dressed-as-a-bottle-of-hand-sanitizer-on-last-night-s-american-idol.htmlSome of us haven’t been wearing much of anything around the house during our social distancing, just pulling on the closest T-shirt for Zoom calls. Then there’s Katy Perry, still over the top as ever. On April 26’s American Idol, the first remote episode of a competition show during the coronavirus pandemic, the judge wore a full-body hand-sanitizer outfit. No, that’s not a quarantine-induced hallucination. The bottle reads “American Idol: Instant Music Sanitizer,” with holes for Perry’s face and hands — and, yes, she wore it for the entire two-hour episode./keira-knightley-brings-spirit-to-the-politely-sexy-colette.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/keira-knightley-brings-spirit-to-the-politely-sexy-colette.htmlThis review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival. One of my favorite music videos is Michel Gondry’s piece for Björk’s 1997 single “Bachelorette,” which depicts the Icelandic pop star as the author of a book so big it eclipses her. She takes it to a publisher, it’s a hit, it’s mass-produced, and sooner or later the theater comes calling to adapt it. Björk goes to the premiere and watches the story we’ve just seen unfold onstage at a smaller, slightly more rinky-dink scale, all the way up to the point where, again, the theater comes calling and stage-Björk goes to the premiere of her play-within-a-play./kelly-clarkson-reaches-new-texan-heights-with-the-chicks-sin-wagon-cover.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelly-clarkson-reaches-new-texan-heights-with-the-chicks-sin-wagon-cover.htmlToday’s Kellyoke turned out to be a real hootenanny on The Kelly Clarkson Show. Clarkson tapped into her Texan roots, covering fellow Lone Star State icons the Chicks’ “Sin Wagon,” with fiddlin’ provided by her band, Y’all. In another seemingly pointed cover, she sings, “He pushed me ‘round / Now I’m drawin’ the line / He lived his life / Now I’m gonna go live mine.” Her cover of “Sin Wagon” joins the ranks alongside her impeccable cover of another Chicks song, “Cowboy Take Me Away./let-s-talk-about-the-ending-of-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-talk-about-the-ending-of-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.htmlAhead of the 2020 Academy Awards, Vulture is revisiting the endings of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Ahead of the 2020 Academy Awards, Vulture is revisiting the endings of this year’s Best Picture nominees. This is a photo from the first act of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that has been deliberately chosen to be as non-spoilery as possible. Warning: As the headline “Let’s Talk About the Ending of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” suggests, this article will address the conclusion of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film and thus contains spoilers./locke-key-recap-the-puppet-masters.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/locke-key-recap-the-puppet-masters.htmlLocke & Key Family Tree Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Locke & Key Family Tree Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Locke kids learn more about their dad in a most unusual way this episode, but it’s another chapter that feels a little bit like wheel-spinning to push us into the back of the season./longlegs-is-mostly-terrifying.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/longlegs-is-mostly-terrifying.htmlThis tense, odd thriller mines the horror of ordinary people compelled to do terrible things — an unnerving reflection of modern anxieties. For at least one full hour, Osgood Perkins’s aggressively stylized Longlegs has the viewer fully in its twisted, tightening grasp. The film’s powerful effect isn’t just the result of expert jump scares — though it has a couple of those — or a creepy story line./love-behind-bars-is-possible-it-s-just-absurdly-hard.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-behind-bars-is-possible-it-s-just-absurdly-hard.htmlI’ve been incarcerated in New York State for 20 years straight, serving a 28-years-to-life sentence for murder and selling drugs. I’ve become an immersive journalist in the joint. I’ve also been married twice, meeting both wives from ads I placed on prison pen-pal websites. My first marriage lasted three years, 2012 to 2015. I broke it off because I didn’t feel the connection when we started conjugals — the visits officially called the Family Reunion Program and unofficially called “trailers,” which allow some incarcerated people to spend 48 hours with loved ones in a private module home within the prison./lovecraft-country-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lovecraft-country-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mpaemmrCzrcWtZJynpaPBs8WO/lovecraft-country-recap-to-lyta-land-we-go.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lovecraft-country-recap-to-lyta-land-we-go.htmlLovecraft Country I Am. Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lovecraft Country I Am. Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The final half-hour of “I Am.” is everything I could ask for in a show like Lovecraft Country./megan-hilty-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/megan-hilty-vulture.htmlbad idea jeans Jan. 31, 2013 Blame Steven Spielberg for Ellis on SmashHe’s a huge Ellis fan. By Margaret Lyons ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGedmrSiuoyhoKWsqWQ%3D/movies-tv-shows-and-productions-affected-by-the-sag-aftra-strike.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/movies-tv-shows-and-productions-affected-by-the-sag-aftra-strike.htmlFor the first time in 63 years, the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild were on strike at the same time. Writers hit the picket lines on May 2, and on July 13, Screen Actors Guild president Fran Drescher, formally known as the nanny named Fran, announced actors would be joining the writers officially beginning at midnight on July 14. The writers won a contract in late September, while the actors won a contract this week./netflix-s-narcos-is-addictive-smart-entertainment.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflix-s-narcos-is-addictive-smart-entertainment.htmlWagner Moura as Pablo Escobar in Narcos. Netflix’s new series Narcos is a meaty dramatization of the rise of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, as narrated by one of the American DEA agents trying to take him down. The voice-over lends the show the almost dreamy air of a legend or fable, a gather round, children, for the story of the most notorious drug kingpin in living memory, and the show itself acknowledges in its awkward opening moments that this saga is in some ways part of the Colombian tradition of magical realism, that the story of Pablo Escobar is both true and surreal at the same time./no-one-had-a-better-2020-than-blue-ivy-rumi-and-sir-carter.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-one-had-a-better-2020-than-blue-ivy-rumi-and-sir-carter.htmlRumi and Sir Carter with their chauffeur. Who could’ve possibly had a better 2020 than Beyoncé? Clearly, it’s Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir Carter, who on top of being young enough to forget this year even happened, are shown having the time of their lives in Beyoncé’s New Year’s Day video recapping the year. The four-minute IGTV post includes unseen footage of her and Jay-Z’s three children, Blue Ivy, 8, and twins Rumi and Sir, 3./omg-emily-in-paris-has-an-age.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/omg-emily-in-paris-has-an-age.htmlAs devoted followers of my Emily in Paris reporting know, I have been on a quest since the day Emily Cooper abandoned Chicago, home to a boring boyfriend and a blah life, and absconded to Paris to be mediocre at her job and make underwhelming romantic and sexual decisions. I honestly still don’t know what Emily’s goals are, exactly, but I do now know what I have sought out from the very beginning, the one question I need answered: How old is Emily?/our-bodies-our-junk-dr-ruth-it-ain-t.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-bodies-our-junk-dr-ruth-it-ain-t.htmlWell, this book took me about a week longer than it should have to read. You really should be able to burn through it in a single day. Like many people my age though, I live my entire life in public spaces, and this is no book for that. First off, the title: Our Bodies, Our Junk. Less-than-savory. Then there’s the shaggy nude couple on the front, a winking reference to the line drawings of coital hippies from The Joy of Sex, shielding their groins and peering out at us shamefully from the cover./out-of-the-bayou-with-theo-von.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/out-of-the-bayou-with-theo-von.htmlBoth professionally and geographically, comedian Theo Von has come a long way from his hometown of Covington, Louisiana, a small town about one hour north of New Orleans. But as a current resident of Los Angeles, Von is still holding on to his Louisiana roots. After touring the country extensively for over a decade and earning spots on Comedy Central, TBS, Last Comic Standing, and CollegeHumor, Von returned to Louisiana last year to film his one hour Netflix special, No Offense, at New Orleans’ Civic Theatre./outlander-recap-hello-my-name-is-bear-killer.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/outlander-recap-hello-my-name-is-bear-killer.htmlOutlander Common Ground Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Outlander Common Ground Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Want to hear something weird? This year I asked Santa Claus to bring me a hunky man wearing tiny glasses while doing paperwork and he hath delivered!/party-harderson-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/party-harderson-vulture.htmlParty Harderson - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGdVaX2xrdGtsJigkaexpr7SqKVo/peyton-manning-pivots-to-hosting-the-2022-cmas-with-luke-bryan.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peyton-manning-pivots-to-hosting-the-2022-cmas-with-luke-bryan.htmlPeyton Manning and Luke Bryan. Peyton Manning has spent the past few years, as retired sports pros tend to, refining his hosting talents on ESPN+ and ESPN2. The Hall of Fame quarterback recently extended his Manningcast deal with ESPN through 2024 (alongside brother Eli), on top of his previous Peyton’s Places gig on ESPN+. Now, he’s pivoting to the music world, set to helm the Country Music Association Awards on November 9./phineas-mcboof-is-a-story-album-for-lil-scat-humor-fans.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phineas-mcboof-is-a-story-album-for-lil-scat-humor-fans.htmlEven we’re guilty of the cliché “you’ll love X as much as your kids.” But not today! This enormously silly CD is perfect for little ones just discovering scatological humor (that is to say, poop jokes). But it’s also educational! Like Peter and the Wolf but more fun, this wildly danceable story-album introduces kids to musical instruments, styles, and composition. “Don’t be Silly,” a number featuring dog, frog, and shark sounds, might be the only song here that you’ll find listenable./pop-s-stops-ranked.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pop-s-stops-ranked.htmlArtists use many musical tools and techniques to manipulate our emotions — volume-busting crescendos to amp up our excitement or melismatic vocal runs that toy with our tears. But none are quite as effective or as well-worn as the “stop” stop. You know, that point in the song where the singer literally says “stop,” takes a deep breath, and waits. After a grand, silent pause, the music comes whooshing back in./props-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/props-vulture.htmlhardest things Sept. 12, 2019 The Hardest Props I Ever MadeHollywood’s veteran property masters explain 12 props that made their careers. By Zach Schonfeld ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGegp7yxv44%3D/quiet-on-set-was-the-most-watched-title-on-streaming-in-its-debut-week.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quiet-on-set-was-the-most-watched-title-on-streaming-in-its-debut-week.htmlDrake Bell. It turns out all the social-media buzz about Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV translated into massive ratings success for the child-star exposé. The four-part Investigation Discovery–produced true-crime doc, which streamed on ID and Max on March 17 and 18, racked up a massive 1.2 billion minutes of streaming viewing time during the week ending March 24, according to advance Nielsen data provided to Vulture. While Nielsen won’t officially release its rankings for that week until next Thursday, when it does, Quiet on Set is expected to rank as the No./rachel-chavkin-is-still-in-broadway-beast-mode.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rachel-chavkin-is-still-in-broadway-beast-mode.htmlEye. Look, Broadway’s had some great dames tread its boards. From Auntie Mame to Eva Perón to Jackie Kennedy’s aunt and cousin living in a dilapidated house, it has been a pretty killer run. But never have we gotten a Polish Art Deco Cubist who was an active political participant in both world wars — a giant hole in the repertory, honestly. But now, Lempicka has come to change that./real-housewives-of-new-jersey-recap-jekyll-and-bride.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-housewives-of-new-jersey-recap-jekyll-and-bride.htmlThe Real Housewives of New Jersey Last Fling Before the Ring Season 9 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey Last Fling Before the Ring Season 9 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’d like to make one thing very clear: Jennifer is still the worst./real-housewives-songs-ranked.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-housewives-songs-ranked.htmlMoney can’t buy you class — at least according to (former) Countess Luann de Lesseps. But you know what it can buy you? Roughly two hours in a recording studio, an out-of-work songwriter, and maybe a producer to churn out a medium-to-low-tier song. Throw in a hint of desperation and a guaranteed slot to launch your bop on Watch What Happens Live! and voilà: You’ve got the recipe for pop-culture magic./relearn-some-chemistry-facts-with-the-periodic-table-rap.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/relearn-some-chemistry-facts-with-the-periodic-table-rap.htmlExplains Oort Kuiper: “Many people have heard of Tom Lehrer’s ‘The Elements’ song…after listening I realised the song hadn’t actually told me anything about The Periodic Table, except what’s on it!” Noble gases, we’re on to you now. [Have You Seen This?] Relearn Some Chemistry Facts With the Periodic Table Rap ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgbXyxsdGipp2hk5TBoq7LnparmaBjtbW5yw%3D%3D/reservation-dogs-recap-trust-fails.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reservation-dogs-recap-trust-fails.htmlReservation Dogs Decolonativization Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reservation Dogs Decolonativization Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As punishment for throwing a party while she was out of town at the Indian Health Services conference (which we witnessed last episode), Rita forces Bear to attend the annual IHS Youth Summit, an event seemingly designed to invigorate the self-determination of the youth in the village by building community and introducing them to positive role models./rodrigo-de-la-serna-vulture.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rodrigo-de-la-serna-vulture.htmlin production Sept. 3, 2013 Get Ready for a Pope Francis BiopicThe Argentinian production was announced in Venice today. By Delia Paunescu ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeipLGztcaoZJ2dXaGubr%2FEq6WaZw%3D%3D/rupert-grint-had-trouble-kissing-emma-watson-for-adorable-reasons-that-we-will-push-aside-for-the-sa.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupert-grint-had-trouble-kissing-emma-watson-for-adorable-reasons-that-we-will-push-aside-for-the-sa.htmlOh, Rupert. Ron Weasley is the punching bag of the Harry Potter universe. He deals with the insults, the Weasley jokes, the schemes to make him worse at quidditch, but it all ends up okay, because he’s a fundamentally good person — and also because he gets to kiss Hermione. Unfortunately for Rupert Grint, however, the last part of that wasn’t so fun, making him the only person who has ever had trouble feeling attracted to Emma Watson (Bazinga!/see-a-series-of-downton-abbey-trading-cards.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-a-series-of-downton-abbey-trading-cards.htmlWhat, no Carson? Blasphemy! [VF] See a Series of Downton Abbey Trading Cards ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZ3ylu9anq6imXZavo7HYZqurmZSeu6h5wpqpnatencGuuA%3D%3D/see-charlize-theron-s-snl-promos.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-charlize-theron-s-snl-promos.htmlCharlize Theron is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, so here’s her obligatory promo reel. Taran Killam sure can make a silly face! Theron’s previous hosting gig was all the way back in 2000 (musical guest: Paul Simon), long enough ago that she was a member of the girl-group Gemini’s Twin and a guest on “Goth Talk” — the final “Goth Talk,” in fact, since Molly Shannon left the show at the end of that season./shirley-caesar-takes-legal-action-over-the-u-name-it-challenge.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shirley-caesar-takes-legal-action-over-the-u-name-it-challenge.htmlIn a sermon from 2010, Shirley Caesar was just trying to praise God. The pastor and gospel singer named her blessings, namely the “greens, beans, potatoes, tomatoes …” that populated her dinner table. In November, the internet turned that snippet into the viral Thanksgiving-themed “U Name It Challenge.” Now, Caesar is going to court over one request: Stop inserting sin into her sermon! Caesar was fine with the Thanksgiving-themed viral video, but when an Atlanta DJ posted a rendition that included liquor, she was not thrilled./singer-mojo-nixon-dies-on-outlaw-country-cruise.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/singer-mojo-nixon-dies-on-outlaw-country-cruise.htmlMojo Nixon, the artist behind comedic hits like “Elvis Is Everywhere” and “Don Henley Must Die,” died on the Outlaw Country Cruise. He reportedly suffered a “cardiac event” after performing a show. “How you live is how you should die,” his family said in a statement obtained by Rolling Stone. “Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire… Passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners + a good breakfast with bandmates and friends./stranger-things-recap-running-up-that-hill.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stranger-things-recap-running-up-that-hill.htmlStranger Things Dear Billy Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Stranger Things Dear Billy Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There! Is! So! Much! Happening!!! When the news of Stranger Things season four’s hefty episode runtimes broke, people had a lot to say./tana-french-on-the-witch-elm-metoo-and-the-divisive-ending-of-in-the-woods.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tana-french-on-the-witch-elm-metoo-and-the-divisive-ending-of-in-the-woods.htmlSince bursting onto the mystery scene with her genre-bending 2007 debut In the Woods, Tana French has cemented her reputation as a literary novelist who happens to write about murder. A Dubliner who originally trained as a stage actor, her first six books were each narrated by a different detective from the fictional Dublin Murder Squad. In her seventh, The Witch Elm, out this week to rave reviews, she breaks from her own convention by writing from the perspective of the victim of a crime./tarantino-s-inglourious-farmhouse-revealed.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tarantino-s-inglourious-farmhouse-revealed.htmlMainstreaming that we’re happy about. Under normal circumstances, a photograph of a farmhouse would be, at best, pretty and quaint and, at worst, totally lame and boring. Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to change all that. Images of a French farmhouse constructed for his hotly anticipated (and potentially wonderfully insane) film Inglorious Bastards have leaked to the Internet, and fans who have already read a draft of the script can barely contain their enthusiasm for a peek at the location of the film’s opening showdown between its female lead and the “Jew Hunter./the-black-panther-press-tour-has-now-gifted-us-the-cast-singing-k-ci-jojo-s-all-my-life.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-black-panther-press-tour-has-now-gifted-us-the-cast-singing-k-ci-jojo-s-all-my-life.htmlThe Black Panther press tour is going exactly according to plan: We’ve got Michael B. Jordan bursting out of sweaters, Michael B. Jordan doing push-ups whenever Lupita Nyong’o says he has to, Michael B. Jordan gettingflirty with Lupita, and just generally all things Michael B Jordan. (But also, hello, Winston Duke.) We now bring you the gift of Michael B. Jordan singing: On a recent trip to Seoul, Ryan Coogler picked Jordan and Chadwick Boseman to sing K-Ci & JoJo’s “All My Life” (the correct choice) at karaoke, which of course meant presenter Eric Nam got them all to sing it on the spot./the-cloak-is-the-best-character-in-doctor-strange.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cloak-is-the-best-character-in-doctor-strange.htmlRemember vests? Ah, were we ever so young? Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice presented a vision where everyone wore a vest for some reason, and oh, how it made us merry. Then along came The Magnificent Seven (I checked, it did indeed come out), where several bored but highly compensated actors also wore vests. It was a sartorial trend of sorts, hampered by the fact the films these vests appeared in ranged from “Bad” to “Did I actually buy a ticket to The Magnificent Seven?/the-crown-recap-good-bye-you.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-crown-recap-good-bye-you.htmlThe Crown Ritz Season 6 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown Ritz Season 6 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As a lifelong “No. 2,” Princess Margaret led a bittersweet existence. The most “dazzling” of the royals, she epitomized glamour and charm while simultaneously living with constant heartache and a lack of purpose./the-eight-career-options-for-romantic-comedy-heroines.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-eight-career-options-for-romantic-comedy-heroines.htmlBefore making No Strings Attached, Natalie Portman always wanted to star in a romantic comedy, but she was wary of the genre’s typical female lead. “The girls are always in fashion, and it’s always about their clothes,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “That stuff offends me.” In No Strings, Portman instead plays a workaholic doctor, but what she may not realize is that the female M.D. who has sex like a man is a rom-com cliché, too./the-everything-bagel-puzzle.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-everything-bagel-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they're ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us./the-little-prince-crash-lands-on-this-planet.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-little-prince-crash-lands-on-this-planet.htmlTake flight. The curtain for The Little Prince at the barnlike Broadway Theater seems to promise that whatever’s behind it will be faithful to the book. Not only does it say “The Little Prince” right there in loopy letters, but the image includes copyright details: the publisher (Gallimard) and date (1945). It could almost be a blown-up book cover! But do not judge a nouveau cirque show by its curtain./the-many-wacky-easter-eggs-of-the-2013-kardashian-christmas-card.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-many-wacky-easter-eggs-of-the-2013-kardashian-christmas-card.htmlLast night’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians Christmas special featured a bunch of “never-before-seen” home videos, moments in which the clan reminisced about their pre-fame days, and, most important, a look at this year’s Christmas card. It’s a wonderful tradition, and although the average family’s photos might get less embarrassing as the years progress, the Kardashians’ just get wackier and wackier. There were the matching white clothes, the motorcycle gangwear, the year Lamar might have been Photoshopped in, 2011’s 3-D motif, and last year’s, which featured Kim’s now-dead kitten, Mercy./the-patient-recap-man-s-search-for-meaning.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-patient-recap-man-s-search-for-meaning.htmlThe Patient Auschwitz Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Patient Auschwitz Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alan Strauss is a therapist, not a murderer. And despite all his clever efforts this week to orchestrate an avenue of escape in the form of therapeutic intervention, he’s unable to act when it matters most./the-patient-series-finale-recap-broken-vessels.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-patient-series-finale-recap-broken-vessels.htmlThe Patient The Cantor’s Husband Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Patient The Cantor’s Husband Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » In broad terms, there are four stages of therapy: commitment, process, change, and termination. Throughout its run, The Patient thoughtfully followed Alan and Sam’s therapist-patient relationship through each of those stages, and the finale chronicles Alan’s valiant efforts to execute the final one, peacefully and professionally ending his tenure as Sam’s pet therapist./the-racial-wonderland-of-aladdin-s-genie.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-racial-wonderland-of-aladdin-s-genie.htmlThree Genies: Broadway’s Michael James Scott, cartoon Robin Williams, and Will Smith. Back in December, when Entertainment Weekly dropped the exclusive first photos of Disney’s live-action movie Aladdin, many people were confused. The cover features the film’s leads: Naomi Scott as Jasmine, characteristically self-serious and wearing the princess’s classic hue of turquoise. Mena Massoud as the titular street rat, almost-but-not-quite back-to-back with his co-star (no doubt Photoshopped into place). And then, arms caging them from above, with an uncanny smile and a distinctly human-colored body, is Genie by way of Will Smith./the-resort-recap-aural-leakage.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-resort-recap-aural-leakage.htmlThe Resort Episode 4 Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Resort Episode 4 Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a couple of so-so episodes, The Resort has delivered with its mind-bending (mind-leaking?) fourth episode, “A History of Forgetting./the-unwavering-sin%C3%A9ad-o-connor.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-unwavering-sin%C3%A9ad-o-connor.htmlFriends, collaborators, and admirers on the life and legacy of a “machete-cutting truth teller.” Photo: Rob Verhorst/Redferns When Sinéad O’Connor died on July 26 of natural causes, an outpouring of love and regret flooded social media over the loss of a massive talent and truth teller. For an artist who primarily regarded herself as a protest singer, pop stardom was never a cozy fit for O’Connor, especially in the early ’90s, when her actions were construed as agitprop or merely baffling./theater-review-why-i-can-t-accept-admissions.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-why-i-can-t-accept-admissions.htmlFrom Admissions, at Lincoln Center. The world’s most fashionable astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, recently tweeted, “Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.” Despite a fair number of comments that point out how (a) simplistic, (b) clichéd, and (c) generally silly this sentiment is, at the moment of my writing it’s garnered almost 65,000 likes and over 21,000 retweets./this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-the-unsolved-case-of-the-doodler.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-the-unsolved-case-of-the-doodler.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. The true-crime-podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional./trey-edward-shults-says-his-a24-movie-waves-is-a-panic-attack-followed-by-a-hug.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trey-edward-shults-says-his-a24-movie-waves-is-a-panic-attack-followed-by-a-hug.htmlWriter-director Trey Edward Shults likes to call his dizzying, devastating, hip-hop-saturated third feature film Waves a “diptych.” The A24-distributed drama (which arrives in theaters Friday) is broken into distinct first and second halves, with alternative sets of lead characters. Each section features its own plotline that, while inextricably linked to the other, ignores the traditional three-act structure that governs so many movies — even the art-house-iest of indies./tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mq52mmruosY4%3D/tv-review-cbs-s-madam-secretary-can-t-decide-whether-it-wants-to-be-the-west-wing-or-scandal.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tv-review-cbs-s-madam-secretary-can-t-decide-whether-it-wants-to-be-the-west-wing-or-scandal.htmlIn the not great but likable and intelligent Madam Secretary, Téa Leoni’s talent gets a deserving showcase. Throughout the early part of her career, the actress had a knack for playing kooks, and did so brilliantly, most notably on the 1995–98 NBC sitcom The Naked Truth, her most recent starring TV role. This CBS drama about Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA agent and college professor tapped to be secretary of state, gives her a vehicle comparable to Julianna Margulies’s in The Good Wife (only in the sense that she’s asked to act as the calm eye at the center of a storm of more colorful supporting players)./underwater-s-alternate-ending-brings-peace-to-my-weary-mind.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/underwater-s-alternate-ending-brings-peace-to-my-weary-mind.htmlJust as most of us are confined to our homes under (local) government mandate, the global film industry has effectively shut down, with the box office frozen since cinemas closed in early March. Most intended 2020 theatrical releases have been indefinitely postponed or demoted to an on-demand debut as a result. With a lack of splashy new titles to pore over, former moviegoers are left with nothing but the typically maligned “January movies” getting digital releases this spring./venita-blackburn-s-first-novel-runs-on-denial.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/venita-blackburn-s-first-novel-runs-on-denial.htmlWith Dead in Long Beach, California, she takes on the kind of grief that can lead to deception. Dead in Long Beach, California is out from MCD x FSG on January 23. Photo: Nicholas Albrecht Dead in Long Beach, California is out from MCD x FSG on January 23. In 2008, Venita Blackburn’s mother died unexpectedly — and at first, one of Blackburn’s brothers refused to tell his daughter, for whom their mother had been an important maternal figure./vinyl-recap-the-dark-side.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vinyl-recap-the-dark-side.htmlVinyl He in Racist Fire Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vinyl He in Racist Fire Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ato Essandoh as Lester, Juno Temple as Jamie. Even by the shoddy standards of prestige cable drama, Vinyl has a problem with women./vulture-s-2023-summer-pop-culture-gift-guide.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vulture-s-2023-summer-pop-culture-gift-guide.htmlWe live in a capitalist society, so there’s no reason that the winter-holiday season should have a monopoly on gift guides. Santa Claus is hitting the beach, leaving you on the hook to buy gifts for any friends who have summertime birthdays. Or maybe you just want a little warm-weather treat for yourself. It’s okay! You deserve it. Whatever your gift-giving needs might be, the Vulture staff has you covered, as we have rounded up the best summertime pop-culture gifts./watch-a-clip-from-lars-von-trier-s-nymphomaniac.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-a-clip-from-lars-von-trier-s-nymphomaniac.htmlEveryone’s super excited for Lars Von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac because famous people will be having sex, using digitally imposed genitals — sexy, sexy digitally imposed genitals. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Stellan Skarsgård, Christian Slater, and Connie Nielsen; however, the first clip features none of those folks. Instead, it’s a scene from the film’s first of eight chapters, in which Stacy Martin plays Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg’s character) as a youngin’ learning how to seduce men on the train./weinstein-accuser-dawn-dunning-says-he-offered-jobs-in-exchange-for-a-threesome-with-assistant.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weinstein-accuser-dawn-dunning-says-he-offered-jobs-in-exchange-for-a-threesome-with-assistant.htmlFormer actress Dawn Dunning testified in Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan rape and sexual-assault trial Wednesday morning that he touched her genitals without consent during a meeting and later offered her movie roles in exchange for a “threesome.” While Weinstein is not charged with the alleged assault of Dunning, she is the first witness called to testify about prior bad acts. Prosecutors, who plan on calling two more such witnesses, cannot use their testimony to argue that Weinstein has a bad character or a tendency to behave this way, but these witnesses’ testimony can be used to show things such as opportunity and intent./welcome-to-chippendales-premiere-recap-women-get-horny-ii.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-chippendales-premiere-recap-women-get-horny-ii.htmlWelcome to Chippendales An Elegant, Exclusive Atmosphere Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Welcome to Chippendales An Elegant, Exclusive Atmosphere Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » On the day I went to see the “Thunder Down Under” — an all-male revue in which buff Aussies strip from blue jeans to less — a dozen sets of toned, tanned abs beckoned a bachelorette onstage./what-bedazzled-vegetable-is-mike-faist-wearing-to-the-met.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-bedazzled-vegetable-is-mike-faist-wearing-to-the-met.htmlArt Donaldson attends Met Gala 2024. Mike Faist, one-third of the Challengers throuple, made his Met Gala debut with his date, a mysterious root vegetable. “But it’s radish!” “No, it’s a turnip!” The leaves on his bedazzled brooch scream radish, but the bulb yells turnip. Vulture tried to ask Faist what veggie adorned him on the red carpet, but he had no response for our social media editor./what-makes-a-taika-waititi-tv-series-a-taika-waititi-tv-series.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-makes-a-taika-waititi-tv-series-a-taika-waititi-tv-series.htmlWhat kinda pirate has a friend? This kinda pirate. The boundary between movies and TV has become increasingly porous over the past decade or so, and for an auteur with an adaptable but identifiable style, the small screen can be a doorway to new stories and new possibilities. With his expanding TV empire, director, writer, actor, and executive producer Taika Waititi has strolled right through it. Waititi stepped into mainstream success after 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok was critically and commercially well-received, and since then, his choices as a TV executive producer have furthered the motivations and motifs he first developed as an indie film writer and director, narratives that bounce between irreverence and melancholy, and that feature inclusive casts in which unique singularities are celebrated./where-are-all-the-tenet-spoilers.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-are-all-the-tenet-spoilers.htmlNot interested in risking infection to see a Christopher Nolan movie at the theater? Thankfully, you can read spoilers from the safety of your home. It feels strange to be worrying about spoilers for a movie that was supposed to come out more than a month ago. Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which was originally scheduled to hit theaters on July 17, kept on getting its release pushed back and delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic./which-movie-has-the-best-soundtrack-anchorman-2-wolf-of-wall-street-or-american-hustle.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-movie-has-the-best-soundtrack-anchorman-2-wolf-of-wall-street-or-american-hustle.htmlLast month, a trio of movies set in the not-too-distant past hit theaters chock-full of era-appropriate songs. Anchorman 2 had a list of ironically used seventies soft-rock jams and classic-rock staples; American Hustle went back and forth between classy, jazzy instrumentals and intensely seventiesrock and disco hits; and The Wolf of Wall Street was just all over the place, as Martin Scorsese movies usually are. Some of the choices were inspired, some were visceral, some were predictable and tired, and some lyrics were painfully on the nose: But which soundtrack was best?/who-s-who-in-westeros-a-house-of-the-dragon-character-guide.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-s-who-in-westeros-a-house-of-the-dragon-character-guide.htmlMost of these people are related by blood and marriage. Seven kingdoms, one Iron Throne, and a whole lot of people with odd names to keep track of: That was the formula for Game of Thrones. Now House of the Dragon, HBO’s blockbuster prequel to its most successful series of all time, is following suit. The good news for fans of the world created by novelist George R.R. Martin is that Dragon features way fewer houses to keep track of; it tells the tale of a budding conflict and eventual civil war within the ruling family of House Targaryen itself./why-did-warhol-s-green-car-crash-sell.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-warhol-s-green-car-crash-sell.htmlAndy Warhol’s Green Car Crash.Photo by AFP / Getty Images When Andy Warhol’s Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) hit the block at Christie’s, experts thought the auction house’s estimate — $25 to $35 million — was optimistic. Warhol’s previous auction record was $17.38 million, but more to the point, would buyers want such a grisly image on their living-room wall? As art consultant Sandy Heller told ABC News, “It’s hard to put an image of an impaled figure in a burning car in a home where you have little kids./game-of-thrones-great-moments-in-sexposition.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/game-of-thrones-great-moments-in-sexposition.htmltv June 13, 2011 12:00 pm By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 6 Photos Photo: Courtesy of HBO “Sexposition” is the clever technique of jazzing up boring plot exposition by pairing it with sex. Game of Thrones isn’t the first show to try to liven up its occasionally burdensome explanations with a little nudity, but boy oh boy, do the seven kingdoms love it./almost-every-reality-tv-lawsuit-right-now.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/almost-every-reality-tv-lawsuit-right-now.htmlLeah McSweeney in RHONY. It’s getting real. Last year, former Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel suggested it was time for a “reckoning” in reality TV, calling for stars to unionize for better treatment. There may be no union yet, but there are plenty of lawsuits, and their complaints run the gamut from villain edits to one contestant being forced to bake a pie the day she had a stroke./10-kids-shows-that-are-actually-great.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-kids-shows-that-are-actually-great.htmlWhat Should Your Kids Be Watching? A guide to the complicated world of children’s movies and television. What Should Your Kids Be Watching? A guide to the complicated world of children’s movies and television. This story was originally published in 2019 and is being republished for anyone who might be looking for more ways to entertain their children at home. Parents today have more control over what their children watch and enough options to do more than just filter out shows that are actively bad./12-days-of-christmas-horror-movies.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-days-of-christmas-horror-movies.htmlOriginally one of the most reliably cheesy categories of horror, the Christmas-themed scary movie has come a long way since the soft-focused made-for-TV movie days of Home for the Holidays and budget slashers like Silent Night, Deadly Night. But over the past few years, the high quality of entries like Better Watch Out and Krampus inspired us to assemble a best-of viewing guide. So after surveying decades’ worth of candidates, Vulture has come up with a list of a dozen essential scary holiday films, a “12 Days of Christmas Horror” to help you feel extra-festive — and remind you that at baseline, Santa is a home invader who breaks into your private life via chimney and leaves mysterious things for your kids!/12-moonlighting-episodes-that-stretched-the-limits-of-tv.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-moonlighting-episodes-that-stretched-the-limits-of-tv.htmlFour phases of Moonlighting. Almost four decades after it premiered, Moonlighting is finally available to stream, through Hulu. Held up in licensing purgatory for years by complicated music rights issues, one of the best shows of its era has come home for both people looking for a strong shot of nostalgia and those who have never seen it before. A game changer on Tuesday nights on ABC, Moonlighting was a generation ahead of its time, blurring the line between comedy and drama, while solving a few mysteries and launching one of the greatest TV couples of all time./16-essential-episodes-of-the-l-word.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/16-essential-episodes-of-the-l-word.htmlThe L Word changed the world. When the series debuted in January 2004, it was the first of its kind to portray lesbian life in an aspirational light. As in, so many women and queer people watching really, really wanted the glamorous, hyperdramatized lives of these somewhat (okay, very) flawed but ambitious, attractive, and proudly out (for the most part) women. Many of these envy-worthy lesbians are connected by the Chart, a whiteboard (turned website in later seasons) drawing lines between hookups of queer women around the globe, oddly personifying the interconnectedness of, well, real queer women around the world./1899-recap-may-your-coffee-kick-in-before-reality-does.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1899-recap-may-your-coffee-kick-in-before-reality-does.html1899 The Pyramid Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 1899 The Pyramid Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Things have gone from bad to worse over on the Kerberos. Much, much worse. Our main ensemble is fresh off of watching more than a thousand people toss themselves off a boat while in a trancelike state, and now they’re left on a boat with no running engines and no power, floating around in the middle of the night on the ocean./9-ways-the-fault-in-our-stars-changed-the-last-decade-of-pop-culture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/9-ways-the-fault-in-our-stars-changed-the-last-decade-of-pop-culture.htmlJanuary, 2012: Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol reigned at the box office, a new show called Girls premiered on HBO, Lana Del Rey told us we were Born to Die … and a young-adult novel about two kids with cancer falling in love became a massive sensation. The sixth book from John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted January 10 at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, where it would stay for months./a-definitive-ranking-of-bob-s-burgers-holiday-episodes.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-definitive-ranking-of-bob-s-burgers-holiday-episodes.htmlOver the course of eight seasons, Bob’s Burgers has grown into a sweet-natured, brazenly weird, always hilarious meditation on the nature of family, one that rivals any live-action luminaries. And better than any other show on TV, Bob’s Burgers understands the blend of wonder and anxiety that comes with the holidays. This ranking of every holiday episode thus far highlights the greatest strengths of the series: its deft characterization, stellar voice acting, and the way it uses music to communicate its zany, tenderhearted nature./a-tribe-called-quest-and-the-art-of-the-mixtape.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-tribe-called-quest-and-the-art-of-the-mixtape.htmlA Tribe Called Quest. Hanif Abdurraqib is a visiting writer in the MFA program at Butler University, an acclaimed poet, and cultural critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, MTV News, Vulture, and other outlets. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, he is the author of the highly praised poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us./adam-weinstein-author-archive.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adam-weinstein-author-archive.htmlAdam Weinstein Author Archive MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY: `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZK6lrcxmrp6hnqjBprXNaA%3D%3D/all-the-movies-and-shows-referenced-in-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-the-movies-and-shows-referenced-in-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.htmlThe Great Escape. Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, opens this week after its controversial Cannes premiere back in May. The film takes place over two weekends in February and August of 1969, and it’s filled with references to the era in film and television, some of which are woven into the plot and some of which clearly inspired Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson in their design of the film./american-horror-story-recap-bad-santa.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-horror-story-recap-bad-santa.htmlAmerican Horror Story Unholy Night Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story Unholy Night Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Merry early Christmas, you godless pinheads. After last week’s relatively tame episode, we’re back to the kind of snappy, rapey dialogue that makes me simultaneously want to giggle and cry./anderson-cooper-has-snapped-and-he-s-taking-the-good-name-of-turtles-with-him.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anderson-cooper-has-snapped-and-he-s-taking-the-good-name-of-turtles-with-him.htmlWhat has a turtle ever done to you, Anderson Cooper? Sure, if you happen to have a lot of bugs and worms lying around, they will go to town, but at a certain point, that’s on you for leaving all your bugs and worms within turtle-shot. On Thursday evening, Cooper threw turtles under the bus (not literally, he’s not that cruel) while reacting to President Trump’s Thursday evening address, during which POTUS alleged widespread voter fraud in this week’s presidential election as a way to explain his increasingly unfavorable vote count./bad-bunny-s-spending-un-verano-con-cassandro.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bad-bunny-s-spending-un-verano-con-cassandro.htmlLet’s fight. A win for us all — finally, Latine people get a movie about luchadores with actual Latinos stepping into the spandex. Cassandro is set to be released in some theaters on September 15 and then a week later on Prime Video, and this movie has it all — exóticos, queer love, a Celia Cruz song, a mother-son relationship, and … (checks notes) Bad Bunny? The movie has been well received by Un Verano Sin Ti fans who are looking forward to Bad Bunny locking lips with someone who isn’t [redacted]./below-deck-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlAhoy, mateys! This Bravo reality show follows the lives of the people who work on luxurious superyachts. In addition to contending with the normal rigors and challenges of life at sea, the crew (or yachties) must also deal with something far, far more dangerous: every single whim of their super-rich clients. It’s not all bad, though, as when they’re not hard at work, the yachties are still, you know, on a really, really nice yacht./bird-box-trailer-sandra-bullock-and-trevante-rhodes-get-blindfolded.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bird-box-trailer-sandra-bullock-and-trevante-rhodes-get-blindfolded.htmlIn A Quiet Place, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt weren’t allowed to talk, but in Netflix’s new movie Bird Box, directed by Susanne Bier (The Night Manager, Serena), Sandra Bullock and Trevante Rhodes aren’t allowed to see. (Pretty high stakes for a movie with hot people!) A mysterious creature has taken out most of the world’s population, making humans want to self-destruct whenever they lay eyes on the creature./bong-joon-ho-s-dystopia-is-already-here.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bong-joon-ho-s-dystopia-is-already-here.htmlThe Korean director’s ruthless, bleak new film Parasite is the most fun you’ll have in theaters this fall. Photo: Robert Maxwell Photo: Robert Maxwell This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The standoff between Bong Joon-ho and Harvey Weinstein over the U.S. cut of Snowpiercer had all the hallmarks of a scene the director might shoot himself. High drama./cam-ron-is-the-24-hour-news-pundit-we-deserve.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cam-ron-is-the-24-hour-news-pundit-we-deserve.html“Sorry, I’m going to get some cheeks after this Horse Power drink.” He became a cable legend in 2003 when he accused Bill O’Reilly of being “maaaad” on Fox News. He added to his mythos in 2007 when he told Anderson Cooper in a 60 Minutes interview, “I’d probably move” rather than snitch on a serial-killer neighbor. And now, thanks to his May 20 appearance on CNN, Dipset rapper and former O./cornelia-channing-author-archive.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cornelia-channing-author-archive.htmlfall preview 2021 Aug. 31, 2021 40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallIncluding Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZLCwvs2eo6KZXZi1orrNoqWgZw%3D%3D/could-furious-7-s-double-skyscraper-jump-really-happen-we-asked-a-physicist.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/could-furious-7-s-double-skyscraper-jump-really-happen-we-asked-a-physicist.htmlEveryone will have their own choice for the most ridiculous and/or spectacular car stunt in Furious 7. But the one that intrigued us most was the one where Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) jump a very rare and expensive sports car from one Abu Dhabi skyscraper into another — and then, after discovering that their brakes don’t work, proceed to jump from that skyscraper into yet another one. (See it in this trailer./courteney-cox-wishes-she-could-share-thousands-of-moments-with-matthew-perry.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/courteney-cox-wishes-she-could-share-thousands-of-moments-with-matthew-perry.htmlMonica has taken a moment to remember her time with Chandler. Friends star Courteney Cox pays tribute to her co-star and frequency scene partner, the late Matthew Perry. In a post on Instagram, Cox shared a scene with Perry and David Schwimmer from the legendary sitcom and how Perry helped make their scenes funnier together. “When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share,” she began./crazy-days-and-nights-vulture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crazy-days-and-nights-vulture.htmlCrazy Days And Nights - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeTp667xYydmLKrXZa7pXnNop6hrKNk/cruel-summer-recap-spy-kids.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cruel-summer-recap-spy-kids.htmlCruel Summer All I Want for Christmas Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cruel Summer All I Want for Christmas Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Um, can we get Isabella into some kind of intensive trauma-therapy program?/daisy-jones-the-six-recap-the-orphan-years.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daisy-jones-the-six-recap-the-orphan-years.htmlDaisy Jones and The Six I’ll Take You There Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Daisy Jones and The Six I’ll Take You There Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Amazon has made the messy decision to drop the first three episodes of Daisy Jones & the Six on us at once, so here we are, together again./dave-chappelle-dropped-some-truth-with-a-little-help-from-chris-rock-on-this-week-s-snl.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-chappelle-dropped-some-truth-with-a-little-help-from-chris-rock-on-this-week-s-snl.htmlNo matter which way the election went, there was no doubt that Dave Chappelle would be the perfect host for the first post-election episode of Saturday Night Live, and that turned out to be true. With new material, insightful stories, cameos from his roster of beloved characters, and – maybe most importantly – with his very distinctive counterpoint to the middle-of-the-road messages of togetherness the show’s spent most of the season focusing on, Chappelle tackled a tough subject and armed us with the tools we need to start understanding it better./death-cab-for-cutie-s-ben-gibbard-on-his-solo-album-singing-into-an-iphone-and-his-divorce.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-cab-for-cutie-s-ben-gibbard-on-his-solo-album-singing-into-an-iphone-and-his-divorce.htmlBen Gibbard. Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is best known for his lush and poppy songs, distinct voice, and endearing nerdiness. He’s also known for being married to, and now divorced from, Zooey Deschanel. With his first solo record, Former Lives, out this week (it’s also the first music he’s put out since the split), Gibbard spoke with Vulture about geography playing a role in his writing, singing into an iPhone, and avoiding gossip./deconstructing-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-s-murderous-poe-mash-up.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deconstructing-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-s-murderous-poe-mash-up.htmlOkay, this one’s a gimme. Throughout his various Netflix horror series, Mike Flanagan has maintained an interesting approach to adaptation that eschews faithful one-to-one representations of novels by authors like Shirley Jackson and Henry James, instead using them as thematic inspiration. That sometimes means sacrificing intensely cerebral terror in favor of jump scares and family melodrama — but in his best works, Flanagan offers a new take on the source material, a remix that becomes compelling in its own right./domestic-violence-group-horrified-by-snl-s-tiger-woods-sketch.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/domestic-violence-group-horrified-by-snl-s-tiger-woods-sketch.htmlWhen we set out to recap this weekend’s Blake Lively–Rihanna episode of Saturday Night Live, we never really thought to include the sketch that spoofed the Tiger Woods incident in our write-up because, frankly, topicality doesn’t always equate to hilarity. Well, it seems that the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence agrees with our take, only instead of just ignoring the sketch entirely like we chose to, they’re making a big stink out of what really was a forgettable four minutes of Kenan Thompson lisping and Jason Sudeikis misfiring on his Wolf Blitzer impression./eastbound-down-premiere-recap-chiklis.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eastbound-down-premiere-recap-chiklis.htmlEastbound & Down Chapter 14 Season 3 Episode 1 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eastbound & Down Chapter 14 Season 3 Episode 1 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In the first few moments of the season-three premiere of Eastbound & Down, Jody Hill et al.’s gritty, moving documentary series about life and love in the South, we learn that Kenny Powers’s boogie board is painted with an American flag and a pot leaf and we are not surprised./ebiri-on-rob-the-mob-a-surprisingly-human-crime-caper.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ebiri-on-rob-the-mob-a-surprisingly-human-crime-caper.htmlMichael Pitt in Rob the Mob For a few months in 1992, Thomas and Rosemarie Uva struck a combination of disbelief, annoyance, and even a little terror in the hearts of New York’s underworld as they held up a series of social clubs belonging to the Gambino and Bonnano crime families. She’d wait in the car, while he ran in with an Uzi and robbed and humiliated the wiseguys inside, reportedly messing with his victims’ hair and making them drop their pants./emily-in-paris-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-in-paris-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlTwentysomething (?) Chicagoan Emily Cooper moves to the titular Paris to bring her certain je ne sais quoi to a French marketing firm. Once there, she makes a new life for herself full of drama, friends, love, and a wide range of fashions that may or may not look ridiculous. Lily Collins stars as Emily in the Netflix series, which is quite popular and beloved despite (or because of) how dumb it is./enjoy-a-first-look-at-emily-blunt-s-face-in-mary-poppins-returns.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/enjoy-a-first-look-at-emily-blunt-s-face-in-mary-poppins-returns.htmlFilming on Mary Poppins Returns. Supposedly, we already got our first peek at Emily Blunt looking practically perfect in every way, courtesy of an official Mary Poppins Returns image released last month. Now, though, thanks to some enterprising photographers hanging around the film’s London production, we have indisputable evidence of exactly what is under Mary Poppins’s obtrusive hat. Confirmed: It’s Emily Blunt’s face. The on-set glimpse also provides our first look atLin-Manuel Miranda’s Jack, a lamplighter and probable penguin enthusiast, as well as some new precocious kiddies, presumably the Banks children’s children?/erykah-badu-pharrell-frank-ocean-to-appear-on-tyler-the-creator-s-wolf.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/erykah-badu-pharrell-frank-ocean-to-appear-on-tyler-the-creator-s-wolf.htmlTyler, the Creator really, really loves N.E.R.D. So feel free to wish the guy a big congrats on getting Pharrell Williams on his upcoming album Wolf. Pharrell appears on a track called “IFHY” (“if…you…hate…you”? “I flip hats, yo”?), while two more of the Odd Future front man’s favorites, Erykah Badu and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, will show up as well. Frank Ocean will guest star twice, Earl Sweatshirt once. There are songs called “Jamba,” “Jornada,” and “Trashwang./euphoria-review-freaks-and-dicks.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/euphoria-review-freaks-and-dicks.htmlZendaya in Euphoria. In the third episode of the trippy and explicit Euphoria, the pseudo-recovering addict Rue (Zendaya) enters the bedroom of her younger sister, Gia (Storm Reid), and finds her watching an episode of My So-Called Life. By referencing the 25-year-old ABC high-school series, Euphoria tips its hat to a previous entry in the same genre and reminds the audience that what was praised for its honest depiction of teen life in 1994 now looks quaint by comparison./every-threat-melissa-mccarthy-makes-in-the-heat.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-threat-melissa-mccarthy-makes-in-the-heat.htmlAs Boston P.D. detective Shannon Mullins in The Heat, Melissa McCarthy is good at police work, and even better at hurling profanity-spattered insults. Who knew there were so many different ways to suggest that you are going to pull off someone’s body part and stuff it in another body part? We jotted down all of her major threats (ignoring generic “fuck-you”s) so you can memorize them and use them when your wordier Veep-spawned insults get too exhausting./float-into-space-with-lana-del-rey-s-new-music-video-for-love.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/float-into-space-with-lana-del-rey-s-new-music-video-for-love.htmlOn Monday, Lana Del Rey dropped a cosmic music video for her dreamy new track, “Love,” which she released last week. Directed by Rich Lee, the video is an ode to love that’s “out of this world” — young lovers literally float into space near the halfway mark. “I made my first 4 albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed,” Del Rey said in a press release./football-vulture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/football-vulture.htmlvulture sports Mar. 13, 2022 Tom Brady UnretiresHe’s going back to the Buccs for a 23rd season. By Alejandra Gularte ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeWpLy1rsClo2g%3D/from-michael-cohen-to-michael-clayton-a-look-at-the-fixer.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-michael-cohen-to-michael-clayton-a-look-at-the-fixer.htmlGeorge Clooney in Michael Clayton. One Monday morning a few weeks back, as the opening salvo for a federal court case now active in the Southern District of New York, the FBI raided the Rockefeller Center office and Park Avenue hotel of Michael Cohen. In so doing, they not only opened a new legal front on Donald Trump. They also elevated Cohen — a fierce Trump loyalist — from minor player in the swirling White House melodramas into a full-on star./gods-of-egypt-is-like-watching-someone-else-play-a-video-game.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gods-of-egypt-is-like-watching-someone-else-play-a-video-game.html“I’m the goddess of too much,” says the beautiful Hathor (Elodie Yung) partway through Gods of Egypt. Who’s the god or goddess of too little? Because one could imagine that Alex Proyas’s film might be the end result of an epic battle between those two deities. It’s both thin and overstuffed, filled with intricate, at times dazzling setpieces peopled by characters we don’t care about, and an irreverent sense of fun that nevertheless leaves us cold./guy-ritchie-movies-ranked.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guy-ritchie-movies-ranked.htmlThis list was originally published in 2021. It has been updated to include Guy Ritchie’s most recent films. It is honestly difficult to come up with a modern filmmaker with a weirder, almost nonsensical, career than Guy Ritchie’s. How in the world does the person who made Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels even live on the same plane of human existence as the person who made Aladdin?/harry-styles-also-has-a-lot-of-tv-to-catch-up-on.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/harry-styles-also-has-a-lot-of-tv-to-catch-up-on.htmlNow, he would be the ultimate bombshell. At the end of a day filled with the hard work of being an internationally popular pop star, Harry Styles needs to kick up his feet and put something on the telly. It’s only natural! But there’s no especially glamorous streaming channel for only celebrities, so even Styles is watching shows like the rest of us. In Rolling Stone, Styles provides us with an insight into his queue./how-blinding-lights-used-retro-sounds-and-modern-bass-to-break-records.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-blinding-lights-used-retro-sounds-and-modern-bass-to-break-records.htmlWouldja look at that, Vulture got a new podcast. We’re delighted to welcome the superlative music show Switched on Pop and its hosts Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan to our digital shores. Today they kick off their Vulture tenure with a look at the Weeknd’s megahit “Blinding Lights.” After you’ve listened (… and subscribed?), you can enjoy their vast back catalogue.  This article originally ran on February 2, 2021. It has been updated and republished following The Weeknd’s Super Bowl halftime show performance./how-protesting-helped-tayarisha-poe-feel-normal-again.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-protesting-helped-tayarisha-poe-feel-normal-again.htmlThe View From Home As coronavirus continues to spread, Vulture is speaking to filmmakers across the globe about how they are coping in a socially distanced world. The View From Home As coronavirus continues to spread, Vulture is speaking to filmmakers across the globe about how they are coping in a socially distanced world. The Selah and the Spades director isn’t expecting a “yes, the revolution has arrived” moment — but she is feeling a lot of hope./how-true-to-the-conducting-life-is-t%C3%A1r.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-true-to-the-conducting-life-is-t%C3%A1r.htmlArchitecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár. The movie Tár opens with an unlikely dramatic gambit: the recitation of a résumé. Lydia Tár, played with bristling confidence by Cate Blanchett, is being introduced at a public conversation./iconic-radio-dj-art-laboe-dead-at-97.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iconic-radio-dj-art-laboe-dead-at-97.htmlRadio DJ Art Laboe died at the age of 97 from pneumonia on Friday night, according to a spokesperson for his production company Dart Entertainment. Last week, he hosted his final radio show, The Art Laboe Connection Show, which was broadcasted on Sunday night. Laboe has been credited with helping end segregation in Southern California by hosting live DJ shows that attracted people of all races to attend./in-conversation-hayley-williams.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-hayley-williams.htmlThe front woman on what went wrong with Paramore, Warped Tour war stories, and her new solo life. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Hayley Williams. Photo: Lindsey Byrnes This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Hayley Williams. When Hayley Williams started the pop-punk group Paramore at 15, all she wanted was to be in a band with her best guy friends./in-stage-fright-jenny-slate-shows-us-herself.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-stage-fright-jenny-slate-shows-us-herself.htmlJenny Slate in Stage Fright. In a documentary segment during Jenny Slate’s new Netflix special Stage Fright, she talks about the premise of the special’s title. In a moment filmed backstage a few hours before her set begins, she explains that she gets terrible stage fright. “I don’t earn the love unless I give something beautiful that goes out,” she says. “My stage fright comes from a deeper thing, of exchange./j-j-abrams-and-zachary-quinto-bring-you-the-tab-hunter-anthony-perkins-romance-you-now-need.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/j-j-abrams-and-zachary-quinto-bring-you-the-tab-hunter-anthony-perkins-romance-you-now-need.htmlTab Hunter. Had you but known it was on the table, you’d constantly be demanding more news about Tab & Tony, the upcoming drama about the secret romance between actors Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins. Secret, of course, because the pair’s love affair coincided with both Hollywood stardom and the 1950s and ‘60s. J.J. Abrams and Zachary Quinto will reportedly produce the film, which is based on Tab Hunter’s personal account of his relationship with the Psycho star, who passed away in 1992, and draws from his 2005 memoir Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star./james-lance-talked-his-way-into-more-ted-lasso.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/james-lance-talked-his-way-into-more-ted-lasso.htmlTrent Crimm: The Independent is now Trent Crimm: The Author. Despite seemingly departing the Ted Lasso universe at the end of season two after revealing his sources for a bombshell story about Ted’s panic attacks, the follically gifted writer is now back in a big way: He’s shadowing AFC Richmond and everyone around them to write a book about the club’s season. (It’s also convenient, since, as Ted reminds him, there’s “a big old Ziploc bag full with your hair-ties down at lost and found./jane-lynch-gets-a-sexy-magazine-spread-too.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-lynch-gets-a-sexy-magazine-spread-too.htmlOn the heels of the publicity-garnering Lea Michele–Dianna Agron GQ schoolgirl shoot, Glee’s Jane Lynch is rocking merely a leopard-print bathrobe in More magazine this month, surrounded by chiseled, mostly naked men. The actress also opened up about her stint in twelve-step meetings for alcohol abuse: “Had I known I’d be telling my story over and over again, I would have made it a lot better.” Sue! [More via Movieline]/jerrod-carmichael-reality-show-vulture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jerrod-carmichael-reality-show-vulture.htmlcomedy review Mar. 26, 2024 Jerrod Carmichael Makes the Camera His GodIn his HBO series, the comedian needles at whether the spectacle of his own personality and pain eclipses his ability to care about others. By Kathryn VanArendonk ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeamr%2Bzu8NmmpqqnZ6wqa3EpWSrnZGhtrXFjKyfqK9f/jessie-j-says-she-s-considered-one-of-the-greatest-singers-in-america-which-is-like-sending.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jessie-j-says-she-s-considered-one-of-the-greatest-singers-in-america-which-is-like-sending.htmlBoy, you give someone the opening number of Grease: Live, she takes a mile. British singer Jessie J recently lamented her lack of success in the U.K. to Women’s Health, comparing it to her heretofore undetected level of critical acclaim in the States. “It makes me sad. I’ve done the Grammys, the VMAs,” the singer said, “My profile in America is that I’m kind of celebrated as one of the greatest singers — and I love it./julio-torres-is-facing-flamboyant-and-clerical-dangers-in-problemista.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/julio-torres-is-facing-flamboyant-and-clerical-dangers-in-problemista.htmlJulio Torres is, how do you say? Sui generis. Following his comedy special titled My Favorite Shapes and co-creating and starring in an HBO series about a Latin American group of reverse-Scooby-Doo-ers called Los Espookys, his upcoming debut film, Problemista, looks to be just as surreal and funny as … everything else he makes. He stars as Alejandro, an artist who lives in the U.S. and has one month to find a cosigner on his visa, so he attempts to get his boss, played by Tilda Swinton, to be that cosigner./justin-bieber-has-elevated-fashion-once-again.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-bieber-has-elevated-fashion-once-again.htmlBIEBER. Everyone knows when attending a high-stakes basketball game, you don’t want to see too much. You wanna sport some old-fashioned indoor-sunglasses, like Justin Bieber did as he watched Miami take out Indiana in game seven, pushing the Heat to the NBA Finals. What everyone doesn’t know — or didn’t know until Bieber let them know, just like he did with lipstick-red onesies and insano drop-crotch pants and Chanel ski masks with fedoras on top — is that it’s great to wear a leather shirt, too./kesha-is-back-to-raising-hell-in-her-new-music-video.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kesha-is-back-to-raising-hell-in-her-new-music-video.htmlKesha is back and she came to slay all of your awful husbands. In her first music video since Rainbow came out, Kesha dons a double-decker wig and plays a beloved televangelist. Beloved by everyone except her distant, angry, abusive husband. Sitting in her all-white house? Treating her like that? Not anymore! So, Kesha packs up the body — I mean, random stuff that just needs to be buried — and heads out on the run, scarf blowing in the wind./kornbread-the-snack-jet%C3%A9-won-t-shantay-for-drag-race-season-15.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kornbread-the-snack-jet%C3%A9-won-t-shantay-for-drag-race-season-15.htmlKornbread “The Snack” Jeté. RuPaul’s Drag Race isn’t coming back for seconds of Kornbread. After departing season 14 approximately 23 episodes ago due to an ankle injury, Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté announced she won’t be back for a proper stint on the next season of the show. “My run on season 14 was nothing short of AMAZING,” Kornbread wrote on Twitter. “Unfortunately I will not be returning to season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race./lauren-graham-wants-a-parenthood-revival-series.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lauren-graham-wants-a-parenthood-revival-series.htmlThe only thing Lauren Graham loves more than dropping obscure film references is a revival series. She’s already bringing back Lorelai Gilmore with Netflix’s upcoming Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and now she’s hoping it might be time for Parenthood’s Sarah Braverman to make an appearance. According to EW, Graham joked on Twitter that she wants the Braverman family to return: “*Sits at home waiting for script @nbcParenthood: A Year in the Life*” she tweeted./lil-nas-x-who-totally-never-ran-a-nicki-minaj-stan-account-comes-out-as-a-barb.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lil-nas-x-who-totally-never-ran-a-nicki-minaj-stan-account-comes-out-as-a-barb.html@nasmaraj who? All this time spent inside is a great reason to rethink past decisions, maybe like running a since-banned, tweetdecking Nicki Minaj stan account. Not that anyone we know has done that, but Lil Nas X did tweet today that “life is too short to pretend you’re not a barb,” referencing Nicki Minaj’s fans, the self-styled Barbies, and resurfacing questions about the stan account @nasmaraj, which used to share Minaj content and other jokes meant to go viral./lisa-edelstein-vows-to-end-writers-strike-with-her-boobs.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lisa-edelstein-vows-to-end-writers-strike-with-her-boobs.htmlPhoto: Getty Images “I’m all for Cuddy having sex sometime this season, so honk if you want to see my boobs.” —Lisa Edelstein, hopeful that the prospect of her character sleeping with House will bring an end to the writers’ strike [TV Guide] “If you paid more than $20 on Craigslist you are a sucker, because it’s going to be on TV for free in a few weeks.” —Tina Fey to audience members who attended Monday night’s live performance of an upcoming 30 Rock episode at the UCB Theatre [HuffPo]/megan-mullally-proves-that-neither-her-face-nor-sean-hayes-s-butt-have-aged-since-2006.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/megan-mullally-proves-that-neither-her-face-nor-sean-hayes-s-butt-have-aged-since-2006.htmlIt takes a lot to promote a TV show these days. Talk show appearances, maybe a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and it doesn’t hurt to show a little tuchus. Megan Mullally proudly showed off her Will & Grace co-star Sean Hayes’s lil butt in a #TBT pic of the two posed as John and Yoko. Was it to promote the show? Yes. But also to remind us that, although time comes for us all eventually, it comes for TV stars more slowly./mo-nique-says-it-loudly.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mo-nique-says-it-loudly.htmlThe comedy veteran’s new special is a reintroduction: “It lets you understand why I fight the way that I fight.” Mo’Nique. Photo: John Washington Jr./Netflix Mo’Nique. Mo’Nique has been laughing off doubters for decades. She blossomed into an award-winning actor in spite of people who didn’t think much of her UPN sitcom The Parkers, which ran from 1999–2004. She refused to occupy the role of the demure celeb in the 2010s after winning an Academy Award for her harrowing performance in Precious, as film-industry figureheads (some of whom she considered friends) portrayed her spirit of independence as an air of insouciance./netflix-house-rolls-right-off-the-tongue-and-into-a-mall-near-you.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflix-house-rolls-right-off-the-tongue-and-into-a-mall-near-you.htmlNetflix House? Netflix House. It just doesn’t sound right. “Netflix House” feels wrong in the mouth — but I guess if the streamer is going for a Disneyesque empire, it’s better than Netflix Land. Either way, it’s happening: Netflix is moving from the digital space to the physical by buying up dearly departed department stores (now there’s a phrase that works). The first two Netflix Houses will open in malls in Dallas, Texas, and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in 2025 per a press release./new-york-state-court-will-hear-harvey-weinstein-s-appeal.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-york-state-court-will-hear-harvey-weinstein-s-appeal.htmlHarvey Weinstein Update, August 24: The New York State Court of Appeals has agreed to hear Harvey Weinstein’s appeal in his rape and sexual assault case. Weinstein fought his conviction in a lower appeals court, but it ruled against him in June. This development means that Weinstein has another chance to fight his conviction, this time in front of New York’s highest state court. In a statement, Weinstein’s spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, said: “We are hopeful and grateful for this rare opportunity and believe that granting Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers leave to make the appeal to the NY Court of Appeals demonstrates that there is, in fact, merit to the appeal./oh-my-god-they-made-boy-erased-for-otherkin.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oh-my-god-they-made-boy-erased-for-otherkin.htmlHorse girls. Wolf girls. Girls who role-played Warriors at recess. If you haven’t thought about this particular subtype of kid since fifth grade, sorry for this trailer, because it’s about to unlock something. In the upcoming movie Wolf, George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp play young adults at conversion therapy for “species dysphoria,” meaning they feel that they are different species of animal trapped in human bodies. The trailer depicts this metaphorical conceit as something halfway between The Lobster in reverse and Boy Erased but for otherkin, as if George MacKay saw Lucas Hedges’s performance and ripped his shirt off and said “Bet./peter-dinklage-mourns-the-end-of-scarf-and-hat-weather.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-dinklage-mourns-the-end-of-scarf-and-hat-weather.html“Winter is coming” is music to Peter Dinklage’s ears. And that has nothing to do with Game of Thrones. No, it means that Dinklage can bust out his vast scarf and knit-hat collection. Seriously, Dinklage loves winter accessories as much as Tyrion Lannister loves whores. His hats tend to be black, but his scarves come in a vibrant assortment of colors, patterns, and textures. In honor of the Northern Hemisphere’s rapidly rising temperatures, we put together this tribute to Dinklage’s serious winter-clothes game./scott-foley-on-puppies-plywood-and-pursuing-your-woodworking-dreams.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scott-foley-on-puppies-plywood-and-pursuing-your-woodworking-dreams.htmlScott Foley has never done reality TV before, but you wouldn’t know it watching him host Ellen’s Next Great Designer. He’s such a natural on the furniture-design competition show, named after producer (and avowed design lover) Ellen DeGeneres, that it should really be called Scott Foley’s Next Great Designer. He’s the one greeting contestants, assigning them challenges, judging their work with co-panelists Brigette Romanek and Fernando Mastrangelo, and visiting them in their studios to offer encouragement (or, in the case of one contestant, a gentle reminder that referring to him as Noel, his character from Felicity, makes them both look old)./screenwriter-scott-rosenberg-recalls-his-time-with-harvey-weinstein-at-miramax-everyone-f-cking.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/screenwriter-scott-rosenberg-recalls-his-time-with-harvey-weinstein-at-miramax-everyone-f-cking.htmlAs the number of public accusations of sexual harassment, assault, and rape lodged against Harvey Weinstein climb, claims that those familiar with the former studio head did not know about his reputation become more and more difficult to believe. In a new Facebook post, screenwriter Scott Rosenberg offers his perspective on the disgraced producer, whom he worked for during Miramax’s late-’90s “golden age,” in the form of a confessional poem./seinfeld-all-in-the-family-top-the-wga-s-list-of-the-101-best-written-tv-series-of.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seinfeld-all-in-the-family-top-the-wga-s-list-of-the-101-best-written-tv-series-of.htmlThe Writers Guild of America this weekend released a list of the “101 Best Written TV Series of All Time,” and several comedies ranked high on the list, which was determined by online voting by WGA members. While The Sopranos took the top spot, the list also included comedies like Seinfeld (#2), All in the Family (#4), M*A*S*H (#5), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (#6), Cheers (#8), and The Simpsons (#11)./snowflakes-will-have-a-field-day-with-netflix-s-new-drama-trigger-warning.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snowflakes-will-have-a-field-day-with-netflix-s-new-drama-trigger-warning.htmlWe’re in a safe space to share this news: Jessica Alba, a reigning queen of hard-boiled action for the big screen when she isn’t running a near-billion-dollar wellness company, will be starring in a new drama film for Netflix called Trigger Warning. THR reports that Alba will portray a traumatized veteran who “inherits her grandfather’s bar and faces a moral dilemma after learning the truth behind his untimely death,” which, if we had to guess, involves quite a large conspiracy that will bring forth even more untimely deaths./so-is-incest-taboo-in-westeros-or-what.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-is-incest-taboo-in-westeros-or-what.htmlJust your standard niece-uncle behavior (if you’re Targaryen, that is). At the end of the fourth episode of House of the Dragon, King Viserys is about as angry as we’ve ever seen him. His daughter and heir, Rhaenyra, stands accused of being intimate with his brother — her uncle — Daemon. They may not have consummated the deed, but they certainly almost did, and Rhaenyra, at least, was super into it./some-like-it-enby-vulture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-like-it-enby-vulture.htmlsome like it enby May 2, 2023 How Do We Solve a Problem Like Gendered Tony Categories?A not-so-modest proposal. By Jason P. Frank ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejpLqmecuiop5lmal6prrBsmY%3D/somebody-anybody-give-john-goodman-a-hug-and-tell-him-how-great-he-is.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/somebody-anybody-give-john-goodman-a-hug-and-tell-him-how-great-he-is.htmlJohn Goodman. John Goodman is a swell guy, and no one needs to hear that message more than John Goodman himself. In his appearance this week on “The Howard Stern Show,” Goodman revealed that, even though he is an almost universally beloved actor, he could still use a hug and some words of encouragement. Take the time he tried to talk to Kristen Wiig at a party. “I think she’s so great, and the social barriers broke down and I interrupted the conversation,” he revealed./star-wars-s-poe-dameron-will-get-his-own-comic-series.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/star-wars-s-poe-dameron-will-get-his-own-comic-series.htmlThat jacket. USA Today reports Marvel is prepping Poe Dameron comics, because you can never have enough new Star Wars and they know you miss that jacket. Written by Charles Soule and drawn by Phil Noto, the Resistance character’s eponymous series will drop in April and function as a pseudo-prequel to shed more light on his backstory, as well as his part in the opening of The Force Awakens. “Sometimes it can feel like the Star Wars universe is so well trodden and so many stories have already been told,” Soule, a Star Wars comics vet, told the paper./steve-buscemi-vulture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steve-buscemi-vulture.htmlmovie review June 9, 2020 The King of Staten Island Returns Pete Davidson to AnonymityJudd Apatow’s dramedy is loosely based on the SNL star — a kind of thought experiment about what his life would be like if he never found comedy. By Alison Willmore ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejqbK3sYybrKyblaK2cA%3D%3D/sza-s-got-a-cyborg-on-her-roster.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sza-s-got-a-cyborg-on-her-roster.htmlTonight, SZA’s gonna dance for her robot boyfriend. The android is one of many love interests in the music video for SZA’s track “Snooze,” from last year’s critically acclaimed record, SOS. We see the R&B singer, together with two background dancers, performing sexy choreography in an empty gymnasium that makes you wonder if part-time creative director Teyana Taylor is involved in the project. SZA is in a sheer, sparkling gold leotard, and the machine boyfriend sits in a leather armchair for his lap dance./take-a-trip-back-to-our-town.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-a-trip-back-to-our-town.htmlHelen Hunt in the 2009 revival of Our Town, directed by David Cromer. It’s time to book a bed-and-breakfast, go to the local pub, take a hike, and maybe even go to a small, local bookshop. That’s right, we’re heading back to Grover’s Corners. A new production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Our Town is heading for Broadway in October 2024, a.k.a. the perfect season for this meditation on cozy small-town life and also death./take-vulture-s-saved-by-the-bell-superfan-quiz.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-vulture-s-saved-by-the-bell-superfan-quiz.htmlWhere were you 25 years ago today? Watching NBC? Witnessing history as Saved by the Bell debuted with its new name, new cast, and a slight resemblance to a Disney Channel show called Good Morning, Miss Bliss? Or maybe you weren’t even born yet. Either way, today is an anniversary worth celebrating, as TV’s best-ever sitcom for kids is finally old enough to rent a car. And there’s no better way to celebrate than taking this 50-question superfan quiz./talking-to-michael-ian-black-and-michael-showalter-about-their-podcast-topics-and-other-stuff.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-michael-ian-black-and-michael-showalter-about-their-podcast-topics-and-other-stuff.htmlIn the increasingly competitive world of comedic podcasting, earning the title of “must-listen” can be quite challenging. With an abundance of engaging options available to occupy your 9-5, a discerning ear is essential to remain up-to-date on the very best in audio entertainment. Earwolf, arguably the industry’s leading tastemaker in comedy podcasts, recently added the sophisticated humor of frequent collaborators Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter to their all-star roster by agreeing to host their previously independent podcast, Topics./taylor-tomlinson-just-wants-to-get-onstage-again.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-tomlinson-just-wants-to-get-onstage-again.htmlTaylor Tomlinson. This week, we’re highlighting 20 talented writers and performers for Vulture’s annual list “Comedians You Should and Will Know.” Our goal is to introduce a wider audience to the talent that has the comedy community and industry buzzing. (You can read more about our methodology at the link above.) This year, for the first time, we asked the comedians on this list to answer a series of questions about their work and comedy under quarantine./the-25-funniest-fictional-talk-show-hosts.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-25-funniest-fictional-talk-show-hosts.htmlTalk shows are already their own farce: The format is overused and rarely changing, most “impromptu” celeb stories are pre-vetted by producers, and the field is overrun by men named Jimmy. It comes as no surprise that their chatter has been the target of satire for as long as Ed McMahon or Jack Torrance have boomed “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” Beyond your standard Saturday Night Live parodies, however, lies a bizarro world of fictional hosts who deliver what actual talking heads can’t./the-best-gossip-you-ve-never-heard.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-gossip-you-ve-never-heard.htmlNicholas Quah. Podcast Critic, Vulture. Writes the 1.5x Speed newsletter. Creator, Hot Pod. Contributor, Fresh Air. Member, Peabody Awards Board of Jurors. Nicholas Quah. Podcast Critic, Vulture. Writes the 1.5x Speed newsletter. Creator, Hot Pod. Contributor, Fresh Air. Member, Peabody Awards Board of Jurors. Kelsey McKinney and Alex Sujong Laughlin. A good piece of gossip can reframe your world, destabilize the values you hold so dearly, and reveal the people around you to be far more strange and interesting than you might originally imagine./the-best-worst-and-most-misunderstood-of-the-killers-according-to-brandon-flowers.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-worst-and-most-misunderstood-of-the-killers-according-to-brandon-flowers.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “We’re not always trying to seek out to sound like ‘a Killers song’ or ‘Killers chorus,’ but we got a certain way of doing things and people are attracted to that.” Brandon Flowers is aware that the Killers have a “sound,” even if he can’t quite describe it./the-challenges-of-adapting-ferrante.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-challenges-of-adapting-ferrante.htmlThe team behind HBO’s My Brilliant Friend on bringing the author’s Naples to life. Behind the scenes of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend. Photo: HBO Behind the scenes of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend. Photo: HBO Behind the scenes of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend. When it was first published in 2011, My Brilliant Friend resonated with readers worldwide in a way that few contemporary novels without magic or dragons do. The first of Elena Ferrante’s four-book series introduced a premise that was deceptively simple: Two gifted girls, Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco, growing up in post-WWII Naples, bring out the best and worst in each other./the-chrisleys-prison-sentences-just-got-a-couple-years-shorter.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-chrisleys-prison-sentences-just-got-a-couple-years-shorter.htmlJulie and Todd Chrisley have had their prison sentences slightly reduced, USA Today reports. The married Chrisley Knows Best reality stars were originally sentenced to separately serve a combined 19 years in federal prison after they were found guilty of criminal bank fraud and tax evasion. Todd’s 12-year-sentence in Florida has now been shortened to 10 years, while Julie’s 7-year-sentence in Kentucky has now been shortened to 5 years./the-drew-barrymore-show-is-apparently-returning-without-wga-writers.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-drew-barrymore-show-is-apparently-returning-without-wga-writers.htmlUpdate, Sunday, September 10 at 5:20 p.m.: After news broke that the WGA plans to picket The Drew Barrymore Show this week for returning without its striking writers, Drew Barrymore has shared her reasoning in a lengthy Instagram statement. “I own this choice,” she wrote. “We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind.” Still, The Drew Barrymore Show itself is considered a struck show by the WGA./the-gilded-age-recap-i-must-cancel-my-congratulations.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gilded-age-recap-i-must-cancel-my-congratulations.htmlThe Gilded Age Close Enough to Touch Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Gilded Age Close Enough to Touch Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » OMG. What! Was this episode amazing?? I think it was! I can’t believe the number of things that happened./the-good-fight-carries-on.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-fight-carries-on.htmlKathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a 10 hour movie. Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a 10 hour movie. The Good Fight ends with Diane (Christine Baranski) and Liz (Audra McDonald) firmly back in a recognizable American 2022. In its final episode, The Good Fight found itself stuck inside the precise problem it has always loved and never truly been able to solve./the-greatest-grammys-snubs-of-all-time.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-greatest-grammys-snubs-of-all-time.htmlWinners For Best New Artist Macklemore (C) and Ryan Lewis accept their trophy on stage as Pharrell Williams and Anna Kendrick, presenters, look on during the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, January 26, 2014. According to leading experts in the very scientific field of complaining about things, there is no pastime more popular than griping about all the instances where the Grammys screwed up and gave an award to the wrong person./the-imperfect-innovation-of-kanye-west-s-graduation.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-imperfect-innovation-of-kanye-west-s-graduation.htmlGraduation, which turns ten today, probably isn’t the worst Kanye West LP, but even if it were, that would hardly be cause for shame. In keeping with its title, Kanye’s third album puts on a weird costume and participates in a ceremonious procession, but behind the ordered facade something disheveled invariably peeps through. Graduation marks the first work from the artist that isn’t entirely cohesive. The flow between songs is interrupted by variances in production: Instead of the unified, mural-like soundscape of The College Dropout and Late Registration, the impression left by Graduation is more of a collage./the-little-mermaid-live-action-is-here-isn-t-it-neat.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-little-mermaid-live-action-is-here-isn-t-it-neat.htmlThe Little Mermaid wanted to be a part of our world so bad, Disney made her a live-action film. Well, it’s one of the latest live-action bald-faced business decisions that the House of Mouse green-lit, following in the footsteps of Lily James’s Cinderella, uncanny-valley Lion King, Will Smith’s Aladdin, and others. Halle Bailey, who proved her singing chops as one-half of the sibling duo Chloe x Halle, signed on as Ariel nearly four years ago, giving Disney adults time (too much time, perhaps) to anticipate the upcoming film and start discourse about what it means for a Black woman to play a mythical creature./the-love-is-blind-season-6-power-rankings.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-love-is-blind-season-6-power-rankings.htmlThis article originally ran on March 6, 2024, and has been updated for the Love Is Blind season 6 finale. One could argue (and many do) that Love Is Blind is a dating experiment. I’d be more inclined to buy into this thesis if it weren’t a nationally televised sensation. While it’s not officially a competition show, couples are constantly jockeying to prove that they’re the strongest couple of the season./the-matrix-vulture.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-matrix-vulture.htmlhappy easter Mar. 31, 2024 Memes Is RisenShoutout to TikTok’s Jesus (Taylor’s Version), you’re really putting in the work. By Bethy Squires ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeknbJuucCtqaKwXw%3D%3D/the-perfect-guy-is-a-fatal-attraction-ripoff-that-never-gets-crazy-enough.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-perfect-guy-is-a-fatal-attraction-ripoff-that-never-gets-crazy-enough.htmlThe Perfect Guy is the kind of movie you keep wishing would just cut loose and go off the deep end. Nobody goes to these Fatal Attraction retreads anymore for serious drama. But this one is a movie torn — too grim and self-important to go truly nuts, but too silly and slipshod to work on a more somber level. Sanaa Lathan plays Leah, a hotshot exec at a political-consulting firm who ditches her boyfriend of two years, David (Morris Chestnut), after it becomes clear that he’s not ready to marry her./the-profound-grief-of-the-haunting-of-hill-house.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-profound-grief-of-the-haunting-of-hill-house.htmlSpoilers below for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and its ending. Trauma builds walls. Left untended, they keep going up. Soon, you’re trapped in a house of its making: long hallways leading nowhere, empty rooms, doors that swing open and slam shut by the weather of your moods. You climb the stairs and shout through the windows, hungry for a way out, lost in the labyrinthine sinew of personal devastation./the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-everyone-s-bored-in-ojai.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-everyone-s-bored-in-ojai.htmlThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Girls Gone Ojai’ld Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Girls Gone Ojai’ld Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hello, pals! First things first: If you saw a familiar name underneath a friendly, lumpy Jewish face on last night’s Watch What Happens Live, it’s because I was the bartender on the show!/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-recap-dressing-up-dressing-down.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-recap-dressing-up-dressing-down.htmlThe Real Housewives of Orange County A Doppelgänger Disaster Season 17 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County A Doppelgänger Disaster Season 17 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The moment that Shannon Storms Beador figures out what is good for her is the moment that she stops being one of our greatest practitioners of the reality television arts and sciences./the-return-of-this-week-in-jennifer-lawrence-quotes.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-return-of-this-week-in-jennifer-lawrence-quotes.htmlNow with shorter hair. Jennifer Lawrence is a great many things, including an Oscar-winning actress, a Most Valuable Stars ascendant, and an unintentionally snotty kisser. But above all else, Jennifer Lawrence is the most relentlessly quotable A-list actress we’ve got, and with a Hunger Games sequel soon to premiere (and American Hustle looming at Christmas), she’s back out on the promo trail, and we have resurrected our Friday feature “This Week in Jennifer Lawrence Quotes” accordingly./the-revenant-is-a-brutal-feat-of-strength.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-revenant-is-a-brutal-feat-of-strength.htmlLeonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. Early in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s survival saga The Revenant, I gasped “Bloody hell!,” meaning both “What an amazing filmmaker!” and “Get me out of here!” The movie is visceral with a side of viscera. The Hollywood columnist who wrote that it was too “unflinchingly brutal” for women was justly ridiculed, but he did pick up on something that’s there: Watching it is meant to be a test of a certain kind of “manliness./theater-review-does-jim-parsons-as-god-knock-em-dead.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-does-jim-parsons-as-god-knock-em-dead.htmlJim Parsons as the Big Bang. For all its celebration of personal liberty and countercultural fabulousness, Broadway is actually a fairly God-positive place. Producers are not, after all, in the business of alienating potential audiences with gratuitous sacrilege. The nuns in Sister Act are sassy, not schismatic; Tevye’s a hondler, not an apostate. Even The Book of Mormon, for all its nose-thumbing, ends up endorsing the irrational power of faith in the same way it endorses the irrational power of musicals./theater-review-tiny-beautiful-things-won-me-over-against-my-will.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-tiny-beautiful-things-won-me-over-against-my-will.htmlOnstage at the Public, Tiny Beautiful Things. In the spirit of “Dear Sugar,” an honest confession: Up till now, I’ve steered clear of the work of Cheryl Strayed. I’m skeptical of Passion Planners, and I make a sharp turn in Barnes & Noble when I encounter the table displaying Eat, Pray, Love and The Desire Map. Really, it’s not the authors of these books I’m avoiding — it’s the warm, fuzzy cult of #selfcare that tends to cocoon around them./this-might-be-the-strangest-movie-of-the-year.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-might-be-the-strangest-movie-of-the-year.htmlRuby Gillman, Teenage Kraken On its surface, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is like any number of other films we’ve already seen: An awkward teenager tries to fit in, winds up humiliated, but then discovers that they’re special in their own way. With a variation here or there, the template can accommodate everything from She’s All That to Cinderella to Spider-Man to Carrie. In the case of this movie, however, like the title says, our nerdy, lovesick 15-year-old heroine (voiced by Lana Condor) isn’t just wondering whom she can ask out to prom or if the popular new girl at school will befriend her or why her parents are so strict with her./tim-and-tyne-daly-play-siblings-onstage-and-off.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tim-and-tyne-daly-play-siblings-onstage-and-off.html“We pitch and catch pretty good with this, and we watch each other.” Tim and Tyne Daly. Photo: Victoria Stevens for Vulture Tim and Tyne Daly. The photographer shooting Tim and Tyne Daly for this story asks, at her editor’s request, if the two actors can smile to emphasize their brother-sister relationship. Tyne laughs, and says that editor must not have any brothers and sisters, because siblings are a lot more complicated than that./tim-gunn-s-10-favorite-books.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tim-gunn-s-10-favorite-books.htmlBookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is Project Runway co-host Tim Gunn’s list. Adam’s Navel, by Michael Sims This is a book that I picked up while browsing because the cover intrigued me. I’m so happy that I did, because the book has given me a richer context for understanding our body and the societal perceptions of our various parts./time-has-caught-up-with-us.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-has-caught-up-with-us.htmlHow Baz Luhrmann reengineered 2008’s Australia to bring new perspectives to Faraway Downs. Faraway Downs isn’t “Australia-plus” or a director’s cut, Luhrmann emphasizes; instead, it’s an opportunity to “go deeper.” Photo: 42West Faraway Downs isn’t “Australia-plus” or a director’s cut, Luhrmann emphasizes; instead, it’s an opportunity to “go deeper.” Photo: 42West Faraway Downs isn’t “Australia-plus” or a director’s cut, Luhrmann emphasizes; instead, it’s an opportunity to “go deeper./tina-fey-and-jimmy-fallon-reflect-on-her-emmy-nip-slip.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tina-fey-and-jimmy-fallon-reflect-on-her-emmy-nip-slip.htmlRelax, relax. Nip slips and the reporting of nip slips are the worst thing about new media. Luckily, Tina Fey is ready to come clean about her Emmy wardrobe malfunction and show off some nipples. Whether or not they are her own, she will not specify. Just watch. Related The Tina Fey SNL Promos Are Here Tina Fey Shows Off Her Emmy Nip Slip on Fallon ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdgbny1tc2aZJ%2BdqWLAqbvWrGSonpZitaa%2BjJ6kprFdo7axedKloKlln6N6p63LpaanZpipuq0%3D/treat-yourself-to-bacon-cologne-by-kevin-bacon.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/treat-yourself-to-bacon-cologne-by-kevin-bacon.htmlJames Corden loves the smell of Bacon. What kinds of Bacon, you ask? Well, there’s “crazy Bacon, mad Bacon, wild Bacon.” You name it! In this commercial for Bacon cologne, James Corden and Kevin Bacon wear matching billowy white shirts and find that Bacon is a solution to all life’s problems. After all, Bacon reminds us, “In the frying pan of your mind, there is only Bacon.” ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlob2dgbny1vsSaq2axn6q%2FtLHLn2Stp12XrqS7zWaaqKSfnLumecGyZKSdpp67bq7AnKanZpipuq0%3D/universal-drops-its-ouija-movie.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/universal-drops-its-ouija-movie.htmlThe titular board. Just three weeks after Universal Pictures ditched plans to turn the Hasbro board game Clue into a film (again) with Gore Verbinski, things are not looking good for another Hasbro property at the studio: Insiders tell Vulture that Ouija, an adaptation of the magical board that was to be produced by Michael Bay and directed by McG, has been put in turnaround. The project had been set up at the studio since 2008, when Universal signed a rather aggressive deal with the world’s second-largest toymaker to develop Hasbro and Milton Bradley properties like Candy Land, Stretch Armstrong, Battleship, and Ouija into film titles./update-rose-mcgowan-got-into-a-shouting-match-with-a-trans-woman-at-a-book-event-cancels-public-ap.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/update-rose-mcgowan-got-into-a-shouting-match-with-a-trans-woman-at-a-book-event-cancels-public-ap.htmlMcGowan. Before Rose McGowan made her notable appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night, she attended a reading event for her new memoir that took a very hostile turn, according to Variety. Wearing the same orange hoodie that she did during her Colbert interview, McGowan was at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square promoting her new memoir, Brave. The evening started off typically enough, with McGowan answering pre-submitted questions from audience members, but the intensity dialed up fast when a trans woman interjected to see if the actress and activist had any comment on controversial remarks she’s made about trans women in the past./watch-a-trailer-for-the-salem-witch-tv-drama.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-a-trailer-for-the-salem-witch-tv-drama.htmlHere’s a trailer for Salem, WGN America’s first scripted series, which premieres this Sunday at 10 p.m. The Chicago-based cable network has been mainly in the business of Cubs games and Friends reruns until now, but it’s taking an ambitious first step into the original content game. Judging by the trailer, Salem is a gory, supernatural, not-totally-accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials in which the witches are real, and — a twist!/watch-the-exquisitely-ethereal-video-for-ellie-gouding-s-anything-could-happen.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-the-exquisitely-ethereal-video-for-ellie-gouding-s-anything-could-happen.htmlEllie Goulding marries Kate Bush and Game of Thrones for her new video, also floats. Sources Consequence of Sound Watch the Video for ‘Anything Could Happen’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgbnymuMuinGafn6q5pbXNoGSapqmptaq6xmaaqK2cmXqprc%2BpnKdmmKm6rQ%3D%3D/what-s-going-on-with-the-cast-of-charmed.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-going-on-with-the-cast-of-charmed.htmlCharmed was a show about the Power of Three — three witch sisters who were stronger together. Question is, which three Charmed stars are we really talking about? Years after the show’s finale, the behind-the-scenes drama has re-emerged on TikTok and podcasts. The piece of history being debated now is the exit of Shannen Doherty from the show. Doherty played eldest Halliwell sister Prue for Charmed’s first three seasons./where-did-margot-robbie-get-her-sharon-tate-glasses-for-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-did-margot-robbie-get-her-sharon-tate-glasses-for-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.htmlThere wasn’t a photo available of the glasses in question, but they make their debut later in this scene. One of the most affecting scenes in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — a movie with specious title punctuation and a surprise, twist-y ending — comes about halfway through, when Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate just happens to pass by a movie theater. For maybe the first time, she sees her name big and bold and on a movie theater marquee: Sharon Tate in The Wrecking Crew./will-ferrell-and-mark-wahlberg-to-throw-around-the-ol-pigskin-shriek-at-each-other-in-turkey-bow.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-ferrell-and-mark-wahlberg-to-throw-around-the-ol-pigskin-shriek-at-each-other-in-turkey-bow.htmlNascar. Basketball. Ice Skating. Soccer. The never-ending battle for hearts of the American public. Will Ferrell has dominated every sport he’s set his mind to, so of course it was only a matter of time before he took on football. Ferrell joins Wahlberg in Warner Bros’ Turkey Bowl, which stars The Other Guys duo as “guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights./william-jackson-harper-on-the-other-good-place-character-he-d-like-to-play.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/william-jackson-harper-on-the-other-good-place-character-he-d-like-to-play.htmlKristen Bell and Ted Danson might be the marquee names of The Good Place, but for many viewers, the breakout star of the afterlife comedy is William Jackson Harper, who portrays anxious, indecisive philosophy professor Chidi Anagonye. Vulture caught up with Jackson, who’s also currently starring in Zoe Kazan’s off-Broadway play After the Blast, to ask him about what makes Chidi so relatable, the appeal of dystopian stories, and how it feels to act with hundreds of needles in your face./you-just-have-to-accept-that-wes-is-right.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-just-have-to-accept-that-wes-is-right.htmlThe French Dispatch crew explains how it pulled off the movie’s quietly impossible tracking shot. The story behind all those right angles. Photo: Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures The story behind all those right angles. Photo: Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures “If I didn’t tell you what I did, you’d never know what I did.” It could be the motto of a legendary stage magician, but it’s actually a quote from Wes Anderson’s key grip, Sanjay Sami./your-primer-to-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-primer-to-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.htmlIt’s always tricky to remember where things stand as you head in to see another installment in a movie trilogy, and this is especially true of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which requires viewers to keeping track of what happened in the original Hobbit book, the previous Hobbit movie, the Lord of the Rings films, and the LOTR appendices. So while this could have been a simple affair, it might feel like you need to be a wizard of Middle-earth to remember what’s already happened, who all these characters are, and why these folks are on a quest in the first place — and what’s that Arkenstone thing again?/16-perfect-musical-moments-from-veronica-mars.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/16-perfect-musical-moments-from-veronica-mars.htmlIf you’re like us, you already know that Veronica Mars turned 10 earlier this week. You also likely binge-watched all three seasons of the Rob Thomas teen-detective show leading up to the Kickstarter-funded film sequel that arrived in theaters this past March. But even if you remember all of the details of the goings-on in the town of Neptune — the names of each and every mean girl, the 09er frat boys, the PCHer gang members, and the wide array of special guest-stars who roll into town for a quick visit (Paris Hilton, Kevin Smith, Aaron Paul, Joss Whedon, and Kristin Cavallari, to name but a few) — it’s never not going to be fun to revisit the series about a young detective (Kristen Bell) who understands more about the dark side of human nature than any teenage girl ever should./1923-s-brandon-sklenar-doesn-t-see-how-things-could-get-worse-for-spencer-dutton.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1923-s-brandon-sklenar-doesn-t-see-how-things-could-get-worse-for-spencer-dutton.htmlYellowstone. 1883. 1923. In the past five years, Taylor Sheridan has given us three series about the Duttons, a dynastic family scrambling, always scrambling, to save Montana’s biggest cattle ranch from men who fancy the land for dollar signs but don’t know how to love it. And the Duttons — man, they love it: The purple vistas, the early mornings, the long rides, the doomed romance of living a dying way of life./5-days-on-the-road-with-comedian-kyle-kinane.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/5-days-on-the-road-with-comedian-kyle-kinane.html“The road,” as comedians call the act of performing a stretch of shows outside their home city, is often mythologized for its mundanity. It’s defined less by sex, drugs, and rock and roll and more by walking around a small town looking for something to eat that’s not a chain and something to do that’s not naked-tweeting in your hotel room. It is, however, part of the job, and often necessary for a stand-up trying to refine his or her act./a-painter-s-new-civil-war.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-painter-s-new-civil-war.htmlBirth in Battle (2022) The work of Hilary Harkness makes me think of early Renaissance paintings with their dazzling detail, lyrical line, delicate parts, and highly keyed local color. The sense that you are seeing everything at once. Except the subject matter is a bit different. In 2001, when she was 29, she was attacked for a show that included paintings with hundreds of teeny, almost naked women pegging each other, lithe ladies loading torpedoes on a cutaway submarine, and female sailors lounging in their underwear./a-photo-can-destroy-a-life.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-photo-can-destroy-a-life.htmlHow The Crown re-created the images of Diana’s final days within the constraints of taste, decency, and copyright. Photo: API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images; NETFLIX The first four episodes of The Crown’s final season may as well be called The Di Summer Collection. Most of the action parts ways with the Thames in favor of the sunnier Mediterranean Sea during the summer of 1997, with Diana (Elizabeth Debecki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) kindling a romance that culminates in their tragic deaths in Paris after being chased through a tunnel by the paparazzi./against-me-frontwoman-laura-jane-grace-is-releasing-a-memoir-called-tranny.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/against-me-frontwoman-laura-jane-grace-is-releasing-a-memoir-called-tranny.htmlAgainst Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace is releasing a memoir titled Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout. Grace worked on the book with Noisey editor Dan Ozzi, who told EW, “The book mixes narrative about Laura’s life — growing up with dysphoria and playing in our generation’s most influential punk band — with amazing journal entries she’s been keeping since she was a kid.” After Grace came out as transgender in 2012, Against Me!/andor-recap-health-care-providers.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andor-recap-health-care-providers.htmlAndor Aldhani Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Andor Aldhani Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to Andor, season one, phase two. Director Susanna White (semi-recently of the FX series Trust, among many other shows) and writer Dan Gilroy (brother of series creator Tony, auteur of Nightcrawler, creator of the character Roman J./andrew-rannells-describes-growing-up-in-and-leaving-the-catholic-church.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andrew-rannells-describes-growing-up-in-and-leaving-the-catholic-church.htmlAndrew Rannells. Before he broke out on Broadway in The Book of Mormon and on TV in Girls, Andrew Rannells arrived in New York from Omaha, Nebraska, and spent years trying to make it as an actor. His memoir, Too Much Is Not Enough, chronicles stories from the time before Rannells became famous, mostly his life in New York, but with a few glances back at Nebraska. In one passage, excerpted below, Rannells describes what it was like to grow up as a closeted gay kid in the Catholic church, including life as an altar boy, the priest who would force kisses on him, and when he knew it was time to leave the church./another-happy-day-trailer-ellen-barkin-vs-demi-moore.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/another-happy-day-trailer-ellen-barkin-vs-demi-moore.htmlIn this corner of Sam Levinson’s debut feature Another Happy Day, you’ve got Ellen Barkin, who’s heading to her oldest son’s wedding after springing his younger brother (Ezra Miller) out of his fourth stint in rehab. In this corner, you’ve got Demi Moore, now married to Barkin’s ex (Thomas Haden Church) and fending off family rumors that she’s a former stripper. Who wins when you toss these two into a wedding (alongside Kate Bosworth and Ellen Burstyn) and let them fight it out to be the alpha female?/barrow-street-theatre-will-live-on-with-a-new-name-and-new-production.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barrow-street-theatre-will-live-on-with-a-new-name-and-new-production.htmlThe Busth Theatre production of Nassim. Earlier this year, Barrow Street Theatre lost its lease to the Greenwich House Theater, a space it had occupied since 2003, but the producers behind it have announced that the Off Broadway company will live on, now as Barrow Street Theatricals. Original Barrow Street producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter will partner with producer Jean Doumanian on the American premiere of Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s and London’s Bush Theatre production of Nassim, written by Soleimanpour and directed by Omar Elerian./below-deck-mediterranean-recap-whose-line-is-it-anyway.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-mediterranean-recap-whose-line-is-it-anyway.htmlBelow Deck Mediterranean Running Aft-er Time Season 9 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Below Deck Mediterranean Running Aft-er Time Season 9 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » This episode should have been called “Trauma Dump,” because that is what we got from the crew members./bernardo-bertolucci-admits-last-tango-in-paris-butter-rape-scene-was-nonconsensual.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bernardo-bertolucci-admits-last-tango-in-paris-butter-rape-scene-was-nonconsensual.htmlOne of the most infamous rape scenes in film history comes from the 1972 erotic-drama Last Tango in Paris, in which Marlon Brando’s character uses a stick of butter to anally rape another character played by Maria Schneider. Prior to her death, Schneider had spoken out about how she felt “humiliated” and “a little raped” while filming the scene — which wasn’t in the original script — despite acknowledging what Brando “was doing wasn’t real./better-call-saul-recap-been-caught-stealing.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/better-call-saul-recap-been-caught-stealing.htmlBetter Call Saul Axe and Grind Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Better Call Saul Axe and Grind Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We have now had two cold opens of Better Call Saul that flashback to young Kim Wexler and her mother, and together, they tell a story./brockhampton-has-lil-nas-x-tripping-in-the-count-on-me-music-video.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brockhampton-has-lil-nas-x-tripping-in-the-count-on-me-music-video.htmlHistory will say they were friends. Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike play lovers on a road trip, courtesy of Brockhampton for their new music video “Count on Me.” Directed by Kevin Abstract and Dan Streit, Nas X and Fike barely make it to a secluded forest before hallucinations get so weird you’ll question your own sobriety — colors are more colorful, faces look like cartoons, everything and nothing is hilarious./castle-rock-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/castle-rock-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mnJmjqbmmedGomqRn/cynthia-erivo-sings-can-t-help-falling-in-love-and-you-can-t.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cynthia-erivo-sings-can-t-help-falling-in-love-and-you-can-t.html“I really love love songs. I feel like they’re the best way to have a human express true emotion,” Cynthia Erivo says, so she’s built a whole concert set list around them. “I love ballads. I love music that allows people to feel emotion. My intention was to use the night to tell love stories. I wanted to find pieces that were wonderful representations of how we as human beings love./dancing-with-the-stars-judge-derek-hough-tests-positive-for-covid-19-after-live-taping.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dancing-with-the-stars-judge-derek-hough-tests-positive-for-covid-19-after-live-taping.htmlDerek Hough. Less than a day after taping the semifinals of Dancing With the Stars, judge Derek Hough tested positive for COVID-19. Hough, who is in his second season judging the show, announced the news in an Instagram video on Tuesday, November 16. Hough said he is vaccinated and currently in quarantine. “I feel okay, I feel strong, but I am currently taking advice from medical professionals, doing everything I can to get better as fast as I can,” he added in the video./dating-sutton-foster-has-made-bobby-cannavale-a-dog-person.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dating-sutton-foster-has-made-bobby-cannavale-a-dog-person.htmlBobby Cannavale gamely took the stage with a homeless dog at the Broadway Barks adopt-a-thon on Saturday, but had no plans to take home a pooch himself, even though event co-founder Bernadette Peters told the New York Post that he just might. “She’s wrong. I’m not going to adopt a dog,” he insisted to us at the afternoon event, sandwiched between the matinee and evening shows of his play, Motherfucker With the Hat./dead-jim-morrison-no-fan-of-ke-ha.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dead-jim-morrison-no-fan-of-ke-ha.html“I don’t have a house, but I’m looking for one. I just want to make sure it’s not haunted. I’m not just saying this to try to sound crazy, like, ‘Oh, I’m such a crazy pop star, I’m haunted,’ but actually, almost every night I have some psycho dream of the same ghost, either in my face, strangling me, smacking me, shoving me, or just hanging out. Sometimes he’s just there, scaring me, being an asshole./do-not-challenge-theater-girl-anne-hathaway-to-name-that-tune.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-not-challenge-theater-girl-anne-hathaway-to-name-that-tune.htmlYou might think that Kelly Clarkson, queen of Kellyoke covers, would be good at Name That Tune, or at least specifically at naming her own tune, or at the very least at recognizing the opening riff of her most famous tune, “Since U Been Gone.” But no! She is not as good as Anne Hathaway. In fact, watching the above clip, it seems that nobody will ever be as good as Anne Hathaway at naming that tune because there are just a few things that are certain about Anne Hathaway: She actually goes by Annie, she loves to sing, and she loves to win./don-t-worry-the-bear-doesn-t-want-carmy-and-sydney-to-kiss-either.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/don-t-worry-the-bear-doesn-t-want-carmy-and-sydney-to-kiss-either.htmlAnd on this day, we thank the gods of platonic relationships on TV for realizing that The Bear’s Carmy and Sydney (Carmney?) are not destined to be. In a recent Variety profile of the two actors, both the cast and the creators of the show kiboshed the idea of a romantic relationship between the two characters. “I know there are people who are very invested in that, and I understand and I appreciate it, but it was not that for me,” Ayo Edebiri, who plays Sydney, said of the relationship./drake-and-21-savage-s-her-loss-is-now-our-gain.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-and-21-savage-s-her-loss-is-now-our-gain.htmlDrake and 21. Drake and 21 Savage have finally served what they’ve been cooking up with the release of their joint album, Her Loss. The album comes after a week’s delay, due to Drake’s producer 40 catching COVID-19 while mastering, and a brief promotional cycle involving fake press opportunities. It’s the latest in a string of collabs from the rappers, after 21 stole the show on Drake’s “Jimmy Cooks” earlier this year and joined Drake on 2021’s “Knife Talk./drake-bell-alleges-he-was-sexually-abused-as-a-child-actor.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-bell-alleges-he-was-sexually-abused-as-a-child-actor.htmlDrake & Josh’s Drake Bell is publicly coming forward in a new documentary and alleging that he was sexually abused as a child star by Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. A recent teaser confirms that Bell was interviewed for the upcoming Investigation Discovery series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which focuses on conditions of shows created by Dan Schneider in the ’90s and early 2000s./emily-blunt-at-the-adjustment-bureau.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-blunt-at-the-adjustment-bureau.htmlAt the world premiere of the The Adjustment Bureau at the Ziegfeld Theater, Vulture caught up with Emily Blunt, who plays a ballet dancer in the movie, and asked about her training. “It was really intense,” Blunt explained. “I did two hours in a dance studio and two hours in the gym every day for two months before the movie, and then during the movie whenever I could. And then a really tedious diet, which was the worst part for me./eric-clapton-joins-van-morrison-for-anti-lockdown-single-stand-and-deliver.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eric-clapton-joins-van-morrison-for-anti-lockdown-single-stand-and-deliver.htmlAccording to Variety, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton will be releasing a new “anti-lockdown” song next month, at precisely the moment many cities are shutting down once again to stave off a climb in COVID-19 cases, to support Morrison’s “Save Live Music” campaign. The track, titled “Stand and Deliver,” was written by the “Brown-Eyed Girl” singer and will be performed by Clapton. Morrison also previously released three “anti-lockdown” songs earlier this fall, including “Born to Be Free,” “As I Walked Out,” and (in case you weren’t clear on the message of the musician’s most recent work) “No More Lockdown./erykah-badu-did-not-approve-that-nsfw-flaming-lips-video.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/erykah-badu-did-not-approve-that-nsfw-flaming-lips-video.htmlAnd therefore, as you might expect, she is displeased that an unedited version of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” made its way into the world last week. (It was pulled the next day.) In fact, Erykah was so upset with the leak that she tweeted a long, angry open letter outlining her concerns to Wayne Coyne. It includes the following thesis statement: “perhaps, next time u get an occasion to work with an artist who respects your mind/art, you should send at least a ROUGh version of the video u PLAN to release b4 u manipulate or compromise the artist’s brand…By the way you are an ass./every-time-glen-powell-and-sydney-sweeney-promoted-their-rom-com-a-little-too-well.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-time-glen-powell-and-sydney-sweeney-promoted-their-rom-com-a-little-too-well.htmlBy now, every person with eyes and internet access has borne witness to the palpable sexual tension currently radiating between co-stars Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. While promoting their new film, the R-rated romantic comedy Anyone But You, the general consensus is that the pair have been doing too good of a job convincing the public that their electrifying chemistry is authentic and not just a product of the movie’s savvy marketing department./everyone-in-this-tv-show-should-be-smoking.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyone-in-this-tv-show-should-be-smoking.htmlAny period piece set between 1800 and 2000 that isn’t choked by cigarette haze is fundamentally compromised. Palm Royale wears its time period like a sweetheart-neckline cocktail dress. From sunglasses and boat shoes to headscarves, wallpaper, and large automobiles, it’s as good a job of material-historical re-creation as you’ll see on television. Every element has been researched, designed, and presented with the utmost care. When Kristen Wiig’s Maxine Dellacorte sits poolside reading the local society pages or Allison Janney’s Evelyn rocks a pair of sunglasses big and bold enough to get filched by Truman Capote, you feel as if you’re looking at a spread from an old magazine in a vintage store that’s come alive./everything-we-know-about-the-rockstar-games-grand-theft-auto-6-leak.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-we-know-about-the-rockstar-games-grand-theft-auto-6-leak.htmlOn September 18, 2022, at 4:26 a.m., a user on GTAForums referring to themselves as teapotuberhacker posted nearly 100 videos totaling 50 minutes of footage from Rockstar Games’ highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6. The unauthorized release of the material has been described as “one of the biggest leaks in video game history” by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier. The day after posting the footage, which appears to show the game in an early development state, the user posted again claiming to have access to not only the source code of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 but also Grand Theft Auto 5, the single-player and online-multiplayer game released in 2013 that has raked in over $6 billion in revenue./fiona-apple-forged-a-new-song-for-rings-of-power.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fiona-apple-forged-a-new-song-for-rings-of-power.htmlFiona Apple’s long journey toward new music has ended — well, sort of. The singer-songwriter returns with a song for The Rings of Power, Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings prequel series. Now we know what cost them so much! The song is based on J.R.R. Tolkein’s Ring-verse poem (the “One ring to rule them all …” bit, for the casual fans here), and will appear in next week’s finale./geriatric-singer-miley-cyrus-releasing-a-new-single.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/geriatric-singer-miley-cyrus-releasing-a-new-single.htmlShe feels so much younger now. At 30 years old, Miley Cyrus is naturally withering away, so it’s time to reflect on her youth. The singer stopped reminiscing about living through the Great Depression long enough to drop her new single, “Used to Be Young,” on August 25. Posters of Cyrus have been up all week in Los Angeles, New York City, Brussels, and Paris teasing the song and reflecting a few of her past eras — 2009’s “Party in the U./get-empowered-by-abbi-jacobson-s-naked-edge-of-glory-performance.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/get-empowered-by-abbi-jacobson-s-naked-edge-of-glory-performance.htmlWhat do you do when you have an apartment all to yourself and a thirst for some Lady Gaga hits? Just take a hint from Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson: Get naked, blast “Edge of Glory,” then soak up all the freedom and pleasure that arrives when your annoying roommate is nowhere to be found. Never stop dancing, Abbi. Get Empowered by Abbi Jacobson’s Naked ‘Edge of Glory’ […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobmdgZnyosdNmnKaon6yys7HDZpmyZZGXr6p5yZqaqJqjpLu0ec2aop6cXZqxqLGMqJ1mn5ykv7p5z56pn6eioq6vr8Rnn62lnA%3D%3D/gossip-girl-bringing-chest-hair-back.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gossip-girl-bringing-chest-hair-back.htmlActors are men, and men have chest hair. This particular quirk of human anatomy, like natural tooth color, is one that television has spent the last decade annihilating. (Dreamboat actors used to look like this.) But battling natural phenomena is a loser’s game. There’s only so long that you can fight the rising tide, stop the setting sun, or convince Americans that the male body’s ability to sprout pectoral fuzz until death is disgusting./greenleaf-recap-water-to-wine.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/greenleaf-recap-water-to-wine.htmlGreenleaf We Shall See Him as He Is Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Greenleaf We Shall See Him as He Is Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Merle Dandridge as Grace. Three episodes into Greenleaf, this much is certain: Lynn Whitfield will steal each and every scene she’s in./grey-s-anatomy-recap-mandy.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grey-s-anatomy-recap-mandy.htmlGrey’s Anatomy (Don’t Fear) the Reaper Season 14 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy (Don’t Fear) the Reaper Season 14 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Every so often a TV show you love airs an episode that feels as though it is a tiny gift the show made just for you, to thank you for that love./hear-a-preview-of-daft-punk-s-tron-soundtrack.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hear-a-preview-of-daft-punk-s-tron-soundtrack.htmlClips from six massive new instrumental Daft Punk songs are streaming on Seattle’s 107.7 the End radio site. Go! [End via Pitchfork] Hear a Preview of Daft Punk’s Tron Soundtrack ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgbHypscCrlpqXoKeyt7XEsJaono%2BZrqfAvqmsp6OjlMFvtNOmow%3D%3D/here-are-the-winners-for-the-2024-bafta-film-awards.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-are-the-winners-for-the-2024-bafta-film-awards.htmlChristopher Nolan. What if awards season was British? That’s the question posed each year by the British Academy Film Awards, a.k.a. the BAFTAs, which were held in London on Sunday, February 18. The awards show was helmed this year by host David Tenant at the Royal Festival Hall. Tenant opened the show with a sketch re-enacting his show Staged with Michael Sheen, who requested he watch his dog “Bark Ruffalo” on the night of the awards./house-of-cards-season-2-episode-8-recap-sex-lies-and-premium-steak.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/house-of-cards-season-2-episode-8-recap-sex-lies-and-premium-steak.htmlHouse of Cards Chapter 21 Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of Cards Chapter 21 Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Apparently while working on this episode, the eighth of season two, someone in the House of Cards writers’ room stood up and said, “Oh my God, we only have five more episodes after this one and we still haven’t included nearly enough sex in our narrative./how-normal-people-does-sex-so-good.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-normal-people-does-sex-so-good.htmlPaul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell and Marianne. There’s a sex scene in the second episode of Normal People that lasts nine minutes and 24 seconds — or, put another way, a third of the entire episode. It begins with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), our endearingly awkward heroine, haphazardly applying eyeliner, then wiping it off in frustration before pulling on a blazer and walking nervously over to Connell’s (Paul Mescal) house./how-dirty-john-the-betty-broderick-story-s-characters-compare-to-their-real-life-counterparts.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-dirty-john-the-betty-broderick-story-s-characters-compare-to-their-real-life-counterparts.htmlAmanda Peet plays Betty Broderick in this season of Dirty John. The first season of Dirty John, which focused on a scheming playboy who messed with the wrong family of women, came down to a handful of central characters, all played by recognizable faces. The latest iteration of the anthology series, The Betty Broderick Story, traffics in fundamentally familiar territory — a scandalous domestic murder against an illusory backdrop of high society — homing in on spousal duo turned divorced nemeses Betty and Dan Broderick./i-love-my-video-game-parents.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-love-my-video-game-parents.htmlStarfield’s pitch is straightforward: IT’S SPACE, BABY. In Bethesda’s new NASA-core role-playing game, the grand possibilities of endless galactic nothingness are the point. The story necessitates that you bounce across the stars on the hunt for mystical artifacts, but the sprawling design practically begs you to wander off to sample the numerous other adventures on offer. You can navigate the political muck of opposing factions, spend hours building hopelessly elaborate ships, grind it out as a space trucker, or bop around as a pirate shouting, “Pew pew pew./in-the-bathroom-lines-at-the-super-parties-of-cannes.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-the-bathroom-lines-at-the-super-parties-of-cannes.htmlDescending into the festival darkness with Harrison Ford, The Idol’s cast, Leo, Marty, and more. The cast of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the film’s Cannes premiere. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images The cast of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the film’s Cannes premiere. If the act of getting into Cannes parties were a video game (nobody do this), here’s how the levels might break down in order of sheer difficulty: level one, fest-sponsored happy hours and lunches open to anyone with a press badge; level two, beach parties hosted by various alcohol sponsors, smaller films playing at the fest, and trades; level three, hotel and/or beach parties hosted by distributors like Mubi, A24, etc./is-that-seriously-the-yogi-bear-slogan-poster-combination.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-that-seriously-the-yogi-bear-slogan-poster-combination.htmlYup. Interesting choice, Warner Bros. [Best Week Ever] Is That Seriously the Yogi Bear Slogan-Poster Combination? ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgbXyqv76tn5qsj6iys7XOrqqlsY%2Bptaar2KieopeSmq5vtNOmow%3D%3D/jane-roe-speaks-teresa-lancaster-on-the-keepers-father-joseph-maskell-s-abuse-and-her-sea.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-roe-speaks-teresa-lancaster-on-the-keepers-father-joseph-maskell-s-abuse-and-her-sea.htmlFor decades, Teresa Lancaster talked about the rape and sexual abuse she endured at the hands of a local Catholic priest, police officers, and other men in her Baltimore community. She even told her husband, Randy, about it the night they met at a party. “I had a habit of doing that,” Lancaster told Vulture in an interview. “I think it was my own way of therapy.” Nevertheless, Lancaster’s participation in The Keepers — Netflix’s unflinching documentary series about the horror she and others endured at the all-girls Archbishop Keough High School — followed years of silence./jane-the-virgin-s-biggest-plot-twists-ranked.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-the-virgin-s-biggest-plot-twists-ranked.htmlAs Jane the Virgin comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on the gifts the CW’s little dramedy-that-could bestowed upon us, including but certainly not limited to: a simultaneously smart and earnest look at a multigenerational family, a celebration of love in all forms, Rogelio De La Vega, Gina Rodriguez’s seven-minute monologue, the treasure that is Jane and Petra’s friendship, a Pavlovian response in which you cry every time you see a porch swing, and, holy hell, some of the greatest plot twists in the game./jason-concepcion-s-takes-on-the-world.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jason-concepcion-s-takes-on-the-world.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Jason Concepcion. To be a close follower of Jason Concepcion’s work — whether it’s the beloved pop culture deep-dive podcast Binge Mode, the Emmy award-winning NBA Desktop, his integral role on The Hottest Take, or simply the five-alarm takes published under his Twitter moniker, netw3rk — is to appreciate a kind of balance./john-early-is-laugh-out-loud-funny.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-early-is-laugh-out-loud-funny.htmlJohn Early said he would make the cacio e pepe himself. The Italian pasta dish, meaning “cheese and pepper,” is close to his heart. He made it for his castmates after the first season of TBS’s Search Party wrapped; he once made it to impress a guy; and he’s making it for me tonight at his place in Silver Lake, a small house he says is more like a bungalow./josh-oconnor-vulture.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/josh-oconnor-vulture.htmlwindsor woes Nov. 25, 2020 The Crown Found Its Scoundrel in CharlesIf the Netflix series once wanted us to see the prince as a sensitive man dragged along by an unfeeling system, it certainly doesn’t anymore. By Hillary Kelly ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeapMCpec5efGtdaGVyeoXCqKWnp6Jk/justin-bieber-revealed-all-his-purpose-tracks-and-collaborators-with-pics-of-graffiti-art-murals.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-bieber-revealed-all-his-purpose-tracks-and-collaborators-with-pics-of-graffiti-art-murals.htmlJustin Bieber. To ready fans for Purpose, Justin Bieber on Wednesday went on a photo-oriented social-media spree. The singer had teamed up with a slew of graffiti artists to install colorful, creative murals that detailed all his remaining, previously unknown titles, as well as collaborators. The artwork, from the likes of ABSTRK and Kyle Howard, among many others, rolled out today — song by song, picture by picture — and can be found in secret locations across the globe./justin-bieber-visited-a-brothel.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-bieber-visited-a-brothel.htmlThe New York Post’s Page Six has photographic evidence of a sheet-covered Justin Bieber failing to discreetly exit a brothel in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. Bieber reportedly spent three hours inside the building before leaving with two women. While prostitution is legal in Brazil, brothels are not, which makes it hard to know where to place this incident on the Bieber hell-raising scale. Thankfully, Page Six also reports that he “was later kicked out of [his] hotel for breaking rules,” so it seems we can safely say that this young man was up to no good the other night, even if we don’t know exactly what he did wrong./kelly-rowland-gave-birth-to-her-second-son-destiny-s-grandchild.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelly-rowland-gave-birth-to-her-second-son-destiny-s-grandchild.htmlKelly in January 2020. On Saturday, January 30, singer and actress Kelly Rowland revealed on Instagram that she had given birth to a baby boy, Noah Jon, on January 21. Rowland made her pregnancy public in October 2020, and had been posting extremely fun TikToks of herself working out, dancing, and generally looking great while very pregnant as late as January 20. Noah Jon is Rowland and husband Tim Weatherspoon’s second child, and she shared a photo of the newborn baby meeting their older son, 6-year-old Titan, with a caption saying, “On the 21st day, of the 21st year, of the 21st Century, Noah Jon Weatherspoon/Greeted us!/kinky-boots-to-leave-broadway-in-spring-2019-so-you-procrastinating-boot-freaks-need-to-get-on-it.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kinky-boots-to-leave-broadway-in-spring-2019-so-you-procrastinating-boot-freaks-need-to-get-on-it.htmlIf you love depraved footwear and musical theater, but haven’t seen the one Broadway show designed specifically for you … well, it’s a good thing we’re alerting you to this important turn of events, that’s all we’ll say. Kinky Boots producers announced Friday that the Tony Award-winning show will dance its last dance on April 7, 2019. Based on the 2005 British film of the same name, the classic drag-queen-saves-a-staid-British-shoe-factory with a book by Harvey Fierstein has won six Tonys, including Best Musical and Best Musical Score for songwriter Cyndi Lauper./kurt-loder-david-cross-and-more-remember-adam-yauch.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kurt-loder-david-cross-and-more-remember-adam-yauch.htmlThe Beastie Boys with Kurt Loder. In the eighties and nineties, the Beastie Boys represented a key intersection between rap music and punk-style rock. They took their unique musical fusion from the streets of New York to the top of the pop charts, and they did it without ever sacrificing their street credibility. You figure that the group would be an iconic fixture in the lives of many musicians who came of age in those days, and you’d be right./lady-gaga-versus-the-westboro-baptist-church.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lady-gaga-versus-the-westboro-baptist-church.htmlThe congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church, the people who picketed, inexplicably, outside of soldiers’ funerals with slogans like “God Hates Fags” and were out-numbered by counter-protesters in Brooklyn last year, seems to hate everything except attention. Finally, these guys decided a productive use of their time would be to protest outside of a Lady Gaga concert in St. Louis last night. They said it would be hypocritical not to, even: “Now what type of wicked hypocrites would we be if we did not warn this little false prophetess and all of her over-indulged sycophants that they are each one, individually heading straight to hell in a gender-confused, self-loathing, tone-deaf hand basket and that a gift from the God they hate?/let-s-dive-deep-into-the-trailer-for-john-carter-disney-s-expensive-question-mark.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-dive-deep-into-the-trailer-for-john-carter-disney-s-expensive-question-mark.htmlDisney usually knows how to sell a megamillion effects tentpole, but with John Carter, the studio seems positively stumped. Last year, a confident Disney promoted the living hell out of the $200 million Tron Legacy, cutting great trailers, seeding interest in hipsters with its Daft Punk soundtrack, courting the Comic-Con audience with expensive stunts, and employing a full-scale marketing blitz to push the movie as far as it would go (which turned to be juuuuust far enough to maybe, possibly justify a sequel)./let-s-talk-about-the-ending-of-annihilation.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-talk-about-the-ending-of-annihilation.htmlSpoilers for Annihilation below. In the feverish crescendo of Annihilation’s wordless climax, the name Bobbi Jene crept into my otherwise paralyzed brain. I’m no modern dance buff, and the dancer and choreographer is not someone who would have been on the tip of my tongue if it wasn’t for last year’s ravishing documentary Bobbi Jene, by director Elvira Lind. The film introduced me to Bobbi Jene Smith, and her ability to turn her entire body into a lightning rod of instinct through her charged, emotionally (and sometimes physically) naked choreography, as sensual as it is self-destructive./marbles-in-the-ass-a-brief-look-into-the-hilarious-history-of-the-billburrderburger-group.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marbles-in-the-ass-a-brief-look-into-the-hilarious-history-of-the-billburrderburger-group.htmlTrawling YouTube is a weekly look at one interesting story or oddity from YouTube. You ever go down a YouTube rabbit hole and suddenly you’ve wasted five hours watching every Madonna video? This is about those rabbit holes, but the comedy-related ones. This is the first one. Thank you for reading. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything./meet-the-first-superstars-of-the-beyonc%C3%A9-generation.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-first-superstars-of-the-beyonc%C3%A9-generation.htmlHalle Bailey, left, and her sister Chloe. You were not expecting this, but here you stand, transfixed, in the doorway of a Hollywood rehearsal studio, your throat clamping up and your chest tightening, watching 16- and 17-year-old sisters Halle and Chloe Bailey sing a single word, “Hallelujah,” in gorgeous, repeating crescendos, like a church choir sending a dying loved one off into the light. Those harmonized “Hallelujahs” aren’t even a song, just their way of saying grace./miley-cyrus-finally-voiced-a-super-chill-sexy-skateboarding-bird.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miley-cyrus-finally-voiced-a-super-chill-sexy-skateboarding-bird.htmlWhile you were gorging yourself with beer and barbecue over the holiday weekend, Miley Cyrus celebrated by cameoing on Stone Quackers, FXX’s animated comedy about ducks. She voices the flyest pigeon you’ve ever seen, who skateboards her way into Bug’s heart (not to mention all of ours). Stick around until the end of the episode to hear her charming country twang. Even as a bird, Miley’s still a 10./modern-family-recap-we-bought-a-house.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modern-family-recap-we-bought-a-house.htmlModern Family Diamond in the Rough Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Modern Family Diamond in the Rough Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Modern Family hit on some serious family topics hidden in the guise of a mostly jokey episode./nelson-george-on-d-angelo-and-how-his-new-book-is-like-the-lord-of-the-rings.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nelson-george-on-d-angelo-and-how-his-new-book-is-like-the-lord-of-the-rings.htmlNelson George For more than 20 years, Nelson George, the filmmaker, former Village Voice columnist, and music-cultural critic, has been dealing less with churning out think pieces on R&B divas or swagged-out rappers and concentrating more on fiction, ranging from semi-autobiographical to romance to crime noir. His latest, the recently released The Lost Treasures of R&B (Akashic Books), is the newest volume to feature D Hunter, a tormented, HIV-positive bodyguard-investigator who comes back to live in a Brooklyn he hardly recognizes and tries to solve a few mysteries, mainly the whereabouts of a rare 45 featuring Otis Redding and Diana Ross on vocals./nick-offerman-and-aubrey-plaza-on-their-sad-life-without-chris-pratt-at-parks-and-recreation.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nick-offerman-and-aubrey-plaza-on-their-sad-life-without-chris-pratt-at-parks-and-recreation.htmlChris Pratt has been absent from the Parks and Recreation set for the past several weeks while filming Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy in London, but he’s never far from co-star Nick Offerman’s thoughts. “I just sent him an e-mail,” Offerman told me when I recently visited the set. “Chris and I often take pictures of our poop and send it to each other.” Aw, that’s so sweet and … wait, what? “This is not a joke,” he said./paul-scheer-on-how-he-wrote-human-giant-and-created-his-unique-brand-of-pop-culture-parody.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paul-scheer-on-how-he-wrote-human-giant-and-created-his-unique-brand-of-pop-culture-parody.htmlPaul Scheer From his podcast about movies, How Did This Get Made?, to comedy projects like NTSF:SD:SUV:: and ArScheerio Paul, Paul Scheer has built a fan base rooted in a shared pop-culture sensibility. His fans, like him, are fans of movies and TV, in spite of the fact and/or because of the fact they find a lot of it absurd. As Scheer explains in this week’s episode of Good One, Vulture’s new podcast about jokes and the people who write them, this sensibility can be traced back to “The Illusionators,” a Criss Angel parody he wrote with Aziz Ansari in 2007 for Human Giant, the mid-’00s sketch show co-created by Scheer, Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Jason Woliner./phoebe-waller-bridge-teases-how-good-her-james-bond-script-is.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phoebe-waller-bridge-teases-how-good-her-james-bond-script-is.htmlEarlier this year, it was reported that Mr. 007 himself, Daniel Craig, made a personal plea to gimlet goddess Phoebe Waller-Bridge to rewrite No Time to Die, which will be the 25th film in the James Bond franchise. Luckily for us, she said yes, and we’re now getting some hot details about what to expect before the film’s release in April — and no, there’s probably not going to be a bunch of stale martini puns./proof-mark-wahlberg-is-a-better-actor-than-you-ever-realized.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/proof-mark-wahlberg-is-a-better-actor-than-you-ever-realized.htmlWe know. Mark Wahlberg playing an inventor in the new Transformers movie feels … off, at least at first glance, and maybe even at second and third glance. As our own David Edelstein put it so well, “I’m sure there are people less suited to being cast as an egghead than Wahlberg, with his swollen pecs and biceps and streetwise Boston diction. Let me think … don’t rush me … Sylvester Stallone?/rachel-shukert-on-the-5-things-about-old-hollywood-she-wants-to-forget.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rachel-shukert-on-the-5-things-about-old-hollywood-she-wants-to-forget.htmlHello, Vulture readers. My name is Rachel Shukert, and you can usually find me on this site recapping Smash. Today, though, I am here to tell you that I have written a book called Starstruck, and it’s the first in a YA trilogy about three young, ambitious starlets clawing their way to the top in thirties Hollywood. It has been termed by New York’s own storied Approval Matrix as “lowbrow, brilliant, and vampire-free,” although this isn’t strictly true — there are vampires in my book, but they’re just called “agents./rapsody-vulture.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rapsody-vulture.htmlfine lines May 20, 2024 Rapsody Had to Be Fearless“I had gotten in the space of, ‘Do I still want to do this? Do people even care?’” By William E. Ketchum III ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeilr20u8OyZg%3D%3D/rosen-in-defense-of-pop-criticism.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rosen-in-defense-of-pop-criticism.htmlTed Gioia is a smart, serious, hugely accomplished critic, music historian, and pianist — who has just published an asinine article. Gioia has written some superb books about jazz and blues, including The History of Jazz, which I gobbled up when I read it in the late ’90s. It is one of those doorstoppers that earns the reviewers’ cliché “magisterial.” It’s sharp, sober, judicious, with a clear-sighted view of both forest and trees, and, for that matter, the sky above the treeline and the little creepy-crawlies scuttling in the underbrush; Gioia swoops from jazz’s origins in Africa and Congo Square to fine-grain readings of Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens recordings to the social and historical context of bebop’s rise, and on and on./rupaul-s-drag-race-all-stars-recap-4-shots-of-adrenaline.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupaul-s-drag-race-all-stars-recap-4-shots-of-adrenaline.htmlRuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars LaLaPaRUza Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars LaLaPaRUza Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Due to the way time works, there’s no way that you can read this recap and act on my strong suggestion that you, the reader, absolutely must watch this episode of All Stars 4 surrounded by dozens of queers at a bar or other Space Where Television Is Watched./satire-vulture.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/satire-vulture.htmlsome good news May 20, 2020 ClickHole Returns at Exactly the Right Time“We could not be more thrilled to once again be squirting hot viral trash all over your social media feeds.” By Megh Wright ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejlsGqvsRo/silence-s-theological-adviser-on-the-movie-s-controversial-ending.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/silence-s-theological-adviser-on-the-movie-s-controversial-ending.htmlAndrew Garfield in Silence. This post discusses the ending of Silence in detail. The priest tasked with making sure Silence got its Jesuit details right has seen The Wolf of Wall Street, and he chuckles when I bring it up. I’m sitting in Reverend James Martin’s office, in the same place where he spent about a year teaching Andrew Garfield about Jesuit prayer. Martin, the editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America, is devout, energetic, and open, so I’m curious to know how it felt — even as a Scorsese fan — to reckon with a director whose previous feature was full of frenetic bacchanalia./stan-lee-pens-35th-anniversary-elvis-presley-comic.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stan-lee-pens-35th-anniversary-elvis-presley-comic.htmlLegendary comic book writer and geek hero Stan Lee has again joined forces with his Chakra co-creator Jeevan J. Kang to create a special Elvis Presley comic book story in honor of the 35th anniversary of The King’s death. Copies were handed out yesterday as part of Free Comic Book Saturday and another 2,500 are available in a limited edition Graphic Elvis anthology. Presley himself would’ve approved, once telling America: “When I was a child ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer./stop-mentioning-your-daughters-when-you-denounce-harvey-weinstein.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stop-mentioning-your-daughters-when-you-denounce-harvey-weinstein.htmlSomething happens when a dude has a daughter: Women, once mystifying, vexing creatures with shoe racks, eyelash curlers, and vagina holes become fully formed three-dimensional human beings. The mere and sudden fact of fatherhood pushes men into a new realm of cognizance: They have to care about what happens to women — but only some, and only if they’re of a certain race, class, or status — and maybe even take misconduct against them a little personally./stromae-on-being-one-of-europe-s-music-superstars-and-the-saddest-time-to-be-at-the-club.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stromae-on-being-one-of-europe-s-music-superstars-and-the-saddest-time-to-be-at-the-club.html80105177 Stringbean-skinny, androgynous, and biracial, Paul Van Haver is one of Europe’s biggest music sensations. Known as Stromae, the Belgian-Rwandan artist’s hip-hop-infused dance album Racine Carrée (Square Root) has sold nearly 3 million copies since it was released last year. The explosive lead single “Papaoutai,” about absent fathers (Van Haver’s was killed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide), went to No. 1 in 16 countries and now has 188 million views on YouTube./succession-recap-protect-your-neck.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-recap-protect-your-neck.htmlSuccession Sad Sack Wasp Trap Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Succession Sad Sack Wasp Trap Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » With season three of Succession now in the books, Vulture is returning to where it all began with weekly recaps of season one./succession-the-last-of-us-and-the-white-lotus-sweep-the-2023-emmy-nominations.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-the-last-of-us-and-the-white-lotus-sweep-the-2023-emmy-nominations.htmlIt’s Emmy time. From an Abbott Elementary slow burn, to Kendall Roy looking sadly upon various bodies of water, to series finales for a whole host of shows about middle-aged white guys — Succession, Barry, and Ted Lasso (allegedly) — the nominations for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards are in. To be eligible, shows had to air between June 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023. Already iconic series like Succession and The Crown were shoe-ins for nominations, but the past year also welcomed new shows like Jury Duty, The Bear, Beef, and Daisy Jones & the Six, all of which were (surprisingly — I’m looking at you Daisy Jones) nominated for multiple awards./take-vulture-s-girls-superfan-quiz.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-vulture-s-girls-superfan-quiz.htmlThe girls of Girls. Be honest: How much do you really know about Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna? With the sixth and final season of Girls underway, take Vulture’s superfan quiz to prove your expertise. Girls Quiz Share Your Score Facebook Twitter The Girls Superfan Quiz ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlocGdgZ3yprs5mnqKqnKh6tMHPnqmfmZ5ivra12WefraWc/talking-to-chelsea-peretti-about-brooklyn-nine-nine-parks-and-rec-and-the-differences.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-chelsea-peretti-about-brooklyn-nine-nine-parks-and-rec-and-the-differences.htmlSpringing from the creative minds behind sitcom golden child Parks and Recreation and boasting an ensemble that would make any comedy nerd and/or diehard Terry Crews fan salivate, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is, unsurprisingly, one of this year’s most promising new series. Contributing to the ridiculously high hopes is the show’s inclusion of longtime comic and current Twitter hero Chelsea Peretti, who plays Gina, the fictional precinct’s sardonic office administrator. Peretti has steadily gained a reputation as a comedian on the verge of breaking out, her silly and sarcastic style having led to writing gigs on the The Sarah Silverman Program and the aforementioned Parks and Recreation, roles on shows like Louie and Kroll Show, and a practically nonstop touring schedule./taylor-and-travis-are-just-a-pair-of-teenage-dirtbags-baby-like-you.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-and-travis-are-just-a-pair-of-teenage-dirtbags-baby-like-you.html“I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby.” Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are both children of 1989, meaning they came of age around a lot of cheesy rock in the aughts. And it’s something the couple have apparently (trauma) bonded over. A new WSJ magazine cover on Kelce paints a scene of the NFL player and pop star hanging with friends by the firepit at Kelce’s house, curled up like two “peas in a pod,” per one of Kelce’s friends, singing./the-7-most-surreal-things-that-happen-in-little-italy.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-7-most-surreal-things-that-happen-in-little-italy.htmlEmma Roberts and Hayden Christensen making pizza and falling in love. Viva marinara sauce, viva crucifix necklaces, viva neighborhoods where everyone knows your name, viva Italia, and every other Italian stereotype! Every one of them converges in Little Italy, a romantic comedy truly unlike any other movie you’ll see this year: Anakin Skywalker (from the Star Wars prequels) dates Addie Singer (from Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous), and all of Canadian Little Italy has to pay the price./the-curse-recap-tilt-a-whirl.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-curse-recap-tilt-a-whirl.htmlThe Curse The Fire Burns On Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Curse The Fire Burns On Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At first, I thought the entirety of episode six might be a full episode of Flipanthropy, and I was here for it./the-good-place-recap-exit-through-the-gift-shop.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-place-recap-exit-through-the-gift-shop.htmlThe Good Place Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Good Place Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » If you follow football at all, you probably know that the Jacksonville Jaguars are just one AFC championship game away from reaching the Super Bowl … with quarterback Blake Bortles leading the way./the-great-recap-bear-aspirations.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-recap-bear-aspirations.htmlThe Great And You Sir, Are No Peter the Great Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great And You Sir, Are No Peter the Great Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We open with Aunt Elizabeth pleasuring herself while staring at a statue of Peter the Great astride a bear./the-identical-puzzle.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-identical-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. The Identical Puzzle ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wKuropucmnylrcilsGaboqTAtMPOq5tmqKWvx62xjKaYsmViZXpzfJFtZaGsnaE%3D/the-jeff-rubin-jeff-rubin-show-tv-critic-alan-sepinwall.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-jeff-rubin-jeff-rubin-show-tv-critic-alan-sepinwall.htmlThis week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff is joined by TV critic Alan Sepinwall. Jeff talks to Alan about his new book The Revolution Was Televised, and the 12 TV shows that are the premise of his book: The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men and Breaking Bad among a bunch other shows. They discuss their impact on people and the importance of a show’s ending./the-numb-puzzle.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-numb-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they're ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us./the-party-girl-s-revenge.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-party-girl-s-revenge.htmlMarlowe Granados’s debut novel is a picaresque for the glamorous and broke. Photo: Ashley Pena for New York Magazine Photo: Ashley Pena for New York Magazine Only so many add-it-to-my-tabs can keep a girl comfortable in a bar like Bemelmans on a Friday night. The piano man is thrashing at his keys, but it’s really a waste of time; everyone is sloshed, and the crowd — a blur of wedges, polos, and pastels — suggests a midsummer bacchanale for permanent Hamptonites./the-pink-power-ranger-isn-t-in-the-reunion-and-it-s-none-of-ur-beeswax.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pink-power-ranger-isn-t-in-the-reunion-and-it-s-none-of-ur-beeswax.htmlOne mighty morpher. One of the original Rangers is ready to retire from morphin. Former Pink Power Ranger Amy Jo Johnson originated the role from 1993–95 but is not going to take part in the upcoming Netflix Power Rangers reboot, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always. “Please stop saying I didn’t do reunion because of money Simply not true,” Johnson tweeted on March 26. “Maybe I just didn’t want to wear spandex in my 50s 🤣 or couldn’t go to NZ for a month./the-prodigy-is-a-cruelly-well-made-bad-seed-horror-movie.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-prodigy-is-a-cruelly-well-made-bad-seed-horror-movie.htmlNicholas McCarthy, the director of the new bad-seed movie, The Prodigy, works in a low key that still somehow scrapes your nerves, so when the nasty stuff arrives, you realize (too late!) that you’ve been softened up for the kill. The film is cruelly well-made. Not that there’s much heft to Jeff Buhler’s script, which is equal parts cunning and hackishness. The Prodigy is a New Age variation on The Exorcist and The Omen: Out go the Antichrist, demons, and martyred priests, in come metempsychosis experts complaining that Western minds are closed to the irrefutable evidence of reincarnation./the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-arabian-fights.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-arabian-fights.htmlThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Dubai Daze Season 6 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Dubai Daze Season 6 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lisa Rinna. Apparently, your regular recapper is in L.A. and having some “TV drama./the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-recap-big-sky-malibu-country.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-recap-big-sky-malibu-country.htmlThe Real Housewives of Orange County You Can’t DB Serious Season 17 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County You Can’t DB Serious Season 17 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What does it say that the best moments of this episode were all about the past?/the-retreat-puzzle.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-retreat-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. More Crosswords The Preacher Puzzle The Orchard Puzzle The Assassin Puzzle See All The Retreat Puzzle ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlpbGdgZ3ylrcilsGaboqTAtMPOq5tmqKWvx62xjJ%2Bcm6qllr%2B6eZJnn62lnA%3D%3D/the-revived-and-reinvented-1776-is-a-delight-if-you-can-stand-to-watch-it.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-revived-and-reinvented-1776-is-a-delight-if-you-can-stand-to-watch-it.htmlElizabeth A. Davis, Patrena Murray, and Crystal Lucas-Perry in 1776. In 2022, a revival of 1776 is an almost perversely hard sell. For one thing, read the room: Patriotic pride is at an all-time low around these parts. For another, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s musical dramatization of the creation of the Declaration of Independence, acclaimed when it premiered in 1969, is now doomed to languish in the shadow of its cooler kid sister Hamilton./the-surprising-way-madonna-influenced-avatar.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-surprising-way-madonna-influenced-avatar.html100 Days of Avatar We’re counting down the days until James Cameron’s dream comes true: The Way of Water opens in theaters. 100 Days of Avatar We’re counting down the days until James Cameron’s dream comes true: The Way of Water opens in theaters. When it comes to Avatar, James Cameron has cited an encyclopedia’s worth of influences. Most of them are pretty clear-cut: Romeo and Juliet, Ghost in the Shell, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Princess Mononoke and other Hayao Miyazaki films, the Chinese mountain range Huangshan, the history of colonialism, ecology, Hinduism, 2001: A Space Odyssey, a dream his mom once told him./the-traitors-season-premiere-recap-bravo-babes.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-traitors-season-premiere-recap-bravo-babes.htmlThe Traitors Episodes 1 and 2 Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Traitors Episodes 1 and 2 Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » While this reality format is different, the game in The Traitors has been a popular parlor (or should I say “parlour”) game in the United Kingdom for a long time./the-wakanda-forever-mid-credits-scene-wants-you-to-meet-someone.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wakanda-forever-mid-credits-scene-wants-you-to-meet-someone.htmlThis article was originally published in November after Wakanda Forever’s theatrical release. We are recirculating it now that the film is streaming on Disney+. The mid-credits scene of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever picks up seconds after the film’s conclusion, which sees Shuri (Letitia Wright) visiting Nakia’s (Lupita Nyong’o) homestead in Haiti and finally taking a moment to grieve for her brother and move forward by burning her funeral clothes. In the spirit of moving forward, Nakia walks out with a young boy, whom she introduces to Shuri as Toussaint, her son./theater-review-it-s-daniel-radcliffe-vs-the-irish-stereotype-in-the-cripple-of-inishmaan.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-it-s-daniel-radcliffe-vs-the-irish-stereotype-in-the-cripple-of-inishmaan.htmlPat Shortt and Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Who’s the worst Irish on Inishmaan? The competition is fierce. There’s the “newsman” Johnnypateenmike, who extorts food for his paltry gossip while trying to kill off his ancient and hideous mammy with drink. There’s young Helen, as nubile as she is vicious, who enjoys kicking grown men in the bollocks for no reason and pegging eggs at clergymen. (“If God went touching me arse in choir practice,” she blithely explains, “I’d peg eggs at that fecker too./this-month-in-true-crime-podcasts-was-i-in-a-cult.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-month-in-true-crime-podcasts-was-i-in-a-cult.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. The true-crime-podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional./three-billboards-and-big-little-lies-star-kathryn-newton-on-playing-emo-teens.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-billboards-and-big-little-lies-star-kathryn-newton-on-playing-emo-teens.htmlKathryn Newton has perfected the angsty teen-girl sneer: an eye-roll paired with a muttered insult, plus a glare icier than anything at Morgenstern’s. At best, her characters disrespect their mothers; at worst, they’re downright mean. But while playing a trio of teen girls across some of the year’s best offerings, Newton has also showed us each girl’s big heart. In February, Newton was Reese Witherspoon’s rebellious daughter on Big Little Lies, sneaking around on her laptop, scheming to sell her virginity online./travis-kelce-scores-his-debut-single.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/travis-kelce-scores-his-debut-single.htmlTravis Kelce and Taylor Swift have a good bit in common: They were both born in 1989, grew up in neighboring states, have both hosted Saturday Night Live — and as of now, they both sing. Well, “sing” might be a generous word. But Kelce is indeed featured on “Fairytale of Philadelphia,” off his NFL star brother Jason’s upcoming charity Christmas album with his group the Philly Specials, A Philly Special Christmas Special./tupac-wanted-to-make-a-collaborative-album-with-outkast.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tupac-wanted-to-make-a-collaborative-album-with-outkast.htmlIn a recently unearthed letter (remember those?) written by Tupac to his friend Big Lock, the rapper describes plans he has to create a group album called One Nation with the likes of Greg Nice, Buckshot, Smif-n-Wessun, Outkast, the Outlawz, Scarface, and E-40. Okayplayer confirmed the letter’s authenticity with Questlove, who said that the Roots had also been asked to participate in the project. It’s too bad we never got to see what would have come of such a collaboration, but one thing’s for sure: Biggie probably wouldn’t have been a part of it./verzuz-is-moving-to-x.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/verzuz-is-moving-to-x.htmlRemember Verzuz? It’s back, in X form. Timbaland and Swizz Beats announced at Cannes Lions today that the rap battle show will be migrating to X (née Twitter). “We are beyond thrilled to have found the best partner for Verzuz. Not only are we excited to have Verzuz on X, we’re excited to help X build the biggest entertainment company in the world,” Swizz Beats said in a statement obtained by Variety./vulture-bytes-obsolete-media-furniture-and-a-pinocchio-stylus.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vulture-bytes-obsolete-media-furniture-and-a-pinocchio-stylus.htmlWe’re as surprised as you that the pop-culture-infused gadgets keep coming, week after week. This week we bring you: a chair made out of cassettes, a Chap Stick for your iPhone, a collection of film-festival-approved short films, a hands-free stylus for your iDevice, and Al Gore’s new vision of the future. While you click through, remember, your tips are never in short supply over at VultureBytes@gmail.com. Finally, you can realize your life goal of sitting on Phil Collins./vulture-s-final-love-is-blind-predictions.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vulture-s-final-love-is-blind-predictions.htmlWarning: Deep spoilers for season five, episode nine of Love Is Blind lie ahead.  Whether season five of Love Is Blind was your entry into Netflix’s reality-dating “experiment” or the one that made you swear the series off for good, it has been nothing short of messy. Stacy finally found out that Izzy has bad credit (something Johnie has known since the pods); Milton dragged Lydia for how she handles her emotions; Uche’s efforts to expose Lydia turned him into the Pepe Silvia meme; JP’s whereabouts are unknown; a stan army has risen to demand the release of the Renee Cut./warner-bros-and-new-line-to-forge-more-lord-of-the-rings.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warner-bros-and-new-line-to-forge-more-lord-of-the-rings.htmlZaslav saw this whole trilogy, and his takeaway was “greed and power are two good, chill things.” Do you like The Lord of the Rings? Did you think it was totally chill and fine that J.R.R. Tolkien’s slender children’s volume, The Hobbit, was expanded into three entire feature-length films despite being only 300 pages long? Do you think The Adventures of Tom Bombadil would make for an excellent seven-part film series?/watch-a-tiny-teaser-for-step-up-4.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-a-tiny-teaser-for-step-up-4.htmlBlandly retitled from the far-more-awesome Step Up 4Ever, we’re a little concerned by the lack of Moose and/or water-dancing. But who are we kidding, we’re in. Watch a Tiny Teaser for Step Up 4 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZny4rdOcn2aZXam2r8WMrZyaq5Wneqe70WaqrZ2gYsKxeZNnn62lnA%3D%3D/watch-chadwick-boseman-s-wife-tearfully-accept-his-gotham-awards-tribute-prize.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-chadwick-boseman-s-wife-tearfully-accept-his-gotham-awards-tribute-prize.htmlSimone Ledward Boseman. For the first time since the actor’s death, Chadwick Boseman’s widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, honored him publicly at the 30th annual IFP Gotham Awards Monday night. In a tearful and moving tribute to her husband, she accepted the Gotham Awards Tribute prize on his behalf. “He is the most honest person I’d ever met,” she said. “He actively searched for it, in himself, those around him and the moment./we-are-who-we-are-premiere-recap-i-am-he-that-aches-with-love.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-are-who-we-are-premiere-recap-i-am-he-that-aches-with-love.htmlWe Are Who We Are Right Here Right Now I Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » We Are Who We Are Right Here Right Now I Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » “He is naked except for a rainbow-colored …” Fraser Wilson (It’s Jack Dylan Grazer) doesn’t quite finish reading the sentence out loud to himself from the earmarked copy of the book he’s picked up./westworld-s-orgy-is-a-reminder-that-you-re-watching-hbo.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/westworld-s-orgy-is-a-reminder-that-you-re-watching-hbo.htmlFar before Westworld spawned a cottage industry of fan theories about its take on humanity’s relationship to artificial intelligence, it was perhaps best known as the HBO show that was going to include a massive orgy, according to an infamous casting notice that made headlines a year ago. On this week’s episode, “Contrapasso,” we finally got to see that orgy, when Evan Rachel Wood, Ben Barnes, and Jimmi Simpson stop by what can be best described as an Old West pleasure palace on their way to the edges of the park./what-if-i-told-you-j-law-s-naked-fight-scene-was-a-bold-feminist-victory.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-if-i-told-you-j-law-s-naked-fight-scene-was-a-bold-feminist-victory.htmlThe No Hard Feelings scene is funny in a way that only male movie stars’ nudity gets to be: goofy, un-self-conscious, and nothing to do with sex. As Sigmund Freud once wrote, penises are funny. This truth has been passed down the generations from Monty Python to Judd Apatow, all of whom recognized in the phallus a classic comic character. A penis carries itself with pretensions to great dignity, but when you actually see it, all it does is flop around looking silly./what-was-it-about-michael-douglas.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-was-it-about-michael-douglas.htmlMake Hollywood Horny Again A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers. Make Hollywood Horny Again A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers. As the go-to fall guy in erotic thrillers, the actor represented the ultimate boomer avatar: the male ego under siege. Michael Douglas likes to tell a story about an early screening of his 1987 hit Fatal Attraction. A little over half an hour into the picture, his character, Dan Gallagher, returns home from a torrid, adulterous weekend with Glenn Close’s Alex Forrest and musses up the bed to make it look like he has slept in it before his family comes back from a weekend in the country./what-we-do-in-the-shadows-recap-incomprehensible-jesters.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-recap-incomprehensible-jesters.htmlWhat We Do in the Shadows Private School Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What We Do in the Shadows Private School Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Although they live in filth and can sometimes be found slumming at a community-center gym that smells like old socks, let us never forget that vampires are snobs./what-s-new-on-netflix-may-2016.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-new-on-netflix-may-2016.htmlAt the beginning of (and during) every month, Netflix adds new movies and TV shows to its library. We figure you might want to know about them. For more comprehensive coverage of the best titles available on Netflix and elsewhere, check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now hub, which is updated throughout the month. This is a cheerocracy: Bring It On (2000) Kirsten Dunst leads a cohort of cutthroat cheerleaders who compete to clinch the title of cheer champions./where-do-dancing-babies-come-from-the-story-behind-the-classic-ally-mcbeal-scene.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-do-dancing-babies-come-from-the-story-behind-the-classic-ally-mcbeal-scene.htmlThe 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation Brought to you by The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation Brought to you by Before Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch used song-and-dance numbers to interpret her inner monologues, and before Jane the Virgin’s Jane Villanueva saw telenovela tropes everywhere she turned, there was Ally. Calista Flockhart’s titular 20-something attorney from David E. Kelley’s Fox dramedy, Ally McBeal, appeared on TV screens in the fall of 1997 as a nervous, overly educated-yet-still-unsure-of-herself mess./wii-sports-finally-made-it-to-the-video-game-hall-of-fame.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wii-sports-finally-made-it-to-the-video-game-hall-of-fame.htmlGamers pictured circa 2008. Wii did it, y’all. On Thursday, New York’s Strong National Museum of Play announced that Wii Sports has officially entered the World Video Game Hall of Fame, which recognizes games that have “enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general.” Fellow 2023 inductees include The Last of Us, Computer Space, and, in a win for gamer girls, Barbie Fashion Designer./with-news-of-the-world-paul-greengrass-went-for-optimism.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/with-news-of-the-world-paul-greengrass-went-for-optimism.htmlAfter making Bloody Sunday and 22 July, the director of the new Tom Hanks Western says he’s interested in what a road to healing looks like. On its surface, an elegiac Western like News of the World might seem like quite a departure for director Paul Greengrass, who rose to fame on the strength of jittery, modern-day thrillers of both the pulpy (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) and the serious (United 93, Captain Phillips) kinds./yes-justin-bieber-put-two-mlk-speeches-on-justice.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-justin-bieber-put-two-mlk-speeches-on-justice.htmlMartin Luther King Jr. and Justin Bieber. The first voice on Justin Bieber’s new album, JUSTICE, isn’t Bieber — it’s Martin Luther King Jr., delivering his oft-quoted line, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The line introduces a song called “2 Much,” a love song with lines like “Two seconds without you’s like two months.” It’s one of two speeches by Dr. King excerpted on JUSTICE and turning heads, along with a 104-second interlude of a 1967 sermon./10-awesome-awful-lyrics-on-katy-perry-s-new-cd.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-awesome-awful-lyrics-on-katy-perry-s-new-cd.htmlAwfulsome. Where awful and awesome meet, rub up against each other, and birth something new — something simultaneously good and bad. Katy Perry’s ecstatically, enjoyably, endearingly hollow album Teenage Dream, out today, is full of lyrics that embody this term — awful lyrics that after repeated hearings (and, there will be repeated hearings!) begin to earn some admiration for being so brazenly, so straightforwardly, so bravely ridiculous. Consider: Thanks to Perry’s unavoidably catchy “Peacock,” in a few months Americans will be going about their business with the phrase, “I want to see your peacock cock cock cock” stuck in their heads./180-minutes-with-quincy-jones.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/180-minutes-with-quincy-jones.htmlGeorge Burns made a joke of getting old, says Quincy Jones. Years ago, as a nonagenarian, Burns told Jones, “When you become 90, sex is like shooting pool with a rope.” “I’m going to use that one when I get to be his age,” says Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who is on hand at the Apollo Theater to celebrate Jones’s latest birthday—the big 8-0. “He’s still got ten years of good stick work!/7-ways-guardians-of-the-galaxy-reminds-us-of-the-star-wars-movies.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-ways-guardians-of-the-galaxy-reminds-us-of-the-star-wars-movies.htmlGuardians of the Galaxy may exist in the Marvel Universe, but its spiritual roots lie in a galaxy far, far away. Directed with wacko verve by James Gunn, this deliriously amusing and exciting superhero spectacle is a work that’s thoroughly indebted to Star Wars, whose influence can be felt throughout its space-Western story of outlaw misfits on a mission to save the universe. While it’s never explicitly referenced — somewhat surprisingly, given the raft of ‘70s and ‘80s pop-culture shout-outs found throughout Gunn’s rollicking adventure — George Lucas’s iconic series is evoked at almost every turn./a-naked-jai-courtney-chased-suicide-squad-director-david-ayer-on-set-confirming-that-shoot-as-an-en.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-naked-jai-courtney-chased-suicide-squad-director-david-ayer-on-set-confirming-that-shoot-as-an-en.htmlIf you thought that the terrifying tales from the set of Suicide Squad would stop just because the movie got released, well aren’t you a beautiful little beacon of shining naïveté. No matter how many Suicide Squad horrors are recounted, there will always be more, because filming Suicide Squad was hell, and the only way to survive hell is to talk your way back. And so the latest entry in the saga comes from Jai Courtney, who revealed on Thursday’s Conan that he once targeted director David Ayer by chasing after him naked./a-simple-guide-to-westworld-s-multiple-timelines.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-simple-guide-to-westworld-s-multiple-timelines.htmlEvan Rachel Wood as Dolores. By now, it’s clear that Westworld has carefully manipulated its audience through clever editing and narrative sleight of hand. The HBO show is a Russian nesting doll of stories with flashbacks within flashbacks, often cut together in time-jarring sequences, so ahead of next Sunday’s season finale, let’s pull those pieces apart. It’s time to put the chronology of Westworld together, in order, from the very beginning./american-crime-recap-consequences.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-crime-recap-consequences.htmlAmerican Crime Episode Eight Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Crime Episode Eight Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lili Taylor as Anne. How does American Crime move on after the shocking events that ended last week’s episode?/arrow-recap-say-yes-to-the-mess.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arrow-recap-say-yes-to-the-mess.htmlArrow Suicidal Tendencies Season 3 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Arrow Suicidal Tendencies Season 3 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oliver and John in Arrow. It’s not easy loving a vigilante — late nights, secret identities, crazy, one-eyed Australians hell-bent on revenge./artists-and-collectors-turn-on-each-other.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/artists-and-collectors-turn-on-each-other.htmlThe fallout of the Artforum letter continues. Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Photos: Joe Bird/Alamy Stock Photo; Pietro D’Aprano/Getty Images On October 19, Artforum’s website published “An Open Letter From the Art Community to Cultural Organizations,” calling for Palestinian liberation and “an end to the killing and harming of all civilians, an immediate ceasefire, the passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza.” The letter did not originate with Artforum’s editors. It had been circulating as a Google form, where it had already been signed by more than 4,000 people, including Judith Butler and Fred Moten and, as David Velasco, the magazine’s editor of almost six years, put it, more artists who had made the cover of Artforum “than I’d ever seen in one space”: Barbara Kruger, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman, Nan Goldin./avid-watercolorist-howard-stern-gave-david-letterman-a-daffodil-painting-for-his-farewell.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/avid-watercolorist-howard-stern-gave-david-letterman-a-daffodil-painting-for-his-farewell.htmlA sensitive guy, this Howard Stern. In addition to trying to give David Letterman a big kiss on the mouth, Howard Stern gave the Late Show host another parting gift: a Howard Stern original watercolor. “Howard gave Dave a painting to give to his wife on his last appearance last week,” Beth Stern, wife of the radio personality, told Vulture at the Hamptons magazine party over Memorial Day weekend. “He gave David Letterman’s wife a daffodil./backcountry-is-a-subtle-slow-burn-thriller.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/backcountry-is-a-subtle-slow-burn-thriller.htmlBackcountry The best way to watch Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry is to go in not knowing anything about it. Not because it’s full of surprises and twists, but because it’s a slow-burn backwoods thriller that carefully creates a gathering sense of unease. Wait — have I already said too much?? No, really: Feel free to stop reading anytime, and consider everything from here on to be a spoiler. Go into Backcountry expecting too much and you might be disappointed./bad-bunny-is-breaking-all-the-rules-and-it-s-a-thrill-to-watch.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bad-bunny-is-breaking-all-the-rules-and-it-s-a-thrill-to-watch.htmlHe’s doing it all with a glee that plays up how silly all these hyperspecific ideas about gender and language and pop stardom and activism have been all along. Bad Bunny is cruising down lanes that not too long ago didn’t quite exist. The Puerto Rican singer/rapper has done American late night, Coachella’s main stage, the Super Bowl halftime show, and collaborations with the likes of Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B without singing in English./basketball-returns-and-bol-bol-does-things-a-very-tall-man-should-not-be-able-to-do.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/basketball-returns-and-bol-bol-does-things-a-very-tall-man-should-not-be-able-to-do.htmlBol Bol (No. 10) throws down a dunk in the Denver Nuggets’ scrimmage against the Washington Wizards. Until this strange, star-crossed basketball season is over, Vulture will be semi-regularly checking in on events inside the NBA bubble. This is the inaugural installment. As originally pitched, this column was meant to celebrate the wonderful weirdness of the entire NBA being holed up together in Disney World, from the political statements to the snitch hotlines, and thebeer-chugging contests to the Delta-ass meals./before-he-was-a-hollywood-vampire-the-complete-history-of-johnny-depp-rock-musician.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/before-he-was-a-hollywood-vampire-the-complete-history-of-johnny-depp-rock-musician.htmlJohnny Depp performs onstage during the 58th Grammy Awards at Staples Center on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Before he became a heartthrob on 21 Jump Street, got weird with Tim Burton, or played a pirate version of Keith Richards, Johnny Depp wanted to be a rock star. Refusing to let that dream go, the Oscar-nominated actor has maintained a steady side-gig of playing in various groups and guesting on friends’ albums, often showing up at concerts to play a few songs./below-deck-mediterranean-season-premiere-recap-the-case-of-the-missing-ros%C3%A9.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-mediterranean-season-premiere-recap-the-case-of-the-missing-ros%C3%A9.htmlBelow Deck Mediterranean My Big Fat Greek Yacht Emergency Season 9 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean My Big Fat Greek Yacht Emergency Season 9 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to Below Deck Med season nine! For those of us who’ve been watching the flagship series, we got no weeks off between seasons, much like the breakneck pace of turning around a boat for back-to-back charters./best-supporting-actor-is-jared-leto-unbeatable.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-supporting-actor-is-jared-leto-unbeatable.htmlThe Nominees Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips Bradley Cooper, American Hustle Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club The Best Supporting Actor category tends to be stocked with white-haired veterans, but not this time: Last year, there was no nominee under 45, and this year, they all are. But do you want to know the really weird part? This crop of Best Supporting Actor nominees is so young that the veteran in the category — the oldest of these five nominees who’s been working in the business more than two decades longer than some of his competitors — is Jared Leto./betty-draper-in-hit-and-run.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/betty-draper-in-hit-and-run.htmlTMZ reports that Mad Men’s January Jones lost control of her Range Rover last night and hit three parked cars before fleeing on foot and claiming, “I can’t deal with this commotion.” She later returned to the scene and told cops she left because she was being pursued by paparazzi, who were eager to snap photos of her after pictures of her “walk of shame” hit the Internet yesterday. The LAPD says no drugs or alcohol were involved and no charges were filed./bottomless-belly-button-vulture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bottomless-belly-button-vulture.htmlthe comics page June 16, 2008 What Is Dash Shaw’s Vision for ‘Ghost Rider’? Plus: An Exclusive Preview of ‘Bottomless Belly Button’Twenty pages from the acclaimed graphic novel, written and drawn by the creator featured in this week’s ‘New York.’ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeSpMG1u8ylnKyrXZeyrbjYZpmurKSku3A%3D/bravo-stan-jon-hamm-transforms-into-james-kennedy-on-wwhl.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bravo-stan-jon-hamm-transforms-into-james-kennedy-on-wwhl.htmlWhen Jon Hamm said he was a fan of all things Bravo TV, he sure wasn’t kidding. While he isn’t an official housewife yet, he made his debut on Watch What Happens Live, dipping his toe officially into the Bravoverse. Hamm and John with an h — John Slattery — showed off their impressions of James Kennedy and Tom Sandoval during last week’s reunion, with Hamm leading the way./bridgerton-recap-faith-or-fools.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bridgerton-recap-faith-or-fools.htmlBridgerton The Choice Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bridgerton The Choice Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Finally, we’re here. The wedding episode! As expected, the queen’s going all out. There will be fireworks! There will be peacocks!/bruce-springsteen-vulture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bruce-springsteen-vulture.htmlradio vulture Mar. 8, 2012 Bruce Springsteen’s Stump SpeechWith a little editing, the lyrics of Wrecking Ball add up to a stem-winder fit for a political convention. By Nitsuh Abebe ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeSp8KksYysp6uhnpzAtbHEp2Z4q6SWv7WJkGln/college-champion-lives-your-wildest-intellectual-dreams-by-writing-joke-final-jeopardy-answer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/college-champion-lives-your-wildest-intellectual-dreams-by-writing-joke-final-jeopardy-answer.htmlWho is the “spiciest memelord?” Lilly Chin is the spiciest memelord, goddammit. Jeopardy! has been in the midst of its annual College Championship over the past month, finally airing the high-stakes finale ($100,000 to the winner! Equivalent to a few mathematics textbooks!) between the three university geniuses last night. It wasn’t really that exciting of a watch, though, until “Final Jeopardy” occurred — Chin was so far in the lead that by the last round she was guaranteed to win unless she risked betting all of her money./comics-excerpt-the-arrival-author-shaun-tan-tells-tales-from-outer-suburbia.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comics-excerpt-the-arrival-author-shaun-tan-tells-tales-from-outer-suburbia.htmlLaurent and Jean de Brunhoff’s Babar and his teammates are going all out to win the famous Celesteville Regatta (1989). We were big fans of Shaun Tan’s 2007 graphic novel The Arrival, naming it the best of the year – and we weren’t alone, as the book garnered accolades everywhere and became a surprise bestseller. But that solemn, silent tale of immigration didn’t prepare us for the wordy whimsy of Tan’s new book, Tales From Outer Suburbia./dark-side-of-the-ring-exposes-wrestling-s-seedy-sensational-secrets.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dark-side-of-the-ring-exposes-wrestling-s-seedy-sensational-secrets.htmlIs it real or is it fake? Is it a sport or is it an art form? Is the story what goes on inside the ring or what happens behind the scenes? These questions animate any serious discussion of professional wrestling; the key to understanding this American pastime is that the answer is yes, on all counts. No series has understood this better than Dark Side of the Ring. Billed as the most-watched show in the history of Vice TV, Dark Side digs into the history of professional wrestling for its most controversial and criminal moments, which it portrays with genuine style and considerable compassion./dexter-new-blood-recap-it-feels-good-to-be-bad.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dexter-new-blood-recap-it-feels-good-to-be-bad.htmlDexter Unfair Game Season 9 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dexter Unfair Game Season 9 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Since the very first episode of New Blood, I’ve been rooting for the death of Dexter Morgan. Looking back at the span of the fictional life of this character, he’s had a good run./did-new-york-really-need-another-music-festival-the-meadows-made-a-convincing-case.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-new-york-really-need-another-music-festival-the-meadows-made-a-convincing-case.htmlKanye West performs onstage during the Meadows Music & Arts Festival, on October 2, 2016, in Queens, New York. This summer, when New York City’s annual Governors Ball Music Festival met a new rival in the Panorama Music Festival, which took place on the same Randall’s Island grounds mere weeks later, questions arose about the sustainability of a growing New York City festival circuit. The list of artists capable of headlining weekends like these is not very long, and the number of young attendees willing to come see them seems pretty finite./disgraced-former-bachelor-host-engaged-to-current-bachelor-reporter.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disgraced-former-bachelor-host-engaged-to-current-bachelor-reporter.htmlMonths after being given the exit limo from the Bachelor franchise for his defenses of historical racism, Chris Harrison has become engaged to Lauren Zima, a Bachelor Nation correspondent and entertainment reporter for Entertainment Tonight — a pairing that somehow never brought up ethics questions in the past. (Ha, who are we kidding? This is The Bachelor we’re talking about.) Harrison confirmed their engagement on the franchise’s platform of choice, Instagram, writing that “the next chapter starts now./doug-stanhope-remembers-sean-rouse-the-best-comedian-you-ve-never-heard-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doug-stanhope-remembers-sean-rouse-the-best-comedian-you-ve-never-heard-of.htmlSean Rouse. Sean Rouse died on June 29, 2018, at the elderly age of 43 years old, leaving a large hole in the fabric of brilliant, brave, and sinister comedy, still wearing the thorny crown of “best comedian you’ve never heard of.” Sean lived most of his life with his candle burning at both ends — one end torching through the downward spiral of crippling rheumatoid arthritis, the other ablaze with drugs and alcohol, both celebratory and medicinal, and those drugs, more often than not, were yours./drake-s-1-million-world-cup-bet-is-his-loss.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-s-1-million-world-cup-bet-is-his-loss.htmlIt’s all in God’s plan, we suppose. Drake lost a $1 million bet on the outcome of the 2022 FIFA World Cup final between Argentina and France on Sunday. He put his money on Argentina winning, and Lionel Messi did indeed emerge victorious … just not as quickly as the rapper had hoped. As shown in a screenshot posted to his Instagram, Drake bet in the 1x2 market, where extra time isn’t counted and the result is determined based on the score after 90 minutes of play./drake-s-if-you-re-reading-this-it-s-too-late-is-a-soulless-triumph.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-s-if-you-re-reading-this-it-s-too-late-is-a-soulless-triumph.html“If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” “This is nothing for the radio,” Drake proclaimed at the beginning of his 2013 album, Nothing Was the Same, “but they’ll still play it though.” Like any good rap boast, it was a bit of an exaggeration — after all, we’re talking about an album that featured such obvious hits as the puffed-chest anthem “Started From the Bottom” and the tuneful, twilit ballad “Hold On, We’re Going Home./eight-times-the-simpsons-have-made-me-cry.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eight-times-the-simpsons-have-made-me-cry.htmlThe Simpsons is the funniest show of all time, but it’s also one of the most tragic. Think about it: Homer is an overweight drunk who hates his job; Marge gave up her dreams for her husband; Bart is “underachiever and proud of it,” meaning he’s already stopped trying, even in elementary school; Lisa is a clinically depressed eight-year-old; and Maggie is only a toddler and she’s already shot someone. And that’s not to mention the lives of Milhouse, Hans Moleman, Martin Prince, Nelson Muntz, and so on./every-season-of-one-tree-hill-ranked-from-worst-to-best.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-season-of-one-tree-hill-ranked-from-worst-to-best.htmlFor the love of basketball! On April 4, 2012, we said goodbye to One Tree Hill, the WB turned CW teen soap that felt like it would be around forever. On this, the fifth anniversary of its finale, we take a trip back to that small North Carolina town to rank all nine of its sometimes earnest, sometimes wack-a-doodle seasons. In case you need a refresher (all nine seasons are currently streaming on Netflix, if you feel so inclined), One Tree Hill is about half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott, who share a villainous father and not much else./everything-we-know-about-the-rust-shooting-and-alec-baldwin-s-trial.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-we-know-about-the-rust-shooting-and-alec-baldwin-s-trial.htmlBonanza Creek Ranch, the set of Rust, is seen closed Friday, the day after the shooting. Alec Baldwin has finally finished filming Rust, about a year and a half since news of the shooting on the set of the film on October 21, 2021 set off a wave of speculation. As reports trickled in, the situation began to clarify: Two people had been shot during a scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico./fairyland-magicked-up-a-1970s-san-francisco.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fairyland-magicked-up-a-1970s-san-francisco.htmlThe thing about shooting a movie set in 1970s San Francisco in 2023 is that those two time periods are actually not the same. The world changes! So when Fairyland, a movie based on a memoir of the same name by Alysia Abbott about growing up with a gay dad during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Fran, decided to shoot on location, the team had their work cut out for them./faith-hill-is-considering-laser-hair-removal-thanks-to-1883.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/faith-hill-is-considering-laser-hair-removal-thanks-to-1883.htmlThey call it “the wild west” for a reason. Yeah, because of all the gunfights and train robberies, but also because of the hygiene. In Variety’s Actors on Actors, Faith Hill discussed the realities of portraying a pioneer gal with Courteney Cox. Taylor Sheridan demands verité from his actors, and that apparently includes armpit hair. Sheridan apparently had Hill’s husband and co-star Tim McGraw break the news: “Taylor actually called my husband./fire-jeff-probst.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fire-jeff-probst.htmlThe 46th season of Survivor has been an absolute mess. There was Bhanu, the simpering do-nothing who was eventually put out of his misery but shouldn’t have been cast in the first place. There was Q, who seemed to shift his entire strategy and betray his alliances based on stray comments. Not a single member of the cast executed an idol or advantage successfully. We’re now five years into Survivor’s “new era,” and few of its tricks and twists are still working./former-grammys-ceo-sued-for-rape-by-musician.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/former-grammys-ceo-sued-for-rape-by-musician.htmlNeil Portnow. Neil Portnow, the former Grammys CEO who left amid controversy in 2019, has been sued by a musician accusing him of sexual battery. An unnamed female instrumentalist alleged that Portnow drugged and raped her in June 2018, according to the New York Times. Portnow had announced plans to leave his Recording Academy position that May, after his much-criticized comment that women in music need to “step up,” but was still acting as CEO at the time./freaky-friday-to-take-us-away-a-second-time.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/freaky-friday-to-take-us-away-a-second-time.htmlOkay, do Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen next. AAAHhhhhh! AAAhhhhh! There used to be one movie and now there’s gonna be two! Could you, like, chill for a second? A sequel to the 2003 version of Freaky Friday, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, is in the works and heading to theaters in 2025, according to a June 24 tweet from Disney. Both actresses are ready to get freaky again, and production is officially on./fred-armisen-and-carrie-brownstein-on-portlandia-s-evolution-and-whether-fred-s-life-merits-a-bo.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fred-armisen-and-carrie-brownstein-on-portlandia-s-evolution-and-whether-fred-s-life-merits-a-bo.htmlOn the occasion of Portlandia’s sixth-season premiere — one packed with guest stars like the Flaming Lips, Zoe Kravitz, and Steve Buscemi — longtime friends Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein connected with Vulture to reflect on a busy year, one that pushed the IFC show farther down on their increasingly crowded résumés: Brownstein, 41, authored a biography about her years in Sleater-Kinney, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, returned for season two of Transparent, and cameoed in the Oscar-nominated Carol./gen-v-recap-a-small-man-playing-hero.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gen-v-recap-a-small-man-playing-hero.htmlGen V The Whole Truth Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gen V The Whole Truth Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Because The Boys is such a fast-paced show with such a large ensemble, it rarely gets to slow down for a “monster of the week” episode./grief-hotel-where-you-check-in-to-yourself.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grief-hotel-where-you-check-in-to-yourself.htmlWhat would we do without Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks? For almost 30 years Maria Striar’s badass downtown company and its annual festival has been a springboard for some of the most exciting new plays and playwrights in the country. Sarah Ruhl and Lisa D’Amour made their New York debuts at Summerworks, and more recently, it’s brought us Clare Barron’s Baby Screams Miracle, Agnes Borinsky’s Of Government, Will Arbery’s Plano, and Heidi Schreck’s all-the-way-to-Broadway rocket What the Constitution Means to Me, the most-produced play in the U./halt-and-catch-fire-finae.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/halt-and-catch-fire-finae.htmlHalt And Catch Fire Finae - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeYlrm1ecCnm2abkamwqXnFoqmeZZaeu6Kxjg%3D%3D/harry-styles-didn-t-credit-lucius-on-treat-people-with-kindness-when-duo-asked.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/harry-styles-didn-t-credit-lucius-on-treat-people-with-kindness-when-duo-asked.htmlLucius wants to be, well, treated with kindness after Harry Styles used uncredited vocals by the duo on his song “Treat People With Kindness.” Lucius, who released the new album Second Nature on April 8, told the Los Angeles Times Styles didn’t give them a feature credit on the song after they asked. As the band tells it, Styles originally asked them to sing when they were working on a different song./hbo-is-making-a-decade-long-harry-potter-series.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hbo-is-making-a-decade-long-harry-potter-series.htmlThe Boy Who Lived will live again (on our screens). The decade-long Harry Potter series that was announced in 2023 is still happening, though the project will now be branded as an HBO Original instead of a Max Original. We know that J.K. Rowling is on board as an executive producer, but who else is involved? Here, the latest updates on the crew of Muggles that will try to make some magic happen./his-dark-materials-season-finale-recap-with-me-or-against-me.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/his-dark-materials-season-finale-recap-with-me-or-against-me.htmlHis Dark Materials Æsahættr Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » His Dark Materials Æsahættr Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » His Dark Materials, like so many young adult epics, is supposed to be about children beating mighty odds to triumph over evil./how-detective-pikachu-s-writers-decided-which-pok%C3%A9mon-to-include.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-detective-pikachu-s-writers-decided-which-pok%C3%A9mon-to-include.htmlSame. Detective Pikachu, a big blockbuster movie about a small electric mouse in a hat that solves mysteries, takes place in the weird, wonderful, more than occasionally baffling Pokémon universe. It’s a standalone movie, for the most part, that’s based on a game of the same name, so it’s not really obligated to explain all the details of that universe, or include all 807 Pokémon (not counting regional variations and alternate forms) that Nintendo has let loose into the minds of children everywhere./how-to-write-a-book-right-now.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-write-a-book-right-now.htmlThis conversation first appeared in Dinner Party, our daily newsletter about the silliest and most important stuff. This conversation first appeared in Dinner Party, our daily newsletter about the silliest and most important stuff. Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a thousand words a day, come hell or high water./human-sexipede-trailer-the-human-centipede-porn-parody-you-ve-been-waiting-for.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/human-sexipede-trailer-the-human-centipede-porn-parody-you-ve-been-waiting-for.htmlIt’s too early in the morning for this, but it’s probably always too early in the morning for this. (Lightly NSFW.) [Official site via Buzzfeed] Human Sexipede Trailer: The Human Centipede Porn Parody You’ve Been Waiting For ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgbnypwcyapZirla22sbHDnpatqpGeuaa%2Bvq2fnpeYqrpvtNOmow%3D%3D/i-called-them-brats-and-i-stand-by-it.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-called-them-brats-and-i-stand-by-it.htmlForty years and a doc later, I still don’t know why the words “Hollywood’s Brat Pack” caused so much agony. New York Magazine writer David Blum looks back on the cover story that enraged a generation of Hollywood stars. Photo: Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection New York Magazine writer David Blum looks back on the cover story that enraged a generation of Hollywood stars. Most people credit me with the birth of the Brat Pack./ina-garten-agrees-to-hang-with-cancer-patient.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ina-garten-agrees-to-hang-with-cancer-patient.html“Barefoot Contessa” Ina Garten has finally agreed to meet with leukemia victim Enzo Pereda, after twice rejecting the six-year-old’s Make-A-Wish Foundation request to cook a meal with his favorite chef. After the story became public last week, Garten suddenly had a change of heart, claiming she didn’t know about his previous two requests and her previous denials. “Ina became aware of Enzo’s story this weekend and will be calling him today./interview-with-the-vampire-s-jacob-anderson-on-power-struggles-and-ethical-feeding.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-with-the-vampire-s-jacob-anderson-on-power-struggles-and-ethical-feeding.htmlSpoilers follow for episode three of Interview With the Vampire, “Is My Very Nature That of a Devil.” In AMC’s sensual, meta revamp of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, Jacob Anderson’s Louis de Pointe du Lac is a creature defined by conflict. His transformation into a vampire is a fraught process physically and morally, and in the most recent episode, this tension boils over into a series of turning points for Louis./it-really-bothered-me-vulture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-really-bothered-me-vulture.htmlit really bothered me June 16, 2023 The Horrifying Birth of ITYSL’s Pig MonsterThe team behind “Darmine Doggy Door” on its lube-covered creation. By Anne Victoria Clark ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeZqXqzscClo7JlkqTBqbHRnptmpZVk/joss-whedon-thoroughly-handicaps-a-fight-between-buffy-and-black-widow.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joss-whedon-thoroughly-handicaps-a-fight-between-buffy-and-black-widow.htmlSAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 23: Actor Joss Whedon arrives at Entertainment Weekly’s 5th Annual Comic-Con Celebration sponsored by Batman: Arkham City held at Float, Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 23, 2011 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly) Buffy the Vampire Slayer fell to Don Draper in Vulture’s Drama Derby, but how might Buffy fare against another Joss Whedon heroine, Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff from The Avengers?/keri-russell-learns-about-jane-austen-fight-club-larping-and-hey-girl.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/keri-russell-learns-about-jane-austen-fight-club-larping-and-hey-girl.htmlKeri Russell. In the costume comedy Austenland, a super-obsessive Jane Austen fan (played by Keri Russell) more inclined to spend time with her Colin Firth–as–Mr. Darcy cardboard cutout than a real life man blows her savings to go on an immersive Jane Austen–themed vacation, in the hopes of meeting her own Mr. Darcy (or at least putting that fanciful notion out of her head once and for all). While on this vacation, the female guests wear corsets and empire-waist gowns, play croquette, and are wooed by the words of actors taking their cues from the etiquette of the period./kesha-releases-her-first-independent-single.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kesha-releases-her-first-independent-single.html“Fell from heaven. No, it didn’t hurt.” “Get in loser, for the joyride,” Kesha demands in the hook of her first independent single since breaking free from Dr. Luke’s record label. It’s a joyous demand. After being subjected to the producer’s alleged abuse for years, Kesha can now make music moves, happily untethered, embracing electropop kicks and modulated vocals like God intended. Her latest track is fittingly named “Joyride,” a two-and-a-half-minute celebration soundtracked by some polka-inspired beats, heavy synth, and sheer confidence./lionel-richie-s-reactions-were-the-best-part-of-his-tribute-performance-at-the-grammys.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lionel-richie-s-reactions-were-the-best-part-of-his-tribute-performance-at-the-grammys.htmlYep, he’s the best. To his delight, Lionel Richie got his own tribute performance at the Grammys this year, and what a lineup there was: John Legend! Demi Lovato! Meghan Trainor … Luke Bryan? Tyrese?? Surely, the range of emotions you went through were evident too on Richie’s face as well. (But you know, he had to keep his cool.) And when Richie went up onstage to finish off his own tribute, we fortunately had Dave Grohl fill in as the audience surrogate, red solo cup in hand, just like you./lip-locks-vulture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lip-locks-vulture.htmlmtv movie awards June 6, 2010 MTV Movie Awards: Bullock Kisses ScarlettBullock received Generation Award. By Josh Duboff ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGecnr1uuM6coqxn/looking-for-alaska-recap-actually-parents-do-understand.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/looking-for-alaska-recap-actually-parents-do-understand.htmlLooking For Alaska “The Nourishment Is Palatable” Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Looking For Alaska “The Nourishment Is Palatable” Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In previous recaps, I’ve said that one thing this show nails from the jump is its teen characters’ casual, self-involved cruelty toward the caring adults in their lives./lovers-of-the-little-prince-need-to-read-wind-sand-and-stars.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lovers-of-the-little-prince-need-to-read-wind-sand-and-stars.htmlAntoine de Saint-Exupéry. We admirers of bittersweet French whimsy were heartened yesterday to see the first full-length English trailer for a new film adaptation of The Little Prince. Good lord, it looks wonderful. The 1943 book on which the film is based is, of course, a beloved treasure of children’s literature. Its author, the perfectly named Frenchman Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was an extraordinary, dashing figure: a commercial pilot who, upon the outbreak of the World War II, began flying reconnaissance missions for the French Air Force./marcia-clark-on-her-new-novel-blood-defense-and-why-she-doesn-t-miss-being-in-court-anymore.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marcia-clark-on-her-new-novel-blood-defense-and-why-she-doesn-t-miss-being-in-court-anymore.htmlThere’s a moment in Marcia Clark’s new novel, Blood Defense, ripped right from the O.J. Simpson case. A murder suspect is told someone is dead and his response is not to ask what happened but rather, “Who killed her?” “I can’t resist that,” says Clark, enjoying a Cobb salad at a restaurant in Calabasas, California. “It’s kind of fun for me. It’s what we call in writing an Easter egg./matt-besser-and-ian-roberts-on-bringing-the-ucb-stages-to-the-screen-with-the-ucb-show.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matt-besser-and-ian-roberts-on-bringing-the-ucb-stages-to-the-screen-with-the-ucb-show.htmlThe UCB 4 – Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, and Ian Roberts – have returned for a second season of the hosting The UCB Show, a comedy variety show featuring the best sketch, characters, and standup from UCB’s NY and LA theatres. Eight all-new episodes dropped today on Seeso, so to get you prepped I talked to Matt Besser and Ian Roberts about the vision behind the project, honoring the true roots of variety shows, and some of this season’s must-see acts./more-lava-and-other-ideas-to-improve-floor-is-lava.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-lava-and-other-ideas-to-improve-floor-is-lava.htmlLike all the best obstacle-course-based shows, Floor Is Lava passes the crucial “I would totally do this, and I would probably be great at it” test. The name of Netflix’s Floor Is Lava is all you really need to know about the show: It’s the don’t-touch-the-floor game you played as a kid, but instead of playing in your living room over shag carpeting, you’re on a fully realized obstacle course making six-foot leaps over roiling orange liquid./movie-review-the-wolfpack-returns-minus-the-laughs-in-the-hangover-iii.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/movie-review-the-wolfpack-returns-minus-the-laughs-in-the-hangover-iii.htmlThe Hangover Part III opens on an elegant slow-motion shot of some guards running urgently, to the strains of classical music, through the corridors of a Thai prison. They make their way to a gate beyond which we see, still in slow motion, an elaborate, cataclysmic riot already in full progress. Amid the total chaos, they make their way to the cell of goofball Chinese gangster Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) and discover that he has fled, Shawshank Redemption–style./ne-yo-on-the-album-he-wrote-for-michael-jackson-the-new-one-he-s-writing-for-jennifer-hudson.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ne-yo-on-the-album-he-wrote-for-michael-jackson-the-new-one-he-s-writing-for-jennifer-hudson.htmlWhen we ran into songwriter extraordinaire Ne-Yo last summer, he’d just started writing songs for Michael Jackson’s comeback album. He completed the songs, but isn’t sure if he ever wants them to see the light of day: “It’s sitting there, waiting to either come out on someone else or not come out at all,” he told us at Tuesday’s New Yorkers for Children Gala. “I don’t know. I’m kind of on the fence because it was music that was meant to go to Michael, so I would kind of feel funny about giving it to someone else./new-ride-along-2-trailer-ice-cube-is-still-not-happy-about-hanging-out-with-kevin-hart.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-ride-along-2-trailer-ice-cube-is-still-not-happy-about-hanging-out-with-kevin-hart.htmlAfter some tense behind-the-scenes negotiations between the studio, Ice Cube, and Kevin Hart, the title of Ride Along 2 was shortened from its original version, Ride Along 2: It’s Like the First Movie, Except This Time It’s in Miami and Olivia Munn Is Also There. It comes out January 15. The newest trailer is above. The first and international trailer is below. See the New Trailer for Ride Along 2 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobmdgbXy0scRmq6GdXaOyuHnTq5iipJWneqe70WapopyVYq6tu82gZGtmmKm6rQ%3D%3D/nine-perfect-strangers-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nine-perfect-strangers-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mp6GemnqxsdGfnJysXajBs63NoJyrq18%3D/p-valley-recap-devil-in-a-red-dress.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/p-valley-recap-devil-in-a-red-dress.htmlP-Valley Savage Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » P-Valley Savage Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Though I’m sure many of us, myself included, are still reeling from the last episode, things are continuing to boil over for our favorite Chucalissa residents./paris-hilton-vulture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paris-hilton-vulture.htmltribeca film festival 2018 Apr. 26, 2018 Will Paris Hilton Go on Tour?On Hilton’s debut album, “literally every song was sick. There was no fillers.” By Kenny Wassusand Brittany Stephanis ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeglr%2Bqv4yhoKWsn6N8/paris-hilton-describes-her-utah-boarding-school-experience-as-living-in-hell-in-new-doc.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paris-hilton-describes-her-utah-boarding-school-experience-as-living-in-hell-in-new-doc.htmlHeiress, DJ, and former reality-TV star Paris Hilton is opening up about a little known portion of her life — her high-school years — in a new documentary about her life, This Is Paris. In a New York Times Style profile titled “Who Is Paris Hilton, Really?” written by Ilana Kaplan, Paris Hilton discusses her forthcoming documentary, which delves into her traumatic experience at Provo Canyon School, a Utah based boarding school for troubled teens and psychiatric treatment center where she once spent 11 months./parks-and-rec-s-april-ludgate-celebrates-the-anniversary-of-neutral-milk-hotel-s-finest-work.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/parks-and-rec-s-april-ludgate-celebrates-the-anniversary-of-neutral-milk-hotel-s-finest-work.htmlNeutral Milk Hotel’s lo-fi yet sonically eclectic and emotionally wrought classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was released fifteen years ago this week. To note and celebrate this important anniversary, we reached out to the band’s biggest fan, Parks and Recreation’s April Ludgate, who nearly destroyed her relationship with Andy in season three when she declared Neutral Milk Hotel her favorite band (instead of Mouse Rat) and its singer/songwriter/genius Jeff Mangum her favorite rock star (instead of Andy)./paul-rudd-wants-to-have-dinner-with-buff-jesus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paul-rudd-wants-to-have-dinner-with-buff-jesus.htmlPaul Rudd plays a spy who helps take down the Nazis in his latest film, The Catcher Was a Spy, which premieres this weekend at Sundance. When we asked him who he’d spy on, living or dead, if he had the chance, he demurred. So, we tweaked our question to be slightly less creepy: Who would he have a dinner with? Buff Jesus Christ, of course. “I mean, what a physique on that guy,” laughed Rudd./pete-holmes-talks-to-sinbad-about-getting-started-being-clean-and-getting-a-deaf-guy-to-laugh.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pete-holmes-talks-to-sinbad-about-getting-started-being-clean-and-getting-a-deaf-guy-to-laugh.htmlSinbad and Pete Holmes. When comedians talk about their influences, there are certain names that come up over and over — Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Steven Wright, Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle, Dave Attell. But there is another kind of influence that is just as important, the immensely popular kind that happens to correspond with a comedian-to-be’s childhood. Sinbad, who had a run of superstardom in the early and mid-’90s, is one of those comedians, and Pete Holmes, host of The Pete Holmes Show on TBS and the “You Made It Weird” podcast, was one such young comedy fan./peter-berg-on-his-wild-the-last-seduction-sex-scenes-with-linda-fiorentino.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-berg-on-his-wild-the-last-seduction-sex-scenes-with-linda-fiorentino.htmlMake Hollywood Horny Again A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers. Make Hollywood Horny Again A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers. Peter Berg and Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction. This piece originally ran in 2014 but we are republishing it as part of Vulture ‘s week-long erotic thriller celebration. A good sex scene is about a lot more than just showing some skin. (Though sometimes it’s about that, too!) In director John Dahl’s 1994 neo-noir The Last Seduction, Linda Fiorentino’s femme-fatale character Bridget Gregory turns sex into a spider’s web — a tool for ensnaring her victims./pumpkin-the-5th-wave-is-plagued-not-by-aliens-but-rather-an-undercooked-concept.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pumpkin-the-5th-wave-is-plagued-not-by-aliens-but-rather-an-undercooked-concept.htmlFighting aliens, losing childhoods. “Pumpkin, there’s nothing safe anymore.” That’s what calmly downcast Oliver Sullivan (Ron Livingston) tells his teenage daughter, Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz), partway through the new young-adult dystopian sci-fi The 5th Wave, and it’s a good example of the kind of very thin, deadly line the film tries to walk. It’s a movie not just about losing one’s innocence (that’s what all YA books and movies are about these days) but about soft centers and hard shells — about the cute colliding with the cruel./rachel-bloom-tells-the-stories-behind-8-crazy-ex-girlfriend-songs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rachel-bloom-tells-the-stories-behind-8-crazy-ex-girlfriend-songs.html“The Sexy Getting Ready Song.” Ever since Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered on The CW last October, the show has charmed viewers with its blend of unconventional comedy, romance, and, of course, original songs. More than three dozen songs have been featured throughout the course of the first season, ranging in theme from yoga to self-loathing. “All of the songs come from the plots of the episode, so we can’t really start conceiving a new song until we know what the episode is about,” the star and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom, explains./remember-when-mad-magazine-was-scandalous.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remember-when-mad-magazine-was-scandalous.htmlI came across this absolutely insane MAD Magazine collector’s website today, which has cover images and descriptions of literally every issue ever released. And while MAD’s humor doesn’t exactly hold up under my grown-up scrutiny, it had an undeniable impact on my burgeoning comedy-loving brain when I was a kid. When I was in 4th grade in 1993, I secretly bought MAD Magazine’s Sex and Dating special issue. On the cover, it featured a blond woman sticking her tongue into Alfred E./rosal%C3%ADa-is-down-bad-in-new-single-llylm.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rosal%C3%ADa-is-down-bad-in-new-single-llylm.htmlOur motomami is treating a bad case of unrequited love with un delirio de grandeza. “Lo diré en inglés y me entenderás” (“I’ll say it in English and you’ll understand me”), she sings on “LLYLM,” her first single of 2023 and second track sung (partially) in English. “I don’t need honesty / Baby, lie like you love me.” She teased the track in a January 9 TikTok, featuring the desperate lyrics “Cover me in a dream, I’ll be yours, our fantasy./rupaul-s-drag-race-recap-lollaparuza.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupaul-s-drag-race-recap-lollaparuza.htmlRuPaul’s Drag Race An Extra Special Episode Season 14 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race An Extra Special Episode Season 14 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lip syncs, lip syncs, lip syncs! Unlike Drag Race, I’m not one for drawn-out intros, so let’s dive right in:/shaken-not-stirred-vulture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shaken-not-stirred-vulture.htmlshaken not stirred Mar. 22, 2024 Is Kraven Our Next Bond?Aaron Taylor-Johnson does love a fight scene. By Zoe Guy ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejna6ssc1mpaisXajBqr7Rnpto/so-how-did-eddie-griffin-end-up-in-a-star-is-born.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-how-did-eddie-griffin-end-up-in-a-star-is-born.htmlAlexa, play “I Don’t Know What Love Is” by Lady Gaga. Spoilers for A Star Is Born’s romantic climax follow. After a bender in Memphis, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) and Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) spend time at his friend Noodles’s (Dave Chappelle) house, when the country rocker decides to make a big personal commitment. With a ring fashioned from a guitar string, Jackson asks Ally to marry him./some-golden-globes-producer-is-getting-fired-for-daniel-kaluuya-s-muted-speech.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-golden-globes-producer-is-getting-fired-for-daniel-kaluuya-s-muted-speech.htmlThe Gold Rush Presented by After the dopamine high of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s opening monologue, the half virtual, half in-person Golden Globes was hit with its inevitable tech snafu: Daniel Kaluuya, the winner of Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for his captivating presence in Judas and the Black Messiah, nearly got his acceptance speech cut off due to silly technical difficulties that we’ll just blame on Zoom and definitely not a producer./star-trek-discovery-recap-observers-manifest.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/star-trek-discovery-recap-observers-manifest.htmlStar Trek: Discovery Sanctuary Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Discovery Sanctuary Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Let’s just rip the Band-Aid(s) off, because there are a few. Does anybody live on Kwejian except for Kahim, his son, and his ineffective goons?/summer-house-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-house-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mrK2dorKzeceorKydXw%3D%3D/the-12-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-12-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlWant more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Clockwise from top: Monkey Man, Vanderpump Villa, The First Omen, and Ripley. And just like that … it’s the weekend. With it comes the opportunity to see four girlfriends take on the Big Apple (earth-shaking, we know!), a bone-breaking action movie starring the prettiest-looking man, and the most gorgeous Netflix series ever to grace that streamer./the-15-most-soul-crushing-episodes-of-rick-and-morty.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-15-most-soul-crushing-episodes-of-rick-and-morty.htmlOur companion list of the funniest episodes of Rick and Morty can be found here. The sight of a wild-haired old man in a lab coat triggers some Back to the Future nostalgia for most of us. Adult Swim’s groundbreaking animated series Rick and Morty definitely leverages that fond association for its wacky sci-fi adventures, and while it’s mostly played for laughs, the show occasionally wields gravitas like a big soul-crushing hammer./the-25-best-president-bartlet-moments-from-the-west-wing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-25-best-president-bartlet-moments-from-the-west-wing.htmlNBC’s The West Wing aired its final episode thirteen years ago this week, on May 14, 2006. The series has aged … unevenly. Allison Janney’s CJ Cregg remains as brilliant as ever, but Josh’s neg-heavy courtship of his assistant Donna now seems not only immature but probably unethical. Then there’s the political side. Conservatives dismiss the show as a pro-government fantasia where taxation is the panacea for society’s every ill, while liberals routinely point out how it’s rooted in a white, hetero POV that’s actually, ultimately, pretty centrist./the-baby-sitters-club-recap-mimi-s-story.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-baby-sitters-club-recap-mimi-s-story.htmlThe Baby-Sitters Club Claudia and Mean Janine Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Baby-Sitters Club Claudia and Mean Janine Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh, friends, I have been anxiously awaiting this episode ever since The Baby-Sitters Club introduced us to Mimi./the-best-hidden-jokes-you-missed-in-the-good-place-season-3.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-hidden-jokes-you-missed-in-the-good-place-season-3.htmlThe silliest moments in The Good Place often lurk beyond your eyeline, fuzzing quickly out of focus or appearing for only a brief instant. If you’re a diehard fan, you’ve surely scanned through the background for hidden self-referential callbacks, groan-worthy puns, and the jokes that’d be impossible to spot without the pause button. Well, now we’re here to help! After every episode this season, join me for a stroll through The Good Place’s best visual jokes, Easter eggs, and other terrific secret gags./the-best-songs-tiktok-has-rediscovered.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-songs-tiktok-has-rediscovered.htmlThe teens have taste. Teens can make anything cool. Their social-media superiority launched songs like “Toosie Slide,” “Old Town Road” and “The Box” to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and every day, pop songs like Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now” become templates for teens to dance, lip-sync, or act to. But the creative geniuses on TikTok are also discovering (and popularizing) indie songs, international songs, and songs no one has thought of in years, if ever./the-big-bang-theory-s-mayim-bialik-on-amy-s-wedding-dress-season-13-and-understanding-boy-brai.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-bang-theory-s-mayim-bialik-on-amy-s-wedding-dress-season-13-and-understanding-boy-brai.htmlThey did it: Sheldon and Amy are married, and it only took eight seasons of The Big Bang Theory to get them to the altar. Amy portrayer Mayim Bialik, the Blossom alum who’s also a neuroscientist and divorced mom of two sons, chatted with Vulture before the big prime-time nuptials about the complicated feelings her TV wedding (and her TV wedding dress) sparked for her, whether or not she wants to see TBBT season 13 happen, and how she’s using her science background to help boys and their parents (and girls) understand the inner workings of the male mind in her new book, Boying Up./the-definitive-ranking-of-she-used-to-be-mine-covers.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-definitive-ranking-of-she-used-to-be-mine-covers.htmlIt’s not simple to say … how much time we’ve spent watching covers of Sara Bareilles’s 11 o’clock number “She Used to Be Mine” from the musical Waitress. It’s at once heart-breaking and uplifting — the perfect song to listen to 15 times in a row until the well of emotions within you has finally run dry. But, not every cover of “She Used to Be Mine” is created equal, and as such we’ve decided to rank them./the-devil-wears-prada-is-reportedly-getting-a-sequel.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-devil-wears-prada-is-reportedly-getting-a-sequel.htmlThere are rumors of a Devil Wears Prada sequel, and you think this has nothing to do with you? You’re scrolling through streamers and you select… I don’t know, the 2006 film because you’re trying to tell the world that you love women’s stories and know that Adrian Grenier was the real villain of the movie. But what you don’t know is that Puck reported that a sequel is in the works./the-dictator-trailer-hits-computer-screens-like-a-huge-steel-breast.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dictator-trailer-hits-computer-screens-like-a-huge-steel-breast.htmlThe first trailer for The Dictator is out and it features ziplines, a bitter postcoital Megan Fox, and a woman (or a man dressed as a woman?) breaking a brick with what looks to be a giant steel boob. And of course, Sacha Baron Cohen’s General Aladeen riding down 5th Avenue in a camel cavalcade, paying tribute to our beautiful, AIDSy country. This summer, we will all be power-hungry dictators. Metaphorically./the-ethical-dilemma-of-highbrow-true-crime.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ethical-dilemma-of-highbrow-true-crime.htmlAll week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture. Alice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession. The “true-crime boom” of the mid- to late 2010s is a strange pop-culture phenomenon, given that it is not so much a new type of programming as an acknowledgement of a centuries-long obsession: People love true stories about murder and other brands of brutality and grift, and they have gorged on them particularly since the beginning of modern journalism./the-final-sondheim.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-final-sondheim.htmlThe complete, from-beginning-to-end story of how Stephen Sondheim, David Ives, and Joe Mantello created the musical Here We Are. Right: Sondheim photographed at his Connecticut home days before his death. Left: Ives and Mantello photographed there this summer. Photo: Daniel Dorsa Right: Sondheim photographed at his Connecticut home days before his death. Left: Ives and Mantello photographed there this summer. Photo: Daniel Dorsa Right: Sondheim photographed at his Connecticut home days before his death./the-hour-s-ben-whishaw-on-playing-a-fifties-julian-assange-cloud-atlas-and-his-marilyn-manson.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hour-s-ben-whishaw-on-playing-a-fifties-julian-assange-cloud-atlas-and-his-marilyn-manson.htmlBen Whishaw is at his best playing troubled romantics: Keats, Dylan, and his latest, Freddie Lyon on the new BBC series The Hour. Freddie might not have the same artistic pedigree as the others — he’s a reporter for a 1956 English news program — but he shares a poet’s passion in his relentless pursuit of the truth. He also pines for his best friend/boss Bel (played by Romola Garai), who in turn lusts for their lead presenter Hector (Dominic West)./the-mixed-metaphor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mixed-metaphor.htmlWhy does the half-Asian, half-white protagonist make us so anxious? Art: Susan Chen Art: Susan Chen This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. It only takes a few years. An economic catastrophe brings on the partial collapse of American society. As the nation recovers, an ascendant right wing blames the crisis on China. In the years following, the United States is rebuilt as an authoritarian nation under the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act, colloquially known as PACT, an expansive law that allows the government to ban books, monitor private citizens, and disappear political dissidents, all in the name of preventing the spread of un-American views, a category that grows broader by the month: “Appearing sympathetic to China./the-mother-daughter-creators-of-huge-on-what-to-avoid-when-doing-a-fat-camp-show.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mother-daughter-creators-of-huge-on-what-to-avoid-when-doing-a-fat-camp-show.htmlWhen Winnie Holzman created arguably the best teen drama ever, My So-Called Life, her 24-year-old daughter, Savannah Dooley, was only 8 years old. But now that both of them have successfully passed through adolescence, the two are collaborating on a new ABC Family drama, Huge, which tells the story of teenagers struggling at a weight-loss camp. (The show — which premieres tonight at 9 on ABC Family — is based on a book, as well as produced by Alloy Entertainment, the company behind Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and Pretty Little Liars./the-new-geffen-hall-is-here-how-does-it-sound.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-geffen-hall-is-here-how-does-it-sound.htmlIt’s early to say. But the inaugural concert today (with two very different ensembles) was encouraging. Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. At today’s opening performance of San Juan Hill: A New York Story. Photo: Lawrence Sumulong Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York./the-paper-boi-puzzle.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-paper-boi-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they're ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us./the-raunchy-underground-world-of-trucker-tapes.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-raunchy-underground-world-of-trucker-tapes.htmlA tasteful 1968 print ad for the Beatles’ self-titled double LP advised consumers to “get yourself this album or get the double 8-track cartridge and turn your car on as well.” The portable music revolution is often credited to Sony’s cassette-playing Walkman, introduced in 1979. But it was the humble 8-track cartridge from 1964 which really gave people the power to take their tunes with them… provided they had a vehicle, that is./there-isn-t-much-room-for-women-in-the-future-of-pacific-rim.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-isn-t-much-room-for-women-in-the-future-of-pacific-rim.htmlThere’s no denying that it’s been a brutal summer movie season for women. Only nine wide-release films out this summer feature an actress in a starring role (instead of a less-important co-starring role), and only two of those — two! — have thus far been released: The Heat and Pacific Rim. The former was quietly revolutionary in the way it reinvented a buddy-cop genre with two women, and I had high hopes that Pacific Rim would be just as progressive; after all, director Guillermo del Toro has given us strong female protagonists before in films like Pan’s Labyrinth and Mimic, and the premise of Pacific Rim — two pilots (Charlie Hunnam and Oscar-nominated actress Rinko Kikuchi) each control one half of a monster-fighting giant robot — seemed to inherently promise the sort of gender equality you don’t always get from a giant action movie./this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-dr-death-returns.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-dr-death-returns.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional./tig-notaro-on-her-new-amazon-show-one-mississippi-representational-politics-and-poop-jokes.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tig-notaro-on-her-new-amazon-show-one-mississippi-representational-politics-and-poop-jokes.htmlWhile she might be reluctant to use the word, Tig Notaro is the happiest she’s ever been. At 45, she has a flourishing career, a marriage to “the love of [her] life” Stephanie Allynne, twin babies, and her health. “I’m just in awe every day,” Notaro told me at the Crosby Hotel during a press junket, looking cool and comfortable in shorts and a madras button-down. “I hate to be braggadocious, but it’s really even better than anyone could imagine./tom-verlaine-influential-punk-guitarist-dead-at-73.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-verlaine-influential-punk-guitarist-dead-at-73.htmlTom Verlaine, an iconic punk guitarist known as the front man for the band Television, has died at the age of 73, according to Patti Smith’s daughter, Jesse Paris Smith. She later confirmed in a press release that Verlaine died peacefully “after a brief illness” while surrounded by close friends in New York City. Born Thomas Miller, he created the stage name Tom Verlaine when he moved to New York, inspired by French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine./top-chef-wisconsin-recap-under-pressure.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/top-chef-wisconsin-recap-under-pressure.htmlTop Chef Chaos Cuisine Season 21 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Top Chef Chaos Cuisine Season 21 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I sympathized with Michelle this week. I’ve seen The Bear, I love The Bear, and I have and will continue to watch Matty Matheson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach heckle each other in the show and celebratorily kiss each other in real life for many, many minutes of my life./tyler-the-creator-s-attempt-to-subvert-neo-nazi-propaganda-for-gay-rights-is-admirable-but-na%C3%AFve.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tyler-the-creator-s-attempt-to-subvert-neo-nazi-propaganda-for-gay-rights-is-admirable-but-na%C3%AFve.htmlNice try. Tyler, the Creator’s career has been fraught with controversy over his problematic lyrics. He’s been accused of negligently tossing around rape jokes, casually using homophobic slurs, and, as one writer summed it up, “inciting hatred.” In the past, Tyler has defended his use of the other F-word, telling NME in 2011, “I’m not homophobic. I just think ‘faggot’ hits and hurts people. It hits. And ‘gay’ just means you’re stupid./untangling-taylor-swift-s-teenage-love-triangle-trilogy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/untangling-taylor-swift-s-teenage-love-triangle-trilogy.htmlTaylor Swift in the “cardigan” music video. When I was in college, back in two-thousand-*cough,* I fell down a rabbit hole of internet romance fic. I would spend hours reading plaintext HTML pages detailing the love lives of fictional teenagers in minute, melodramatic detail. If I had to guess, I’d say I was escaping a drab, uneventful life chapter by immersing myself in a fantasy of a past that I’d never experienced./usama-siddiquee-wants-you-to-remember-comedians-names.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/usama-siddiquee-wants-you-to-remember-comedians-names.htmlUsama Siddiquee (@UsamaBinLaughin) is a stand-up comedian based in New York. He’s appeared on BET, Showtime’s Desus & Mero, and at Just For Laughs festival. He also hosts a podcast called Mango Bae. This week, Usama and I talked Osama bin Laden puns, immigrant parents, and bombing for three months straight. What made you pursue a comedy career? I was always funny with my friends. Never dared to think Hey, maybe I could do this as a career./watch-alec-baldwin-pee-his-pants-while-touching-john-krasinski.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-alec-baldwin-pee-his-pants-while-touching-john-krasinski.htmlThe rival baseball fans reunite, urinate in “The Odd Couple,” the sixth and final installment of their New Era series. [Sportsgrid] Watch Alec Baldwin Pee His Pants While Touching John Krasinski ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgbny4rdOcn5iZnJqwoK7ApZuwoZ6UvaaxvqGgrJeglrtvtNOmow%3D%3D/watch-desus-and-mero-design-their-celebrity-mcdonald-s-meals.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-desus-and-mero-design-their-celebrity-mcdonald-s-meals.htmlDesus and Mero have very little love for Saweetie’s newly announced McDonald’s meal. While the actual menu items seem normal and acceptable (curious about the “Saweetie ‘N Sour” sauce), the ad D&M showed Sunday night depicted restacked and rearranged Mickey D’s classics: chicken nuggets on a pile of fries, ketchup on top of the bun. Wild shit. “These aren’t really concoctions,” Desus Nice said. “There are just things that are gonna get you tweeted about after a date./watch-laraine-newman-and-wendie-malick-in-season-38-of-girls.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-laraine-newman-and-wendie-malick-in-season-38-of-girls.htmlHere’s the zillion parody of HBO’s Girls, but don’t let that prevent you from watching it because this one’s actually good. Written and directed by Happy Endings/Will & Grace producer Gail Lerner, it’s a depiction of a hypothetical 38th season of Girls that stars Laraine Newman, Wendie Malick, Mindy Sterling, and Martin Starr (who’s two young to be in this thing, but I’ll let it slide). Watch Laraine Newman and Wendie Malick in Season 38 of […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdga3y4rdOcn2akkaeuqrrEZqWer52Wu26tzZ1ksJ2embamecyao6Kbm2K2r3nSnpisp55igHl5zp9koKGiocBvtNOmow%3D%3D/watch-meryl-streep-lose-her-shoe-at-the-bafta-awards.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-meryl-streep-lose-her-shoe-at-the-bafta-awards.htmlVulture loves Meryl Streep, especially when she’s out of breath and pulls a Cinderella. Watch Meryl Streep Lose Her Shoe at the BAFTA Awards ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZ3yusdGyo2arpKeypryMpaasnaNitaa%2BjKyfqJ1dlsFuwMeeZJuZlqmubq3Wmqmdq16dwa64/what-is-justin-bieber-hiding-in-his-drop-crotch-pants.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-justin-bieber-hiding-in-his-drop-crotch-pants.htmlAggressive, unflattering, just kind of silly — we are speaking, of course, of Justin Bieber’s drop-crotch pants and not his recent birthday-week behavior in London. Bieber has been on a fashion roll the last few months, wearing only the lowest-hanging, strangest-looking pants that menswear has to offer. Because Justin Bieber is a sensible, swaggy teen, and because he would never do something just because he thinks it looks cool, Vulture assumes that Justin has a reason for such radical sartorial choices./what-is-the-power-of-my-body.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-power-of-my-body.htmlOver the first 60 seconds of visual artist and writer Hannah Black’s 2014 short video My Bodies, a chorus of Black female vocalists — including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Ciara, and Mariah Carey — croon the phrase “My body,” as a montage of images of smiling white men in suits dominate the visual frame. We don’t see the women themselves; their bodies never appear to take custody of their voices. Black would later tell Artforum that the project was “partly a critique of the white-feminist conception of the body, the heritage from the ’60s and ’70s which involves the affirmation of white nudity, displaying the agency of white naked bodies./what-s-leaving-netflix-august-2016.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-leaving-netflix-august-2016.htmlHappyness. Each month, several films and TV shows leave Netflix’s catalogue. We provide a list of departing titles so you can watch them before they’re gone forever (or are just available on a different site). Consider this your weekend viewing guide. For more comprehensive coverage of the best titles available on Netflix and elsewhere, check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now hub, which is updated throughout the month./what-s-the-difference-between-an-agent-and-a-manager.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-the-difference-between-an-agent-and-a-manager.htmlEntourage. This article was originally published in August 2015. We are republishing it today because of the ongoing labor dispute between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents, which has led thousands of Guild writers to fire their agents in recent days. If you’ve been wondering just what, exactly, a Hollywood agent does, here’s the answer. As a former comedy agent at UTA and WME, Priyanka Mattoo represented numerous big-name writers and performers before leaving to start a TV production company with Jack Black./why-did-game-of-thrones-win-so-many-emmys-for-its-most-uneven-season.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-game-of-thrones-win-so-many-emmys-for-its-most-uneven-season.htmlShowrunner D.B. Weiss accepts Game of Thrones’ Emmy award for Best Drama. On Sunday night, Game of Thrones had the best night in Emmys history: With 12 wins (eight of them at the Creative Arts Emmys), the show shattered the record for the most Emmys awarded to a show in a single year. In a night with no really egregious wins — even those who were snubbed, like Amy Poehler, lost out to equally deserving talents — Thrones’ domination, after a season where it shed prominent fans, became the most controversial aspect of the awards./can-you-tell-the-quality-of-a-justin-timberlake-movie-by-the-length-of-his-hair.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-you-tell-the-quality-of-a-justin-timberlake-movie-by-the-length-of-his-hair.htmlsamson July 29, 2011 2:00 pm By Amos Barshad Share Share Tweet Pin It 11 Photos Photo: 20th Century Fox At last week’s Comic-Con, the trailer for In Time — a sci-fi thriller starring Justin Timberlake, in which immortality can be purchased — was revealed. Also revealed: Timberlake’s shaved head. Justin’s always had an on-and-off relationship with his lustrous curls, repeatedly bouncing between letting ‘em fly — most recently, for his well-received turn in Friends With Benefits — and chopping ‘em all off./100-000-pyramid-contestant-explains-how-he-mixed-up-osama-bin-laden-and-barack-obama.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/100-000-pyramid-contestant-explains-how-he-mixed-up-osama-bin-laden-and-barack-obama.htmlGiven the all-pervasive nature of video and social media nowadays, we can all safely assume we will, at some point, humiliate ourselves in front of the entire world. But while most of us correctly presume we’ll be filmed, say, accidentally getting crushed under the wheels of our car doing the #InMyFeelings Challenge, recent $100,000 Pyramid contestant Evan Kaufman preemptively blew most of us out of the water: by mixing up deceased Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and former commander-in-chief Barack Obama./10-movie-vaginas-scarier-than-the-one-in-teeth.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-movie-vaginas-scarier-than-the-one-in-teeth.htmlCourtesy of Roadside Attractions As we’re sure you’re aware, in the new film Teeth, Jess Weixler plays Dawn, a high-school student with a fanged, carnivorous vagina that exacts bloody revenge on all males who dare go near it. Terrifying? Certainly. It almost made us ready to declare this the Season of the Vadge. But is Teeth’s dentata the scariest movie vagina of all time? Not even close! 10. Audrey II, Little Shop of Horrors (1986)/230-minutes-with-michiko-kakutani.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/230-minutes-with-michiko-kakutani.htmlIt’s 8:50 p.m., ten minutes before closing, and Michiko Kakutani is riffling through vinyl at A1 Records on East 6th Street, searching in vain for a copy of Beggars Banquet. “The Stones are my all-time favorite,” she says. “I wonder if they have any other Keith stuff here.” Kakutani worships Keith Richards. “I think he’s the heart and the soul of the Stones,” she explains. “He’s just inhaled all blues and musical history and he really wants to pass that knowledge on./32-new-broadway-and-off-broadway-shows-worth-seeing-in-2017.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/32-new-broadway-and-off-broadway-shows-worth-seeing-in-2017.htmlBarring last-minute announcements — unlikely because every available theater is booked — 24 productions are scheduled to open on Broadway between now and the Tony Awards cutoff at the end of April. More than five times as many will open Off Broadway during that same window. Without counting the hundreds of smaller events popping up all around the city, or most of what happens in May and beyond, which is still too foggy to bet on, that leaves a vast landscape of stage activity to enjoy./90-day-fianc%C3%A9-the-other-way-recap-free-yazan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/90-day-fianc%C3%A9-the-other-way-recap-free-yazan.html90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Are You Done Yelling? Season 2 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Are You Done Yelling? Season 2 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If Brittany and Yazan weren’t particularly entertaining before, the threat of Yazan’s father murdering him doesn’t make things any better./a-star-is-born-just-won-two-grammys-jackson-maine-sadly-not-onstage-to-pee.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-star-is-born-just-won-two-grammys-jackson-maine-sadly-not-onstage-to-pee.htmlLong live A Star Is Born, and the Oscar campaign that will never end! Hey! What? Just wanted to take another look at you, A Star Is Born! The 2018 melodrama — about loving, singing, and applying Tom Ford bronzer with a Beauty Blender — was awardedtwo Grammys Sunday night. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga won Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media; Cooper, Gaga, and songwriters Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, and Aaron Raitiere also won Best Song Written for Visual Media for “I’ll Never Love Again (Film Version)./a-timeline-of-travis-scott-s-post-astroworld-public-return.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-timeline-of-travis-scott-s-post-astroworld-public-return.htmlIn early November 2021, ten concertgoers died by crowd crush during Travis Scott’s headlining set at Astroworld. (Eight died on November 5 with two dying days later due to their injuries.) Scott responded with multiple statements in the days after the festival, attempting to absolve himself of guilt. He currently faces a slew of multimillion-dollar lawsuits over the event and has been the subject of much scrutiny. But the rapper has also been slowly making his comeback, even performing at small events and releasing new music./aaron-paul-will-star-in-a-hulu-series-but-it-s-not-a-breaking-bad-spinoff.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aaron-paul-will-star-in-a-hulu-series-but-it-s-not-a-breaking-bad-spinoff.htmlCongrats! Aaron Paul might’ve been joking about a Jesse Pinkman Breaking Bad spinoff, but he wasn’t entirely kidding about getting his own show. Hulu has announced that Paul will star in the streaming platform’s upcoming ten-episode series The Way, from Friday Night Lights executive producer Jason Katims. Once again, he’ll play a guy with a “wayward past” — only now that past has driven him to “a controversial religious movement” instead of a meth-cooking chemistry teacher./alec-baldwin-was-the-first-choice-to-toy-with-carrie-s-emotions-as-mr-big-on-sex-and-the-city.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alec-baldwin-was-the-first-choice-to-toy-with-carrie-s-emotions-as-mr-big-on-sex-and-the-city.htmlWe can see it. Darren Star, the creator of Sex and the City, said that his first pick to play the love of Carrie Bradshaw’s life, Mr. Big — or “John” if you prefer — was actually another handsomely suave man: Alec Baldwin. “I was thinking of Alec Baldwin for Big initially,” Star told EW. “But I met with Chris Noth and thought he was perfect. I remember the first table read, how good he was./all-151-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-ranked.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-151-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-ranked.htmlMillions of new Pokémon trainers have taken to the streets this week thanks to the surprise success of Pokémon Go. But as they wander across America, those new initiates might start to wonder which Pokémon are the most prized. Is it worth it to head toward a Beedrill when a Mankey’s close by? If there’s no Dratini in sight, will a Seadra do in a pinch? To answer all, two Vulture editors put their heads together to come up with a definitive ranking of the 151 Pokémon you may or may not encounter on your quest./all-169-seinfeld-episodes-ranked-from-worst-to-best.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-169-seinfeld-episodes-ranked-from-worst-to-best.htmlSeinfeld, “The Kiss Hello,” Episode 17. From left to right: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes, Jerry Seinfeld as himself, Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer, and Jason Alexander as George Costanza. This story was originally published in 2015 and is being republished in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Seinfeld series finale. 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Henson, Smollett will absolutely be returning to the show should Fox renew it for a sixth season./kate-moss-denies-ex-johnny-depp-pushed-her-down-the-stairs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kate-moss-denies-ex-johnny-depp-pushed-her-down-the-stairs.htmlKate Moss testified on May 25 that ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp “never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs.” Rather, she said that he came to her rescue after what she described as a nasty fall during a vacation. Depp’s team called Moss as a rebuttal witness in his defamation trial against his former wife, Amber Heard. Depp and Heard have both accused each other of abuse, and Heard testified on May 5 about a rumored domestic incident between him and the supermodel, when the stars dated in the 1990s./ke-huy-quan-wants-you-to-keep-your-dreams-alive.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ke-huy-quan-wants-you-to-keep-your-dreams-alive.htmlEveryone Everywhere All At Once. 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And in another non-surprise, Quan delivered an absolute banger of a speech, thanking the people he needed to thank, delivering a central message to the audience at home, and informing his mother that he just won an Oscar./kehinde-wiley-the-photographs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kehinde-wiley-the-photographs.htmlKehinde Wiley found many of the subjects in his latest show — an exhibition of photographs going up tomorrow at Deitch Projects — at the Fulton Street Mall. “I go down there because it’s much like 125th Street, where young people come to congregate and show off and flirt and be seen,” says the artist, who’s best known for his grand paintings casting young African-American men in hip-hop garb against highly decorative, anachronistic scenes inspired by centuries of Western art./kid-brain.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kid-brain.htmlAbby Hanlon’s Dory Fantasmagory series is some of the best children’s literature in years. 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The infamously inept interviewer character was top of mind as his creator, Martin Short, guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week, filming pre-taped interview segments with Bill Hader and Sean Hayes and “taking over” for Short to host an entire episode on Thursday./let-s-talk-about-duncan-the-butler-in-saltburn.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-talk-about-duncan-the-butler-in-saltburn.htmlThis article was originally published on November 21. We are recirculating it now timed to Saltburn’s streaming debut on Prime Video. Be sure to also read Alison Willmore’s review of the film, our interviews with the bathtub scene’s foley artist and the final dance scene’s choreographer, and Roxana Hadadi’s analysis of the ending. Barry Keoghan’s devious, Dickensian-named first year gets the better of nearly everyone in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn./looking-back-at-jerry-seinfeld-comedian-without-the-cars-and-coffee.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/looking-back-at-jerry-seinfeld-comedian-without-the-cars-and-coffee.htmlA new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee recently launched and the world has ingested a new set of errands, breakfast orders, and analysis of minutiae from Jerry Seinfeld and his compatriots. But this series is not the first time Seinfeld has broken out of his sitcom world and branched into the world of reality. Today we dip into the archives, flash back to the year 2002, and take a look at the documentary film Comedian./love-is-blind-season-finale-recap-four-weddings-and-a-funeral.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-blind-season-finale-recap-four-weddings-and-a-funeral.htmlLove Is Blind Week 4 (Episode 12) Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love Is Blind Week 4 (Episode 12) Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Is anyone else starting to get that funny feeling known as post–Love Is Blind depression?/magoo-hip-hop-producer-and-rapper-dead-at-50.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/magoo-hip-hop-producer-and-rapper-dead-at-50.htmlMagoo. Magoo, the rapper who performed in a duo with Timbaland during the 1990s and 2000s, died at 50 years old. Digital Black, who collaborated with Timbaland & Magoo in the R&B group Playa, first shared the news on August 13, writing, “Man can’t believe this RIH [rest in heaven] Magoo damn big bro wasnt ready for this at all,” on Instagram. Timbaland later confirmed the news, posting a clip of the pair performing to Instagram./merritt-wever-answers-every-question-we-have-about-michael-clayton.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/merritt-wever-answers-every-question-we-have-about-michael-clayton.htmlRole Call Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Role Call Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. On those overwhelming three days when this New Yorker played a farm girl described as “God’s perfect little creature.” The year 2007 was a great one for films that observed the malevolent underbelly of American politics, capitalism, and family life; titles like No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Gone Baby Gone, and American Gangster poked and prodded at it./michelle-trachtenberg-vulture.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michelle-trachtenberg-vulture.htmlthe early-evening news Mar. 19, 2008 Clint Eastwood to Win More OscarsClint Eastwood will win Best Picture, Michelle Trachtenburg will appear on Gossip Girl, and Ryan Adams will blog, hilariously.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGednrCpsculnGasopawqcDEp5meqpdk/murphy-s-law-beverly-hills-cop-ii.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/murphy-s-law-beverly-hills-cop-ii.html“The excruciatingly pragmatic Tony Scott…is interested only in whipped-up excitement …” Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Editor’s note: This review originally appeared in the June 1, 1987 issue of New York. We’re republishing it to mark the release of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F this week. One of the many virtues of Beverly Hills Cop was that the picture took its time. Director Martin Brest gave the material an eccentric, leisurely tempo, with lots of space for little character bits, jokes, atmosphere./my-morning-jacket-s-jim-james-on-circuital-and-reteaming-with-todd-haynes-for-tonight-s-live-str.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-morning-jacket-s-jim-james-on-circuital-and-reteaming-with-todd-haynes-for-tonight-s-live-str.htmlMy Morning Jacket is launching its sixth album, Circuital, today with a concert in the band’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It should be an unusual show: The group has asked fans to dress up for the event and send pictures of their eyeballs, too. Director Todd Haynes will be on hand to document the show for the online concert series Unstaged, which has previously paired David Lynch with Duran Duran and Terry Gilliam with Arcade Fire./my-sidney-poitier.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-sidney-poitier.htmlHe was always transcendent, but there was nothing quite like watching the late actor take control of the screen in the 1970s. Photo: George Rose/Getty Images Photo: George Rose/Getty Images It’s 1974. My Afro and I are sitting on a bed with my mom, watching TV. On our black-and-white set is a very handsome, and very shirtless, Black man named Sidney Poitier. The movie is 1973’s A Warm December, a bittersweet romance starring Jamaican actress Esther Anderson and Sidney Poitier himself — maybe the first semblance of Black love I’d ever seen onscreen./new-snl-hire-shane-gillis-has-a-history-of-racist-and-homophobic-remarks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-snl-hire-shane-gillis-has-a-history-of-racist-and-homophobic-remarks.htmlShane Gillis. Earlier today, Saturday Night Live announced three new cast members for the upcoming 45th season: improviser Chloe Fineman, stand-up Shane Gillis, and SNL writer Bowen Yang. Later in the day, however, a clip from Gillis’s podcast, Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, was surfaced on Twitter by freelance writer and comedy reporter Seth Simons. In it, Gillis and co-host Matt McCusker make a series of racist comments about Chinese people and use racist, mocking accents./oliver-hudson-is-a-little-embarrassed-about-his-dadbod-in-the-scream-queens-finale.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oliver-hudson-is-a-little-embarrassed-about-his-dadbod-in-the-scream-queens-finale.htmlFrom left: Oliver Hudson and Jamie Lee Curtis in the Scream Queens finale. Oliver Hudson was not super excited by the advice he got from co-star Jamie Lee Curtis right before their big love scene in Tuesday night’s Scream Queens finale: He was posing on the bed in nothing but a Speedo, carrying a rose and about 15 pounds more weight than he’s used to. “She said, ‘Honey, let it go./olivia-rodrigo-is-inspired-by-the-white-album.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/olivia-rodrigo-is-inspired-by-the-white-album.htmlPop star (20). Olivia Rodrigo was homeschooled, grew up starring on Disney Channel shows like Bizaardvark, got a No. 1 record at 17, and is one of the most famous pop stars in the world. Still, there are only so many ways to be 20 years old. With her album Guts, out September 8, Rodrigo is participating in an avalanche of press lately, and the overlaying takeaway is that, though she may not be in college due to the demands of pop stardom, this girl will act her age./our-8-biggest-questions-about-the-twin-peaks-finale.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-8-biggest-questions-about-the-twin-peaks-finale.htmlDavid Lynch did it again, folks! The season finale of Twin Peaks: The Return threw us a lot of answers — for starters, Mr. C is back where he belongs and we now know who “Judy” is — but unsurprisingly, dozens more questions cropped up, with Dale Cooper traveling back in time to prevent Laura Palmer’s murder. Let’s just say his trip doesn’t go as planned. While there’s plenty of days ahead to sift through all of the head-scratchers in this finale, let’s focus on the biggest items at hand for the sake of sanity./patti-harrison-apologizes-to-bisexual-people-who-love-nilla-wafers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patti-harrison-apologizes-to-bisexual-people-who-love-nilla-wafers.htmlComedian and goddamned movie star Patti Harrison dropped by last night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote her new movie Together Together, but she also took the time to address a very important situation. In case you missed it, Harrison got banned by Twitter in late February after she pulled a Jaboukie and switched her (verified) display name and photo to make it look like she was the official Nilla Wafers account, which she used to wade into and destroy the discourse that started when the Oreos account tweeted “Trans people exist./phylicia-rashad-returning-to-tv.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phylicia-rashad-returning-to-tv.htmlNEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 15: Phylicia Rashad poses backstage at the B Michael America Fall 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Museum of the City of New York on February 15, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week) Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast of NBC’s Jekyll-and-Hyde-in-a-hospital pilot Do No Harm as everyone’s sophisticated and loving, but stern mother./prince-s-baltimore-is-a-more-complex-kind-of-protest-song.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prince-s-baltimore-is-a-more-complex-kind-of-protest-song.htmlSunday night’s live audio stream for Prince’s Rally 4 Peace concert at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore — hosted for free by Tidal — went on the fritz about an hour into the show, but not before he played, for the first time in concert, his new song “Baltimore.” Released via SoundCloud on Saturday, “Baltimore” is a protest song about, among other victims, Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died after sustaining spinal injuries while in police custody in Maryland./r-o-kwon-s-parents-shouldn-t-read-her-sexy-next-novel.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/r-o-kwon-s-parents-shouldn-t-read-her-sexy-next-novel.htmlWhen an author reads an excerpt of a forthcoming book, you’d expect them to want everyone in the audience to go home wanting a copy. But R.O. Kwon doesn’t need a couple people who came to hear her speak at this year’s Vulture Fest to read her sophomore novel: namely, her parents. “I invited them to this, but trust me, Eomma and Appa [Mom and Dad] … please don’t read the rest of this book,” Kwon said with a laugh./reese-witherspoon-hints-at-elle-woods-and-paulette-reunion-for-legally-blonde-3.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reese-witherspoon-hints-at-elle-woods-and-paulette-reunion-for-legally-blonde-3.htmlJennifer Coolidge and Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 film. Jennifer Coolidge continues to be the moment. After her White Lotus Emmys win, people are dying for more Coolidge. And what’s a better way to see her than hanging out with her Legally Blonde co-star Reese Witherspoon? We do not object. A reunion may be closer than Elle Woods and the color pink. When asked about the upcoming Legally Blonde 3 film, Witherspoon promised that Jennifer Coolidge would reprise her role as Paulette Bonafonté./regal-cinemas-vulture.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/regal-cinemas-vulture.htmlexperiments Oct. 25, 2017 A Movie’s Popularity Will Determine Ticket Prices at Some Regal Cinemas in 2018Less popular movies and off-peak showtimes will become cheaper, while blockbusters and date nights will get more expensive. By Tolly Wright ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeimrSiuIycoKednZbAcA%3D%3D/saturday-night-live-recap-five-timer-emma-stone-is-an-snl-unicorn.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-night-live-recap-five-timer-emma-stone-is-an-snl-unicorn.htmlSaturday Night Live Emma Stone Season 49 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Emma Stone Season 49 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Saturday Night Live’s chief wackadoo, Sarah Sherman, showed up to a musical sketch late last night rocking a Phil Spector perm, foofy ascot, and lapels so wide they look like they hate each other, I had a Pavlovian response: Here we go./sex-diaries-vulture.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sex-diaries-vulture.htmlsex diaries Oct. 11, 2012 ‘Sex Diaries’ Is Going to Be a TV Show NowThe popular Daily Intel feature is hitting the big time. By Kyle Buchanan ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejmsVusMiaqaKdo2Q%3D/she-was-committed-to-the-dark-side.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/she-was-committed-to-the-dark-side.htmlHow My Best Friend’s Wedding messed with Julia Roberts’s image and changed rom-coms for good. My Best Friend’s Wedding changed the rom-com genre. All it took was a spate of rewrites. Photo: TriStar Pictures My Best Friend’s Wedding changed the rom-com genre. All it took was a spate of rewrites. When TriStar Pictures announced that Julia Roberts, who’d broken out in Pretty Woman in 1990 and subsequently become the subject of endless tabloid fixation, was set to star in another rom-com, no one was particularly surprised, Scott Meslow points out in his book, From Hollywood With Love./showtime-is-pulling-up-weeds-and-nurse-jackie-for-reboots.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/showtime-is-pulling-up-weeds-and-nurse-jackie-for-reboots.htmlReboots, am I right? Hollywood can’t get enough of them. As streaming services lose subscribers, the industry response seems to be (1) pulling shows from their libraries to offer less content, and (2) doing existing material all over again. This mimetic-IP repetition is all very … Oh, what’s the word … Little-boxes-on-the-hillside-little-boxes-made-of-ticky-tacky-little-boxes-on-the-hillside-little-boxes-all-the-same-coded. Don’t you think? So in apt news, Deadline reported today that Showtime is looking to revive two of its most popular series of yore, Weeds and Nurse Jackie./shrinking-desperately-wants-you-to-like-it.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shrinking-desperately-wants-you-to-like-it.htmlThe more reserved demeanor of Harrison Ford’s Paul serves as a much-needed foil to the oversharing instincts of Jimmy (Jason Segel) and the rest of Shrinking’s characters. Watching Shrinking is like hosting an energetic guest who overstays their welcome. At first, it’s fun having them around: They make amusing comments over cups of coffee, their attitude is breezy, and their theme song features the soothing vocal stylings of Ben Gibbard./sia-s-surprisingly-romantic-fifty-shades-of-grey-song-salted-wound.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sia-s-surprisingly-romantic-fifty-shades-of-grey-song-salted-wound.htmlOh look, it’s Sia’s face. And here it is: Sia’s contribution to the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. “Salted Wound” is actually more sweet than salty, but maybe the salt comes from the tears you’ll cry when you listen? It’s quite romantic: “Don’t break / Yeah, you’ll pull through it / You’re safe.” Perhaps it’ll soundtrack one of the many, many love scenes we’re expecting from Hollywood’s big contribution to this year’s Valentine’s Day./summer-house-recap-let-s-hear-it-for-the-boys.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-house-recap-let-s-hear-it-for-the-boys.htmlSummer House Rise and Wine Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Summer House Rise and Wine Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We need more dudes on this show. I know they have always been outnumbered by the women, but the dudes feel like an afterthought at this point./ted-lasso-finale-recap-the-long-good-bye.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ted-lasso-finale-recap-the-long-good-bye.htmlTed Lasso So Long, Farewell Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Ted Lasso So Long, Farewell Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » For a moment it looked like Ted Lasso was going to blow its season — and, by all appearances, series — finale before the opening credits even rolled./the-7-tv-shows-you-should-be-watching-right-now.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-7-tv-shows-you-should-be-watching-right-now.htmlTV is in an odd lull time right now, with plenty of good shows airing but no particular show capturing the public imagination or online-chatter machine the way one often does. March has a few big returns — The Americans, House of Cards, Daredevil — but in the meantime, perhaps there’s a gap in your viewing you’d like to fill. I want something reliable and emotional, but not too heavy. Try Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin, Mondays at 8 and 9 p./the-americans-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-americans-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYq6usdGimpqmo2Q%3D/the-battle-of-barbenheimer-is-mamma-mia-versus-the-dark-knight-all-over-again.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-battle-of-barbenheimer-is-mamma-mia-versus-the-dark-knight-all-over-again.htmlVeterans of the last time a long, brooding thriller by Christopher Nolan faced off against a colorful, pop-tune-heavy romp weigh in on the parallels. Welcome to the greatest multiplex showdown in recent history. In one corner, we have a long, brooding thriller directed by Christopher Nolan. In the other corner is a brisk, colorful romp filled with pop tunes. They share the same opening date in July, offering mutual counterprogramming for ostensibly disparate demographics./the-best-songs-of-2024-so-far.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-songs-of-2024-so-far.htmlThis list is updated monthly with new “best of the year”–worthy songs. Once a week this year, reliably, a song has made us drop everything. Maybe it’s a juicy diss track, a surprise genre switch-up, or just a beloved musician’s long-awaited reemergence. And oh have they been worth it. Those are among our favorites of 2024 so far: Megan Thee Stallion’s incendiary “Hiss,” a heartfelt country song from Beyoncé, Charli XCX and ScHoolboy Q’s glorious returns to form./the-blood-is-everywhere-in-pablo-larra%C3%ADn-s-mesmerizing-el-conde.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-blood-is-everywhere-in-pablo-larra%C3%ADn-s-mesmerizing-el-conde.htmlA dark, caped figure glides through the night skies above Santiago, Chile — a symbol of eternal portent hovering over the modern city. It slips into office buildings, factories, hospitals, and apartments, and brutally feeds on the lonely inhabitants within. This villain, however, is not a fictional one. He is General Augusto Pinochet, the brutal, U.S.-backed military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 and died in 2006 still with the blood of thousands on his hands./the-couple-that-has-everything-is-everything-enough.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-couple-that-has-everything-is-everything-enough.htmlEgon and Diane von und zu Fürstenberg are a contemporary version of the American Dream. Photo: New York Magazine Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the February 5, 1973, issue of New York. (Diane von Fürstenberg later said that reading it made her realize her marriage was finished.) We’re republishing it here to mark the release of the documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge. Egon and Diane von und zu Fürstenberg are this week’s couple of the year, the newest darlings in what passes for high-powered social life in New York./the-crown-made-a-haunting-choice.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-crown-made-a-haunting-choice.htmlThe sixth season of The Crown finally reaches an inevitable point in royal history: the deaths of Princess Diana and her companion, Dodi Fayed, following a car accident in Paris. The way it handles this tragedy, particularly in fourth episode “Aftermath,” is so bizarre that it prompted four of our critics to convene an immediate Emergency Discussion to process it. Jen Chaney: Against all common and creative sense, episode four of the sixth and final season of The Crown features the ghosts of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed./the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-series-premiere-recap-keeping-up-with-the-ushers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-series-premiere-recap-keeping-up-with-the-ushers.htmlThe Fall of the House of Usher A Midnight Dreary Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Fall of the House of Usher A Midnight Dreary Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Fall of the House of Usher doesn’t waste any time before playing Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest hits./the-hardest-day-on-the-set-of-the-northman.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hardest-day-on-the-set-of-the-northman.htmlDozens of viking extras, nonstop rain, and a village full of animals — what could go wrong? Robert Eggers, Alexander Skarsgård, scriptwriter Sjón, production designer Craig Lathrop, advisor Neil Price, visual effects supervisor Angela Barson, and stunt coordinator CC Smiff, break down the toughest moments of shooting. Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features Robert Eggers, Alexander Skarsgård, scriptwriter Sjón, production designer Craig Lathrop, advisor Neil Price, visual effects supervisor Angela Barson, and stunt coordinator CC Smiff, break down the toughest moments of shooting./the-middle-is-one-of-tv-s-most-underrated-gems.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-middle-is-one-of-tv-s-most-underrated-gems.htmlThe Middle. This past summer, ABC announced that one of its longest-running comedies, The Middle, would end at the conclusion of its upcoming ninth season. Despite its consistently solid ratings, The Middle never seemed to garner the same amount of widespread interest or acclaim as other ABC sitcoms — as evidenced by those Emmy-loved families on Black-ish and Modern Family — and so, the cancellation news was met with a resounding meh./the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-erika-jayne-unleashed.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-erika-jayne-unleashed.htmlThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Hong Kong Fireworks Season 7 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Hong Kong Fireworks Season 7 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Erika Jayne. Before we can talk about anything that happens in Hong Kong, we need to discuss Eden Sassoon’s hair./the-shark-tank-sharks-invest-in-dakota-johnson.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-shark-tank-sharks-invest-in-dakota-johnson.htmlAnd for that reason, they’re in. Shark Tank judges Barbara Corcoran and Mark Cuban stopped by Saturday Night Live this weekend for a surprise cameo during a sketch where host Dakota Johnson told her book club about her own million-dollar idea. “I’m gonna be on Shark Tank,” she tells her friends. “And after we shoot, things are probably gonna be quite different. The power structure in this friend group is gonna shift./the-thinking-woman-s-guide-to-fifty-shades-of-grey.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-thinking-woman-s-guide-to-fifty-shades-of-grey.htmlE.L. James’s Twilight fan fiction turned best-selling e-book Fifty Shades of Grey was recently optioned for a reported $5 million by Universal Pictures, and 575,000 paperback copies hit U.S. stores today. When I heard this, I hadn’t yet read the book, but I was nonetheless a little tempted to move to space. I realize that I might be alone in my dim view of fan fiction: Jean Rhys’s Jane Eyre prequel The Wide Sargasso Sea is required reading in a lot of middle schools./the-troubadour.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-troubadour.htmlHow Alynda Segarra, a former train-hopping punk from the Bronx, became one of America’s best songwriters. The music of Segarra, who performs as Hurray for the Riff Raff, stakes claims to American myths while inherently critiquing them. Photo: Denny Agassi The music of Segarra, who performs as Hurray for the Riff Raff, stakes claims to American myths while inherently critiquing them. Suspended over FDR Drive, Alynda Segarra pressed against the harsh November wind and described their final moments with their father./theater-review-saint-joan-with-armor-but-not-packing-much-heat.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-saint-joan-with-armor-but-not-packing-much-heat.htmlCondola Rashad in Saint Joan. What is it that keeps artists coming back to the story of Joan of Arc, and why do they keep making a royal mess of it? The material is certainly captivating: Lone young woman — champion of faith and courage, victorious in battle and glorious in martyrdom — faces down the establishment, saves her country, dies bravely and achieves immortality by an age where a lot of us are sleeping through 9 a./theater-reviews-romeo-and-juliet-and-women-or-nothing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-reviews-romeo-and-juliet-and-women-or-nothing.htmlRomeo and Juliet (at the Richard Rodgers Theatre) Romeo wakes up one morning and spots the flecks of gray in his boyish mop, and it all comes rushing back. Rosaline — she turned him down cold last night. It shouldn’t hurt this much. He’s over 500 years old and part elf — still a young man! Forever a young man! But he’s just not feeling it — not today. What to do?/time-out-of-mind-the-welkin-and-hilma.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-out-of-mind-the-welkin-and-hilma.htmlFrom The Welkin, at the Atlantic. I’ve been waiting for quite a while for Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin to make its westward pass over the Atlantic. Like Halley’s Comet—which the play’s characters are restlessly anticipating in rural England in 1759, and which lagged its namesake’s predictions by more than a year because of the pull of Jupiter and Saturn—The Welkin’s stateside premiere was delayed by a capricious universe./tom-holland-is-seeing-challengers-this-weekend-too.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-holland-is-seeing-challengers-this-weekend-too.html“I can’t really explain it…I haven’t got the words…it’s a feelin’ that you can’t control.” If you’re at the movie theater seeing Challengers this weekend as you should be, keep an eye out for Tom Holland. The former Billy Elliot took to Instagram to voice his support for the film, posting the official poster with the caption, “I know what I’m doing this weekend!” Sure, he might be going to support his Spider-Man costar-turned-girlfriend Zendaya, who leads and executive produced the film — but let’s not jump to conclusions./tori-amos-talks-bloodletting-with-boys-for-pele-the-state-of-female-artists-and-how-fans-inf.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tori-amos-talks-bloodletting-with-boys-for-pele-the-state-of-female-artists-and-how-fans-inf.htmlTori Amos, 2015. Given the heavily metaphorical nature of Tori Amos’s seminal third album Boys for Pele, it’s surprising how emphatic of a statement that 1996 record remains to her today. At the time, Amos, riding the swell of female singer-songwriters edging their way toward the mainstream, was coming to terms with herself and with femininity in the wake of a split from Eric Rosse, who had produced her 1992 debut Little Earthquakes and its follow-up Under the Pink two years later./twilight-3-script-leaked-by-negligent-vampire.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twilight-3-script-leaked-by-negligent-vampire.htmlSee? This is why Twilight actors can’t have nice things. First a copy of the New Moon screenplay winds up in a St. Louis trash can (suspiciously near the set of the Anna Kendrick–starring Up in the Air), and now another of the series’ stars has apparently gone and uploaded the Twilight Saga: Eclipse script straight to the damn Internet. Nikki Finke has, somehow, deduced that said script — the first page of which can be seen above — belonged to Jackson Rathbone, who plays Jasper Hale in New Moon and Eclipse./tyler-the-creator-paints-the-town-with-camp-flog-gnaw-lineup.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tyler-the-creator-paints-the-town-with-camp-flog-gnaw-lineup.htmlAround 14,000 people and I watched paint dry to be among the first to see the Camp Flog Gnaw 2023 lineup. Tyler, the Creator’s marquee music festival unveiled the full slate via Twitch stream on August 18, where a mural containing the lineup was painted on the side of a building. SZA will headline the festival, together with the Hillbillies (a duo formed by Kendrick Lamar and his rapper cousin, Baby Keem) and the host of the whole thing, Tyler, the Creator./unearthing-nathan-fielder-s-early-comedy-output-for-you.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unearthing-nathan-fielder-s-early-comedy-output-for-you.htmlNathan Fielder famously graduated from“one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades.” A more relevant education to his future show-business success, though, are the comedic sensibilities he honed after graduation uploading DIY sketches and short films to YouTube between 2006 to 2011 and performing as a correspondent on Canadian television’s comedy-news institution This Hour Has 22 Minutes from 2007 to 2009. Many hallmarks of Fielder’s later work, from the zealous commitment to character he demonstrated in Nathan for You to the interpersonal struggles he explored in the first season of The Rehearsal, can be seen in these early videos, making them a fascinating time capsule to track his evolution./watch-a-commercial-for-criss-angel-s-ridiculous-magic-kit.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-a-commercial-for-criss-angel-s-ridiculous-magic-kit.htmlCriss Angel knows the rules: Show us our card and we will sleep with you. What woman in her right mind would forfeit the chance to bed a wizard? [Videogum] Watch a Commercial for Criss Angel’s Ridiculous Magic Kit ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgbXy4rdOcn5iZj5i8rrnEq5qimZyUs7C%2BvpypoqujlK5vtNOmow%3D%3D/watch-actors-from-the-cw-get-shirtless-for-a-cause.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-actors-from-the-cw-get-shirtless-for-a-cause.htmlWorried about climate change? Hart of Dixie cast member Wilson Bethel has a solution in this fake PSA: Take your clothes off. Works for us! [CW] Watch Actors From The CW Get Shirtless for a Cause ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdhZXy4rdOcn5igkafBoLvFmJuisJmarKSt0q2WrqaUp7JvtNOmow%3D%3D/watch-charlie-sheen-reenact-platoon-in-a-directv-ad.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-charlie-sheen-reenact-platoon-in-a-directv-ad.html“When you have cable …” apparently you become depressed, need a drink, stumble to the nearest Turkish bath, where you meet Charlie Sheen, who, next thing you know, is pointing a crossbow at your head from behind a ficus plant. [EW] Watch Charlie Sheen Reenact Platoon in a DirecTV Ad ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgaHy4rdOcn2abmJa%2FrbXEZqqhnZWjerOxxKeYnKxdpbmiwM6opWahnmKxqr7EnKuvZZGZe6nAzKU%3D/watch-felicity-jones-whup-stormtroopers-in-new-rogue-one-clip.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-felicity-jones-whup-stormtroopers-in-new-rogue-one-clip.htmlIt feels like Star Wars comes earlier and earlier every year! Now that we’re only 15 days away from the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first entry in your informal advent calendar is this cute little clip from the film, in which Felicity Jones’s Jyn Erso and Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor scamper away from some Imperial Stormtroopers in the desert world of Jedha. Brawling and shooting ensues, as does a close call for Alan Tudyk’s reformed battle droid K-2SO./watch-the-weeknd-cement-an-interstellar-babe-in-i-feel-it-coming-music-video.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-the-weeknd-cement-an-interstellar-babe-in-i-feel-it-coming-music-video.htmlThe Weeknd, a.k.a. Starboy, continues his stratospheric rise with the release of a video for “I Feel It Coming,” featuring those alien motorcycle-helmet enthusiasts Daft Punk (who also gave their signature spin to the song, natch). The video extends the album’s space metaphor with a very 1970s sci-fi-novella cover meets Doctor Who plot twist that places poor Abel Tesfaye on a planet where he can, indeed, meet a beautiful, perfect, elemental woman, though the romance shall be brief indeed for … reasons unspoiled./what-is-preacher-a-guide-to-amc-s-new-comic-book-adaptation.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-preacher-a-guide-to-amc-s-new-comic-book-adaptation.htmlStill from Preacher. One of the strangest developments in modern entertainment is the explosive rise of the comic-book adaptation. Twenty years ago, it was damn near impossible to get a television or film studio to green-light a story based on stuff that originated in the the then-niche world of comics. Now, such studios are in a race to adapt as many of them as they can: Not only do comics provide the basis for big-budget superhero movies, they also gave birth to the top-rated show on cable, AMC’s The Walking Dead./whitney-cummings-condemns-chris-d-elia-s-pattern-of-predatory-behavior.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whitney-cummings-condemns-chris-d-elia-s-pattern-of-predatory-behavior.htmlDays after comedian Chris D’Elia was accused of sexual harassment and misconduct from multiple women, which included soliciting nude photos from underage girls, his friend and Whitney co-star Whitney Cummings has denounced his behavior. In a statement posted to Twitter on June 20, Cummings said that it took a few days to process all of the allegations against D’Elia. “I’m devastated and enraged by what I’ve read and learned./why-am-i-so-soothed-by-photos-of-the-olsen-twins-smoking.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-am-i-so-soothed-by-photos-of-the-olsen-twins-smoking.htmlThe Olsen twins lulling me to sleep. A few weeks ago, I was so sick that I couldn’t even focus on a gentle film like It’s Complicated, becoming confounded by minor plot points involving college-graduation schedules. Desperately seeking some sort of solace and distraction from the prison of my own flesh, I turned to the next best thing after a Nancy Meyers movie: I opened my phone and Googled “Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen smoking./why-the-golden-age-of-tv-was-really-born-in-the-1980s.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-golden-age-of-tv-was-really-born-in-the-1980s.htmlAll week on Vulture, we’re examining ‘80s pop culture, and how it lives on today. One of the problems with talking about the Golden Age of Television is figuring out which Golden Age you’re talking about. Thanks to recency bias — the fallacy that whatever artistic developments you happened to grow up with represent the Greatest of All Time — there’s a tendency to assume that scripted TV consisted largely of cavepeople yelling through square-shaped rock formations until the late 1990s, when Oz, The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the like came along./winter-house-recap-pirate-s-booty.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/winter-house-recap-pirate-s-booty.htmlWinter House Pirate Ships and Situationships Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winter House Pirate Ships and Situationships Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In the immortal words of the man played by both Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi in the past year, this show needs “a little less conversation, a little more action, please./zoinks-the-scooby-doo-gang-faces-off-on-snl.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zoinks-the-scooby-doo-gang-faces-off-on-snl.htmlSaturday Night Live’s parody of Scooby-Doo this weekend was just like any classic episode of the cartoon at first, with the gang investigating a haunted mansion and Fred (Jake Gyllenhaal) ripping off the “phantom’s” mask to reveal that it was actually Old Man Franklin who’d been terrorizing the town. “But wait a second, who is Old Man Franklin…really,” Fred wonders, noting that no one is who they appear to be./this-weekend-s-concerts-from-britney-spears-to-chaka-khan.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-weekend-s-concerts-from-britney-spears-to-chaka-khan.htmlout on the weekend July 5, 2011 6:30 pm By Amos Barshad Share Share Tweet Pin It 16 Photos Photo: David Thai/David Thai What do Ringo Deathstarr, Steve Martin, and Trey Songz have in common? All three acts are featured in our weekly photo concert slideshow! Also on hand: Beach Fossils, Beyoncé, Bill Callahan, Britney Spears, Chaka Khan, Kanye West, Grace Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jill Scott, Laurie Anderson, Mary J./two-men-twin-falls-samuel-hunter-s-a-case-for-the-existence-of-god.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-men-twin-falls-samuel-hunter-s-a-case-for-the-existence-of-god.htmlHelen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019. Helen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019. Will Brill and Kyle Beltran in A Case for the Existence of God, at the Signature. Outside the theater for A Case for the Existence of God, the latest crystalline play by Samuel D./11-tv-families-you-wanted-to-join-if-you-were-born-in-the-80s.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/11-tv-families-you-wanted-to-join-if-you-were-born-in-the-80s.htmlFor the better part of the ’80s, the “situation” part of many situation comedies involved a single house, a wacky family, and the various slings and arrows of regular life. Using the small screen to peek inside the homes of families as varied as the Seavers, the Tanners (two sets of them!), and the Winslows became a winning formula, resulting in more than a few ‘80s kids wishing that they could jump ship and join up with their favorite fictional families./2016-bonnaroo-lineup-pearl-jam-lcd-soundsystem-dead-company-and-flushable-toilets.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2016-bonnaroo-lineup-pearl-jam-lcd-soundsystem-dead-company-and-flushable-toilets.htmlEncore. Already. Because one major reunion stop is just not enough, LCD Soundsystem are also taking their restored act to this summer’s Bonnaroo. The Tennessee-based megafest on Tuesday unveiled its initial 2016 slate, which also includes the likes of Pearl Jam, Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Company (another reunion, which comes with two sets), J. Cole, Tame Impala, Haim, CHVRCHES, Big Grams, Father John Misty, Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples, Third Eye Blind, and Shamir, among many, many others and soon-to-be additions./2024-s-canceled-shows-for-your-final-consideration.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-s-canceled-shows-for-your-final-consideration.htmlWay back in 2016, Vulture wrote of the now mostly forgotten Netflix series Bloodline that “Netflix did something it’s rarely done in its four-year history of original programming Wednesday: It canceled a show.” These days, updates on streaming series reckon with how “platforms invented cruel and unusual ways to cancel them.” Well, the great cancel-off of 2024 is officially on its way, and no show is safe. Without reputable sourcing on streaming audience numbers, there’s little way to know if your favorite piece of art content is actually a hit or just a hit with your friend group/online bubble/in-laws./7-suggestions-for-future-dan-brown-books-and-inevitable-tom-hanks-movies.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-suggestions-for-future-dan-brown-books-and-inevitable-tom-hanks-movies.htmlToday, it was announced that Dan Brown will publish a new book about genius symbologist Robert Langdon. It’s called Origin and it will delve into “the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them.” The novel will, of course, incorporate “symbology, science, religion, history, art, and architecture,” which is a nice way of saying that it’ll involve some bonkers plot to save the world that revolves around [insert famous novel/work of art/statue/museum you went to once on a field trip]./alia-shawkat-and-aubrey-plaza-are-drunk-history-s-new-hamilton-and-burr.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alia-shawkat-and-aubrey-plaza-are-drunk-history-s-new-hamilton-and-burr.htmlWho sips, who imbibes, who tells your story? For Alexander Hamilton, the answer will once again be Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is heading to Drunk History to retell the story of the Hamilton-Burr duel, with alcohol this time. Entertainment Weekly has the first look from Miranda’s episode, which will star Alia Shawkat and Aubrey Plaza as A. Ham and A. Burr, respectively. Since Michael Cera played Hamilton in the very first Drunk History episode, is this casting a hidden Arrested Development joke?/all-creatures-great-and-small-recap-siegfried-stands-corrected.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-creatures-great-and-small-recap-siegfried-stands-corrected.htmlAll Creatures Great and Small Right Hand Man Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Right Hand Man Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Did anyone else think we were suddenly going to have a return of Helen’s dad for the episode?/amateur-hour.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amateur-hour.htmlA quarter-century after Pam and Tommy’s sex tape, there have been countless copycats — and nothing like it. Photo-Illustration: Vulture In October 1995, a 500-pound safe was stolen from the garage of a Malibu mansion. Inside, the thief (or thieves) found guns, jewelry, and a piece of treasure far more valuable than they could have imagined: a private video made by the newlyweds Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Most of the nearly hour-long Hi8 cassette was mundane./american-idol-recap-hello-and-good-bye-ladies.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-idol-recap-hello-and-good-bye-ladies.htmlAmerican Idol 15 Girls Perform Season 13 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Idol 15 Girls Perform Season 13 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Malaya Watson on American Idol I know I’ve spent about 75 percent of these recaps raving about how fast everything is moving, but I seriously can’t believe it./an-oral-history-of-the-very-first-episode-of-yo-mtv-raps.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-oral-history-of-the-very-first-episode-of-yo-mtv-raps.htmlWhere It Started At: The NY Rap Story Presented by Where It Started At: The NY Rap Story Presented by Will Smith (a.k.a. the Fresh Prince), Run-D.M.C., DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Ready Rock C in the first episode of Yo! MTV Raps. “We want to let everybody know where it’s at / It’s right here: Yo! MTV Raps.” Those words, rapped in unison by DJ Jazzy Jeff, the Fresh Prince (a./anna-faris-on-the-dictator-her-fantasy-theater-refuge-and-playing-idiots.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anna-faris-on-the-dictator-her-fantasy-theater-refuge-and-playing-idiots.htmlAnna Faris. Anna Faris’s famously elastic face is just as animated in person as it is onscreen. Her lips appear to be doing calisthenics as she forms words, and her eyes widen whenever she makes a wry comment — like when she says she expected to be working at Starbucks, instead of starring in films. At the time of the interview, she had yet to announce her pregnancy with her husband, Parks and Rec actor Chris Pratt, and there was certainly no evidence on her diminutive frame./ari-shaffir-moves-from-censorship-to-creative-control-with-double-negative.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ari-shaffir-moves-from-censorship-to-creative-control-with-double-negative.htmlAri Shaffir’s new two-part special Double Negativehit Netflix today. Presented in two episodes, Childrenand Adulthood, the special is a sprawling look at where the comedian is at in life right now. He’s getting older, exploring his sexuality, and dealing with pressure from family and friends, all in front of the backdrop of a world that is kind of fucked. He breaks down the overarching message of the special like this: “One side is what I’m against, the other side is what I’m for in this life I’ve chosen./behind-the-3-hour-movie-that-scandalized-cannes-with-unsimulated-cunnilingus.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behind-the-3-hour-movie-that-scandalized-cannes-with-unsimulated-cunnilingus.htmlAbdellatif Kechiche was already having a bad day when he walked into his press conference at Cannes. The French-Tunisian director’s latest film, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo — a pestilential three-and-a-half-hour mess that spends the majority of its running time on pervy close-ups of its young female cast’s gyrating derrières before delivering an extended, 13-minute-long scene of explicit, un-simulated cunnilingus — had premiered the previous night to walkouts and derisive howls, as well as a general sense that we’d all just seen one of the worst films to have ever screened at Cannes./below-deck-mediterranean-recap-daddy-bosun.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-mediterranean-recap-daddy-bosun.htmlBelow Deck Mediterranean Two Many Cooks Season 8 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Two Many Cooks Season 8 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we get into “Two Many Cooks,” I want to circle back to the topic of Ruan, who had an early departure last week after being caught with falsified certifications./billions-recap-sins-of-the-father.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/billions-recap-sins-of-the-father.htmlBillions Beg, Bribe, Bully Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Beg, Bribe, Bully Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we even set eyes on any character in “Beg, Bribe, Bully,” the opening track, Cat Stevens’s classic “Father and Son,” has already laid out tonight’s theme./billy-zabka-on-how-i-met-your-mother-the-zabkatage-and-sweeping-the-leg.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/billy-zabka-on-how-i-met-your-mother-the-zabkatage-and-sweeping-the-leg.htmlBilly Zabka Few actors have portrayed a bully quite as convincingly as William Zabka, a.k.a. Billy Zabka. Starting with 1984’s The Karate Kid, in which he played Johnny Lawrence, a headband-wearing rich kid making life a living hell for Ralph Macchio’s pipsqueak underdog, Zabka became Hollywood’s go-to preppy goon, also stealing scenes via pitch-perfect bitchface performances in 1985’s Just One of the Guys and 1986’s Back to School. More recently, the 48-year-old actor has endeared himself to a new generation through small parts in the 2010 comedy Hot Tub Time Machine and the long-running TV shows How I Met Your Mother and USA Network’s Psych./brandon-streussnig-author-archive.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brandon-streussnig-author-archive.htmlstunt awards Mar. 6, 2023 The Audacity of Albert PyunThe legendary B-movie director made peanuts look like a five-course meal. 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In a late capitalist hellscape where bots sway elections, and brands prattle like listless teenagers on social media to humanize corporations whose mergers push them closer and closer to the trust nightmares Bill Taft and Teddy Roosevelt sued half of creation to halt, the most defiant thing you can be is independent./chelsea-peretti-will-be-playing-the-role-of-mother.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chelsea-peretti-will-be-playing-the-role-of-mother.htmlFollowing the relaunch of her beloved podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti, earlier this month, the titular Chelsea Peretti took to Vulture Festival 2023 for a live episode recording. But this wasn’t just the Peretti you know and love from Brooklyn Nine-Nine or her recent directorial debut, First Time Female Director. This was Playwright Peretti, holding a reading of her new play, Thacher Island — about a family living on an island off the coast of Massachusetts — with the help of her theater group Pacific Playwrights Horizons (John Early, Kaitlin Olson, and Xosha Roquemore)./chuck-lorre-releases-600th-title-card-demands-to-be-worshiped-like-unto-a-god.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chuck-lorre-releases-600th-title-card-demands-to-be-worshiped-like-unto-a-god.htmlChuck Lorre, co-creator and executive producer of The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon and Mom, is already worshipped at CBS. But what if, one day, Lorre-a-mania extends far beyond the couches of America, and into our very souls? Lorre dropped his 600th wordy vanity card (a two-parter!) across his current CBS shows. 600A aired after The Big Bang Theory, and 600B aired after Young Sheldon and Mom. Lorre has been using his production shingle to pen little missives to the pause button freaks of the world for more than 20 years./coldplay-wrote-a-song-about-charlie-brown.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coldplay-wrote-a-song-about-charlie-brown.htmlAt least, we assume that “Charlie Brown,” which the band debuted last night at a Jimmy Kimmel–hosted Los Angeles concert, refers to the beloved Peanuts sad sack and not some glow-stick-happy friend that Chris Martin met at a rave once. The lyrics aren’t too much help: There’s a reference to “a cartoon heart” and something about scarecrow dreams, which sound like the sort of thing that might haunt Charlie? (Or maybe Charlie is supposed to be the scarecrow, and there’s a whole Wizard of Oz thing happening here, too?/community-s-dan-harmon-discovered-he-had-asperger-s-while-writing-abed-s-character.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/community-s-dan-harmon-discovered-he-had-asperger-s-while-writing-abed-s-character.htmlThis Wired profile on Community creator and showrunner Dan Harmon explains and explores some of his unusual methods of plotting out what happens on the show: Harmon rigorously maps out character arcs in an eight-point cycle and refers to these story ideas as “embryos.” That obsessiveness and ritualism make a little more sense at the end of the story, when Harmon explains that he has a form of Asperger’s. He says he started researching the disorder as part of exploring Abed’s character, but the information wound up hitting surprisingly close to home./david-lynch-says-he-s-leaving-the-twin-peaks-reboot.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-lynch-says-he-s-leaving-the-twin-peaks-reboot.htmlDavid Lynch. Will we ever find out what happened to the gang from Twin Peaks in the last 25 years? Probably, but David Lynch may not be involved in the show’s reboot. It was announced in October that the cult hit would return in 2016 for a nine-episode run on Showtime, but on Sunday night the director said he’s pulled out of the project. “I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done,” he explained on Twitter./elton-john-just-got-egot.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elton-john-just-got-egot.htmlThat’s Sir Elgot to yew. Sir Elton John was just granted entry to the most exclusive club in the entertainment industry: EGOT holders. The latest member earned his quadfecta for Elton John: Farewell From Dodger Stadium on January 15, winning the award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) at the 2023 Emmys, which were delayed to 2024. The team behind the project accepted the award on his behalf. “He’s absolutely fine, but he wanted to send his love and thanks to the Television Academy for this incredible award,” said producer Ben Winston./fallout-s-pip-boys-were-an-asymmetrical-workout-for-the-cast.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fallout-s-pip-boys-were-an-asymmetrical-workout-for-the-cast.htmlImagine walking around with only one Bala weight strapped to your arm all day. For players of the Fallout video-game franchise, the Pip-Boy isn’t just an accessory. It’s a way of life. The clunky armband (similar to what Leela on Futurama calls her “wrist lojack-a-mater“) is how you access the map, your stats, your inventory, and quests. It’s key to life in the wasteland. And IRL, it’s super fucking heavy./for-your-consideration-vulture.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/for-your-consideration-vulture.htmlthe gold rush Mar. 10, 2021 Vulture Staff For Your ConsiderationsOscar voting is happening now, and these films and performances shouldn’t be ignored — no matter how long of a shot they are. By Vulture Staff ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeWpL9uxc6uqWabn6PAqrDEq5itoZ%2BjfA%3D%3D/go-on-the-weirdest-vacation-ever-with-difficulty-man.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/go-on-the-weirdest-vacation-ever-with-difficulty-man.htmlThe man who has “difficulty connecting with others” because he frequently “misperceives blinking as a threat” has returned to give the world another peek at his day-to-day life. It turns out this man, henceforth known as “Difficulty Man,” is just like you and me, in that he needs to take the odd vacation. The key word there being odd. Difficulty Man’s Vacation is the latest in an offbeat series of short films created by comedians and This Is Branchburg podcast creators Cory Snearowski and Brendan O’Hare./gossip-girl-recap-maybe-we-re-growing-up-after-all.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gossip-girl-recap-maybe-we-re-growing-up-after-all.htmlGossip Girl The Wrong Way Season 4 Episode 22 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gossip Girl The Wrong Way Season 4 Episode 22 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “It’s only been two years since we left here,” Dan Humphrey observed wearily, “and it feels like twenty.” He was gesturing toward the halls of Constance Billiard, the high school where his story as Lonelyboy began and the setting of last night’s two-part season finale./hawkeye-recap-bros-and-arrows.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hawkeye-recap-bros-and-arrows.htmlHawkeye Echoes Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hawkeye Echoes Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Will Clint make it home for Christmas? The clock is ticking, as a mid-episode phone call with his youngest, Tanner, makes clear./help-jerry-saltz-build-an-art-family-tree.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/help-jerry-saltz-build-an-art-family-tree.htmlArtists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm. These mentorships and collaborations end up helping shape art and, especially in the U.S., they set up a crucial chain that enriches the art world; many of these young artists end up teaching in art schools themselves (unlike, say, the U.K., where most of the YBAs retreated into their own studios and/or material success)./house-of-cards-recap-i-just-called-to-say-i-hate-you.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/house-of-cards-recap-i-just-called-to-say-i-hate-you.htmlHouse of Cards Chapter 55 Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » House of Cards Chapter 55 Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. Those first two episodes had me nervous that this season would be quite the slog, but “Chapter 55” is a reassuring one./how-did-don-t-worry-darling-become-so-worrying.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-did-don-t-worry-darling-become-so-worrying.html“You got the cinema / I bring the pop to the cinema.” Don’t Worry Darling tells the story of an idyllic, seemingly perfect community that slowly reveals a sinister underbelly. Ironically, the conversations about the sci-fi thriller seem to have followed a similar progression. The movie, Olivia Wilde’s next feature directorial project after Booksmart, made a first impression so appealing that 18 studios competed to buy it in 2019, including winner New Line Cinema./how-to-see-ben-affleck-s-penis-in-gone-girl.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-see-ben-affleck-s-penis-in-gone-girl.htmlDavid Fincher’s marital thriller Gone Girl offers up a twisty game of “he said, she said,” a series of shifting alliances, and one memorably stunning reveal … and yes, this entire sentence was about the internet furor over Ben Affleck’s penis. Some people (including Affleck himself!) think the Oscar winner’s dong makes a surprise appearance in the film, but some other people are like, “Wait, I didn’t see a penis, was there even any nudity, was Ben Affleck in this film, did I accidentally see The Boxtrolls instead?/i-just-felt-pressure.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-just-felt-pressure.htmlAt Milo Cramer’s School Pictures, teens and teachers discuss the torturous process of applying to New York’s selective schools. Photo: Chelcie Parry Photo: Chelcie Parry As far as preshow reception spreads go, this one exceeds expectations. There’s not only your standard “cheese plate with grapes and two kinds of melon” fare but a variety of hot options, plus wine. “That’s the teacher swag we need, that’s it right there,” says Malvia Rowe, a math teacher at Montauk Junior High School in Borough Park, Brooklyn./in-place-of-giving-her-a-cgi-cover-up-disney-will-reportedly-stop-making-slave-leia-toys.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-place-of-giving-her-a-cgi-cover-up-disney-will-reportedly-stop-making-slave-leia-toys.htmlPrincess Leia in Return of the Jedi A week after Carrie Fisher warned Daisy Ridley, “Don’t be a slave like I was,” rumors have emerged that Slave Leia merchandise will be consigned to the metaphorical sarlacc pit. According to a Facebook posting from Marvel artist J. Scott Campbell, Disney (which owns both Marvel and LucasFilm) is considering removing Slave Leia from the historical record like a scantily clad Leon Trotsky./in-retribution-liam-neeson-is-stuck-inside-a-car-and-all-is-right-with-the-world.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-retribution-liam-neeson-is-stuck-inside-a-car-and-all-is-right-with-the-world.htmlRetribution is a simple little thriller that works despite plot holes and predictability. Liam Neeson spends the vast majority of Retribution stuck inside a car. Luckily, there are few actors alive today who are better suited to being stuck inside a car. For the past few years, Neeson (now 71) has looked for ways to keep doing the dadsploitation action flicks that were already a kind of late-career heel turn for him./invasion-recap-make-contact.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/invasion-recap-make-contact.htmlInvasion Going Home Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Invasion Going Home Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Halfway through this first season of Invasion, and finally, someone says what we’ve all been thinking: alien. Thank you, Hashimoto!/jason-schwartzman-vulture.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jason-schwartzman-vulture.htmlmovie review June 16, 2023 Wes Anderson Has Gone MadHis new movie, Asteroid City, brings a necessary madness to the meticulous director’s method, and it amounts to a masterpiece. By Bilge Ebiri ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGealsCwuoysmqGvkafBu7nAp2Y%3D/jay-z-s-not-a-record-executive-anymore-because-def-jam-didn-t-want-to-pay-for-his-headphones.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jay-z-s-not-a-record-executive-anymore-because-def-jam-didn-t-want-to-pay-for-his-headphones.htmlThere are plenty of great scene details in Mark Binelli’s Jay-Z Rolling Stone cover story, going on newsstands this Friday: Jay discussing tie knot sizes with his personal stylist in his 39th-floor corner office overlooking Times Square; Jay gushing over Drake’s enunciation skills; Jay mispronouncing a former Frasier star’s name at a public charity function (Chelsea Grammer!). It’s also just a great snapshot of this particular odd moment in the 40-year-old’s career, where hit singles and meetings with eccentric Russian billionaires come in equal measure: Yeah, annoying bloggers like us take potshots at his rapping skills, but he’s still, as he gladly points out, just, if not more, relevant to hip-hop — and not just pop culture in general, like, say Diddy — than he’s ever been./jodie-foster-isn-t-new-to-this-she-s-true-detective.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jodie-foster-isn-t-new-to-this-she-s-true-detective.htmlYou don’t need to be a hard-bitten investigator with loose morals to get the truth about True Detective: Night Country, the fourth entry in the anthology series. HBO debuted the official trailer for the upcoming season on December 4. Set in Alaska during a period of 24-plus hours of night, the show features its first female detective duo, who are reunited after six years apart to solve a cold case./jody-rosen-s-songs-of-the-week-future-cults-and-cage-the-elephant.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jody-rosen-s-songs-of-the-week-future-cults-and-cage-the-elephant.htmlFuture, “Honest” Honesty, you see, is Future’s policy. On his great 2012 album Pluto, the Atlanta rapper transformed himself from also-ran to star by embracing sincerity, and Auto-Tune: serving up confessions and plaints, over windswept production, in a pitch-shifted rap-croon. The title track from his forthcoming album gives the formula a cheeky spin: It’s one giant humblebrag. “Gold bottles on bottles, I’m just honest / Hundred-thousand on watches, I’m just honest./kevin-costner-corrects-the-bullsh-t.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kevin-costner-corrects-the-bullsh-t.htmlWe’re listening … Guys, Kevin Costner seems seriously f*cking mad! In a new expletive-sprinkled interview with Deadline, the star and filmmaker spilled a giant cowboy-hat-shaped mug of tea over Yellowstone’s behind-the-scenes production woes; he also offered his thoughts on the value of DVDs in today’s media landscape, but it was mostly about the Yellowstone stuff. In previous coverage, Costner has been painted as a complete divo, demanding to have a say in how his character dies and refusing to work more than a week on Yellowstone’s fifth season — prioritizing instead his four-part passion project Horizon, the first installment of which he brings to Cannes this year./lady-gaga-kills-off-weird-al-s-for-charity-parody-of-born-this-way.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lady-gaga-kills-off-weird-al-s-for-charity-parody-of-born-this-way.htmlFor someone who dresses so ridiculously, Lady Gaga sure takes herself seriously. So seriously, in fact, that she refused to give her blessing to Weird Al’s new single and parody of “Born This Way,” “Perform This Way.” Which is her right, sure, but she also insisted that he record the song before she made her decision — reading the lyrics wasn’t enough. We send the lyrics to Lady Gaga and wait on figurative pins and needles for her to give us the go-ahead./legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-taps-the-ceiling-of-what-switch-can-do.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-taps-the-ceiling-of-what-switch-can-do.htmlIt’s a god game with the patina of a ronin story that makes you wonder, This is good, but is this as good as it gets? The legend began in a cave. Before his knack for billion-dollar ideas helped make Nintendo a titan in gaming, Shigeru Miyamoto, designer, producer, and director, grew up in postwar Kyoto Prefecture, close to the city but closer to verdant hills and serene forests./listen-to-a-leaked-old-lady-gaga-song-reel-cool.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/listen-to-a-leaked-old-lady-gaga-song-reel-cool.htmlUS pop singer Lady Gaga arrives at Narita International Airport, suburdan Tokyo on December 20, 2011. The pop star will attend a Japanese television’s music program. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) From Gaga’s Beautiful-Dirty-Rich phase. Sources Popdust Lady Gaga, ‘Reel Cool’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dganytrcOyZKCZl5Z6s7HEpWScp5%2Bhe6nAzKU%3D/little-mix-s-leigh-anne-pinnock-announces-pregnancy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/little-mix-s-leigh-anne-pinnock-announces-pregnancy.htmlLeigh-Anne Pinnock hiding her bump on Friday, April 30. Girl group Little Mix is growing by one. Leigh-Anne Pinnock announced her pregnancy with her (and the band’s!) first child. “We’ve dreamed about this moment for so long and we can’t believe the dream is finally coming true … we can’t wait to meet you,” she wrote on social media, along with photos of her glowing in green and fiancé Andre Gray, a footballer (soccer player in the President’s English) for Watford FC./liz-phair-on-guyville-and-the-secret-to-a-successful-topless-photo-shoot.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/liz-phair-on-guyville-and-the-secret-to-a-successful-topless-photo-shoot.htmlTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images Liz Phair’s 1993 album, Exile in Guyville, was a feminist manifesto of sorts — a song-by-song response to the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street on which the not-so-perfectly voiced Phair wrote unabashedly of how girls could be overtly sexual and heartbreakingly vulnerable at the same time. This week, old-school Liz followers will have a chance to reclaim their heroine, when she reissues Exile (plus a few new songs) along with a documentary about its making, Guyville Redux./loona-is-free-from-blockberrycreative-after-winning-lawsuits.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/loona-is-free-from-blockberrycreative-after-winning-lawsuits.htmlFive of the 12 LOONA members. When LOONA, a cherished yet financially embattled K-pop girl group formed by BlockBerryCreative in 2016, indefinitely postponed their comeback set for January 2023, long rumblings of widespread label mismanagement grew more intense. Six months later, the entire group left the agency altogether, per NME. Despite weeks of promotion on social media, the agency announced the delay on December 22 amid the agency’s removal of core member Chuu and recent reports of the singer previously disputing her contract with BlockBerryCreative over allegations of withheld payments./love-victor-recap-the-first-cut-is-the-deepest.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-victor-recap-the-first-cut-is-the-deepest.htmlLove, Victor Table For Four Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love, Victor Table For Four Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s finally cause for celebration in the Simonverse: It’s Benji’s birthday — and, for better or for worse, the universe has more than one surprise up its sleeve./michael-fassbender-on-simulating-sex-in-shame-and-a-dangerous-method.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-fassbender-on-simulating-sex-in-shame-and-a-dangerous-method.htmlMichael Fassbender. Hollywood has been hot for Michael Fassbender over the past year, and the general population is starting to catch on, too: After Fassbender’s performance in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method screened at the New York Film Festival last month, a rep for the Film Society tweeted, “Women in lobby stomping feet, screaming after mtg Michael Fassbender just now,” adding almost as an afterthought, “2 guys escorted out also./modern-family-recap-nude-year-s-eve.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modern-family-recap-nude-year-s-eve.htmlModern Family New Year’s Eve Season 4 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Modern Family New Year’s Eve Season 4 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jesse Tyler Ferguson should probably not break out the black light on Modern Family After more than a month of fairly excellent episodes closing out 2012, Modern Family stumbles into 2013 with a belated New Year’s episode./natalie-portman-s-black-swan-ballerina-double-cries-foul.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natalie-portman-s-black-swan-ballerina-double-cries-foul.htmlIn Black Swan, Natalie Portman is forever haunted by her double, and why shouldn’t that continue into real life? “Of the full body [dance] shots, I would say 5 percent are Natalie,” says her ballerina double Sarah Lane, who claims that Portman has gotten too much credit for the dance scenes where her face was digitally grafted onto Lane’s body. “I mean, from a professional dancer’s standpoint, she doesn’t look like a professional ballet dancer at all and she can’t dance in pointe shoes./paper-girls-recap-welcome-to-the-underground.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paper-girls-recap-welcome-to-the-underground.htmlPaper Girls It Was Never About the Corn Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Paper Girls It Was Never About the Corn Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lest somehow you forgot, when we last saw our paper girls, they were staring up at a giant Transformers-esque robot in a silo./paul-mccartney-and-kanye-met-by-adorably-bonding-over-breakups.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paul-mccartney-and-kanye-met-by-adorably-bonding-over-breakups.htmlAaaaand now you’re crying. Paul McCartney and Kanye West have been professionally linked for around four years, working together and with Rihanna, but it turns out their relationship actually stretches back a decade and has a touching origin story. McCartney tells GQ that the two were both attending the 2008 European MTV Awards in Liverpool when they broke the ice by getting deep in their feelings. McCartney recalls, “I’d just gone through my divorce [from Heather Mills], and I was kind of a little bit raw from it, and I said something to him about it, and he’d just broken up with someone [Alexis Phifer], and he just pulled out his phone and played this great little track—I don’t even remember what it’s called, but it’s one of his famous ones./pinkpantheress-fans-only.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pinkpantheress-fans-only.htmlEveryone’s a main character at the anonymous singer’s live New York debut. PinkPantheress onstage at Le Poisson Rouge. Photo: Maridelis Morales Rosado PinkPantheress onstage at Le Poisson Rouge. I know I’m in the right place when I see a large crowd of people dressed in what I’m calling “seventh-grade alternative”: black-and-white checkerboard belts slung over low-rise flares, midriff-baring baby tees with maxi skirts, tiny bags with gigantic boots, bucket hats and more than one cosplay wig./quarantine-inspo-vulture.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quarantine-inspo-vulture.htmlquarantunes Mar. 16, 2020 Ariana Grande Invented Staying HomeShe has been wearing a sweatshirt for years, exclusively owns beanbag chairs, and her lyrics have long urged us to stay indoors. By Rachel Handler ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGehqq6zrc2toKedXZ67tLzOaA%3D%3D/rachel-van-nes-on-writers-brains-and-low-stakes-social-rejection.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rachel-van-nes-on-writers-brains-and-low-stakes-social-rejection.htmlRachel Van Nes. Rachel Van Nes is a Los Angeles–based improviser, writer, and almond farmer’s daughter. She currently performs on the UCB Mess Hall team Powerline, indie teams Dock Ellis and Gossamer, and her sketch team New Hotdog. You can read her comedy writing on the Belladonna website and find an example of her voice-over work, i.e. horrible singing, on a PayPal commercial somewhere in the dark reaches of the internet./red-is-the-mvp-of-orange-is-the-new-black-s-fifth-season.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-is-the-mvp-of-orange-is-the-new-black-s-fifth-season.htmlAll hail Red. This article discusses aspects of all 13 episodes of Orange Is the New Black’s fifth season and contains spoilers throughout. There are plenty of characters in the rouge’s gallery of Orange Is the New Black: Black Cindy’s pop-culture inflected braggadocio, the flibbertigibbet Floritza and their vain obliviousness, and of course Suzanne and her world of make believe. It’s hard to pick which one is the funniest, but for season five of this prison dramedy, there is one who stands out: Galina “Red” Reznikov (an excellent Kate Mulgrew)./richie-sambora-vulture.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richie-sambora-vulture.htmlben silverman Oct. 27, 2008 Ben Silverman Remixes NBC ChimesT.I., the Flaming Lips, and Richie Sambora have been hired to ‘reinterpret’ the chimes in a series of upcoming promos. By Lane Brown ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeinrCptcRmqpqlkqS%2Fons%3D/seinfeld-s-23-hours-to-kill-is-great-and-also-sucks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seinfeld-s-23-hours-to-kill-is-great-and-also-sucks.htmlJerry Seinfeld in 23 Hours to Kill. Whatever I am about to say about Jerry Seinfeld’s new special, 23 Hours to Kill, Seinfeld has already preempted. In the best, most carefully honed segment of the hour, he glides into an exploration of things that suck versus things that are great. “‘Sucks’ and ‘great’ are the only two ratings,” Seinfeld says. All things are either great or they suck; they’re great with some sucky parts or they suck except for one great thing, and all discourse has been whittled down to those essential categories./sg-lewis-is-just-trying-to-have-a-career-like-pharrell-s.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sg-lewis-is-just-trying-to-have-a-career-like-pharrell-s.html“I want people to know and appreciate my music as an artist, but to be pleasantly surprised when they find out that I’ve been involved in some of their favorite records for other artists too.” Nearly a year after his collaboration with Dua Lipa came out, SG Lewis is still humble about it. He co-produced “Hallucinate,” the showstopping climax of Lipa’s 2020 disco outing Future Nostalgia. The song began in a casual session with his college friend Sophie Cooke, who performs under her middle name Frances and has worked with Lewis since his 2015 debut single “Warm./sly-is-a-messy-sincere-portrait-of-a-messy-sincere-man.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sly-is-a-messy-sincere-portrait-of-a-messy-sincere-man.htmlThis documentary about Sylvester Stallone leaves a lot unsaid. But it does get at the heart of his career. I was never much of a Sylvester Stallone fan as a kid. I was certainly the right age when his Rocky and Rambo sequels were coming out in the 1980s, but that brand of aggressive, muscle-bound machismo, which found favor in an America eager to refight the battles of the ’60s and ’70s, I found off-putting; Sly and some of his ’roided-up imitators seemed like flesh-and-blood manifestations of reactionary, Reaganite rage./spider-ham-s-very-unkosher-journey-from-joke-to-spider-verse-star.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spider-ham-s-very-unkosher-journey-from-joke-to-spider-verse-star.htmlPeter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, as he appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “After December 14, we will live in a world where everyone knows Peter Porker,” says comics writer Dan Slott. “Laymen on the street. Kids with their lunch boxes and onesies. Everyone is gonna know who Spider-Ham is.” He pauses. He laughs at the ridiculousness of it all. “What a world.” No, those aren’t typos. Slott is not talking about Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man./spiders-snakes-and-trolls-it-s-a-very-vmfl-thanksgiving.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spiders-snakes-and-trolls-it-s-a-very-vmfl-thanksgiving.htmlThis is the latest edition of the Movies Fantasy League newsletter. The drafting window for this season has closed, but you can still sign up to get the newsletter, which provides a weekly recap of box-office performance, awards nominations, and critical chatter on all the buzziest movies. Sign up for the Movies Fantasy League Newsletter Get weekly emails from Joe Reid on the latest developments in movies news and league standings. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply./succession-adds-adrien-brody-to-its-tall-tall-cast.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-adds-adrien-brody-to-its-tall-tall-cast.htmlAdrien Brody. Oscar winner Adrien Brody is joining the cast of HBO’s Succession, per Variety. He’ll play Josh Aaronson, a billionaire activist who gets involved in the great Waystar Royco civil war. Also joining the cast this season is Alexander Skarsgård, Hope Davis, Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond, and South Korean singer and actress Jihae. Three recurring cast members — Justine Lupe (Connor Roy’s girlfriend Willa), David Rasche (CFO Karl Muller), and Fisher Stevens (crisis manager Hugo Baker) — have been promoted to series regulars./succession-recap-heavily-fuckin-delayed.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-recap-heavily-fuckin-delayed.htmlSuccession Connor’s Wedding Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Succession Connor’s Wedding Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The title Succession has been a tease, if not a running joke, from the very beginning of the series — like Game of Thrones as a devilishly sadistic round of musical chairs./summer-house-season-finale-recap-queens-of-the-jungle.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-house-season-finale-recap-queens-of-the-jungle.htmlSummer House Welcome to the Jungle Season 7 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Summer House Welcome to the Jungle Season 7 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Strangely enough, any reservations I had about Carl and Lindsay’s relationship were assuaged as soon as they returned to the house after dipping out for the past two days./super-size-me-2-you-ll-never-look-at-chicken-the-same-way-again.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/super-size-me-2-you-ll-never-look-at-chicken-the-same-way-again.htmlI feel like instead of a spoiler warning, I should just tell you that, as with most of Morgan Spurlock’s shock-documentaries, you’ll probably walk away from Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! shivering with disgust and wondering how you can go on living in a world as gross and inhumane as ours. Who can forget the real-life horror footage of vermin crawling out of New York City toilets, or scattering by the dozens from a garbage pile, in his last movie, Rats?/talking-to-the-guys-behind-the-podcast-superego-about-their-new-country-rock-album.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-the-guys-behind-the-podcast-superego-about-their-new-country-rock-album.htmlThere’s no shortage of great comedy podcasts these days, but one of the funniest ones going is Superego, an improvised audio sketch show created by Matt Gourley and Jeremy Carter. The show, which added members Mark McConville and Jeff Crocker early on, has developed a cult following since it began in 2006 and began attracting big-name guests from the comedy world like Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Jason Sudeikis, and Dan Harmon to name a few./tawny-kitaen-whitesnake-music-video-star-is-dead-at-59.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tawny-kitaen-whitesnake-music-video-star-is-dead-at-59.htmlActress and reality-TV star Tawny Kitaen, who became an icon of the 1980s hair-band era for her appearances in Whitesnake music videos, has died at the age of 59, according to her family. In a post made to Kitaen’s verified Instagram account on May 8, her daughters Wynter and Raine wrote, “We are heartbroken and saddened to announce the death of our mom. We just want to say thank you for all of you, her fans and her friends, for always showing her such support and love./ted-lasso-s-jodi-balfour-thinks-jack-will-regret-this.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ted-lasso-s-jodi-balfour-thinks-jack-will-regret-this.htmlKeeley Jones’s love life is once more in turmoil. Following her gutting breakup with Roy just prior to the opening of Ted Lasso’s third season, she was focusing on nurturing her PR firm KJPR, but along came venture capitalist and KJPR funder Jack Danvers (Jodi Balfour) to sweep her off her feet. Jack’s enthusiastic approach — lavish dinners, a date in Norway to see a spectacular aurora borealis, a dubiously signed and scandalously personalized first edition of Sense and Sensibility — initially seem like just what Keeley needs./the-239-issues-tackled-by-degrassi-over-twelve-seasons.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-239-issues-tackled-by-degrassi-over-twelve-seasons.htmlDegrassi (née Degrassi: The Next Generation) is well into its twelfth season, again airing this summer every weekday, telenovela-style. The show has never shied away from splashy or controversial topics, and it might actually be the most progressive series ever when it comes to issues of sex and sexuality. In fact, there’s nothing Degrassi loves more than issues, and dealing with them, and talking about them, and asking a grown-up for help with them, and exploring all the facets of them, and treating everyone with respect./the-art-of-the-scam-the-best-books-podcasts-and-documentaries-about-cults.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-art-of-the-scam-the-best-books-podcasts-and-documentaries-about-cults.htmlWhen I began writing my novel, The Atmospherians, I didn’t expect to release the book into a world obsessed with stories about cults — nor did I anticipate a global pandemic, but that’s another matter. The Atmospherians is a satire about two best friends who start a cult to reform problematic men, and over the course of writing it, I fell headfirst into everything I could find about cults: who forms them, who joins them, and who leaves them./the-best-sitcom-of-the-past-30-years-round-one-cheers-vs-the-office.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-sitcom-of-the-past-30-years-round-one-cheers-vs-the-office.htmlWell, this is unfortunate. Originally, I was assigned to write an essay about Cheers versus Married with Children. That’s a piece I could do in my sleep with one hand down my pants. (An Al Bundy reference, not a masturbation reference, just to be clear.) I was going to pretend to struggle with this alleged dilemma (Married with Children was so groundbreaking, so criminally underrated, a refreshing tonic to the sweetness of The Cosby Show, I’d claim), before “deciding” on Sam and Diane and friends./the-change-up-is-just-freaky-friday-with-more-poop-apparently.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-change-up-is-just-freaky-friday-with-more-poop-apparently.htmlJason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds’s body-switching comedy The Change-Up opens this weekend, and the critics agree: It’s “raunchy,” “lowbrow,” “scatological,” “erratic,” and “unexciting.” Nearly every review mentions that a baby defecates in a man’s mouth in the film, which makes The Change-Up a filthy descendant of Freaky Friday. “Freaky Friday meets The Hangover … ” —Washington Post “Think an R-rated Freaky Friday with dudes … While this raunchy Freaky Friday meets Trading Places has some laughs, it’s more often frat-boy crass, frantic and formulaic./the-great-british-baking-show-recap-chocolate-kisses.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-british-baking-show-recap-chocolate-kisses.htmlThe Great British Baking Show Chocolate Week Season 14 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Chocolate Week Season 14 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It seems like Americans and the English share a culture just like they share a language./the-great-british-baking-show-recap-mask-for-mask.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-british-baking-show-recap-mask-for-mask.htmlThe Great British Baking Show Biscuit Week Season 13 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Biscuit Week Season 13 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All right, let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: “Biscuit” is not the British word for “cookie./the-great-wall-is-wonderfully-ridiculous.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-wall-is-wonderfully-ridiculous.htmlMatt Damon in The Great Wall. If you don’t love The Great Wall, we don’t have much to talk about. Yes, it’s terrible, but it’s lavishly, generously terrible, and even at its worst it isn’t painful — unlike, say, the list of finalists for this year’s Razzie awards. (Try sitting through Zoolander 2 and tell me how bad The Great Wall is.) It’s fun to watch Matt Damon try not to look or sound like Matt Damon, dropping his voice half an octave, sucking in his gut, affecting a manly stoicism./the-horror-icon-in-the-midst-of-a-major-comeback.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-horror-icon-in-the-midst-of-a-major-comeback.htmlThe credits to Adam Wingard’s 2011 home-invasion thriller You’re Next read like a who’s who of the independent horror film world, with a cast that includes A.J. Bowen, Simon Barrett, Amy Seimetz, Larry Fessenden, and Ti West. But it’s another name that stands out, one tied to an earlier era of horror: Barbara Crampton. Horror fans hadn’t seen Crampton in a while when she made her return to the genre with Wingard’s film./the-liberating-beauty-of-the-final-destination-movies.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-liberating-beauty-of-the-final-destination-movies.htmlFriday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, every Friday at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. Friday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, every Friday at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. The many dangers of our sad little lives are weaponized by these horror films. Which might be a reason why they’re so strangely cathartic. Every week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club./the-marvels-final-scene-shows-us-the-avengers-future.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-marvels-final-scene-shows-us-the-avengers-future.htmlYou’d be forgiven for thinking The Marvels has two post-credits teasers. One of its stingers plays out mid-credits as usual, but the other is actually its final scene, which unfolds separately from the movie’s space-set story and sets up Marvel’s Earth-bound future. It wouldn’t be the first time a Marvel movie has ended this way. Back in 2008, The Incredible Hulk followed its climactic shot of Bruce Banner controlling his powers with a cameo appearance from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr./the-newborn-puzzle.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-newborn-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture Games Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they’re ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us./the-oral-history-of-madonna-s-truth-or-dare.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-oral-history-of-madonna-s-truth-or-dare.htmlThe groundbreaking pop documentary’s participants look back, 30 years later. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Truth or Dare is a snapshot of stardom in 1991, before fame was something that existed in people’s pockets./the-photograph-is-an-imperfect-delight.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-photograph-is-an-imperfect-delight.htmlThe romantic drama is bolstered by its excellent cast even when the movie fails to deliver on the themes and ideas it hopes to explore. Onscreen, romance is best communicated through looks. Sometimes a look is tinted with regret, like in the final glances shared by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in 1942’s Casablanca. Other times, a look is almost violent in its lustfulness, like those shared by Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1944 noir Double Indemnity./the-purple-one-vulture.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-purple-one-vulture.htmlthe purple one Dec. 12, 2015 The Increasingly Generous Artist Known As Prince Releases a Surprise New AlbumThe artist caps off a wonderful week that began with his endorsement of that long-sought-after cover of Radiohead’s “Creep.” By Greg Cwik ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeknbJuvNSrp6WdXaS7pns%3D/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta-recap-sexology-party-of-10.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta-recap-sexology-party-of-10.htmlThe Real Housewives of Atlanta 50 Shades of Shade Season 7 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta 50 Shades of Shade Season 7 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Just in case the memory of Martin Luther King Jr./the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-recap-gettin-siggy-with-it.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-recap-gettin-siggy-with-it.htmlThe Real Housewives of New Jersey Growing Up Jersey Season 8 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey Growing Up Jersey Season 8 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What up, Jersey girls and gays? It’s your favorite Tre-hugger, kisser, apologist, and audiobook producer./the-rehearsal-recap-when-do-i-move-in.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rehearsal-recap-when-do-i-move-in.htmlThe Rehearsal Scion Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Rehearsal Scion Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The opening sequence of “Scion” feels light compared to the spookiness of the final scene of last week’s episode. We begin with Nathan Fielder standing in front of a wall of monitors, directing the action of a mysterious scene that seems to involve swapping one baby in a nursery out for another./the-shining-golden-girls-and-other-fan-made-pop-culture-lego-sets.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-shining-golden-girls-and-other-fan-made-pop-culture-lego-sets.htmlThe LEGO Movie, which opens this weekend, stars LEGO Batman, LEGO Superman, LEGO Wonder Woman, and LEGO Green Lantern. Past LEGO sets have re-created The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, the Harry Potter movies, and many other franchises. But true LEGO fans don’t sit around waiting for the Danish company to get around to adapting their favorite movies or characters into toys: These LEGO fiends often custom build their own sets, hand-painting minifigs (that’s LEGO people, to the uninitiated) and re-creating famous pop-culture buildings, landscapes, and vehicles to turn their favorite blockbusters into blocks./the-sketch-that-always-plays-hot.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sketch-that-always-plays-hot.htmlFor 43 years, the game show has been a staple of Saturday Night Live. But Black Jeopardy, the brainchild of writer Bryan Tucker and head writer Michael Che, stands out from all of its predecessors for not only being a clever, enduring concept, but also because it articulates something that often goes unsaid in society. Through these sketches, Tucker and Che — along with host Kenan Thompson, recurring cast members, and the various guest hosts — show us that black culture is simultaneously esoteric and universal all at once./the-story-behind-claire-s-big-discovery-on-outlander.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-behind-claire-s-big-discovery-on-outlander.htmlSpoilers ahead from the most recent episode of Outlander. Should we congratulate the not-so-happy couple? The shotgun wedding between Black Jack Randall and Mary Hawkins could not have been more remote or wretched, but how could it be otherwise, when you have two people who do not love each other getting married next to a deathbed? But as is so often the case on Outlander, it’s Claire’s meddling in the past that ensures the future — in this case, Frank’s existence./the-toughest-scene-i-wrote-screenwriter-lucy-alibar-on-beasts-of-the-southern-wild.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-toughest-scene-i-wrote-screenwriter-lucy-alibar-on-beasts-of-the-southern-wild.htmlOver the next few weeks, Vulture is talking to the screenwriters behind 2012’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. What pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen? Today, Beasts of the Southern Wild screenwriter Lucy Alibar (who co-wrote the film with director Benh Zeitlin) discusses a scene that she found personally wrenching, as told to Kyle Buchanan:/the-vampire-baseball-game-in-twilight-is-the-funniest-film-scene-ever.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-vampire-baseball-game-in-twilight-is-the-funniest-film-scene-ever.htmlFrom Twilight. It’s bewildering how the last ten years have flown by, but also that the most legendary bit of comedy ever put to film is only a decade old. It’s such a cultural touchstone of universally agreed-upon comic genius that it feels like it’s been around forever. But the numbers don’t lie. The funniest movie scene ever created reached movie theaters on November 21, 2008. Obviously, I’m talking about the vampire baseball scene from Twilight./the-wild-wonders-of-biz-markie.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wild-wonders-of-biz-markie.htmlCanonizing Biz Markie as a one-hit wonder more than misses the mark; it requires a fundamental misreading of hip-hop history and the genre’s cultural touchstones to arrive at that distillation of his life’s work. Around the turn of the century, ViacomCBS property VH1 pivoted to its “Music First” era, punctuated by its original programs like The Greatest, a compilation show that purported to count down influential cultural and musical moments — from the “100 Greatest Love Songs” to the “40 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of the ’90s” — from a position of expertise and authority./the-youtube-tv-recap-canon.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-youtube-tv-recap-canon.htmlThe channels to follow. And a few reactors, too. Photo-Illustration: Alex Meyers, Jenny Nicholson, Kennie J.D., Netflix The Youtube TV-Recap Canon Series-Spanning Recaps The Reactors Episode-by-Episode Recaps Influential One-Offs There was a time not long ago when everyone was saying the Internet was shrinking our attention spans. That platforms for short-form content made it so we all became goldfish-brained, unable to sit through a full episode of a TV show without getting distracted by our second screens — just an entire human race reduced to a buncha marshmallow-test flunkies./theater-review-the-volcano-at-the-center-of-grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-the-volcano-at-the-center-of-grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers.htmlFrom Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, at St. Ann’s. Near the end of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, director and playwright Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Max Porter’s collagelike 2015 novel, Cillian Murphy takes off the T-shirt he’s been wearing and drops it on the floor. It lands with the slap of a wet sponge. Murphy — the marvelous Irish actor whose half-angelic–half-cadaverous face, long-dark-tunnel eyes, and gift for hopping from contemplation to combustion land him in the exciting valley between hero and villain — has been, theatrically speaking, flat-out sprinting for the last 80 minutes./there-are-no-small-parts-only-small-actors.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-are-no-small-parts-only-small-actors.htmlthere are no small parts only small actors July 5, 2017 Fair Warning: Zendaya Is Barely in Spider-Man: HomecomingStill, the former Disney star is an utter delight in the limited time she spends onscreen. By Kyle Buchanan ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeknbKzsYyaqZ5lnqR6tLnApaNmqJGnwbR5zqejsmWjoq6tuIyamq2noqh8/this-month-in-comedy-podcasts-the-kardashians-are-giving-cult-with-meg-indurti.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-month-in-comedy-podcasts-the-kardashians-are-giving-cult-with-meg-indurti.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. The comedy-podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional and the noteworthy./this-week-in-rap-2-chainz-gets-personal-rap-legend-myka-9-returns-more.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-week-in-rap-2-chainz-gets-personal-rap-legend-myka-9-returns-more.htmlEvery week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases. In this installment: 2 Chainz finds new depth as an artist, Little Simz shines, Blu explores L.A. rap styles with Oh No, and Myka 9 finds a producer to match his incredible style. 2 Chainz, Rap or Go to the League Rap or Go to the League is the culmination of a strange shift in focus for 2 Chainz./this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-from-maine-to-the-o-c.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-from-maine-to-the-o-c.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. The true-crime-podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional./tiff-review-shane-black-s-the-predator-is-more-fun-than-skillful.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiff-review-shane-black-s-the-predator-is-more-fun-than-skillful.htmlThe newest sequel to Predator, The Predator — the definite article helps, unlike David Gordon Green’s confusingly named sequel to Halloween, Halloween — is Shane Black’s enthusiastic attempt to relaunch this particular series with a bit more family-friendly color and context. That’s not hard, given that John McTiernan’s 1987 original was cold, Spartan, and devoid of much beyond the premise of a huge, dreadlocked extraterrestrial hunting a bunch of muscular Special Forces operatives led by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch in the jungles of Central America./timoth%C3%A9e-chalamet-s-style-inspiration-is-kenny-the-jet-smith.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/timoth%C3%A9e-chalamet-s-style-inspiration-is-kenny-the-jet-smith.htmlWonka? Want to dress like Timothée Chalamet? Look no further than TNT. While filming Elle’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ video alongside his Dune: Part 2 costar Austin Butler, Chalamet revealed that his style icon is Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith, host of TNT’s Inside the NBA. While it’s unlikely that the basketball analyst has worn a harness or mesh top while hosting alongside Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neal — there’s clearly something about Smith’s proven fashion sense that Chalamet tries to emulate in his own looks./tom-sandoval-spent-18-episodes-asking-to-get-punched.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-sandoval-spent-18-episodes-asking-to-get-punched.htmlPracticing nonviolence is a respectable pursuit. It takes discipline, fortitude, and self-control. It also felt totally impossible while watching the 11th season of Vanderpump Rules, because Tom Sandoval sure kept acting like he wanted to get punched. This is not to say I personally want to punch Sandoval. But if someone were to feel such an urge after watching 15 episodes and three reunion specials of him trying to sell himself as a romantic hero after cheating on long-term partner Ariana Madix with their friend Raquel/Rachel Leviss and blowing up the series, well, I would completely understand./tracking-the-wild-history-of-leatherface.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tracking-the-wild-history-of-leatherface.htmlLeatherface, the eighth entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Cinematic Universe, finally hits theaters this weekend — which means it’s time to refresh our memories on the misadventures of our favorite chain-saw-wielding super-killer. While Leatherface has stayed mostly on the back roads of Texas since he first picked up a chain saw back in 1974, his story has had more twists and turns than an escape route out of the Sawyer family basement./under-the-bridge-recap-truth-or-consequences.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/under-the-bridge-recap-truth-or-consequences.htmlUnder The Bridge Three and Seven Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Under The Bridge Three and Seven Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Under the Bridge isn’t just about the murder of Reena Virk. The story of her killing has been examined for almost three decades, and people are still finding things to talk about./vanderpump-rules-recap-take-the-kids-to-the-pool.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vanderpump-rules-recap-take-the-kids-to-the-pool.htmlVanderpump Rules Dog Days of Summer Season 11 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules Dog Days of Summer Season 11 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There is nothing I find funnier than how much the editors hate DJ James Kennedy./walton-goggins-on-the-emotional-end-of-justified-and-the-fate-he-dreamed-about-for-boyd-crowder.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walton-goggins-on-the-emotional-end-of-justified-and-the-fate-he-dreamed-about-for-boyd-crowder.htmlThis interview contains spoilers for the series finale of Justified. Boyd Crowder lives! Walton Goggins’s Kentucky-fried criminal was supposed to die in Justified’s pilot, but producers changed their minds after they felt the chemistry between Goggins and Timothy Olyphant, Boyd’s bromantic nemesis, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Like Wile E. Coyote, Boyd cheated death for six seasons and shockingly survived the series finale, where he is last seen as a reborn-again prison preacher getting a teary-eyed visit from his old coal-mining cohort, Raylan./watching-the-goonies-for-the-first-time.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watching-the-goonies-for-the-first-time.htmlThe 80s were a great time to be a kid. High-concept comedies and sci-fi movies, loud, parent-maddening music, classic video games and cable TV. Compared to other decades, kids’ entertainment was unabashedly childish, insane, colorful, loud and ridiculous. Now that plopping your kids in front of the TV for hours on end while you do something else is sort of frowned upon, children’s entertainment has been forced to appeal, with widely varying success, to parents as well as kids, spawning a tiny amount of the best entertainment in the industry (Pixar, I’m looking at you) and a truckload of the very worst (insert your favorite squeakuel here)./what-does-netflix-say-about-your-neighborhood.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-netflix-say-about-your-neighborhood.htmlThe New York Times put together a really cool interactive map of the top Netflix rentals by zip code for 12 U.S. metropolitan areas. Rachel Getting Married and Milk are huge in South Brooklyn and much of Seattle, for example. After you look up your own zip code, it’s fun to look up the other zip codes you’ve lived in in the past, and the zip codes of your friends in other cities./what-was-the-most-disturbing-movie-scene-at-this-year-s-toronto-film-festival.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-was-the-most-disturbing-movie-scene-at-this-year-s-toronto-film-festival.htmlEvery festival has at least one movie that contains a shocking scene that critics can’t help but gossip about. (Memory lane: In 2010, Sundancers were traumatized by Jessica Alba’s* head being crushed by Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me, while 2009 saw Cannes attendees suffering PTSD after Willem Dafoe’s penile trauma in Antichrist.) And at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the prize winner for Most Hysterical Audience-Baiting Stunt goes to the Matthew McConaughey psycho flick Killer Joe, in which 76-year-old Exorcist director William Friedkin stages a spectacularly demeaning sequence that combines oral sex and fried chicken./where-is-my-sweatshirt-of-ariana-grande-fingering-the-earth.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-is-my-sweatshirt-of-ariana-grande-fingering-the-earth.htmlAs a woman who came of age in the time of extremely shitty merch — gigantic Christina Aguilera T-shirts that just said, like, “Christina Aguilera!” in Times New Roman; the occasional album cover blown up awkwardly into a dorm-room poster — the idea that merch is now “good” and even “cool to wear in public” was something I struggled to accept for a long time. Putting on a Justin Bieber Purpose Tour T-Shirt that read “PURPOSE TOUR” in a perversion of the Metallica font and heading into the office felt like a sartorial decision I would come to regret in my dying moments./who-s-on-top-of-the-movie-shark-food-chain.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-s-on-top-of-the-movie-shark-food-chain.htmlDespite the ardent efforts of nature conservancy activists to rebrand them as the gentle giants of the sea, moviegoers have long been convinced that sharks are ruthless killing machines without a shred of honor or mercy. The cinematic imagination has long feared these toothy rulers of the briny deep, their bloodlust fueling Steven Spielberg’s proto-blockbuster Jaws as well as the dozens upon dozens of imitators that would offer their own tweaks on the formula to varying degrees of success./will-kevin-hart-s-scandal-bring-down-the-upside.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-kevin-hart-s-scandal-bring-down-the-upside.htmlKevin Hart (left) and Bryan Cranston in The Upside In the odd-couple dramedy The Upside, Bryan Cranston portrays Phillip, a quadriplegic billionaire and grieving widower who has lost the use of his limbs — along with the will to live — in a freak paragliding accident. Kevin Hart plays his startlingly underqualified caretaker, Dell: a paroled convict/deadbeat dad with whom the rich man enters into the unlikeliest of bromances./your-guide-to-the-2017-boy-band-renaissance.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-guide-to-the-2017-boy-band-renaissance.htmlWhy Don’t We Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to enter a golden age: a triumphant musical revolution full of screaming fans, earworm melodies, and harmonizing. Lots of harmonizing. A generational rite of passage since the days of Beatlemania and continuing into the ’80s with New Kids on the Block, the ’90s with the Backstreet Boys and ’N Sync, and more recently, the multi-pronged One Direction phenomenon, the stars are aligning and singles are rising to signal another burst of American boy bands to soothe a weary world./zoe-kazan-on-writing-ruby-sparks-and-why-you-should-never-call-her-a-manic-pixie-dream-girl.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zoe-kazan-on-writing-ruby-sparks-and-why-you-should-never-call-her-a-manic-pixie-dream-girl.htmlZoe Kazan. Ruby Sparks is a fantasy-romance about a lonely writer named Calvin (Paul Dano) who spins a story about his dream girl — she listens to Phil Collins, roots for the underdog, loves motorcycles, and didn’t finish high school — and then that girl comes to life. Zoe Kazan, Dano’s offscreen love, not only stars as the title character, she also wrote the movie. Vulture spoke with Kazan about her debut screenplay, what Warren Beatty had to do with it, and why you should not call Ruby, or anyone, a manic pixie dream girl./13-going-on-30-was-almost-uh-not-very-good.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/13-going-on-30-was-almost-uh-not-very-good.htmlI’ll have an apple martini. Wanna see my ID? Totally have it. 13 Going on 30 is a movie about alternate realities. Specifically, an alternate reality in which 13-year-old Jenna Rink grows up to be hot and cool and Jennifer Garner, and also a fairly terrible person. The morale, of course, is that none of it is worth it if you don’t actually like yourself and don’t have anyone — ahem, Mark Ruffalo — to share your success with, so you should run straight to your parent’s house in suburban New Jersey where some magical dust — the same magical dust that whisked you from age 13 to 30 — will transport you back to being a teen so you can live your life over again and this time not suck at it, e./20-great-podcasts-under-25-minutes-long.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-great-podcasts-under-25-minutes-long.htmlThis week we’re providing a series of Vulture Hacks: expert advice, gear guides, and recommendations to help you maximize your entertainment experience. Podcasts are often celebrated for their capacity to dive deep, whether it’s a searching interview that gets stronger as it goes, a conversation that builds upon itself, or an investigative narrative that leaves no stone unturned. There are even some, like Dan Carlin’s beloved Hardcore History series, that regularly leave the realm of reason, bolting past the three-hour mark./24-comedians-on-the-comedy-clich%C3%A9s-they-d-like-to-kill-forever.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/24-comedians-on-the-comedy-clich%C3%A9s-they-d-like-to-kill-forever.htmlBan this GIF forever. In 2016, Workaholics executive producer John Quaintance tweeted photos of two whiteboards from the show’s writers’ room filled with all the jokes, bits, and lines deemed too cliché for the series. While the post undoubtedly helped some people off their cringey comedy crutches back when it first went viral, the ensuing years have spawned a host of new unfunny bromides in need of a moratorium. Despite predictions to the contrary, there’s a strong case to be made that humor has only gotten worse during the Trump era, so with the clean slate of a new decade before us, the moment could not be more opportune to nip some of these new hacky habits in the bud./6-south-korean-dating-shows-to-watch-after-single-s-inferno.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/6-south-korean-dating-shows-to-watch-after-single-s-inferno.html“It” girl Song Ji-a in action. It’s been a wild and sometimes infuriating ride, but Single’s Inferno is finally over. The eight-episode Netflix reality-dating show brought a cast of attractive singles to a deserted island and had them face off for opportunities to escape to a luxury hotel for better accommodations and one-on-one dates. It became the first South Korean reality show to ever make it into Netflix’s top-ten list of TV shows watched globally, and it showed us just how much can change over the course of nine days (Moon Se-hoon, for example, managed to end up receiving praise instead of a restraining order)./a-guide-to-stephen-king-audiobooks-read-by-stephen-king-actors.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-stephen-king-audiobooks-read-by-stephen-king-actors.htmlThe Stephen King Multiverse has, deep into the author’s fifth decade of publishing, seized more cultural real estate than ever before. “People love big shared universes,” his author son Joe Hill told USA Today, “and have tapped into the idea that Dad’s universe is as big as the Marvel universe, but it’s like for grown-ups.” King’s 60-plus novels and ten long collections of short fiction reflect and refract, connect to, and illuminate each other./agnieszka-holland-s-green-border-is-an-urgent-warning.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/agnieszka-holland-s-green-border-is-an-urgent-warning.htmlThis interview originally ran during the 2023 Venice Film Festival. We’re recirculating it in advance of Green Border’s theatrical debut. We’ve also asked Holland an additional question, which can be found at the end of the interview. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Green Border since I saw it at its Venice Film Festival premiere this week. The film, about the refugee crisis on the forested border between Poland and Belarus, is a call to arms from director Agnieszka Holland and co-writers Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk — a viscerally disturbing, two-and-a-half-hour warning about the international encroachment of fascism and mass dehumanization, captured even as tragedy continues to unfold./alan-zweibel-looks-back-on-working-with-gilda-radner-and-his-other-snl-friends.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alan-zweibel-looks-back-on-working-with-gilda-radner-and-his-other-snl-friends.htmlAlan Zweibel. As a writer on Saturday Night Live from 1975–1980, Alan Zweibel wrote and appeared onscreen as part of the show’s first few years on NBC. During season five, he was credited as a featured player, one of the first to receive this distinction. He went on to enjoy a prolific career as a screenwriter, author, showrunner, and more, co-creating the legendary It’s Garry Shandling’s Show in addition to writing the screenplays for Dragnet and North./alexander-payne-on-the-descendants-the-contraception-battle-and-the-japanese-sideways.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alexander-payne-on-the-descendants-the-contraception-battle-and-the-japanese-sideways.htmlAlexander Payne. Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, which hits Blu-ray and DVD this week, just won him his second Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay (he’d also won for his previous film Sideways), cementing his status as one of America’s most reliable adapters of literature. But in many ways that status is a bit misleading, because it has been Payne’s sensitive yet understated directing style that has truly brought these stories to life./all-creatures-great-and-small-season-finale-recap-a-declaration-of-war.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-creatures-great-and-small-season-finale-recap-a-declaration-of-war.htmlAll Creatures Great and Small For Whom the Bell Tolls Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small For Whom the Bell Tolls Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We have arrived at another finale for All Creatures Great and Small, though, as always, it’s that weird British thing where after the finale you have a Christmas special./american-horror-story-freak-show-season-premiere-recap-2-heads-are-better-than-1.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-horror-story-freak-show-season-premiere-recap-2-heads-are-better-than-1.htmlAmerican Horror Story Monsters Among Us Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story Monsters Among Us Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Get ready for over-the-top abnormalities, intricate atrocities, and things so awful it will make you go screaming from your living room to throw yourself down on the bed and cover your ears with a pillow./annaleigh-ashford-wants-you-to-empathize-with-paula-jones.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/annaleigh-ashford-wants-you-to-empathize-with-paula-jones.htmlAnnaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones, and Taran Killam as her husband Steve, in American Crime Story: Impeachment. Annaleigh Ashford was a preteen the first time she learned of the existence of Paula Jones, the Arkansas woman who filed the sexual harassment suit that kick-started an impeachment scandal for President Bill Clinton. Her initial frame of reference for Jones was late-night talk shows. “I wasn’t amazingly aware of the specifics of her origin story or exactly what she was claiming,” Ashford says./atlanta-recap-season-s-grievings.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlanta-recap-season-s-grievings.htmlAtlanta Sinterklaas is Coming to Town Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta Sinterklaas is Coming to Town Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Earn wakes up in a bed in Copenhagen, it only takes his phone a few seconds on the charger to reboot and remind him of his reality./atlanta-recap-the-making-of-the-blackest-movie-of-all-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlanta-recap-the-making-of-the-blackest-movie-of-all-time.htmlAtlanta The Goof Who Sat by the Door Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta The Goof Who Sat by the Door Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I used to love sleepovers at my grandma’s house because of her large television, premium-cable subscription, and vast collection of VHS tapes and DVDs./bachelor-in-paradise-recap-the-penultimate-peril.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bachelor-in-paradise-recap-the-penultimate-peril.htmlBachelor In Paradise Episode 9 Season 9 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bachelor In Paradise Episode 9 Season 9 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ahhhhh. Do you feel that? That sweet feeling of relief? Of feeling satisfied by an hour-long episode of television that wasn’t bloated beyond all recognition, like a corpse that washes up on the beach and ruins everyone’s vacation?/below-deck-adventure-season-finale-recap-fjord-explorer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-adventure-season-finale-recap-fjord-explorer.htmlBelow Deck Adventure Long Fjord Goodbye Season 1 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Below Deck Adventure Long Fjord Goodbye Season 1 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » It’s the season’s last charter, and it seems like everyone wants to show that they know how to do their jobs./below-deck-down-under-recap-red-flags-everywhere.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-down-under-recap-red-flags-everywhere.htmlBelow Deck Down Under Everyone Everywhere All at Once Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Down Under Everyone Everywhere All at Once Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Down Under saw Sailing Yacht give us a dramatic love triangle and said, “Hold my beer!/chappelle-summer-camp-vulture.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chappelle-summer-camp-vulture.htmllive comedy Aug. 10, 2020 Is Dave Chappelle Shooting Another Netflix Special?His recent shows, which feature Louis C.K. and others, are definitely being taped. By Megh Wright ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeTna6xvMSlo55lo6q6rrHRZpqapaBk/charges-dropped-against-real-housewives-of-slc-s-mary-cosby.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charges-dropped-against-real-housewives-of-slc-s-mary-cosby.htmlUpdate, September 19, 2022: With Mary Cosby leaving The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the show already wasn’t going to get a second legal scandal — but now we know we wouldn’t have missed out on much anyway. The charges against Cosby have been dropped owing to insufficient evidence, People has reported. Cosby celebrated in an Instagram post. “to the people who are committed believing lies! 🥰,” she wrote./collegehumor-is-launching-its-very-own-subscription-comedy-service.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/collegehumor-is-launching-its-very-own-subscription-comedy-service.htmlMike Trapp from Um, Actually. The death of NBC’s streaming comedy service Seeso might not have been in vain, because now a popular comedy outlet is launching a subscription comedy service of its own. Today CollegeHumor announced the launch of Dropout, a new ad-free, mixed-media subscription service dedicated to comedy. The initial launch of both scripted and unscripted shows as well as comics includes the following: SHOWS/conan-does-one-last-clueless-gamer-with-j-b-smoove.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/conan-does-one-last-clueless-gamer-with-j-b-smoove.htmlWhen it was announced that Conan would be wrapping up on TBS on June 24, Conan O’Brien mentioned that the next few months would be dedicated to bringing back the best of the show for one last good-bye. Apparently, before making the transition to HBO Max, Conan wanted to be the least-competent gamer one last time. O’Brien and J.B. Smoove did what will likely be the last “Clueless Gamer” segment for the TBS show, playing Biomutant for the PS5./dafne-keen-vulture.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dafne-keen-vulture.htmljustice for hester Dec. 22, 2020 His Dark Materials Renewed for a Third Season on HBO and BBCRead on for a really good Balthamos and Baruch casting idea. By Rebecca Alter ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeUlrOvsYyknJ6mXw%3D%3D/darren-knight-a-cautionary-tale.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/darren-knight-a-cautionary-tale.htmlDarren Knight and Joel Kim Booster at Just For Laughs. Last weekend, at the annual Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, an American comedian created an international incident. Selected for a Variety showcase of Top 10 Comics to Watch, Darren Knight, a.k.a. “Southern Momma,” not only insulted his peers, but also the audience, the festival, and comedy in 2018 at large. A social-media comedian with less than two years of experience under his belt but tons of followers online, Knight attempted to dictate what comedy is to a room of professionals passionate about the art form./did-j-lo-wear-a-wedding-dress-from-an-old-bennifer-movie.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-j-lo-wear-a-wedding-dress-from-an-old-bennifer-movie.htmlJ.Aff Jennifer Lynn Affleck tied the knot on July 16, J.Lo announced via her On the JLo newsletter titled “We Did It.” Her 20-year courtship with Ben Affleck culminated in a Vegas drive-through wedding where they stood in line with two other couples past midnight to be wed. There are no eyewitness reports of the nuptials — though TMZ did obtain a copy of their marriage license, per court records — so the only evidence we have of the whole affair is Jenny From the Block’s own firsthand account (and her glam squad’s own Instagram posts)./did-you-catch-the-translation-joke-in-okja.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-you-catch-the-translation-joke-in-okja.htmlWhere my Korean-Americans at? There are many excellent jokes in Okja, Bong Joon-ho’s genre-mashing movie about the titular GMO super-pig and its kid caretaker Mija, which is now streaming on Netflix. There are poop jokes; there are Tilda Swinton’s braces; there are references that run the high-low gamut, including a re-creation of the Obama war-room photo and Andrew Lincoln’s poster-board confessional from Love Actually. But there’s another joke buried in the subtitles, a little gem reserved for that special group of people who can speak both Korean and English./drake-s-son-is-already-making-deals.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-s-son-is-already-making-deals.htmlBaby GOAT and this guy he knows. Drake hasn’t been hiding his child for a while — and now, they’re even working together. Adonis Graham, already equipped with a killer professional name, drops a couple bars on his old man’s new track “Daylight,” off of For All the Dogs. “Don’t talk to my man like that / I like it when you like it / My-my-my-my man” he comes through at the end with an original flow over an old-school beat./eastbound-down-recap-what-christmas-is-about.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eastbound-down-recap-what-christmas-is-about.htmlEastbound & Down Chapter 28 Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eastbound & Down Chapter 28 Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A Christmas episode, even a slightly off-season one, dovetails quite nicely with this season’s themes — when the idea of providing for your family actually ends up eclipsing your family./emma-stone-named-herself-after-emma-baby-spice-bunton.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emma-stone-named-herself-after-emma-baby-spice-bunton.htmlDo not doubt Emma Stone’s Spice Girls fandom. She saw them live in the 90’s, she saw them live on the reunion tour, and she’s seeing them again for this Posh-less reunion tour. Tickets aren’t out, but Stone is confident that she can find a way in. Obviously, her favorite was Baby Spice, real name Emma Lee Bunton. “Growing up, I was super blonde,” Stone said on The Tonight Show Thursday night./every-delusion-in-this-season-of-vanderpump-rules.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-delusion-in-this-season-of-vanderpump-rules.htmlLet’s not pretend Tom’s bleach job wasn’t Jo using her hair powers for evil. You have to be at least slightly delusional to agree to be on a reality show. Even more so to be on Vanderpump Rules this season, as the stench of Scandoval hangs over every episode like a fart in a crowded room. Our little group has had quite the season (and quite the explosive finale) full of moments so deranged they make Tom Schwartz’s top-down convertible ride to get a midlife crisis tattoo look practically tame, dare I say even boring, in comparison./every-episode-of-monk-ranked.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-episode-of-monk-ranked.htmlThe original blue-sky show balanced darkness and humor better than any of its successors. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy the Studios. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy the Studios. It’s a jungle out there. Randy Newman’s jaunty theme song warns us as much at the beginning of (nearly) every episode of Monk. Across eight seasons, the USA procedural showed us just how dirty and dangerous the world is — or at least that’s how it appears through the eyes of its germophobic main character, Adrian Monk./filippo-bernardini-gave-the-publishing-world-something-to-write-about.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/filippo-bernardini-gave-the-publishing-world-something-to-write-about.htmlOn Thursday afternoon, a judge finally brought an end to the strange case of Filippo Bernardini, the Italian man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to impersonating hundreds of people in the book-publishing industry in order to steal unpublished manuscripts. While the government argued that Bernardini should spend a year in prison, Judge Colleen McMahon didn’t agree. Her verdict: no jail time. If one theme held the proceedings on Thursday together, it was the enduring mystery of the crime./fred-durst-director-a-complete-history.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fred-durst-director-a-complete-history.htmlFred Durst. This week’s news that John Travolta would star in Moose — a movie written and directed by Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst, and loosely based on an incident with a stalker that the rap-rocker experienced years prior — was, to say the least, surprising. Not “Fred Durst is possibly colluding with Russia”–level surprising, but maybe “Limp Bizkit signs to Lil Wayne’s former label”–level surprising. Further confusion was created when Variety incorrectly stated in a tweet that Travolta would be playing Durst himself, but fear not: Travolta won’t be shopping for fitted red Yankees caps any time soon./game-of-thrones-has-never-been-afraid-of-penises.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/game-of-thrones-has-never-been-afraid-of-penises.htmlTheon Greyjoy, owner of one of Game of Thrones’ most famous penises. If you wanted more penises on Game of Thrones, Sunday night’s episode gave you a penis alright, with a jarring close-up of a Braavosi actor examining his afflicted genitals — warts and all. Across the internet, the move was celebrated as an end to the show’s usual dick-shy ways: “Game of Thrones finally showed a penis,” wrote The Telegraph./green-day-leaks-their-own-tour-announcement.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/green-day-leaks-their-own-tour-announcement.htmlNo need to walk alone if you’re not seeing Green Day at the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas this weekend. Billie Joe Armstrong announced that the band would come around a couple more times sooner than we thought. “Big announcement: We’re doing a big tour next year,” said Armstrong at their surprise show at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas, pretty much leaking their own announcement./grovers-corners-vulture.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grovers-corners-vulture.htmlgrover’s corners Apr. 3, 2024 Take a Trip Back to Our TownKatie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and Jim Parsons will star (yes, in this). By Jason P. Frank ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeXp7y3sdFeaXCrXZi8s7rEq6po/harvey-weinstein-hired-an-obama-campaign-vet-to-try-to-get-silver-linings-an-oscar.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/harvey-weinstein-hired-an-obama-campaign-vet-to-try-to-get-silver-linings-an-oscar.htmlJennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook From the “now it can be told” files: Even though Hollywood more or less called the Oscar race over three weeks ago for Argo, Harvey Weinstein and his Silver Linings Playbook weren’t going down without a fight. In fact, Vulture has learned that in order to help increase the profile of David O. Russell’s Best Picture nominee, the Weinstein Company reached out to somebody who helped write the playbook for another recent big winner./house-of-villains-recap-parting-is-such-sweet-treacherous-sorrow.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/house-of-villains-recap-parting-is-such-sweet-treacherous-sorrow.htmlHouse of Villains Three Villains Walk Into a Bar … Ouch Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of Villains Three Villains Walk Into a Bar … Ouch Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s awards season, and it’s also that special time of the year when editors from coast to coast start rounding up and ranking their favorite pieces of pop culture and performances from the past year, only … something’s wrong with all of your lists this year./how-broadway-s-king-kong-musical-chose-its-not-one-not-two-but-three-posters.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-broadway-s-king-kong-musical-chose-its-not-one-not-two-but-three-posters.htmlDesigns by Olly Moss, Laurent Durieux, and Francesco Francavilla. The King Kong musical would like to introduce the story of a woman and a giant ape, and a woman and a giant ape, and a woman and a giant ape. To promote the larger-than-life musical, coming to Broadway with its giant puppet this fall, its creative team decided on a supersized ad campaign, hiring designers Laurent Durieux, Francesco Francavilla, and Olly Moss to create three separate posters for the show./how-did-a-neil-young-cover-end-up-in-an-nbc-ad.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-did-a-neil-young-cover-end-up-in-an-nbc-ad.htmlNeil Young and Beck, old men. NBC is reaping a Harvest off a Neil Young song, and the singer-songwriter doesn’t seem to be happy about it. NBC debuted an ad for next week’s Sunday Night Football game on September 25, soundtracked by an acoustic cover by Beck of Young’s 1972 song “Old Man.” (If you like it, Beck also released a full version of the cover.) Young has taken a career-long anti-commercial stance, and the ad sure seemed to bother him./how-the-demon-slayer-movie-is-breaking-the-mold-and-shattering-records.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-demon-slayer-movie-is-breaking-the-mold-and-shattering-records.htmlFollowing its record-breaking success in Japan, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train is preparing to make its Stateside debut. No matter what Christopher Nolan may have wanted you to believe, the movie that saved the box office last year wasn’t Tenet but an anime film titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train. In a year without Marvel movies, this sequel to a popular TV anime became the fastest film to earn over $100 million at the Japanese box office, the highest-grossing film ever in Japan, and the No./how-the-descent-ended-up-with-two-famously-bleak-endings.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-descent-ended-up-with-two-famously-bleak-endings.htmlThe Art of Ending Things How great entertainment sticks the landing. The Art of Ending Things How great entertainment sticks the landing. Writer/director Neil Marshall breaks down his horror film’s alternate conclusions — and which one he thinks is the worse fate. “Six beautiful women go spelunking” isn’t necessarily the premise you’d expect to result in a near-perfect horror movie, but The Descent doesn’t really play within the bounds of expectations./how-to-sing-sondheim-like-sara-bareilles.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-sing-sondheim-like-sara-bareilles.htmlOver the last half-decade, Sara Bareilles, best known as a pop singer-songwriter, has stealthily embraced a life of musical theater. After writing the score for the 2016 Broadway debut of Waitress and later taking on a starring role in the show, Bareilles has been back on the boards this summer starring in a revival of Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine dark fairy-tale mélange. She’s performing in the show until September 4 and will appear on its cast recording, which was taped in July./i-am-i-said-i-guess-a-beautiful-noise.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-am-i-said-i-guess-a-beautiful-noise.htmlSince you were wondering: Yes, they sing “Sweet Caroline” in A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. Twice. First, at the end of Act One, as inspiration descends from the heavens upon a young Neil (Will Swenson) as he struggles to come up with a hit in a Memphis motel room, and then again during the curtain call, when the cast joins in and encourages the audience to sing along./i-gotta-go-explain-to-people-what-emo-is.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-gotta-go-explain-to-people-what-emo-is.htmlThe punk subgenre wasn’t supposed to go mainstream. Then MTV met Dashboard Confessional. Screaming infidelities: Dashboard Confessional introducing emo to the world on MTV Unplugged. Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images Screaming infidelities: Dashboard Confessional introducing emo to the world on MTV Unplugged. In 2002, the music industry was on fire. CD sales hit an all-time peak in 1999, but the rise of file-sharing platforms like Napster had sparked a sharp drop./in-conversation-curtis-50-cent-jackson.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-curtis-50-cent-jackson.htmlEvery record label once wanted what he had (and was afraid of it). Now all of Hollywood wants it too. Photo: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/ Photo: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/ Inform someone that 50 Cent is currently the executive producer of dozens of shows across close to ten networks, then watch their brains fall into slight disrepair as they try to match the larger-than-life image of the muscle-bound, tight-jawed, bulletproof-vest-wearing party MC of their past with the image of one of the most prolific people working in Hollywood./jane-lynch-joins-annie-as-miss-hannigan.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-lynch-joins-annie-as-miss-hannigan.htmlActress Jane Lynch arrives at the 2013 WGAw Writers Guild Awards at JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE on February 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Jane Lynch will be making her Broadway debut this spring in Annie. She’s taking over for Katie Finneran as Miss Hannigan, Lynch tells the AP, and her run starts May 16. Lynch has perfected her horrifically abusive caretaker character after four seasons on Glee, so Miss Hannigan seems to be pretty squarely in Lynch’s wheelhouse./jennifer-lawrence-sounds-like-a-horrible-person-to-be-stuck-on-a-plane-with.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jennifer-lawrence-sounds-like-a-horrible-person-to-be-stuck-on-a-plane-with.htmlIf you’ve read about Jennifer Lawrence’s experience filming Mother! — she threw out a rib giving it her all — you already know that she’s willing to lose control for a role. But that doesn’t mean she enjoys the feeling. Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly that the feeling of losing control is something she’s experienced in everyday life — specifically, on planes. “It’s scary not being able to control yourself — I’ve recently had problems with plane anxiety and it’s really similar,” she said./jenny-slate-talks-to-gabe-liedman-and-max-silvestri-about-obvious-child-movie-remakes-and-butts.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jenny-slate-talks-to-gabe-liedman-and-max-silvestri-about-obvious-child-movie-remakes-and-butts.htmlIn Obvious Child, Jenny Slate plays a comedian who performs at the same Brooklyn bar every week. In many ways, it resembles Big Terrific, the weekly stand-up show Slate started six years ago with her good friends Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri. (Silvestri still hosts it every Wednesday.) The event showcased the three hosts’ lovable and hilarious dynamic, and it is also where Slate met Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre./jessica-biel-joins-hitchcock-film.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jessica-biel-joins-hitchcock-film.htmlBEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 15: Actress Jessica Biel arrives at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) For those of you keeping track at home: In the next year, we’re going to get two behind-the-scenes movies about Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies. First, there’s The Girl, which stars Toby Jones as Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren; that one is circa The Birds./jonathan-groff-on-not-getting-naked-enough-in-hair.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonathan-groff-on-not-getting-naked-enough-in-hair.htmlPhoto: Joan Marcus Since his Tony-nominated starring role in last year’s Spring Awakening, 23-year-old Jonathan Groff has won legions of admirers (and roles). He’s currently playing Claude, the conflicted emotional center of Hair at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, opening tonight, and this fall he’ll star in his first straight play on Broadway, Bartlett Sher’s production of Craig Lucas’s Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights Horizons. Groff took a break from feeling the love to talk to Vulture about his charmed career, going hippie, and soft landings./joshua-jackson-sends-shivers-up-your-spine-in-the-first-trailer-for-peacock-s-dr-death.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joshua-jackson-sends-shivers-up-your-spine-in-the-first-trailer-for-peacock-s-dr-death.html“I don’t have complications,” Joshua Jackson’s Dr. Christopher Duntsch claims in the first trailer for Peacock’s upcoming scripted drama Dr. Death. Technically speaking, that might be true, but only because what went on in the real-life surgeon’s operating room was so much more horrifying than an unavoidable mistake or a terrible side effect. Based on the nonfiction Wondery podcast of the same name, Dr. Death follows the trail of the Dallas spinal doctor turned villain, as neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Korby (Christian Slater), joined by prosecutor Michelle Shughart (AnnaSophia Robb), start piecing together the unspeakably bad patient outcomes, including two deaths, that followed Duntsch’s bizarre surgical decisions./june-squibb-made-it.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/june-squibb-made-it.htmlShe yelled at Woody Allen in her 60s, earned an Oscar nod in her 80s, and at 94, has her first starring role. June Squibb at her apartment complex in Los Angeles. Photo: Holly Andres June Squibb at her apartment complex in Los Angeles. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. June Squibb, 94, is driving me around the parking lot of her Sherman Oaks apartment complex on a bright-red, three-wheeled, two-person mobility scooter, her white hair fluttering in the late-May breeze./kyle-mooney-plays-overworked-comedy-bang-bang-intern-monty.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kyle-mooney-plays-overworked-comedy-bang-bang-intern-monty.htmlSNL’s Kyle Mooney showed up on Comedy Bang! Bang! recently as the show’s intern Monty, and Aukerman made him report live from a scene of earthquake destruction while also demanding he make silly butt jokes at his own expense. Kyle Mooney Plays Overworked ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobWdga3ysxcueZKann6OyunnPpZiyq12kw6a%2B1qippJ2UYrCwucSdsGaakaO0bq7Ap55moZ6psrO6jKamp6ypY7W1ucs%3D/legion-gets-a-premiere-date-and-a-new-trailer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/legion-gets-a-premiere-date-and-a-new-trailer.htmlStill from Legion Next year will be the 17th annum of the superhero boom, a pop-culture phenomenon that has grown troublingly stale. Luckily, 2017 will bring us Legion, a remarkable superpowered TV narrative that — at least as far as we can tell from some footage shown at New York Comic-Con — feels wholly unlike anything else in the genre. We’ve known precious little about it, but we can rack up one more factoid today: The show will premiere on Wednesday, February 8, at 10 p./maddie-ziegler-on-sia-s-chandelier-video-dance-moms-and-drew-barrymore.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maddie-ziegler-on-sia-s-chandelier-video-dance-moms-and-drew-barrymore.htmlMaddie Ziegler has up until now been reality-TV famous as the wunderkind dancer of Abby Lee’s Dance Company on Lifetime’s Dance Moms. Now the 11-year-old gets a taste of internet fame as Sia’s pint-size manifestation in the music video for her lead single, “Chandelier,” which has hit over 11 million views and included a live performance featuring Ziegler alongside the shy Australian chanteuse on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Vulture caught up with Maddie in between dance practice and talked with her about performing on Ellen, Sia’s tattoos, and making Drew Barrymore cry./maggie-smith-is-also-downton-abbey-s-dowager-countess-of-bananagrams.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maggie-smith-is-also-downton-abbey-s-dowager-countess-of-bananagrams.htmlThe Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) and Isabel (Penelope Wilton) redefined friendship goals as “become BFFs over the course of a decade with your distant cousin after our respective grandaughter and son, who are also cousins, fall in love, but the son dies in a car crash” on Downton Abbey, so when Vulture ran into Wilton at the Downton film’s premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Monday evening, we had one question and one question only: What are her and Smith’s favorite ways to chillax when the cameras stop rolling?/martin-scorsese-remembers-shooting-taxi-driver-in-new-york.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/martin-scorsese-remembers-shooting-taxi-driver-in-new-york.htmlScorsese and De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver. Last week, for its annual “Yesteryear” issue, New York Magazine published “New York After Midnight,” a celebration of the city after dark from a variety of writers and cultural figures. In honor of that, we went to the man who directed what may well be the greatest New York–by-night movie ever. The man is Martin Scorsese. And the film, of course, is Taxi Driver, a stylized, gritty 1976 portrait of a lonely cabbie’s descent into madness and violence in a hellish city./maura-tierney-discusses-the-health-issue-that-s-postponing-the-premiere-of-parenthood.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maura-tierney-discusses-the-health-issue-that-s-postponing-the-premiere-of-parenthood.htmlLate on Friday afternoon, Nellie Andreeva of the Hollywood Reporter reported that production of one of NBC’s fall series, Parenthood, has been delayed by up to eight weeks while star Maura Tierney deals with an unnamed medical issue. Andreeva’s initial report included a statement that Tierney “has been public about her long struggle to quit smoking,” but this sentence disappeared from the post sometime over the weekend. Either way, concern for Tierney’s health (and the medical condition that she is suffering from) grew exponentially over the weekend, which led Tierney to break her silence this afternoon by way of a statement she gave to Us magazine./michelle-forbes-on-the-killing-rats-and-her-new-hero-dan-harmon.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michelle-forbes-on-the-killing-rats-and-her-new-hero-dan-harmon.htmlOver her almost-25-year career, Michelle Forbes, the Texas-bred actress, has popped up in pretty much every conceivable genre of television — sci-fi (Battlestar Galactica), camp fantasia (True Blood), action (24), drama (In Treatment), comedy (Seinfeld). These days, the perennial guest star can be found in another drama, AMC’s The Killing, playing Mitch Larsen, the glassy-eyed, grief-stricken mother of a murdered girl. Vulture asked the 46-year-old ex-punk rocker to walk us through her wily, winding career./mirrors-video-the-love-saga-of-justin-timberlake-s-grandparents.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mirrors-video-the-love-saga-of-justin-timberlake-s-grandparents.htmlThe 20/20 Experience doesn’t run light on ambiguous lyrics. But no matter what you made of the opacity of “Mirrors,” you didn’t guess the video would be a tribute to Justin Timberlake’s grandparents, William and Sadie, and their 63-year relationship. The “you are, you are, the love of my life” chant toward the end works well with the theme, though. JT shows up right then to catch his grandmother’s ring and work through some supremely evocative choreography in a hall of mirrors./most-likely-to-murder-is-no-garden-state.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/most-likely-to-murder-is-no-garden-state.htmlAdam Pally in Most Likely to Murder. Billy (Adam Pally) returns to his Long Island hometown, washed-up and/or going to seed, but still possessing all the emotional wisdom of a 16-year-old bully that never really grew up. Within minutes, horror: His mother has sold his beloved Isuzu to the dork across the street. We still have the scooter, she offers, to which Billy retorts, “I’ll look like I’m in Garden State./netflix-s-between-is-yet-another-doomsday-show-with-nothing-to-say.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflix-s-between-is-yet-another-doomsday-show-with-nothing-to-say.htmlJennette McCurdy (left) stars in Between. I always wonder why more episodes of survivalist reality series Doomsday Preppers aren’t about free, widespread first-aid and health-care education. Stockpile your canned goods all you want, but you better hope someone around knows how to pop a dislocated shoulder back in, triage a head injury, or keep a wound clean. Growing a garden takes some real devotion, and as some of us were taught in nursery school, many hands make light work./netflix-s-marco-polo-is-opulent-lifeless.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflix-s-marco-polo-is-opulent-lifeless.htmlThe dialogue on Marco Polo is about 40 percent actual words and 60 percent grunts, heaves, groans, and moans. Unfortunately, once you actually hear the lines, it’s hard not to root for more uuuurggghhhs. Netflix’s new period drama wants so badly to be like Game of Thrones that it copies a lot of that show’s battle aesthetics and visual panache without seeming to notice the most important part: Game of Thrones is trying to say something./new-girl-recap-last-piece-of-pie.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-girl-recap-last-piece-of-pie.htmlNew Girl Dice Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » New Girl Dice Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have a serious proposal, and I’m not sure how much you’re going to like it at first, but just hear me out./nicki-minaj-scores-win-in-legal-battle-with-tracy-chapman.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicki-minaj-scores-win-in-legal-battle-with-tracy-chapman.htmlNicki Minaj is one step closer to freedom from her legal dispute with singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. On Thursday, September 17, Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled that Minaj did not engage in copyright infringement in her unreleased song “Sorry,” which samples Chapman’s song “Baby Can I Hold You.” In 2018, Chapman sued Minaj claiming that Mrs. Petty never had permission to use her song, but Judge Phillips ruled in favor of Minaj, citing the fair-use doctrine./nine-perfect-strangers-series-finale-recap-lose-control.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nine-perfect-strangers-series-finale-recap-lose-control.htmlNine Perfect Strangers Ever After Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Nine Perfect Strangers Ever After Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » I don’t know, guys. Was that … it? I don’t mean to diminish the very intentional happy endings everyone received at the end of “Ever After./okay-did-danny-gonzalez-ghost-or-get-ghosted-by-kevin-jonas.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/okay-did-danny-gonzalez-ghost-or-get-ghosted-by-kevin-jonas.htmlYouTuber Danny Gonzalez ghosted the eldest Jonas Brother, Kevin Jonas, years ago, even writing a song called “I Ghosted Kevin Jonas” to cement his legacy on the JB Fandom. However, a newly resurfaced tweet from seven years ago might change the narrative. Fans found a tweet from Gonzalez to Jonas where Gonzalez asked if he received his message. Gonzalez first shared the Jonas story in the video, “I’M CAMP ROCK,” where he joked about the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM, if you will) Camp Rock./pok%C3%A9mon-the-first-movie-s-soundtrack-is-a-bubblegum-pop-time-capsule.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pok%C3%A9mon-the-first-movie-s-soundtrack-is-a-bubblegum-pop-time-capsule.htmlThe internet was recently taken by surprise when Post Malone released his cover of Hootie & the Blowfish’s “Only Wanna Be With You” for Pokémon’s 25th anniversary and later performed a virtual concert in uncanny-valley-level CGI surrounded by everyone’s Pokémon favorites. The latest act to cover an early ’00s adult alternative hit (the last, of course, was Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rodgers’s cover of “Iris” by the the Goo Goo Dolls), the release triggered a wave of nostalgia for Pokémon fans alike, but it also raised the question: Was this pairing created by a random pop culture generator?/red-hot-chili-peppers-carpool-karaoke-james-corden-and-anthony-kiedis-take-their-shirts-off-and-wre.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-hot-chili-peppers-carpool-karaoke-james-corden-and-anthony-kiedis-take-their-shirts-off-and-wre.htmlCarpool Karaoke may be an incredibly popular late-night segment, but it can’t escape Earth’s natural laws. Turns out, when you cram a bunch of dudes in a car, they end up wrastlin’ it out. Such were the conditions when James Corden and all of the members of Red Hot Chili Peppers went on a drive, taking a short intermission so that Anthony Kiedis could pin Corden down on a front lawn./reviews-pairing-up-waiting-for-godot-and-no-man-s-land.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reviews-pairing-up-waiting-for-godot-and-no-man-s-land.htmlIan McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot. It’s sometimes said that great actors disappear in their roles, but I’m not sure that’s right. Watching Ian McKellen last Wednesday in a doubleheader of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land (at the matinee) and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (in the evening), I had the opposite feeling instead: that the roles were disappearing in him. He had absorbed the two characters, and now presented each, with complete fidelity and a brilliant burnish, through the medium of his voice and body./rick-and-morty-recap-scenario-4.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rick-and-morty-recap-scenario-4.htmlRick and Morty Morty’s Mind Blowers Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Rick and Morty Morty’s Mind Blowers Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Rick and Morty has absolutely no interest in making my job easy, does it?/saturday-night-live-recap-jim-carrey-dances-the-black-swan.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-night-live-recap-jim-carrey-dances-the-black-swan.htmlSaturday Night Live Jim Carrey/The Black Keys Season 36 Episode 11 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If you like Jim Carrey–type humor, last night’s Saturday Night Live did not disappoint you. The show gave him everything he needed to work with: some seeming improv, some physical comedy, and a large gamut of impersonations to run through. And if you don’t like Jim Carrey–type humor, you have no sense of humor./see-what-joel-mchale-looked-like-in-the-nineties.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-what-joel-mchale-looked-like-in-the-nineties.htmlOr, at least, we’re assuming it’s the nineties by the hair. Also, this was Seattle. [YouTube] See What Joel McHale Looked Like in the Nineties ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZny0scRmrqGZpGK3sLHLZqScoJGhsm64zqiinpxdobassYyipWasmJp6r7XNnquinaNjtbW5yw%3D%3D/seeking-an-invitation-to-christine-baranski-s-skinny-dipping-parties.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seeking-an-invitation-to-christine-baranski-s-skinny-dipping-parties.htmlDoes your mother know that you’re out (skinny-dipping with Christine Baranski)? Name: The Staff of Vulture Age: Various Seeking: An invitation to one of Christine Baranski’s “nude swimming parties” Christine Baranski truly does throw skinny-dipping parties in the moonlight for her friends. In a recent New York Times profile of the actress, in contrast to her stuffy character Aunt Agnes on The Gilded Age, Baranski reminds us all she “has been known to have nude swimming parties in the moonlight at her lake house in Connecticut with fellow actors like Mark Rylance and Cherry Jones./sex-diaries-is-going-to-be-a-tv-show-now.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sex-diaries-is-going-to-be-a-tv-show-now.html“Sex Diaries” has hit the big time! The popular, controversial Daily Intel feature, which asks sexually active folks across the country to chronicle a week of sex-having (or a week frustratedly fantasizing about it), will be adapted for television, Vulture hears. The “Sex Diaries” show will be set in New York City and follow ten separate but interconnected characters, and fittingly, multiple partners are involved in shepherding the project to the small screen: Writer Tom Spezialy (Desperate Housewives, Reaper) will script the pilot for ABC Studios and producers Mark Gordon and Nicholas Pepper./she-by-shere%C3%A9-a-complete-history.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/she-by-shere%C3%A9-a-complete-history.htmlShe did it! Kind of! Queen Elizabeth II can rest peacefully knowing she’s left her constituents in a world where She by Shereé is available for purchase to the general public. It’s rumored the last thing she saw before closing her eyes one final time was a wrinkled “Who Gone Check Me Boo?” T-shirt she was trying to order for Meghan Markle. We’ll never know if Lilibet’s order went through, though, because shortly after going live, the She by Shereé website crashed, unprepared for the “overwhelming” response./snoop-dogg-has-finally-endorsed-and-launched-his-very-own-weed-brand.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snoop-dogg-has-finally-endorsed-and-launched-his-very-own-weed-brand.htmlSnoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg has become the first major celeb to roll out an extensive, personally branded line of cannabis products. Dubbed Leafs by Snoop (not to be confused with the very popular nonexistent bread and meatloaf service, Loafs), the collection of marijuana goodies includes flowers, concentrates, and edibles, in more than half a dozen strains and flavors. The rapper and weed enthusiast launched Leafs at a private party Monday night in Denver, where LivWell dispensaries will be the exclusive, initial home for the product over the course of the next 30 days, according to reports./so-how-do-i-actually-get-hbo-max.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-how-do-i-actually-get-hbo-max.htmlIt’s the only place you can watch Friends now. This article was originally published in May and has been updated to reflect recent developments. And then there was HBO Max: Following last year’s launches of Apple TV+ and Disney+, plus this spring’s Quibi rollout, AT&T-owned WarnerMedia has now jumped into the streaming wars with its vision of video utopia. (This is particularly true if you’ve been missing Friends on Netflix, since the launch of Max means the Central Perk gang are back on streaming./songs-that-love-to-hate-new-york.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/songs-that-love-to-hate-new-york.htmlNew York is killing this guy. Earlier this year, Vulture compiled the Ultimate New York Playlist, a 30-song mixtape of the greatest New York—promoting anthems of all time. Now, we wonder if it’s already time for a rebuttal. Since Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” took over the world last fall, a small but fervent movement has arisen within the music community to ask the question — is New York the greatest city in the world?/steven-universe-the-movie-is-all-about-doing-the-work.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steven-universe-the-movie-is-all-about-doing-the-work.htmlSpoilers for Steven Universe and Steven Universe: The Movie below. “Love hurts,” wails the Scottish rock singer Dan McCafferty in Nazareth’s famous cover of the Everly Brothers tune of the same name. It’s a message regurgitated regularly by popular media in all formats. The romantic flings and failures of Fleabag? Ouch. Nicole Krauss’s novel The History of Love? Whew. Painful, and on-the-nose at that. Listen to Joni Mitchell’s Blue and try not to cry./super-bowl-halftime-show-to-feature-sign-language-performers-for-the-first-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/super-bowl-halftime-show-to-feature-sign-language-performers-for-the-first-time.htmlDr. Dre, who’s leading the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. Two more rappers are joining the Super Bowl halftime show — to interpret the performance in sign language. Sean Forbes and Warren “Wawa” Snipe, musicians who are deaf, will perform the halftime show in American Sign Language, a first for the Super Bowl, Variety reported. Wawa previously performed the National Anthem in sign language at the 2021 Super Bowl./syfy-s-channel-zero-is-yet-another-horror-show-obsessed-with-the-past.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/syfy-s-channel-zero-is-yet-another-horror-show-obsessed-with-the-past.htmlThe new SyFy series Channel Zero: Candle Cove is about a hypnotic 1988 children’s television program that may be linked to the murders of several children and the unsolved disappearance of another nearly 30 years ago in Iron Hill, Ohio. In present day, the sinister-pirate puppet show within this show begins to reappear on people’s TV screens, implying that bad things could be happening all over again to a fresh batch of kids./taylor-swift-s-1989-is-her-most-conservative-album-yet.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-s-1989-is-her-most-conservative-album-yet.htmlIf the past decade in pop has often felt like a dark, twisted, apocalyptic rager, Taylor Swift has been its designated driver. Poised, dependable, and preternaturally self-possessed, Swift has fashioned herself the sober-eyed observer in the corner, meticulously and sort of mischievously cataloguing the sordid details that everyone else will be too shitfaced to remember in the morning. (“22,” Swift’s requisite but irresistible take on the Millennial Party Anthem, proved that her idea of a wild time was not swinging from a chandelier or dancing with molly but eating breakfast … at midnight./the-2023-grammy-award-winners.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2023-grammy-award-winners.htmlHere’s something to take your mind off the fact that the fight for Beyoncé tickets begins tomorrow: the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which are back indoors in Los Angeles to honor the songs and projects from 2022, including Bey’s Renaissance, Adele’s 30, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, and Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. And while Trevor Noah might have left his job at The Daily Show, he’s not quite ready to give up his Grammys gig yet, as the comedian returned to host the ceremony for the third time in a row./the-2024-cannes-film-festival-s-standing-o-meter.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2024-cannes-film-festival-s-standing-o-meter.htmlKinds of Kindness. To fully experience the Cannes Film Festival, you can’t merely read about it. You have to watch Mr. Bean’s Holiday, too. Seriously, folks, the media maelstrom of Cannes is wild, and this fest is particularly known for wildin’ out in one particular way: weirdly long standing ovations. (Also booing, but we’re focusing on the positive right now.) Some think it’s a fun tradition and a nice way for filmmakers to get their flowers before they die./the-24-best-mr-show-sketches-in-order.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-24-best-mr-show-sketches-in-order.htmlSarah Silverman, David Cross, and Bob Odenkirk on Mr. Show. Before there was Better Call Saul, or Breaking Bad, or Arrested Development, or Comedy Bang Bang, or the first Tenacious D album, or The Sarah Silverman Program, there was Mr. Show with Bob and David. The first episode of the legendary HBO sketch series premiered in 1995, and creators Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and the writers and performers, including Scott Aukerman, Jack Black, Tom Kenny, Paul F./the-3-most-interesting-revelations-from-the-jinx-episode-two.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-3-most-interesting-revelations-from-the-jinx-episode-two.htmlThe Jinx Poor Little Rich Boy Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Jinx Poor Little Rich Boy Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Durst and now-thought-dead wife Kathie. This article was originally published on February 16, 2015./the-30-best-movies-to-watch-on-every-streaming-service.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-30-best-movies-to-watch-on-every-streaming-service.htmlEverything Everywhere All at Once. This article will be updated as movies move on and off streaming services. An asterisk indicates a new addition to the list. Don’t we all deserve to watch something that’s actually great? Too often, the competing streaming algorithms atNetflix,Max, andAmazon Prime Video push a smattering of undifferentiated piffle. So many of the major services seemingly just want to highlight their own latest acquisition or buzzy project./the-40-greatest-movie-soundtracks-of-all-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-40-greatest-movie-soundtracks-of-all-time.htmlThis post has been updated to account for the release of A Star Is Born. Blame Kenneth Anger. Back in 1963, the underground artist and puckish provocateur debuted his movie Scorpio Rising, a 30-minute barrage of erotic imagery and American iconography, scored to unlicensed rock and R&B songs by the likes of Elvis Presley and Ray Charles. A staple of art-house cinemas and university film programs, Scorpio Rising influenced the way that aspiring directors like Martin Scorsese would come to think about the juxtaposition of moving pictures and popular music./the-afterparty-recap-the-mother-i-know-does-not-bounce.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-afterparty-recap-the-mother-i-know-does-not-bounce.htmlThe Afterparty Isabel Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Afterparty Isabel Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In last week’s episode, Edgar’s mother, Isabel, made a bold claim: that she knows who murdered her son (and it wasn’t Grace, who Isabel’s been saying did it for the duration of the show so far)./the-americans-recap-the-body-count-continues.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-americans-recap-the-body-count-continues.htmlThe Americans Covert War Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Americans Covert War Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This is the moment of my season-one crush on a promising new show when I have a crisis of faith and start to wonder if the object of my affection will delight or disappoint me over the long haul./the-bachelor-season-finale-recap-villain-era.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bachelor-season-finale-recap-villain-era.htmlThe Bachelor Finale/After the Final Rose Season 27 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Bachelor Finale/After the Final Rose Season 27 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Not to be a Flat Earther, but all of our conspiracy theories about this finale were proven correct, right?/the-book-of-life-makes-death-look-downright-fun.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-book-of-life-makes-death-look-downright-fun.htmlProducer Guillermo del Toro’s name is all over The Book of Life, even though it was conceived, co-written, and directed by animator Jorge Gutierrez. It’s an understandable association, though. The film is just macabre enough to feel of a piece with del Toro’s other films, which often fuse a child’s-eye view of the world with the grim and the uncanny. Gutierrez’s animated film is a family-friendly story that celebrates Mexico and Mexican culture, in particular, el Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), the holiday reserved for communing with one’s ancestors who have passed from this world./the-fidi-coffee-shop-that-s-a-front-for-sleep-no-more-s-successor.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fidi-coffee-shop-that-s-a-front-for-sleep-no-more-s-successor.htmlAt 20 Exchange Place, Conwell Coffee Hall will (somehow) be part of Life and Trust. A plaque greets you at the entrance of Conwell Coffee Hall, the striking and mysterious café now open in New York’s Financial District. The text pays tribute to a powerful 1920s magnate, J.G. Conwell, former chairman of the Life and Trust Bank and the builder and former occupant of this craggy limestone skyscraper at 20 Exchange Place./the-last-man-on-earth-ended-perfectly-even-with-a-cliffhanger.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-man-on-earth-ended-perfectly-even-with-a-cliffhanger.htmlThe last Last Man on Earth. “Oh, farts,” says a half-scared/half-dumbfounded Tandy (Will Forte), after looking in all directions and seeing the most unlikely thing — people. People, in gas masks, looking back at him and his friends. The end. The end end. There is no more Last Man on Earth. No streaming platform is floating the idea of saving it. And no one is going to save these characters from this moment, if they even need saving./the-mindy-project-recap-daddy-issues.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mindy-project-recap-daddy-issues.htmlThe Mindy Project Dinner at the Castellanos Season 3 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Dinner at the Castellanos Season 3 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Rhea Perlman is just the best. One of The Mindy Project’s finer qualities is its willingness to commit to lifelike surprises./the-nevers-is-an-unimpressive-monument-to-joss-whedon-s-obsessions.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-nevers-is-an-unimpressive-monument-to-joss-whedon-s-obsessions.htmlAmalia True (Laura Donnelly) is one of several “Touched” citizens of The Nevers’ baffling Victoriana fantasy world. Near the end of the first episode of The Nevers, the new HBO series created and originally helmed by Joss Whedon, a dark-haired woman with a traumatizing superpower and incidentally great hand-to-hand combat skills starts to give chase. There’s a baddie, a serial-killer psychopath (but a lady!) who’s been terrorizing the show’s Victoriana fantasy world, and Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) is on the hunt, tracking her through a crowded opera house and down a rickety back stairwell./the-new-uncle-vanya-s-aims-are-off.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-uncle-vanya-s-aims-are-off.htmlSteve Carell and Alison Pill, Vanya-ing For a middle-aged estate manager with a drinking problem, a crush on his former brother-in-law’s too-young new wife, and a creeping horror that he has wasted his life, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky — known to friends and audiences as Vanya — is so hot right now. Chekhov’s plays have an uncanny tendency to resurface in waves in the English-speaking theater, and we’re in an Uncle Vanya moment./the-office-recap-garage-sale.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-office-recap-garage-sale.html“Michael, you had two ideas today. One of them was great, and one of them was terrible.” When a show like The Office builds enough development and emotion to earn a cathartic proposal scene (much like it did with Jim and Pam’s rainy gas station proposal), you’ve got to give in and feel good knowing that even though Michael’s leaving soon, he’ll be happy to go. This episode posed the same piece of advice that we did yesterday: Stop worrying about the future of post-Michael Scott Dunder Mifflin and just live in the moment, man./the-old-man-recap-partners-in-crime.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-old-man-recap-partners-in-crime.htmlThe Old Man IV Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Old Man IV Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s a shame The Old Man continues to suffer from Bloated Male-Dominated Exposition Syndrome because the fourth episode is where the series’s female characters shift from quiet supporting participants to emboldened main players./the-real-history-behind-sh%C5%8Dgun-s-final-sacrifice.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-history-behind-sh%C5%8Dgun-s-final-sacrifice.htmlToda Mariko, a noblewoman burdened with family shame, spends much of FX’s Shōgun yearning for death. In “Crimson Sky,” the penultimate episode of the show set during the climax of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai — the Era of the Country at War — Mariko is finally granted her wish. When Lord Ishido sends men to capture her alive, Mariko stands in front of the explosion that ends her life and possibly Ishido’s reputation./the-story-behind-the-horror-of-dolores-roach.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-behind-the-horror-of-dolores-roach.htmlIn The Horror of Dolores Roach, Gimlet’s new fiction podcast out just in time for Halloween, Dolores returns home from a 16-year prison stint for pot possession to find her old neighborhood, Washington Heights, unrecognizable. A Chase Bank has replaced the diner, a T-Mobile has taken over the little family-run bakery. “There’s a Planet fuckin’ Fitness,” Dolores says, horrified. The only piece of the old neighborhood that remains is Empanada Loca, run by an old buddy of hers, but business is failing — until Dolores sets up a massage parlor in the basement and has an unfortunate encounter with the sleazy landlord trying to evict them, setting into motion a macabre retelling of Sweeney Todd where cannibalism is a metaphor for gentrification./the-troubling-reverberations-at-the-end-of-oppenheimer-explained.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-troubling-reverberations-at-the-end-of-oppenheimer-explained.htmlBenny Safdie in Oppenheimer. In prerelease interviews and elsewhere, Christopher Nolan has talked about how shaken early viewers were by the ending of Oppenheimer. To some, these comments may have seemed like a bit of showmanship on the director’s part. But he wasn’t making it up, either. When I first saw Oppenheimer, I couldn’t leave the theater afterward for a while; I was frozen in my seat, unable to talk or think./the-valley-recap-twit-for-tat.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-valley-recap-twit-for-tat.htmlThe Valley The Invite Fight Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Valley The Invite Fight Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » While this may be the first season of The Valley, it is not the first reality-television rodeo for many of these players, which is why I’m a little bit mystified why the whole episode was taken up with the most rudimentary fight in all of the reality-television arts and sciences: who was invited to what./the-walking-cure-talking-to-cheryl-strayed-about-what-made-wild-work.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-walking-cure-talking-to-cheryl-strayed-about-what-made-wild-work.htmlReese Witherspoon, Wild, 2014. Midway on her life’s journey, Cheryl Strayed found herself in dark woods. Or a quarter-way, really: At the age of 26, motherless, divorced, dabbling in heroin, adrift from her stepfather and siblings and her own former self, Strayed made her way to California, hoisted a backpack, and set off to hike 1,100 miles in the wilderness, from the Mojave Desert to a place on the Oregon-Washington border called Bridge of the Gods./theater-review-silly-tolstoy-yes-at-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-silly-tolstoy-yes-at-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812.htmlThat’s a comet? How can it be that a show based on the most serious novel of all time is both the most gorgeous new musical in town and, for much of its length, the silliest? That may be a self-answering question. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, which opens on Broadway tonight, is so unlikely a mainstream entertainment that its creative team apparently felt compelled, while adapting it to ever larger venues since its 2012 Ars Nova debut, to conceal its essential nature in ever more effective disguises./the-new-new-museum.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-new-museum.htmlPART I: THE MUSEUM AS FAIRY TALE I ’ve spent much of my life in and in love with museums. When I was 10 years old, there was no mention of art in my home. But then my mother began driving me from the suburbs to the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she looked at art on her own for hours, leaving me to do the same. At the time, I liked being alone but hated museums./tom-hanks-donates-blood-and-plasma-for-coronavirus-hank-ccine-research.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-hanks-donates-blood-and-plasma-for-coronavirus-hank-ccine-research.htmlMore than a month after becoming the celebrity poster children for the coronavirus, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, hope something good can come from all of the fatigue, aches, and “blahs” they had to suffer through. Speaking with NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! podcast over the weekend, Hanks revealed that the couple will be going on a blood- and plasma-donation spree after receiving confirmation that they are indeed carrying antibodies for the coronavirus./tune-in-tonight-to-judge-luc-bondy-s-tosca-for-yourself.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tune-in-tonight-to-judge-luc-bondy-s-tosca-for-yourself.htmlOpera controversies seem to take place in a blacked-out snow globe: So far, only those who actually saw Luc Bondy’s production of Tosca live at the Metropolitan Opera got to be outraged — or to be outraged at the outrage. Everyone else had to make what they could of the descriptions of Scarpia getting physical with a statue of the Virgin Mary, and other tasteful stage business. Fortunately, there’s PBS./want-to-try-scott-aukerman-and-adam-scott-s-u-talkin-u2-to-me-podcast-start-here.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/want-to-try-scott-aukerman-and-adam-scott-s-u-talkin-u2-to-me-podcast-start-here.htmlAre you new to comedy podcasts, overwhelmed by the array of options, and wondering where to begin? Then welcome to Start Here, a recurring guide to the best comedy podcasts available — and our recommendations for which episodes are the best entry points to your next auditory obsession. For the uninitiated, it might seem odd to dive into the 25-episode U Talkin’ U2 to Me? with an entry devoted to the Bush-era mope rock band Staind./we-re-here-season-premiere-recap-trouble-in-texas.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-re-here-season-premiere-recap-trouble-in-texas.htmlWe’re Here Granbury, Texas Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » We’re Here Granbury, Texas Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » A lot has changed in the world since the last season of We’re Here, and not for the better: More legislation targeting trans youth has been filed than ever, as the Washington Post noted in a story earlier this year./we-re-just-glad-howie-mandel-s-wife-seems-to-be-okay.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-re-just-glad-howie-mandel-s-wife-seems-to-be-okay.htmlFor some reason, Howie Mandel has decided that the world needs to know about a bloody accident his wife had in a Las Vegas hotel. During a recent appearance on Live with Mark and Kelly, Mandel recalled that while “tipsy,” his wife had a fall so nasty that he “could actually see her skull” through a gash on her forehead. (He later clarified to TMZ that she was not drunk, but had taken weed gummies./what-in-the-world-happens-in-homecoming-s-ending-credit-scene.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-in-the-world-happens-in-homecoming-s-ending-credit-scene.htmlAudrey (Hong Chau), playing mind games on Homecoming. As proven on Mr. Robot, Sam Esmail loves to place a nice, ambiguous post-credits epilogue at the end of his TV seasons. With Amazon’s Homecoming, he does it again and makes it just ambiguous enough to necessitate more than one viewing. Here’s what’s going on — I think — in that final-final scene at the end of season one./what-the-hell-is-the-deal-with-clowns.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-hell-is-the-deal-with-clowns.html“All the world loves a clown,” Cole Porter once wrote. Turns out, not so much. Today, people’s perceptions of clowns are largely negative: clowns are weird, clowns are scary, clowns are incomprehensible. One thing clowns are not is funny. As Louis C.K. has said, “Clowns aren’t funny. There’s nothing worse than somebody who is not funny trying to be funny. That’s what a clown is.” However, clowns remain intrinsically linked to comedy./what-s-fact-and-what-s-fiction-in-house-of-gucci.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-fact-and-what-s-fiction-in-house-of-gucci.htmlRidley Scott’s House of Gucci, an Italian fashion family epic, creates a wild soap opera from the tempestuous romance between fashion heir Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) and his power-hungry bride, Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga). Based on the book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden, the film covers 25 years in the couple’s life. We witness their first meeting and the moment when Maurizio’s skeptical father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) disowns him for marrying her./with-more-arrested-development-coming-soon-how-are-you-feeling-today.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/with-more-arrested-development-coming-soon-how-are-you-feeling-today.htmlHow are you feeling today? With the premiere of Arrested Development coming up very soon — all those precious episodes dumped into the world on May 26 — you might feel a bit excited. Or ecstatic? Perhaps cautious? Maybe overwhelmed? Tell us how you feel by using our handy riff on the classic “How Are You Feeling Today?” chart. Arrested Development, How Are You Feeling Today ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdganyivtGeqq2dlGKxpsLEpaappZWjwW60zrBkmqqVYsawwYyfnJ6kmaO0bsDOnZiyZpipuq0%3D/yes-o-j-simpson-made-in-america-is-that-good.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-o-j-simpson-made-in-america-is-that-good.htmlThis review was originally published on June 9, 2016. On April 10, 2024, O.J. Simpson died. After watching all ten episodes of the work of high sordid art that was The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, it felt like everything that needed to be said about O.J. Simpson on television in 2016 had been said. It turns out that wasn’t true. O.J. Simpson: Made in America, the extraordinary five-part ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, has even more to tell us about the most famous athlete/acquitted murderer in the history of the U./zac-efron-says-he-almost-died-after-shattering-his-jaw.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zac-efron-says-he-almost-died-after-shattering-his-jaw.htmlZac Efron addressed online plastic-surgery rumors and opened up about the accident that “almost killed him” in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. While promoting his upcoming movie, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, at TIFF on Tuesday, Efron spoke about the internet’s theories on his changing jaw line, calling the speculation “funny.” “My mom told me,” Efron said. “I never really read the internet, so I don’t really care./a-short-history-of-legally-blonde-s-bend-and-snap-scene.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-short-history-of-legally-blonde-s-bend-and-snap-scene.htmlThe writers, a choreographer, a dancer, two character actors, and Ariana Grande’s music-video director recount an iconic moment in cinema. The phrase bend and snap began with a couple of mojitos. With a nearly complete script on their hands, Legally Blonde writers Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith were at the Viceroy L’Ermitage bar in Beverly Hills, and they were stuck. Producer Marc Platt had tasked the pair with conceptualizing a set piece for the movie’s B-plot, which centered on Harvard Law student Elle Woods and her lovesick manicurist, Paulette Bonafonté, who had been pining after a deliveryman for the majority of their story./all-too-well-10-minute-version-is-everything-we-hoped-for.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-too-well-10-minute-version-is-everything-we-hoped-for.htmlAs much as I would have loved to have the full ten-minute version of “All Too Well” when Red first came out in 2012, getting a chance to relive the song as an adult and grow up with Taylor is what I (and other heartbroken fans) needed before experiencing “ATW” in all of its glory. Taylor Swift has grown into an artist that redefined the music industry, and she has perfected the heartbreak ballad with “All Too Well (10-Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)./always-be-my-maybe-s-costume-designer-answers-all-your-glasses-questions.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/always-be-my-maybe-s-costume-designer-answers-all-your-glasses-questions.htmlHer glasses game is STRONG. If we’ve learned anything from Ali Wong and Randall Park’s new rom-com Always Be My Maybe, it’s that the world doesn’t deserve Keanu Reeves. If the movie left us questioning anything, it was this: Where does Ali Wong get her glasses? Ever since the film hit Netflix, the internet has been in a frenzy over the multiple frames Wong’s characters wears — at work, on dates, at her kitchen table./american-horror-story-s-emma-roberts-on-this-week-s-episode-and-her-crystal-balls.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-horror-story-s-emma-roberts-on-this-week-s-episode-and-her-crystal-balls.htmlEmma Roberts. Con artist and fortune teller Maggie Esmerelda has been dealing with quite the moral dilemma on this season’s American Horror Story: Freak Show. Will she betray her true love or her partner-in-crime? Will the freaks ever be able to accept her as one of their own — and trust the fact that she might actually be able to help them? This week’s episode had Maggie coming clean, but who knows whether she’ll stay that way./an-education-s-carey-mulligan-on-not-playing-a-lolita.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-education-s-carey-mulligan-on-not-playing-a-lolita.htmlA still from Push. Carey Mulligan had this year’s one true star-is-born moment at Sundance. She’s on her way to being a serious movie star, with a sharp ensemble part in The Greatest and a gobsmacking star turn in the Nick Hornby–scripted An Education. We spoke to Mulligan about having an “out-of-body experience” at Sundance and realizing how young she looks in a school uniform. You’re the talk of the festival./ari-shaffir-has-four-hours-of-advice-for-young-comedians.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ari-shaffir-has-four-hours-of-advice-for-young-comedians.htmlStand-up Ari Shaffir delivered this nearly four-hour-long lecture, chock full of helpful advice for up and coming comics, onstage at The Comedy Store earlier this month and it’s well-worth listening to despite its considerable length. Ari Shaffir Has Four Hours of Advice for Young […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdgaXyivshmqqGZlpu2s3nHmqpmnp%2Bqv260zq6prGWfm3qisNWimp5llqS%2FbsXOrqWgZZOkuqawyJqlrGaYqbqt/auntie-will-never-retire.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/auntie-will-never-retire.htmlSheryl Lee Ralph has big plans for her post-Emmys career, so long as the younger generations keep hiring her. Into It with Sam Sanders Get the latest episodes Thursdays. Subscribe to the podcast here. Photo: JJ Geiger Into It with Sam Sanders Get the latest episodes Thursdays. Subscribe to the podcast here. When Sheryl Lee Ralph won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Abbott Elementary, she wasn’t just accepting praise for playing Barbara Howard, the tough-but-sweet, quietly hilarious kindergarten teacher she plays in Quinta Brunson’s ABC sitcom./ballers-finale-recap-everything-s-fine.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ballers-finale-recap-everything-s-fine.htmlBallers Flamingos Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ballers Flamingos Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s official: Ballers is Entourage for guys with NFL Sunday Ticket packages. After nine weeks of giving this show the benefit of the doubt, Ballers’ full transformation into an Entourage clone took place during its season finale, “Flamingos” — and I’m kinda pissed off about it./below-deck-mediterranean-recap-stay-the-course.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-mediterranean-recap-stay-the-course.htmlBelow Deck Mediterranean Oh Snap! Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Oh Snap! Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As this boat stays docked, the plot seems stalled too, and I’m starting to feel like a restless charter guest./blue-streak-beverly-hills-cop.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-streak-beverly-hills-cop.html“Murphy overwhelms everyone, even himself, with his gift of gab. He wants the world to be a faster place…” Photo: New York Magazine Editor’s note: This review originally appeared in the December 10, 1984, issue of New York. We’re republishing it to mark the release of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F this week. Eddie Murphy is an example of democratic man stretched to his limits. Like many entertainers, he has an instinct for what the audience will embrace as the central response to any situation — he knows how to position himself at the center of our emotions so that we see ourselves in him./boardwalk-empire-recap-outsider-artists.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boardwalk-empire-recap-outsider-artists.htmlBoardwalk Empire What Does the Bee Do? Season 2 Episode 4 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Boardwalk Empire What Does the Bee Do? Season 2 Episode 4 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, now: This is the Boardwalk Empire I like to see. Last night’s episode was the show’s best by a country mile — a distance more or less equivalent to the one Chalky White traversed to get from the metaphorical fields to his own current manse./bowen-yang-s-george-santos-invented-being-gay.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bowen-yang-s-george-santos-invented-being-gay.htmlThere’s an art to being pushed onto the Weekend Update set via rolly chair, and Bowen Yang continues to be a master of the form. This weekend on Saturday Night Live, he reprised his role of George Santos to address the congressman’s eventful week and the calls for his expulsion. “Girl, expul me,” Yang’s Santos said, before being told by Jost that that’s not a word. “Girl is a word,” he shot back./breaking-down-the-role-of-each-belcher-on-bob-s-burgers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-down-the-role-of-each-belcher-on-bob-s-burgers.htmlIn a 2008 interview, Kerri Kenney described her role on Reno 911! thusly: Certain characters’ job is to move things along. Tom [Lennon]’s job, as a character [Lt. Dangle], is to keep things moving. He’s the boss he’s got to keep things on track. My job is to stop things in their tracks as often as possible. Whether it’s intentional on the part of the writers, most comedies fit their characters into similar boxes./bruce-springsteen-debuts-new-giants-stadium-tribute-song-wrecking-ball.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bruce-springsteen-debuts-new-giants-stadium-tribute-song-wrecking-ball.htmlLast night, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened up their first of five farewell-to–Giants Stadium shows with a brand-new track that the Boss wrote specifically for the occasion. The song, “Wrecking Ball,” is significantly more lively and energetic than anything on his most recent LP, Working On a Dream, and seems to signal to this longtime Springsteen fan that Bruce has been spending a lot of time of late listening to the Gaslight Anthem’s terrific new album./calvin-hobbes-twitter-and-copyright.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/calvin-hobbes-twitter-and-copyright.htmlThere is a battle going on between good and evil – right at the nexus between art and commerce, between the old way and the new, between Minions memes and classic philosophy. It is taking place smack in the middle of the untamed Wild West of online copyright law, right on the main drag of the rowdiest, dirtiest, most notorious and cut-throat town of them all: Twitter.com. The stakes? The most precious of them all… our very way of life… 90s nostalgia…/caroline-polachek-loves-mess.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/caroline-polachek-loves-mess.htmlFor her mucky, bold, feminine new album, the singer gets primal. Kurt and Caroline. Photo: Lindsay Ellary Kurt and Caroline. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Caroline Polachek wasn’t out to scandalize the zoo. She made the three-hour journey from Los Angeles, where she was deep in final-edit mode for her new album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a wildlife preserve in Escondido, with the purest of intentions: She wanted to see Kurt./cassie-vulture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cassie-vulture.htmlroll credits July 18, 2008 Week in Review: Early-Departure EditionDid anything else happen this week besides the opening of ‘The Dark Knight’?ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeTlsC0tcRo/corey-stoll-was-a-little-bashful-about-his-big-girls-sex-scene.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/corey-stoll-was-a-little-bashful-about-his-big-girls-sex-scene.htmlYou can always count on the Cannes Film Festival to deliver some carnal pleasures, and while Corey Stoll doesn’t partake in any sex scenes for his Cannes entry, Woody Allen’s Café Society, he bottomed so memorably for Andrew Rannells this season on Girls that he could surely hold his own against any sexual situation screening here. Earlier today at a luncheon on the Croisette, the revealing scene came up and Stoll praised how Girls creator Lena Dunham and director Jesse Peretz handled it./counterpart-season-2-vulture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/counterpart-season-2-vulture.htmlCounterpart Season 2 - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: overnights Dec. 16, 2018 Counterpart Recap: Prime TimeThe season kicks into gear with an Emily-centric episode that delivers a twist that hits Howard like a wrecking ball. By Scott Tobias overnights Dec. 9, 2018 Counterpart Premiere Recap: Perfect StrangersSeason two picks up right where season one left off, with an episode that turns on the weird intimacy of strangers figuring out how to live together./cruel-summer-recap-teenage-dirtbag.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cruel-summer-recap-teenage-dirtbag.htmlCruel Summer Confess Your Sins Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cruel Summer Confess Your Sins Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Now, girls. What are we doing here? I understand that Luke is an asshole, and I’m sure that came as a shock./dave-season-premiere-recap-young-and-wild.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-season-premiere-recap-young-and-wild.htmlDave Texas / Harrison Ave Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Dave Texas / Harrison Ave Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » What happens when a deeply insecure yet narcissistic man becomes famous? That’s the main question that Dave is asking at this point./david-bowie-s-golden-years-assessing-a-radical-career.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-bowie-s-golden-years-assessing-a-radical-career.htmlBowie in Japan, 1977. Editor’s note: This piece was originally published three years ago, prior to the release of David Bowie’s 2013 album, The Next Day. I very rarely have felt like a rock artist,” David Bowie used to say. “I’ve got nothing to do with music.” More than 40 years on, we see now he was dissembling on both counts. But as with any great act of self-creation, there was an element of truth in the obfuscation, and the roles he was playing in addition—some species of musical-­theater provocateur, a high-art celebrity indulging in a low-art mechanism, a transgressive social poet manipulating a pop-cultural moment—seem plain./david-sedaris-needs-your-feedback.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-sedaris-needs-your-feedback.htmlDavid Sedaris. Around this time 31 years ago, David Sedaris was working as a Christmas elf at a New York City Macy’s; 28 years ago, he read his story about the experience on NPR’s Morning Edition, and it changed his life. This holiday season, Sedaris has released The Best of Me, a greatest-hits collection that includes that story as well as many others from his career as the most prominent humorist of a generation./dead-to-me-recap-small-town.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dead-to-me-recap-small-town.htmlDead to Me You Don’t Have To Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dead to Me You Don’t Have To Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s so much joy in the final scenes of this episode that it almost doesn’t look like Dead to Me./death-and-other-details-series-premiere-recap-the-primer-is-truth.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-and-other-details-series-premiere-recap-the-primer-is-truth.htmlDeath and Other Details Rare/Sordid Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Death and Other Details Rare/Sordid Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Not to be dramatic or anything, but cruises are actual hell on earth. Like, Cruise People, what are you doing with your lives? Paying money to have someone send you off to the middle of the ocean — its own separate hellscape of unknown mysteries — on an unnaturally large boat with thousands of strangers where you are forced to play bingo and manhandle food from shared buffets and listen to the same playlist of music over and over and over again no matter what “club” you go to that night?/detective-lana-del-rey-investigates-the-case-of-the-missing-vape.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/detective-lana-del-rey-investigates-the-case-of-the-missing-vape.htmlShe chose lung health. Did you know that there’s a missing vape in Rio de Janeiro? Lana Del Rey recently performed a full concert set for the first time in over three years as the headliner of the MITA Festival in Rio, where fans were treated to both the live debut of songs from her new album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd and Del Rey’s onstage banter./digable-planets-announces-reunion-tour-can-you-dig-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/digable-planets-announces-reunion-tour-can-you-dig-it.htmlDigable Planets will return to Earth for a reunion tour (and yes, that is a pun on both “digable” and “planets”). The band teased a reunion tour at their New Year’s Eve shows in Seattle, and today, they have announced a summer tour for July and August with 13 dates so far, including the previously announced Sasquatch and Pitchfork festivals. Snatch your tickets up now, while the planets are aligned in your favor./do-you-have-the-touch-learn-the-bizarre-history-of-the-greatest-transformers-song-ever.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-have-the-touch-learn-the-bizarre-history-of-the-greatest-transformers-song-ever.htmlLast week, the Transformers Hall of Fame — which is, believe it or not, a real thing — inducted two fictional robots, but only one human: a 60-year-old Los Angeles resident named Stan Bush. When the emcee uttered that human’s name, cheers and applause erupted from the throngs of Transformers fans in the audience at the Pasadena Convention Center. Bush was brought on stage and he wore a grin of elation and surprise./does-amy-schumer-have-a-blind-spot-around-race.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-amy-schumer-have-a-blind-spot-around-race.htmlIn Monica Heisey’s new piece in The Guardian about Amy Schumer and her insanely good year, the writer praises Schumer’s unapologetic feminist stances, but also criticizes the comedian for racial insensitivity: For such a keen observer of social norms and an effective satirist of the ways gender is complicated by them, Schumer has a shockingly large blind spot around race. Her lacklustre stint hosting the MTV Movie awards (a rare misstep) featured lazy jokes about Latina women being “crazy” that left Jennifer Lopez as unimpressed as the online commentariat./emily-in-paris-recap-well-if-it-isn-t-the-consequences-of-my-own-actions.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-in-paris-recap-well-if-it-isn-t-the-consequences-of-my-own-actions.htmlEmily In Paris Bon Anniversaire! Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily In Paris Bon Anniversaire! Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Technically, this episode is about Emily’s birthday, but I choose to believe it was, in fact, a present to moi./fargo-showrunner-explains-last-night-s-crossover-with-the-coen-brothers-film.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fargo-showrunner-explains-last-night-s-crossover-with-the-coen-brothers-film.htmlDid that ice scraper in the snow look familiar to you? Last night’s episode of FX’s Fargo began in 1987, when a young Stavros and his family run out of gas along the side of the road. He asks God for help and then spots a lone red ice scraper standing in the snow. Beneath it, he finds a briefcase that by then we know is filled with exactly $920,000 in cash./glen-powell-sorry-for-regurgitating-creepypasta.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glen-powell-sorry-for-regurgitating-creepypasta.htmlInnocence. Isn’t it always a mistake when your story starts with “This happened to a _____ of a ______”? A friend of a friend? Not reliable! An ex of my cousin? Not! Reliable! And a friend of my sister? Glen Powell can now confirm this: not a reliable source. While on the Therapuss podcast on May 22, Powell shared a story that purportedly happened to a friend of his sister’s (it didn’t)./great-audiobooks-to-listen-to-in-2022.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/great-audiobooks-to-listen-to-in-2022.htmlThe audiobook category is expanding every day, and we certainly can’t listen to everything. The goal of this column is to steer you toward audiobooks that we hope will provide the best experiences, pop-culture value, and something to talk about at your cocktail party. For December, we’re looking back at a few notable titles released earlier in 2022 that we missed along the way. December Picks The Boys from Biloxi, by John Grisham $31 $31 Photo: Random House Audio Read by: Michael Beck/greenleaf-recap-praise-reports.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/greenleaf-recap-praise-reports.htmlGreenleaf Meaningful Survival Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Greenleaf Meaningful Survival Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lynn Whitfield as Lady Mae. In “Meaningful Survival,” Lady Mae finally gets a little more to do as she manipulates deacons and Bishop Greenleaf to get what she wants./horrible-bosses-2-cut-rape-scene-involving-jennifer-aniston.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/horrible-bosses-2-cut-rape-scene-involving-jennifer-aniston.htmlEven the normally poised Jennifer Aniston got flustered when Conan asked her about the “sex scene” that was cut from Horrible Bosses 2. “It was kind of, not even mutual, you know? I’m not gonna say it,” she stammers. “Charlie Day’s character is in a coma. And I exploit him whilst he’s in a coma.” Yeah, that’s Jennifer Aniston tiptoeing around the word rape. Wisely, they cut the scene, although Aniston suggests it might be in the DVD extras./how-kenny-loggins-cut-footloose.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-kenny-loggins-cut-footloose.htmlIt involved broken ribs, a failed Flashdance audition, and a songwriting session in a laundry room. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo Kenny Loggins had yet to be crowned the King of ’80s Soundtracks when Dean Pitchford came calling. The Broadway vet was working on the script for Cheek to Cheek, a movie about a town that had banned dancing, and was hoping Loggins would write the music. At the time, Loggins was mostly known for his soft-rock stylings in his duo with Jim Messina as well as a handful of breakout solo hits./how-much-more-sauron-prologue-do-we-need.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-much-more-sauron-prologue-do-we-need.htmlRemember this whole thing? Pull out your copy of The Silmarillion that you promised yourself you’d finish one of these days and pour yourself a goblet of Elvish wine: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is returning later this summer. The second season of Amazon’s megapricey foray into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth debuts August 29, nearly two years after its first season premiered to a major gap between critics who were mostly approving and misogynist, racist fans who were big mad./how-the-muppet-show-turned-kermit-piggy-co-into-style-icons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-muppet-show-turned-kermit-piggy-co-into-style-icons.htmlIt’s time to put on makeup / It’s time to dress up right… Polly Smith’s memories of working behind the scenes on The Muppet Show sound a lot like Kermit the Frog’s experience onscreen as the show’s emcee. The costume designer, who started on the show in 1978, four seasons into its five-season run, admits things were usually chaotic. Her workshop was right next to the green room, so the writers, puppeteers, set builders, and prop designers were always rushing through as she furiously tried to finish last-minute costumes./i-made-rachel-s-english-trifle-and-forced-my-entire-family-to-eat-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-made-rachel-s-english-trifle-and-forced-my-entire-family-to-eat-it.htmlNow is the winter of our Friends content. The show turns 25 this month, and because of the strange significance that our culture has attached to multiples of five, the internet has spent the past few weeks rehashing the series: debating whether Friends is Actually Bad, standing by while Meghan Trainor inexplicably rerecords the theme song, listing “ways to celebrate” the show’s legacy. When my editor asked us if we had any ideas about how to cover Friends’ anniversary, I was briefly reminded of the chaotic meaninglessness of the universe./i-was-good-by-myself-i-m-better-with-the-guys.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-was-good-by-myself-i-m-better-with-the-guys.htmlRaphael Saadiq wasn’t sure a Tony! Toni! Tone! reunion would happen. Photo: David “Odiwams” Wright Inside Raphael Saadiq’s sprawling North Hollywood compound, you’ll find a bit of Oakland everywhere: An Athletics street sign resting on a bookshelf above a recording studio; a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon with vanity plates dedicated to Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton parked nearby; and, just across the way, all three Bay Area–bred members of Tony!/inside-elemental-s-slow-burn-journey-from-summer-flop-to-year-end-hit.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-elemental-s-slow-burn-journey-from-summer-flop-to-year-end-hit.htmlThe Pixar rom-com was one of the year’s most crushing box-office failures — until it redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph after all. The critical drubbing and box-office floppage of the fire-water rom-com Elemental stood, for the better part of 2023, as one of this year’s most crushing film failures: a two-front defeat all the more curious coming from Pixar, one of filmdom’s most unfailable hit factories. Until the precise moment the opposites-attract animated romp quietly redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph after all./johnny-rotten-vulture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/johnny-rotten-vulture.htmlquote machine Sept. 21, 2007 Pot Feuds With KettleQuotes from KT Tunstall and Johnny Rotten. Plus, Dolly Parton on her plans to die!ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeapLWvuthmqaispJq7cA%3D%3D/lana-del-rey-was-so-good-on-snow-on-the-beach-you-couldn-t-hear-her.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lana-del-rey-was-so-good-on-snow-on-the-beach-you-couldn-t-hear-her.htmlBy now, the world doesn’t need any more proof that Lana Del Rey is a musical genius. Have you heard “A&W”? So we never should have doubted that there was actually a reason why Del Rey’s vocals were so quiet for her feature on Taylor Swift’s “Snow on the Beach,” as Del Rey explained to Harper’s Bazaar. “If I think somebody’s song is perfect, I will act as a producer in it,” she said./lane-neuwirth-at-addams-family-opening-night.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lane-neuwirth-at-addams-family-opening-night.htmlAll it took was an accent and some facial hair for Nathan Lane to get into the character of Gomez Addams for the new Addams Family musical on Broadway, which opened last night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The accent is “a little combination of Billy Crystal doing Fernando Lamas and Antonio Banderas doing the Nasonex bee,” he explained to us at the opening. As far as his new pencil mustache, he said it’s hard to maintain, but at least his friends like it./leap-day-william-lizzing-mind-grapes-and-more-an-updated-30-rock-glossary.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leap-day-william-lizzing-mind-grapes-and-more-an-updated-30-rock-glossary.html30 ROCK – “Leap Day” Episode 609 – Pictured: (l-r) Jack McBrayer as Kenneth Parcell, Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy – Photo by: (Ali Goldstein/NBC) Do you speak 30 Rock? Can you use “mind grapes” in a sentence? Over seven seasons, Tina Fey & Co. have introduced dozens of new phrases into the lexicons of obsessive sitcom viewers: As “yada yada yada” was to the nineties, “blerg” is to the 21st century./lena-dunham-claims-she-warned-the-clinton-campaign-that-harvey-weinstein-was-a-rapist.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lena-dunham-claims-she-warned-the-clinton-campaign-that-harvey-weinstein-was-a-rapist.htmlA new, expansive report by the New York Times outlines the many ways Harvey Weinstein used his wealth and connections in media, politics, and beyond to hide his alleged history of sexual assault. And within the massive story, Lena Dunham shares an account of attempting to warn the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign about the movie producer’s reputation, and encouraging the candidate to distance herself from him. After allegedly hearing stories about Weinstein’s misconduct through other actresses, Dunham, who was a vocal supporter of Clinton, claims she told Kristina Schake, the campaign’s deputy communications director, about his behavior./let-stars-on-mars-ease-out-your-vanderpump-rules-comedown.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-stars-on-mars-ease-out-your-vanderpump-rules-comedown.htmlThe best reality TV brings a feeling I can only describe as “brain-smoothing.” When Scheana Shay explains that she couldn’t possibly make a fist because of her acrylic nails, I feel my brain getting the wrinkles ironed out of it. No more worries, no more thoughts, just spectacle. Since Scandoval broke, the best brain-smoothing on TV has been Vanderpump Rules. Frankly, that show has been leading the world in thought-obliterating technology since 2013, but this season really elevated the art./life-cycles-vulture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-cycles-vulture.htmllife cycles Sept. 10, 2021 The 5 Stages of a Meme ChallengeHow does something like the Milk Crate Challenge catch on in the first place? And when is it rendered officially, canonically cringe? By Luke Winkie ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGecnrOmecKymqWdo2Q%3D/lisa-marie-presley-s-daughter-riley-keough-has-a-daughter-of-her-own.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lisa-marie-presley-s-daughter-riley-keough-has-a-daughter-of-her-own.htmlRiley Keough. As family, friends, and fans gathered to honor Lisa Marie Presley at her funeral at Graceland on January 22, daughter Riley Keough and husband Ben Smith-Petersen shared the news of their own daughter in a gentle tribute. “I remember how safe it felt to be in your arms,” Smith-Petersen read from a speech written by Keough. “I remember that feeling as a child, and I remember it two weeks ago on your couch./love-is-blind-contestant-sues-over-alleged-sexual-assault.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-blind-contestant-sues-over-alleged-sexual-assault.htmlTwo production companies for Love Is Blind have been hit with a new lawsuit. Per People, Kinetic Content and Delirium TV are being sued over claims of sexual assault, false imprisonment, and negligence. Plaintiff Tran Dang, who participated as a contestant but did not appear in the final cut of the show, has claimed that she was sexually assaulted during filming of the reality show’s fifth season in May 2022./married-to-medicine-recap-here-comes-the-bride.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/married-to-medicine-recap-here-comes-the-bride.htmlMarried to Medicine Pamper Party Crasher Season 10 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Married to Medicine Pamper Party Crasher Season 10 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The cast of Married to Medicine have never been strangers to enjoying adult entertainment, and while I’m still recovering from watching Kyle Richards have a sundae topping licked from her body in Vegas (go, girl!/mary-george-recap-to-strategically-vomit.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-george-recap-to-strategically-vomit.htmlMary and George Not So Much By Love As By Awe Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mary and George Not So Much By Love As By Awe Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The banging has arrived./meet-snl-s-tishy-the-woman-you-don-t-know-why-you-love.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-snl-s-tishy-the-woman-you-don-t-know-why-you-love.htmlTeen boys worry about the wrong things. On SNL, Mikey Day played a teen worried that he’d never, ever get jacked. What he should have been worrying about, as his future self (Alex Moffat) shows him, was Tishy. Tishy, as embodied by host Sandra Oh, is a buck-wild 40-something drinking Four Loko and constantly breaking her arm. Day doesn’t understand why he’s dating Tishy in the future, but it actually makes perfect sense./melanie-laurent-s-galveston-is-pitch-black-and-paper-thin.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/melanie-laurent-s-galveston-is-pitch-black-and-paper-thin.htmlElle Fanning in Galveston. The terminally ill criminal is such a cliché in movies and books that the sight of Ben Foster’s boozing bagman learning he’s got lung cancer in the opening minutes of Galveston is, strangely enough, kind of promising. Surely, one thinks, this will be a clever twist on an old concept. Surely they’re not going to play this straight? Well, I have some terrible news for you./mooncop-vulture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mooncop-vulture.htmlsequential art Sept. 19, 2016 Mooncop Is the Most Chill Comic You’ll Read This YearIt’s the latest from celebrated cartoonist Tom Gauld. By Abraham Riesman ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGedpLyvr86pZg%3D%3D/movie-review-hysteria-is-the-most-demure-film-you-ll-see-about-sex-toys.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/movie-review-hysteria-is-the-most-demure-film-you-ll-see-about-sex-toys.htmlDon’t get too excited. Hysteria may be a film about the guy who invented the vibrator, but it’s probably the most demure movie you’ll ever see about the creation of a sex toy. Tanya Wexler’s film goes through the moves of irreverence — there’s lots of wink-wink innuendo and irony to spare — but it could just as well be about the guy who invented the cheese grater./munchkin-coroner-of-oz-dies-at-94.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/munchkin-coroner-of-oz-dies-at-94.htmlMeinhardt Raabe, the munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz, died yesterday in Florida at the age of 94. Even though his appearance in the film was uncredited and only thirteen seconds long, it turned him into a bit of a superstar. And like a true professional, he was always willing to give fans what they wanted. [NYT] Munchkin Coroner of Oz Dies at 94 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgaXyuwc2cn6ShnpSwsL7Op5yrl5%2BbrLDGvp2gnquPlsFvtNOmow%3D%3D/natalie-portman-acknowledges-annihilation-whitewashing-is-problematic.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natalie-portman-acknowledges-annihilation-whitewashing-is-problematic.htmlPortman. Natalie Portman has responded to claims that her new film Annihilation whitewashes the identities of its main characters. In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Portman and her co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh say they only learned about the race of the characters in the film’s source material this week. When asked to comment on the controversy, Portman said, “Well, that does sound problematic, but I’m hearing it here first./nic-cage-seems-the-obvious-choice-but-dave-bautista-ll-be-great-in-zack-snyder-s-zombie-heist-f.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nic-cage-seems-the-obvious-choice-but-dave-bautista-ll-be-great-in-zack-snyder-s-zombie-heist-f.htmlDave Bautista. When you read the words “mercenaries take the opportunity during a zombie apocalypse to pull off the worst’s greatest heist in Las Vegas,” you first thought is likely, “Sounds like the second or third least insane Nicolas Cage movie.” But maybe it’s time to pass Cage’s extremely bananas mantle on to Dave Bautista, the newly announced star of Zack Snyder’s forthcoming action flick Army of the Dead./no-more-broke-dick-in-2022-vows-dulc%C3%A9-sloan-on-cnn.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-more-broke-dick-in-2022-vows-dulc%C3%A9-sloan-on-cnn.htmlComedian Dulcé Sloan spoke truth to power during her appearance on CNN’s New Year’s Eve programming last night, and we are all the better for it. In what was indisputably the highlight of CNN’s live broadcast, Sloan told hosts Don Lemon and Alisyn Camerota, live from their celebration in New Orleans, that her resolution for 2022 was “no more broke dick.” Off Lemon and Camerota’s confused faces, Sloan clarified in no uncertain terms, “No more broke dick./nurse-jackie-s-adam-ferrara-on-playing-edie-falco-s-love-interest-and-not-wanting-to-kiss-like-a.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nurse-jackie-s-adam-ferrara-on-playing-edie-falco-s-love-interest-and-not-wanting-to-kiss-like-a.html[Spoilers ahead] Jackie finally got a promising (and sober!) relationship on Nurse Jackie this season, courtesy of stand-up comic Adam Ferrara, who played the warm and likable cop Frank Verelli, a guy who gave Jackie quirky gifts and a high-five after sex. Now that the couple has exchanged I love yous, we expect to see a lot more of Ferrara’s character on the show — assuming Jackie’s recent relapse doesn’t get in the way./oh-mary-the-play-was-hilarious-mrs-lincoln.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oh-mary-the-play-was-hilarious-mrs-lincoln.htmlThe world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. There’s a classic gag where a character gets his pants pulled down to reveal his heart-patterned boxer shorts. It’s the kind of vaudevillian punch line you rarely see anymore outside of comic strips like Garfield. But midway through Oh, Mary!, as Mary Todd Lincoln climbs onto a desk in the Oval Office in a fit of passion and fury, flinging her hoop skirt up at the audience, there they are: white and red and, no matter how sophisticated you think you are, likely to rip a belly laugh out of you./on-cinema-fans-will-get-a-movie-of-their-own-this-fall.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-cinema-fans-will-get-a-movie-of-their-own-this-fall.htmlTim Heidecker. Big news for fans of Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s Adult Swim series On Cinema: an actual cinematic experience is coming to your local cinema this fall. According to Variety, Magnolia has acquired the North American rights to a feature film in the On Cinema universe called Mister America, which follows Tim Heidecker’s campaign for San Bernardino district attorney last year. Eric Notarnicola — who has worked on Decker, On Cinema, and the duo’s annual Oscar specials — directed the film./on-their-9th-album-weezer-apologize-for-their-previous-6.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-their-9th-album-weezer-apologize-for-their-previous-6.htmlLegend has it that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to be able to play the blues, and that Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo sold his to write “Beverly Hills.” Or at least that’s the assumption that’s plagued the band over the last decade—even though, by traditional measures of success, that infernally catchy cut from their 2005 album, Make Believe, marked a triumphant breakthrough in their career. (It was the first Weezer song nominated for a Grammy./oscar-isaac-came-up-with-his-moon-knight-accent-himself.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oscar-isaac-came-up-with-his-moon-knight-accent-himself.html“Laters, gators.” For everyone thirst-watching Moon Knight on Disney+ for Oscar Isaac, you might have been surprised (and/or delighted) to hear the Guatemala-born actor speak in a high-pitched British accent while playing a museum worker with dissociative identity disorder, Steven Grant. Well, Isaac told Variety he decided to give Grant the British touch himself, saying it was a way of “committing to completely different people.” Moon Knight was slated to be set in New York, like many other Marvel movies, but the setting was moved to London, and so went Isaac’s accent./participation-trophy-jokes-can-be-good-sometimes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/participation-trophy-jokes-can-be-good-sometimes.htmlIn a cycle we seem doomed to repeat from now until the end of history, participation trophies have once again become comedy’s hottest subject. On March 22, the @NetflixIsAJoke Twitter account posted stills of a joke from Jeff Foxworthy’s new stand-up special, The Good Old Days, which hit the service earlier that day. If you missed it, here is the joke in its entirety, pulled from a larger — admittedly not revolutionary — chunk contrasting observations about childhood today against Foxworthy’s experience growing up: “I played every sport./paula-poundstone-on-how-she-started-telling-pop-tart-jokes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paula-poundstone-on-how-she-started-telling-pop-tart-jokes.htmlA new generation of fans has discovered Paula Poundstone as a regular on NPR’s panel game show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, but her success as a stand-up stretches back to the early days of the 1980s comedy boom. Her 1990 HBO special Cats, Cops and Stuff, which includes the Pop-Tarts bit that we featured on our list of “100 Jokes that Defined Modern Comedy,” is a perfect embodiment of her style, a mix of observational stand-up and audience improvisation./peacock-is-bringing-monk-back-for-one-last-case.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peacock-is-bringing-monk-back-for-one-last-case.htmlTony Shalhoub is getting out of the post-Maisel malaise quickly by diving back into the Monk-iverse. Peacock just announced a reunion movie, Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie, coming to the streamer in December. Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Traylor Howard (Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place), Jason Gray-Stanford, Melora Hardin (The Office, Il Makiage ads on Twitter), and Hector Elizondo (The Princess Diaries, numerous name drops in Garry Marshall’s memoir) are all returning./pen15-recap-secret-blood.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pen15-recap-secret-blood.htmlPEN15 Sleepover Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » PEN15 Sleepover Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about PEN15’s second season is its deeper embrace of absurdism. The show is inherently absurd — after all, it stars two grown women as seventh-graders — but Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine’s performances are so lived-in that it can be hard to remember the central premise is a goof./perfect-match-season-finale-recap-popularity-contest.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/perfect-match-season-finale-recap-popularity-contest.htmlPerfect Match Week 3 (Episode 10) Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Perfect Match Week 3 (Episode 10) Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Let’s be honest: This episode could have been as boring as a man in a black suit at the Met Gala — all the drama ultimately has been leading up to a simple vote, after all./pete-davidson-reminds-us-he-s-from-staten-island-in-snl-monologue.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pete-davidson-reminds-us-he-s-from-staten-island-in-snl-monologue.htmlRather than a typical cold open this week, Saturday Night Live opened with host Pete Davidson acknowledging the tragedy unfolding in the Middle East. “I know what you’re thinking: Who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson?” he joked. But he went on to speak about how he was reminded of his own childhood tragedy of losing his father in the September 11 terrorist attacks, remembering the lengths his mother went to to cheer him up, including accidentally buying him the Eddie Murphy stand-up special Delirious./poker-face-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poker-face-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlHaving already defined the modern mystery movie with Knives Out and Glass Onion, writer-director Rian Johnson turns to the small screen with Poker Face, a mostly episodic new mystery series streaming on Peacock. Natasha Lyonne stars as Charlie Cale, a woman with an uncanny ability to tell if somebody is lying. When circumstances force her to hit the road, Charlie keeps getting in situations where somebody is dead and she’s the key to identifying the killer./polite-society-s-khan-fu-sisterhood.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/polite-society-s-khan-fu-sisterhood.htmlRitu Arya and Priya Kansara on what it takes to execute a flying reverse spin kick in a dress. Polite Society stars Ritu Arya (left) and Priya Kansara (right). Photo: Saima Khalid/Focus Features Polite Society stars Ritu Arya (left) and Priya Kansara (right). Photo: Saima Khalid/Focus Features Polite Society stars Ritu Arya (left) and Priya Kansara (right). In Polite Society, the debut feature film from We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor, Priya Kansara and Ritu Arya play Ria and Lena, Pakistani British sisters on the edge of a cataclysmic estrangement./random-access-accessories-30-albums-to-listen-to-if-you-love-the-new-daft-punk.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/random-access-accessories-30-albums-to-listen-to-if-you-love-the-new-daft-punk.htmlThe initial reaction to Daft Punk’s hugely anticipated Random Access Memories was slightly shocked, as eager fans realized that, far from the set of summer-dance anthems promised by the first single “Get Lucky,” it’s actually an eccentric reimagining of retro sounds often deemed beyond good taste: yacht rock, Euro-disco, jazz fusion, Broadway-musical piano ballads. But the album has been getting mostly great reviews since then, and looks set to sell big. So, if you find yourself inspired by Daft Punk to spend the summer gazing at the ocean in a pair of pressed white linen pants and Wayfarers while sipping a piña colada and listening to spaced-out soft disco and Christopher Cross, here are 30 albums that probably helped inspire Random Access Memories./rbg-is-the-best-imaginable-retaliation-to-mansplaining.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rbg-is-the-best-imaginable-retaliation-to-mansplaining.htmlThe Notorious RBG. As we all mourn the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we strongly encourage you to watch the wonderful, Oscar-nominated 2018 documentary RBG, which is available to subscribers of Hulu and to rent on such platforms as Amazon and Apple TV+. Below is our review of the film, which was originally published on May 7, 2018. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the tiny, monkish, soft-spoken, octogenarian Supreme Court justice who bestrides the world like a colossus; in their documentary RBG, directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West stride right behind her with a camera and a microphone./rose-byrne-seth-rogen-do-sidewalk-lion-king-musical-with-james-corden-rogen-absolutely-nails-his-r.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rose-byrne-seth-rogen-do-sidewalk-lion-king-musical-with-james-corden-rogen-absolutely-nails-his-r.htmlBest way to get revenge on the person who stole your Steve Jobs part? Well, as James Corden finds out above, making your rival (a.k.a. Seth Rogen) play “various scenery and stuff” in a Lion King crosswalk musical isn’t quite it. In fact, that’s actually a great way to let him steal the show in “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” Back to the drawing board. Byrne, Rogen Do Sidewalk Musical With Corden ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlob2dgany0sdOhZKunl5q7br7OrJxmmqmnu6Z5y6Kmp2WbnruoecyuqqKbkaF7qcDMpQ%3D%3D/roswell-new-mexico-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roswell-new-mexico-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mq6ejrLKtuIynnLBlnZrFqq%2FOaA%3D%3D/sacha-baron-cohen-allegations-redacted-in-u-k-edition-of-rebel-wilson-memoir.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sacha-baron-cohen-allegations-redacted-in-u-k-edition-of-rebel-wilson-memoir.htmlSacha Baron Cohen Those Sacha Baron Cohen allegations will be missing from the U.K. edition of Rebel Wilson’s candid memoir, Rebel Rising. On April 24, publisher HarperCollins confirmed passages and select lines relating to the bullying claims against Baron Cohen will appear blacked out, the Guardian reported. “We are publishing every page, but for legal reasons, in the U.K. edition, we are redacting most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note,” a spokesperson for the publisher told the Guardian./shakir-stewart-vulture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shakir-stewart-vulture.htmlShakir Stewart - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: sad Nov. 3, 2008 Def Jam Boss Commits SuicideShakir Stewart died on Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. By Lane Brown `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejna6stdFmqq2dp5a%2FtXs%3D/sister-of-nate-parker-s-rape-accuser-pens-open-letter-against-birth-of-a-nation.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sister-of-nate-parker-s-rape-accuser-pens-open-letter-against-birth-of-a-nation.htmlNate Parker. A week before the release of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, Sharon Loeffler, the sister of the woman who accused Parker and his Birth of a Nation co-writer Jean Celestin of rape in 1999, has penned an open letter for Variety criticizing the film. Loeffler says she was inspired to speak out after learning that the movie includes a scene where Nat Turner’s wife is raped by a group of white men, an event that does not occur in the slim historical record of Turner’s life./snl-review-risk-pays-off-for-zach-galifianakis.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snl-review-risk-pays-off-for-zach-galifianakis.htmlSNL works best when it hits a balance between structure and chaos. As a show that’s broadcasted live after only a week of production time, chaos is pre-installed into the system. The show attempts to offset that chaos with as many safety nets as possible: a cast of multitalented actors, a writing staff that can turn out an abundance of material in a pressure-cooker environment, and one of the best crews in television./sofia-coppola-s-the-beguiled-is-a-remake-with-a-radically-new-perspective.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sofia-coppola-s-the-beguiled-is-a-remake-with-a-radically-new-perspective.htmlNicole Kidman. One of the most exciting things about more female-directed major movies is the prospect of women going back to stories that have already been told by men and reframing them, subjecting them to the “female gaze.” Sofia Coppola has done that — probingly, powerfully — with her remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 The Beguiled. The narrative —adapted from a novel by Thomas Cullinan — is largely identical in both films./something-borrowed-trailer-kate-hudson-enlists-ginnifer-goodwin-and-john-krasinski-in-her-bride-war.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/something-borrowed-trailer-kate-hudson-enlists-ginnifer-goodwin-and-john-krasinski-in-her-bride-war.htmlAfter teaming with Anne Hathaway to ill effect in the unhappy chick flick Bride Wars, you might expect Kate Hudson to know better than to sign up for another romcom where she plays a woman on the verge of marriage locked in battle with her best female friend. And yet, we now have Something Borrowed, where Ginnifer Goodwin wonders if it’s okay for her to sleep with Hudson’s fiance (Colin Egglesfield) because, after all, she’s been in love with him this whole time, and Hudson gets everything anyway and that’s so unfair./spider-man-s-arachne-t-v-carpio-has-superhuman-powers-of-diplomacy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spider-man-s-arachne-t-v-carpio-has-superhuman-powers-of-diplomacy.htmlT.V. Carpio appears in the Bradley Cooper thriller Limitless coming out this week, but more intriguing, she plays Arachne in the ill-fated Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. We eagerly got on the phone with the actress and found out she was far more willing to talk about her sex scene with Cooper than the boondoggle she got snared in on Broadway. Press her as we did, we could not get her to concede that the production was in any way troubled: Spider-Man himself would be felled by her mighty powers of loyalty!/springsteen-manager-slams-the-screen-door-on-thunder-road-lyrics-confusion.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/springsteen-manager-slams-the-screen-door-on-thunder-road-lyrics-confusion.htmlBruce Springsteen fans have been on fire with a question over the past few days: What’s the real opening lyric to “Thunder Road”? It started on July 3, when the New York Times’ lead Trump scribe and political reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted a line from the Boss’s epic Born to Run opener while waiting to watch the return of Springsteen on Broadway. “A screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways,” she wrote, setting off days of argument among Springsteen fans over whether the final word was “sways” or “waves./steely-dan-s-holy-grail-of-recordings-has-been-found.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steely-dan-s-holy-grail-of-recordings-has-been-found.htmlA new Gaucho song is out, there’s a mutiny going on in Russia, and the year is somehow not 1980. Time is a social construct, man. More than four decades after being feared forever lost owing to a studio technician error, Steely Dan’s “The Second Arrangement” has surfaced in high-fidelity glory. The Expanding Dan Substack reports that Roger Nichols, one of the band’s longtime engineers, made a rough mix of the track on a cassette tape during the 1979 recording sessions prior to its accidental erasure./stranger-things-joe-keery-got-bangs.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stranger-things-joe-keery-got-bangs.htmlIn his breakout role as Stranger Things teen heartthrob Steve Harrington, actor Joe Keery’s almost comically thick head of hair took on a life of its own, to the point that the series went out of its way to have Steve address the steps to achieving his extremely impressive, extremely ’80s swoop: Fabergé Organics shampoo and conditioner, four spritzes of Farrah Fawcett hairspray, a secret only you and your good friend Dustin know, etc./stream-julien-baker-s-gorgeous-debut-sprained-ankle-a-sad-record-for-people-who-like-sad-records.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stream-julien-baker-s-gorgeous-debut-sprained-ankle-a-sad-record-for-people-who-like-sad-records.htmlWhen you’re 19 and you’ve lived through substance abuse, people like to tell you that you’re wise beyond your years. It’s something singer-songwriter Julien Baker gets a lot, especially after people hear her music, which is filled with the sort of pain you expect from someone well beyond her teen years. But Baker thinks everyone is wrong about her. She admits to “having to confront darkness” in her past, but she likes to think of herself as “eternally becoming./surrender-to-the-batshittery-that-is-the-watcher.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/surrender-to-the-batshittery-that-is-the-watcher.htmlVulture and New York TV critic Jen Chaney previously worked for the Washington Post and has bylines at the New York Times and Vanity Fair. She also wrote As If: The Complete Oral History of Clueless. Vulture and New York TV critic Jen Chaney previously worked for the Washington Post and has bylines at the New York Times and Vanity Fair. She also wrote As If: The Complete Oral History of Clueless. Dream house or … nightmare? “It knows what scares you” was the tagline for 1982’s Poltergeist, a horror classic that doubled as a cautionary tale about the dark side of desirable suburban real estate./the-21-best-christmas-movies-streaming-right-now.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-21-best-christmas-movies-streaming-right-now.htmlElf. This article has been updated to include new additions. Ah, Christmas — having fun with your family, spending some quiet time cozied up by the fireplace with a good book, and taking your hometown high-school crush to the local ice-skating rink. These are just some of the things we all know you won’t actually do. No, because you’re a sicko like the rest of us, you will be spending the holidays streaming movies and TV shows on the couch, slowly turning up the volume as your relatives get tipsier and tipsier./the-5-best-moments-from-rupaul-s-drag-race.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-5-best-moments-from-rupaul-s-drag-race.htmlBjörkian. Another episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, another big challenge for the contestants to attempt, another teachable moment for Ru, and another shocking elimination — if season seven of RPDR has nothing else going for it, at least it’s consistent. “The DESPY Awards” (no, it doesn’t seem to stand for anything) feature paper gowns and meltdowns; who could ask for anything more? Here are the winners of the DESPY Awards’ moment of the night./the-bedwetter-is-a-real-story-about-pain-and-pee.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bedwetter-is-a-real-story-about-pain-and-pee.htmlHelen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019. Helen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019. You may think I’m just an average kinda girl Well here’s something that no one knows Though I can’t sing like Aretha I’ve got a cool urethra That can soak a mattress faster than a garden hose/the-five-best-american-horror-stories.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-five-best-american-horror-stories.htmlWhen American Horror Stories launched in July 2021, it felt like a product of the pandemic, a cheap-and-easy way to tide fans over while production stalled on Ryan Murphy’s proper cult hit American Horror Story. Why not go back to some of the grisly ideas that never found their way into an installment of AHS and give them the anthology treatment with the kind of limited productions that COVID necessitated?/the-gruesome-ways-every-character-in-wolf-hall-died-in-real-life.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gruesome-ways-every-character-in-wolf-hall-died-in-real-life.htmlSpoiler alert. Wolf Hall has so many characters, it’s nearly impossible to follow all the action without a few trips to Wikipedia, and once there, it’s impossible not to be spoiled. The miniseries ends with the biggest execution of 1536, but even the characters who made it out of that year with their heads firmly attached to their necks ended up imprisoned in the Tower of London one way or another./the-human-hoist-is-the-coolest-chair-on-wheels.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-human-hoist-is-the-coolest-chair-on-wheels.html… except the one from Roundhouse. Remember Roundhouse? Sources The FW The Human Hoist Is the Coolest Chair on Wheels ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dhZ3ypwcyapWagn57AtXrHraSl/the-mindy-project-recap-laverne-and-sheena.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mindy-project-recap-laverne-and-sheena.htmlThe Mindy Project What to Expect When You’re Expanding Season 3 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project What to Expect When You’re Expanding Season 3 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Laverne Cox (left) steals the show. This episode of The Mindy Project perfectly encapsulates this season, if not the entire series: There are so many people and things and plotlines in it./the-music-community-pays-tribute-to-gregg-allman.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-music-community-pays-tribute-to-gregg-allman.htmlOn Saturday afternoon it was sadly announced that Gregg Allman, a true Southern Rock legend, had died at the age of 69 due to complications from liver cancer. “Gregg struggled with many health issues over the past several years,” a statement on his website explained. “During that time, Gregg considered being on the road playing music with his brothers and solo band for his beloved fans, essential medicine for his soul./the-new-look-recap-open-your-heart.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-look-recap-open-your-heart.htmlThe New Look What a Difference Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The New Look What a Difference Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dear reader: I laughed so hard I cried (or did I cry so hard I laughed?/the-piano-lesson-returns-with-generations-of-memory-laid-on.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-piano-lesson-returns-with-generations-of-memory-laid-on.htmlSamuel L. Jackson and John David Washington in The Piano Lesson. The house has the look of a skeleton. The set of The Piano Lesson is all posts and beams, no walls and ceilings, and some of those bones look like they’ve been cleaved apart. It’s an appropriate sort of place to be filled with memories of the dead, and when Danielle Brooks’s Berniece wakes up after the curtain rises, there’s a fluttering projection of a spirit slipping away from her./the-strange-twisted-story-behind-voyeur.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-strange-twisted-story-behind-voyeur.htmlAnd now, the story of two men working on the story of a man working on the story of a man who liked to watch people have sex. Even when pitched in the simplest possible terms, there’s a lot going on in Netflix’s new documentary, Voyeur. Warring perspectives are everywhere, as two comparably unreliable narrators clash through layers upon layers of subjectivity. The trailer slims down the concept to its innermost layer and offers that as the whole: Master journalist Gay Talese made contact with a strange fellow named Gerald Foos, who had spent upwards of two decades spying on and pleasuring himself to the visitors of his motel in Aurora, Colorado./theater-review-constellations-puts-jake-gyllenhaal-in-a-rom-com-tesseract.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-constellations-puts-jake-gyllenhaal-in-a-rom-com-tesseract.htmlWould you like to see a two-hander in which Jake Gyllenhaal plays a hunky but bashful British beekeeper, hemming and half-smiling, while Ruth Wilson, so recently embaubled with a Golden Globe for The Affair, plays a charmingly ditzy astrophysicist? Would you like to watch the pair meet cute at a barbecue, grope their way toward romance, survive infidelity, and face tragedy together? I would; it sounds like an engaging play. Unfortunately it’s not the one now running at the Manhattan Theatre Club under the title Constellations, even though all those things do happen in it./theater-review-the-treasurer-an-invaluable-new-play.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-the-treasurer-an-invaluable-new-play.htmlFrom The Treasurer, at Playwrights Horizons. Max Posner’s The Treasurer, now playing at Playwrights Horizons under the assured and gentle direction of David Cromer, is a quiet revelation. At a moment when the theatrical landscape is dense with new plays that haven’t quite figured out why they’re not TV — when we struggle to dramatize the realities of our lives without trapping ourselves inside stiflingly realistic dioramas — The Treasurer arrives as an antidote./this-year-s-model.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-year-s-model.htmlElvis Costello is back with his 31st (or so) studio album. But don’t look for any consolation from him. Photo: Christopher Anderson for New York Magazine I know where the bodies are buried and the choices that I can’t or won’t take,” Elvis Costello tells me with utter conviction and without going into the specifics. He’s sitting under a photograph of a young Aretha Franklin in mid-song and cradling what appears to be a Fender bass guitar, which he seems to be on the verge of playing but never does./trachtenberg-at-the-cop-out-premiere.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trachtenberg-at-the-cop-out-premiere.htmlWhen we caught up with Michelle Trachtenberg last night at the premiere for her latest film Cop Out, this weekend’s Kevin Smith–directed Tracy Morgan–Bruce Willis buddy-cop movie, we wondered if she was friends with any police officers herself. “When we were shooting in deep Brooklyn we had to make friends with the police, because we had to keep the drug sellers and whatnot off the corners, so that was fun,” she told us./travis-kelce-s-hallarious-old-tweets-were-his-diary.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/travis-kelce-s-hallarious-old-tweets-were-his-diary.htmlOur song is the Twitter notification bell. Yes, Travis Kelce knows you’ve been digging through his diary. On a recent episode of his podcast, New Heights, Kelce said he’s aware that “nonsense” posts from when he used “Twitter as, like, a diary” are going viral. When a celebrity’s decade-old tweets start trending, it’s usually bad news. To be fair, Kelce did make some posts in the 2010s that have been criticized as fatphobic and ableist./unbelievable-recap-those-burdens.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unbelievable-recap-those-burdens.htmlUnbelievable Episode 7 Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Unbelievable Episode 7 Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “What the fuck?” is a pretty good opening line when it’s coming out of the mouth of Duvall, a devout Christian highly likely to use The Good Place’s “fork” in lieu of curses./ving-rhames-says-police-held-him-at-gunpoint-in-his-own-home-after-neighbor-reported-break-in.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ving-rhames-says-police-held-him-at-gunpoint-in-his-own-home-after-neighbor-reported-break-in.htmlWhile discussing racism with the host of SiriusXM’s The Clay Cane Show on Friday, Mission: Impossible — Fallout star Ving Rhames revealed an incident in which police responding to an alleged burglary held Rhames at gunpoint in his Santa Monica home. “This happened this year,” the actor recalled. “I open the door and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9mm, and they say, ‘Put up your hands./watch-gucci-mane-propose-to-his-girlfriend-on-a-kiss-cam-with-a-big-ass-diamond.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-gucci-mane-propose-to-his-girlfriend-on-a-kiss-cam-with-a-big-ass-diamond.htmlWATCH - @gucci1017 proposes to @KeyshiaKaoir at tonight's game! pic.twitter.com/eWMKseSh6y — Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) November 23, 2016 The one and only Gucci Mane proposed to his girlfriend Keyshia Ka’oir Tuesday night at an Atlanta Hawks game. While the Hawks went on to lose against the Pelicans, it was good news for Gucci Mane, because she said yes! Gucci Mane employed the fail-safe option of proposing on a kiss cam and proposing with a ring so big it couldn’t possibly fall down a drainpipe./watch-st-vincent-carrie-brownstein-unravel-in-nowhere-inn-teaser.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-st-vincent-carrie-brownstein-unravel-in-nowhere-inn-teaser.htmlThere’s no shortage of meta-narrative layers to peel back in the new trailer for The Nowhere Inn, the film written by and starring Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein that premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. Clark, playing a heightened version of herself, enlists Brownstein (her real-life collaborator and ex-girlfriend) to film a concert tour documentary. “Concert footage, interviews, I wanted people to know who I really am./we-own-this-city-asks-us-to-look-backward.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-own-this-city-asks-us-to-look-backward.html2equels W3ek 4ise5 Presented by 2equels W3ek 4ise5 Presented by No, that’s not Dukie and Marlo, but having prior knowledge of Jermaine Crawford’s and Jamie Hector’s characters from The Wire adds a compelling layer to We Own This City. Is the best way to understand David Simon and George Pelecanos’s new limited series, We Own This City, as a sequel to The Wire? Vulture’s review by my colleague Jen Chaney opens by insisting that it’s not, Rolling Stone’s Alan Sepinwall describes it as “less a sequel … than a rebuttal,” and Entertainment Weekly goes with “spiritual sequel./wendy-williams-returning-to-screens-for-unfiltered-doc.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wendy-williams-returning-to-screens-for-unfiltered-doc.htmlWendy Williams. Wendy Williams’s family is opening up about the talk-show host’s health battle ahead of the release of a new Lifetime documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams. The two-part series traces Williams’s departure from the spotlight as she struggles with alcohol use, Graves’ disease, and cognitive issues, leading to her eventual guardianship. Williams’s family shared just how “shocking and heartbreaking” it was to witness the icon’s deteriorating condition./what-else-is-in-mattel-s-toy-box.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-else-is-in-mattel-s-toy-box.htmlIt’s literally impossible to be a tiny car. This has been a banner year for kitschy, unexpected movies about dancing murderous dolls, blitzed bears (also murderous), and self-aware, flat-footed dolls. In its first weekend in theaters, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie made $155 million, which means Mattel executives are ready for more movies about millennials playing games sadly while feeling bad about capitalism. A recent New Yorker piece alerted the public to the very real possibility that the next few years of movies will be covert #spon-con ads for Mattel with the impending adaptations of Barney, Polly Pocket, Uno, and more — up to a total of 45 projects as of right now./what-was-the-asian-american-character-actor.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-was-the-asian-american-character-actor.htmlOoh, It’s Them: A Toast To Character Actors Presented by Ooh, It’s Them: A Toast To Character Actors Presented by James Hong in Blade Runner, Seinfeld, and Big Trouble in Little China. One of the first times that legendary character actor James Hong ever appeared onscreen was in 1955’s Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, a tearjerker about the relationship between a half-Chinese, half-European doctor who lives in Hong Kong and a white war correspondent sent to cover the Chinese Civil War./what-s-to-discuss-old-friends-merrily-we-roll-along-is-back.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-to-discuss-old-friends-merrily-we-roll-along-is-back.htmlLindsay Mendez, Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Radcliffe in Merrily We Roll Along. Franklin Shepard’s California mansion, rendered onstage at New York Theatre Workshop, a David Hockney scene: blocky, mostly white, mid-century chic with a wall of glass that makes you imagine the smell of sagebrush, star jasmine, and chlorine. Set and costume designer Soutra Gilmour has placed ferns along the ramparts, at the same height where the band for this production of Merrily We Roll Along is hidden in a second-floor studio./why-maestro-became-the-oscar-villain-and-oppenheimer-didn-t.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-maestro-became-the-oscar-villain-and-oppenheimer-didn-t.htmlBradley Cooper is Leonard Bernstein. This article originally appeared in Gold Rush, a subscriber-only newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race. Want proof that we did indeed go through a post-2020 vibe shift? A bunch of people on the internet are rooting against a big, starry Oscar movie — for reasons that have nothing to do with the film’s assumed politics. For years, I have tracked the annual arrival of each season’s Oscar villain, the contender that inspires a panicked “God, no!/zoey-deutch-on-her-jewish-sense-of-humor-and-rejecting-her-it-girl-status.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zoey-deutch-on-her-jewish-sense-of-humor-and-rejecting-her-it-girl-status.htmlZoey Deutch, 24, has been appearing on “Up-and-Coming Hollywood ‘It’ Girl” lists for nearly a decade. Nobody can seem to agree on when, exactly, she’s going to be the Next Big Thing. In a way, this categorization makes sense: She’s got a Natalie Portman–melded–with–Jennifer Lawrence face, and her early work suggests a sort of safe, “It”-girlie trajectory. She plays the love interest in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!/11-breaking-bad-finale-facts-revealed-on-talking-bad.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/11-breaking-bad-finale-facts-revealed-on-talking-bad.htmlVince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad Right after Breaking Bad ended, Vince Gilligan and most of the cast (notably minus Bryan Cranston and Bob Odenkirk) showed up to discuss the finale on Talking Bad. In it Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks, and RJ Mitte (and, for some reason, Jimmy Kimmel) reflected on the show and gave up details about the finale, like why Walt didn’t shoot Jesse, why Jesse didn’t shoot Walt, why Walt left his watch on the pay phone, and more./24-books-we-can-t-wait-to-read-this-fall.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/24-books-we-can-t-wait-to-read-this-fall.htmlGet lost in the pages of gripping memoirs, transporting fiction, and more. There’s even a book by Babs. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: 37 Ink, Atria/One Signal Publishers, Catapult, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New Directions, Scribner As summer turns to fall, the beach read finds itself replaced with another type of literary enjoyment. Now is the time to snuggle up with a book, perhaps under a blanket with a cup of apple cider, while the weather cools and the leaves change colors./25-iconic-soundtrack-songs-ranked.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/25-iconic-soundtrack-songs-ranked.htmlIn 2017, we celebrated (and continue to celebrate) the 20th anniversary of Titanic, and with it, the release of Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” — one of the most important songs of all time. Which, of course, is subjective. Where some of us had our biggest moments soundtracked by Céline Dion and vaguely Celtic instrumentals, others grew up watching films that prominently featured tracks by Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, and Eminem (to name a few)./6-behind-the-scenes-details-about-the-superhero-orgy-of-the-boys-climactic-herogasm.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/6-behind-the-scenes-details-about-the-superhero-orgy-of-the-boys-climactic-herogasm.htmlLast week’s episode ofThe Boys, “Herogasm,” was loosely adapted from “Herogasm,” a famous six-issue arc in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic series. A number of long-gestating conflicts came to a head, including a face-off between Homelander (Antony Starr) and Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles). Even more memorable is the episode’s setting: the 70th anniversary of the titular Herogasm, an annual orgy for superheroes (or, more accurately, “supes,” considering most of the attendees are far from heroes)./7-step-plan-to-not-hating-john-mayer-anymore.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-step-plan-to-not-hating-john-mayer-anymore.html75845703 This spring, John Mayer was named the fourth most hated celebrity in Hollywood by Star magazine (sixteen spots ahead of Chris Brown). This is despite the fact that Mayer has basically been out of the public eye for three years. He hasn’t done anything to make the situation worse, but he also didn’t really do anything to make the situation better. Apparently, releasing arguably the best two albums of his career was not enough./all-about-ari-aster-s-mother.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-about-ari-aster-s-mother.htmlShe mothered too close to the son. Beau Is Afraid isn’t Ari Aster’s first time at the parental-trauma rodeo. Hereditary is about mothers passing their baggage down to generations of spawn. Midsommar focuses on the deep grief of losing one’s family and looks askew at how we conceive, raise our young, and neglect our elderly. Beau is about the anxiety, guilt, and sexual repression stemming from a particularly overinvolved mother-son relationship./all-the-live-events-movie-releases-and-productions-affected-by-the-coronavirus.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-the-live-events-movie-releases-and-productions-affected-by-the-coronavirus.htmlBroadway theaters will remain closed until May 2021. The entertainment industry is on pause, but gradually beginning to start up again, as the world battles the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Globally, there are over 40 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, identified as COVID-19. In the United States, that number has risen to over 8.3 million. In an effort to prevent spreading the virus, many concerts, festivals, film and TV shoots, and other events have been canceled, rescheduled, or modified./below-deck-mediterranean-recap-all-stars.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-mediterranean-recap-all-stars.htmlBelow Deck Mediterranean Whole New Ballgame Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Whole New Ballgame Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This charter’s guest, retired baseball player Johnny Damon, is a returner, so I went back to watch his two episodes from last season./black-ish-recap-wrong-hair-do-care.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/black-ish-recap-wrong-hair-do-care.htmlBlack-ish Chop Shop Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Black-ish Chop Shop Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One of the most subtle details of Black-ish is how carefully it depicts black hair-care. We often see Bow, Zoey, and Diane with their hair wrapped at night, and they wear a range of styles from straight to curly to braided./boardwalk-empire-recap-take-the-bath-yourself.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boardwalk-empire-recap-take-the-bath-yourself.htmlBoardwalk Empire Georgia Peaches Season 2 Episode 10 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Boardwalk Empire Georgia Peaches Season 2 Episode 10 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Here we have an episode in which everyone takes matters into their own hands (or at least tries). After weeks of hemming and hawing on multiple narrative fronts, the spirit of direct action is now spreading throughout the show’s story universe like a virus./brad-pitt-went-from-playing-a-stuntman-to-doing-his-own-stunts-man.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brad-pitt-went-from-playing-a-stuntman-to-doing-his-own-stunts-man.htmlThe Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood co-star has been performing “95 percent” of his own action for the star-studded ensemble thriller Bullet Train. Last year, Brad Pitt reached a career high-water mark, nabbing the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of a late ’60s stunt double of shaggy hair and few words in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. Coincidence then that the 57-year-old has suddenly decided to pursue performing his own stunts with new vigor?/brooklyn-nine-nine-recap-all-hail-the-queen.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brooklyn-nine-nine-recap-all-hail-the-queen.htmlBrooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween Part III Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween Part III Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » From left: Cagney Jeffords, Andy Samberg, and Lacey Jeffords. It’s once again Halloween heist time in the Nine-Nine, and Holt and Peralta’s battle of wits, tied 1-1, has now entered its third (and, according to the show’s publicity materials, final) edition./bts-s-jin-releases-the-astronaut-as-an-excuse-to-hang-out-with-coldplay.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bts-s-jin-releases-the-astronaut-as-an-excuse-to-hang-out-with-coldplay.htmlWorldwide Handsome Jin. Houston, “The Astronaut” has landed. Jin’s debut solo single hit streaming services on October 28, just over ten days after BTS announced their plan to enlist in the military for their mandatory service. The song’s rollout came immediately after the band dropped the news on their socials: The Worldwide Handsome idol hit fans with a new animated character named Wootteo, a teaser trailer, unreleased solos, and concept photos to promote the track./catherine-cohen-a-dream.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catherine-cohen-a-dream.htmlCatherine Cohen. Dreams are famously interesting to the dreamer, both while they are happening and for a day or two afterward. The former is fine, but the latter results in a lot of painfully boring conversations. No one cares about your dreams. Catherine Cohen’s dreams? Now that is a different story. As my colleague Madeleine Aggeler wrote at the Cut last month, “Lots of things are a dream to Cohen./chris-stapleton-is-still-molding-country-music-into-his-own-image.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chris-stapleton-is-still-molding-country-music-into-his-own-image.htmlAhead of his and his wife Morgane’s mesmerizing performance at the 2020 CMAs, and ahead of his new album’s release, we spoke to Stapleton about its creation and the country music “image.” In a decade, Kentucky singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton rose from renown as a writer for country stars like Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw and the leader of his bluegrass band the SteelDrivers to platinum sales and critical acclaim thanks to his exquisite, accomplished 2015 debut solo album, Traveller./dancin-slinks-back-to-town-aching-to-seduce-you.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dancin-slinks-back-to-town-aching-to-seduce-you.htmlFrom Dancin’, at the Music Box. If you’ve gotten the feeling that sex is missing from your entertainment, that you’ve seen one too many neutered superhero movies or buttoned-up but still violent television, let me recommend that you shimmy-shake over to Dancin’. The revival of the 1978 Bob Fosse revue is eager to seduce you. Skintight outfits, sultry postures, cigarette smoking, cocked hats, and an egalitarian air of come-one-come-all hedonism: This is a show hell-bent on making sure that you have fun, laughs, good times at any cost./dark-knight-gets-rerelease-james-cameron-trembles.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dark-knight-gets-rerelease-james-cameron-trembles.htmlQuick, someone hide the pottery wheel! Finding itself just a measly $3,772,664 short of the $1 billion worldwide box-office plateau, Warner Bros. has announced plans to rerelease The Dark Knight into U.S. theaters on January 23, 2009 (yes, fanboys, it’ll be on IMAX, too). Aside from the obvious goal of building buzz in the critical last stages of the 2009 Oscar campaign, there’s an additional upside on both the financial and PR fronts; Titanic’s spot atop the list of all-time US box-office grossers is now within spitting distance, threatening James Cameron’s self-appointed title as “King of the World./david-letterman-reflects-on-tv-retirement-montana-and-fatherhood.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-letterman-reflects-on-tv-retirement-montana-and-fatherhood.htmlMontana’s Whitefish Review has a new interview out this week with David Letterman, and it’s a great read for fans of the former late night host and part-time Montana resident now in his post-Late Show years. While Letterman touches on some pop culture-related topics like television (“Anything that happens after 10, I’m not there”) and whether or not he misses his Late Show job (“I haven’t missed it, the way I thought I might”), the best bits from the chat are Letterman musing on raising his son Harry and why he loves spending time in nature at his Montana ranch./dear-john-trailer-a-nicholas-sparks-tearjerker-with-oscar-cred.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-john-trailer-a-nicholas-sparks-tearjerker-with-oscar-cred.htmlThe Notebook wasn’t the first Nicholas Sparks novel that Hollywood decided to adapt for the big screen — that distinction goes to 1999’s weepy Kevin Costner–Robin Wright Penn–starring Message In A Bottle — but it was the one that signaled Sparks’s breakthrough into the big time and elevated both Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling into the upper strata of today’s acting crop. The next Sparks adaptation to hit the big screen, 2008’s Nights in Rodanthe, hauled in a totally respectable $41 million at the domestic box office, and now comes our first look at his next pic./did-taylor-swift-attend-a-new-york-jets-game-to-detract-from-her-private-jets.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-taylor-swift-attend-a-new-york-jets-game-to-detract-from-her-private-jets.htmlSunday night Taylor Swift donned that red-lip-classic thing that you like to attend her maybe-boyfriend Travis Kelce’s game at MetLife Stadium as the Kansas City Chiefs took on the New York Jets. Never mind the star-studded celeb box she sat in (featuring newly single dinner pal Sophie Turner and other new single Hugh Jackman), nor the fact that if there’s one person famous enough to get the Chiefs to change their name, it’s her: Rather, the most guilty of private-plane-using celebs now has a whole new crop of links, photos, and stories that come up when you google “Taylor Swift jet./donald-j-sobol-vulture.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/donald-j-sobol-vulture.htmlkathryn schulz July 16, 2012 Encyclopedia Brown Was Our Gateway DetectiveOur book critic remembers how Donald J. Sobol’s young private eye introduced her to intellectual pleasure. By Kathryn Schulz ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeUpLuiuMNmoWdlo6SvsLiO/ellen-degeneres-channing-tatum-and-more-honor-stephen-twitch-boss.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ellen-degeneres-channing-tatum-and-more-honor-stephen-twitch-boss.htmlStephen “tWitch” Boss The internet is overwhelmed with grief for Stephen “tWitch” Boss. The So You Think You Can Dance breakout, actor, and DJ, who hosted the series Disney Fairy Tale Weddings with his wife, Allison Holker, also a SYTYCD alum, died by suicide on December 13. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us,” Holker shared with People./euphoria-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/euphoria-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlZendaya stars as Ruby “Rue” Bennett, a teenager living in East Highland who is a recovering drug addict attempting to return to a “normal” life. But, that’s much easier said than done — and it might not even be possible — in Euphoria, a boundary-pushing drama that tackles a whole host of heavy and topical issues. In addition to Zendaya, Euphoria stars Maude Apatow, Sydney Sweeney, Angus Cloud, Hunter Schafer, Barbie Ferreira, and more./flo-milli-summer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flo-milli-summer.htmlThe rising rapper from Mobile, Alabama, spins rhymes that sound like schoolyard taunts. Flo Milli. Photo: Arielle Bobb-Willis Flo Milli. The rapper Flo Milli had given herself a deadline: She was going to be famous by 18. Not rapping by 18 — ­famous by then. “It was like an obsession for me,” Milli, now all of 20 years old, tells me one July afternoon, dressed in full glam in her Atlanta apartment./florida-man-s-florida-woman-steals-the-show.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/florida-man-s-florida-woman-steals-the-show.htmlSpoilers follow for all of Florida Man, which debuted on Netflix on April 13.  Florida Man may share its name with a meme about the state’s most prevalent criminal description, but in true neo-noir fashion, its real mastermind is a woman. Reveling in the same eccentric villainy and funky humidity explored by crime authors like Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Edna Buchanan, Florida Man throws a shipwrecked treasure, a sensual romance, a bunch of daddy issues, and murder into a complex web of motivations and betrayals./gaga-flaunts-machine-gun-bra-exposed-behind-on-rolling-stone-cover.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gaga-flaunts-machine-gun-bra-exposed-behind-on-rolling-stone-cover.htmlOne of the things Lady Gaga is best at (and she’s good at many things!) is continually changing the conversation. After some less-than-flattering gossip cycles as of late, relating to diva feuds, rude gestures and bizarre ballgame behavior (Yankees GM Brian Cashman said this afternoon the pop star isn’t banned from the Yankees clubhouse, contrary to an earlier Post report), the internet is abuzz over her new Rolling Stone cover, Gaga’s second time on the coveted piece of pop culture real estate./glass-onion-isn-t-trying-to-trick-you.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glass-onion-isn-t-trying-to-trick-you.htmlAccording to director Rian Johnson, every twist in his sequel is right in front of your face. Glass Onion: A Knives Out mystery is on Netflix now. Photo: Netflix Glass Onion: A Knives Out mystery is on Netflix now. Spoiler alert: This story contains major character and plot details. There’s something comforting about the whodunit, its promise that every question will be answered in the end by a perceptive gumshoe who sets the world to right./glen-powell-got-one-nepo-baby-cut-from-top-gun-maverick.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glen-powell-got-one-nepo-baby-cut-from-top-gun-maverick.htmlScript doctor. Ever notice Top Gun: Maverick is chock full of nepo babies? Maverick’s dad was a pilot, Rooster’s dad (spoiler) was a pilot, and even Penny’s dad was an admiral. And there was going to be another one before Glen Powell stepped in. The actor was offered the role of Hangman (after missing out on Rooster to Miles Teller), and he almost didn’t take it because the character, at that point, wasn’t good enough, per British GQ./grey-s-anatomy-recap-running-down-a-dream.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grey-s-anatomy-recap-running-down-a-dream.htmlGrey’s Anatomy In My Life Season 17 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy In My Life Season 17 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy has certainly made some, um, choices this season. It’s already been almost unbearably sad as we’ve watched our doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial take on the devastating toll of the COVID-19 pandemic./guy-ritchie-goes-brutally-posh.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guy-ritchie-goes-brutally-posh.htmlEvery line out of Henry Cavill’s mouth in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare goes something like “Cheerio, lads, jolly good to have you aboard, now let’s not find ourselves in a spot of bother,” at which point he takes out a machine gun and mows down a row of Nazis. Cavill plays Gus March-Phillipps, an actual member of Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive who led a top-secret mission to take out a ship key to keeping German U-boats supplied in 1942./he-knows-when-you-ve-been-naughty-how-silent-night-deadly-night-inflamed-a-nation.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/he-knows-when-you-ve-been-naughty-how-silent-night-deadly-night-inflamed-a-nation.html“You’ve made it through Halloween,” growled the narrator of thetheatrical trailer andTV spot for the 1984 slasher picture Silent Night, Deadly Night. “Now try and survive Christmas.” The marketing was admirable in its transparency. Since the overwhelming financial success ofJohn Carpenter’s 1978 classic, its “special occasion + knife-wielding killer” formula had been eagerly applied to numerous holidays and festivities: New Year’s Evil and Prom Night (1980); My Bloody Valentine, Final Exam, Bloody Birthday, Happy Birthday to Me, Hell Night, Graduation Day, and Home Sweet Home (1981); Tricks or Treats and Honeymoon Horror (1982); and, most of all, the Friday the 13th series, which began in 1980 with installments added, on an almost yearly basis, throughout the decade./here-s-the-trailer-for-fifty-shades-of-black-starring-marlon-wayans.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-the-trailer-for-fifty-shades-of-black-starring-marlon-wayans.htmlBack in May it was announced that Marlon Wayans was set to star in a Fifty Shades of Grey spoof called Fifty Shades of Black, and the first trailer dropped today. Mike Epps, Andrew Bachelor, Affion Crockett, Jane Seymour, Fred Willard, Florence Henderson, and Jenny Zigrino also appear in the film, which premieres on Friday, January 29th. Here’s the Trailer for ‘Fifty Shades of Black’ […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobmdhZ3ypsdGeqmasmJp6tb7AoqOeql2bvLN5xaKdrbFdqLWisMSsZKieXZe5oq%2FKZqqtmaKntq%2BzjKaYq6Sfo3q4rdiapaxmmKm6rQ%3D%3D/house-of-the-dragon-s-resident-lannister-s-had-to-forget-what-game-of-thrones-taught-him.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/house-of-the-dragon-s-resident-lannister-s-had-to-forget-what-game-of-thrones-taught-him.htmlJefferson Hall plays House of the Dragon’s own iteration of Lannister twins Tyland (left) and Jason (right). For viewers of the latest episode of House of the Dragon, actor Jefferson Hall is a familiar face — and not just because of his work in other gritty period pieces like Vikings and Taboo. The 44-year-old English actor is actually a previous resident of the lands of Westeros, having appeared as Ser Hugh of the Vale, a brash young knight who gets murked by Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane, early on in Game of Thrones’ first season./how-d-e-b-s-became-a-queer-cult-classic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-d-e-b-s-became-a-queer-cult-classic.htmlThere is a secret film hidden within the shadowy sapphic corners of Letterboxd. Some call it escapist trash, some call it an underrated cult classic, fools call it a male fantasy. It calls itself D.E.B.S. As other early-2000s chick flicks like Charlie’s Angels and St. Trinian’s have been reevaluated and embraced for their candy-floss aesthetics and campy wit over the years, the lesbian community was quietly reclaiming its own equivalent with 2004’s D./how-i-met-your-mother-recap-who-wants-to-be-a-godparent.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-i-met-your-mother-recap-who-wants-to-be-a-godparent.htmlAren’t we still in the promised Autumn of Break-Ups on How I Met Your Mother? The month of broken hearts, despair, endless tears, poor dietary choices, looking out the window through the raindrops, Mumford and Sons and more poor dietary choices? Why, with one more episode to go in October did we witness “Who Wants to Be a Godparent?”, an episode with a story that could have been told at any time this season?/how-mad-max-revolutionized-what-the-future-looked-like-in-film.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-mad-max-revolutionized-what-the-future-looked-like-in-film.htmlAs we gear up (heh heh) for the first new Mad Max film in almost 30 years, let’s consider the lasting influence of the original trilogy. Just one look at the awesomely extensive list of parodies and homages to 1981’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior easily confirms its status as an action classic, but the series’ most enduring legacy is absolutely the punk postapocalypse vision of the future created through the three films’ design and costuming. Sure, sci-fi costume and design was influenced by both fashion trends of the time and literary source material increasingly fascinated with grim, dilapidated, techno-dystopias./how-outlander-s-nipple-dress-came-together.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-outlander-s-nipple-dress-came-together.htmlKimberly Smart, as Madame Nesle de la Tourelle, had her nipples cast for prosthetics for the swan nipple rings. After all the wool clothing and drab fashions of 1743 Scotland, Claire’s world in Outlander becomes far more colorful once she goes to France. And the women in the French court are more forward-thinking in ways she couldn’t have imagined, especially when it comes to beauty’s sometimes-shocking accoutrements — from genital waxing to nipple piercing./how-the-king-rewrites-shakespeare-s-most-famous-dialogue.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-king-rewrites-shakespeare-s-most-famous-dialogue.htmlTimothée Chalamet in The King and Laurence Olivier in Henry V. Frustrated writers in search of more confidence would do well to study the example of Joel Edgerton and David Michôd. For their Henry V film The King, currently streaming on Netflix, the pair borrowed most of the plot, characters, and big moments from Shakespeare’s trio of plays about the monarch, but chose to jettison the Bard’s famous verse in favor of dialogue of their own creation./i-am-me-video-willow-smith-is-herself-or-will-smith.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-am-me-video-willow-smith-is-herself-or-will-smith.htmlWillow Smith, perhaps cognizant of the mega-saturation of fun youth-pop in the exact vein of her three extant tracks (2010’s “Whip My Hair” and 2011’s “21st Century Girl” and Nicki Minaj-featuring “Fireball”), has entered 2012 with a major changeup. Sporting a video shot on the High Line and in Washington Square Park, “I Am Me” is an intense motivational ballad about being a little wacky and loving it (“I’m me, I’m freaky free-eee[?/insecure-recap-new-arrangements.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/insecure-recap-new-arrangements.htmlInsecure Better-Like Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Insecure Better-Like Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The season 3 premiere of HBO’s Insecure opens with Issa writhing and screaming beneath a sweating, thrusting Daniel, the ex-boyfriend/plaything introduced last season./inside-the-nameless-city-the-best-ya-fantasy-comic-based-on-medieval-china-that-you-ll-find.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-the-nameless-city-the-best-ya-fantasy-comic-based-on-medieval-china-that-you-ll-find.htmlFaith Erin Hicks. The comics medium has been undergoing a revolution in the past decade, and Faith Erin Hicks is in the vanguard. Superhero fiction has long been the dominant mode for sequential art, but in recent years, female-led literature targeted at younger readers has been experiencing a spectacular rise in both visibility and sales. The past few years have seen sensational releases from youth-oriented creators like Raina Telgemeier (Ghosts), Hope Larson (Compass South), and Hicks, a Vancouver-based writer-artist with an animation background and a crackerjack eye for action and emotion./iron-fist-s-finn-jones-on-problematic-internet-outrage-his-unusual-audition-and-burning-ma.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iron-fist-s-finn-jones-on-problematic-internet-outrage-his-unusual-audition-and-burning-ma.htmlFinn Jones. Few Marvel products have entered the world with more trepidation from viewers than Iron Fist. The Netflix series, which premieres Friday, follows the adventures of Danny Rand, a rich kid who trains in mystical martial arts in the Far East and returns to New York to fight evil. Though the character has been white since his comics debut in the early 1970s, Marvel faced pressure to cast an Asian-American actor and eschew the racial trope of a white man becoming the greatest champion of martial arts./it-s-unbelievably-difficult-to-act-brilliantly.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-unbelievably-difficult-to-act-brilliantly.htmlJeremy Strong and his director James Gray took risks and made a mess to find Armageddon Time. Bilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York Magazine and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection, among others. “You’re fighting the tide of a ferocious anti-craft movement,” James Gray explains in a conversation with Jeremy Strong./just-a-bunch-of-bird-box-memes-for-you.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-a-bunch-of-bird-box-memes-for-you.htmlIn the new Netflix movie Bird Box, Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, and Lil Rel Howery star as a group of survivors in a pretty odd end-of-the-world scenario. Demonic creatures have overrun the landscape, and if you look at them your greatest fears will manifest right before your eyes, which leads people who see the creatures to die by suicide. Throughout the film, Bullock and a pair of children who are only referred to as Boy and Girl must navigate a forest blindfolded to avoid seeing the critters./kanye-west-meets-takashi-murakami.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kanye-west-meets-takashi-murakami.htmlLeft, Graduation’s cover. Right, Kanye West’s earlier promotional art.Courtesy of Takashi Murakami, Kanye West, and Roc-A-Fella Records The just-released cover for Kanye West’s Graduation shows Kanye’s trademark bruin, manga-ized, being launched out of some kind of floating university in the sky. As a statement of purpose, it’s a little confused and busy; what is Kanye saying, exactly? That’s he’s finally ready for the world? Surely that was true two blockbuster albums ago./lady-bird-vulture.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lady-bird-vulture.htmlit involves satan Apr. 24, 2024 Who Would Win an Actual A24 Civil War?A24’s Civil War never gets into specifics about its divided America, so we imagined our own A24 civil war. By Nate Jones ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeclrG6ecGiqZ1n/lana-del-rey-seeks-some-vigilante-justice-against-her-cop-ex.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lana-del-rey-seeks-some-vigilante-justice-against-her-cop-ex.htmlFrom lost vapes to delays, Lana Del Rey’s Ocean Blvd shows in Europe have gotten off to an expectedly messy start. The singer-songwriter only continued the chaos at BST Hyde Park last night, when she threw a shady reveal about her cop ex, Sean “Sticks” Larkin, into her song “Chemtrails Over the Country Club.” “He was born in December, and I was born in June,” she sang before riffing on the song’s outro./last-night-on-late-night-brad-pitt-cock-blocked-mike-tyson.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/last-night-on-late-night-brad-pitt-cock-blocked-mike-tyson.htmlLast night on Conan, Mike Tyson recounted the time the “handsome Brad Pitt” completely deflated his mission for a morning session with ex-wife Robin Givens, and he couldn’t even get up to fight for her  — “I was just emotionally comatose because I went from a hard stallion to a wet noodle.” (Hand gestures included.) Plus: Rachel Dratch recalled her date with a cannibalistically curious horsemeat eater; and Maya Rudolph and Jason Biggs had a really awkward hug./leaked-email-marvel-ceo-not-so-hot-on-female-superhero-movies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leaked-email-marvel-ceo-not-so-hot-on-female-superhero-movies.htmlBlack Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Well, this isn’t great. Indiewire’s “Women and Hollywood” blog went digging in WikiLeaks’ searchable treasure trove of leaked Sony emails and found a message that appears to be from Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, sent to Sony exec Michael Lynton. It was sent last August and bears the ominous and blunt subject line “Female Movies.” We don’t know the context, as it seems to be a follow-up from a phone call, but here’s the email in full:/let-s-talk-about-the-scene-with-the-car-in-hereditary.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-talk-about-the-scene-with-the-car-in-hereditary.htmlThere’s a scene early on in the new movie Hereditary that forces you, as a viewer, to accept that you’re totally screwed, to embrace the fact that you’re at the whims of a madman. When you first wade into the movie’s murky waters, it’s likely you clock the character of Charlie (Milly Shapiro) from the get-go and told yourself — a horror-film fan who proudly announces twists to their friends before they happen — This girl is clearly going to carry us through the movie./lev-grossman-takes-his-time.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lev-grossman-takes-his-time.htmlThe author of The Magicians returns to adult fiction with The Bright Sword. It only took ten years and a transpacific move. The Bright Sword is out July 16 from Viking. Photo: Jeff Brown The Bright Sword is out July 16 from Viking. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By most metrics, the author Lev Grossman’s life appeared to change irrevocably in 2009./lingering-questions-we-need-answered-at-the-love-is-blind-reunion.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lingering-questions-we-need-answered-at-the-love-is-blind-reunion.htmlSeattle’s finest most available finally said “I do” (or “I don’t,” if you’re Paul). In the season-four finale of Netflix’s Love Is Blind, four couples made it to the clear tent, but only three went through with their holy matrimonies: Brett and Tiffany (duh), Bliss and Zack (surprising but also, I guess, not), and Kwame and Chelsea (not gonna lie, that one shocked me). With Marshall and Jackie ancient history (minus the former’s cameo at Brett and Tiff’s nuptials), it was Micah’s turn on the chopping block after Paul, for the sake of science, said “no” at the altar./lorne-michaels-is-producing-a-movie-starring-taran-killam-rachael-harris-david-wain-and-bobby-moy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lorne-michaels-is-producing-a-movie-starring-taran-killam-rachael-harris-david-wain-and-bobby-moy.htmlThe new season of SNL is just around the corner, but that hasn’t stopped Lorne Michaels from making another movie this summer. Variety reports that Michaels is producing Brothers in Law written by Cameron Fay with rewrites from SNL’s Mikey Day and Taran Killam. Killam also stars in the film alongside Bill Pullman, Rachael Harris, Rita Wilson, David Wain, and Bobby Moynihan. Production started in Oregon this week, and the film is described as “having elements of Meet the Parents and What About Bob?/luke-bryan-finds-safety-in-country-s-middle-ground.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luke-bryan-finds-safety-in-country-s-middle-ground.htmlLuke Bryan. There was a time when having too youthful an image could actually be something of a liability in country music, a genre that privileged adult tastes and settled concerns. The few adolescents who scored country breakthroughs either sounded older than they were or strained to project weighty worldviews. All that began to change when Taylor Swift proved tween and teen girls would flock to country-pop songs that spoke their language./madeline-leung-coleman-author-archive.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madeline-leung-coleman-author-archive.htmlvulture lists Jan. 3, 2023 The Best Books of 2022Yes, this list features more than one book set in a postapocalyptic world, but have you looked around lately?ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZLqisMSloKedXaGytrrGZpqopJWirq97/michael-stipe-is-finally-free-of-the-shackles-of-r-e-m.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-stipe-is-finally-free-of-the-shackles-of-r-e-m.htmlNEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Musician Michael Stipe attends the Patrick Ervell Spring 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Milk Studios on September 11, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Skip Bolen/WireImage) Michael Stipe says he doesn’t know what he’s going to do now that R.E.M. is no more, but he can rule out becoming a solo act. “It’s unfathomable to me right now,” he tells Rolling Stone./missing-the-new-mutants-try-these-5-movies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/missing-the-new-mutants-try-these-5-movies.htmlChronicle. In a different reality, we’d right now be in the midst of Hollywood’s blockbuster season, enjoying the nearly weekly unveiling of a major-event movie, including much-anticipated sequels (F9) and new installments of beloved properties (No Time to Die). Instead, well, you’re cooped up in your place trying to figure out what to watch while not going stir-crazy. This is where we come in. On a regular basis, we’ll be presenting “The Replacements”: a list of five alternative choices for every big tentpole you’d been excited to see before COVID-19 changed our lives./mistrusting-joe-budden.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mistrusting-joe-budden.htmlThe public, petty firing of Rory and Mal from the Joe Budden Podcast coupled with accusations of workplace sexual harassment seem like the latest bout of self-sabotage for the rapper turned podcaster. Joe Budden signed to Def Jam at a peculiar juncture in the history of the venerable hip-hop label, arriving just as late-’90s and early-aughts heavy hitters like DMX, Ja Rule, and Ashanti had reached the twilight of their platinum hit streaks but before the middle-aughts influx of movers and shakers like Rihanna, Kanye West, Jeezy, and Ne-Yo./mumford-sons-delta-is-hit-or-miss.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mumford-sons-delta-is-hit-or-miss.htmlThere’s a specific point in the trajectory of every musical act with stadium-size ambitions where they start conceptualizing the live show from the studio, where Coldplay starts tracking down U2’s producers, where Arcade Fire seeks input from James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Populist appeal, the logic seems to follow, involves touching as many demographics as possible, and bands that come in with a strong but very specific sound all seem to grow peculiar new interests right around album four./neal-brennan-s-10-defining-moments-on-his-path-from-comedy-club-doorman-to-approval-matrix-host.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neal-brennan-s-10-defining-moments-on-his-path-from-comedy-club-doorman-to-approval-matrix-host.htmlTonight at 11 p.m., The Approval Matrix — a panel show based on the famous New York magazine feature — premieres on the Sundance Channel, and at the helm is comedian Neal Brennan. Unlike many of his peers, hosting a TV show was never on his radar as a possibility. Brennan got his start in comedy in the early ‘90s not as a stand-up, but as the doorman of a New York comedy club./neil-gaiman-vulture.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neil-gaiman-vulture.htmlthe industry July 9, 2008 Ron Weasley to Play Someone Other Than Ron WeasleyPlus: Stephin Merritt’s Neil Gaiman musical is ready for the stage.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57zZ6urGeemratecaaoKaZnmSMtMDAq6t2bWA%3D/new-evidence-suggests-the-cats-butthole-cut-is-real.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-evidence-suggests-the-cats-butthole-cut-is-real.htmlWhen will the buttholes break their silence? Jennifer Hudson’s high notes, back away. The only memory from Cats we’re interested in are all the CGI buttholes seared into the mind of one VFX artist. Word of a Cats “Butthole Cut” hit the internet last month, and no one has stopped to think about anything else since. New reporting fromThe Daily Beast indicates that some version of the “Butthole Cut” might be real./noah-schnapp-looks-both-ways-before-coming-out.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/noah-schnapp-looks-both-ways-before-coming-out.htmlNice! Noah Schnapp, the actor best known for playing Will Byers on Stranger Things, has seriously (unseriously) come out of the closet. Schnapp posted a TikTok on January 5 lip-syncing the audio “You know what it never was? That serious” with text reading “When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know./now-the-national-film-registry-s-collection-is-complete.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/now-the-national-film-registry-s-collection-is-complete.htmlThe Little Mermaid OG animated version. Isn’t it neat? Disney’s The Little Mermaid was just added to the National Film Registry for preservation along with some other eclectic 2022 inductees. Its inclusion means even more excitement around the upcoming Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey, and pressure to live up to the beloved original. The animated film was one of 25 films chosen for the registry. “Selected for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, the newest selections include a vibrant diversity of American filmmakers, as well as landmark works in key genres and numerous documentaries,” the press release said./offset-s-very-convenient-social-media-hack-explained.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/offset-s-very-convenient-social-media-hack-explained.htmlTime to go through his phone, Cardi. Pop quiz! If you were a talented computer hacker and you got the opportunity to sneak into the email account of a famous and wealthy rapper, thus granting you access to many of his accounts, what would you do? A) Find a way to send yourself money. B) Leak music. C) DM the woman his wife is accused of assaulting allegedly in retaliation for sleeping with him “Miss u fr,” wait half a day and then tweet “I’m gay y’all./olivia-cooke-s-house-of-the-dragon-animalistic-sex-scene-got-cut.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/olivia-cooke-s-house-of-the-dragon-animalistic-sex-scene-got-cut.htmlIf you’re an animal in the bedroom, hopefully, it’s not a dragon. The Game of Thrones world is almost synonymous with sex, and House of the Dragon is no different— except a very spicy moment did hit the chopping block, according to Olivia Cooke. She tells Elle that a “carnal” and “animalistic” sex scene was cut from the show. She explains, “It was messy as fuck. It wasn’t beautiful, and that was really fun to do … I think Ryan [Condal, the showrunner] said we weren’t learning any more about the characters, which I disagree with slightly, but it’s okay./pop-s-millennials-are-suddenly-at-another-sharp-crossroads.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pop-s-millennials-are-suddenly-at-another-sharp-crossroads.htmlPop music goes wherever the national consciousness does, so millennial pop stars are perpetually on the move. Millennial pop stars cycle through styles like seasons, in part because, for many of them, the road to recognition ran through kid-friendly outlets that branded them with a stigma it would take deliberate calculations to shake. We got Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera from The Mickey Mouse Club. Ariana Grande got her start on the Nickelodeon high-school drama Victorious./queer-eye-recap-sister-christian.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/queer-eye-recap-sister-christian.htmlQueer Eye Camp Rules Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Queer Eye Camp Rules Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode of Queer Eye, more than anything, reminded me of those episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where Ty Pennington would find someone who had a disabled child, was thrown out of her house, fostered 17 children successfully, or was a former henchman to an evil supervillain and needed to find a new job since his boss was blown up by the Justice League./rad-is-back-wait-what-s-rad.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rad-is-back-wait-what-s-rad.htmlNobody saw the 1986 movie about a hometown BMX hero directed by Hal Needham and produced by Jack Schwartzman. Well, almost nobody. In March of 1986, a sports movie called RAD — all damn caps — hit U.S. theaters. Directed by the iconic ex-stuntman Hal Needham, it told the story of Cru Jones (Bill Allen), a scrappy young biker fighting corporate malfeasance and dreaming of impossible glory in an insane BMX race called Helltrack./rami-kasho%C3%BA-won-t-be-limited-by-project-runway-s-tastes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rami-kasho%C3%BA-won-t-be-limited-by-project-runway-s-tastes.htmlThird time wasn’t the charm for Project Runway contestant Rami Kashoú. The Palestinian-born draping impresario was season four’s runner-up to wunderkind Christian Siriano back in 2007, then saw his time in the inaugural run of Project Runway All Stars cut short in 2012. Now, the 20th season of the Bravo reality competition is airing in an All Stars–style format hosted by Siriano and bringing back contestants from 19 years of Project Runway./reacher-recap-and-russo-it-goes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reacher-recap-and-russo-it-goes.htmlReacher New York’s Finest Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reacher New York’s Finest Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The greatest trick Reacher ever pulled was convincing the world that a bunch of homicidal killjoys would be fun to spend time with, at least in 39-to-44-minute increments./read-dean-martin-s-foolproof-burger-recipe.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/read-dean-martin-s-foolproof-burger-recipe.htmlDean Martin: the original Ron Swanson. (From The Celebrity Cookbook, published in 1967.) [Letters of Note/Twitter] Read Dean Martin’s Foolproof Burger Recipe ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgbHylscCnlqaZoqm2r6vBrqmgnaKoe6nAzKU%3D/reservation-dogs-recap-inside-cheese.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reservation-dogs-recap-inside-cheese.htmlReservation Dogs Stay Gold, Cheesy Boy Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reservation Dogs Stay Gold, Cheesy Boy Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s the best time of the Rez Dogs season — we get a Cheese-focused episode!/riverdale-season-finale-recap-snakes-and-ladders.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/riverdale-season-finale-recap-snakes-and-ladders.htmlRiverdale Chapter Thirty-Five: Brave New World Season 2 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Riverdale Chapter Thirty-Five: Brave New World Season 2 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Put on your mourning beanie. Riverdale wastes no time in answering the question that’s been on all of our minds: What happened to Jughead?/sasie-sealy-vulture.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sasie-sealy-vulture.htmlmovie review May 26, 2020 Lucky Grandma Is a Rorschach Test Comedy-ThrillerTsai Chin’s transfixing lead performance is the main reason the film works so well. By Bilge Ebiri ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejlsCqsYysnJqkqWQ%3D/schoolboy-q-is-following-in-the-footsteps-of-giants.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/schoolboy-q-is-following-in-the-footsteps-of-giants.htmlIn the early ’60s, as prestige media shadowed the burgeoning Black radical movement, and citizens in “polite” society looked on with clutched purse and furrowed brow at men like Malcolm X, poetry oozed out of the wound cut by the 1965 Watts Rebellion. The Watts Writers Workshop capitalized on the influx of attention by cultivating inner-city literary heroes like the Watts Prophets, who recorded a pair of influential spoken-word albums that became key points in the cultural chain reaction that spawned hip-hop./seventh-son-is-as-boring-as-it-gets.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seventh-son-is-as-boring-as-it-gets.htmlBen Barnes, left, and Jeff Bridges in The Seventh Son. Why is it so hard to make a satisfying medieval fantasy adventure? We look down on movies like Seventh Son, Season of the Witch, Outcast, and any number of other films for their descent into high camp, but sometimes, one wonders if it’s the genre. With its overt appeals to such childlike (or childish, depending on your point of view) things like dragons and witches and spells, maybe it’s just hard to take this stuff at face value anymore, unless it was written by J./shameless-s-jeremy-allen-white-on-turning-21-smoking-camel-lights-and-playing-a-masochistic-hear.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shameless-s-jeremy-allen-white-on-turning-21-smoking-camel-lights-and-playing-a-masochistic-hear.htmlJeremy Allen White. Shameless has a lot of characters — the show follows six rowdy kids, their wastoid dad, the kinky neighbors, an agoraphobic down the street, her sex-addict daughter, a meth queen grandma, etc. The whole cast is phenomenal (hello: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Joan Cusack), but if there’s a breakout, it’s Jeremy Allen White as Lip, the troubled genius of the Gallagher bunch. He subtly steals almost every scene he’s in, and for a guy who just turned 21, he sure does pull off jaded face like a world-weary Sean Penn./sharon-van-etten-on-her-new-album-tramp-recording-while-homeless-and-the-musical-appeal-of-gruntin.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sharon-van-etten-on-her-new-album-tramp-recording-while-homeless-and-the-musical-appeal-of-gruntin.htmlSharon Van Etten. Today, Sharon Van Etten releases her third album in roughly the same number of years, Tramp. Produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner and recorded sporadically over a fourteen-month period — while Van Etten was couch surfing, touring, and subletting here and there — the finished product is the singer-songwriter’s most expansive and aggressive LP yet. We spoke with Van Etten about working with Dessner (and a slew of guests, including Beirut’s Zach Condon), lyrics as therapy, and the musical appeal of grunting./snl-recap-jim-carrey-goes-even-dumber.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snl-recap-jim-carrey-goes-even-dumber.htmlSaturday Night Live Jim Carrey/Iggy Azalea Season 40 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Jim Carrey/Iggy Azalea Season 40 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Perhaps you have no idea what the schedule at Saturday Night Live is like, but it’s 100 percent bonkers./storm-reid-has-to-solve-her-own-murder-in-the-don-t-let-go-trailer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/storm-reid-has-to-solve-her-own-murder-in-the-don-t-let-go-trailer.htmlSometimes when you’re a kid you have to take on more responsibilities than you’re ready for — helping to raise a sibling, getting a job so you can pitch in with the bills, or even solving your own murder to change the future. That last one is the very unfair task that Storm Reid’s Ashley has to take on when she’s killed along with her parents. Only her uncle Jack (David Oyelowo) — who saw her dead body but is now getting phone calls from his living past-niece — can help her stop the crime before it happens again./strange-new-worlds-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/strange-new-worlds-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mrKyRp3q1vsSkZKysopa7qLGMp5ywZaekv62w0mg%3D/the-20-best-comedy-movies-of-all-time.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-20-best-comedy-movies-of-all-time.htmlThe funniest movies tend to burrow into our brains like no other form of popular entertainment. Through repeated viewings and earworm quotes, they create unconscious templates for life’s milestones and stopovers – dating, road trips, the college experience, marriage, the working world – and remind us of moments in time as well as entire eras. They’re comfort food and therapy, high art and cultural critique, nestled lovingly amid fart jokes and crotch punches./the-2023-hollywood-strike-for-dummies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2023-hollywood-strike-for-dummies.htmlHave you heard about streaming? Well, if not, know that it’s the invasive species of the scripting world — throttling the competition and harmful to the ecosystem if unregulated. Because of changes to the entertainment environment due to streaming, the writers and actors went on strike. The writers’ strike ended in September, while the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike lasted through November 9. After 146 days on strike, WGA members received an email on September 24 telling them that the WGA had reached a “tentative” agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)./the-25-most-terrifying-moms-in-movie-history.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-25-most-terrifying-moms-in-movie-history.htmlThis list was originally published on May 10, 2019. It has been updated to include additional scary movie moms ahead of Mother’s Day. If we’ve learned one thing from horror and horror-adjacent films, it is that mother does not always know best. So, in honor of Mother’s Day, Vulture has pulled together a list of 25 of the absolute worst, most frightening moms ever onscreen. And by worst we mean a combination of incredible and evil./the-50-greatest-movie-dance-scenes-of-all-time.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-50-greatest-movie-dance-scenes-of-all-time.htmlIncluding Call Me by Your Name, Purple Rain, Black Swan, and Paddington 2. Photo-Illustration: Emily Denniston and Maya Robinson/Vulture This weekend, Luca Guadagnino’s maximalist reworking of Italian horror classic Suspiria jetés into wide release. Dakota Johnson stars as an American ballerina attending a prestigious academy in pre-reunification Berlin, tutored by severe instructors giving her a faintly Satanic vibe. (Perhaps it has something to do with all the meat hooks?) The Damien Jalet–choreographed dances stand out as the most gripping sections in the film’s dense two-and-a-half hours, in particular the fiendish group piece titled “Volk./the-best-tom-petty-covers-performed-in-the-wake-of-his-death.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-tom-petty-covers-performed-in-the-wake-of-his-death.htmlIt’s not at all surprising that Tom Petty, one of the finest musicians to ever grace this earth, has received copious tributes from his peers and contemporaries over the past week. Here are a few of the best covers — from Jason Aldean to Kesha, to, uh, a lot of southern football fans — that capture the indistinguishable Petty spirit. Jason Aldean Eschewing the standard Saturday Night Live cold open in favor of a short speech and performance, Jason Aldean addressed the nation about the traumatic Las Vegas attack and how we can begin to heal./the-complicated-evolution-of-rosal%C3%ADa.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-complicated-evolution-of-rosal%C3%ADa.htmlRosalía arrived like an unexpected spring shower, achieving maximum saturation at shocking speeds. In a flash, whispers about the gifted singer from Spain reimagining flamenco music for new ears blossomed into international acclaim, as the taste for stark covers of traditional flamenco tunes displayed on 2017’s Los Ángeles evolved into the spirited genre hybridization and the careful pop inroads of 2018’s award-winning El Mal Querer. By 2019, Rosalía was popping up on international hits alongside música urbana heavyweights J Balvin and Ozuna, and making appearances in English-language records by Travis Scott and James Blake./the-curb-your-enthusiasm-cast-on-returning-to-the-show-the-day-after-trump-was-elected.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-curb-your-enthusiasm-cast-on-returning-to-the-show-the-day-after-trump-was-elected.htmlLarry David in the season-nine premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm. If a six-year hiatus weren’t enough to test your nerves, Curb Your Enthusiasm resumed work last fall the morning after the presidential election. In New York City, Susie Essman was “under the covers in a deep state of mourning,” grateful she wasn’t working that day. Cheryl Hines wasn’t on set, either. First up were Larry David and J.B. Smoove, who tried to rekindle the L./the-curse-recap-fun-house.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-curse-recap-fun-house.htmlThe Curse It’s a Good Day Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Curse It’s a Good Day Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Flipanthropy cameras are finally rolling again in Española. As bad as Asher is on TV — and he is excruciatingly clumsy and awkward — it’s Whitney who wins the prize for insufferable character of the week./the-curse-series-premiere-recap-hall-of-mirrors.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-curse-series-premiere-recap-hall-of-mirrors.htmlThe Curse Land of Enchantment Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Curse Land of Enchantment Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Curse is a TV show about trying to make a TV show. Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone play a bizarro version of Fixer Upper’s Chip and Joanna Gaines — a young couple with dreams of making the sleepy postindustrial Southwest outpost they call home a little less ratchet, one televised reno at a time./the-greatest-beer-run-ever-wastes-a-very-good-zac-efron.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-greatest-beer-run-ever-wastes-a-very-good-zac-efron.htmlBilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection, among others. Bilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection, among others. Zac Efron in The Greatest Beer Run Ever./the-hall-of-fame-scene-in-a-league-of-their-own-will-always-be-sob-inducing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hall-of-fame-scene-in-a-league-of-their-own-will-always-be-sob-inducing.htmlFor a certain set of millennial women, few movies are more beloved than A League of Their Own, the fourth feature film directed by Penny Marshall and her second to surpass $100 million at the box office. (She became the first woman ever to accomplish that feat four years earlier with Big.) It’s insane how memorable this movie is — how many scenes and single lines and specific characters can be isolated out for their perfection, but somehow exist in one cohesive, joyful movie./the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-tv-show-coming-to-abc-family.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-tv-show-coming-to-abc-family.htmlABC Family is developing a TV show based on The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the 1992 thriller. According to THR, Supernatural’s Daniel Loflin will write and executive produce the adaptation. The movie starred Rebecca De Mornay as a woman whose doctor husband killed himself after being accused of misconduct; she vows revenge on the woman who brought the allegations, and figures the best way to do that is to become her nanny, seduce her husband, and murder her./the-haunting-of-hill-house-is-scary-but-slow.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-haunting-of-hill-house-is-scary-but-slow.htmlThe traumatized members of the Crain family in The Haunting of Hill House. I expected Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House to remind me of the Shirley Jackson novel on which it is based, or perhaps of other horror stories I’ve absorbed over the years. I did not expect it to remind me of This Is Us. Given the current TV landscape, maybe I should have. This bingeable iteration of Jackson’s Gothic horror tale, which debuts Friday, is a non-literal adaptation of its source material./the-latest-tv-recaps-and-news-from-amazon-s-homecoming.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-latest-tv-recaps-and-news-from-amazon-s-homecoming.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069moaedmrCwucinnmg%3D/the-long-road-to-mordor.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-long-road-to-mordor.htmlThe Rings of Power creators explain Sauron’s identity and their plan to explore the edges of Tolkien’s map. Galadriel discovers Halbrand’s true identity after he’s coaxed Celebrimbor (played by Charles Edwards, left) and the other Elves far into forging the first three Rings of Power. Photo: Ben Rothstein/Prime Video Galadriel discovers Halbrand’s true identity after he’s coaxed Celebrimbor (played by Charles Edwards, left) and the other Elves far into forging the first three Rings of Power./the-lost-roles-of-richard-pryor.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lost-roles-of-richard-pryor.htmlOne of the most acclaimed and respected stand-up comedians of all time, Richard Pryor shot to fame in the 1970’s and proved to be a charismatic presence in movies and TV. Although he starred in dozens of films throughout his career (his Gene Wilder buddy pictures Silver Streak and Stir Crazy being the highlights), Pryor’s movie work never reached the heights of his stand-up. Despite this, Richard Pryor did have several opportunities to play big parts extended to him./the-single-life-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-single-life-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 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Mystery Baby One afternoon in September of 1985, in the midst of my parents’ separation and the official beginning of his relationship with Erica, my dad picked me up from school and told me we were going to visit a friend of his, Amy, at the hospital./theater-reviews-vulture.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-reviews-vulture.htmltheater review Jan. 13, 2023 When Online Drama Begets Stage DramaSeven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Your Sexts Are Shit will have you wondering, yet again, about being extremely online. By Jackson McHenry ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeknbKiwMSrZKudpp6yuL%2BO/upon-head-s-blu-ray-release-two-monkees-disagree-on-its-worth.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/upon-head-s-blu-ray-release-two-monkees-disagree-on-its-worth.htmlDavy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Peter Tork in a scene from Head. When one thinks of the crucial canon of the sixties countercultural film movement, certain movies come to mind: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show. And they’re all collected on Criterion’s new Blu-ray collection, America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, which assembles seven movies from Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider’s influential and innovative studio./vulture-s-2018-grammy-predictions.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vulture-s-2018-grammy-predictions.htmlWe’ve made it to the finish line. In just a few days, it’ll become clear who the Recording Academy has deemed the best of the best in the previous year in music. Could Lorde upset in Album of the Year to edge out all the boys? Might “Despacito” make history? Will we ever understand what the hell is happening in the rock category? At least two of those mysteries should be solved by the weekend’s end./vulture-s-five-step-plan-to-break-sofia-vergara-out-of-the-charo-mold.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vulture-s-five-step-plan-to-break-sofia-vergara-out-of-the-charo-mold.htmlSofia Vergara with Katherine Heigl in New Year’s Eve. In New Year’s Eve, the less-than-excellent ensemble comedy out today, Sofia Vergara somehow winds up playing the kooky, man-crazy sidekick to Katherine Heigl’s romantic lead. It’s a standard rom-com role, a supporting position reserved for many a talented but underappreciated actress, but it’s not the only cliche that Vergara is saddled with in the movie. If you are familiar with the Colombian-born actress, you know that she has quite the accent./watch-stephen-colbert-amy-sedaris-and-paul-dinello-as-the-tumbleweeds-in-1992.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-stephen-colbert-amy-sedaris-and-paul-dinello-as-the-tumbleweeds-in-1992.htmlWelcome to The Second City Archives, in which we post an exclusive clip each week of some of comedy’s biggest superstars performing early in their careers on the legendary Chicago stage. Second City has generously given us a glimpse into their extensive archive of live performances, and over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing some rare and retro comedy never before seen on the web. This week’s unearthed clip comes from Amy Sedaris’s final show at Second City Northwest in 1992 called Destiny, and How to Avoid It featuring her fellow Second City collaborators and soon-to-be Exit 57 and Strangers with Candy costars Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello./well-mel-gibson-is-starring-in-the-john-wick-prequel-the-continental.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/well-mel-gibson-is-starring-in-the-john-wick-prequel-the-continental.htmlThe first actor to join the cast of the John Wick prequel is Mel Gibson, whom you might recognize from Mad Max, Braveheart, or his history with anti-Semitic, sexist, and racist comments. According to Deadline, Gibson is set to star in The Continental, which takes place 40 years before the original film franchise starring Keanu Reeves. Gibson’s character will be called Cormac, and it’s not clear yet what role he’ll have in the story./what-s-all-the-hype-about-the-travis-scott-meal-at-mcdonald-s-vulture-investigates.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-all-the-hype-about-the-travis-scott-meal-at-mcdonald-s-vulture-investigates.htmlToy not included. Here’s the thing about the Travis Scott Meal, now at participating McDonaldses near you: It’s not just a Quarter Pounder combo with Sprite. Oh no. It’s an “unprecedented collaborative partnership across food, fashion, and community efforts, launching with [Scott’s] signature order on menus across the U.S.,” according to the press release. It just looks, smells, tastes, and costs the same as a Quarter Pounder combo with Sprite./which-into-the-dark-episodes-are-worth-your-time.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-into-the-dark-episodes-are-worth-your-time.htmlBlumhouse and Hulu announced an interesting partnership near the end of 2018: Jason Blum’s wildly profitable company, one that has been responsible for game-changers like Paranormal Activity and Get Out, would produce a new horror film every month for Hulu subscribers. And there was even a clever twist — each film would be based on that month’s holiday. While the potential to spotlight new voices in horror on an international streaming platform was welcome news for genre fans, the experiment has not resulted in the best batting average./which-mia-succession-characters-are-showing-up-to-logan-s-funeral.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-mia-succession-characters-are-showing-up-to-logan-s-funeral.htmlJust because a Succession character makes a strong impression doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing a lot of them. This truism has been embodied throughout the series by Logan’s third (and final) wife, Marcia, Succession’s version of Catherine Parr, who knows exactly how to play the game of being married to a rich and powerful man: When scorned, jet somewhere offscreen (shopping in Milan, perhaps?), and return only when suspense is at its highest./who-is-keanu-reeves-really.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-keanu-reeves-really.htmlHe’s Neo. He’s John Wick. He’s Johnny Utah. He’ll soon be Ted again, in Bill and Ted Face the Music. Illustration: Bráulio Amado For an actor sometimes panned for his lack of range, Keanu Reeves’s career has undergone remarkable shifts. He began as a teen dreamboat, shining in moody dramas like River’s Edge, then hammed it up in the Bill & Ted movies. His attempt to pivot into serious leading-man roles ended with him becoming, quite by accident, an action star./who-s-the-front-runner-to-win-rupaul-s-drag-race-season-9.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-s-the-front-runner-to-win-rupaul-s-drag-race-season-9.htmlThe queens of season nine. The United States government might be lip-syncing for its life, but RuPaul’s Drag Race is here to stay. Ahead of the ninth-season premiere of the Logo reality series, the 13 queens vying for $100,000 and the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar already seem like the show’s most impressive yet. To help you figure out which queen to root for, Vulture did the early prep work to determine who is the most — and least — likely to take home the crown./why-after-40-years-the-influence-of-a-horse-with-no-name-still-reigns.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-after-40-years-the-influence-of-a-horse-with-no-name-still-reigns.htmlAmerica, the Patient Zero of Frisbee Rock. To the satisfaction of anyone mesmerized by Time-Life Music’s soft-rock infomercials, last week the band America became the 2,459th celebs to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Last Monday’s ceremony marked the 40th anniversary of their signature hit, “A Horse With No Name,” that alluring, Castaneda-for-Dummies folk-pop hit with the head-scratching lyric “the heat was hot.” In 2012, this news probably only matters to those still kept awake at night wondering just how you call a horse that has no name./winning-time-recap-it-s-actually-losing-time.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/winning-time-recap-it-s-actually-losing-time.htmlWinning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Beat L.A. Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Beat L.A. Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose./yes-gone-girl-has-a-woman-problem.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-gone-girl-has-a-woman-problem.htmlWe will be discussing Gone Girl plot and twists. If you’ve read the book, you’re fine. If you haven’t and plan on seeing the movie unsullied, you might want to save this essay and read it afterwards. In 2013, the author Gillian Flynn did an interview with The Guardian in which she was asked to explain why her books — consistently filled with nightmarish women — aren’t hateful. This is a charge that gets thrown at Flynn a lot, particularly when discussing her third novel, Gone Girl — a story about a married woman who disappears, except (again: major spoilers from here on out) that, in actuality, she faked her own disappearance in order to punish her philandering, ungrateful husband./you-my-chick-fil-a-and-other-incredibly-kanye-lyrics-from-jesus-is-king.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-my-chick-fil-a-and-other-incredibly-kanye-lyrics-from-jesus-is-king.htmlEven though Jesus Is King is … thematically different than Kanye West’s previous albums, it holds onto a few Kanye traditions. One, it was super late. Like, a month late. And two, it has some really out-there lyrics. In the past, between Bible verses and religious imagery, Kanye made room for lyrics like old kickers “Couldn’t afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus,” from “All Falls Down,” and “Hurry up with my damn croissants” from “I Am a God./ysl-trial-delayed-to-january-after-defendant-stabbed.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ysl-trial-delayed-to-january-after-defendant-stabbed.htmlThe RICO trial against six defendants in the group YSL, including Young Thug, has been delayed until January after one defendant, Shannon Stilwell, was stabbed in jail. A Georgia judge told jurors on December 11 that “given the length of time” it would take to respond to the incident, “it may be more prudent” to break for holidays now,” Atlanta’s Fox 5 reported. Stilwell was stabbed at Fulton County Jail in Georgia on December 10, leading the trial to be paused the following day./zooey-deschanel-and-emily-mortimer-on-sundance-stalkers-and-passing-the-bechdel-rule.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zooey-deschanel-and-emily-mortimer-on-sundance-stalkers-and-passing-the-bechdel-rule.htmlIn the big Sundance comedy My Idiot Brother, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer play two of the sisters who take in their nomadic hippie brother Paul Rudd but are unprepared for the upheaval he brings into their lives. When the actresses sat down with Vulture during the fest, though, both seemed utterly welcoming of chaos, bouncing back and forth between each other like an expert comedy team. In a freewheeling interview, we discussed women who wear bunny ears, sexy love triangles, and the best things about Pixar that nobody knows./10-hacks-to-get-the-most-out-of-hulu.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-hacks-to-get-the-most-out-of-hulu.htmlStreamliner Presented by Streamliner Presented by Hulu might not have the trophy case of original content boasted by Netflix, but the veteran streaming service has still miraculously evolved from a simple, syndicated TV archive to a genuinely vital factor in the ongoing streaming wars. The company claims both fetishizable back catalogues (it’s the singular home of all things Star Trek) and a bevy of prestige properties (The Handmaid’s Tale and Mrs./12-ariana-grande-jokes-pete-davidson-uses-to-process-emotions-in-his-new-netflix-special.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-ariana-grande-jokes-pete-davidson-uses-to-process-emotions-in-his-new-netflix-special.htmlGrande and Davidson dated for one magical, “big dick summer” in 2018. Pete Davidson is right about one thing. After his breakup with Ariana Grande, the world collectively rebounded with Thank U, Next. So, he figures, Grande got her double-album drop and now he gets his Netflix special, Alive From New York. In his set, sandwiched between the Dan Crenshaw controversy and 9/11 jokes, Davidson attempts to rewrite the relationship’s history from his perspective, like that leaked Stephenie Meyer Twilight spinoff from Edward’s point of view./20-great-unheralded-morrissey-songs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-great-unheralded-morrissey-songs.htmlFew modern musicians’ discographies have been anthologized and compiled as exhaustively as Morrissey’s, thanks to the many Morrisseyisms he unleashed during his inspired run in the 1980s with the Smiths and over a solo career that now spans more than a quarter century. But even the most ardent completists can be guilty of favoritism for selected tracks and eras, resulting in shameful blind spots that shroud comparatively neglected diamonds in the rough./9-movie-questions-that-might-be-answered-at-comic-con.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/9-movie-questions-that-might-be-answered-at-comic-con.htmlComic-Con! It’s like a film festival for $200 million blockbusters — if, instead of actually getting to watch movies, you waited in line for hours just see their trailers. Still, the San Diego–set geek mecca remains a prime press opportunity for Hollywood’s sci-fi spectaculars and superhero sequels, and when the Con officially kicks off tomorrow and runs into the weekend, Vulture will be there, bringing you back all the good scoops./a-beginner-s-guide-to-mexican-narco-films-the-10-best-vintage-drug-dramas.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mexican-narco-films-the-10-best-vintage-drug-dramas.htmlDiego Luna in Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico. Narco traffickers are having a cultural moment. In addition to the trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán now underway in Manhattan, there’s the coincidentally timed premiere of Narcos: Mexico. The new season of the Netflix series follows the ascent of cocaine kingpin Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, with whom El Chapo got his start in the 1980s. Of course, the Mexican outlaw oeuvre known as narco cinema has been training a lens on drug dealers for decades./a-guide-to-comedians-in-commercials-hey-it-s-that-guy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-comedians-in-commercials-hey-it-s-that-guy.htmlComedians in commercials are definitely a thing. I’m no good at trivia, but I can always impress my (non-comedy nerd) friends and family members by knowing the names of actors in commercials because so many of them are stand up and improv comics. From a 2009 episode of The Comedy Nerds Podcast called Comedians in Commercials comes this: “It’s a great way to make money and also to get seen. For many comedians, they’re good actors, and have good comedic timing and good comedic abilities and it’s hard to get someone to actually pay for that in the stand up comedy world./a-swiftie-s-guide-to-travis-kelce-and-football-in-general.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-swiftie-s-guide-to-travis-kelce-and-football-in-general.htmlThe Swift Syllabus Ongoing education about the singer’s many intersecting universes. The Swift Syllabus Ongoing education about the singer’s many intersecting universes. Now that the lavender (or should we say red?) haze has dissipated, it’s clear: Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce, or at least doing something approximating it. After weeks of rumors and some goading from Kelce himself, Swift appeared at the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears on September 24, sitting with Kelce’s mom, Donna, in a box./adult-swim-is-making-venture-bros-and-aqua-teen-hunger-force-movies.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adult-swim-is-making-venture-bros-and-aqua-teen-hunger-force-movies.htmlOperation #SaveTheVentureBros is a success. Today, Adult Swim announced in a press release that it is greenlighting three movies based on three of its original animated series: Venture Bros., Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Metalocalypse. The three movies will be available to purchase on BluRay/DVD and VOD for 90 days before streaming on HBO Max and airing on Adult Swim. All three series premiered in the early 2000s and have enjoyed enduring popularity, with many fans expressing their dismay in a social-media campaign when Adult Swim canceled Venture Bros./all-creatures-great-and-small-season-premiere-recap-so-bloody-what.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-creatures-great-and-small-season-premiere-recap-so-bloody-what.htmlAll Creatures Great and Small Broodiness Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Broodiness Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Just in time for the bleak midwinter, we are blessed with a new season of All Creatures./all-of-real-estate-mogul-taylor-swift-s-homes-ranked.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-of-real-estate-mogul-taylor-swift-s-homes-ranked.htmlHer house doesn’t even have walls! Think b4 you judge someone :(. On March 16, our nation’s preeminent chronicler of hypercapitalism, The Wall Street Journal, published an article estimating the net worth ofTaylor Swift’s various real-estate holdings to be worth at least $150 million. Swift has bought and sold a number of houses over the years via “a variety of trusts and limited liability companies,” and journalist Candace Taylor breaks these assets down, checking public records and estimating values of the homes that Swift currently owns./an-incredulous-rory-scovel-won-late-night-this-week.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-incredulous-rory-scovel-won-late-night-this-week.htmlBefore we get into the top-five clips of the week, I want to highlight a weird mini trend this week in late-night television: shouting out your old improv theater. After Midnight held a Groundlings reunion with Stephanie Courtney, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon. They had so much fun playing together and gave us all some wig tips. Paul Scheer told some stories of OG UCB on The Late Show./aquaman-and-the-lost-kingdom-doesn-t-give-a-damn-that-the-dc-universe-is-ending.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aquaman-and-the-lost-kingdom-doesn-t-give-a-damn-that-the-dc-universe-is-ending.htmlWinningly goofy but blemished by behind-the-scenes tinkering, The Lost Kingdom is disappointing in the usual sequel way. The last thing a patient viewer will see before the houselights rise on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a giant robot tussling with monstrous tentacles — the vanity card of director James Wan’s production company, Atomic Monster. The snippet of animated kaiju mayhem is very much in the spirit of the movie it closes, a Saturday-morning cartoon of a blockbuster with a pronounced ’50s sci-fi influence, a real War of the Worlds quality./astro-founding-member-of-ub40-has-died.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/astro-founding-member-of-ub40-has-died.htmlTerence Wilson, better known as UB40 founding front man Astro, has died at 64, after a brief illness, according to Ali Campbell and Astro’s Twitter. “We are absolutely devastated and completely heartbroken to have to tell you that our beloved Astro has today passed away after a very short illness,” the statement read. “The world will never be the same without him.” Astro was one of the founding members of Birmingham’s UB40, whose American hits include “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love./aubrey-plaza-love-lamp.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aubrey-plaza-love-lamp.htmlOn the one hand, Nicole Byer should be a permanent late-night host. She’s fun, spontaneous, glamorous, and can have good banter with a brick wall. On the other, it would suck if Byer was stuck behind a late-night desk every night because she deserves to be freed up for more exciting projects. This internal debate will eat at you when watching Byer fill in on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/below-deck-sailing-yacht-recap-daisy-s-sister-stirs-the-pot.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-sailing-yacht-recap-daisy-s-sister-stirs-the-pot.htmlBelow Deck Sailing Yacht Hurricane Bonnie Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Sailing Yacht Hurricane Bonnie Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daisy’s younger sister, fellow yachtie Bonnie, has finally made her Sailing Yacht debut, and, boy, was she born for reality TV./berlin-what-got-cut-from-the-nymphomaniac-volume-i-director-s-cut.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/berlin-what-got-cut-from-the-nymphomaniac-volume-i-director-s-cut.htmlBefore the two-and-a-half-hour “long” version of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I debuted yesterday at the Berlin Film Festival, we wondered what sort of material hadn’t made it into the Von Trier–approved shorter version, which screened at Sundance and has already opened in a handful of European countries. (A limited U.S. release will begin March 21.) Twenty-eight minutes of something had been cut. Obviously, some of it was going to be sexual, explicitly so./beyonc%C3%A9-s-formation-young-gifted-and-black.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonc%C3%A9-s-formation-young-gifted-and-black.htmlYou’ve seen Beyoncé’s “Formation” video, you’ve parsed through all the details; now, what to make of it? New York writer-at-large Rembert Browne, the Cut editors Allison Davis and Ashley Weatherford, and Vulture editor Dee Lockett unpack their thoughts on Beyoncé’s blackness, feminism, politics, and slayage. Ashley: What a time to be black and alive! Just when I was thinking nothing could top Missy Elliott’s appearance at the Super Bowl last year, Beyoncé drops this gem, which she’ll hopefully perform during halftime./big-little-lies-recap-two-days-in-monterey.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-little-lies-recap-two-days-in-monterey.htmlBig Little Lies Serious Mothering Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Big Little Lies Serious Mothering Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kathryn Newton as Abigail, Darby Camp as Chloe, Adam Scott as Ed, Reese Witherspoon as Madeline./bruce-springsteen-s-memoir-beautifully-dissects-his-own-masculinity.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bruce-springsteen-s-memoir-beautifully-dissects-his-own-masculinity.htmlBruce Springsteen performing at the CNE Stadium in Toronto, Canada on July 24, 1984. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns) In performances in the early- and mid-1970s, Bruce Springsteen sometimes played “Wings for Wheels,” an early version of what would become his famous rock-and-roll romance, “Thunder Road.” The best-known rendition of the song, preserved as part of a well-circulated concert bootleg, was in 1975, when 25-year-old Bruce played The Main Point in Philadelphia, six months before his third studio album, Born to Run, would lead Springsteen, in the words of Ed Sciaky, the DJ who introduced him that night, “to conquer America and the world./californication-is-now-over-here-are-the-35-worst-sex-acts-that-happened-on-the-show.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/californication-is-now-over-here-are-the-35-worst-sex-acts-that-happened-on-the-show.htmlLast night, Showtime’s Californication rode off into the sunset after seven long seasons. It should surprise nobody that a show called Californication spent much of its time contriving embarrassing sex acts for its characters to perform. What resulted was basically 84 episodes of soft-core porn masquerading as premium cable drama. Thanks, Showtime! Here are 35 of the worst sexual encounters or mishaps that David Duchovny’s Hank Moody, Evan Handler’s Charlie, and the Californication crew participated in./cory-younts-vulture.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cory-younts-vulture.htmlCory Younts - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeTpL%2B6ediorKeso2Q%3D/daryl-dixon-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daryl-dixon-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYsSiuMqipaBllJqupXnDmqmypF2Ztrm7zWg%3D/dave-steve-s-video-game-explosion.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-steve-s-video-game-explosion.htmlBurly TV created programs to be aired on college TV networks around America (an audience that no doubt included a large contingent of weed-smoking twilight gamers). Lorne Michaels would then buy show time on national TV networks such as TBS, and broadcast the shows as if they were original programming. But budgets were implausibly tight and, rather than hire writers and actors, Michaels approached David Mandel and Steve Lookner to both write and star in a new show./did-idina-menzel-in-fact-hit-that-high-note.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-idina-menzel-in-fact-hit-that-high-note.htmlMenzel belting her way into the unknown. On Sunday night, Idina Menzel took the stage at the 2020 Academy Awards to sing “Into the Unknown,” the song from Frozen 2 best known as the one theater teens belt into their phones while recording TikToks in their kitchens. The song is the sequel’s answer to “Let It Go” (read: the one where Menzel belts her face off and there’s a nonzero chance she doesn’t hit the high notes on any given day)./dust-off-your-finest-scooter-because-a-quadrophenia-sequel-is-coming.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dust-off-your-finest-scooter-because-a-quadrophenia-sequel-is-coming.htmlThe Punk and the Godfather? It’s a glorious day for all of the mod enthusiasts out there. As reported by NME, Quadrophenia — the iconic 1979 film loosely based off The Who’s equally iconic rock opera — will begin shooting a sequel this summer, nearly 40 years after the original hit theaters. The sequel will be based on the Pete Townshend–approved 2011 novel To Be Someone by Peter Meadows, which follows protagonist Jimmy Cooper as he transitions from a troubled teenager to an even more troubled gangster later in his life./eastbound-and-down-s-fitting-end.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eastbound-and-down-s-fitting-end.htmlFair warning: there be spoilers coming. As the third season of Eastbound & Down started, I knew that this would be the final season, so as the episodes aired, I started coming up with theories on how the show would end. Knowing Jody Hill’s capability of darkness as evidenced by Observe and Report, I figured that one of the most logical endings would be Kenny Powers dying in the series finale./edelstein-on-holy-motors-a-film-of-unfettered-imagination.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edelstein-on-holy-motors-a-film-of-unfettered-imagination.htmlTo my shame, I misread the early work of onetime wunderkind and festival darling Léos Carax as that of a poseur whose disregard for storytelling suggested the most suffocating sort of cinephilia — cine-solipsism. He might well be a solipsist, but he’s not a poseur. This is how Carax expresses himself, and he does so without a wasted, impersonal, non-passionate shot. His latest film, Holy Motors, is typically confounding but on every level that matters a work of unfettered — and liberating — imagination./edelstein-everything-in-oblivion-feels-100-percent-inauthentic.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edelstein-everything-in-oblivion-feels-100-percent-inauthentic.htmlSquirming through the Tom Cruise sci-fi vehicle Oblivion, I flashed back to Notting Hill, in which Julia Roberts plays a superstar visiting London to promote some deadly outer-space epic with white-on-white sets and a sleep-inducing hum. Oblivion is like that movie-within-a-movie: Everything in it feels 100 percent inauthentic. That vibe, as it happens, turns out to be intentional. But when the humans arrive, it’s still a narcotic./every-breaking-bad-crossover-character-in-better-call-saul.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-breaking-bad-crossover-character-in-better-call-saul.htmlIt’s not just these two familiar faces. Spoilers below for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Whether or not you think Better Call Saul rivals Breaking Bad in the prestige TV canon, it’s undeniable that the shows are more closely entwined than ever. As the differences between Jimmy McGill and Saul Goodman fade away, executive producers Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan have seeded BCS with crossover cameos and consequential appearances from Breaking Bad favorites and bit-parters alike./every-godzilla-movie-of-the-past-40-years-ranked.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-godzilla-movie-of-the-past-40-years-ranked.htmlThe first 15 Godzilla movies, known as the Showa Era (and collected in a swanky Criterion Collection set a few years back), were a natural, if increasingly goofy, evolution of the King of the Monsters. What began as a haunting metaphor for the horrors of the atomic bomb became, thanks to various creative whims and desires of the moviegoing public, a much more kiddie-oriented series. This first stage of one of the longest-running and most prolific franchises in all of cinema came to an end in 1975, but you can’t keep Godzilla down./every-term-you-should-know-to-understand-hollywood-on-strike.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-term-you-should-know-to-understand-hollywood-on-strike.htmlThe writers’ room wasn’t getting paid enough to define the WGA strike’s terminology, so we took a stab at it. With the Writers Guild on strike, observers are catching up on the industry jargon that comes along with the coverage and negotiations. Most of us know that union film and TV writers are fighting for better compensation, AI regulations, and protections from exploitative new streaming practices like “mini-rooms,” but what are mini-rooms?/everything-we-know-about-the-danny-masterson-scientology-lawsuit.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-we-know-about-the-danny-masterson-scientology-lawsuit.htmlThe Church of Scientology was named in a lawsuit yesterday in Los Angeles that accuses its leader, David Miscavige, and one of its highest-profile members, actor Danny Masterson, of covering up rape and/or sexual assaults and engaging in years of abuse, human trafficking, and intimidation. Today, both church leaders and the actor are responding to the news. Masterson said the lawsuit is “ridiculous.” In a statement through his lawyers, he added, “I intend to sue her and the others who jumped on the bandwagon for the damage they caused me and my family./explaining-the-chapo-trap-house-podcast-to-the-uninitiated.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/explaining-the-chapo-trap-house-podcast-to-the-uninitiated.htmlIf you’re as online as much as me, you’ve surely heard of the Chapo Trap House podcast. It’s the new big thing with politics/media people who are young/hip, or seek to appear as such. Hosted by the Twitter brocialist trinity of Felix Biederman, Matt Cushman, and Will Menaker, the weekly show has consistently been at at least respectable position on the “news & politics” podcast charts. But more importantly, I like it, and so that it why I want more people to listen to it./gaspar-no%C3%A9-can-t-believe-everyone-loves-his-new-film-climax.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gaspar-no%C3%A9-can-t-believe-everyone-loves-his-new-film-climax.htmlNoé. “I’m so used to bad reviews,” Gaspar Noé told me yesterday, on a rooftop in Cannes. He wasn’t lamenting their existence, though: “I really enjoy them when they’re very mean! I’ve always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.” To tout his new film Climax, Noé essentially did just that. The one-sheet for the movie features a picture of the 54-year-old director with a demonic smile on his face and ticks off Noé’s other taboo-pushing projects like a harrowing walk down memory lane./genuinely-john-darnielle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/genuinely-john-darnielle.htmlThe Mountain Goats’ frontman on keeping the faith, loving the occult, and sad songwriting. Photo: Lalitree Darnielle I’ve been meaning to pick John Darnielle’s brain for a long time — not just because of the literary brilliance on display in the catalog of his flagship act (the Mountain Goats, a band equally liable to break your heart with songs about divorce and abuse as to make you chuckle through an ode to Mexican lucha libre wrestling or the arduous quests of tabletop role-playing games) or his storied internet presence, documented in his 2000s music blog, Last Plane to Jakarta, and, more recently, his lively Twitter account./great-british-baking-show-winner-candice-brown-on-her-audition-process-and-what-it-s-like-to-film.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/great-british-baking-show-winner-candice-brown-on-her-audition-process-and-what-it-s-like-to-film.htmlLooking back, that magnificent marzipan peacock showstopper said it all. Tonight on PBS, Candice Brown was crowned this season’s winner of The Great British Baking Show — or, as the Brits would say with an eye roll to us Yanks, The Great British Bake Off — breezing through her last three “Royal” challenges that culminated in an epic picnic fit for Queen Elizabeth II herself. (Look at those piggy sausage rolls!/green-day-answers-wake-me-when-september-ends-internet-joke-with-new-song-idea.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/green-day-answers-wake-me-when-september-ends-internet-joke-with-new-song-idea.htmlEvery September, with the same predictability of the fall equinox that has preceded it for millennia, Twitter users ask that somebody, anybody, wake up that guy from Green Day. Because after writing the song “Wake Me When September Ends,” that guy, Billie Joe Armstrong, is believed to have been suspended in an indefinite slumber. We caught up with Armstrong and asked whether he had anything to say to those Twitter users, and, to our surprise, he had some strong words and suggested a possible track we truly hope he produces./here-s-a-first-look-at-the-dystopian-future-of-black-mirror-season-3.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-a-first-look-at-the-dystopian-future-of-black-mirror-season-3.htmlOr dystopian past, in this case. Black Mirror is going back to the future. The first images from Netflix’s upcoming season of Black Mirror have made their way online (first leaked, then posted by creator Charlie Brooker himself), and they serve up tech dystopia two ways. In one set, from the episode “San Junipero,” we see a glammed-up Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights) with Mackenzie Davis (The Martian). At the TCAs, Netflix described this episode as ‘80s-centric, and revealed that it would be directed by Owen Harris./here-s-damian-from-mean-girls-singing-sam-smith.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-damian-from-mean-girls-singing-sam-smith.htmlThe Fallon Theory of Virality states that, in order for a musical parody video to blow up Facebook, it needs three ingredients: one normal thing, one super-popular thing, and one weird and unexpected thing. The roles aren’t quite as defined in this video of Mean Girls’ Daniel Franzese singing a “Stay With Me” parody about unpleasant one-night stands, and that might be why the effect of this one is slightly muted./i-made-the-internet-vote-to-determine-the-worst-fan-base-here-s-what-i-learned.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-made-the-internet-vote-to-determine-the-worst-fan-base-here-s-what-i-learned.html64 terrible fan bases go in … but only one will come out. This year, not unlike every year prior, was a big one for terrible fans. Furious Game of Thrones fans created a petition to have season eight remade “with competent writers,” Louis C.K. fans fully supported his consequence-free comeback, and Friends fans went after a writer who dared to say the show is not good. That’s just a tiny slice of the bustling, rabid fan activity of 2019./in-conversation-liz-phair.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-liz-phair.htmlOn being misunderstood, working with Ryan Adams, and the dawn of Girlville. Photo: Radka Leitmeritz / New York Magazine Photo: Radka Leitmeritz / New York Magazine On a recent afternoon, Liz Phair walked into her manager’s office in Beverly Hills, exasperated by the day’s social-media controversy: a Jezebel article that revisits Alanis Morissette’s 1995 debut blockbuster, and craps on it. “I honestly can’t believe that at this time in our political history, people are going to be venomous about Alanis Morissette and Jagged Little Pill,” she sighed./in-conversation-peter-bogdanovich.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-peter-bogdanovich.htmlThe director on his films, marriage and infidelity, and the deaths he didn’t mourn. Peter Bogdanovich. Photo: Robert Maxwell Peter Bogdanovich. Photo: Robert Maxwell Peter Bogdanovich. This interview originally ran in 2019. We are republishing it following the death of Peter Bogdanovich on January 6, 2022. Peter Bogdanovich is often held up as a cautionary tale of Hollywood arrogance, Icarus with big frames and a neckerchief. In a hurry since adolescence, at 16 he talked his way into acting classes with Stella Adler; at 20, he persuaded Clifford Odets to let him direct one of his plays Off Broadway; and he went on to befriend and write about the golden-age movie directors he idolized, like Orson Welles and John Ford./is-dune-part-two-doin-it-for-critics.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-dune-part-two-doin-it-for-critics.htmlFlorence Pugh in Dune: Part Two. Critics have dug their heads out of the sand to share what’s happening on Arrakis. Dune: Part Two, out March 1, is a triumph of vision, according to the early reports, but that doesn’t mean director Denis Villeneuve’s monumental scale and formal austerity have pleased everyone. For select reviewers, the film amounts to sand, beautiful sand, and some tepid anti-imperial themes. Other, more satisfied critical responses argue that Villeneuve’s casting and craft alchemy, juiced by a story with far more interesting beats than the first one had, make for an arresting watch./jane-fonda-regrets-not-getting-it-on-with-marvin-gaye.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-fonda-regrets-not-getting-it-on-with-marvin-gaye.htmlActivist and actress Jane Fonda has lived her life to the fullest in many ways, except for one, apparently. The 82-year-old actress revealed the one person she regrets not sleeping with (and which pesky husband prevented her), as well as her one-word review of Marlon Brando, to the New York Times. In a lightning round, Fonda says she doesn’t “think about” passing on Che Guevara. Instead, she mourns her opportunity with the Prince of Soul./julianna-margulies-says-cbs-tried-to-blame-her-after-she-discussed-the-good-fight-s-cameo-dispute.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/julianna-margulies-says-cbs-tried-to-blame-her-after-she-discussed-the-good-fight-s-cameo-dispute.htmlJulianna Margulies. Last month, in an effort to be transparent about the salaries women make on television, Julianna Margulies revealed CBS “refused” to pay the fee she was requesting to appear in a three-episode guest role on The Good Fight, the spinoff series of her original show, The Good Wife. At the time, Margulies said she was “really excited” to reunite for a few episodes with her pals Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, but on principle, she had to ultimately pass because of CBS’s dismissal of her fee./k-pop-group-omega-x-sues-ex-ceo-and-agency-over-alleged-abuse.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/k-pop-group-omega-x-sues-ex-ceo-and-agency-over-alleged-abuse.htmlOmega X Omega X has taken steps to press charges against Spire Entertainment’s former CEO, accusing Kang Seong-hee of verbal and physical abuse, including sexual harassment, the K-pop group announced in a November 16 press conference. The legal action — which includes a filing to terminate their contract with the company — comes a little over three weeks after a fan of the boy band posted an alleged eyewitness account of abuse at the hands of then-CEO Kang on Twitter./lana-del-rey-wrote-a-new-song-on-the-way-home-from-coachella.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lana-del-rey-wrote-a-new-song-on-the-way-home-from-coachella.htmlOnce you toss your wilted flower crown in the trash and put on jeans that are not cut off, but instead fully finished with a machine-sewn hem, a certain post-music-festival malaise starts to creep up on even the most ardent Coachella lover. So it was with Lana Del Rey, who, like you, had a hard time cutting loose this weekend with the threat of increasing hostility between the U.S. and North Korea looming on the horizon./let-s-talk-about-the-bear-s-to-be-continued-ending.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-talk-about-the-bear-s-to-be-continued-ending.htmlSpoilers for the entirety of The Bear’s third season ahead. There are many ways to interpret the term “motherfucker.” It can be celebratory, like, “Yes! Motherfucker! We did it.” It can be an expression of wonderment. Or it can be angry: “Motherfucker.” When Carmy says the word in the final moments of The Bear’s third season, its meaning is left open to interpretation but seems to lean toward the angry variant./love-is-blind-season-premiere-recap-the-pod-squad-is-back.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-blind-season-premiere-recap-the-pod-squad-is-back.htmlLove Is Blind ‘Welcome to Love Is Blind!’ / ‘Love Triangles and Love Triumphs’ Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Love Is Blind ‘Welcome to Love Is Blind!’ / ‘Love Triangles and Love Triumphs’ Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Top off your gold wineglass, toss on your cowboy hat, and queue up Wide Open Spaces because the pod squad is back and heading to Dallas for what I predict will be a truly unhinged third season./lovers-friends-clearly-paid-mary-j-blige-her-dues.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lovers-friends-clearly-paid-mary-j-blige-her-dues.htmlManifesting might just be the Lovers & Friends strategy. The Las Vegas festival is no stranger to having artists on its lineup posters go “um, actually…” and deny that they’ve been booked to perform. This year was no exception; Mary J. Blige took to her Instagram Story on January 25 to state that her inclusion in the 2024 lineup “was an error” since she would be “busy in preparation for my Strength of a Woman Summit just one week later!/making-sense-of-the-shambling-post-walking-dead-timeline.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/making-sense-of-the-shambling-post-walking-dead-timeline.htmlThink of spinoffs The Ones Who Live (center), Daryl Dixon (right), and Dead City (left) as the A, B, and C story lines of Walking Dead season 12. Juggernaut zombie series The Walking Dead ran on AMC for 11 seasons, giving once-casual fans many an opportunity to jump ship along the way. But now, with multiple spinoffs focused on fan-favorite characters from the original series, including the new The Ones Who Live — which will feature the reunion of the show’s once and future protagonist, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) with his certified badass wife Michonne (Danai Gurira) — there is no shortage of entry points back into the TWD interconnected universe./male-stars-get-to-age-while-women-live-on-in-digital-re-creations-of-their-younger-selves.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/male-stars-get-to-age-while-women-live-on-in-digital-re-creations-of-their-younger-selves.htmlSean Young in Blade Runner and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049. This post contains mild spoilers about Blade Runner 2049. What was the part of Blade Runner 2049 that squicked you out the most? The weird hologram sex scene? Jared Leto gutting that naked replicant? The vision of San Diego as a war-torn hellscape? All of those were pretty weird, but for me, nothing was more unsettling than the moment at the end of the film when Leto tried to tempt Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard into spilling some secrets by teasing him with a reincarnated version of his lost love: Sean Young’s Rachael, digitally remade exactly as she was in the original Blade Runner./marc-maron-is-making-his-directorial-debut-with-an-upcoming-episode-of-maron.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marc-maron-is-making-his-directorial-debut-with-an-upcoming-episode-of-maron.htmlMarc Maron announced on Twitter that he’s directing an upcoming episode of his IFC comedy Maron, which he stars in and created. The episode, a part of the show’s second season, will mark Maron’s directorial debut. Maron premiered its 10-episode first season on IFC last May and was renewed for a second season in July. Season 2, which will consist of 13 episodes, is set to premiere sometime this spring. Tomorrow I begin directing an episode of @MaronIFC!/mark-wahlberg-says-he-ll-probably-leave-hollywood-sooner-rather-than-later.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mark-wahlberg-says-he-ll-probably-leave-hollywood-sooner-rather-than-later.htmlWell, we’re sure all his buddies would miss him. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Mark Wahlberg said he would be leaving Hollywood “sooner rather than later, probably.” The 50-year-old actor said the impact of months-long projects on his family was the reason for this hinted retirement. Wahlberg and his wife, Rhea Durham, share four children — ages 18, 16, 13, and 12 — together. “It’s gotta be something special to really bring me, you know, to leave home, to leave those guys behind,” Wahlberg explains, “because it’s the biggest sacrifice in the making for sure./mary-george-recap-bury-your-gays.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-george-recap-bury-your-gays.htmlMary and George The Queen Is Dead Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mary and George The Queen Is Dead Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If you were around for the 2016 queer-character decimation, then you will understand my pain caused by this episode./megan-fox-to-star-in-michael-bay-s-ninja-turtles.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/megan-fox-to-star-in-michael-bay-s-ninja-turtles.htmlChums again. Beef refresher: Megan Fox once likened her Transformers director Michael Bay to Napoleon and Hitler; she was fired from the franchise in what This Is 40 co-star Chris O’Dowd called “one of the [most] sexist things I’ve ever seen”; Bay, looking back on it all with GQ, mused, “I’m sorry, Megan. I’m sorry I made you work twelve hours. I’m sorry that I’m making you show up on time. Movies are not always warm and fuzzy./melinda-dillon-a-christmas-story-s-mom-dead-at-83.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/melinda-dillon-a-christmas-story-s-mom-dead-at-83.htmlMelinda Dillon, the actress who warned Ralphie that he’d shoot his eye out as the mom in A Christmas Story, died on January 9 at age 83. She was also known for her Oscar-nominated supporting performances in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Sydney Pollack’s 1981 film Absence of Malice. No cause was provided in an obituary announcing the news of her death./melissa-mccarthy-is-very-concerned-about-gnome-research-in-her-time-100-toast.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/melissa-mccarthy-is-very-concerned-about-gnome-research-in-her-time-100-toast.htmlLast night Time hosted its annual Time 100 gala, where 100 very important people and their hangers-on and publicists and stylists gather together to reflect on their collective power. One member of that group was Melissa McCarthy, which is a very good thing because in addition to being an influential person in Hollywood, she’s very good at giving speeches. In his write-up, director Paul Feig praised how McCarthy could be so funny while maintaining the three-dimensionality of her characters./nashville-recap-getting-twiggy-with-it.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nashville-recap-getting-twiggy-with-it.htmlNashville Jump Then Fall Season 6 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nashville Jump Then Fall Season 6 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nashville almost went there tonight. First, they show Will flirting with a cute guy at the gym. Then, they cut to a scene of Will taking the guy home, slamming him against the wall, and kissing him./natalie-portman-s-jackie-gets-a-u-s-distribution-deal-so-it-can-have-that-awards-campaign-you-exp.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natalie-portman-s-jackie-gets-a-u-s-distribution-deal-so-it-can-have-that-awards-campaign-you-exp.htmlAfter winning an Oscar for Black Swan, Natalie Portman took a break from the prestige movie world with a series of not-that-great films (with the exception of No Strings Attached), the birth of her child, a directorial debut, and a bunch of e-mailing with Jonathan Safran Foer. Now she’s back, as Fox Searchlight picked up the U.S. distribution rights to her Jacqueline Kennedy movie Jackie at the Toronto International Film Festival./nate-bargatze-vulture.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nate-bargatze-vulture.htmlbest of 2023 Dec. 6, 2023 The Best Comedy Specials of 2023The best hours reached for transcendence — through gravity and sheer goofiness, often at the same time. By Kathryn VanArendonk ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeelsGmecGaqaCZpK%2BycA%3D%3D/new-york-city-plans-to-fully-reopen-on-july-1-says-broadway-may-return-in-september.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-york-city-plans-to-fully-reopen-on-july-1-says-broadway-may-return-in-september.htmlMayor Bill de Blasio would like this to be the “summer of New York City,” not just because Anthony Ramos looks really good in those In the Heights trailers. In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the mayor announced that New York City plans to “fully reopen” on July 1, including stores, restaurants, gyms, and offices, at “full strength” due to the pace of vaccinations. De Blasio also said that theaters, which started off with limited-capacity performances in April, would open over the summer, noting that “you should expect Broadway full strength in September, but I’d love to see some of the smaller shows up in July and August./new-yorkers-are-reading-smut-and-their-audience-is-loving-it.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-yorkers-are-reading-smut-and-their-audience-is-loving-it.htmlClockwise from top left: Micaela Durand, Michael Bullock, Al Bedell, and Ada Antoinette, with Heaven Tonight’s event poster. Michael Bullock walked up to the mic in an Anita Baker concert tee, taking a pitbull power stance to deliver autofiction about having a threesome with his boyfriend and a closeted virgin. It was 1:30 p.m. on April Fool’s Day, and the Chinatown gallery Sara’s was filled with folks who’d dragged themselves out of bed on a Saturday to hear smut./oscar-isaac-will-be-a-movie-star-by-the-time-you-see-him-in-the-promise-with-christian-bale.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oscar-isaac-will-be-a-movie-star-by-the-time-you-see-him-in-the-promise-with-christian-bale.htmlThe Wrap reports that Oscar Isaac will play a Middle Eastern medical student fighting with Christian Bale over a woman, an American reporter (the woman has not yet been cast), in Hotel Rwanda director Terry George’s The Promise, a period drama set during the fall of the Ottoman empire. It’s a solid part for Isaac, but by the time it comes out, it will likely be the sort of solid part we expect for him. With two major blockbuster roles on the horizon — first as pilot Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and then astitular baddie Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse — Isaac has incredible career potential, just waiting to launch him to the upper echelon of famous./our-souls-at-night-is-a-contrived-but-enjoyable-fonda-redford-reunion.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-souls-at-night-is-a-contrived-but-enjoyable-fonda-redford-reunion.htmlIn the first scene of Our Souls at Night, widow Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) rings the doorbell of neighboring widower Louis Waters (Robert Redford) and suggests that, seeing as how it’s no fun being alone at night, they sleep together. This is strange, as they seem like only nodding acquaintances. Her bluntness takes him aback and he stammers that he needs to think about it and she hears that as a rejection, smiles tightly, and amscrays./patti-harrison-s-bravely-erotic-car-art-won-late-night-this-week.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patti-harrison-s-bravely-erotic-car-art-won-late-night-this-week.htmlArt! Before we get into the funniest clips of the week, I want to highlight two non-humorous moments in late night. The first was Evan Rachel Wood’s interview on The Daily Show. She was on the show to plug her two-part documentary about surviving sexual assault and intimate violence, Phoenix Rising. Trevor Noah gave Wood space to collect her thoughts, make little asides, and explain herself fully. I admired how Wood got her point across about the need for time to process sexual assault and trauma on her own terms./pretty-little-liars-recap-dancing-in-the-dark.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pretty-little-liars-recap-dancing-in-the-dark.htmlPretty Little Liars Last Dance Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Pretty Little Liars Last Dance Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s prom time at Rosewood High — except for Alison, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer, who have been banned due to “security” concerns./pusha-t-and-jay-z-drop-ominous-new-track-drug-dealers-anonymous.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pusha-t-and-jay-z-drop-ominous-new-track-drug-dealers-anonymous.htmlJust when you thought that annoying “Damn Daniel” meme was tired and played-out, Jay Z mentions it in a verse and suddenly it lights up the internet. Pusha T and Jay Z, who is still working on that Lemonade response, collaborated on a new track, “Drug Dealers Anonymous,” which features a sample of conservative pundit Tomi Lahren’s rant about Beyoncé and Jay Z (“Your husband was a drug dealer … for 14 years he sold crack cocaine”)./rosen-brandy-clark-s-12-stories-is-my-favorite-album-of-2013.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rosen-brandy-clark-s-12-stories-is-my-favorite-album-of-2013.html12 Stories, the first full-length album by country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark, will be officially released in the fall. I managed to get to my hands on a copy a few weeks ago; I’ve been listening nonstop. Pound for pound, song for song, it’s my favorite album of 2013, and I’ve heard some good ones. Clark is 35 and from Washington State. She’s been in Nashville for several years and, recently, has begun to make a name for herself on Music Row./search-engine-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-reply-all.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/search-engine-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-reply-all.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Search Engine, the new podcast series from PJ Vogt, has a premise so simple and familiar that it’s almost generic. Each episode sets out to find an answer to a question, one that has either caught his interest or comes in from a listener./see-the-breakfast-club-commemorated-in-needlepoint.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-the-breakfast-club-commemorated-in-needlepoint.htmlFeel free to decorate with a few Ally Sheedy–style dandruff flakes. [Buzzfeed] See The Breakfast Club Commemorated in Needlepoint ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdhZXyktMScopinpamstbTIrJabqpWWuKet0q2WnKSll3pvtNOmow%3D%3D/sister-act-s-charming-march-of-the-penguins.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sister-act-s-charming-march-of-the-penguins.htmlSister Act isn’t trying for anything newfangled: It’s barely fangled at all. Fangles cost money, after all, and this show is a stripped-down affair that reflects the new austerity over at Disney Theatricals. It looks penuriously designed, possibly by Paul Ryan, and it’s lit like a Baghdad suburb. True, this Sister has jettisoned its source movie’s San Francisco locale for grittier Philadelphia, but golly, it looks like Oslo. Never south of the 38th parallel have I see such persistently hypoxic blues and bruised purples./slow-horses-recap-a-ticking-bomb.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slow-horses-recap-a-ticking-bomb.htmlSlow Horses Boardroom Politics Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Slow Horses Boardroom Politics Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Right off the top, let’s give a salute to Alex, our surprise cicada from Upshott, for knowing how to tie a really strong knot./still-popular.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/still-popular.htmlFor Wicked’s 20th birthday, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel reunite to talk about high notes, low rumors, and onstage emergencies. Photo: Mark Seliger Photo: Mark Seliger There’s something familiar about watching Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth have a conversation — the way that one of them tends to be a bubbling extrovert, the other more introspective but observant and ready with a joke. After a long day in workshops for their respective musical projects, the two of them slip into the familiar language of longtime collaborators, with inside jokes and catch-ups./talking-with-scarlett-johansson-about-lucy-sandwiches-and-playing-non-humans.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-with-scarlett-johansson-about-lucy-sandwiches-and-playing-non-humans.htmlOver the last several years, Scarlett Johansson’s output has been impressive in its variety: The Avengers, Hitchcock, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, Don Jon, Her, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Under the Skin. This weekend, she stars in the Luc Besson–directed action movie Lucy as a drug mule who finds herself able to access increasingly large portions of her brain’s capacity. Vulture spoke with Johansson about playing hyperintelligent beings, avoiding her own acting tics, and her favorite sandwich./taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-celebrate-christmas-on-the-football-field.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-celebrate-christmas-on-the-football-field.htmlHear ye, hear ye! Taylor Swift has a new man dating rumor in her life. Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce set his sights on Taylor Swift during the U.S. leg of her Eras Tour, delighting everyone who likes to make sports puns and/or Swift lyrics references in daily conversation. Kelce made the first attempt at contacting Swift, reaching out at her tour’s KC stop and trying to give her his number./terry-crews-details-his-sexual-assault-in-powerful-testimony-to-senate.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/terry-crews-details-his-sexual-assault-in-powerful-testimony-to-senate.htmlCrews. On Tuesday, Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his own story of sexual assault and to advocate for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. “I guess that’s why we have this full room today,” the committee’s ranking member Dianne Feinstein quipped, introducing Crews as part of a hearing on legislation to codify sexual assault survivors’ rights. The Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights would codify certain rights for people reporting assault, like having their rape kits preserved and forensic testing subsidized, in all 50 states./thank-god-high-fidelity-fixed-rob.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thank-god-high-fidelity-fixed-rob.htmlAs much as I enjoyed the first few episodes of High Fidelity, the new Hulu series based on Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel and the 2000 film that followed, I didn’t fully grasp how necessary it was until the fifth episode. In a scene toward the middle of “Uptown,” Rob, the crate-digging record-shop owner played by Zoë Kravitz, and her kinda-maybe suitor, Clyde (Jake Lacy), get into a conversation with a middle-aged guy named Tim who is just as obsessed with music as Rob is./that-bloody-head-bashing-game-in-the-northman-is-based-on-a-real-viking-sport.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-bloody-head-bashing-game-in-the-northman-is-based-on-a-real-viking-sport.htmlMidway through Robert Eggers’ Viking epic The Northman, crowds begin to gather for the Icelandic frontier equivalent of a medieval tourney. Local chieftains and their families watch from a nearby platform as five of this rugged land’s most brutal men — including our hero, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) — line up on either side of a flat green field. Clutching bats in their muscular hands, the players charge forward, roaring like bloodthirsty beasts./the-18-best-jokes-from-comedy-central-s-roast-of-rob-lowe.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-18-best-jokes-from-comedy-central-s-roast-of-rob-lowe.htmlLast night was the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe. Lowe wasn’t an all-time great target, as he generally seems nice and has had a solid career, but it was a fantastic night for joke telling and reactions shots of Ann Coulter debating if this was worth selling 15 more books. The jokes about Coulter have been getting all the attention because they were the meanest, but there were other people there with faces, personalities, and careers worth taking down./the-2018-sundance-lineup-has-been-announced.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2018-sundance-lineup-has-been-announced.htmlThe Sundance Film Festival is once again upon us. Actors are becoming feature directors (Rupert Everett, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, Idris Elba). Comedies are being conflated with dramas. And Ann Dowd and Andrea Riseborough are lacing up their snow boots to walk to a lot of press events. (They will appear in a combined seven movies at the Park City fest.) Some new careers will be jump-started, while other industry veterans will acquire a fresh patina of indie credibility, and every movie will be racing to catch Sorry to Bother You, which has the inside lane on all other competitors in the U./the-5-most-unforgettable-episodes-of-intervention.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-5-most-unforgettable-episodes-of-intervention.htmlIntervention starts its final season tonight on A&E after eight years and almost 200 episodes, each one as frightening and heartbreaking as the last. The show’s subjects came from every possible social demographic, from supportive and stable families to dysfunctional, abusive ones. What Intervention did best, though, was show the person behind the addiction — a person with a sense of humor, a set of values, an identity that was getting subsumed in their addiction crisis./the-bad-batch-recap-treasure-planet.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bad-batch-recap-treasure-planet.htmlThe Bad Batch Entombed Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch Entombed Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a high-speed side mission last week, The Bad Batch returns with … another side mission, one that trades fast vehicles for booby traps and treasure maps./the-best-anime-series-of-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-anime-series-of-2023.htmlRevisit the shows that supercharged the year with action, artistry, and robots. Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk ; Photos: Crunchyroll, Disney, Sentai Filmworks Reincarnated idols, disembodied detectives, pacifist gunslingers, you name it. This year delivered another embarrassment of hype-worthy anime riches — from debuts like the Astro Boy–inspired Pluto to comfort food like Skip and Loafer, to the exciting conclusion to the latest show in the Gundam multiverse. A number of creative and thoughtful works across a range of styles pushed the medium this year, through the gorgeous high fantasy of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End or the chilling post-apocalypse of Heavenly Delusion, or the boldly expressive 3DCG experimentation of Trigun: Stampede./the-clipse-missed-this.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-clipse-missed-this.htmlMalice: “The camaraderie with my brother was the only thing I missed.” On “Birds Don’t Sing,” the first new song from the Clipse since 2009, brothers Terrence “Pusha T” Thornton and Gene “Malice” Thornton come to grips with the deaths of their parents, juggling fond memories of seeking encouragement with the gutting concerns of the bereaved: “Told you I was going to Turks for Thanksgiving / I heard what I wanted to hear but didn’t listen./the-defender-puzzle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-defender-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they're ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us./the-fact-and-fiction-of-griselda-s-violent-reign.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fact-and-fiction-of-griselda-s-violent-reign.htmlThe catalogue of infamous drug lords is as male-dominated as the entertainment genre devoted to them, but there was one woman who had to be savvier, more ambitious, and more ruthless than all of them to reach the very top of their ranks: Griselda Blanco. Netflix’s Griselda — not a spinoff but still part of the Narcos family — tells the story of how Blanco came to dominate the cocaine trade in Miami in the late 1970s and ’80s, amassing a personal fortune in the eight-figure range and a reputation for indiscriminate brutality./the-geekiest-and-most-philly-of-the-war-on-drugs-according-to-adam-granduciel.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-geekiest-and-most-philly-of-the-war-on-drugs-according-to-adam-granduciel.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “Ever since Lost in the Dream, I’ve wanted to find a way to get back to the Slave Ambient way of working, which is a little bit more experimental.” “We won’t be alienating any Vulture readers with peak tech talk?/the-good-fight-season-finale-recap-no-guardrails.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-fight-season-finale-recap-no-guardrails.htmlThe Good Fight The One About the End of the World Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Fight The One About the End of the World Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Earlier this month, New York Times op-ed columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote a piece about The Good Fight called “The Only TV Show That Gets Life Under Trump./the-great-recap-diderot-and-apricots.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-recap-diderot-and-apricots.htmlThe Great The Devil’s Lunch Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great The Devil’s Lunch Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We begin the episode with Catherine trying to hump a chair. She’s all revved up on pregnancy hormones and hasn’t slept with anyone since Leo died./the-highs-lows-and-whoas-of-the-2023-rock-hall-induction-ceremony.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-highs-lows-and-whoas-of-the-2023-rock-hall-induction-ceremony.htmlTwo sisters of the moon, having a blast. The timing couldn’t have been worse for this. After Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder Jann Wenner showed his ass by stating he felt female and Black musicians were never “articulate enough” compared to their white peers — leading to his ouster from the Hall’s board — the show still had to go on, somehow, a few weeks later at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center./the-internet-has-found-out-about-network-television.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-internet-has-found-out-about-network-television.htmlWe used to be a monoculture, folks. Over 100 million people watched the series finale of M*A*S*H in 1983. Today, a show like The Good Doctor can be on for six seasons (renewed for a seventh) and people will have no clue. Like the M*A*S*H finale, The Good Doctor has at least one scene of the lead doctor absolutely losing his shit. This time, instead of screaming “It was a baby!/the-joy-formidable-s-ritzy-bryan-makes-a-mixtape-for-your-next-breakup.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-joy-formidable-s-ritzy-bryan-makes-a-mixtape-for-your-next-breakup.htmlAs the front woman for the Joy Formidable — the Welsh trio whose epic melancholy made them one of the most talked-about bands at South By Southwest — Ritzy Bryan is a heartbreak specialist. In anticipation of the band’s summer tour, we asked her to curate the perfect love-gone-wrong mixtape. Though her selections appeared to come with ease (she e-mailed them in early, via iPhone, adding “I could have made a double album!/the-lost-roles-of-john-belushi.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lost-roles-of-john-belushi.htmlCasting is one of the most important processes in movie making. Placing the right actors in the right roles can determine whether or not an entire film rings true. Lost Roles is a weekly series that examines the missed opportunities — the roles that could have been — and explores how some casting choices that almost happened could have changed the film industry and the comedy world at large. At the time of his tragic and untimely death in 1982, John Belushi was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and a versatile one at that./the-mormon-church-won-t-let-heather-gay-make-merch.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mormon-church-won-t-let-heather-gay-make-merch.htmlHeather Gay knows all about being a bad Mormon. She ended her “eternal” marriage by getting divorced. She “brazenly” displays acoffee maker in her kitchen and refers to it as her first “open sin.” She recently got so drunk while filming Real Housewives of Salt Lake City she blacked out and couldn’t remember how she woke up with a black eye. But if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the erstwhile Mormon Church, has anything to say about it, there is no way in outer darkness Gay should be allowed to capitalize on being a “bad Mormon./the-numbing-spectacle-of-infinity-pool.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-numbing-spectacle-of-infinity-pool.htmlWhat I did on my summer vacation (watched myself get executed). Infinity Pool takes place in the made-up country of Li Tolqa, which is poor and religiously conservative and home to a string of luxury resorts whose customers are neither. Played onscreen by parts of Croatia and Hungary, Li Tolqa is infused with a vague otherness that stands in for places all over the world where tourists exist in a different reality with different rules than that of the residents./the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city-recap-enjoy-your-staycation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city-recap-enjoy-your-staycation.htmlThe Real Housewives of New York City Well Healed Season 14 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City Well Healed Season 14 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I know that the RHONY reboot has been divisive among fans, but I have been impressed with the new class and how the season is playing out … until tonight./the-sandman-recap-go-to-hell.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sandman-recap-go-to-hell.htmlThe Sandman A Hope in Hell Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Sandman A Hope in Hell Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We are nearing the end of our fetch-quest journey. Dream has reclaimed his sand, made a new raven friend, and already knows the general vicinity of his helm./the-team-behind-the-mortal-kombat-theme-song-had-no-idea-they-d-created-a-knockout.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-team-behind-the-mortal-kombat-theme-song-had-no-idea-they-d-created-a-knockout.htmlIf you’re excited to see the new Mortal Kombat movie, which hits theaters and HBO Max on April 23, you’re also probably walking in with some familiar expectations. You’ll see iconic characters like the icy Cryomancer Sub-Zero and the ferocious ninja Scorpion. Fighters will vanquish their foes with extremely graphic “fatalities.” And, never fear, you’ll hear that iconic Mortal Kombat theme music — the pounding, rapid techno beat interrupted by a bellowing “Mor-tal Kom-baaaaat!/the-terror-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-terror-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYsGmvtGoqWg%3D/the-try-guys-try-one-less-guy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-try-guys-try-one-less-guy.htmlZach Kornfeld and Keith Habersberger. The Try Guys — the former Buzzfeed employees turned independent YouTuber foursome turned accidental gossip vortexes — are down another guy. Eugene Lee Yang, a founding member of the group, is departing, leaving just two members. The previous loss was Ned Fulmer, and if you don’t remember that drama, then either read this or live in bliss. Zach Kornfeld and Keith Habersberger will remain Try Guys./the-venture-bros-threw-chronology-to-the-wind-in-an-incredibly-ambitious-non-linear-episode.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-venture-bros-threw-chronology-to-the-wind-in-an-incredibly-ambitious-non-linear-episode.html‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “That’s it, work it out Thinkenstein…” The Venture Bros. is sort of the television equivalent to a Dickens novel. It moves to the beat of its own drum, going down weird wormholes that expand the show’s universe while halting the story. The evolution of this world and the characters within it is unlike anything seen in most animated programs./there-s-a-peeps-film-in-the-works-and-it-s-apparently-a-road-trip-movie.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-s-a-peeps-film-in-the-works-and-it-s-apparently-a-road-trip-movie.htmlFinally, the real stars of Easter Sunday might be getting their feature treatment. According to Deadline, Marshmallow Peeps, best known for bulking out Easter baskets and tasting significantly better when slightly stale, are the latest handful of childhood nostalgia to be squeezed for their sweet, sweet original IP. An animated film starring the squishy confections is reportedly in development from The Mauritanian producers Christine and Mark Holder of Wonder Street, which has acquired the rights to the candy and hopes to give the tiny neon chickens their very own Trolls treatment./this-was-simply-how-this-story-had-to-go.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-was-simply-how-this-story-had-to-go.htmlIn his introduction to the season-four scripts, Succession’s showrunner outlines his path to the final shot. “I remember just a couple of times being emotional as I wrote or rewrote. Once in Logan’s death episode, which came in a tumble, the long middle section barely revised after its first draft, when Shiv calls her dying or dead father ‘Daddy.’” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: HBO When Succession was commissioned by HBO, I had previously managed to produce a grand total of one hour of filmed television drama as a solo writer./today-show-halloween-continues-to-fully-be-unhinged.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/today-show-halloween-continues-to-fully-be-unhinged.htmlThe Today show is supposed to be relaxing, uplifting, and feel-good 364 days of the year. But on Halloween, it turns into a literal nightmare just for funsies. This year, each of the anchors dressed up as a famous dancer (a very loose term) and performed that person’s famous dance, the full versions of which are on Today. The costumes themselves are actually decent, unlike when they all dressed up as Peanuts characters and ruined millions of childhoods./tower-heist-trailer-eddie-murphy-and-ben-stiller-make-bernie-madoff-revenge-fantasies-come-true.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tower-heist-trailer-eddie-murphy-and-ben-stiller-make-bernie-madoff-revenge-fantasies-come-true.htmlIn Tower Heist, the latest action-comedy from Brett Ratner, Ben Stiller plays the dedicated chief of staff at an extremely fancy Manhattan apartment building (think Hector Elizando in Pretty Woman, or Michael J. Fox in For Love of Money) known as the Tower. This being a Brett Ratner movie, that this name immediately calls to mind the Twin Towers is both entirely intentional and totally meaningless. Instead, Ratner’s focused on another story ripped from the headlines./wait-what-happened-in-the-manifest-series-finale.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wait-what-happened-in-the-manifest-series-finale.htmlWarning: Deep spoilers for Manifest season four, part two, lie ahead. The wild ride that is the mystery drama Manifest ends with its final ten episodes on Netflix and, not surprising anyone who’s watched the series, things only get wilder as it draws to a close. The second half of season four sees the passengers of the ill-fated Flight 828 — which disappeared for five and a half years back in 2013 before returning with everyone intact, albeit now with the ability to receive “callings” about the future (which actually turn out to be memories, IT’S FINE) — facing down the apocalypse./watch-a-low-budget-russian-remake-of-how-i-met-your-mother.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-a-low-budget-russian-remake-of-how-i-met-your-mother.htmlThe Russian Lily looks especially convincing. [YouTube] Watch a Low-Budget Russian Remake of How I Met Your Mother ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgaHy4rdOcn5iZj6G8uHnBrpugnaSUv7a%2F0qKYp5eimrpvtNOmow%3D%3D/weinstein-juror-discusses-verdict-you-can-know-who-weinstein-is-and-be-impartial.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weinstein-juror-discusses-verdict-you-can-know-who-weinstein-is-and-be-impartial.htmlUgh. Less than a week after the Harvey Weinstein verdict, a juror was interviewed by CBS This Morning about the sentencing and conviction process. Juror No. 9, who goes by “Drew” and withheld his last name, sat down with Gayle King on Friday to discuss the emotional toll of the trial, his experience witnessing the testimonies of Jessica Mann and Mimi Haley, and how the jury came to a unanimous verdict./were-you-also-baited-by-the-inside-out-2-post-credits-scene.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-you-also-baited-by-the-inside-out-2-post-credits-scene.htmlVal is great. We’d all go gay for Val. Have you ever been preemptively annoyed at something that hasn’t happened yet — only for that thing not to happen, which only leaves you more annoyed? I have, most recently around 8:35 p.m. on a weeknight during the closing credits of Inside Out 2. To set the scene: Remember how one of the subplots of the first Inside Out was that Riley, the tween girl in whose brain much of the film takes place, was really into ice hockey?/wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069msJ2kYrWwwIyapJ6qmZiur3nSrqSmnaJis6q%2B0q1knZmpYrynecKapKln/what-happens-to-boys-after-taylor-swift-writes-songs-about-them.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happens-to-boys-after-taylor-swift-writes-songs-about-them.htmlTaylor Swift’s 1989 comes out today, and we already know at least one song on the album continues Swift’s long tradition of writing songs about her ex-boyfriends. What can history tell us about the fate of the men unlucky enough to be mentioned on a Swift track? It’s a mixed bag — the subjects of some of the nicest songs have faded into obscurity, while most of the men who’ve received her harshest barbs have stayed at the top of their fields./what-westworld-s-season-two-costumes-reveal-about-its-characters.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-westworld-s-season-two-costumes-reveal-about-its-characters.htmlIt’s a lewk! We could go on and on about the theories, timelines, and questions in play during Westworld’s sophomore season, but if you’re in search of answers, don’t forget to look at your screen — specifically, at the costumes curated by seasoned designer Sharen Davis. Whether large or small, the changes made to each look are meant to say something about each character at a deeper level./why-is-kanye-mad-at-snl.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-kanye-mad-at-snl.htmlNeither a stint in an Indian ashram nor a months-long Hawaiian vacation seem to have mellowed Kanye out. In “Power,” a just-leaked new track, possibly from the forthcoming Good Ass Job, he says: “Fuck SNL and the whole cast/Tell ‘em Yeezy said they can kiss my whole ass.” But why? Is he just upset, like everyone, about Saturday Night Live’s general badness? Perhaps he’s reasonably annoyed with those lame “What’s Up With That?/yes-those-tweets-came-directly-from-the-dionne-warwick.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-those-tweets-came-directly-from-the-dionne-warwick.htmlAs of late, one of the only people seeming to have fun on Twitter has been legendary R&B hitmaker Dionne Warwick. Back on November 14, she shadily wrote, “Did you know that the artist can see the names of the playlists you’re adding their songs to on Spotify? 👀,” piquing Twitter’s collective interest. Maybe someone was putting her music on “Hot Girl” playlists, as she tweeted ten days later, “I don’t know what a ‘hot girl’ is, but women support women in this house!/you-might-recognize-beyonce-s-new-haircut.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-might-recognize-beyonce-s-new-haircut.htmlFirst, let us pause and and reflect on the fact that we now live in a world where the most famous pop star in the world can cut her hair and the entire public will respond, “Oh, you are copying Miley Cyrus.” Somehow, in 2013, Miley Cyrus has ownership over peroxide-blonde pixie cuts. But, anyway! Beyonce got rid of all her hair (real and fake). Gone! Vanished! How do you like her now, concert fan?/your-guide-to-the-extended-mythology-of-jay-electronica-rap-s-great-mystery.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-guide-to-the-extended-mythology-of-jay-electronica-rap-s-great-mystery.htmlFrom the earliest demos we’ve heard, Jay Electronica was insistent that he had been anointed for greatness — which is what made it so curious when all that ambition seemed, for the near decade when he was nearly invisible, to dissolve into thin air. When he first emerged from the depths of the internet, Jay Electronica seemed to be a project about ambition. The enigmatic New Orleans rapper’s origin story, as told in a little late-2000s sketch called “Departure,” takes place in the aftermath of a friend’s murder./enter-the-supersaturated-ultraglamorous-world-of-tina-barney-s-photographs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/enter-the-supersaturated-ultraglamorous-world-of-tina-barney-s-photographs.htmlMay 8, 2015 3:57 pm By Nate Freeman Share Share Tweet Pin It 6 Photos Photo: Tina Barney; Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery For decades, the artist Tina Barney, who grew up in the intesely affluent and private realms of the Upper East Side and Watch Hill, Rhode Island, has been capturing striking images of aging doyennes, the splendor and grace of the wealthiest families here and in Europe, the ultrarich — that is to say, her friends./eric-fischl-questions-america-s-obsession-with-dolls.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eric-fischl-questions-america-s-obsession-with-dolls.htmlslideshow December 10, 2014 9:30 am By Ian Epstein Share Share Tweet Pin It 34 Photos Photo: ? Inez & Vinoodh / Courtesy Gagosian Gallery The sacred and the abject have always danced around one another. Eric Fischl, who began painting in the ‘70s, has moved with grace between the two, capturing the sterile beauty of the suburbs of his youth — he grew up in Port Washington, New York — and the troubled people who inhabit them./10-things-that-scare-me-is-a-smartly-designed-bite-size-window-into-the-soul.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-things-that-scare-me-is-a-smartly-designed-bite-size-window-into-the-soul.htmlFear has a way of revealing truths. You can tell a lot about a person based on the things they are afraid of. Some people, you could say, are defined by their fears; others are merely informed by them. Either way, a specific fear is an expression of underlying value systems: evolutionary ones, sure, as in the way some are afraid of the dark because it generally makes everything less safe in the Stone Age and so on; but also systems that are more personal and moral — what you cherish, what you’re comfortable with, what gets into your bones./7-prescient-lyrics-from-run-the-jewels-rtj4.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-prescient-lyrics-from-run-the-jewels-rtj4.htmlOnce again, they’ve released an album in the middle of a movement against police brutality. Run the Jewels released their second album, Run the Jewels 2, in October 2014 as the country awaited charges for the police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri. The track “Early,” which imagines member Killer Mike being killed by a police officer during a traffic stop, felt all too relevant after its release — not to mention a month later, when a grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson for killing Brown./9-movies-to-see-or-not-this-memorial-day-weekend.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/9-movies-to-see-or-not-this-memorial-day-weekend.htmlWe’ve nearly made it to the official start of summer — summer Fridays! summer breezes! summer lovin’! — but first we get the extended holiday weekend of Memorial Day. In the event that barbecues or poolside festivities aren’t your speed, rest assured that you can stay out of the sun by seeing one of the many enticing films currently in theaters. (And for even more movie and television recommendations, be sure to head on over to our streaming hub./a-brief-recounting-of-me-watching-ammonite-on-my-couch.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-recounting-of-me-watching-ammonite-on-my-couch.htmlAt least hanging a giant mirror with my girlfriend during intermission felt queer, unlike this movie. This piece originally ran in November, but now that Ammonite is finally available to watch on demand, we’re republishing it. Warning: spoilers ahead. To set the scene: It’s a Monday evening. The plan is to cook dinner for my girlfriend and then park it on the couch together to watch Ammonite, the new lesbian period drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet./a-journey-into-the-paul-t-goldman-cinematic-universe.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-journey-into-the-paul-t-goldman-cinematic-universe.htmlDennis Haysbert with Paul Finkelman on Paul T. Goldman. There’s a moment in the second episode of Paul T. Goldman — Peacock’s surreal docu-dramedy series about Paul Finkelman’s search for justice after allegedly falling victim to a scam perpetrated by his second ex-wife — when Ludwig Manukian, an actor who appears briefly in the show, expresses his misgivings about Finkelman’s outsize role in the series. “He’s the main guy?/aaron-jackson-and-josh-sharp-give-melania-trump-the-perfect-birthday-present-on-the-opposition.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aaron-jackson-and-josh-sharp-give-melania-trump-the-perfect-birthday-present-on-the-opposition.htmlDonald might have been too busy to get his wife a birthday present yesterday, but thankfully, during last night’s The Opposition, Citizen Journalists Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp stepped in to provide the birthday gift and wishes for Melania that her husband couldn’t be bothered to give. That gift is a good one: a completely new covers-only magazine called Plead the Fifth that allows Melania to finally be featured on a cover without having to worry about the whole “in-depth interview” part of it./absolutely-no-cuddling-is-allowed-in-this-clip-from-plus-one.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/absolutely-no-cuddling-is-allowed-in-this-clip-from-plus-one.htmlAlice (Pen15’s Maya Erskine) really wants to cuddle; Ben (Jack Quaid) knows it’s a bad idea. In this exclusive clip from the romantic comedy Plus One, Erskine and Quaid have a high-level discussion about the implications cuddling could have on their friendship. Alice and Ben are college friends who’ve made a pact to be each other’s perma plus-one for a year packed with weddings. (One could say the duo is booked and busy!/album-review-frank-ocean-s-blonde-considers-identity-sexuality-and-the-roads-not-taken.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/album-review-frank-ocean-s-blonde-considers-identity-sexuality-and-the-roads-not-taken.htmlAre you happy? Would you give up life as you know it to zip back to some idyllic teen summer and laze on the arm of a sorely missed first love? These questions salt the bedrock of Frank Ocean’s work, from the Coachella romance of “Novacane,” breakthrough single from a mixtape literally titled Nostalgia, Ultra, to Channel Orange, an album of brokenhearted reminiscences set in motion by a PlayStation firing up a game of Street Fighter./anderson-paak-and-hopefully-his-wig-to-take-tiff.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anderson-paak-and-hopefully-his-wig-to-take-tiff.htmlThe wig in question. Calling all movie-loving Canadians! Your time is again nigh. After last year’s event was lightly derailed owing to the strikes, the Toronto International Film Festival is back and scheduled to run from September 5 through 15. This year’s fest will include K-Pops, an Anderson .Paak–directed dramatic comedy inspired by his own life. Here’s hoping he brings that damn wig to bestow strong bob energy to the carpet./andrew-garfield-on-silence-and-this-sick-man-donald-trump.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andrew-garfield-on-silence-and-this-sick-man-donald-trump.htmlThe last time Vulture spoke to Andrew Garfield, we caught him in the middle of an existential moment. Promoting his 2015 foreclosure drama 99 Homes just as the presidential election was about to get underway, Garfield quite candidly wrestled with the notion that anything he could say as an actor would really, truly matter. A little more than a year later, so much has changed. With Donald Trump about to assume the presidency and his native England splitting off from the European Union, the ground underneath Garfield’s feet has shifted and so, too, have his own self-doubts about speaking out./angela-bassett-on-her-american-horror-story-character-and-the-sensitive-michael-chiklis.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/angela-bassett-on-her-american-horror-story-character-and-the-sensitive-michael-chiklis.htmlAfter a long career on the big screen in movies like Waiting to Exhale, What’s Love Got to Do With It, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Angela Bassett has become one of the most recent additions to the troupe of actors that go from season to season to season on American Horror Story.We first saw her in Coven as the snake-charming, witch-cursing New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau, and in this season’s Freak Show, she plays the multi-breasted circus performer Desiree Dupree./angelica-ross-has-receipts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/angelica-ross-has-receipts.htmlAngelica Ross and Ryan Murphy. Angelica Ross, the actress known for starring in two Ryan Murphy projects, Pose and American Horror Story, is cleaning out, and her AHS collaborators are not sparking joy. In a series of posts on X (née Twitter) on September 18, Ross shared screenshots of email conversations she had with Pose and AHS creator Ryan Murphy, accompanied by quotes from Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl, claiming that he ghosted her after saying he wanted to work with her on a season of AHS, causing her to miss other opportunities, like a Marvel role./another-north-and-south-miniseries-is-on-its-way.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/another-north-and-south-miniseries-is-on-its-way.html“North and South” Patrick Swayze 1985 © 1985 Mario Casilli Discovery Channel is taking a break from fake shark documentaries to make a new miniseries based on the North and South trilogy, the network announced today. Wait, wasn’t that already a miniseries with Patrick Swayze in 1985? With part two in 1986? And then part three finally in 1994? It was! But this is another take on John Jakes’s books, which follow a Pennsylvania family and a South Carolina family and their patriarchs’ deep friendship./are-you-ready-jamie-lynn-spears-updated-the-zoey-101-theme-song.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-you-ready-jamie-lynn-spears-updated-the-zoey-101-theme-song.htmlThe theme song that had us all wishing our parents would ship us off to boarding school has a second life thanks to the upcoming Zoey 101 reunion. Jamie Lynn Spears, who played the optimistic Zoey Brooks, a newcomer to the fictional Pacific Coast Academy, and sang the theme song “Follow Me,” reimagined it for a new generation (and the old one that’s clinging to youth for fear of the future)./aspiring-cartoonist-paul-giamatti-won-late-night-this-week.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aspiring-cartoonist-paul-giamatti-won-late-night-this-week.htmlThe bearded man was not intended to be Rasputin, actually. Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Happy May Day to one and all. New month, new me, am I right? Okay, while I’m definitely wrong and nothing of note has changed as we transition from April to May, this week has had more peaks than valleys. A (slightly delayed) 90th birthday concert for my spiritual leader Stephen Sondheim, multiple baby announcements, and a Beyoncé-infused “Savage” remix are all certainly reasons to smile./atlanta-recap-mr-chocolate-and-the-black-movie-factory.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlanta-recap-mr-chocolate-and-the-black-movie-factory.htmlAtlanta Work Ethic! Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta Work Ethic! Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One of my all-time favorite episodes of The Boondocks is when Robert scores a role in the fictional playwright Winston Jerome’s play Ma Dukes Finds Herself a Man./bill-condon-on-beauty-and-the-beast-his-musical-influences-and-lindsay-lohan-s-plan-for-the-litt.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-condon-on-beauty-and-the-beast-his-musical-influences-and-lindsay-lohan-s-plan-for-the-litt.htmlAs director of the live-action Beauty and the Beast, Bill Condon had quite a task ahead of him: Render one of the most beloved animated films of all time — a movie that included not only just a beast-man but also talking candles and teacups — into something resembling the real world. Fortunately, he’s no stranger to musicals, having written Chicago and directed Dreamgirls, nor films facing high fan expectations — he managed not to disappoint Twilight fans on the two parts of Breaking Dawn./bill-cosby-sued-by-5-women-for-alleged-sexual-assault.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-cosby-sued-by-5-women-for-alleged-sexual-assault.htmlBill Cosby was sued by five women in New York on December 5 for alleged sexual assault; some of them are accusing him of rape. NBC Universal, Kaufman Astoria Studios, and the Carsey-Werner Company are also being sued in this civil complaint, as several of these women claim that the companies “knew and/or should have known Bill Cosby was sexually abusing, assaulting, and/or battering women, including on their premises, but did nothing to stop it./bill-simmons-just-wants-to-win.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-simmons-just-wants-to-win.htmlThe timing couldn’t have been tighter. This year, it was announced that media multi-hyphenate and erstwhile ESPN personality Bill Simmons was selling The Ringer, the podcast-heavy digital outlet he launched in 2016, to Spotify. The deal was finalized on a Friday in March. The following Wednesday, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson tested positive for COVID-19, as did Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert. Almost overnight, entertainment and sports — The Ringer’s primary coverage areas — ground to a halt and the world as we knew it suddenly ceased to exist./billie-eilish-sings-about-overturning-roe-v-wade-on-new-song-tv.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/billie-eilish-sings-about-overturning-roe-v-wade-on-new-song-tv.htmlBillie Eilish is sharing some Guitar Songs she wrote. The pop star surprise-released a two-track EP, including the song “TV,” which she previously debuted live in Manchester in June. “This is one we just wrote,” she told the crowd at the time, before singing a song that referenced the United States Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Depp v. Heard trial. Eilish told Apple Music that she wrote the Roe line weeks before the Supreme Court’s decision came down as “a placeholder of doom./bizarre-lost-game-show-whew-is-returning-to-tv.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bizarre-lost-game-show-whew-is-returning-to-tv.htmlThere’s some big news for game show nerds, and no, it has nothing to do with the next host of Jeopardy! A wacky yet woefully short-lived Carter-era quizzer called Whew! is headed back to TV next month, ending a more than 40-year absence from the airwaves. Vulture has learned that retro network Buzzr has struck a deal to air original episodes of the Tom Kennedy-hosted series, which is fondly—or at least vaguely— remembered by a sliver of Gen Xers drawn in by an animated opening credits sequence designed by Hanna-Barbera as well as a bizarro bonus round which featured a collection of cardboard cutout “villains” with names such as Count Nibbleneck and Kid Rotten./blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-got-married-at-a-house-from-the-notebook.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-got-married-at-a-house-from-the-notebook.htmlNo, it is not the house that Noah builds Allie as a monument to their love, but still: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds got married at a house that was used in The Notebook. You may recognize Boone Hall Plantation as the Hamilton family summer home; it is apparently a “working plantation” that can be rented out for weddings. Which brings us to the following questions: (1) How many times have the words If you’re bird, I’m a bird been said at the Boone Hall Plantation, (2) was one of those times on Sunday?/buffalo-bill-s-silence-of-the-lambs-house-is-for-sale-if-you-and-your-precious-are-looking-to-mov.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/buffalo-bill-s-silence-of-the-lambs-house-is-for-sale-if-you-and-your-precious-are-looking-to-mov.htmlTed Levine as 8 Circle Street’s cinematic resident Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb. 2020 is already like living in a horror movie; why not go the extra mile and relocate your lotions to 8 Circle Street, located in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, and featured as the on-screen home of serial killer Buffalo Bill in Jonathan Demme’s iconic 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs? In case you were wondering if the Realtors are leaning hard into the three-story Victorian home’s cinematic past to sell it, you better believe they are, as their video tour of the house features a copy of the Thomas Harris novel the film is based on, a poster, a TV playing the movie itself, and, of course, a peek at the house’s murder lair, we mean, cellar./can-paul-giamatti-finally-get-nominated-for-best-actor.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-paul-giamatti-finally-get-nominated-for-best-actor.htmlOscar Futures Who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted Oscar nomination. Oscar Futures Who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted Oscar nomination. Every week between now and January 23, 2024, when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball to determine the changing fortunes in this year’s Oscars race. In our Oscar Futures column, we’ll let you in on insider gossip, parse brand-new developments, and track industry buzz to figure out who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted Oscar nomination./carol-is-not-the-romance-of-your-memes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carol-is-not-the-romance-of-your-memes.htmlOn the queer internet, Christmas is Carol season. Heralded as the gay Christmas movie, dykes of all stripes excitedly post about the 2015 film come December. There is Carol merch, with the image of the meet-cute between the titular Carol and Therese, whose love story is at the center of the film. And there are countless Carol memes all over social media for the entire month of December (the Instagram account godimsuchadyke, which has over 150,000 followers, begins posting them on November 1)./checking-in-with-the-girlfriends-of-george-costanza-seasons-1-5.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/checking-in-with-the-girlfriends-of-george-costanza-seasons-1-5.htmlWhatever happened to predictability, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the girlfriends and lovers of George Costanza? One of Seinfeld’s best unexplained jokes was why dozens of attractive women would fall for guys like Jerry and George. Especially George. (I get the Kramer thing.) With the exception of Susan, who lasted longer than any female should want to in the company of George, seemingly every episode brought a new girlfriend or lover for the diminutive, balding, angry, Yankees-employed momma’s boy./crazy-ex-girlfriend-recap-sorry-i-said-that-creepy-stuff-out-loud.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crazy-ex-girlfriend-recap-sorry-i-said-that-creepy-stuff-out-loud.htmlCrazy Ex-Girlfriend Josh’s Girlfriend Is Really Cool! Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Josh’s Girlfriend Is Really Cool! Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » L-R: Rachel Bloom as Rebecca and Gabrielle Ruiz as Valencia. Ohhh, we have a new little intro!/dave-recap-the-belly-of-the-beast.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-recap-the-belly-of-the-beast.htmlDave The Storm Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dave The Storm Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As much as this season of Dave is structured around its protagonist’s search for love, I often find myself less interested in Dave’s love life than the other stuff: his family, his friends, his fans./david-arquette-thinks-we-should-all-go-to-clown-college.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-arquette-thinks-we-should-all-go-to-clown-college.htmlMagicians, wrestlers, clowns: David Arquette plays a type. In Mrs. Davis, the new Peacock show about a nun’s vendetta against a world-conquering AI, Arquette plays a Reno stage magician. In his personal life, Arquette has delighted in magicians, performed at pro-wrestling events, and purchased the rights to Bozo the Clown. “Clowns, wrestling, and magic, they all kind of exist in the same space,” Arquette said on the Mrs./does-a-naked-rooney-mara-poster-undermine-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-nsfw.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-a-naked-rooney-mara-poster-undermine-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-nsfw.htmlIs the image of a naked, pierced Rooney Mara opposed to the antimisogyny message of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? The newly released poster moves the date away from Mara’s chest, revealing her bare breasts and pierced nipples. Which is fine, except the story condemns the objectification of women and contains an explicit rape-revenge against the people who’ve degraded her. Sure, Salander spends some time consensually nude in the book – but so does Blomkvist, and Daniel Craig is wearing layers./edelstein-why-i-sort-of-liked-the-great-gatsby.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edelstein-why-i-sort-of-liked-the-great-gatsby.htmlTHE GREAT GATSBY The best thing about Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated/much-dreaded The Great Gatsby is that, for all its computer-generated whoosh and overbroad acting, it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. That is no small deal. The last major adaptation, in which a recessive Robert Redford reunited with a blank Mia Farrow, substituted deadly Brit tastefulness for Fitzgerald’s polished American vulgarity—the polish (like the characters’ opulence) a façade through which we can discern the baseness of the Jazz Age high life./eugene-mirman-s-reddit-ama-session-got-really-weird.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eugene-mirman-s-reddit-ama-session-got-really-weird.htmlComedian Eugene Mirman did a question-and-answer session on Reddit today, and things instantly got super weird. Right off the bat, Mirman was asked a question by a Reddit user who had been masturbating on the webcam site Chat Roulette when he got randomly linked up with Mirman doing a live comedy show and using Chat Roulette with a projector in front of an audience. On top of that, the internet masturbator recognized Mirman and asked if it was him, and it got written up in The Huffington Post./every-beck-album-ranked.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-beck-album-ranked.htmlThis list was first published in 2014, and has been updated to include Beck’s latest music. Describing Beck’s vast catalogue with an adjective — or even five — is a fool’s errand. He broke through during the early ’90s “anything goes” alt-rock boom, hitting big with the slacker-hop anthem “Loser” and carrying that song’s momentum through downcast freak-folk and feedback-drenched jitters on his major-label debut, Mellow Gold. The albums in its wake have followed Beck’s musical flights of fancy to wherever they might lead: amped-up funk, breezy tropicalia, even (gasp!/every-oscar-winner-for-best-animated-short-film-ranked.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-oscar-winner-for-best-animated-short-film-ranked.htmlThis story was published in 2019. It has been updated to include this year’s winner “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse.” Although animated films are as old as cinema itself, it wasn’t until the fifth Academy Awards ceremony, for films released in 1931–32, that the Academy added a category for animated cartoons. By that point, the Golden Age of Animation was in full swing — every major studio either operated an animation unit or contracted an independent production company to provide theatrical cartoons to accompany its films./every-rock-hall-of-fame-all-star-jam-ranked-by-epicness.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-rock-hall-of-fame-all-star-jam-ranked-by-epicness.htmlSome people enjoy, no, love, the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. (I am one of them.) Others, not so much. But even the cynics would be a bunch of lying liars if they weren’t at least a bit titillated by the ceremony’s most crowd-pleasing segment, a tradition informally known by most as the all-star jam or super jam. Beginning in the Hall’s inaugural year and appearing in the majority of ceremonies since, the jam is pretty much what it sounds like — a bunch of legends join together on stage, pick up some instruments, and perform the hell out of a rock standard./every-snatch-game-impersonation-on-rupaul-s-drag-race-ranked.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-snatch-game-impersonation-on-rupaul-s-drag-race-ranked.htmlFor almost as long as RuPaul’s Drag Race has been on the air, fans each season have waited with bated breath for the recurring challenge that, in RuPaul’s own words, “separates the basic bitches from the fierce-ass queens.” Such is the cultural importance of Snatch Game, a parody of Match Game that tests drag queens’ skills at impersonating pop-culture icons, living or dead (or, in one rare case, nonexistent). Though rules and restrictions change from season to season, the objective has always remained the same: Make RuPaul laugh./every-stephen-king-reference-and-easter-egg-in-castle-rock.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-stephen-king-reference-and-easter-egg-in-castle-rock.htmlThe new Hulu series Castle Rock doesn’t adapt any single Stephen King story directly, but instead takes place in a world of interconnected short stories and novels set within the author’s favorite creepy Maine town. As such, each episode is loaded with references to many of the King characters, books, and films that you know and love. We’re here to break all of them down, episode by episode. “Severance” (Episode 1) Shawshank Penitentiary In one of the most significant King references woven throughout Castle Rock, much of the season’s action takes place at Shawshank Penitentiary./every-tv-movie-trailer-announced-at-ccxp.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-tv-movie-trailer-announced-at-ccxp.htmlThe writers’ and actors’ strikes are over, and it’s back to the regularly scheduled programs of press promotion, comic cons, and chicken meals. Brazil’s CCXP is one of the first major events in a hot minute that brought out all the trailer announcements with the stars to match. It didn’t go great for Dune: Part 2 star Florence Pugh, who was hit with something at the end of that film’s panel./everyone-at-cannes-is-talking-about-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyone-at-cannes-is-talking-about-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.htmlAt the Cannes Film Festival, there’s a very small window to see a movie; each film screens a few times in one day, and perhaps once more the following day, and then it’s gone. If you missed the boat (or yacht, since it’s Cannes), too bad. This model builds rapid consensus. Certain movies are declared either great or terrible, and others simply dismissed. And in this still very early stage of the festival, the only movie everyone wants to talk about has been Lynne Ramsay’s very appropriately titled We Need To Talk About Kevin./finally-a-movie-about-the-kinky-threesome-that-inspired-wonder-woman.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finally-a-movie-about-the-kinky-threesome-that-inspired-wonder-woman.htmlProfessor Marston and the Wonder Women. This article was originally published during the Toronto International Film Festival. Spoilers below for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Suffering Sappho! Wonder Woman was inspired by bondage fetishism, sadomasochism, and polyamory!? If you’re a comics superfan, or have read Jill Lepore’s 2014 The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Fresh Air episode here), you already knew this. You’re also probably in the minority, judging from the tittering gasps that kept erupting around the theater during the world premiere of Professor Marston & the Wonder Woman — detailing the true, kinky origin story of the most popular female superhero of all time — at the Toronto International Film Festival./fresh-off-the-boat-recap-what-s-in-a-name.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fresh-off-the-boat-recap-what-s-in-a-name.htmlFresh Off the Boat Hi, My Name Is … Season 2 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fresh Off the Boat Hi, My Name Is … Season 2 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Randall Park as Louis, Hudson Yang as Eddie, Forrest Wheeler as Emery, Ian Chen as Evan, Constance Wu as Jessica./glenn-close-to-star-in-george-saunders-amazon-comedy-pilot-sea-oak.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glenn-close-to-star-in-george-saunders-amazon-comedy-pilot-sea-oak.htmlGeorge Saunders has a new half-hour comedy pilot in the works at Amazon, and the project just cast the leading role. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Glenn Close has signed on to star in Sea Oak, which was ordered to pilot back in March. Here’s the logline from THR’s report: Sea Oak revolves around Aunt Bernie (Close), a meek, unmarried woman with no children in working-class Rust Belt City who dies tragically in a home invasion./hailey-whitters-vulture.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hailey-whitters-vulture.htmlbest of 2022 Dec. 7, 2022 The Best Songs of 2022This year’s music provided a fleeting and desperately needed moment of salvation. By Justin Curtoand Alex Suskind ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeYlratsdhmrqGhpKmys7%2BO/he-was-the-music.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/he-was-the-music.htmlRemembering Adam Schlesinger with the creators, songwriters, and cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Rachel Bloom with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend musical collaborator Adam Schlesinger, who died this week of complications from COVID-19. Photo: Walter McBride/Getty Images Rachel Bloom with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend musical collaborator Adam Schlesinger, who died this week of complications from COVID-19. Photo: Walter McBride/Getty Images Rachel Bloom with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend musical collaborator Adam Schlesinger, who died this week of complications from COVID-19./how-high-frame-rate-technology-killed-ang-lee-s-gemini-man.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-high-frame-rate-technology-killed-ang-lee-s-gemini-man.htmlIt would be silly to blame the film’s failure on the technology, but I’m going to go ahead and blame the technology. God help me, I watched Ang Lee’s Gemini Man twice. The first time I saw the film, I was wowed by its action set pieces, in particular a wild motorcycle chase through the streets of Cartagena in which 51-year-old assassin Will Smith is relentlessly pursued by a deadly 23-year-old clone of himself nicknamed Junior./how-jane-the-virgin-s-cancer-narrative-came-together.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-jane-the-virgin-s-cancer-narrative-came-together.htmlL-R: Andrea Navedo and Gina Rodriguez. The last several episodes of Jane the Virgin have been some of the best the show’s ever been, and they’ve also shifted into a very serious place for the three Villanueva women at the center of the show. Jane’s mother, Xiomara, is diagnosed with breast cancer, and a show that’s often tied its tragedy to heightened telenovela-style drama has turned toward a more real-world, personal source for its serious stories./how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-picks-a-fight.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-picks-a-fight.htmlA group of 20-somethings sits around late at night, drinking, smoking, and talking about philosophy. The vibe is college dorm with the group grumbling about “the Man” as much as sharing their dreams for the future. The normalcy of all this is exactly what How to Blow Up a Pipeline intends, so when the revelers shift their relationship from acquaintances to comrades, their discussion from theoretical to practical, and their self-identification from activists to terrorists, we understand the conditions that created them./in-the-surreal-horror-movie-luz-the-devil-is-in-the-16mm.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-the-surreal-horror-movie-luz-the-devil-is-in-the-16mm.htmlThe shot that’s held for longer than you expect … or want … or need: It makes you say to yourself, “Cut, already. Cut. Please cut.” But still it goes on — you have no agency here — although there’s nothing much happening onscreen. So, you slow your breathing and try to stand outside time, as in meditation, although the mantra you repeat is, I’msobored I’msobored I’msobored. Finally, a new shot arrives, but by that point the filmmaker has achieved his or her aim./is-drogon-the-last-dragon-on-game-of-thrones.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-drogon-the-last-dragon-on-game-of-thrones.htmlLonely, I’m so lonely / I have nobody / To call my own. Daenerys Targaryen is losing dragons faster than she’s losing advisers. Only a few episodes after poor Viserion was killed, reanimated as an ice-dragon, then re-killed, Rhaegal followed its sibling into the great beyond thanks to Euron Greyjoy’s impeccable aim (not to mention his magical invisible Iron Fleet). Now, Drogon is not just the only dragon that Game of Thrones cares about; it’s also the only dragon on Game of Thrones, period./jason-aldean-tried-to-secure-his-first-no-1.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jason-aldean-tried-to-secure-his-first-no-1.htmlThe BTS stans held on for every hour, every minute, every second they could, but it happened — Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” has topped the Billboard Hot 100. The controversial country song debuted at No. 2 on the chart last week, blocked from the top spot only by Jung Kook and Latto’s single “Seven.” It’s now Aldean’s first No. 1 hit. So how did “Try That in a Small Town” become the talk of the town, months after its initial release in May?/jeopardy-s-newest-head-writer-on-problematic-clues-and-alex-trebek-s-morning-routine.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeopardy-s-newest-head-writer-on-problematic-clues-and-alex-trebek-s-morning-routine.htmlMichele Loud. Back in 1993, Michele Loud became the newest member of the small but mighty Jeopardy! team when she was hired as a researcher. Now, with the show’s 36th season underway (and with an in-recovery Alex Trebek still our delightfully stern taskmaster), Loud received one hell of a promotion, becoming a head writer alongside fellow Jep! veteran Billy Wisse. You love those “Before and After” categories? Or how Daily Doubles fall on the board?/jodie-comer-loves-being-your-queer-murder-y-girlfriend.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jodie-comer-loves-being-your-queer-murder-y-girlfriend.htmlOn Killing Eve, Jodie Comer’s Villanelle spends as much time artfully murdering people as she does seducing them. And she doesn’t discriminate: Villanelle will joyfully kill and/or sleep with men and women. Or, in the case of her primary obsession, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), Villanelle will joyfully accept a knife to the abdomen: “She did it to show me how much she cares about me,” Villanelle explains of Eve’s stabby behavior early on in season two./jon-daly-re-created-a-rolling-stones-music-video-to-cheer-you-up.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jon-daly-re-created-a-rolling-stones-music-video-to-cheer-you-up.htmlWhen comedian Jon Daly started hyping up an upcoming shot-for-shot remake of the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” music video titled “Cheer Me Up” on Twitter yesterday, I wasn’t sure if he was being serious or not. But Daly is no stranger to creating impressive musical parodies: Take, for instance, Papa John’s Misty, Lil Xan’s Dad, or his masterful 2014 Red Hot Chili Peppers Super Bowl prank, which introduced his song “Abracadabralifornia” to a much wider audience./korea-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/korea-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mpqeemsZutMSiqq1lm6S%2Fpq2O/larp-vulture.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/larp-vulture.htmlLarp - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeclr%2Bxew%3D%3D/les-mis%C3%A9rables-will-become-a-lawyer-show-on-fox.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/les-mis%C3%A9rables-will-become-a-lawyer-show-on-fox.htmlFox has given a script commitment to a modern spin on Les Misérables that will turn the story of Jean Valjean into a contemporary lawyer show. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is onboard as a producer, with a script written by Graham Norris. According to Deadline, it’ll be a prime-time soap about “a brilliant lawyer running a legal exoneration program who fights to evade the consequences of his own unjust conviction many years before./let-s-talk-about-the-ending-of-beau-is-afraid.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-talk-about-the-ending-of-beau-is-afraid.htmlYou might say the movie is about Beau’s journey back home, but really, there isn’t much of a journey. Photo: A24 Photo: A24 This piece was originally published in April. We are recirculating it now that Beau Is Afraid is available on digital. Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Beau Is Afraid. Regardless of whether you think it’s a masterpiece or a career-ending crime against cinema, Beau Is Afraid will leave you with a lot of questions./love-actually-how-you-season-two-made-joe-s-perfect-match.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-actually-how-you-season-two-made-joe-s-perfect-match.htmlMajor spoilers ahead for You season one and season two. By the end of the first season of You, Netflix’s demented stalker romance, the unfortunate object of Joe’s affection, Beck (Elizabeth Lail), finally realizes too late that her dreamy bookish boyfriend is actually a serial killer. In the second season, Joe (Penn Badgley) flees to the West Coast and falls in love with a new woman named Love (Victoria Pedretti), a beautiful, carefree L./luther-season-premiere-recap-the-ball-jar.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luther-season-premiere-recap-the-ball-jar.htmlLuther Episode 1 Season 5 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Luther Episode 1 Season 5 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » John Luther is tired. It’s all over his face. He can barely keep his eyes open at the end of a long day, and hardly knows his own reflection in the mirror at its outset./madonna-s-biopic-plans-sound-like-a-beautiful-mess.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madonna-s-biopic-plans-sound-like-a-beautiful-mess.htmlSee if your quarantine project can top this: Madonna is writing a biopic with Diablo Cody, the pair confirmed on a wide-ranging Instagram Live on September 10. The Queen of Pop had previously alluded to a new project with Cody — between questioning the COVID-19 pandemic and enjoying her bathtub — telling fans a month ago that the two were writing together. Last night’s Instagram Live was a live writing session, starting on page 107 (!/mark-normand-on-his-eventful-comedy-central-half-hour-taping-and-bad-advice-from-other-comedia.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mark-normand-on-his-eventful-comedy-central-half-hour-taping-and-bad-advice-from-other-comedia.htmlMark Normand has slogged his way through the New York comedy scene since 2006. For years now, he’s labored through open mics all across the city, played shows to half-filled rooms and drunk, distracted patrons, spent hours enticing passers-by to free comedy shows in the West Village, and balanced multiple careers, a relationship, and a social life. But all of these have not been for nothing. Normand is now a Comedy Cellar regular, has appeared on Conan, Last Comic Standing, and Inside Amy Schumer./matt-and-bowen-enter-the-honesty-zone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matt-and-bowen-enter-the-honesty-zone.htmlEight years into Las Culturistas, its hosts are recalibrating how open they want to be. “For ten years I always said to myself, I wish I kept a diary. And then I realized I have been keeping a diary. I don’t think I could write out something more in-depth than what we’ve shared in episodes.” Photo: Lucas Michael for New York Magazine “For ten years I always said to myself, I wish I kept a diary./meet-snl-s-new-video-directors-hannah-levy-and-adriana-robles.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-snl-s-new-video-directors-hannah-levy-and-adriana-robles.htmlHannah Levy and Adriana Robles. Wait, aren’t SNL announcements done for the year? Naaaaaaw, they still comin’! A source close to the show has confirmed to Vulture that Hannah Levy and Adriana Robles have been hired as video directors on Saturday Night Live’s 44th season. The directing team joins SNL at a time when the show has evolved its strategy to ramp up its output of internet-friendly digital shorts. Levy and Robles’s hiring came not long before the announcement that they will also be directing one of six short films funded by Paul Feig and Laura Fischer’s new Powderkeg: Fuse incubator initiative, which will champion the work of women filmmakers with a slate of original shorts./modern-family-recap-jay-pritchett-novelist.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modern-family-recap-jay-pritchett-novelist.htmlModern Family Career Day Season 4 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Modern Family Career Day Season 4 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we get going here, may I politely, insistently request someone fire up a petition to have Rob Riggle’s Gil Thorpe recur no fewer than five times per season from here on out?/more-downton-abbey-on-the-way.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-downton-abbey-on-the-way.htmlPart Five Sunday, February 2, 2014 9 – 10pm ET on MASTERPIECE on PBS Rose’s surprise party for Robert risks scandal. Mary meets an old suitor, and Edith gets troubling news. Shown from left to right: Brendan Patricks as Evelyn Napier, Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary and Julian Ovenden as Charles Blake (C) Nick Briggs/Carnival Film & Television Limited 2013 for MASTERPIECE This image may be used only in the direct promotion of MASTERPIECE CLASSIC./murder-on-sex-island-vulture.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/murder-on-sex-island-vulture.html1.5x speed Sept. 21, 2023 Welcome to Jo Firestone’s Sexy Murder MysteryThe comedian’s excellent podcast Murder on Sex Island is perfect for fans of murder, sex, and islands. By Nicholas Quah ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGedqr%2BlsdFmpqdlo5rFbrXSpZinnF8%3D/nicholas-galitzine-just-has-a-thing-for-playing-gay-royals.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicholas-galitzine-just-has-a-thing-for-playing-gay-royals.htmlWe know what you’re thinking: Shouldn’t Oscar-winner Julianne Moore be in that headline somewhere? Not when the news at hand is as important as Nicholas Galitzine playing another gay royal, less than a year after his delightfully overcommitted performance in Red, White, & Royal Blue. This time, Galitzine is George Villiers in Starz’s Mary & George, the to-be favourite (read: gay side piece) of King James I. As for Moore, she plays his mother, Mary, who pushed her son toward James (played by Tony Curran, best known as Doctor Who’s Van Gogh) for her own political benefit./novelist-megan-abbott-on-how-twin-peaks-cast-a-rich-shadow-over-all-of-her-books.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/novelist-megan-abbott-on-how-twin-peaks-cast-a-rich-shadow-over-all-of-her-books.htmlI was a freshman in college when the first episode of Twin Peaks aired. I remember watching it in my dorm room on my tiny portable black-and-white TV. And surely it’s a trick of memory, but I recall it as if a portal opened up before me, into a place not just dark but intimate, jarring, erotic, troubling. I remember feeling like I wasn’t watching the show so much as the show was watching me./of-course-paul-dano-is-writing-a-dc-comic-book-about-the-riddler.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/of-course-paul-dano-is-writing-a-dc-comic-book-about-the-riddler.htmlBecause if you’re gonna act the part, you might as well write it, too.Per DC Comics, Paul Dano will be penning a comic-book origin story for his The Batman character, the Riddler. Riddler: Year One will be illustrated by Stevan Subic and published on a bimonthly basis for six issues starting this October. According to a press release, the DC Black Label series will explore “the background of how accountant Edward Nashton went from a simple Gotham City nobody to becoming Batman’s nemesis, setting them on a collision course” that unfolds in Matt Reeves’s movie./of-course-renee-bach-defends-herself-in-savior-complex.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/of-course-renee-bach-defends-herself-in-savior-complex.html“I think some of the most wild accusations that were made about me is that I killed 800 children, I was medically experimenting on children,” Renee Bach says at the start of the trailer for HBO’s Savior Complex. “Compared to Adolf Hitler, assumed to be part of the KKK … It’s kinda like, where to begin, you know?” Where to begin, indeed. While there are a lot of documentaries about suspicious deaths, there are vastly less that feature lengthy interviews with the alleged killer./oliver-wasow-author-archive.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oliver-wasow-author-archive.htmlOliver Wasow Author Archive MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY: `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZLyttdWeqWavkai8uHs%3D/patrick-j-adams-to-don-more-suits-though-without-meghan-markle.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patrick-j-adams-to-don-more-suits-though-without-meghan-markle.htmlPatrick J. Adams and Meghan Markle. Despite the media circus two years ago that surrounded the departure of Suits leads Patrick J. Adams and Meghan Markle, the heart will always be wistful for those matching sets of outer clothes. And legal jargon! Variety reports that Adams has done an about-face and will return to the show’s final season for a few episodes, where his character, Mike, will get involved “in a case that will put him toe to toe with his former mentor Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Samantha (Katherine Heigl)./phil-from-somebody-feed-phil-is-so-grateful-for-takeout-right-now.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phil-from-somebody-feed-phil-is-so-grateful-for-takeout-right-now.htmlNo one loves food as much as Phil Rosenthal. Or at least that’s how it seems when you watch Somebody Feed Phil, the food-travel show he created and stars in for Netflix. Shoveling morsels of haute cuisine into his mouth in destinations as far-flung as Saigon, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv, grinning like an overjoyed toddler, he exudes enthusiasm for what he’s eating — and in the process makes you really, really want whatever he’s having./polone-how-pilot-season-ensures-that-great-actors-rarely-land-the-right-shows.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/polone-how-pilot-season-ensures-that-great-actors-rarely-land-the-right-shows.htmlOh God they hope they get it. They hope they get it… Hollywood is one month into pilot season. By the end of February, the networks will have culled the scripts they had been developing during the prior half-year and will order a select group of pilots for production. (Final decisions on which of these go to series is made in May.) But as the chosen scripts are anointed, the television industry becomes all about casting these projects./project-runway-is-falling-out-of-fashion.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/project-runway-is-falling-out-of-fashion.htmlProject Runway is increasingly an exercise in hoping for moderate success, for both the contestants and production. In the early aughts, before Bravo became synonymous with Real Housewives, Scandoval, and the Andy Cohen empire, the cable network built on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s unexpected cultural omnipresence with Top Chef and Project Runway, a pair of competition shows ostensibly centered on, respectively, cutting-edge cuisine and high fashion. Nearly 20 years later, they’re Bravo’s only remaining competition series, and both have become legacy institutions in the reality-TV space./retta-has-a-story-to-tell.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retta-has-a-story-to-tell.htmlRetta has made herself comfortable. She’s created a pillow throne on the long, burgundy settee at the bar of the Four Seasons hotel; a couple of red, plush cushions rearranged as armrests, another two behind her. She came down from her room in a gray sweater and fuzzy purple slippers she got from the set of her latest TV show, Good Girls. “I am in a space of trying to Zen out,” she says, projecting a cool, pay-no-mind calm as though now, at the age of 48, she’s fully internalized the serenity prayer to accept the things she cannot change, the courage to change the things she can, and the wisdom to know the difference./revisiting-the-ending-of-denis-villeneuve-s-enemy-spiders-and-all.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisiting-the-ending-of-denis-villeneuve-s-enemy-spiders-and-all.htmlJake Gyllenhaal – one of him, at least – in Enemy. Ever watched the end of a movie and thought, “I have no idea what I just watched?” Vulture is here for you! We’ll be going back and taking a look at some notable endings in film, trying to explain what happened, why, and what it all really means. Previously in this series, we covered the ending of Donnie Darko./richard-lewis-legendary-stand-up-and-curb-actor-dead-at-76.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richard-lewis-legendary-stand-up-and-curb-actor-dead-at-76.htmlRichard Lewis, the pioneering comedian known for mining the depths of his neuroses in his stand-up and for his recurring role as a fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, died of a heart attack in his Los Angeles home on February 27, Vulture has confirmed. He was 76. Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Lewis began his career as a stand-up comedian in the 1970s and quickly gained a reputation as a comedian who pushed the boundaries of the form by talking openly about his struggles with mental health and addiction onstage./salesman-%E4%B9%8B%E6%AD%BB-vulture.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salesman-%E4%B9%8B%E6%AD%BB-vulture.htmltheater review Oct. 19, 2023 How It Went Down, Revised: Salesman之死 and Room, Room, Room …Two plays that find power in strange historical corners. By Sara Holdren ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGejlrmmv8yapWZddWlyg4WEcXlefWZajoVxoXtm/slash-is-with-coco-even-while-on-leno.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slash-is-with-coco-even-while-on-leno.htmlSlash was on the Tonight Show last night promoting his new solo album, and so it seemed strange that during his performance of “By the Sword,” there were hardly any close-ups of the top-hatted guitarist (there were more of the singer, Andrew Stockdale, and his weirdly morphed hair-beard). But then we noticed something on Slash’s guitar strap, and squinting, we could just make out a pin … no, it couldn’t be … not on Leno’s show!/snowfall-series-finale-recap-prometheus.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snowfall-series-finale-recap-prometheus.htmlSnowfall The Struggle Season 6 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Snowfall The Struggle Season 6 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Franklin has been compared to Prometheus, the Greek Titan who stole fire from the Olympian gods and gave it to humanity. Zeus punished Prometheus for the transgression by subjecting him to eternal torment, binding him to a rock where an eagle would be sent daily to eat his liver after it grew back the night before./southern-charm-recap-the-mod-squad.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/southern-charm-recap-the-mod-squad.htmlSouthern Charm Beyond the Valley of the Southern Dolls Season 9 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Southern Charm Beyond the Valley of the Southern Dolls Season 9 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » What do you call it when all four sides of a Love Rhombus fall apart simultaneously, crashing down with a million skittering snaps like the end of a game of Jenga on a hostel coffee table?/sylvester-stallone-wants-the-rocky-rights-back-from-parasitical-producer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sylvester-stallone-wants-the-rocky-rights-back-from-parasitical-producer.html“Live for nothing or die for something” — Rambo, not Rocky, but it’s still Stallone! Sylvester Stallone called and he wants his rights back. In multiple Instagram posts, the writer and star of the Rocky films called the franchise’s producer, Irwin Winkler, “parasitical” and one of the “worst unhuman beings I’ve ever met in the movie industry,” once again asking Winkler to give him the rights to the films./sza-finally-unleashed-her-inner-rock-star.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sza-finally-unleashed-her-inner-rock-star.htmlDays before the long-awaited release of SZA’s second album, the singer replied to a fan asking when she’d collaborate with Paramore’s Hayley Williams. “I talk to her more than you’d think lol,” SZA tweeted. (Of course she does — Paramore has professed love for her in the past, and their cover of “20 Something” even caught SZA’s eye.) Sadly, there’s no Hayley duet among the 23 tracks of SOS, but there is the next best thing: a SZA rock song./sza-lights-up-and-spits-fire-in-smoking-on-my-ex-pack.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sza-lights-up-and-spits-fire-in-smoking-on-my-ex-pack.htmlAbout halfway through her new album, SOS, SZA gives us a full-on rap song. Produced by Jay Versace, the perhaps-too-short “Smoking on My Ex Pack” is a bitch track that shakes off the signature SZA wallowing. With it comes the line “Them hoe accusations weak/Them bitch accusations true.” Scripture! A bar designed to breed a thousand Instagram captions, SZA treats it as a thesis statement. She will show you that those bitch accusations are true./the-4-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-4-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlTriangle of Sadness; The Watcher. Coming off the heels of a big week in finales — both She-Hulk and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power bowed their last season-one episodes — is a brand-new Ryan Murphy show (no, not Dahmer), a final slasher showdown, a comedic take on Shakespeare, and a Palme d’Or winner wide-releasing in theaters. So grab your popcorn and flip on one of these films (or the lone television show):/the-7-biggest-takeaways-from-the-case-against-adnan-syed.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-7-biggest-takeaways-from-the-case-against-adnan-syed.htmlMuch like Serial, HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed ended without a real conclusion. Syed is still in jail for the murder of Hae Min Lee after the Maryland Court of Appeals denied him a new trial on March 8, 2019, just two days before the four-part documentary debuted. Still, the final episode, “Time Is the Killer,” contained multiple revelations and allegations that point toward Syed’s innocence and, like the podcast, raise even more questions about how the case was handled./the-batman-predicts-our-grim-future-an-incels-vs-furries-civil-war.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-batman-predicts-our-grim-future-an-incels-vs-furries-civil-war.htmlThe primary plot driver of The Batman is the Riddler, a mysterious serial killer terrorizing Gotham City and leaving cryptic messages for Jeffrey Wright to read aloud in a befuddled yet sultry purr. Some of these are “Little Orphan Annie” decoder-ring-level goofy (just wait until the first act when Robert Pattinson searches the mayor’s car for a USB port). Others are Ted Cruz–level abstruse. Director Matt Reeves is a bit of a Riddler himself, filling the movie with symbols for us to interpret, including signifiers of present-day unrest./the-bear-recap-take-us-there-bear.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bear-recap-take-us-there-bear.htmlThe Bear Next Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bear Next Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If The Bear’s premiere, “Tomorrow,” was meant to ease viewers into the season, “Next” sets the table for what’s to come./the-beautiful-oddity-of-shimmer-and-herringbone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-beautiful-oddity-of-shimmer-and-herringbone.htmlTina Shepard, Jack Wetherall, and Lizzie Olesker in Shimmer and Herringbone. Fifty years into whatever we’ve chosen to do with our lives, may we all be as vigorous, mischievous, and curious as Talking Band. The company—founded by Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet in 1974—is celebrating half a century of experimental theater-making, and in barely three months, it’s premiered as many new shows. The Following Evening, written for Maddow and Zimet by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, was a gorgeous meditation on coupledom, creative labor, and the passage of time; in its own way, so was Existentialism, based on the work and lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and directed by the company’s longtime collaborator Anne Bogart./the-best-of-haruki-murakami-s-advice-column.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-of-haruki-murakami-s-advice-column.htmlHaruki Murakami (Photo by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images) Celebrated novelist Haruki Murakami is a master of the heartbreaking and the surreal. So who better to start an online advice column? In January, the Japanese author began soliciting and responding to reader-submitted questions. Murakami’s website is in Japanese, but we translated some of the best back-and-forths. It’s weird — and weirdly charming — stuff. 1. Nice to meet you, Haruki Murakami. I have a problem./the-cast-of-glee-reacts-to-cory-monteith-s-death.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cast-of-glee-reacts-to-cory-monteith-s-death.htmlCory Monteith — also known as the jock turned performer and clumsy dancer with a big voice Finn Hudson on Fox’s Glee — unexpectedly passed away Saturday night at the age of 31. A flood of tributes are certainly to come, but for now we only have the initial tweets and comments from Monteith’s fellow cast members and co-stars. Here are a few words from his colleagues accompanied by samples of the fine work they did together./the-complete-history-of-snl-s-celebrity-jeopardy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-complete-history-of-snl-s-celebrity-jeopardy.htmlThis article was originally published on April 12, 2011. It has been updated. Few recurring Saturday Night Live sketches have achieved the immortal status of “Celebrity Jeopardy.” For nearly 20 years, the sketch — which has aired a total of 15 installments — served as one of the NBC series’s most hilarious showcases for very silly impersonations, including Winona Ryder as Björk, Ben Stiller as Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks as a very dumb version of Tom Hanks./the-fearless-freedom-of-henry-taylor.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fearless-freedom-of-henry-taylor.htmlHenry Taylor, Untitled, 2006. Henry Taylor once said, “I want to be all over the place.” He is! The Whitney’s new retrospective of the artist, Henry Taylor: B Side, is the best show of 2023. Every gallery has pictures that will take your breath away with their omnivorous ambition. His subjects range from his friends to strangers in his L.A. neighborhood to famous Black historical figures like Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson, who he famously depicted in front of the White House like a revisionist update on the dour couple in American Gothic./the-good-wife-recap-i-get-a-gavel.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-wife-recap-i-get-a-gavel.htmlThe Good Wife Cooked Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife Cooked Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “This is semantics.” “No, it’s the law. Know the difference? I get a gavel.” So says Judge Schakowsky, while presiding over bail/bond court./the-great-british-baking-show-recap-custard-s-last-stand.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-british-baking-show-recap-custard-s-last-stand.htmlThe Great British Baking Show Custard Week Season 13 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Custard Week Season 13 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Great British icon Louis Theroux’s money may not jiggle jiggle, it may fold, but the desserts this week were jiggling with wobbles and wibbles like weebles in a wee blender./the-jeff-rubin-jeff-rubin-show-r-l-stine.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-jeff-rubin-jeff-rubin-show-r-l-stine.htmlThis week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff talks to R. L. Stine author of the Goosebumps series. Jeff talks to him about how he got started with writing scary stories and how he writes the Goosebumps series. They talk about all the letters that he got sent from kids, and what he thought about the Gersberms meme. “I never planned to write it, I always just wanted to be funny./the-mindy-project-recap-god-is-a-d-j.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mindy-project-recap-god-is-a-d-j.htmlThe Mindy Project Music Festival Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Music Festival Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome back, Pastor Casey! Instead of keeping him out of town for a while and reenacting more scenes from Varsity Blues with Mindy via Skype, the show fast-forwards to Casey’s return./the-most-influential-podcasters-right-now.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-influential-podcasters-right-now.htmlThese days, the now firmly established medium of podcasting is defined less by thinky narrative storytellers than by attention-seeking personalities flexing their gifts of the gab. An ever-expanding universe of chat and interview programs routinely take over your feeds with newsworthy moments and big, buzzy guests. Here, we’ve assembled a non-exhaustive snapshot of the most influential talkers — in various genres — working today. . The “Just Asking Questions” Guys The Joe Rogan Experience/the-stars-of-stand-up-analyzing-jerry-seinfeld-tiffany-haddish-and-more-by-astrological-sign.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-stars-of-stand-up-analyzing-jerry-seinfeld-tiffany-haddish-and-more-by-astrological-sign.htmlTiffany Haddish, John Mulaney, and Julio Torres. Comedians tell us a lot about themselves through their work beyond the facts of their lives that they share in their sets. Stand-up offers an extended glimpse into their personalities, preferences, motivations, and aesthetics, and — for those of us who notice these things — the traits of their zodiac signs as well. Whether or not they are conscious of astrology, most comics can’t help but expose themselves as the Virgo or Leo that they are, and once you see it in their material, it’s hard to unsee it./the-witcher-blood-origin-series-premiere-recap-the-elves-on-the-shelves.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-witcher-blood-origin-series-premiere-recap-the-elves-on-the-shelves.htmlThe Witcher: Blood Origin Of Ballads, Brawlers, and Bloodied Blades Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Witcher: Blood Origin Of Ballads, Brawlers, and Bloodied Blades Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » These are troubled times for The Witcher. After a wildly overperforming first season anchored by star Henry Cavill, Netflix decided to double down, building out the Witcher universe with a (pretty good!/theater-review-gloria-a-life-is-not-a-bio-play-and-that-s-a-good-thing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-gloria-a-life-is-not-a-bio-play-and-that-s-a-good-thing.htmlChristine Lahti as Gloria Steinem. The woman sitting next to me at the Daryl Roth Theatre leaned toward her daughter and pointed surreptitiously. “Look over there, there, with the red hair. Do you see her? That’s her. That’s Gloria Steinem.” As a critic, I usually see shows shortly before the official opening, but last night I found myself at the first night of Gloria: A Life, the new play by Emily Mann that tells the story of the life and work of Gloria Steinem./to-wong-foo-thanks-for-everything-julie-newmar.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/to-wong-foo-thanks-for-everything-julie-newmar.htmlvulture movie club May 4, 2023 Hollywood’s First Celebrated Film About Drag Is As Flawed As It Is FabulousHere is a statement about the emancipatory power of drag wrapped in a tale of allyship — embalmed as it is in the limitations of the ’90s. By Manuel Betancourt ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGekpHq4u82gZJ%2Bnn2LBqa3NpKpmnp%2BneqbCxKuwraCZo7RuttSloJ5lnprErq3RaA%3D%3D/underworld-awakening-trailer-vampire-weakened.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/underworld-awakening-trailer-vampire-weakened.htmlThe Underworld franchise is back, and instead of replacing Kate Beckinsale with someone who looks just like Kate Beckinsale in the promotional materials (as the last installment did with actress Rhona Mitra), Underworld: Awakening has Kate Beckinsale returning, too. She is still a sleek vampire who shoots guns at werewolves, from what we can tell in this new trailer. Also, there’s a hybrid child. Hybrid children in movies where vampires and werewolves have been battling each other for centuries: so hot right now!/vanderpump-villa-recap-new-girl-who-dis.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vanderpump-villa-recap-new-girl-who-dis.htmlVanderpump Villa A Divorce Party Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Vanderpump Villa A Divorce Party Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The problem with Vanderpump Villa is that it is a show about a bunch of (mostly) American yahoos mucking up the French countryside with their drama and not a show that exclusively follows Eric’s best friend, a sheep named Bernard./vengeance-is-a-clever-but-hollow-satire-of-new-york-podcast-bros.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vengeance-is-a-clever-but-hollow-satire-of-new-york-podcast-bros.htmlAlison Willmore is a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture. Formerly, she was the only critic at BuzzFeed News, the first TV editor at IndieWire, and the host of Filmspotting: SVU. Alison Willmore is a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture. Formerly, she was the only critic at BuzzFeed News, the first TV editor at IndieWire, and the host of Filmspotting: SVU./was-quiz-s-underground-cheating-syndicate-real.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-quiz-s-underground-cheating-syndicate-real.htmlPaddy Spooner, the leathered-up gent on the right. While Quiz’s main scam deals with the platonic ideal of a dweeb couple coughing their way to a £1 million “victory,” a parallel con — and, dare we say, a far more ingenious and refined one — also wove its way into the lore of Britain’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the early aughts. As teased in the first episode of the AMC miniseries, Adrian Pollock (Trystan Gravelle), driven to the brink of madness trying to get onto the quiz show, meets with a seedy chap named Paddy Spooner (Jerry Killick) to pick his brain about the “bespoke services” he offers to potential contestants./watch-both-die-hard-scenes-involving-twinkies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-both-die-hard-scenes-involving-twinkies.htmlThe 1988 action movie Die Hard taught us so much: the importance of “making fists with your toes” after a long flight, the idiocy of saying “I guess you’re just going to have to kill me” to a terrorist, and the four most crucial ingredients in a Twinkies snack cake. Amazingly, today is both the 25th anniversary of Die Hard and the official relaunch day of the Twinkies brand. Coincidence or not, it gives us the perfect excuse to reestablish the link between the two pop-culture touchstones and heckle Hostess about their continued failure to harness the significant cachet of Sergeant Al Powell (a./we-asked-linguists-why-people-are-adding-ussy-to-every-word.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-asked-linguists-why-people-are-adding-ussy-to-every-word.htmlEveryone has their breaking pointussy that makes them say, “Enough internet for me today!” For me it was a TikTok by @Shaylo_Ren about Max Rebo, the leader of Jabba the Hutt’s Jizz band (yes, the music played diegetically in most Star Wars movies is called “Jizz,” although The Book of Boba Fett appears to be going for some sort of Latin-Jizz fusion), illustrating that Max Rebo’s hands are actually his feet, so “technically, when he’s playing, his Max Rebussy is just all over the place for everybody to see./weezer-covers-africa-live-rivers-cuomo-reads-lyrics-off-a-laptop.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weezer-covers-africa-live-rivers-cuomo-reads-lyrics-off-a-laptop.htmlNever underestimate the power of the internet and a fan base with questionable taste. Last month, Weezer covered Toto’s “Africa” at the request of a fan who spammed each member for months on Twitter — and got many more fans to do the same — with the plea to make it rain on ’em. Now, humoring her once again, Weezer performed the cover on Kimmel last night with the help of Toto’s keyboardist Steve Porcaro./what-makes-cat-power-s-manhattan-a-classic-nyc-anthem.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-makes-cat-power-s-manhattan-a-classic-nyc-anthem.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Switched on Pop’s hosts have been seeing Carina del Valle Schorske’s name next to all their favorite pieces of music writing lately. A moving profile of Bad Bunny? There it is. A searing critique of West Side Story? There it is again. A contemplation on love and loss by way of an Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson duet?/whiplash-trailer-is-very-intense-for-a-movie-about-jazz-drumming.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whiplash-trailer-is-very-intense-for-a-movie-about-jazz-drumming.htmlAfter we called Whiplash “the Sundance Film Festival’s Strongest Opener in Years,” it went on to win both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the festival. This is what all the hype was about. Opening October 10, the film features Miles Teller playing a young drummer aspiring for greatness and J.K. Simmons as his drill-sergeant-esque jazz-band conductor. If you don’t get enough of Simmons screaming and hitting Teller here, may we direct you to the slap-filled clip we posted two months ago./who-s-got-the-best-beard-on-game-of-thrones.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-s-got-the-best-beard-on-game-of-thrones.htmlOne of these beards got fewer votes than the others. Over four seasons on the air, Game of Thrones has done for male facial hair what Mad Men did for skinny-fit suits. The show’s plethora of scruff may make it hard for newcomers to tell the show’s dozens of characters apart (“He’s the gruff, slightly charming bearded guy. No, the other gruff, slightly charming bearded guy!”), but for diehards, each beard on Game of Thrones is as beautifully distinct as a snowflake./x-men-the-animated-series-helped-set-the-template-for-today-s-comic-book-movies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/x-men-the-animated-series-helped-set-the-template-for-today-s-comic-book-movies.htmlWhen it came to preparing for 2000’s X-Men, the first in what has stretched out into a now seven-movie series, director Bryan Singer avoided drowning himself in 40 years of comic-book history by binge-watching all 76 episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series. It was a logical move: The show, which premiered in the fall of 1992, did everything Singer’s film franchise would go on to do, spinning original stories out of the comic’s vast, established mythology and occasionally adapting the book’s legendary arcs as keystones for the series./you-should-wait-to-watch-all-of-wes-anderson-s-henry-sugar-shorts-at-once.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-should-wait-to-watch-all-of-wes-anderson-s-henry-sugar-shorts-at-once.htmlThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is fantastic on its own, but Anderson’s four new shorts together make up a much more complicated cinematic exploration of Roald Dahl’s work. ​​Warning: This article discusses plot details of all four of Wes Anderson’s new shorts, three of which are streaming on Netflix now and one of which will debut tomorrow.  The new Wes Anderson short films based on the stories of Roald Dahl’s begin with Sugar and end with Poison./10-books-and-one-video-game-you-are-fated-to-consume-after-sh%C5%8Dgun.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-books-and-one-video-game-you-are-fated-to-consume-after-sh%C5%8Dgun.htmlSorry, anjinposters, FX’s adaptation of Shōgun has concluded. Toronaga reluctantly followed his fate and will now lead Japan to a new age of peace. The show’s attention to period accuracy, its well-rounded characters, its perfect episode endings, and its endless parade of Japanese character actors will be missed. The series managed to make you feel for so many characters with so many (often conflicting) motivations. Then it made you watch that person you fell in love with get beheaded./11-essential-hip-hop-books.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/11-essential-hip-hop-books.htmlHip-hop in its earliest incarnations was an experiential thing — not just because rappers and DJs had yet to secure the backing of major labels, but because their work depended on the texture and context that only a cramped nightclub or a sweaty multipurpose room could provide. Even as rap became a massive commercial force, it preserved the thrill of the impermanent: the sample chopped or flipped on the spot only to be nixed by the folks in legal affairs, the virtuosic freestyle that trails off into nothing./25-f-cked-up-things-that-happen-in-the-hunger-games.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/25-f-cked-up-things-that-happen-in-the-hunger-games.htmlJennifer Lawrence stars as ‘Katniss Everdeen’ in THE HUNGER GAMES. Thanks to its staggeringly comprehensive publicity campaign (and some very excited coverage on this particular website), you are by now probably aware that The Hunger Games opens on Friday. For some of you, this date has been circled on the calendar for months. For others — perhaps those among you who do not live and die by young-adult-novel trends — the frenzy may still be a bit confusing, especially if you have reflexively grouped The Hunger Games along with Twilight and other teen fads of late./61-comedians-recall-their-favorite-first-and-life-changing-jokes.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/61-comedians-recall-their-favorite-first-and-life-changing-jokes.htmlA comedy boom has to start somewhere, and that’s with comedians — comedians have to start somewhere, and that’s with the first jokes, show, or stand-up special they saw that left an impression on them. So, Vulture polled more than five dozen comedians and comedy writers, big and small, to find out what some of their favorite jokes of all time are, what jokes changed their lives, or what jokes pushed them to get into comedy in the first place — in some cases all of the above./8-great-audiobooks-to-listen-to-this-month.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/8-great-audiobooks-to-listen-to-this-month.htmlThis list is updated monthly with new audiobooks. 2023 was a breakout year for audiobooks — at least in terms of the social-media impact of two massive titles. Early in the year, Prince Harry narrated his own memoir, Spare, which included an oversharing scene in which Harry spoke calmly about his frostbitten penis. Then the audiobook of Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me, read by the actress Michelle Williams, became a sensation./8-things-that-probably-wouldn-t-exist-without-fellini-s-8.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/8-things-that-probably-wouldn-t-exist-without-fellini-s-8.htmlFederico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 ½ celebrates its 50th anniversary this week, which means that on some level, a particularly meta- kind of cinema also celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. In case you don’t know, the movie is about a Fellini-like director (played by Marcello Mastroianni) struggling with a creative block and a host of romantic and existential neuroses. (Cute story: The title refers to the fact that it would be Fellini’s eight-and-a-half-th film; he’d made six features, and three collaborative films which he counted as halves./90-classic-looney-tunes-cartoons-you-can-watch-right-now.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/90-classic-looney-tunes-cartoons-you-can-watch-right-now.htmlOn April 17, 1930, the very first Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, “Sinkin’ in the Bathtub,” was released. From the start, the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts were designed as a more iconoclastic alternative to Disney’s artistically groundbreaking Silly Symphonies. While Walt Disney was focused on elevating the art of animation, Warner Bros.’ dream team of writers and directors were hell-bent on just making each other laugh. “They never went for the cute stuff at Warners,” Warner Bros./a-few-sincere-suggestions-for-gutfeld.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-few-sincere-suggestions-for-gutfeld.htmlGutfeld on Gutfeld! Look, comedy’s a tough business. Creating a new late-night comedy show that really works is a huge, daunting challenge under any circumstance, and that’s still true even if you’re a well-known Fox News host with an established audience, devoted brand following, massive lead-in, and giant cultural and financial safety net if you fail. There has yet to be a really successful, sharp conservative take on the genre, which means there’s not much precedent to model yourself on./a-field-guide-to-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-energy-vampire.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-field-guide-to-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-energy-vampire.htmlVampire Veek We don’t live to drain, we drain to live. Vampire Veek We don’t live to drain, we drain to live. Spoilers ahead for the season-three finale of What We Do in the Shadows. In its third season, What We Do in the Shadows decided to explore a creature of its own creation: the energy vampire. Originally formulated as an opportunity for an extra joke, Colin Robinson — played to perfection by Mark Proksch — quickly became a central figure in the dramas and machinations of his blood-sucking roommates and their beleaguered familiar Guillermo./a-naked-deranged-katy-perry-really-wants-you-to-vote.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-naked-deranged-katy-perry-really-wants-you-to-vote.htmlKaty Perry Votes Naked from Funny Or Die It doesn’t matter if you’re Porky Pigging it in a long T-shirt or clad only in the pennies that fall out of your jean pockets and stick to your naked body, it is your obligation to leave your bed on Tuesday, November 8, and vote in the presidential election. In a video for Funny or Die’s Everybody Votes campaign, Katy Perry stresses that nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have to look presentable, or even wipe that ever-present green slime off your face, to cast your vote./a-quest-to-find-the-greatest-movie-bath-of-all-time.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-quest-to-find-the-greatest-movie-bath-of-all-time.htmlWhen I was a kid, I would spend up to eight hours each weekend submerged in a bathtub, reading and subsequently damaging hundreds of library books. One day, I took a bath so hard that the water overflowed, seeped through the floor, and collapsed the ceiling below. As an adult, I have listed “bathtub” as my only criteria when renting apartments; every day that I have had to take a shower instead of lying down and slowly boiling my internal organs is a day wasted./album-review-sleigh-bells-jessica-rabbit-is-a-pleasure-if-not-quite-a-joy.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/album-review-sleigh-bells-jessica-rabbit-is-a-pleasure-if-not-quite-a-joy.htmlSleigh Bells is a noise-pop partnership between two people that formed in the summer of 2008, when Derek Miller, a former Florida resident and ex-guitarist with the metalcore band Poison the Well, met Alexis Krauss, a former New Jersey resident and ex-vocalist with an abortive teen-girl group named RubyBlue. Miller was waiting tables at a Brazilian restaurant in Williamsburg where Krauss, then Teaching for America in a South Bronx primary school, was dining with her mother./andre-3000-likes-razors-more-than-big-boi.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andre-3000-likes-razors-more-than-big-boi.html(U.S. TABS OUT) Actor/rappers Antwan A. (Big Boi) Patton (L) and Andre (Andre 3000) Benjamin of Outkast pose backstage during MTV’s Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios on August 22, 2006 in New York City. Why isn’t Andre 3000 on Big Boi’s new album (out December 11)? “He could’ve been on any song he wanted to,” Big Boi told The Village Voice.  “I gave the motherfucker about five songs, but I guess he was just too busy./angela-lansbury-titan-of-the-stage-and-screen-dead-at-96.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/angela-lansbury-titan-of-the-stage-and-screen-dead-at-96.htmlAngela Lansbury. Angela Lansbury, the illustrious film, television, and Broadway actor whose career spanned more than 75 years, has died, her family announced on October 11. She was 96. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” Lansbury’s family wrote in a statement to Broadway World./ari-aster-s-now-disappeared-beau-short-reveals-a-lot-about-beau-is-afraid.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ari-aster-s-now-disappeared-beau-short-reveals-a-lot-about-beau-is-afraid.htmlThe short film — now scrubbed from the internet — tells us a lot about early Ari Aster and the neurotic humor that shaped Beau Is Afraid. This piece was originally published in April. We are recirculating it now that Beau Is Afraid is available on digital. Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Beau Is Afraid. Beau and his many fears have been with Ari Aster for more than a decade./ash-vs-evil-dead-recap-ash-vs-evil-cloud.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ash-vs-evil-dead-recap-ash-vs-evil-cloud.htmlAsh vs Evil Dead Brujo Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ash vs Evil Dead Brujo Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s kind of shocking we haven’t seen Ash have a hallucinatory trip before. At its best, the Evil Dead franchise’s manic, demonic action is itself basically hallucinatory, so the idea of Ash getting led by a shaman on an ayahuasca-fueled spirit quest immediately sounds like a good time./bates-motel-s-freddie-highmore-on-playing-young-norman-and-the-show-s-dark-humor.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bates-motel-s-freddie-highmore-on-playing-young-norman-and-the-show-s-dark-humor.htmlFreddie Highmore. Freddie Highmore has grown up before our eyes. He starred opposite Johnny Depp twice, first in his breakthrough role in Finding Neverland and later as Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and then he played a young music prodigy in the sentimental tearjerker August Rush. A few years ago, while beginning his studies in both Arabic and Spanish at Cambridge, he filmed the 2011 Sundance entry The Art of Getting By (formerly Homework) opposite Emma Roberts, a performance that caught the eye of Vera Farmiga, with whom he currently stars in A&E’s Bates Motel (premiering tonight at ten)./beef-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beef-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlLee Sung Jin’s limited Netflix series Beef uses that gesture to fling us straight into the trenches of modern American malaise, with Steven Yeun and Ali Wong on opposite sides of a midlife crisis that blows up into an increasingly violent existential duel. Watching Beef’s ten episodes, which premiere all at once on April 6, is like picking at a scab or pushing on the edge of a bruise — a paradoxically pleasurable sensation of anxiety and satisfaction — and Yeun and Wong’s vibrating, hostile chemistry makes for engaging feel-bad TV that critiques the very notion of inner peace./ben-gibbard-on-the-legacy-of-death-cab-for-cutie-s-the-photo-album-20-years-later.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ben-gibbard-on-the-legacy-of-death-cab-for-cutie-s-the-photo-album-20-years-later.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “The times at which our band was not getting along or fighting or we had our backs up against the wall of a deadline or whatever it was — that’s never been when we made our best work./boosie-badazz-shot-in-the-leg-in-dallas.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boosie-badazz-shot-in-the-leg-in-dallas.htmlRapper Boosie Badazz has been shot in the leg, and is currently being treated at a Dallas hospital, WFAA and TMZ report. Details of Boosie’s condition have not been publicly released as of Saturday evening. Boosie was at a vigil on Friday night in Dallas honoring his friend and collaborator Mo3, who was shot and killed while driving on Interstate 35 in Dallas last Wednesday. Boosie and Mo3 most recently collaborated on a mixtape back in February titled Badazz MO3, and Boosie tweeted about Mo3’s death earlier this week, writing, “IM LOST FOR WORDS MY BOY MO3 SEE U WHEN I GET THERE./bra-stuffing-allegations-add-to-bad-buzz-for-g-i-joe.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bra-stuffing-allegations-add-to-bad-buzz-for-g-i-joe.htmlA still from Push. It’s been a good six months or so since the last time we made our way to Vegas, but the next time we go, we’re totally gonna find an enterprising bookie who’s willing to lay odds on next year’s Razzies. We’ll walk up to him (or her, we don’t discriminate when it comes to gambling!), pull a crisp Hamilton out of our pocket, and put our money on G./chip-and-joanna-gaines-s-magnolia-network-is-moving-to-a-new-home.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chip-and-joanna-gaines-s-magnolia-network-is-moving-to-a-new-home.htmlUpdate, Thursday, August 4 at 10:05 p.m.: Looks like the Gaineses have finally closed on their latest house. Per Variety, select titles from Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network will come to HBO Max on September 30. The couple will reportedly have their own “curated” content page featuring all five seasons of Fixer Upper, Fixer Upper: Welcome Home, Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines, The Lost Kitchen, and more./cm-punk-s-return-could-be-the-best-or-worst-thing-on-tv-this-weekend.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cm-punk-s-return-could-be-the-best-or-worst-thing-on-tv-this-weekend.htmlIf you’ve ever been a wrestling fan, you’re likely familiar with the work of CM Punk. You might be particularly familiar with his infamous 2011 Pipe Bomb promo, where he seemingly went off-script on live television to break every rule of WWE promos: He said the names of other wrestling companies, announced that the only thing John Cena was best at was “kissing Vince McMahon’s ass,” repeatedly referred to the Rock as “Dwayne,” and went on to call out WWE management until they actually cut off his mic./community-reunited-i-think-i-m-on-the-greatest-television-show-ever-made.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/community-reunited-i-think-i-m-on-the-greatest-television-show-ever-made.htmlThe cast and creators reflect on living through the end of must-see TV. Community’s Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Jim Rash, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, and Ken Jeong at Vulture Festival LA. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Getty Images Community’s Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Jim Rash, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, and Ken Jeong at Vulture Festival LA. Until #SixSeasonsAndAMovie comes true, we might have to be satisfied with #SixSeasonsAndAVultureFestivalReunion, because unlike the former, which demands a Herculean amount of schedule balancing, the latter happened!/connie-britton-on-nashville-friday-night-lights-ageism-in-hollywood-and-her-glorious-hair.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/connie-britton-on-nashville-friday-night-lights-ageism-in-hollywood-and-her-glorious-hair.htmlJust as Connie Britton was starting to stare down the big 4-0 nearly a decade ago, along came her career-changing role as Tami Taylor on TV’s Friday Night Lights. On a show about football that isn’t really about football, “Mrs. Coach” was no simple foil — she was a guiding light for nearly every major character at some point, and a complicated character herself. Since then, Britton has become one of TV’s most-beloved leading ladies, from American Horror Story’s first season to Nashville, which she stars in and co-executive-produces./david-killen-gallery-vulture.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-killen-gallery-vulture.htmlDavid Killen Gallery - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeUlsOqsIykoKWklaN6qK3LpZyrsV8%3D/diablo-cody-and-ian-brennan-are-developing-a-synchronized-swimming-comedy-at-fox.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/diablo-cody-and-ian-brennan-are-developing-a-synchronized-swimming-comedy-at-fox.htmlDiablo Cody and Glee co-creator Ian Brennan are working on a new show at Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has given a put-pilot commitment to an untitled show written by Cody and Brennan set in the world of synchronized swimming. The single-cam project centers on a woman named Marion Lolo, “who has 26 synchronized swimming medals, one restraining order against her and zero friends.” Brennan and Cody will serve as co-executive producers alongside Simon Cowell./don-t-think-too-hard-about-the-heart-of-rock-and-roll.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/don-t-think-too-hard-about-the-heart-of-rock-and-roll.htmlThe core ethos of The Heart of Rock and Roll might be best expressed in an early scene by the musical’s exasperated head of HR, played by Tamika Lawrence, who accedes to its peppy hero’s scheming by shrugging and saying, “Fine! What the hell. It’s the ’80s.” There’s a lot to unpack in that exchange alone. The Heart of Rock and Roll is about a cardboard-box company where the head of HR is a crucial character./drake-embraces-spite-on-the-diddy-dissing-4pm-in-calabasas.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-embraces-spite-on-the-diddy-dissing-4pm-in-calabasas.htmlDrake with Sean Combs, 2014. If there’s a poet laureate of pettiness today, it would have to be Drake. As an artist whose rhetoric is laced with incessant reconsideration of slights real and perceived and whose hostility mostly manifests in open-ended, passive-aggressive asides, the Toronto superstar has built no small portion of his reputation through appealing to the less passionate but more common aspects of the self. He longed after people without committing himself to loving them; he was always sad but never depressed; he was frequently annoyed but never enraged./eddie-murphy-shares-the-bad-comedy-advice-he-got-from-rodney-dangerfield.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eddie-murphy-shares-the-bad-comedy-advice-he-got-from-rodney-dangerfield.htmlNot many comedians have the luxury of getting comedy advice from a superstar when they’re still young and starting out in their career, but when it comes to Eddie Murphy, pretty much nothing about his early years doing stand-up is typical. In a new video for W magazine, Murphy had a great story to share when asked about the worst advice he’s ever received, in which a then-teenage Murphy — whose act was “really dirty” and full of “edgy racial stuff” — asked Dangerfield to watch him perform at a Florida club, only to be told by the comedian afterward, as Murphy retells it, “Hey, kid./edelstein-on-the-crude-propaganda-of-lone-survivor.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edelstein-on-the-crude-propaganda-of-lone-survivor.htmlLone Survivor Peter Berg’s film of Marcus Luttrell’s memoir Lone Survivor is frankly worshipful: It celebrates sacrifice and sanctifies agony. In an early training montage, Berg lingers on the young Navy SEALs’ sinewy limbs and ripped torsos, marveling (in slo-mo) at their ability to endure pain with manly, near-miraculous stoicism. The prep for war is itself a near-death experience, and it’s transmutational. These ordinary American guys — guys’ guys with pretty wives and loving families — are reborn as supermen./evil-recap-exorcising-the-exorcist.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/evil-recap-exorcising-the-exorcist.htmlEvil Z Is For Zombie Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil Z Is For Zombie Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Have you ever wanted to stand up and slow clap for a show you were watching?/gerry-turner-is-officially-no-longer-a-golden-bachelor.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gerry-turner-is-officially-no-longer-a-golden-bachelor.htmlCongrats to the bride and groom! On January 4, The Golden Bachelor’s Gerry Turner officially lost his bachelor status by getting married to Theresa Nist at the La Quinto Resort & Club in Palm Springs, California. Like many weddings, friends and family were present at the ceremony. Unlike many weddings, one of the groom’s exes was a gold carpet “correspondent,” multiple members of the media were on the guest list, and the entire event was televised live on ABC./grace-jones-bloodlight-and-bami-is-a-missed-opportunity.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grace-jones-bloodlight-and-bami-is-a-missed-opportunity.htmlGrace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami opens with about as fine a welcome as you could ask for: striking 35mm footage of the disco icon during her 2009 world tour, some 60 years old and stalking the stage in a gold skeleton mask and a billowing midnight-blue cape. It would appear to be a proper setup for Sophie Fiennes’s documentary portrait, which seeks to emphasize Jones as she is here and now (or rather, the decade or so ago when the film was shot), every bit as full of vigor and vision as she was when she set off on her boundary-pushing recording career in the 1970s, though living in a world where much has changed./halloween-costumes-for-the-chronically-online.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/halloween-costumes-for-the-chronically-online.htmlCostumes for the dolls. Despite Halloween being less than a week away, the internet has been dropping and snapping their best pop culture-inspired looks. While actors and content creators can’t dress up as Hollywood characters due to the new SAG AFTRA rules, it doesn’t mean civilians can’t. Everything from what we looked like when we were a baby to Spongebob and Glinda hooking up has been fair game for the holiday./here-s-the-trailer-for-netflix-s-mike-epps-don-t-take-it-personal.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-the-trailer-for-netflix-s-mike-epps-don-t-take-it-personal.htmlBefore he hits the big screen as Richard Pryor, Mike Epps has a new standup special heading to Netflix this month, and the streaming network just released the first trailer. Filmed at a sold-out show at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, Mike Epps: Don’t Take It Personal covers “everything from sex and relationships to deadbeat stepdads, generational differences and more.” The special hits Netflix on Friday, December 18th./here-s-what-a-hasan-minhaj-hosted-daily-show-would-look-like.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-what-a-hasan-minhaj-hosted-daily-show-would-look-like.htmlHasan Minhaj fans who were disappointed the comedian was not named the permanent host of The Daily Show will no longer have to endure a political climate without his commentary. The once-leading candidate for the job — who was taken out of the running in 2023 after a widely discussed New Yorker article set off a public debate about factual inaccuracies and exaggerations in his Netflix stand-up specials Homecoming King and The King’s Jester — is back with a new self-produced digital series, Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know./how-apollo-10-1-2-reanimated-houston-s-lost-memories-of-the-60s.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-apollo-10-1-2-reanimated-houston-s-lost-memories-of-the-60s.htmlEvery once in a while, Richard Linklater gets stuck on an idea for a movie that he can’t quite imagine filming in live action. In 1998, he had all but given up on one such idea when his longtime friend and collaborator Tommy Pallotta showed the filmmaker what his roommate Bob Sabiston was working on. An animator and software engineer, Sabiston had developed a program to speed up the process of rotoscoping — an animation technique that involves tracing over live-action footage frame by frame./how-gina-rodriguez-pulled-off-jane-the-virgin-s-unforgettable-7-minute-monologue.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-gina-rodriguez-pulled-off-jane-the-virgin-s-unforgettable-7-minute-monologue.htmlGina Rodriguez in Jane the Virgin. You’ll know the most incredible scene in Jane the Virgin’s fifth season premiere when you see it. After four years of mourning her dead husband Michael (Brett Dier), Jane (Gina Rodriguez) has discovered that he’s actually still alive, but suffering from amnesia. Before Michael’s sudden reappearance, Jane was on the verge of getting engaged to her boyfriend Rafael (Justin Baldoni), she’d just figured out what she wanted her life to look like, and she’d had a breakthrough about how to structure her new novel./how-the-babadook-became-a-gay-icon.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-babadook-became-a-gay-icon.htmlBabadook eye for the straight guy. June is the month of Pride and the LGBTQ community has a new queer icon to celebrate: The Babadook. You may know this Dada-esque mouthful as the title character of the 2014 horror film by Australian director Jennifer Kent. In the movie, the Babadook is a monster that haunts the house of a widow and her 6-year-old son. The father died in a car accident while the mother was in labor, and his death hangs over the family./in-praise-of-switched-at-birth.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-praise-of-switched-at-birth.htmlI like teen shows. I like shows about women and girls. I like shows about people who like each other and treat each other decently. I like family-set shows that aren’t about misery. I like Switched at Birth. I like it a lot. I like it so much, I’m pretty sure it’s teaching me American Sign Language. I like other kinds of shows, too, but there’s a part of my soul that craves stories about mostly happy families./inside-alone-together-with-esther-povitsky-and-benji-aflalo.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-alone-together-with-esther-povitsky-and-benji-aflalo.htmlIn the opening scene of the pilot episode of Alone Together, a new comedy produced by The Lonely Island, a guy picks up a girl from her one-night stand and they talk about getting “smashed,” the walk of shame, and Boko Haram. There’s nothing entirely unusual about that for a cable sitcom, but it is a little surprising when you consider the “Disney ABC” logo in the bottom right-hand corner./is-the-drama-around-bobby-berk-s-queer-eye-exit-still-building.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-the-drama-around-bobby-berk-s-queer-eye-exit-still-building.htmlTan France is denying that he gave the Queer Eye lineup a makeover. On February 27, Netflix announced that Jeremiah Brent — who is also France’s friend — would be replacing Bobby Berk as the show’s new interior designer. Rolling Stone later published a report on March 5, claiming that France (with alleged support from Antoni Porowski) had campaigned for the Berk-Brent switch, with one source describing what happened as “mean-girl antics./it-looks-like-deadmau5-was-really-not-into-that-interactive-nyt-bieber-video.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-looks-like-deadmau5-was-really-not-into-that-interactive-nyt-bieber-video.htmlDeadmau5. The New York Times published a fun interactive video and story earlier Tuesday, explaining how Jack Ü’s “Where Are Ü Now” came to be. Interspersed with clips of the song, as well as clips of unreleased rough demos of the song, the video portion features interviews with all of the artists involved — Justin Bieber, Skrillex, and Diplo — letting everyone give their own mini oral history of what happened behind the scenes./it-s-always-sunny-recap-frank-reynolds-little-beauties.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-always-sunny-recap-frank-reynolds-little-beauties.htmlConsidering the rank grotesqueness of recent child pageant shows like Dance Mom and Toddlers & Tiaras, it’s both fitting that the It’s Always Sunny gang should find themselves in charge of one, and hard to imagine of how they could possibly make them more off-putting. The answer is, of course, to declare child pageants the greatest tribute to patriotism this side of the Pledge of Allegiance. “We can do whatever we want with our kids and that’s our right as Americas,” Dennis declares when Frank reveals that he kind of, sort of, maybe got himself embroiled in the child pageant circuit with a known “kid diddler” for a partner./kaley-cuoco-tears-the-veil-away-from-your-eyes-to-reveal-that-the-big-bang-theory-nerds-are-super-fa.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kaley-cuoco-tears-the-veil-away-from-your-eyes-to-reveal-that-the-big-bang-theory-nerds-are-super-fa.htmlIn news that would make Neil deGrasse Tyson straight-up puke, Kaley Cuoco acknowledged to Stephen Colbert that, yeah, the cast of The Big Bang Theory is basically just repeating their science-y dialogue like a bunch of well-paid parrots with amazing skin. They don’t actually know what any of it means or if it makes any sense. It’s almost as if reading science quips from a script does not actually teach you any actual science knowledge./kelly-rowland-explains-what-happened-on-cannes-red-carpet.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelly-rowland-explains-what-happened-on-cannes-red-carpet.htmlDuring the red-carpet premiere for Marcello Mio, a video surfaced of an usher yelling at Kelly Rowland to seemingly get off the carpet, despite photographers clearly taking her photo. What’s the big deal? And why did the same thing happen to two more stars? Kelly Rowland stands by her boundaries May 24, 2024: Excuse me? Aren’t red carpets for taking pics of celebs in fancy dresses and suits?/kevin-hart-sued-for-millions-over-allegedly-breached-sex-tape-extortion-settlement.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kevin-hart-sued-for-millions-over-allegedly-breached-sex-tape-extortion-settlement.htmlKevin Hart. Kevin Hart’s infamous 2017 sex-tape extortion case is once again causing him trouble, this time for reasons unrelated to infidelity. The comedian has been sued by his former friend, actor Jonathan “J.T.” Jackson, for allegedly breaching a settlement agreement and fabricating evidence in the case, “Page Six” reports. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, July 10, in Los Angeles, accuses Hart of neglecting to “uphold contractual obligations,” which have “negatively affected [Jackson’s] professional life and financial security,” including issuing an apology using an agreed-upon language that intended to mend Jackson’s reputation post-scandal./kyle-mooney-and-beck-bennett-s-snl-sketch-inside-socal-started-as-a-web-series.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kyle-mooney-and-beck-bennett-s-snl-sketch-inside-socal-started-as-a-web-series.htmlIn August, Saturday Night Live hired actors Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett and director Dave McCary from the sketch group Good Neighbor, and in this weekend’s Jonah Hill-hosted episode of SNL, they brought some characters from their web videos to the show. The last sketch of the night — a slot that’s been reserved for Good Neighbor videos for most of the season — was called “Inside SoCal,” and Mooney and Bennett have been doing their characters, Todd and Casey, for three years now./lacey-chabert-is-at-home-at-hallmark.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lacey-chabert-is-at-home-at-hallmark.html“I see myself being a lifer as long as I’m inspired by the stories and as long as they’ll have me. I have ideas for 50 more.” The Hallmark Channel unapologetically occupies its own astral plane of television. We don’t go there for complexity or nuance or a poetic skewering of the elite. The secret formula isn’t even a secret: Just give us a rom-com with warm characters, and bonus points if there’s a small town, a failing family business, or a bunch of gazebos thrown in./late-night-monologues-aren-t-perfect-but-they-are-necessary-they-re-just-not-for-you.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/late-night-monologues-aren-t-perfect-but-they-are-necessary-they-re-just-not-for-you.htmlYesterday at the TCAs, Stephen Colbert talked about changing up the traditional standing, one-liner-heavy monologue. “We’re gonna try to put them together in a new way,” he told the crowd. He later said they might try it in different formats and different places, saying, “We’re going to find what’s right for me.” A few hours later, Seth Meyers beat him to the punch, premiering a new seated “Weekend Update”–like monologue, which he’s going to try out for the next two weeks./laura-dern-on-growing-up-with-bruce-dern-the-only-actor-to-kill-john-wayne.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/laura-dern-on-growing-up-with-bruce-dern-the-only-actor-to-kill-john-wayne.htmlLaura Dern. Laura Dern has impeccable acting pedigree: Her mother is actress Diane Ladd, who has memorably played her daughter’s mother twice, in the film Rambling Rose and on Dern’s regrettably canceled HBO series Enlightened. Dad is Bruce Dern, who, thanks to his poignantly funny and spare performance as Woody Grant in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (opening October 8 at the New York Film Festival), is earning the kind of praise that remakes careers./love-triangles-screwballs-and-wwii-an-ernst-lubitsch-primer.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-triangles-screwballs-and-wwii-an-ernst-lubitsch-primer.htmlErnst Lubitsch’s Design for Living. If you’re a lover of rom-coms, you’ll want to know the work of early Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch. Though Lubitsch is no longer a widely recognized name the way, say, Charlie Chaplin may be, his influence on film extends into the present. He’s revered by film buffs and comedy nerds alike for a certain je ne sais quoi that’s referred to as the “Lubitsch Touch./mad-men-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mad-men-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mppmUYrqmuo4%3D/mask-off.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mask-off.htmlKnown for her clever lyrics and eccentric music videos, rapper Tierra Whack gets surprisingly vulnerable on her debut album. World Wide Whack is out March 15. Photo: Camila Falquez for New York Magazine World Wide Whack is out March 15. In the video for her new song, “27 Club,” Tierra Whack appears in her customary setup: a surrealist world splattered with bright colors and filled with weird characters. At what seems to be a pep rally from an alternate universe, Whack wears a silver garment that looks like a cross between a choir robe and a clown suit./masters-of-the-air-series-finale-recap-many-thanks-yanks.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/masters-of-the-air-series-finale-recap-many-thanks-yanks.htmlMasters of the Air Part 9 Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Masters of the Air Part 9 Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » I am a man of little power and less influence. I do not delude myself that my scribblings can alter the fate of nations or the choices of sleep-deprived screenwriters./mrs-davis-recap-mommie-dearest.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mrs-davis-recap-mommie-dearest.htmlMrs. Davis Alison Treasures: A Southern California Story Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mrs. Davis Alison Treasures: A Southern California Story Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It can be said without fear of contradiction that this is the least zany episode of Mrs./my-five-favorite-onion-news-network-videos-of-the-hundreds-we-made.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-five-favorite-onion-news-network-videos-of-the-hundreds-we-made.htmlThis is my last week as head writer of the Onion News Network. The business side at The Onion, you may have heard, has decided to relocate the writers from New York to Chicago where the corporate offices are. Some of the writers are moving; a lot of them are leaving to do other things. (As for me, I’m going to go to work on Andy Daly’s new Comedy Central show./nathan-englander-s-10-favorite-books.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nathan-englander-s-10-favorite-books.htmlNathan Englander. Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d bring with them to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is author of the forthcoming novel Kaddish.com Nathan Englander’s list. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol $18 $18 Simply, “The Nose” is a master class in voice. A man chasing his runaway honker around town trying to talk it back onto his face is, to me, perfection./neil-diamond-s-songs-for-monkees-fan-funerals-the-burdens-of-the-for-colored-girls-soundtra.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neil-diamond-s-songs-for-monkees-fan-funerals-the-burdens-of-the-for-colored-girls-soundtra.htmlDiamond. Iconic older singers do good business with covers and standards these days. There are a few different approaches. Rod Stewart is up to five volumes of his American Songbook series, which does standards (and sells many CDs) the straightforward way. If you’re lucky enough to have heard Paul Anka’s versions of “Jump” and “Eye of the Tiger,” you’ll be familiar with the mildly campy approach. And then there’s the surprising project that reinvigorated Johnny Cash’s career — working with Rick Rubin on grave, minimal covers of songs like Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt./nothing-is-off-the-table-at-dinner-with-the-cast-of-queer-eye.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nothing-is-off-the-table-at-dinner-with-the-cast-of-queer-eye.htmlAntoni Porowski catches my eye across the table and utters the magic words: “We can help.” I’d invited Netflix’s Queer Eye cast, the new Fab Five — Jonathan Van Ness (grooming), Karamo Brown (culture), Bobby Berk (design), Tan France (fashion), and Porowski (food) — for an interview at the private room atTang Hotpot, a Sichuanese hot-pot restaurant on the Lower East Side, but I’m wholly unprepared to order for the group./on-chesil-beach-makes-a-tasteless-whodunit-out-of-a-young-woman-s-sexuality.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-chesil-beach-makes-a-tasteless-whodunit-out-of-a-young-woman-s-sexuality.htmlIt takes a while watching On Chesil Beach for it to dawn on you, with horror, that it’s a mystery of sorts. The crime scene is the marriage bed, the weapon is withheld sex, and the suspects parade by in flashback as newlyweds Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howle) prepare for their first night together as man and wife. It’s a bizarre premise with supposedly respectable provenance, based on a novella by Ian McEwan./one-with-nature-stranded-in-outer-space.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-with-nature-stranded-in-outer-space.htmlScavengers Reign animates the horror of a sci-fi habitat pushing back against humanity. This story was originally published on November 7, 2023. On May 31, 2024, Scavengers Reign debuted on Netflix. Like a safari from hell, the new Max animated series Scavengers Reign zooms in on nature’s most grotesque biorhythms, vividly imagining what an alien version might look like. Take one seemingly innocuous plant: It pricks and infects a character’s arm before the show jumps into a rendering of its complete life cycle./oprah-s-aha-year-how-the-network-boss-brought-own-back-from-the-brink-of-failure.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oprah-s-aha-year-how-the-network-boss-brought-own-back-from-the-brink-of-failure.htmlPortrait by Jen Mann In the spring of 2012, Oprah Winfrey found herself in what was for her an unusual position: She was failing. OWN, the feel-good cable network she had launched on New Year’s Day 2011, was struggling to find an audience, its low ratings unable to meet even the modest internal targets set before its debut. The smaller-than-expected viewership meant dozens of staffers had to be laid off as Winfrey and her partners at Discovery Communications moved to stanch the flow of red ink./our-100-percent-accurate-tonys-predictions.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-100-percent-accurate-tonys-predictions.htmlIt’s the Friday before the Tony Awards. Voting closed at noon today. Time to predict some winners. In a very unsettled season, there are a number of close races, including some big ones, which means there could be plenty of surprises during the night itself. And below, we’ve correctly predicted them all. (Post-ceremony fact check not necessary.) We’ll see you all Sunday. Best Musical Hell’s Kitchen/peter-gabriel-becomes-first-genesis-member-to-attend-the-eras-tour.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-gabriel-becomes-first-genesis-member-to-attend-the-eras-tour.htmlRespect. Well, this is a man who famously insisted that if you show for him, he’ll show for you. Peter Gabriel was in attendance at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in London this past weekend, where multiple concertgoers captured him socializing with other rock elder statesmen such as Paul McCartney and Jon Bon Jovi. With this public friendship-bracelet foxtrot, Gabriel has become the first member of Genesis to see Swift’s three-hour epic./phil-lord-and-chris-miller.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phil-lord-and-chris-miller.htmlmaking a movie June 23, 2023 ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’Four animators say unsustainable working conditions are behind the success of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. By Chris Lee ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGegnbatecuoqZ1lkaOxbq%2FHq6CsZZ2eua2x0Wg%3D/please-pray-for-adam-driver-whose-interview-photo-shoot-took-place-in-an-abandoned-toilet-dungeon.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/please-pray-for-adam-driver-whose-interview-photo-shoot-took-place-in-an-abandoned-toilet-dungeon.htmlAdam Driver sat down for a lengthy Interview chat with director Noah Baumbach about working with Martin Scorsese, playing Kylo Ren, and shooting Frances Ha, and then subsequently sat down sopping wet for a photo shoot on what can only be described as a toilet in a Soviet-era mental institution. Photographer Steven Klein shot the Silence star in all his grimy glory for the magazine, and you can see the rest of his photos here, provided “visible toilet filth” is not a phrase that turns you off./poor-things-vulture.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poor-things-vulture.htmlmovies fantasy league Jan. 11, 2024 Good Night, OppyAwards season is officially here, time to start raking in the points By Joe Reid ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGegpLyzedOhoKefo2Q%3D/prince-william-is-getting-a-reality-show-sort-of.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prince-william-is-getting-a-reality-show-sort-of.htmlBritain’s Prince William gestures as he walks across the airfield at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. The prince, an army officer with the Household Cavalry’s Blues and Royals, is two weeks into a four-month attachment with the RAF to help William, get to grips with the service’s ethos, traditions and military role. The prince’s father, Prince Charles, completed his flying training course at RAF Cranwell from March to August in 1971 and graduated that year as a Flight Lieutenant./project-runway-s-christian-siriano-on-what-he-ll-do-better-than-tim-gunn.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/project-runway-s-christian-siriano-on-what-he-ll-do-better-than-tim-gunn.htmlProject Runway, the reality competition series that’s unspooled the secrets of the fashion-industry sausage factory to millions of sartorially minded fans for over a decade, is returning to its original home on Bravo this season — but it’s back with significant cast changes. Fashion designer Brandon Maxwell and former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth are joining tenured Project Runway cast member Nina Garcia in the judges’ seats. As for mentor Tim Gunn and host Heidi Klum?/robert-blake-baretta-star-acquitted-in-wife-s-murder-dead-at-89.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robert-blake-baretta-star-acquitted-in-wife-s-murder-dead-at-89.htmlRobert Blake, who was known for his performance in the show Baretta and who was acquitted in his wife’s murder after a highly-publicized trial, has died at age 89. Per the Associated Press, Blake’s niece, Noreen Austin, confirmed in a statement that the actor died on Thursday of heart disease while surrounded by family in Los Angeles. Gerry Schwartzbach, who represented Blake during his trial, reacted to the news of his former client’s death in a statement to CNN./sanditon-recap-long-live-new-sidney.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sanditon-recap-long-live-new-sidney.htmlSanditon Episode 6 Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sanditon Episode 6 Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’ve decided something: We’re going to wipe Sidney’s slate clean. It’s a new Sidney now. The old Sidney is dead./scott-speedman-answers-all-our-questions-about-underworld.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scott-speedman-answers-all-our-questions-about-underworld.htmlRole Call “Role Call” is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Role Call “Role Call” is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. On why he left the franchise after two films, the pressures of fame at a young age, and wild times in Budapest./see-courtney-love-s-new-face.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-courtney-love-s-new-face.htmlShe looks … like Taylor Momsen. Photo: Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic [Best Week Ever] See Courtney Love’s New Face ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdga3y0scSYmqitoqm7psW%2BpaavnaOUu6bDvp%2BYnJ1encGuuA%3D%3D/see-halle-berry-in-a-bikini-in-the-dark-tide-poster.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-halle-berry-in-a-bikini-in-the-dark-tide-poster.htmlSharks and boobies, sharks and boobies! [Movieweb] See Halle Berry in a Bikini in the Dark Tide Poster ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZ3yprculnGaalae%2FunnDmqmkZaSesaZ5z6iqrZ2iY7W1ucs%3D/shakira-rides-a-horse-sings-a-corrido-with-fuerza-regida.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shakira-rides-a-horse-sings-a-corrido-with-fuerza-regida.htmlIt hasn’t even been ten days since she was honored with the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs, but Shakira’s already delivering another winner. Riding into your playlists is “El Jefe,” a new song with the Mexican regional band Fuerza Regida. In the corrido, her first full entry into the style of song, Shakira and singer JOP trade verses about being overworked, and underpaid. But the music video is where the real work went in, as Shakira serves her best vaquera and even rides a dancing horse (oddly, not the first one we’ve seen join a diva this year)./shia-labeouf-and-shailene-woodley-s-sexed-up-sundance.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shia-labeouf-and-shailene-woodley-s-sexed-up-sundance.htmlMost people attending the wintry Sundance Film Festival wear several layers of clothing, but not former child stars: Inevitably, you can count on them to spend Sundance disrobing onscreen. Whether it’s Daniel Radcliffe taking it all off in last year’s Sundance entry Kill Your Darlings or Kristen Stewart going topless at Cannes the previous summer for On the Road, a sexed-up film festival indie is now a nearly mandatory rite of passage for A-listers on the verge of adulthood, and this year in Park City, two more young stars joined the club: Shia LaBeouf and Shailene Woodley, the former attempting to put his Transformers fame behind him with a key role in Lars von Trier’s sexually explicit Nymphomaniac, the latter already subverting her PG-13 lead in the upcoming Divergent franchise with an assertive, unclothed turn in Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard./slings-and-arrows-is-the-show-rachel-mcadams-and-all-of-us-deserved.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slings-and-arrows-is-the-show-rachel-mcadams-and-all-of-us-deserved.htmlSlings and Arrows, Luke Kirby, Rachel McAdams, 2003-06. © Rhombus Media / Courtesy: Everett Collection Perhaps you’ve watched True Detective and thought, I wish Rachel McAdams had more to do. Or maybe you’re watching Rectify and thinking, I love this, but my heart yearns for more Luke Kirby. Maybe the end of Degrassi: The Next Generation leaves you craving Canadian excellence. That means now is the time, finally, to watch Slings and Arrows./sons-of-anarchy-s-jimmy-smits-on-nero-s-decision-and-hooking-up-with-the-boss-s-wife.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sons-of-anarchy-s-jimmy-smits-on-nero-s-decision-and-hooking-up-with-the-boss-s-wife.htmlSpoilers for this week’s episode of Sons of Anarchy. Every time he thinks he’s out, they pull him back in! Nero Padilla, the pimp Jimmy Smits plays on Sons of Anarchy, has long been discussing an exit strategy from the flesh-peddling business. But can anyone ever really escape Charming, California? In this week’s episode, “Greensleeves,” Nero tried to talk his ladylove Gemma (Katey Sagal) into splitting town, but instead she recruited him for a SAMCRO mission to help a dead gay preacher’s widow kick heroin./stevie-nicks-the-fairy-godmother-of-rock.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stevie-nicks-the-fairy-godmother-of-rock.htmlPhoto: Danny Clinch This profile originally ran on June 9, 2013. We’re revisiting it now in honor of Stevie Nicks’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She makes history as the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice; her first induction was with Fleetwood Mac in 1998. Look to the shawls; let them show you the way. All night you’ve been ­anticipating their arrival on the Fleetwood Mac stage: the witchy moment when Stevie Nicks, that blonde chanteuse, abruptly dis­appears from view and, with a simple costume change she’s perfected over 35 years, reemerges a woman transformed, wrapped in fringed silk signaling a visitation by Rhiannon or Gold Dust Woman or the livid spurned lover of “Stand Back,” fine fabric unfurling from her delicate shoulders like the banner of an advancing army, heralding not just a song but the coming of an event./summer-house-recap-crossing-jordan.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-house-recap-crossing-jordan.htmlSummer House Hampton’s Vice Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Summer House Hampton’s Vice Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And just like that, ladies and loverboys, it is over. Larl is no more. That is the couple portmanteau I just came up with for Lindsay and Carl before watching this episode and now is precisely the only time I will ever get to use it./sza-puts-fans-on-alert-announces-new-album-s-o-s.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sza-puts-fans-on-alert-announces-new-album-s-o-s.htmlShe’s coming. Sound the sirens and flash the lights: A new SZA album is on the way. Sure, we’ve known that for years, but now, it has a name and a release date. SZA revealed in a Billboard cover story last month that her second album would be called S.O.S. She later said that she hadn’t turned in the album and is “currently stressed” about her deadline. But after years of waiting for her follow-up to 2017’s breakout, Ctrl, the pieces finally seem to be in place for the new album./talking-to-eli-braden-about-howard-stern-parody-music-and-twitter.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-eli-braden-about-howard-stern-parody-music-and-twitter.htmlComedian Eli Braden has an impressive 58,000 Twitter followers, but that’s nothing compared to the 6 million SiriusXM subscribers who routinely hear his parody songs. Fans of the Howard Stern Show know Braden (@elibraden) as the comedian/musician who regularly provides the show’s raunchy parody songs introducing Robin Quivers, Stern’s well-endowed news anchor. (Sample “Robin’s Double G’s” sung to the tune of “Up on Cripple Creek.”) Though Braden’s songs are admittedly lowbrow, the jokes in his popular Twitter feed are often extremely clever and have drawn such fans as “Weird Al” Yankovic and Molly McNearney, Jimmy Kimmel Live’s head writer who gave Braden a tryout writing on the show./taylor-swift-can-be-anything-she-wants-so-long-as-it-s-computer-generated.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-can-be-anything-she-wants-so-long-as-it-s-computer-generated.htmlIs there a message to be found in the video for Taylor Swift’s “…Ready for It?” As our first responders aptly noted, the video, directed by Joseph Kahn, makes a hash out of the visual designs of various sci-fi franchises: the orb thing from Prometheus, Blade Runner’s kanji-pockmarked claustrophobic nightlife, other … stuff. It’s not really important what’s a reference to what. What counts is whether the video has anything coherent to say on its own, and how that narrative, if it exists, functions in the larger process of Revamping Taylor Swift’s Image for a New Album./the-boys-season-premiere-recap-toys-for-our-amusement.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-boys-season-premiere-recap-toys-for-our-amusement.htmlThe Boys Department of Dirty Tricks Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Boys Department of Dirty Tricks Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week, The Boys creator Eric Kripke announced that the fifth season of the show — presumably airing sometime in 2025, barring another strike — will be its final one./the-coen-brothers-on-the-folk-musicians-who-influenced-inside-llewyn-davis.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-coen-brothers-on-the-folk-musicians-who-influenced-inside-llewyn-davis.htmlThe Coen brothers’ new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, follows its fictional title character (Oscar Isaac) as he haplessly maneuvers through the New York folk scene of the early sixties. These are some of the musicians who helped inspire the film. Mumford & Sons New York Magazine: T Bone Burnett recruited Marcus Mumford to contribute to the film’s soundtrack. Were you familiar with his band? Joel: I can’t say I knew it really well, but we certainly knew it./the-creepiest-movie-ad-campaign-of-the-summer.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-creepiest-movie-ad-campaign-of-the-summer.htmlMost movie posters these days are Photoshopped hack jobs barely worth a second glance, but a series of clever new Lionsgate posters demand a double take. At first, they seem like conventional one-sheets for the studio’s spring and early summer slate (which includes the comedy The Big Wedding and the Tyler Perry films Temptation and Peeples), but a closer look reveals an unnerving detail: Overlaid on the posters is a silhouette of the animal-masked killer from Lionsgate’s August 23 horror movie You’re Next./the-filth-and-kindness-of-bob-saget.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-filth-and-kindness-of-bob-saget.htmlSaget on a season-one episode of Full House, “Danny’s Very First Date,” in 1988. Bob Saget became famous for starring in a very popular sitcom that did not let the public see the full breadth of his skills as a comedian. As Danny Tanner, the widowed father on ABC’s TGIF classic Full House, Saget, who died unexpectedly on January 9 at the age of 65, was amusing and affable./the-gilded-age-recap-1880s-nepo-babies.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gilded-age-recap-1880s-nepo-babies.htmlThe Gilded Age Some Sort of Trick Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Gilded Age Some Sort of Trick Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, I rewatched the first episode of Downton Abbey to figure out what Gilded Age is missing, and the answer is LIFE./the-girlfriend-experience-s-2nd-season-is-a-mixed-bag.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-girlfriend-experience-s-2nd-season-is-a-mixed-bag.htmlL-R: Anna Friel and Louisa Krause. The first season of Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience was one of the boldest premium-cable projects in years, a half-hour drama with the same title as a film almost nobody saw: a 2009 Steven Soderbergh indie feature about an escort moving through a world of obnoxious finance guys. The TV version had nothing to do with the movie save for the choice of an escort as protagonist./the-most-fascinating-part-of-the-big-bang-theory-is-how-bad-everyone-is-at-fake-eating.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-fascinating-part-of-the-big-bang-theory-is-how-bad-everyone-is-at-fake-eating.htmlI don’t dislike The Big Bang Theory. In fact, I’ve found it’s a decent enough sitcom to accompany me in various settings of my life: the elliptical at the gym, in-flight entertainment on long plane journeys, and background sound for sick days. But I’m not here to convince you to add CBS’s crown prince of comedy to your gym or sky travel watch list. 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The U.S.-based streaming giant has officially joined the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, which means that starting next month, its programs will be included in the ratings company’s daily and weekly reports estimating how many viewers are watching various networks and platforms as well as individual titles./the-office-recap-tallahassee.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-office-recap-tallahassee.html“Life’s short. Drive fast, leave a sexy corpse.” Last week, Cathy placed herself on my list of characters to keep a heavy eye on this season, and it excited me to think that we might get some real shakeups by separating Dunder Mifflin between Pennsylvania and Florida. It’s not even Cathy’s phone call at the end of “Special Project” where she vowed to seduce Jim that had me anticipating this week’s “Tallahassee” – it’s that Cathy is new, unknown, unfunny, and thus a perfect symbol for my often confused Office expectations./the-pigeon-forge-puzzle.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pigeon-forge-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they're ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 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Only one superhero movie came out in 1986: Howard the Duck. Adapted from stories first published in Marvel Comics about an anthropomorphic duck making his way through the world of humankind, the film was a box-office disaster, barely scraping up the $37 million it cost to make. It was also a good metaphor for the state of American superhero fiction that year./the-vulture-transcript-parks-and-rec-s-chris-pratt-on-the-surprise-andy-april-wedding-with-bonus.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-vulture-transcript-parks-and-rec-s-chris-pratt-on-the-surprise-andy-april-wedding-with-bonus.htmlUnless you happened to catch NBC’s accidental February promo spilling the beans, last week’s insta-wedding of Andy and April on Parks and Recreation was a genuine (and insanely sweet) surprise. Because Parks wrapped production on this season’s episodes late last year, the show’s writers and cast had to keep the nuptials secret for months. Now that the knot has been tied, however, they’re free to talk — so Vulture called up groom Chris Pratt to ask him about the genesis of this blessed twist./this-week-in-comedy-podcasts-iconography-highlights-anthony-bourdain.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-week-in-comedy-podcasts-iconography-highlights-anthony-bourdain.htmlAnthony Bourdain The comedy-podcast universe is ever-expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy./tim-blake-nelson-on-working-with-the-coen-brothers-and-being-that-guy.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tim-blake-nelson-on-working-with-the-coen-brothers-and-being-that-guy.htmlTim Blake Nelson is extremely hip. When we sit down to discuss his latest role, in the Coen brothers’ Western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, we — perhaps inevitably, given that he’s playing a singing cowboy — end up chatting about what music we’ve been listening to. The artists he names range from Hank Williams (“I just don’t think there’ll be another troubadour like him, ever”) to A Tribe Called Quest to Okkervil River to A$AP Rocky./tina-turner-rock-and-soul-powerhouse-dead-at-83.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tina-turner-rock-and-soul-powerhouse-dead-at-83.htmlTina Turner — legendary singer and performer across rock, soul, and pop music — died on May 24 at age 83. Her publicist confirmed the news to U.K. agency PA Media. In a statement, her family said that Turner had “died peacefully” at her home in Switzerland “after a long illness … With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.” Turner is known as one of the best vocalists in rock history and a high-energy live performer, earning her nickname, the “Queen of Rock and Roll./want-to-try-couples-therapy-start-here.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/want-to-try-couples-therapy-start-here.htmlOh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin. Are you new to comedy podcasts, overwhelmed by the array of options, and wondering where to begin? 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The A24 film, in theaters now, depicts a homegrown conflict through the eyes of journalists and shies away from mapping today’s partisan politics onto its own imaginary land of the free and home of the brave. Kirsten Dunst is a war photojournalist traveling with her reporting partner (played by Wagner Moura) to interview America’s fascist president (Nick Offerman) in Washington, D./what-is-fact-and-what-is-fiction-in-martin-scorsese-s-rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-fact-and-what-is-fiction-in-martin-scorsese-s-rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story.html“When somebody’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth. When he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.” That’s one of the few-and-far-between lines uttered by Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s just-released Netflix “documentary,” Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese. And it speaks volumes about the movie itself, described by Netflix as “part concert film, part fever dream” and an “alchemic mix of fact and fantasy./what-is-the-sound-of-drill.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-sound-of-drill.htmlBrrrrrrrrrrap. Bang! Bam! Pow! Photo-Illustration: Dakarai Akil; Photos: Getty, Alfiero Crisci (@alfierocrisci), DJ L (@ thakiddjl), Sean Aveli The sound of drill is the brazen brrrrrap of street-level rap over the past decade. It’s the unsettling, aestheticized sound of gunplay evoked by spraying hi-hats, double-tapped rhyme blasts, and a bottomless pool of ad-libbed variations on BANG! BAM! POW! Hyperlocal yet deeply translocal, it’s the sound of New York via Chicago and London./what-s-it-like-to-be-directed-by-nancy-meyers.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-it-like-to-be-directed-by-nancy-meyers.htmlDiane Keaton, Steve Martin, Robert De Niro and more explain what makes the NMCU tick. It’s Nancy Meyers Week. Why? 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I specialize in ferreting out buried non-treasures so morbidly fascinating and preposterous that they engender cognitive dissonance./which-2024-indie-game-should-you-play.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-2024-indie-game-should-you-play.htmlIndie games are totally dominating 2024. It’s not like mainstream studios aren’t trying. Nintendo remade its worshiped role-playing game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Square Enix did the same with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Sony ignited a thousand-year boob war with its skin-tight, Korean action-adventure Stellar Blade. But neither Nintendo’s old, mustachioed Italian plumbers nor Sony’s young, bionic K-pop idols have been intriguing enough to counter the recent downpour of fantastic and innovative indie games./william-shatner-is-being-a-major-troll-about-star-wars-on-twitter.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/william-shatner-is-being-a-major-troll-about-star-wars-on-twitter.htmlWilliam Shatner likes to shit-ner on everything Star Wars. Star Trek star and Priceline pitchman William Shatner has been vocal about his distaste for the Star Wars franchise for quite some time. Even J.J. Abrams’s spot at the director’s helm for both franchises won’t usher in a new era of peace as long as Shatner is trolling Star Wars fans hard on Twitter. Shatner made fun of the first Force Awakens trailer last November, as well as the unveiling of the new trailer and poster last week./winning-time-series-premiere-recap-it-s-showtime.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/winning-time-series-premiere-recap-it-s-showtime.htmlWinning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty The Swan Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty The Swan Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Jerry Buss, the late owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, loved reminding attendees they weren’t just watching a basketball game — they had a ticket to the hottest show in Los Angeles./you-are-so-not-invited-to-my-bat-mitzvah.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-are-so-not-invited-to-my-bat-mitzvah.htmltrailer mix July 13, 2022 The 13: The Musical Trailer Ushers in a B’nai Mitzvah SummerThree incidents makes a trend, and Netflix is responsible for two. By Bethy Squires ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeppMJurdGeZKynXaO8tXnIp62irJWZerW7jKawZpqRqXqutdOzrZqgUWQ%3D/zooey-deschanel-and-ben-gibbard-are-now-divorced.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zooey-deschanel-and-ben-gibbard-are-now-divorced.htmlActress/singer Zooey Deschanel and musician Ben Gibbard arrive at Walt Disney Pictures presents the premiere of “Winnie The Pooh” at Walt Disney Studios on July 10, 2011 in Burbank, California. The indie-twee romance sector dies a second death this December as Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel have officially gotten divorced. The couple announced their separation in November 2011, so it’s been a long, fruitless year of hoping for the best./15-of-the-weirdest-moments-pete-holmes-has-had-on-you-made-it-weird.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/15-of-the-weirdest-moments-pete-holmes-has-had-on-you-made-it-weird.htmlPete Holmes brings the same high-energy approach that defines his standup act to his podcasts, almost daring his interview subjects to match his candor in the conversation. And it works; most guests get caught in Holmes’s wake and find themselves admitting as much or more about themselves than he does. Holmes often jokes about “stealing” Marc Maron’s podcast format, which is true to the extent that they both do in-depth interviews with comedians./1923-recap-a-dutton-in-sheep-s-clothing.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1923-recap-a-dutton-in-sheep-s-clothing.html1923 God’s Empty Throne Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 1923 God’s Empty Throne Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week’s very special Christmas hour of 1923 felt less like the series’ second episode and more like a continuation of the premiere./20-essential-episodes-of-avatar-the-last-airbender-and-the-legend-of-korra.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-essential-episodes-of-avatar-the-last-airbender-and-the-legend-of-korra.htmlWater, earth, fire, air. Twenty-odd years ago, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko created Avatar: The Last Airbender, the beloved animated children’s series that became renowned for its refined action sequences, and the precision and emotional maturity of its storytelling. Now, years after a disastrous live-action film adaptation, it’s getting a new Netflix live-action series, which begets a look back at the episodes that made the original, and its sequel series The Legend of Korra, carry in the memory of many 20-somethings who grew up on the richly told adventure./a-brief-history-of-tv-shows-being-compared-to-twin-peaks.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-history-of-tv-shows-being-compared-to-twin-peaks.htmlWhen Twin Peaks aired on ABC from 1990 to 1991, there was nothing like it on TV. There still isn’t, though David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surreal crime drama left hordes of imitators in its wake. Stylistically, the show, as Vulture’s Matt Zoller Seitz put it, is canon: “Everyone knows what it was, and is, and meant, even if they haven’t watched a frame. Everything from The Sopranos to American Horror Story owes it a debt./a-timeline-of-black-panther-wakanda-forever-taking-forever.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-timeline-of-black-panther-wakanda-forever-taking-forever.htmlLupita Nyong’o and the late Chadwick Boseman. Wakanda might be forever, but production for the Black Panther sequel is taking longer than expected. Black Panther’s star-studded cast, including Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, and Chadwick Boseman, started filming the sequel Wakanda Forever in June 2020, a year racked with COVID-19-induced tragedy. When Boseman passed away on August 28 from stage-four colon cancer, Marvel fans mourned the death of the actor, and the crew readjusted the script to account for the loss./a-timeline-of-will-and-jada-s-bad-marriage-for-life.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-timeline-of-will-and-jada-s-bad-marriage-for-life.htmlHow the hell did it come to … this? Let us explain. How’s this for a slap in the face? Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith, have been secretly separated since 2016. The news of their now-seven-year-long separation comes as a shock to the public, which has witnessed the pair booed up on red carpets, oversharing intimate details about their relationship, and standing up for each other when a petty comedian made a stupid joke and got slapped for it./all-your-questions-about-21-savage-s-arrest-answered.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-your-questions-about-21-savage-s-arrest-answered.htmlWhen Grammy–nominated rapper21 Savage (real name She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) wasarrested on Sunday morning in Atlanta, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) alleged that the 26-year-old had been living in the country illegally for most of his teenage and adult life. The arrest, which quickly drew ire from many within the music industry, will likely preclude Savage from attending the Grammys this Sunday night. He collaborated onPost Malone’s hit “Rockstar,” which is nominated for record of the year, while his own successful second solo album,I Am > I Was, debuted at No./ant-man-stomps-minions-at-the-box-office.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ant-man-stomps-minions-at-the-box-office.htmlPaul Rudd may not have the bionic biceps of his superhero brethren, but he more than held his own this weekend: Ant-Man, the last installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Two, crushed the box office. The movie about the tiny hero put up some big numbers, earning $58 million, which is impressive for a film about a comic character that has yet to enter the mainstream. The film, formerly the passion project of Edgar Wright before his unceremonious exit, didn’t draw the same legion as Avengers 2 or Iron Man 3, but it had a per-screen average of $15,051, right behind 2008’s forgotten The Incredible Hulk ($15,810)./atlanta-recap-happy-birthday-lottie.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlanta-recap-happy-birthday-lottie.htmlAtlanta Snipe Hunt Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta Snipe Hunt Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » To celebrate Lottie’s sixth birthday, Earn, Van, and Lottie embark on a camping trip in the woods. 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In an eight-minute video posted to her YouTube channel on Friday under the hashtag #BreakingCodeSilence, Bregoli shared her support for Hannah Archuleta, a former teen resident of Turn-About Ranch in Escalante, Utah, who is now suing the facility for negligence after alleged sexual assault by a staff member in 2019./bob-odenkirk-guesting-on-the-bear-season-two.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bob-odenkirk-guesting-on-the-bear-season-two.htmlChicago makes two things better than almost any other city in America: Italian beef sandwiches and sketch comedians. Also one very specific preparation of hot dogs. Today, the first two synergize perfectly with the news that Bob Odenkirk will be joining the cast of The Bear in its second season. Variety broke the news, reporting that Odenkirk will be appearing in a currently unknown guest role. Odenkirk got his comedy start in Chicago, as detailed in his memoir, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama./busy-tonight-makes-natalie-morales-s-animal-handling-dreams-come-true.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/busy-tonight-makes-natalie-morales-s-animal-handling-dreams-come-true.htmlWatch the throne, Robert Irwin! There’s a new animal expert in town and she is the best in the biz. Abby’s star Natalie Morales had always wanted to be an animal expert on a talk show, and Busy Philipps gave her the chance. What makes Morales’s animal expert routine so good is that she only has the most cursory of knowledge about any animal. Once she runs out of information fed to her backstage, she has to improvise./can-ryan-gosling-really-sing-dance-and-play-piano-a-la-la-land-investigation.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-ryan-gosling-really-sing-dance-and-play-piano-a-la-la-land-investigation.htmlRyan Gosling is the complete package: decorated actor, meme source material, funny-face-maker, and canvas upon which we may project our dreamiest fantasies. Now you can add to that list “accomplished showman,” as Gosling is earning raves for his song-and-dance performance in Damien Chazelle’s old-school musical La La Land. As hangdog jazz cat Sebastian, Gosling soft-shoes his way through a fantasy Los Angeles with down-on-her-luck actress Mia (Emma Stone), and as romance blossoms, their emotions tend to explode into euphoric production set pieces complete with all the classical trimmings./candyman-is-a-soulless-didactic-reimagining.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/candyman-is-a-soulless-didactic-reimagining.htmlNia Dacosta and Jordan Peele’s horror sequel gravely misunderstands the allure of the original and has nothing meaningful to say on its own. It’s a familiar scenario rippling through history: White people turned on, revved up, and outright libidinal in the face of Black suffering and Black death. In this case, the scenario involves a curator and the nominally alternative assistant he’s sleeping with, who speaks in Joy Division lyrics and clichés./catfish-recap-the-con-artist-in-the-closet-with-the-iphone.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catfish-recap-the-con-artist-in-the-closet-with-the-iphone.htmlCatfish Aaliyah & Alicia Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Catfish Aaliyah & Alicia Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week’s Catfish was one long “you’re probably getting played if … ” list. Say it with me now: I will not buy an iPhone for my girlfriend I’ve never met, despite the fact that we live in the same city./charlie-sheen-dressed-as-his-major-league-character-for-game-7-of-the-world-series.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charlie-sheen-dressed-as-his-major-league-character-for-game-7-of-the-world-series.htmlCharlie Sheen showed up to game seven of the World Series the only way he knew how — dressed as his character Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn from the 1989 movie Major League. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sheen wore Vaughn’s signature black glasses and hat as Cleveland Indians fans celebrated his arrival. Watch the video of Sheen fully decked out as Vaughn below: Sources The Hollywood Reporter All the rumors are true./chris-hardwick-s-name-restored-to-nerdist-website.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chris-hardwick-s-name-restored-to-nerdist-website.htmlChris Hardwick. After it was revealed that Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick was the unnamed man Chloe Dykstra accused of sexual and emotional abuse back in June, the company released a statement and scrubbed his name from its website. But now that AMC has reinstated Hardwick as host of Talking Dead and Talking With Chris Hardwick following an internal investigation, it appears the same thing has happened over at Nerdist./clint-eastwood-s-jersey-boys-is-a-funny-mix-of-formulaic-and-fresh.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clint-eastwood-s-jersey-boys-is-a-funny-mix-of-formulaic-and-fresh.htmlThere’s a moment in Clint Eastwood’s breezy film of the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons “jukebox musical” Jersey Boys that throws a spotlight — or, more precisely, a streetlight — on what’s missing. It’s in the final scene, in 1990, at the group’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Frankie (John Lloyd Young, repeating his Tony-winning Broadway turn) tells us (he talks to the camera) that nothing in his life compares to the moment that he and his pals found their sound “under a Jersey streetlight./crazy-ex-girlfriend-s-gabrielle-ruiz-on-valencia-s-new-girl-squad-eating-15-donuts-and-the-une.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crazy-ex-girlfriend-s-gabrielle-ruiz-on-valencia-s-new-girl-squad-eating-15-donuts-and-the-une.htmlSpoilers ahead for Friday night’s episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. For fans of the delightfully uppity Valencia Perez on the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the first few episodes of the show’s second season didn’t exactly provide any good news — she didn’t show up until the very end of the fourth episode, and when we see her, the noted yogi is gorging herself with a, gasp, doughnut. But what follows is worth the wait: Valencia goes through a feminist awakening with the help of her new “girl group,” Rebecca and Heather./does-seth-rogen-rape-anna-faris-in-observe-and-report.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-seth-rogen-rape-anna-faris-in-observe-and-report.htmlLast weekend we were hanging out with a bunch of movie-loving friends who professed no desire to see Observe and Report, Seth Rogen’s mall-cop black comedy. “I just don’t want to see any movie where the main character’s a rapist,” one girl said firmly, which caught us by surprise. It’s true that the movie’s red-band trailer shows him pumping away on an unconscious Anna Faris, but then she stirs and yells, “Did I tell you to stop, motherfucker?/don-carlos-a-dark-opera-for-glum-times-brings-plenty-of-musical-brilliance.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/don-carlos-a-dark-opera-for-glum-times-brings-plenty-of-musical-brilliance.htmlFrom Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. A ghoulish tyrant, his private grievances magnified to European scale, tries to crush a plucky rebellious outpost of empire. A much younger leader, who first appears as a lightweight with a pretty smile, puts up an unexpected challenge, threatening to bring down the entire superstructure of power. When the opera ends, he seems unlikely to succeed or even survive. A few weeks ago, those elements of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos would have seemed like a geopolitical subplot to a love triangle; the fate of 16th-century Flanders matters far less than the tribulations of a Spanish prince in love with his French stepmom./eileen-s-subtle-book-to-movie-differences-turn-its-queer-subtext-into-text.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eileen-s-subtle-book-to-movie-differences-turn-its-queer-subtext-into-text.htmlEileen is a movie that seems like one thing — until it becomes something else. The film hinges on a huge twist about two-thirds into its run time, as meek, mousy Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) realizes that her glamorous colleague Rebecca (Anne Hathaway) has invited her over on Christmas Eve under false pretenses. In fact, the dirty kitchen where the two are drinking red wine out of coffee cups isn’t even Rebecca’s./eric-church-s-mr-misunderstood-reignites-that-old-debate-is-wilco-country.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eric-church-s-mr-misunderstood-reignites-that-old-debate-is-wilco-country.htmlNot-so-distant cousins. “I would never categorize ourselves as specifically country,” Jeff Tweedy told Boise Weekly three years ago about his band Wilco’s disassociation with categories. (A stance he’s since expanded to include his frustration with the term dad rock, no matter how literal the meaning.) The band have never fit comfortably within one singular genre, pulling elements from alternative, psychedelia, and country on every album, including Star Wars, surprise-released earlier this year./every-question-i-had-while-watching-the-netflix-teen-movie-work-it.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-question-i-had-while-watching-the-netflix-teen-movie-work-it.htmlYou gotta love a ragtag team of dancing teens! Disney Channel alum Sabrina Carpenter has been elevating whatever material she finds herself working with since the days of Girl Meets World, and I mentally prepared myself for that to be the case again, going into Netflix’s original teen dance movie Work It, in which Carpenter plays a type A but totally clumsy high-school senior who has to start a dance team for reasons./everything-everywhere-all-at-once-leads-the-2023-oscar-nominations.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-leads-the-2023-oscar-nominations.htmlCheck in on your local film bro this morning. The 2023 Academy Award nominees were announced January 24 by two former Girls co-stars, Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams (we assume as part of the Girls resurgence). Going into the ceremony, The Fabelmans, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and The Banshees of Inisherin had the wind at their backs following successful showings at precursor ceremonies such as the Golden Globes and the guild awards of SAG and the DGA, among others./everything-we-know-about-wicked-if-you-dare-to-find-out.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-we-know-about-wicked-if-you-dare-to-find-out.htmlFrenemies. Good news! She’s deaaaaaaaad actually alive. Over a decade after the production team on the freakishly successful Broadway musical began meeting with filmmakers back in 2010, the first of two Wicked movies is actually being released a week early. While those initial meetings reportedly included potential directors like Rob Marshall (boring!), Ryan Murphy (but he would want Lea Michele), and J.J. Abrams (the sci-fi boy?), Stephen Daldry was officially hired, with a December 2019 release date set back in 2016./everything-you-need-to-remember-about-empire-s-first-season-in-21-gifs.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-you-need-to-remember-about-empire-s-first-season-in-21-gifs.htmlRemember the white party? Empire returns Wednesday, September 23 for its second season. But because its first season jam-packed just about every scandalous plot detail Lee Daniels could dream up into its two-hour March finale — Hakeem and Boo Boo Kitty slept together! Jamal nearly pushed Baretti off a roof! Lucious isn’t dying! — the rest of the season probably feels like a blur. To jog your memory, here are the most salient details to know going into season two, captured in 21 GIFs — along with a few less-important moments worth reliving, because Cookie./evil-recap-viral-possessions.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/evil-recap-viral-possessions.htmlEvil The Demon of Algorithms Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil The Demon of Algorithms Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “It’s official,” Ben says, “everyone on the internet is possessed.” If that line, and its perfect delivery from Aasif Mandvi, made you want to both laugh because it is hilarious coming from a show about demonic forces, but also cry because it feels so very true, you are not alone!/fantastic-four-and-fifty-shades-of-grey-tie-for-worst-picture-at-the-razzies.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fantastic-four-and-fifty-shades-of-grey-tie-for-worst-picture-at-the-razzies.htmlTake comfort in your massive domestic gross. On the eve of the Oscars, the Razzie Awards blow one fat raspberry in the face of Hollywood with their not at all daring selection of the worst films of the year. This year, Fantastic Four and Fifty Shades of Grey tied for Worst Picture, while Fifty Shades also received Worst Actor, Worst Screen Combo, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actress (seriously, did they watch the movie?/how-identity-politics-conquered-the-art-world.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-identity-politics-conquered-the-art-world.htmlThe background radiation is still there, two decades later, from the infamous 1993 Whitney Biennial — the so-called multi-cultural, identity-politics, political, or just bad biennial. Establishment art history circa 1993 was a broken model, built on white men and Western civilization and certain ossified ideas about “greatness” and “genius.” New artists looking for new ways to speak to new audiences couldn’t get their voices heard or work seen. There had been artists fighting this fight before, but that 1993 show was the major crack in the façade./how-to-write-a-jonah-insult.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-write-a-jonah-insult.htmlTimothy Simons as Jonah Ryan. Writing comedy is not a scientific or mathematical endeavor — except, perhaps, when it comes to devising ways to insult Jonah Ryan, who is played by the extremely tall (six-foot-four) and thin Timothy Simons. “The Jonah insults are probably the most math-y of the insults [we write],” says David Mandel, “because there we are using insulting words hung around the frame of something that’s large or tall or big./how-would-you-react-if-nicole-kidman-just-died-moulin-rouge-style-right-in-front-of-you.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-would-you-react-if-nicole-kidman-just-died-moulin-rouge-style-right-in-front-of-you.htmlOh no, Satine! Let’s set the scene: You’re on set filming a movie, heading over to craft services, and suddenly, there, right in front of you, Nicole Kidman is dying. She coughs. She gasps. She coughs again! She says a whole speech about how she has always loved Ewan McGregor. Sweat materializes all over her brow. She pales even further beyond her natural level of pale. She dies!/i-can-t-stop-thinking-about-these-14-seconds-in-how-to-with-john-wilson.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-can-t-stop-thinking-about-these-14-seconds-in-how-to-with-john-wilson.htmlNinth swipe’s the charm! Maybe no TV show in 2020 has surprised me as much as How to With John Wilson, a documentary/comedy/personal essay/glorious portrait of weirdos unlike anything else I’ve seen. Much of the pleasure of the show comes out of its strange sense of humor, and it absolutely benefits from a hefty dose of surprise. Wilson has this fantastic capacity to notice unusual moments in everyday life./i-did-have-this-feeling-that-it-would-work-out-somehow.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-did-have-this-feeling-that-it-would-work-out-somehow.htmlBowen Yang discusses his parents and SNL in Judd Apatow’s new book of interviews. Bowen Yang on SNL. Photo: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Bowen Yang on SNL. Before he made emotionally resonant, character-driven comedy films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Trainwreck, Judd Apatow wrote for landmark comedy television shows like The Ben Stiller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, and Freaks and Geeks. For his entire professional life, he’s worked for, with, and alongside comedy greats, a behavior that goes back to his days as a talk-show host, interviewing ’80s stand-ups like Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld for his high school’s radio station./idris-elba-on-prometheus-learning-to-box-and-his-party-house.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/idris-elba-on-prometheus-learning-to-box-and-his-party-house.htmlIdris Elba. When reading this interview, please picture the man who played The Wire’s Stringer Bell sitting in front of you on a bench in the back garden of the Crosby Street Hotel. He is six-foot-three and dressed smartly and simply in a tweed cap, black Nike sneakers, gray jeans, and a black long-sleeved shirt — that fits perfectly. Have you seen him on Luther, the British TV series in which he plays a brilliant but possibly sociopathic London police detective prone to violence and fervent ardor, often in the same instance?/if-taylor-swift-isn-t-playing-the-super-bowl-halftime-show-who-is.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-taylor-swift-isn-t-playing-the-super-bowl-halftime-show-who-is.htmlYou just can’t drop big news at midnight these days without stans thinking Taylor Swift is involved. The NFL and Apple Music learned that lesson last night, after making an announcement that the platform would sponsor future Super Bowl halftime shows, ending a longtime partnership with Pepsi. As die-hard Swifties know, Swift has a deal with Coke, making an appearance at a Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show near impossible./i-m-very-careful-not-to-use-words-like-genocide.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-m-very-careful-not-to-use-words-like-genocide.htmlAnonymous in Hollywood Vulture’s Anonymous in Hollywood asks people to share their most unbelievable, tragic, common, hilarious reflections on the industry, no names attached. Anonymous in Hollywood Vulture’s Anonymous in Hollywood asks people to share their most unbelievable, tragic, common, hilarious reflections on the industry, no names attached. An actor and a showrunner on the politics of speaking out about Israel and Palestine in Hollywood. A Middle Eastern Actor I have played Palestinians, Israelis, Iraqis, Afghans — every version of that you can imagine./in-never-have-i-ever-the-real-love-story-is-between-a-mother-and-daughter.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-never-have-i-ever-the-real-love-story-is-between-a-mother-and-daughter.htmlL-R: Devi and Nalini Vishwakumar. In Never Have I Ever, the primary love story might seem to be between Devi Vishwakumar and her crush, Paxton Hall-Yoshida. Or even between Devi and her academic nemesis, Ben Gross, a kid who starts to show his soft side. But the actual love story that anchors everything is between Devi and her mom, Nalini. The Netflix series, which has drawn in pandemic-moored audiences since its debut in late April, begins with a tragedy: Devi’s father Mohan, played with theatrical cheeriness by Sendhil Ramamurthy, drops dead at an orchestra recital where Devi (the brash and likeable newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) is playing the harp, an instrument first gifted to her by her doting father./in-wanderlust-toni-collette-gets-serious-about-sex.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-wanderlust-toni-collette-gets-serious-about-sex.htmlToni Collette, a true Joy in Netflix’s Wanderlust. Wanderlust begins with a longtime married couple in the throes of bad sex that doesn’t end well. Joy (Toni Collette) was recently in a bicycling accident and hasn’t been in the mood for a while. Alan (Steven Mackintosh) thinks she’s just making excuses and is actually no longer attracted to him. Later in that first episode, after each has a sexual encounter outside their marriage, Joy proposes something: What if they try seeing other people — purely for physical reasons — but remain happily married to each other?/inside-the-making-of-billie-eilish-s-when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-the-making-of-billie-eilish-s-when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go.html“You can think whatever you want about our music. I love that it’s ambiguous.” Finneas O’Connell is having a life-changing week. At just 21 years old, O’Connell has enjoyed promising success as an actor, performer, and producer in the last five years. You might recognize him as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band the Slightlys, or from his role as Alistair in the final season of Ryan Murphy’s beloved high-school art-kid drama, Glee./it-was-easy-to-get-pee-wee-herman.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-was-easy-to-get-pee-wee-herman.htmlHe was one of many characters Paul Reubens inhabited. Any of them could have been stars. Photo: Marco Grob The first time I saw Pee-wee Herman, in his 1981 HBO comedy special, I was in sixth grade, close enough to the character’s maturity level to immediately feel the truth of the portrayal. I didn’t understand everything Paul Reubens was doing as a performer — I had seen that kind of sketch comedy only in little bursts on Saturday Night Live, never stretched out to an hour — but it spoke to me, as it did to nearly everyone who saw it, even those who initially found it grating and weird./jada-pinkett-smith-and-leah-remini-sit-down-and-get-to-the-bottom-of-their-scientology-feud.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jada-pinkett-smith-and-leah-remini-sit-down-and-get-to-the-bottom-of-their-scientology-feud.htmlAfter years of not speaking, Jada Pinkett Smith and Leah Remini meet at the Table to discuss their very public dispute over Leah’s accusations that Jada and Will Smith are Scientologists. Posted by Red Table Talk on Monday, November 5, 2018 Leah Remini has been at the forefront of the campaign to expose the reported ills of Scientology for years now, so you can imagine the mixed feelings that had to be swirling when she stopped by Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk this week to hash out the Scientology-based dispute she’s had with the Girls Trip star./janet-jackson-is-writing-a-new-album-that-might-be-about-literally-anything.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/janet-jackson-is-writing-a-new-album-that-might-be-about-literally-anything.htmlJanet! Elusive as Janet Jackson may be, she’s never not working. And ahead of receiving the Icon Award at this Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, she’s granted Billboard a cover story in which she confirms that she’s been making a new album. The follow-up to 2015’s Unbreakable is still in early stages, but she’s been letting her pen take her wherever her thoughts wander to. She can’t tell you yet what any of those thoughts mean or how they’ll all gel into an album that will make sense to anyone but Janet Jackson (“I don’t try to analyze the creative process while it’s still ongoing,” she says), but for now, we’ll leave you with a taste of what’s been inspiring her lately, which is essentially everything and nothing:/jason-mraz-vulture.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jason-mraz-vulture.htmlderek hough watch Sept. 21, 2023 Matt Walsh (No, Not the Conservative) Delays DWTS AppearanceSAG-AFTRA said in a statement that its members aren’t breaking strike rules by appearing on the show, which the WGA is picketing. By Jason P. Frank ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGealsCwuoymqZqyXw%3D%3D/jeff-barnaby-made-an-apocalypse-movie-to-watch-the-system-fall-then-a-pandemic-hit.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeff-barnaby-made-an-apocalypse-movie-to-watch-the-system-fall-then-a-pandemic-hit.htmlFor the Blood Quantum director, record unemployment and rampant disease are nothing new: “It’s the way Native people have always lived.” Jeff Barnaby certainly didn’t plan on releasing his horror movie, about a community of indigenous people fighting off hordes of white zombies, during a real-life pandemic that’s currently exposing the gross inequities of neoliberalism — but when life hands you lemons, you juice the hell out of them until the ravaged rinds turn to pulp in your hands./jennifer-egan-s-new-yorker-story-will-be-serialized-on-twitter-over-ten-nights.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jennifer-egan-s-new-yorker-story-will-be-serialized-on-twitter-over-ten-nights.htmlJennifer Egan. News many will be quickly thrilled by: Brooklyn author Jennifer Egan has composed a short story revolving around a character from her 2011 Pulitzer winner A Visit From the Goon Squad. News many may be instantly worried about/fearful of/angered by: This story, an 8,500-word piece, will debut on The New Yorker’s NYerFiction Twitter account Thursday evening and be serialized over the span of ten nights, with one tweet posted per minute between the hours of 8 and 9 p./jim-gaffigan-on-writing-a-joke-about-attractive-cable-news-anchors-and-how-he-stopped-using-the-voi.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-gaffigan-on-writing-a-joke-about-attractive-cable-news-anchors-and-how-he-stopped-using-the-voi.htmlJim Gaffigan Jim Gaffigan is a joke writer’s joke writer, carefully crafting his material with his co-writer–wife Jeannie until the funny is maximized. It made him an ideal guest for the first episode of Vulture’s new podcast Good One: A Podcast About Jokes. In the conversation, Gaffigan and I discuss a joke from his fifth stand-up special, Cinco, about cable news. Specifically, the joke touches on how Gaffigan thinks newscasters are both like gossips and too good-looking./jimmy-fallon-s-daughters-winnie-and-franny-won-late-night-this-week.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jimmy-fallon-s-daughters-winnie-and-franny-won-late-night-this-week.htmlWinnie and Franny hard at work, entertaining the nation. Greetings, comrades. Welcome to the new era of late-night television. We’re about two weeks into theGreat Late-Night Experiment of 2020, and the results have been promising. Online content from late-night shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver currently streaming on digital platforms have been on the whole funny, intelligent, and extremely relatable, reminding the world that we are all in the same boat, sitting six feet apart./joe-keery-vulture.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joe-keery-vulture.htmlfan theories Sept. 20, 2016 Jean-Ralphio’s Dad Really Is Steve HarringtonPrepare to walk through a wormhole. By Jordan Crucchiola ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeapLJut8SeqbJn/john-cho-will-lead-cowboy-bebop-for-netflix-so-let-s-giddyup.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-cho-will-lead-cowboy-bebop-for-netflix-so-let-s-giddyup.htmlJohn Cho. Yee-haw season is upon us, and the yee-haw agenda is strong. Next up: Netflix’s ten-episode live-action adaption of the space-Western anime Cowboy Bebop, which The Hollywood Reporter says will star John Cho. The Searching star will play Spike Spiegel, “an impossibly cool ‘cowboy’ (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare. He travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner, Jet, pursuing the future’s most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm, charisma — and deadly Jeet Kune Do,” per Netflix./journey-s-rock-hall-induction-was-short-and-it-could-ve-been-a-little-sweeter.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/journey-s-rock-hall-induction-was-short-and-it-could-ve-been-a-little-sweeter.htmlThe answer was no. No, Steve Perry didn’t perform with Journey at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last night. And no, Steve Perry didn’t do any after-induction press with the band, either, choosing to eschew the standard press-room confab following their onstage reunion. While Perry’s absence didn’t come as a total surprise — numerous news outlets reported he wouldn’t be taking the stage to sing as early as Friday morning — fans, well, wouldn’t stop believing that perhaps Perry would pull a fast one on everyone and belt out some Journey classics for the first time since 1991./justin-bieber-is-going-to-space.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-bieber-is-going-to-space.htmlRecording Artist Justin Bieber performs onstage during 93.3 FLZ’s Jingle Ball 2012 at Tampa Bay Times Forum on December 9, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Presumably because Richard Branson — who runs Virgin Galactic — wants him to sing “Baby” at Kate Winslet Rock’nRoll’s space shower. (Somewhere Lance Bass is like, “I know the words to ‘Baby,’ too.” Poor Lance Bass. Kickstart Lance Bass to space already.) Sources People Justin Bieber Is Going to Space ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdga3yrwdKtoKdlkp6yo7HRZqCsZZektq%2BzjK2mZquglrCmesetpKU%3D/kai-cenat-addresses-insane-union-square-giveaway-on-twitch.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kai-cenat-addresses-insane-union-square-giveaway-on-twitch.htmlAfter an attempted PS5 giveaway that led to the arrests of 65 people, 30 of whom were juveniles,in Union Square on August 4, 21-year-old Twitch streamer Kai Cenat is speaking out for the first time about the chaos that ensued at the mass gathering. Cenat, who is currently facing one felony charge and two misdemeanors for inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, went live on August 9 to address what went down./katy-perry-s-dark-horse-copied-christian-rap-song-federal-jury-finds.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/katy-perry-s-dark-horse-copied-christian-rap-song-federal-jury-finds.htmlLooks like Katy Perry has not strayed too far from her own Christian music roots after all. At least, that’s what a federal jury decided on Monday afternoon after a weeklong trial, ending the singer’s copyright lawsuit by concluding that elements of her 2013 bop “Dark Horse” are too similar to “Joyful Noise,” a 2009 Christian rap song by Marcus Gray. Gray, who was then performing under the stage name Flame, sued the singer five years ago, asserting that her track “Dark Horse” had lifted several elements from his song, but most important, the beat./kenny-powers-gets-the-highlight-reel-he-so-richly-deserves.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kenny-powers-gets-the-highlight-reel-he-so-richly-deserves.htmlWhile we patiently bide our time waiting for the brain trust over at HBO to release the audiobook for Kenny Powers’s autobiography, You’re Fucking Out, I’m Fucking In, we would like to pass along our hearty thanks to YouTube user iWonDeRwHAtsneXt15 for compiling a highlight reel of the Eastbound & Down’s antihero. [Holy Taco] Kenny Powers Gets the Highlight Reel He So Richly Deserves ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlncmdganyssc2nsJion6yys7%2B%2BoJytq4%2Bptaarx6KeoaSZnLVvtNOmow%3D%3D/kristen-schaal-just-wants-a-cool-corporate-logo.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kristen-schaal-just-wants-a-cool-corporate-logo.html“I’d like to work with NBC; I like that rainbow bird.” —Kristen Schaal [PopWatch/EW] “It is a kind of travelogue. You get some nuggets, you don’t get the full bible, though. You get some Genesis. Really, you just get Genesis. Phil Collins, there’s some great music. “Abacab.” You don’t even know that song.” —Jack Black on the teachings of Year One [MTV] “You go to these celebrity parties, and it’s a bunch of people who think that just showing up has made it a special event, so it’s kind of tedious, and the conversations with celebrities, you just keep repeating the same thing over, ‘What are you working on?/lee-pace-on-joe-macmillan-s-fate-in-the-halt-and-catch-fire-series-finale.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lee-pace-on-joe-macmillan-s-fate-in-the-halt-and-catch-fire-series-finale.htmlIn between takes during a scene in Halt and Catch Fire’s final season, Lee Pace comes over and shows me a chimpanzee’s penis on his phone. He zooms in on the “pencil thing” thrust between the bars of a cage as the male chimp grinned widely. He then explains that he went to a chimpanzee sanctuary supported by Judy Greer’s husband, Dean Johnsen. The chimps were in heat. He chuckles softly and then goes back to shooting the scene — a somber one where his character Joe MacMillan has decided to end his company and is saying farewell to his employees./lena-waithe-wrote-her-most-personal-story-for-master-of-none.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lena-waithe-wrote-her-most-personal-story-for-master-of-none.html“Thanksgiving,” the eighth episode of Master of None’s second season, is the most personal thing Lena Waithe has ever written. She and Aziz Ansari wrote the episode together in a hotel room in London, filtering her own coming-out experience through Denise, her character on the show. The episode is quietly epic, in large part due to the direction by Melina Matsoukas, who paid attention to the details from the cross on the wall to the plastic covers of the couch./let-s-unpack-that-diabolical-incest-scene-in-the-northman.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-s-unpack-that-diabolical-incest-scene-in-the-northman.htmlRoxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Spoilers follow for Robert Eggers’s The Northman. It’s not that Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård haven’t kissed before or fought before./listen-to-an-ira-glass-sex-tape-parody.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/listen-to-an-ira-glass-sex-tape-parody.htmlThis is a very funny and pretty dead-on parody of “This American Life,” but it should come with one major warning: You can’t un-hear the fake sex between Ira Glass and Terry Gross. Think about whether you want to ruin your podcast listening forever! [AV Club] Listen to an Ira Glass Sex-Tape Parody ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdhZXyqvsBmnqWZo6h6sa3RqJuyZaOaxW7AwKmcZqyYnsBurcyeqaKbkaN6rbXFnmWhrJ2h/lord-of-the-rings-facts-you-need-to-remember-for-the-hobbit.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lord-of-the-rings-facts-you-need-to-remember-for-the-hobbit.htmlPeter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, which most people rushing to The Hobbit will have already seen. In the new film there are many nods or foreshadowing to adventures or characters seen in LOTR, and connections to be made. But if you are not an obsessive Tolkien-head or haven’t recently rewatched the earlier films, they may go over your heads./m83-make-the-case-for-their-underrated-new-album-at-terminal-5.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/m83-make-the-case-for-their-underrated-new-album-at-terminal-5.htmlAUSTIN, TX - OCTOBER 07: Anthony Gerard Gonzalez of M83 performs live at Austin City Limits Festival at Zilker Park on October 7, 2016 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jim Bennett/FilmMagic) For 15 years, French singer-producer Anthony Gonzalez has explored the commonalities between shoegaze and electronic music in his flagship act M83. The band’s mission and personnel grew with each project, perfecting gauzy two-man ambient sonics on 2003’s Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts before graduating to nervy electronic rock on 2005’s pivotal Before the Dawn Heals Us and adding an ’80s post-punk veneer on 2008’s Saturdays = Youth./make-him-tell-the-machine-story.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-him-tell-the-machine-story.htmlStand-up Bert Kreischer chronicles the journey behind his megapopular joke. Bert Kreischer. Photo: Troy Conrad/Netflix Bert Kreischer. Excerpts of this interview were originally published along with the Good One podcast episode’s release on November 10, 2020. We are republishing a longer version of the interview today timed to the release of Kreischer’s movie, The Machine. Things involving Bert Kreischer can take on a mythic quality. That doesn’t just include the stories he tells in his stand-up, like the time he got involved with the Russian mafia, but the stories behind those stories./matthew-mcconaughey-shared-an-essential-fourth-of-july-message.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matthew-mcconaughey-shared-an-essential-fourth-of-july-message.htmlMatthew McConaughey isn’t here to mess around this Fourth of July, and took to Instagram with a call to action for his fellow Americans. The video is part self-help, part face-mask PSA, and entirely McConaughey’s best performance to date. “Happy 244th birthday, America. Hoo-wee!” McConaughey begins, already vaguely sweaty and wearing a red, white, and blue headband. “We is going through some growing pains in this one, aren’t we?/megalopolis-is-a-work-of-absolute-madness.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/megalopolis-is-a-work-of-absolute-madness.htmlThere is nothing in Francis Ford Coppola’s (perhaps) final testament that feels like something out of a “normal” movie. The moment when an actual live human walked out in front of the movie screen to pose Adam Driver’s Cesar Catilina a question (which Cesar, in the film, proceeded to answer) might, in retrospect, be one of the less bizarre moments in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The director’s supreme dream project, which he’s been trying to get off the ground for four decades, arrives at Cannes trailing clouds of speculation, skepticism, and controversy./mo-nique-holds-court-on-club-shay-shay.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mo-nique-holds-court-on-club-shay-shay.htmlShannon Sharpe did it again. On February 7, the football Hall of Famer sat down with comedian and actor Mo’Nique for a nearly three-hour-long episode of his Club Shay Shay podcast, and just like when he infamously hosted Katt Williams in January, clips from the interview began going viral online even before the episode finished streaming on YouTube. In fact, Mo’Nique references Williams’s interview early and often throughout, going so far as to joke that the two of them are “non-biological” fraternal twins because of their shared need to tell the truth./ncrv-10-3-vulture.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ncrv-10-3-vulture.htmlfollow friday Sept. 20, 2019 Meg Stalter Thinks the Villain From The Mask Is Hot“There is nothing funnier to me than someone really bad who thinks they are the very best.” By Taylor Garron ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeemL%2B3eZBpZGxn/new-on-hulu-january-2024.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-on-hulu-january-2024.htmlEach month, several films and TV shows are added to Hulu’s library; we recommend the titles worth watching. For more streaming guides and Hulu picks, head to Vulture’s What to Stream hub. Each month, several films and TV shows are added to Hulu’s library; we recommend the titles worth watching. For more streaming guides and Hulu picks, head to Vulture’s What to Stream hub. Self Reliance. This Month’s Highlight Self Reliance After premiering at 2023’s SXSW festival, Jake Johnson’s (of New Girl) directorial debut is finally making its way to Hulu./no-bob-saget-isn-t-feuding-with-car-seat-headrest-fans.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-bob-saget-isn-t-feuding-with-car-seat-headrest-fans.htmlYep, you read that headline right: The latest Twitter non-drama from over the weekend involves Bob Saget, Full House star and comedian, and Car Seat Headrest, indie-rock project of Will Toledo. The story really starts 11 years ago, when Toledo self-released his album 4, which featured a song called “the ghost of bob saget.” As Toledo later explained, the song — which rhymes Saget with a gay slur and features lyrics about giving a blowjob to Saget’s ghost — was inspired by a friend’s comic, Asscastle, which included Saget’s ghost as a character./nonhuman-weekend-update-characters-ranked.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nonhuman-weekend-update-characters-ranked.htmlThroughout its nearly 50-year history, Saturday Night Live has had no shortage of ridiculous characters wearing equally ridiculous costumes. From beloved sketches that feature the Land Shark to infamous bombs likeRobert Downey Jr.’s Suitcase Boy, the SNL cast members have never been too afraid to look silly on TV. It’s just really charming when a show that airs hours past the kids’ bedtime suddenly starts feeling like Sesame Street with cast members dressing up like cartoonish aliens or whatever David S./one-thing-peacock-does-well-live-channels.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-thing-peacock-does-well-live-channels.htmlThis story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Peacock’s The Office channel. Other than its pricing structure — you can watch for free! — NBCUniversal’s Peacock doesn’t radically depart from the template established by Netflix more than a decade ago. It’s mostly the same mix of new and old TV shows, movies, and unscripted programming, all available on demand and served up via endless rows of colorful tiles which have been algorithmically arranged to get viewers to stop and click./oppenheimer-could-dominate-the-oscars-barbie-could-win-best-picture.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oppenheimer-could-dominate-the-oscars-barbie-could-win-best-picture.htmlI am become Oscar, destroyer of nerds. This article was originally published on July 28. We are recirculating it now timed to Barbie’s streaming debut on Max. Be sure to also read Alison Willmore’s review of the film, Jen Chaney’s tribute to Allan, its unsung hero, and Allison P. Davis’ close-read analysis of what Greta Gerwig is trying to tell us. In July’s Barbenheimer explosion, the world witnessed something it had never seen before: A movie meme actually lived up to the hype./pen15-is-an-irresistible-millennial-coming-of-age-series.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pen15-is-an-irresistible-millennial-coming-of-age-series.htmlMaya Erskine and Anna Konkle in PEN15. The first time I watched Big Mouth, I thought, Okay, this is the only way to make a truly frank, no-holds-barred TV show about middle schoolers. But it turns out that there is another, non-animated approach that also works. It’s the one taken by Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle in PEN15, a new Hulu series that the two co-created, along with Sam Zvibleman, and in which they star as middle-school versions of themselves./potus-and-mr-saturday-night-mine-laughs-from-behind-the-scenes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/potus-and-mr-saturday-night-mine-laughs-from-behind-the-scenes.htmlFrom POTUS, at the Shubert Theatre. Lights come up on the West Wing, and someone is already yelling. In what looks like the Oval Office (or one down the hall), the president’s harried chief of staff, Harriet (Julie White), is shouting “Cunt!” at press secretary Jean (Suzy Nakamura). In response, the theater takes a moment to register the shock. It’s comedy time. The subtitle of Selina Fillinger’s brisk new farce POTUS is Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive./ray-stevenson-rrr-actor-dead-at-58.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ray-stevenson-rrr-actor-dead-at-58.htmlRay Stevenson. Northern Irish actor Ray Stevenson, who brought a formidable screen presence to leading roles in Punisher: War Zone and HBO’s Rome and had supporting turns in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars, has died at the age of 58 in Italy. Representatives confirmed to Vulture that he died on Sunday, May 21. Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that the actor was in Ischia filming a project called Cassino in Ischia and was hospitalized on Saturday for an undisclosed cause./ricky-gervais-tells-yet-another-holocaust-joke.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ricky-gervais-tells-yet-another-holocaust-joke.htmlRichard Aldrich’s If I Paint Crowned I’ve Had It, Got Me (2008) “I was going to say that when I got the DVD for ‘Schindler’s List’, one critic said, ‘You should have a box of tissues ready.’ And I was going to say, ‘That sounds a bit sick!’” —Ricky Gervais on the Holocaust joke that he didn’t tell at the Golden Globes [MTV] “There are a lot of problems out there in the world, many of them serious, many of them that I care deeply about, but who am I, or any other actor, to get in the way of tradition?/ripley-recap-marge-dickie-tom.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ripley-recap-marge-dickie-tom.htmlRipley Seven Mercies Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ripley Seven Mercies Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wealth and status, as we know, have everything to do with desire. Lust and greed are twinned cardinal sins, which matters in Catholic Italy, where Tom Ripley is trying to pry his way into Dickie Greenleaf’s life./rupaul-s-drag-race-u-k-recap-the-bingo-ball.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupaul-s-drag-race-u-k-recap-the-bingo-ball.htmlRuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Naff-ta Awards Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Naff-ta Awards Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh what a dastardly trick those editors played on us. They spent the whole episode building up Copper Topp, making us think that she was being wrongfully maligned by her fellow queens and that she would make some sort of triumphant return to snatch the crown (ugh, am I in a lyric-writing challenge?/ryan-gosling-out-of-logan-s-run-remake.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ryan-gosling-out-of-logan-s-run-remake.htmlRyan Gosling saying, “Logan’s Run? More like Logan’s Dumb. Ryan Gosling is no longer attached to star in the remake of Logan’s Run. This would’ve been Gosling’s first attempt at carrying a big-budget, tentpole movie, after years of turning down such roles. Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, with whom Gosling also worked on the upcoming Only God Forgives, is still onboard to direct. There’s no word yet on why Gosling left, but we suspect he was too busy starring in all of our dreams./see-chris-brown-s-obscene-halloween-costume-nsfw.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-chris-brown-s-obscene-halloween-costume-nsfw.htmlThe costume actually looks great, except for that weird zucchini. What’s the deal with that? [DListed] See Chris Brown’s Obscene Halloween Costume (NSFW) ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdhZnyktNGiqpiaoqTEr6vOm6qcnZ6arKmty6WmsJ2Vo3upwMyl/sharon-stone-accuses-former-head-of-sony-of-sexual-harassment.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sharon-stone-accuses-former-head-of-sony-of-sexual-harassment.htmlOn an episode of Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa, Sharon Stone detailed her story of being sexually harassed by the head of Sony Pictures in the ’80s. She told Ripa that the head of Sony had exposed himself to her during a meeting. “He took his penis right out in my face. And of course, I was very young, and what I do when I’m nervous — because I’m basically a very bubbly person — I started laughing,” Stone said./some-questions-for-dillon-francis-and-his-walgreens-bag.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-questions-for-dillon-francis-and-his-walgreens-bag.htmlHello Dillon Francis. We at Vulture see that you walked the Grammys red carpet in Las Vegas Sunday night with a Walgreens bag. The bag contained Entenmann’s Little Bites, with the box oriented to face the camera. You also held up your Grammys ticket, as if to say “Yeah, I know I’m carrying groceries and I didn’t iron my shirt, but I promise you I belong here!” This a very goofy, silly, fun photo op, and thank you for that./sonic-youths.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sonic-youths.htmlIn Chicago with Horsegirl, the teen rock trio behind one of the year’s most confident albums. Nora Cheng (19), Penelope Lowenstein (18), and Gigi Reece (19). Photo: Cheryl Dunn Nora Cheng (19), Penelope Lowenstein (18), and Gigi Reece (19). Want to understand the rock band Horsegirl? Watch the members shop for music together. On a Saturday in March at Reckless Records, one of the band’s favorite stores in their hometown of Chicago, the trio of 18- and 19-year-olds immediately take to the CD section — to them, they are cheaper, more shareable, and easier to play in the car./southern-charm-recap-nude-illusions.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/southern-charm-recap-nude-illusions.htmlSouthern Charm The Naked Truth Season 9 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Charm The Naked Truth Season 9 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I am starting to get wwwwooooorrrrrriiiiiieeeeeeedddddd about the rest of the season, y’all. (I don’t normally say y’all because I am from Connecticut, but I don’t feel like it’s cultural appropriation because we are talking about Southern Charm here./steve-burton-leaving-general-hospital-joining-james-franco-s-new-telenovela.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steve-burton-leaving-general-hospital-joining-james-franco-s-new-telenovela.htmlActor Steve Burton speaks onstage at the ‘General Hospital’ panel during day 6 of the Disney ABCTelevision Group portion of the 2012 Summer TCA Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 26, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. General Hospital is losing one of its longest-running and most important characters: Steve Burton, who has played Jason Morgan since 1991, will tape his last episode in September, he tells TV Guide./sza-and-kendrick-lamar-square-off-in-her-new-doves-in-the-wind-music-video.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sza-and-kendrick-lamar-square-off-in-her-new-doves-in-the-wind-music-video.htmlIn her new “Doves in the Wind” music video released Friday, SZA and Kendrick Lamar take to the desert for a ’70s kung-fu movie reinterpretation of the battle of the sexes. Their skills are pretty evenly matched at first, but in the end, as Kendrick himself puts it, “Pussy is so undefeated / Let’s amen to that.” Related SZA Takes You Back to Summer Camp in Her New ‘Broken Clocks’ Music Video SZA and Kendrick Square Off in New ‘Doves in the Wind’ Video ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlocWdgaXy0xsBmmKecXaCyr7DRopqkZaOmwqK%2BxGamn55dnrtuusSwZJ2npprAbrXNZquhnV2stq%2BwjK%2BgnZ2fY7W1ucs%3D/tcm-fans-are-right-to-worry.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tcm-fans-are-right-to-worry.htmlThis story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! The 1948 film The Naked City, a regular in TCM’s rotation. It seems somehow appropriate that the company whose TV library includes Dallas is now being run by someone who often seems to be channeling the ghost of J.R. Ewing. Okay, maybe that’s not fair: J./the-white-rapper-blueprint.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-white-rapper-blueprint.htmlThis article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In the third episode of the current season of Dave, “Hearsay,” Dave, a.k.a Lil Dicky (Dave Burd), is on a tour stop in Atlanta, a city steeped in Black culture and the de facto hub for southern rap. When Dave gets robbed at gunpoint while wearing Rick Ross’s $250,000 chain, his immediate impulse is to call the police to help get it back, failing to see the absurdity in involving law enforcement to help a Black entertainer (a rapper with Rick Ross’s legal history, no less)./the-10-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-10-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlWant more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Clockwise from top: Kinds of Kindness, Thelma, Orphan Black: Echoes, and The Bikeriders. Has summer been beating down on you yet? It’s nearing that time of the season when hiding in an air-conditioned room, theater, or living room is the ideal. I wish theaters had more options this weekend, but we do have Tom Hardy and Austin Butler battling in an accent-off, and June Squibb riding around on a scooter, so we can’t complain too much./the-17-best-non-hbo-shows-on-max.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-17-best-non-hbo-shows-on-max.htmlThe Other Two; The Vampire Diaries; Parts Unknown. Max, the streaming service named after the Netflix character who loves Kate Bush, had a messy introduction. The streamer formerly known as HBO Max changed to just “Max” overnight in the middle of a week in May, forcing us to download yet another app (annoying). While the name still does not make sense, the streamer, now filled with Warner Bros. Discovery’s entire library, has a lot to offer in every category, the ultimate capitalist-empire streamer./the-18-best-dogs-in-netflix-s-dogs-ranked.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-18-best-dogs-in-netflix-s-dogs-ranked.htmlDog groomer Kenichi and Tinkerbell. Let’s be clear: Every dog in the Netflix series Dogs is a special blend of hungry eyes, wagging tails, and flapping tongues. But some of the dogs in this six-part documentary series stand out above the others. So I decided to make like a Westminster Kennel Club judge and rank the show’s top 18 dogs. This is, obviously, a subjective process. The following bundles of slobbering joy are the ones I deemed the best boys and girls, in order, as of this writing./the-big-bang-theory-recap-the-birthday-girls.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-bang-theory-recap-the-birthday-girls.htmlThe Big Bang Theory The Celebration Reverberation Season 11 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Celebration Reverberation Season 11 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » It’s Amy Farrah Fowler’s birthday, and she’ll hurl if she wants to. The bad news is that it’s a gift from Sheldon that leads Amy to spend her birthday eve giving her regards to ol’ Broadway, if you know what we mean./the-cynthia-lennon-i-knew.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cynthia-lennon-i-knew.html42-70262093 I was enamored of Cynthia Lennon from the moment I met her in the fall of 1980. It was in Ruthin, Wales, where she was running a bed and breakfast, and I was there to interview her for a book I was writing with Peter Brown, the former chief operating officer of Apple Corps, the Beatles’ parent company.  Peter had introduced me to all four Beatles and their inner circles — friends, family, wives, and ex-wives — but Cynthia was the only one with whom I felt really simpatico./the-day-twitter-gave-birth-to-bart-simpson.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-day-twitter-gave-birth-to-bart-simpson.htmlWhat do the Chicago Tribune, Netflix, and Rolling Stone have in common? They all used the event of Bart Simpson’s birthday last week to promote themselves. Normally, I have no problem with Simpsons-related tweets, even for selfish reasons (I’ve posted almost 3,000 of them myself), but the thing is, Bart’s birthday wasn’t last week. All three of the above tweeted a Bart birthday post, and in doing so, they helped propagate a lie./the-dos-and-don-ts-of-needle-drops.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dos-and-don-ts-of-needle-drops.htmlCan the right song result in a scene that’s way more than the sum of its audiovisual parts? Don’t stop believin’. Consider the band T-shirt. A wearable way to advertise your musical taste, these garments nonetheless have their good uses and their not-so-good ones. Everyone knows the shibboleth against wearing a band’s T-shirt to their own concert: It’s a bit obvious, a bit on-the-nose, a bit too much of a good thing./the-most-joyous-and-romantic-of-journey-according-to-neal-schon.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-joyous-and-romantic-of-journey-according-to-neal-schon.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “If you only listen to AM radio, you’re going to consider us soft rock. I don’t consider us soft rock. We have a broad spectrum.” The shadow of “Don’t Stop Believin’” looms large, quite literally, over the “funky little office” in Neal Schon’s home./the-offer-s-exhausting-self-congratulation-makes-the-godfather-into-gabagool.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-offer-s-exhausting-self-congratulation-makes-the-godfather-into-gabagool.htmlRoxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. There is an episode of The Office in which Michael Scott — influenced by The Godfather film series and The Sopranos, and at his core, an idiot — tries to order “gabagool” at an Italian restaurant without actually knowing what it is (capicola)./the-post-credits-scene-in-black-panther-explained.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-post-credits-scene-in-black-panther-explained.htmlThis is not that scene. Spoilers for Black Panther below. Every gaffer and best boy should write a thank-you note to Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige. His Marvel Cinematic Universe enterprise has probably increased attendance during filmic credits sequences by 5,000 percent since the advent of Iron Man ten years ago. You always gotta wait to see if there’s a mid-credits scene, and if there’s yet another scene after the credits!/the-prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9.htmlSean Thor Conroe lost his fiercest advocate before he published his first novel. Now he’s facing the hype without him. Photo: Marie Tomanova Sean Thor Conroe is outlining what he calls the “four pillars” of fuckboy-hood — the different ways you can be a self-aggrandizing, duplicitous, and otherwise distasteful man. First, there’s what he calls the classic spineless, “bitch-ass dude,” whom other men look down on because they’re not living up to the “masculine standard of toughness and integrity./the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-season-premiere-recap-shannon-storms-a-brewin.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-season-premiere-recap-shannon-storms-a-brewin.htmlThe Real Housewives of Orange County Exes and OCs Season 18 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Exes and OCs Season 18 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Sometimes, a Housewife tells us a story, and her whole life — nay, her entire existence — is summed up in that one interlude./the-religious-ecstasy-of-the-bravo-fandom.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-religious-ecstasy-of-the-bravo-fandom.html“Is this all for Vanderpump? What’s going on?” Despite the Vanderpump Rules reunion being one of the biggest entertainment events of late, there are only a few options for communal viewing experiences at ground zero, a.k.a. Los Angeles. I end up at Junkyard Dog, a vegan sports bar in Silver Lake, because I want to get the communal fan viewing experience for Scandoval’s final installment. There’s an official viewing party at SUR just six and a half miles away, but it’s $75 per plate and some cast members will be there./the-to-do-list-teaser-aubrey-plaza-gets-some.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-to-do-list-teaser-aubrey-plaza-gets-some.htmlMost sex comedies star boys desperate to get laid, but in Maggie Carey’s The To-Do List, it’s high-schooler Aubrey Plaza who’s plotting to lose her virginity … and the girl has got goals. In fact, Plaza’s got an entire checklist of sex acts to get through and an array of potential lust interests like Donald Glover, Johnny Simmons, and Scott Porter who may fit the bill. CBS Films announced today that the sex comedy will be released next Valentine’s Day, so this teaser is mostly made up of Plaza herself simply giving good deadpan to the viewer, but those stray bits of footage seem promising./the-walking-dead-recap-footloose.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-walking-dead-recap-footloose.htmlThe Walking Dead Sick Season 3 Episode 2 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead Sick Season 3 Episode 2 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Often it’s comforting when television characters stay consistent over the years. It’s the stuff that sitcoms are based on, that feeling that season after season it will always be the same Cliff and Norm cracking jokes at the bar./theater-review-a-raisin-in-the-sun-with-a-star-who-knows-what-to-do-in-the-role.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-a-raisin-in-the-sun-with-a-star-who-knows-what-to-do-in-the-role.htmlSophie Okonedo, Denzel Washington, and Anika Noni Rose in A Raisin in the Sun.* Everyone’s moaning about Denzel Washington’s age: How can a man who’s 59 play the 35-year-old Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, a character whose very name suggests the drama of coming into manhood? And if Walter’s that old, how can his mother, Lena, be played by an actress — LaTanya Richardson Jackson — who is just 64?/theater-review-barbra-will-not-like-buyer-cellar-but-i-do.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-barbra-will-not-like-buyer-cellar-but-i-do.htmlMichael Urie in Buyer & Cellar. Among the first things the actor Michael Urie admits as he addresses the audience at the start of Jonathan Tolins’s Buyer & Cellar is that the premise of the 90-minute one-man play is “preposterous”: “What I’m going to tell you could not possibly have happened with a person as famous, talented, and litigious as Barbra Streisand.” I hope that stipulation is sufficient to keep the lawyers at bay, because the story that follows is too hilarious, and oddly loving, to shut down./theater-review-the-tao-of-oak-bluffs-laid-bare-in-stick-fly.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-the-tao-of-oak-bluffs-laid-bare-in-stick-fly.htmlMekhi Phifer, Rosie Benton, Tracie Thoms, and Dulé Hill in ‘Stick Fly.’ Every moment is a struggle in Stick Fly, Lydia R. Diamond’s ambitious, ambivalent, wildly uneven interrogation of upper-middle-class African-American life. Struggles nest within struggles: race, sex, and class collide, commingle, and collide again. Characters turn on each other and themselves. Even the playwright herself seems to be grappling with what sort of play she wants to write, whom she should punish or redeem, and whether she’s even in the punishment-and-redemption business./there-will-be-no-new-emoji-next-year-because-of-the-coronavirus.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-will-be-no-new-emoji-next-year-because-of-the-coronavirus.htmlIf historical patterns are anything to go by, new versions of Android and iOS 📱 will launch this year, and they’ll include new additions to the emoji tool set. Included in the new Emoji 13.0 set are essential pictograms, like people wearing tuxedos, the cockroach, a bell pepper, and a plunger. Finally. 🙌 You’re going to have to savor these new emoji, however, because they are likely to be the last ones we get until 2022./thumbelina-is-the-showgirls-of-90s-cartoon-princess-movies.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thumbelina-is-the-showgirls-of-90s-cartoon-princess-movies.htmlCartoon heroines from the 1990s have ascended to icon status thanks to their digestible feminist messages, the millennial nostalgia factor, and, let’s face it, their instantly recognizable looks. There’s Belle lamenting that “there must be more than this provincial life,” Ariel wanting to be “part of that world,” Esmeralda praying “God help the outcasts,” Pocahontas chiding John Smith that “you think you own whatever land you land on,” the pixie Chrysta single-handedly saving her Australian forest, and Princess Odette offering children a not too edulcorated version of Swan Lake./tom-girardi-reportedly-swears-at-prosecutor-during-mental-competency-hearing.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-girardi-reportedly-swears-at-prosecutor-during-mental-competency-hearing.htmlTom Girardi allegedly interrupted his own mental competency hearing by muttering “Fuck you” at federal prosecutors. Girardi has been accused of embezzling over $15 million from his clients, with his ex-wife (and Real Housewife) Erika Jayne facing a $50 million racketeering lawsuit. According to Courthouse News Service, the disturbance took place while prosecution was cross-examining Dr. Stacey Wood, an expert witness for the defense who claims that Girardi lacks the mental capacity to stand trial./triangle-of-sadness-vulture.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/triangle-of-sadness-vulture.htmloscar futures Oct. 7, 2022 Oscar Futures: A Tár Is Born?Cate Blanchett is getting raves as a manipulative maestro in Todd Field’s drama. Could she get her third trophy, too? By Nate Jones ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGekp7aiusalnGanlmLAorDNnqqsZw%3D%3D/vanderpump-rules-recap-montauk-monsters.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vanderpump-rules-recap-montauk-monsters.htmlVanderpump Rules The Talk of Montauk Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules The Talk of Montauk Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Tom Schwartz, Tom Sandoval. There is a vast chasm between what I know about the lives of the Vanderpump Rules cast and what I understand about their lives./visit-the-hawkeye-initiative-a-blog-that-swaps-out-sexy-female-comic-book-characters-with-hawkeye.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/visit-the-hawkeye-initiative-a-blog-that-swaps-out-sexy-female-comic-book-characters-with-hawkeye.htmlAnd he’s got legs for days! Sources The Hawkeye Initiative Visit the Hawkeye Initiative ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dhZ3y1tMRmn5qvm5rGpnnIp6CtoZGptrexjaGrpqQ%3D/what-to-expect-when-you-re-vomiting-kittens-courtesy-of-the-brand-new-cherry-flavor-creators.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-expect-when-you-re-vomiting-kittens-courtesy-of-the-brand-new-cherry-flavor-creators.htmlThe new Netflix limited series Brand New Cherry Flavor, a gory revenge thriller set in the early ’90s, is straight up David Cronenberg on ayahuasca. Based on Todd Grimson’s 1996 novel of the same name, the show focuses on up-and-coming indie director Lisa Nova (Undone’s Rosa Salazar) as she endeavors to take down a pervert producer (Unbelievable’s Eric Lange) who stole her movie. Forgoing all the traditional modes of revenge, Lisa goes straight to a mystical cat lady named Boro (Catherine Keener) for assistance, which comes at a steep and often macabre price: Lisa must vomit kittens as payment for Boro’s services./when-in-ancient-rome-how-online-were-you-in-september.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-in-ancient-rome-how-online-were-you-in-september.htmlKeep your friends close and your Tabis closer. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Videos: harry.daniels, liliannawilde, seed, thejeanluc Not even your friend with an Android could escape this month’s internet chaos. In addition to the not one, not two, but four different celebrity controversies that went down, a family vlogger got arrested, and I think there are still some influencers stuck in the mud at Burning Man. Things got so bleak that for some reason this picture of Kevin James became the funniest thing we’d ever seen, and men said “screw it” and started reality shifting to the Roman Empire./when-we-hate-movies-mined-the-misguided-my-father-the-hero-for-abundant-hilarity.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-we-hate-movies-mined-the-misguided-my-father-the-hero-for-abundant-hilarity.htmlPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. They say that if something exists, there’s pornography about it. I suspect it’s also true that if you see a flamboyantly terrible movie that’s not entirely obscure, there’s probably a podcast about it. Podcasts have done wonderful things for the bad moviesphere, just as the bad moviesphere has done wonderful things for podcasts like The Flop House and How Did This Get Made?/which-streaming-service-should-you-sell-your-show-to-a-guide-for-producers.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-streaming-service-should-you-sell-your-show-to-a-guide-for-producers.htmlHouse of Cards and Netflix are synonymous with each other: The Kevin Spacey series made the streaming service a serious player as a non-linear TV network, and being on Netflix initially helped the show stand out amid the glut of quality dramas that now populate TV. And yet, House of Cards could’ve easily been an HBO or FX series. Before Netflix agreed to buy two seasons of the show, sight unseen, its producers pitched it all over Hollywood, entertaining offers from multiple outlets before ending up on the nascent streaming network./you-recap-i-always-feel-like-somebody-s-watching-me.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-recap-i-always-feel-like-somebody-s-watching-me.htmlYou Best of Friends Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You Best of Friends Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We are back from our brief intermission and find Joe … basically right where we left him. The police think Joe is a hero because he saved Roald./14-outrageous-little-richard-stories.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/14-outrageous-little-richard-stories.htmlPioneering, flamboyant, eccentric — Little Richard was all these things, and then some. And just as his anarchic performances suggested, the late legend was just as wild away from the piano, living a life full of sex, drugs, spirituality, generosity, sex, bravado, kindness, and some more sex. The immediate outpouring following his May 9 death at age 87 made it clear that his legacy was more than just a rock and roll and R&B hitmaker — he was a trailblazer whose musical and personal stylings begat Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones, his former sideman Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Prince, Bowie, and countless others./a-guide-to-jesse-armstrong-s-other-comedies-to-curb-your-post-succession-blues.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-jesse-armstrong-s-other-comedies-to-curb-your-post-succession-blues.htmlYou may not be able to make a Tomelette without breaking some Greggs, but now that Succession has concluded its wild second season, there’s one thing you can control in your life: watching more of Jesse Armstrong’s dramedies to fill the Waystar Royco void. (And if you don’t want to, then, to quote some wise men, fuck off.) Armstrong has been an integral part of Britcom DNA since the early aughts as a writer and creator, and, thanks to the powers of streaming TV, most of his shows are a click away if you want to forget that whole Gerri and Roman thing ever happened./a-guide-to-the-music-of-donald-glover-s-atlanta.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-the-music-of-donald-glover-s-atlanta.htmlTake a deep dive into Atlanta’s soundtrack. Light spoilers ahead for the first four episodes of Atlanta. The first song you hear on Donald Glover’s new FX show Atlanta plays faintly over the speaker of a car that’s about to get vandalized, setting in motion a series of mishaps for the two cousins central to the narrative. It’s the opening scene, and it’s Migos’s “One Time” playing, one of the many deceptively infectious hits from the Atlanta-affiliated trio, until it fades further into the background./across-the-spider-verse-blue-eye-samurai-lead-2024-annie-awards.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/across-the-spider-verse-blue-eye-samurai-lead-2024-annie-awards.htmlSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Blue Eye Samurai both won big at the 51st Annie Awards. The sequel to Into the Spider-Verse took seven awards, including Best Feature and Music. Netflix’s Edo-period revenge piece won six, including Best Character Animation TV/Series and Best FX. Nimona went into the night with the most nominations (nine total), but only won two. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 won Best Character Animation — Live Action, because the Annies recognizes that CGI is still animation (which is a conversation those alleged “live-action remakes” aren’t ready for)./alicia-keys-is-in-a-broadway-state-of-mind.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alicia-keys-is-in-a-broadway-state-of-mind.htmlThis girl is on fire. Alicia Keys will give her regards to Broadway. The singer’s musical Hell’s Kitchen will transfer this spring from the Public Theater to the Shubert Theatre. “What does it mean to have your dreams realized as the show moves to Broadway and be a part of this season and community?” Keys said in a voice note shared with Vulture. “Honestly, I just can’t believe it./all-creatures-great-and-small-recap-cows-in-peril.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-creatures-great-and-small-recap-cows-in-peril.htmlAll Creatures Great and Small Honeymoon’s Over Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Honeymoon’s Over Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I will never get over this opening scene with its gentle piano music./aly-aj-came-to-f-k-2021-up.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aly-aj-came-to-f-k-2021-up.htmlJust as we were ready to slam the door on 2020, the Michalka sisters sneaked in with a parting gift 14 years in the making: the chance to hear them drop an official f-bomb (and one shit) in their 2006 pop-bop “Potential Breakup Song.” At long last, Aly & AJ — that’s Alyson and Amanda, if your Disney-alum trivia is rusty — validated the lyrics most fans have been singing since they were tweens./american-hustle-is-a-movie-about-abscam-but-what-the-heck-is-abscam.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-hustle-is-a-movie-about-abscam-but-what-the-heck-is-abscam.htmlAmerican Hustle opens with a wry disclaimer: “Some of this actually happened.” Though its foundation is torn straight from newspaper headlines recounting the FBI’s Abscam sting operations from the late seventies, the movie focuses on a historical event that most people under the age of 30 are unlikely to have ever heard of. And because American Hustle spins its elaborate web of con men, government agents, and shady politicians at a purposely frantic pace, the movie stands to leave less informed audiences wondering what exactly is making the characters lose their minds./and-the-award-for-most-in-love-celeb-goes-to.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-the-award-for-most-in-love-celeb-goes-to.htmlIt’s really not fair of Valentine’s Day to come smack-dab in the middle of awards season. To have to break up your social-media campaign for Best ____ with a post about your partner? Yawn. But seriously, folks. Famous love was in the air this Valentine’s Day/Ash Wednesday supercombo. Obviously, Mark Wahlberg posted about both holidays. But mostly, Wednesday was more for celebrating one’s partner (and occasionally brand partnerships)./apparently-kim-kardashian-s-butt-broke-the-internet-again-this-time-as-an-emoji.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apparently-kim-kardashian-s-butt-broke-the-internet-again-this-time-as-an-emoji.htmlBow to the butt. Kim Kardashian birthed a saint mere weeks ago and already she’s back to business, launching her first line of emoji appropriately called Kimoji on Monday. But of course, Silicon Valley’s new BFF didn’t make just any emoji. They include everything in the Kim K canon: her famous backside, her ugly-cry, her contour, a waist trainer, selfies, and a few other seemingly unrelated things. (A wave?/ashton-kutcher-and-mila-kunis-are-aware-of-the-pain-of-the-danny-masterson-letters.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ashton-kutcher-and-mila-kunis-are-aware-of-the-pain-of-the-danny-masterson-letters.htmlAshton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, and Mila Kunis perform onstage at a Church of Scientology event in 2003. Update, September 9, at 4:28 p.m.: On September 9, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis posted an apology video on Instagram in response to their letters of support for That ‘70s Show co-star, Danny Masterson, who was found guilty of two counts of rape and sentenced to prison for 30 years, being shared with the public./behold-ted-danson-s-snazziest-bow-ties-on-the-good-place.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behold-ted-danson-s-snazziest-bow-ties-on-the-good-place.htmlOn NBC’s The Good Place, Ted Danson is doing the Devil’s work — or, depending on who you ask, the Lord’s work — as a beleaguered Bad Place architect on the verge of a philosophical awakening. We could honestly talk about his fantastic comedic performance all day. (In fact, we’ve even talked to him a few times about it.) But we’re not here to convert you into a Dansonhead if you aren’t one already./benjamin-walker-on-cannibalism-his-right-hook-and-muhammad-ali-s-greatest-fight.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/benjamin-walker-on-cannibalism-his-right-hook-and-muhammad-ali-s-greatest-fight.htmlBen Walker. When Muhammad Ali refused the draft, claiming status as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court. What happened when it landed there, and how the decision was made to allow the professional boxer the religious freedom not to fight — a decision that went through a dramatic reversal just as the majority opinion was being written — is the subject of the HBO film Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, starring Christopher Plummer as the justice who changed the tide, and Benjamin Walker as the law clerk who convinced him to do so./beyonc%C3%A9-is-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-country-no-1.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonc%C3%A9-is-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-country-no-1.htmlBeyoncé has an ace in her hand. The superstar logged her first country No. 1 with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which debuted atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart on February 20. She is the first Black woman to ever hold the top spot on the chart and just the second woman to debut at No. 1, after Taylor Swift. “Texas” also debuted at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, Beyoncé’s highest-ever debut./beyonc%C3%A9-made-another-ugly-christmas-sweater-for-you-to-sleigh-all-day-in.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonc%C3%A9-made-another-ugly-christmas-sweater-for-you-to-sleigh-all-day-in.htmlAll Christmas day, we gon’ sleigh. Is an ugly Christmas sweater truly ugly if Beyoncé’s wearing it? These are the tough questions we must ponder this holiday season because, once again, Beysus has gifted us with new festive merch for us to empty our wallets on. This year, all Bey wants for Christmas is you in an ugly hoodie with the words “I Sleigh All Day” over your heart and “Boy Bye” on your bum — a./bojack-horseman-s-will-arnett-on-why-we-re-all-narcissists.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bojack-horseman-s-will-arnett-on-why-we-re-all-narcissists.htmlBoJack Horseman — a deeply insecure, self-destructive, and often manipulative anthropomorphic horse — isn’t the first unsympathetic character Will Arnett has played. He was nominated for Emmys for both Arrested Development’s self-absorbed showman G.O.B. Bluth and a recurring 30 Rock guest role as snakelike NBC executive Devon Banks. “People always accuse me of playing the asshole character, but I say he’s not an asshole,” Arnett said. “He’s severely unloved and in an incredibly tough environment emotionally./cassian-andor-vulture.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cassian-andor-vulture.htmldaft punk in space Oct. 21, 2022 Nicholas Britell Dropped Andor’s Hottest Track“Niamos! (Morlana Club Mix)” is as hot as a shirtless Cassian Andor. By Savannah Salazar ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeTlsC0tcCnZJqmlKS%2FcA%3D%3D/cecily-strong-feels-good-whether-or-not-she-returns-to-snl.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cecily-strong-feels-good-whether-or-not-she-returns-to-snl.htmlCecily Strong. Cecily Strong’s new book, This Will All Be Over Soon, isn’t what you expect from a Saturday Night Live cast member’s first memoir. It’s a dispatch from the darkest days of 2020 documenting both the shared anxieties of those early pandemic months, including her partner Jack contracting COVID that March, and her own personal mourning after the loss of her cousin to glioblastoma. Strong isn’t afraid of really sitting in that grief and uncertainty, but the book — which began as a personal diary before turning into a larger project — comes off as oddly hopeful./contrary-to-popular-belief-ariana-grande-s-breathin-is-not-only-about-breathing.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/contrary-to-popular-belief-ariana-grande-s-breathin-is-not-only-about-breathing.htmlSome days, things just take / way too much of my energy. The video for Ariana Grande’s “breathin,”released yesterday, begins with haze, a cerulean-tinged smoke blending into an empty bar. A half-filled tumbler — something on the rocks — sits on the left, with other glasses of amber and red liquids on the right, and Ari in the middle, head in hands. A prying observer might bypass this gesture, float past the manicured tips, spot a ring, map the tattoos, perform the sort of speculative biopsy so routine in our celebrity intake./crowds-rush-gates-at-electric-zoo-day-3.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crowds-rush-gates-at-electric-zoo-day-3.htmlCrowds rushed the gates at Electric Zoo Sunday evening, after an announcement was made on Twitter that entry to the event was closed. According to Rolling Stone, it is unclear “how the event could have reached capacity prior to all ticket holders entering the venue.” Valid ticket holders ran past security after it was announced that the fest was closed to attendees, as multiple videos across social media show./dashboard-confessional-still-belongs.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dashboard-confessional-still-belongs.html“If we’re a legacy act and if there’s a legacy, I hope it’s that the people that made us popular are proud of it,” Chris Carrabba says, staring at the midtown high-rises through a window inside Warner Music’s New York City offices, home to his current label, Fueled by Ramen. In the mid-2000s, Dashboard Confessional, the band that has long been misunderstood as his solo project, shepherded the emo genre to commercial success, soundtracking Spider-Man and teenage heartache./dexter-the-skinner-revealed.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dexter-the-skinner-revealed.htmlDexter About Last Night Season 3 Episode 9 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This season has been all about Dexter’s crash course in parenting. First, he learned he’s going to be a dad. This week, Miguel emerged as his full-blown sulky wayward teenage son. “I’m a big boy!” Miguel protests, when Dexter confronts him over killing Ellen Wolf. That’s right — Miguel’s gone rogue!/did-netflix-really-put-an-lgbtq-tag-on-dahmer.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-netflix-really-put-an-lgbtq-tag-on-dahmer.htmlSpeak, Valentina! Netflix’s DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a show about a white serial killer who targeted Black and brown men, reportedly no longer has an LGBTQ tag to its name. Why did it ever? Well, the Ryan Murphy show, which stars Murphy-verse go-to Evan Peters, follows Jeffrey Dahmer’s gruesome crimes while also not exploiting his victims (so says Netflix), who were primarily gay men. It’s unclear how anyone’s immediate thought was “This seems like a good idea to put next to Heartstopper,” but maybe Netflix just doesn’t understand what its viewers want; for example, Derry Girls, which has an out lesbian character, is not tagged as LGBTQ./doctor-who-recap-physical-graffiti.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doctor-who-recap-physical-graffiti.htmlDoctor Who Flatline Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Doctor Who Flatline Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Honest to Pete, it’d be nice if this season could deliver just one truly awful installment so as a recapper I could have a little fun tearing into the show for a week./elsbeth-recap-catch-me-if-you-can.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elsbeth-recap-catch-me-if-you-can.htmlElsbeth Love Knocked Off Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Elsbeth Love Knocked Off Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Although each of the murders in Elsbeth so far has been driven by factors specific to the relationships between the killers and the killed, in the end, they’re all about how very poorly some people behave when they don’t get their own way./every-girls-sex-scene-rated-by-awkwardness.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-girls-sex-scene-rated-by-awkwardness.htmlIf there is one aspect about your 20s that Girls keenly understands, it’s that sex in your 20s is embarrassing. It’s awkward, it’s messy, and sometimes you just want your partner to put it in the right hole. From the pilot episode, in which Hannah and Adam first have sex, Girls made it clear that sex wasn’t just a titillation tactic, but that sexual dynamics are just as important to a relationship as anything else./every-tom-hanks-movie-performance-ranked.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-tom-hanks-movie-performance-ranked.htmlTom Hanks, icon. This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated to include Tom Hanks’s recent work. You might say there’s a unified theory of Hanks. The actor contains multitudes but is always Tom Hanks. As a result, he’s often accused of playing one character: the fundamentally decent, good-hearted, noble but humble all-American Everyman. There’s some truth to this, of course — Hanks wouldn’t work as Travis Bickle, no matter how hard he tried./everything-everywhere-all-at-once-is-the-undeniable-oscars-front-runner.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-is-the-undeniable-oscars-front-runner.htmlThe cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once celebrates their SAG win. Is there a universe in which Everything Everywhere All at Once doesn’t win Best Picture? The theory of the infinite multiverse suggests there must be a few alternate realities where the Daniels’ live-action Looney Tune goes home empty-handed on Oscars night, including at least one in which Minions: The Rise of Gru triumphs instead. But in our timeline, the film’s title succinctly sums up its awards trajectory so far./evil-season-premiere-recap-the-mother-of-the-living-antichrist.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/evil-season-premiere-recap-the-mother-of-the-living-antichrist.htmlEvil How to Split an Atom Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil How to Split an Atom Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil friends, what a bittersweet way to kick off a new season. As I’m sure you’ve heard, as I’m sure you’ve screamed to the heavens (or to hell, you do you), we are embarking upon Evil’s fourth and final season./former-hall-of-fame-prankster-george-clooney-runs-out-of-pranks-settles-on-being-a-little-rude-to-j.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/former-hall-of-fame-prankster-george-clooney-runs-out-of-pranks-settles-on-being-a-little-rude-to-j.htmlOh, George Clooney, you prankster, you. You charming jester, you impish rogue, you roguish imp. Such was public opinion of George Clooney and his pranks for years. How lovely that an A-list actor doesn’t take himself or his movies or the people he’s in them with so seriously! How good of George Ol’ Boy to goof off at the big Hollywood machine, and only at the expense of others. How young we once were, and how innocent./from-the-csi-effect-to-making-a-murderer-will-true-crime-docuseries-change-how-jurors-think.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-csi-effect-to-making-a-murderer-will-true-crime-docuseries-change-how-jurors-think.htmlAnyone who tuned in to Netflix’s Making a Murderer, HBO’s The Jinx, or NPR’s Serial podcast probably indulged a fantasy that, had they sat on any of those juries, fair verdicts would have been meted out. The maddening reality, however — and part of what’s made all the above mini-series so addictive — is that our indignation’s been collectively stoked by an overwhelming presentation of evidence and testimony that could have only been accrued in the years following each case’s respective trials./george-tammy-recap-you-ll-have-bad-times.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/george-tammy-recap-you-ll-have-bad-times.htmlGeorge and Tammy We’re Gonna Hold On Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » George and Tammy We’re Gonna Hold On Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Tammy Wynette’s long-suffering brand of femininity undoubtedly caused her a lot of pain, both emotional and physical./goldie-hawn-boy-george-william-shatner-mourn-the-death-of-doris-day.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goldie-hawn-boy-george-william-shatner-mourn-the-death-of-doris-day.htmlDoris Day. Doris Day, the famous 1950s and ’60s star of Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, died early Monday morning at age 97. She was known for her work in 39 films as well as for her animal activism. The Doris Day Animal Foundation released a statement on Monday on her death, noting that Day requested no funeral, memorial service, or grave./grey-s-anatomy-recap-one-of-our-own.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grey-s-anatomy-recap-one-of-our-own.htmlGrey’s Anatomy Cold As Ice Season 14 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Cold As Ice Season 14 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After being hounded with the previews for “Cold As Ice” all week, in which there were copious amounts of slo-mo shots of April looking very much on the edge of death, it began to feel very un-Grey’s to give away such a huge plot point, if this was indeed to be the episode in which April would die./here-s-what-you-missed-on-jonathan-franzen-s-jeopardy-appearance.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-s-what-you-missed-on-jonathan-franzen-s-jeopardy-appearance.htmlJeopardy! kicked off its annual “Power Players Week” last night, in which well-known journalists and media intellectuals compete on the famed quiz show for the charities of their choice. Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, conservative commentator S.E. Cupp, and novelist Jonathan Franzen competed on Monday’s show, with Cupp proving victorious in the end after all three failed to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy question. However, Franzen (who called the experience “a nightmare come true”) was as charming and grumpy as ever, finishing in second place./how-austin-rogers-upset-the-natural-order-on-jeopardy.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-austin-rogers-upset-the-natural-order-on-jeopardy.htmlAustin Rogers. ​I was beginning to think I was falling out of love with Jeopardy! Earlier this year, for the third time, I auditioned for the show. And, for the third time, they didn’t take me. They never confirm you’re not wanted — they just never call. Gutting. Still, I couldn’t stop watching, hoping to learn something by examining which prospectives the show did take. The dull retirees; the pale nerds; the “New Mexico’s Foremost Collector of Pyrite” types … what could they possess that I lack?/how-project-runway-is-getting-deafness-right.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-project-runway-is-getting-deafness-right.htmlWatching Deaf people on television is often a dangerous proposition. That’s especially true of reality television, which has never been known for its ability to transcend stereotypes. Most disabled people on these shows tend to be marginalized or placed in what TVTropes.org would call the “magical cripple” or “inspirationally disadvantaged” box, there to provide inspiring life wisdom but not to have their own story lines or relationships. So when I heard that this season of Project Runway was going to feature a Deaf designer, I knew it was must-see TV for me./i-m-tired-of-being-dermot-mulroney-s-onscreen-love-interest.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-m-tired-of-being-dermot-mulroney-s-onscreen-love-interest.htmlDermot Mulroney in My Best Friend’s Wedding, With apologies to the original. And Dermot Mulroney too, I guess. At my very first job in Hollywood, a co-star jokingly informed me, “You came here expecting to act opposite Oscar winners, but you’re going to end up sharing scenes with Dermot Mulroney.” At the time, I had no idea she would end up being so right. Moving to Los Angeles provided endless opportunities to star alongside charming 40-something actors./it-s-rare-to-find-an-animated-film-that-bounces-around-as-weirdly-as-strange-magic.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-rare-to-find-an-animated-film-that-bounces-around-as-weirdly-as-strange-magic.htmlStrange Magic isn’t very magical, but it sure is strange. So many of today’s kids’ films, both good and bad, wear their inspirations on their sleeves. You can reenact the pitch meetings as you watch the movie, imagining what precise formula of previous hits mashed together gave rise to it. (Last year’s The Lego Movie brilliantly mocked such derivativeness, even as it shamelessly indulged in it.) But it’s rare to find a film that bounces around so weirdly, so uncomfortably between influences and subgenres as Strange Magic does./jack-black-took-maya-rudolph-to-her-first-groundlings-show.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jack-black-took-maya-rudolph-to-her-first-groundlings-show.htmlJack Black is a professional at playing teachers. The most obvious one is Dewey Finn in School of Rock, but by, like, the third Kung Fu Panda Po has become a master of kung fu and teaches a whole village of pandas how to kick ass. Black knows how to be a nurturing and thoughtful instructor— breaking out into songs probably helps calm any nerves. So it’s no surprise when Maya Rudolph shared on The Drew Barrymore Show that Black introduced her to improv when they were in high school and encouraged her to say, “Yes and./jake-lacy-s-change-of-pace.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jake-lacy-s-change-of-pace.htmlAfter years spent playing preternaturally charming, the White Lotus star finally gets to go full jerk. Writer-director Mike White told Lacy his character was at his worst when he thought he was being nice: “It’s just someone cocking their arm back and being like, Dude, don’t make me hit you.” Photo: Peter Fisher Writer-director Mike White told Lacy his character was at his worst when he thought he was being nice: “It’s just someone cocking their arm back and being like, Dude, don’t make me hit you./janelle-mon%C3%A1e-lets-go-of-her-and-our-anxiety.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/janelle-mon%C3%A1e-lets-go-of-her-and-our-anxiety.htmlJanelle Monáe doesn’t make albums. She builds worlds. At the outset, you’re swept up in a whirlwind of quirky characters and unique topography, and briefed on the overarching social order that connects them. Monáe is a formidable actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter with a sci-fi heart. Her music has often used robotics allegories to unpack present-day trauma, weaponizing extraordinary machines to extract truths about the human condition, just as Yoshiyuki Tomino’s Mobile Suit Gundam, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, and Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot play with house ethics and morality beneath the glint of precious metals./jenny-slate-is-getting-married.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jenny-slate-is-getting-married.htmlCongratulations to Jenny Slate, who just got engaged to her boyfriend, Ben Shattuck, while the two were vacationing in France! The actress shared the news in an Instagram post with a series of photos from their trip. “He took me to France and made a picnic and made me feel happy and free and then he asked me to marry him and i screamed YES. I love you @benshattuck_art, you are the kindest and brightest and I am so grateful and here we go and keep going,” Slate wrote./jim-parrack-on-true-blood-nude-scenes-and-his-bff-james-franco.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-parrack-on-true-blood-nude-scenes-and-his-bff-james-franco.htmlTrue Blood’s fourth season is in the midst of shooting, but Jim Parrack couldn’t tell us much when we ran into him at the Dressed to Kilt fashion show last night. “Alan [Ball] just debriefed us last week and said, ‘Be very, very careful,’ so there’s not much that I can say about what actually happens,” Parrack explained, but he happily teased, “This is the most shocking season yet. The things that happen with the relationships between people and creatures are so unpredictable and severe, it’s wild./jonathan-groff-appreciates-your-concern-when-he-goes-nude.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonathan-groff-appreciates-your-concern-when-he-goes-nude.htmlJonathan Groff. Back when Jonathan Groff toplined a revival of Hair, he was notably the only cast member in the free-love musical who didn’t have to take his clothes off. Still, don’t get the wrong idea about him: Groff’s not averse to going naked for a role, and in fact, images from his frontal nude scene in the film Twelve Thirty were all over the Internet last week. At last night’s premiere of Venus in Fur, we asked Groff if he had any idea that the DVD screen captures had hit the Net with a vengeance./just-go-with-it-again-jennifer-aniston-adam-sandler-will-reunite-for-netflix-comedy.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-go-with-it-again-jennifer-aniston-adam-sandler-will-reunite-for-netflix-comedy.htmlThrowback to Just Go With It. Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler are rebooting and reuniting. The Just Go With It duo will make a funny murder mystery for Netflix. Per Variety: “The story follows a New York cop (Sandler) and his wife (Aniston), who become prime suspects in the murder of an elderly billionaire while vacationing in Europe.” Sandler has a long-running deal with Netflix, but this will be Aniston’s first project with the streaming giant./kathleen-hanna-is-a-riot.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kathleen-hanna-is-a-riot.htmlThe Bikini Kill singer mined decades of trauma and joy to write her new memoir. She’s grateful she made it to the other side. Kathleen Hanna in Washington D.C., 1992. Photo: Linda Rosier Kathleen Hanna in Washington D.C., 1992. Like the feminist art she’s made for over 30 years — the incendiary punk anthems and DIY ballads, the electronic rock and blazing fanzines — Kathleen Hanna’s memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk, is by turns brutal and beautiful./ke-huy-quan-becomes-first-asian-man-to-win-individual-sag-award-for-film.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ke-huy-quan-becomes-first-asian-man-to-win-individual-sag-award-for-film.htmlKe Huy Quan’s victory lap through awards season has been a joy to behold. The selfies? Each one a thing of beauty. His role in Everything Everywhere All at Once was a tribute to loving and supportive husbands across the multiverse. But now Quan has made history becoming the first Asian man to win an individual film award at the 2023 SAG Awards. “This moment no longer belongs to just me, it also belongs to everyone who has asked for change,” he said in his speech./kelli-o-hara-and-will-chase-introduce-their-reexamined-kiss-me-kate.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelli-o-hara-and-will-chase-introduce-their-reexamined-kiss-me-kate.htmlThe production’s official key art. Currently, this spring’s production of Kiss Me, Kate is the only musical revival announced for the 2019 Broadway season, but its stars Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase promise it won’t be the traditional restaging you expect. Clad in glamorous costumes from Lilli Vanessi and Fred Graham, the stars spoke with Vulture at the show’s first photo shoot, and they promised that the essential elements of Samuel and Bella Spewack and Cole Porter’s 1948 musical (about feuding actors staging a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew) will be in place, but noted that there might be some aspects that need a second look./kelly-clarkson-served-death-becomes-her-realness-for-her-halloween-kellyoke-cover.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelly-clarkson-served-death-becomes-her-realness-for-her-halloween-kellyoke-cover.htmlKelly Clarkson doesn’t mess around when it comes to the holidays, especially not Halloween. Last year, she bewitched us with a Hocus Pocus–themed performance of “I Put a Spell on You” (one of her best Kellyoke covers ever), and now, she’s trying to one-up herself. On the October 30 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Clarkson served us full Death Becomes Her realness, wearing an elegant, glittering gown as Meryl Streep’s Madeline Ashton on an eerie mansion set./kenny-chesney-wants-to-assure-everyone-that-he-didn-t-actually-dislike-beyonc%C3%A9-s-cmas-performan.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kenny-chesney-wants-to-assure-everyone-that-he-didn-t-actually-dislike-beyonc%C3%A9-s-cmas-performan.htmlEagle-eyed viewers watching Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks’ masterful performance of “Daddy Lessons” at the Country Music Association Awards earlier this week might’ve noticed a visibly unamused Kenny Chesney standing in a sea of movin’ and shakin’ audience members, seemingly not loving what was happening onstage. His Instagram and Twitter accounts were soon bombarded with an onslaught of bee 🐝 and lemon 🍋 emojis — à la a certain Becky — from the Beyhive, who were in full-on attack mode over the apparent slight./kenny-g-is-in-on-the-joke.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kenny-g-is-in-on-the-joke.html“I wouldn’t have approached Kenny if I thought he was going to be super-sensitive,” Listening to Kenny G director Penny Lane explains. “It was very clear to me that he doesn’t give a shit.” Kenny G gets it. The chart-topping, Grammy-winning, multi-multi-multiplatinum-selling pop saxophonist — who released the most successful instrumental album ever in 1992 and is almost single-handedly responsible for creating the smooth-jazz radio format now inextricably associated with elevators, dentists’ offices, and waiting rooms — knows people hate him./kim-cattrall-no-fan-of-sex-talk-at-the-fish-counter.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kim-cattrall-no-fan-of-sex-talk-at-the-fish-counter.html“Anything from thongs to vibrators. That’s the least of it: fellatio, how to control the taste of a man’s semen. … I’m at a fish counter and this guy comes up to me and says, ‘You know, I just have to thank you. Thank you so much. There’s no way I could have really broached the subject about sex with my daughter without your help. Thank you.’ I’m at the fish counter with the father of a 13-year-old girl./kumail-nanjiani-s-feelings.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kumail-nanjiani-s-feelings.htmlThe man in the Marvel suit confronts his body. Photo: David Alekhuogie for New York Magazine Photo: David Alekhuogie for New York Magazine Kumail Nanjiani would like to remind everyone about his brain, but I’ve brought him to the gym to talk about his muscles. He gets that this is all people — especially men — have wanted to talk about since the photos. You’ve seen them. He strikes a superhero pose, his shirtless torso slicked with baby oil, displaying branching veins that crisscross his arms like a complex irrigation system./lawless-trailer-shia-labeouf-and-his-bootlegger-brothers.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lawless-trailer-shia-labeouf-and-his-bootlegger-brothers.htmlThe Transformers series has kept Shia LaBeouf busy — the only movie he’s put out in the last three years sans clanging robots was the sequel to Wall Street — but now that LaBeouf has parted ways with Michael Bay, it’s time for him to figure out who he’ll really be as an actor. Exhibit A: The Prohibition-era crime drama Lawless, which boasts an auteur director (John Hillcoat, who made The Proposition and The Road) and casts LaBeouf as the youngest of the Bondurant brothers, real-life moonshine bootleggers who attempt to fend off the special agent investigating them./looking-at-frida-kahlo-s-downright-racy-plant-paintings-at-the-botanical-garden.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/looking-at-frida-kahlo-s-downright-racy-plant-paintings-at-the-botanical-garden.htmlFrida Kahlo, with cacti. “We, like many people, knew Frida Kahlo as one of the most important artists of the 20th century — and, dare I say it, as a cultural icon,” Todd Forrest, vice-president for horticulture and living collections at the New York Botanical Garden, quipped at the press opening May 16 for “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life.” Heck, the Times “Styles” section had just the week before declared that the artist was “having a moment./looking-for-connection-in-primary-trust-and-the-fears.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/looking-for-connection-in-primary-trust-and-the-fears.htmlWilliam Jackson Harper in Primary Trust, at the Laura Pels. Theater seems to have loneliness on the mind. In recent works like King James and Summer, 1976, I’ve seen intimate explorations of friendship, and in plays like The Trees, a consideration of the dynamics of community—all tinged by a few pandemic years spent with little human interaction. A stage is a good space to conjure togetherness, and so is an audience./louis-c-k-and-his-dedication-to-experimental-film.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/louis-c-k-and-his-dedication-to-experimental-film.htmlLast year when Louis C.K. released his 1998 feature film debut Tomorrow Night, it seemed like a move that didn’t quite add up. Here’s this guy, A-list comedian, has his own cable TV show – suddenly he’s putting out this black and white art film. Why? His show now isn’t necessarily laugh-out-loud funny, but it’s certainly a different kind of thing than Tomorrow Night. That’s like Lars von Trier showing us all a HBO half hour from 20 years ago./louis-c-k-andrew-dice-clay-to-join-woody-allen-film.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/louis-c-k-andrew-dice-clay-to-join-woody-allen-film.htmlLOUIE: Louis C.K. stars in LOUIE, a new comedy airing on FX. Woody Allen has announced the remainder of the cast for his next film, and the director has added Louis C.K. (presaged by Vulture!) and Andrew Dice Clay (well!) to a movie already populated by Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, and Michael Emerson. Also, that Bradley Cooper rumor never panned out, as he’s not in the film; you will get Peter Sarsgaard, though./love-torture-and-conspiracies-utopia-is-for-you.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-torture-and-conspiracies-utopia-is-for-you.htmlUtopia understands the giddy fervor of plunging down the rabbit hole. Fiction is often measured on its relevance to the current moment, even though sometimes “relevance” is mistaken for being topical. Utopia, the new Amazon Prime adaptation of a U.K. show, spearheaded by Gillian Flynn, is weirdly, upsettingly topical. It’s a show about a band of misfits trying to stop a devastating virus from causing the end of the world./mall-cops-vs-werewolves-who-will-rule-2009.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mall-cops-vs-werewolves-who-will-rule-2009.html500 Days of Summer, oh la la. Two months ago, we looked out on the upcoming slate of film releases and boldly declared that 2009 would be the Year of the Werewolf, with hairy-faced Lycans finally putting an end to the box-office hegemony of vampires — but that was way before Paul Blart: Mall Cop made $39 million over four days this weekend. Even though the coming weeks and months will bring wolf-starring movies like Underworld 3, The Wolf Man, and First Howl, we’ll also see April’s Observe and Report, in which Seth Rogen plays a racist mall security guard, and the new, just-announced-today Fox sitcomWalorsky, which follows “the exploits of an ex-cop who now patrols a shopping mall in Buffalo, NY” (Fox claims to have picked up the show prior to Blart’s baffling MLK Day success)./mastodon-s-brann-dailor-on-scoring-the-jonah-hex-movie-and-his-halloween-costume.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mastodon-s-brann-dailor-on-scoring-the-jonah-hex-movie-and-his-halloween-costume.htmlThanks to their pulverizing sound, an endorsement from Metallica, and their dinosaur-elephant name, Atlanta metal band Mastodon are one of the genre’s biggest recent crossover successes. Their new album, Crack the Skye, is a tribute to drummer Brian Dailor’s sister, who committed suicide when he was a teenager. Dailor spoke with Vulture about Skye, doing the music for the upcoming Jonah Hex movie, and what fans can expect at their show tonight at the Hammerstein Ballroom./mayfair-witches-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mayfair-witches-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlAMC, having already dabbled into the late great Anne Rice’s supernatural world with Interview With the Vampire, is now trying some dark magic. Alexandra Daddario stars as Rowan, a young woman who learns that is actually the heir to a long line of witches who have all been haunted by an entity known as Lasher. Mayfair Witches, an adaptation of Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, also stars Tongayi Chirisa, Jack Huston, and Harry Hamlin./monarch-legacy-of-monsters-series-premiere-recap-godzilla-returns.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-series-premiere-recap-godzilla-returns.htmlMonarch: Legacy of Monsters Aftermath Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Aftermath Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The secret of most of the 30-plus Godzilla movies that have come out over the past 69 years is that the King of the Monsters doesn’t actually have a ton of screen time in them./nicki-minaj-s-anaconda-sets-vevo-record-for-most-views-in-24-hours.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicki-minaj-s-anaconda-sets-vevo-record-for-most-views-in-24-hours.htmlYes, you and everyone you know were looking at Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” — that twerky, male-gaze-upending, Drake-filled wonder in the jungle. Within 24 hours of its release, the music video racked up 19.6 million views, breaking the record previously set by Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” (which had 19.3 million views). We have to point out, though, that this is a Vevo record, and not a YouTube record, and that the record holder for most views in the first 24 hours likely belongs to the comedic Korean singer Psy and his song with Snoop Dogg, “Gentleman./not-great-bob-the-making-of-mad-men-s-greatest-meme.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/not-great-bob-the-making-of-mad-men-s-greatest-meme.htmlPete Campbell’s terse response to Bob Benson wasn’t written as a joke, but it became one almost instantly. Mad Men was a show about people who make a living by selling succinct, memorable catchphrases in the name of capitalism, so it tracks that the AMC prestige drama generated its fair share of memorable quotes and memes, from Don Draper’s “That’s what the money is for” to Peggy Olson’s “deal with it” hallway strut./now-why-is-ben-affleck-dragging-jennifer-garner-into-this.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/now-why-is-ben-affleck-dragging-jennifer-garner-into-this.htmlBen Affleck and Jennifer Garner. Ben Affleck has been making the rounds to promote his new film The Tender Bar, and more importantly, to discuss his life as a celebrity. The actor recently said we wouldn’t get more details about his reconnection with Jennifer Lopez earlier this year, but on The Howard Stern Show on December 14, he wasn’t as averse to discussing his 2015 split from Jennifer Garner./outlander-s-stephen-walters-on-kissing-claire-and-having-a-mouth-full-of-fake-blood.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/outlander-s-stephen-walters-on-kissing-claire-and-having-a-mouth-full-of-fake-blood.htmlSpoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Outlander. Raise a glass for Angus Mhor, one of the casualties of the Battle of Prestonpans. You knew going into the episode that one of our favorite Scottish highlanders would have to die — this is war, after all — but it almost wasn’t Angus. The character initially chosen by the writers for this tragic end, Willie, dodged a bullet when the actor (Finn Den Hertog) took another job and became unavailable./paddington-s-newest-adventure-sets-a-date.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paddington-s-newest-adventure-sets-a-date.htmlHe’s back! Our delightful little British bear is expanding his inner circle. Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, and Emily Mortimer will join Paddington for his next amusing adventure, Paddington in Peru, the third installment in theheartwarming series. The film follows the talking bear’s journey to the South American country to visit his sweet Aunt Lucy in the Home for Retired Bears. Though Paddington himself is rendered in CGI, all of the human actors will film on location in the U./photos-the-weird-stories-from-behind-the-scenes-of-neighbors.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/photos-the-weird-stories-from-behind-the-scenes-of-neighbors.htmlNeighbors Every day was a party on the set of Neighbors, and often quite literally. Director Nicholas Stoller staged several full-scale frat bashes for the movie — which finds new parents Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne warring with the rowdy, Zac Efron–led frat house next door — and those shindigs inspired plenty of weird stories, as any good party ought to. Click through as Stoller takes us through eight photos snapped behind the scenes of Neighbors and dishes on what the camera won’t show you./playwright-terrence-mcnally-dead-at-81-from-coronavirus-complications.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/playwright-terrence-mcnally-dead-at-81-from-coronavirus-complications.htmlTerrence McNally Terrence McNally, the boundary-breaking playwright, has died due to complications related to the coronavirus. McNally was 81, and was a lung-cancer survivor with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1938, McNally built a wide-ranging career in theater, working on everything from intimate dramas, like Frankie and Johnny and the Clair de Lune, to epic musicals, like Ragtime, to landmark portrayals of gay men, as in Love!/producer-lindsay-shookus-waves-final-good-night-to-snl.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/producer-lindsay-shookus-waves-final-good-night-to-snl.htmlYet another SNL shake-up has been announced. Following the May 20 news that cast members Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, and Kyle Mooney would not be returning for the show’s upcoming 48th season, Lindsay Shookus, the show’s veteran producer and head of talent, has announced that she will be departing the show as well. In an Instagram post, Shookus revealed that she’d be leaving her role to pursue other endeavors after 20 seasons, 415 live shows, and a bundle of fond memories./quantico-recap-surveillance-date.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quantico-recap-surveillance-date.htmlQuantico God Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Quantico God Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, damn. Quantico doesn’t come across as a show that aims to put its characters through too much turmoil outside of the crazy terrorism frame and the soap operatics of FBI Summer Camp, but “God” is a taut hour that doesn’t set out to do much, plotwise, other than apply serious pressure to the cast and their relationships./saturday-night-live-recap-halloween-homecoming.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-night-live-recap-halloween-homecoming.htmlSaturday Night Live Jack Harlow Season 48 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Jack Harlow Season 48 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A familiar face had a welcome homecoming on SNL this weekend, just in time for Halloween./seitz-showtime-s-penny-dreadful-is-a-wonderful-surprise.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seitz-showtime-s-penny-dreadful-is-a-wonderful-surprise.htmlPenny Dreadful, starring Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, and Josh Hartnett as adventurers piecing together a ghastly and possibly supernatural conspiracy in Victorian London, is a wonderful surprise, provided you have a high tolerance for gore and will go wherever the show’s delightfully absurd story takes you. Set around the time of Jack the Ripper’s murder spree, the show’s first episode kicks off with a horrifying but artfully elided atrocity and continues from there./seth-green-answers-every-question-we-have-about-the-italian-job.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seth-green-answers-every-question-we-have-about-the-italian-job.htmlRole Call Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Role Call Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. The Italian Job wasn’t just a job for Seth Green — it was the job that paired him with a distinguished Hollywood veteran, three current A-listers, a rap legend, and the Transporter himself, Jason Statham./sorry-villanelle-fiona-shaw-is-my-killing-eve-fashion-idol.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sorry-villanelle-fiona-shaw-is-my-killing-eve-fashion-idol.htmlEmmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13. Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13. Killing Eve has some of the most sublime costuming on television. Villanelle’s clothes are as colorful and unpredictable as she is, exuding an irreverent sensuality and an indulgent whimsy./stanley-dural-jr-buckwheat-zydeco-front-man-and-accordionist-dead-at-68.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stanley-dural-jr-buckwheat-zydeco-front-man-and-accordionist-dead-at-68.htmlStanley Dural Jr., known by his stage name Buckwheat, died on Saturday in his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. He was 68. Since 1979, his band, Buckwheat Zydeco, brought zydeco — a style of music that combines traditional Creole instruments and sounds with R&B and rock  — to the world outside the Gulf Coast region. The popularity of the band’s live concerts led to Island Records signing Buckwheat Zydeco in 1987, making the group the first zydeco act to release an LP with a major record label./stevie-nicks-memorializes-christine-mcvie-her-best-friend-in-the-whole-world.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stevie-nicks-memorializes-christine-mcvie-her-best-friend-in-the-whole-world.htmlChristine McVie, the prolific soul of Fleetwood Mac, died November 30 at the age of 79 following a short illness. Stevie Nicks, her songbird in music and life for nearly five decades, released a statement to honor their relationship, which began when Nicks joined the band for their Fleetwood Mac album. “A few hours ago I was told that my best friend in the whole world since the first day of 1975 had passed away./sufjan-stevens-on-the-first-time-he-saw-call-me-by-your-name.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sufjan-stevens-on-the-first-time-he-saw-call-me-by-your-name.htmlSufjan Stevens has now seen Call Me by Your Name four times, but the very first time he went to watch it, he was dreading the experience. It was a little over a year ago when director Luca Guadagnino invited the singer-songwriter to northern Italy to watch an early edit of the acclaimed romance, which memorably uses three songs sung by Stevens, two of which — “Mystery of Love” and “Visions of Gideon” — he wrote expressly for the film./take-the-new-york-times-grunge-quiz.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-the-new-york-times-grunge-quiz.html“Which song was Nirvana told not to play at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards?” Answer carefully, or else the paper of record will know you’re a poser. [NYT] Take the New York Times Grunge Quiz ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgbny1rcqelq2glZS7psO%2Bsqaro4%2Bptq6x0pieq62enLJvtNOmow%3D%3D/taylor-swift-trades-snakes-for-hearts-to-tease-new-music.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-trades-snakes-for-hearts-to-tease-new-music.htmlLong live Taylor Swift’s Slytherin past. A blinged-out pastel phase is now upon us! Just after midnight on Saturday, the songstress made a series of power moves across her social media channels that strongly imply she’ll be releasing new music on Friday, April 26. Let’s consult the facts: On her Twitter and Instagram pages, she’s redesigned all of her photos to dreamy landscapes and hearts, with a caption of “4./terrence-malick-s-knight-of-cups-feels-like-self-parody.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/terrence-malick-s-knight-of-cups-feels-like-self-parody.htmlKnight of Cups. Terrence Malick’s last cinematic devotional, To the Wonder, offered a radiant vision of Mont Saint-Michel, an island abbey off the coast of Normandy that glowed with the intensity of the Holy Grail. His newest cine-liturgical montage, Knight of Cups, focuses on the lower sphere, a world of façades and garish materialism: Hollywood. If movies are, indeed, both a product of and a road to hell, Malick is doing his damnedest to transcend the medium./the-20-best-action-movies-on-max.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-20-best-action-movies-on-max.htmlRobocop. Don't have Max yet? Sign up here This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter Max. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. Action movies have long been the most successful genre at home, as viewers try to replicate that rush they got at the movie theater in their own living room. The Max (formerly HBO Max) selection of action flicks is predictably dense, bringing in some of the DC Universe, classic genre movies, and modern hits./the-25-best-college-comedies-of-all-time.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-25-best-college-comedies-of-all-time.htmlCollege is among the most formative times in life, at least for the financially fortunate, loan-securing, and/or moderately ambitious among us. This is probably because it’s the first taste of freedom most people get away from home, their parents, and everything else that has defined them for the first 18 years of their lives. The experience is also pretty much similar for everybody. You know who went to college? Screenwriters and filmmakers./the-30-most-important-sex-scenes-in-movie-history.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-30-most-important-sex-scenes-in-movie-history.htmlWelcome to Sexpositions, a weeklong Vulture celebration of sex scenes in movies and on TV. Sex scenes have a rich, varied tradition in the cinema. They’ve gone through periods of near-ubiquity, as well as scarcity. In the 1960s and ‘70s, they were often used for shock value and to shake viewer complacency. In the 1980s, they were commodified in startling ways. These days, they tend to be relatively rare./the-32-greatest-talk-show-hosts-ever-ranked.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-32-greatest-talk-show-hosts-ever-ranked.htmlOut with David Letterman, Jon Stewart, Craig Ferguson, and Stephen Colbert. In with Trevor Noah, James Corden, Larry Wilmore, and Stephen Colbert. Lately, networks have been changing talk-show hosts faster than Zsa Zsa Gabor changed husbands. (That joke is our tribute to Johnny Carson.) The final piece falls into place tonight, when Colbert makes his CBS debut in Letterman’s old chair. After a long period of late-night firing, retiring, and hiring, it’s time to quantify the monologues and interviews, and crown the all-time kings (and a few queens) of talk./the-bad-batch-recap-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-no-one-can-hear-you-scream.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bad-batch-recap-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-no-one-can-hear-you-scream.htmlThe Bad Batch Metamorphosis Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch Metamorphosis Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This is a rather frustrating episode of The Bad Batch, because it showcases the best and the worst of the series./the-below-deck-med-reunion-finally-gave-hannah-a-chance-to-defend-herself.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-below-deck-med-reunion-finally-gave-hannah-a-chance-to-defend-herself.htmlFor those of us with the willpower to keep watching this cursed season of Below Deck Mediterranean after the finale, the first part of the reunion on Watch What Happens Live featured the return of former chief stew Hannah Ferrier. Ferrier’s firing, for having undeclared Valium and CBD onboard, was the bombshell in a season of bombshells, bumping Christine “Bugsy” Drake up to chief stew and marking the end for a cast member who’d been with Med from the start./the-best-and-most-existential-of-switchfoot-according-to-jon-foreman.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-and-most-existential-of-switchfoot-according-to-jon-foreman.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “I think if there was a song that captured the essence of what we’ve been doing and what we’re trying to speak to, ‘Dare You to Move’ would be probably the one.” To Jon Foreman, songwriting is a sacred thing./the-dubious-charms-of-bruno-mars.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dubious-charms-of-bruno-mars.htmlIsn’t he lovely? Now that his first solo LP is out — it’s called Doo-Wops & Hooligans — ace industry songwriter, producer, go-to hook singer, and adorable hat-wearer Bruno Mars has three songs on Billboard’s “Hot 100.” Radio Vulture is in the uncomfortable position of finding them all faintly annoying, and since I’ve always believed the first duty of a good hater is to show your work, I should probably explain why./the-exorcist-believer-possesses-the-box-office.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-exorcist-believer-possesses-the-box-office.htmlAfter moving up their premiere date one week out of fear of the force of Taylor Swift, The Exorcist: Believer has one week of owning the screams of terror before the Swifties take over with screams of delight. The sequel film (one that is launching a new trilogy, mind you) earned $11.9 million on Friday and is expected to earn $28 million over the opening weekend. Compared to recent horror releases like the playful Saw X and the lucrative but biblical The Nun 2, Believer falls somewhere in the middle./the-faces-of-sundance-2018.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-faces-of-sundance-2018.htmlVulture welcomed such guests as Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Octavia Spencer, and Aubrey Plaza to our photo studio. Photo: Bobby Doherty for Vulture Photo: Bobby Doherty for Vulture Andrea Riseborough, Nancy and Mandy; and J. Smith-Cameron, Nancy. Photo: Bobby Doherty. Andrea Riseborough, Nancy and Mandy; and J. Smith-Cameron, Nancy. Photo: Bobby Doherty. Nicolas Cage, Mandy. Linus Roache, Mandy. Paul Rudd and director Ben Lewin, The Catcher Was a Spy Chloe Sevigny and director Craig William Macneill, Lizzie Photo: Bobby Doherty. Chloe Sevigny and director Craig William Macneill, Lizzie Photo: Bobby Doherty./the-fug-girls-s-history-of-mickey-rourke-fashion.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fug-girls-s-history-of-mickey-rourke-fashion.htmlThe upcoming debut of Iron Man 2 this weekend has prompted several questions from savvy pop-culture observers. For example, how many millions will it make, and if it’s fewer millions than the first Iron Man, do we get to blame Scarlett Johansson? But the most anticipated question, really, has been: What on earth will Mickey Rourke be wearing when he’s out on his promotional rounds? Throughout his rough-and-tumble, ebb-and-flow career, Mickey’s been metamorphosing sartorially as much as he has physically./the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-recap-missed-opportunities.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-recap-missed-opportunities.htmlThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel A House Full of Extremely Lame Horses Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel A House Full of Extremely Lame Horses Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week’s episode was a lot./the-morning-show-recap-is-this-normal.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-morning-show-recap-is-this-normal.htmlThe Morning Show Kill the Fatted Calf Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Morning Show Kill the Fatted Calf Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have to believe that one of the names in contention for the title of this here program had to be People Are Spiraling because while The Morning Show is fine, People Are Spiraling really gets to the heart of what’s happening./the-solsbury-puzzle.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-solsbury-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. More Crosswords The Spice Puzzle The Action Puzzle The Hairdresser Puzzle See All The Solsbury Puzzle ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlpbGdhZnylrcilsGaboqTAtMPOq5tmqKWvx62xjKemr52dl7KzeZJpZaGsnaE%3D/the-story-behind-the-grown-ups-3-script-that-s-taken-over-comedy-twitter.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-behind-the-grown-ups-3-script-that-s-taken-over-comedy-twitter.html2equels W3ek 4ise5 Brought to you by 2equels W3ek 4ise5 Brought to you by Make this happen, Hollywood. This story originally ran in 2020. We are republishing it in honor of Vulture’s Sequels Week. When most people went on the internet Monday, they weren’t expecting to care about another Grown Ups movie. People have been largely dismissive of the Grown Ups franchise, even right now when Adam Sandler is arguably being embraced by journalists in a way he’s never experienced./the-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-recap-paris-kinda-sucks.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-recap-paris-kinda-sucks.htmlThe Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon La Dame de Fer Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon La Dame de Fer Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Paris may be the City of Love, but love can get a little twisted in the apocalypse./this-is-us-recap-aches-and-pains.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-us-recap-aches-and-pains.htmlThis Is Us The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh, This Is Us fam, where do we even begin?/this-is-where-i-leave-you-trailer-family-ties.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-where-i-leave-you-trailer-family-ties.htmlHere’s your first look at Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You, a family dramedy based on Jonathan Tropper’s 2009 novel. (Tropper also adapted the screenplay.) Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, and Corey Stoll star as adult siblings who return home after their father’s death; Jane Fonda plays their mother, and Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard, Ben Schwartz, Abigail Spencer, Kathryn Hahn, and Rose Byrne fill out the supporting cast./this-lip-sync-battle-between-randy-couture-and-gabriel-iglesias-is-the-worst-but-also-kind-of-the-be.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-lip-sync-battle-between-randy-couture-and-gabriel-iglesias-is-the-worst-but-also-kind-of-the-be.htmlImagine you’re drunk at 4 a.m. in a karaoke bar in K-Town. One guy is passed out on the corner, two of your friends just took a very long bathroom break, and someone is trying to sing R. Kelly’s “Ignition” — only it’s not the remix version, because they never have the remix at this place, but someone always forgets. Your vision blurs as the mini-light display flutters across your eyes, and you look at the thimble-size cup in your hand and ask yourself, Why am I still drinking this soju?/this-month-in-comedy-podcasts-taylor-tomlinson-s-sad-in-the-city.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-month-in-comedy-podcasts-taylor-tomlinson-s-sad-in-the-city.htmlThis article was featured in 1.5x Speed, New York’s podcast recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it weekly. This article was featured in 1.5x Speed, New York’s podcast recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it weekly. Taylor Tomlinson. The comedy-podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional and the noteworthy./throw-that-yule-log-away-and-join-terry-crews-for-a-cozy-christmas-painting-session.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/throw-that-yule-log-away-and-join-terry-crews-for-a-cozy-christmas-painting-session.htmlBefore you ask, no, NBC’s LIVE! A Very Terry Christmas: Cozy 24-Hour Painting Sesh With Terry Crews did not confine the Brooklyn-Nine Nine star to a faux living room somewhere he was forced to paint, sleep, eat and use the bathroom in the simulacrum of a cheery holiday house until he collapsed from carpal tunnel and paint fumes. We know; we asked. Instead, the network is seemingly streaming a relaxing daylong loop of Terry Crews paining a pretty excellent Christmas tree, soothing you with a calm Bob Ross-style patter and sharing stream of consciousness musings such as, “All judgement stops creativity./tina-fey-and-amy-poehler-already-have-super-bowl-plans.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tina-fey-and-amy-poehler-already-have-super-bowl-plans.htmlThe NFL season is only a few weeks old, but the Super Bowl is already on people’s minds. On September 24, the NFL announced that Usher would headline the big game’s halftime show; Taylor Swift fans are making plans to tune into the spectacle in the event that her new love interest, Travis Kelce, and his team the Kansas City Chiefs repeat last year’s appearance; and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have decided to go head-to-head with the ratings juggernaut by booking a competing tour date./tom-skerritt-has-a-story-to-tell.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-skerritt-has-a-story-to-tell.htmlFor five decades, Tom Skerritt has played key supporting roles in some indelible films — from Robert Altman’s revolutionary comedy M*A*S*H to Ridley Scott’s sci-horror masterpiece Alien to Tony Scott’s Tom Cruise–powered action-star watershed Top Gun. The man does seem to have an uncanny ability to pick projects that will have a long shelf life — everything from Up in Smoke and Harold and Maude to Singles, Steel Magnolias, Poison Ivy, and Contact./uh-t-j-holmes-s-and-amy-robach-s-exes-are-dating-too.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uh-t-j-holmes-s-and-amy-robach-s-exes-are-dating-too.htmlShue (look familiar?) and Fiebig. One year ago today, ABC removed T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach from the anchor desk of GMA3, silencing two TV hosts in love who just happened to be married to different people. Robach and Holmes opened up about their relationship for the first time on their new podcast, Amy & T.J. But somehow, that’s not close to the wildest news in their saga./watch-a-tribe-called-quest-s-q-tip-and-jarobi-rap-phife-dawg-s-brilliant-lyrics.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-a-tribe-called-quest-s-q-tip-and-jarobi-rap-phife-dawg-s-brilliant-lyrics.htmlThe night after Donald Trump won the presidency, A Tribe Called Quest gathered at MoMA PS1 in Queens (where they’re from) to prove there were still things to celebrate. The seminal rap group had overcome decades of bad blood to release their first album in 18 years, which is also their last, and were prepping to appear on Saturday Night Live this week with Dave Chappelle. Technically, this was a listening party for the new album, We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service, and there were plenty of excited fans in the room scrambling to get selfies with Q-Tip./watch-out-for-falling-rock.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-out-for-falling-rock.htmlStuck between a Yellowstone and a hard place. You thought the dual strikes would produce some original content while studios had a couple of free months to mind-map new shows? Well, Paramount and showrunner Taylor Sheridan thought otherwise. The network ordered two additional spinoffs of Yellowstone — America’s most-watched series about a family who owns the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the country — currently titled 1944 and 2024./wecrashed-disrupts-nothing.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wecrashed-disrupts-nothing.htmlIf there is one benefit to the gruelingly long, impressively ill-conceived WeCrashed, it’s how clear the series is, perhaps unintentionally, in its depiction of one dispiriting truism that fellow scammer shows Inventing Anna and The Dropout have both alluded to but not necessarily prioritized in their narrative: Money is made up, and the “valuation” process is an arbitrary echo chamber. Admittedly, that is a fairly basic observation about how all these “disruptor” companies made billions of dollars in whatever stage of capitalism we’re currently in./what-s-your-favorite-christine-mcvie-fleetwood-mac-song.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-your-favorite-christine-mcvie-fleetwood-mac-song.htmlIf Fleetwood Mac and “underrated” could somehow go in the same sentence, we’d be talking about Christine McVie, who died on November 30 at 79. Though never as big of a personality as Stevie Nicks or Lindsey Buckingham, the singer, songwriter, and keyboardist was a cornerstone of the group even before she joined the band, playing keys in studio sessions and painting the album art for 1970’s Kiln House. Once she became an official member (she’d infamously married the bassist, John McVie), she asserted herself as one of the group’s core songwriters./when-america-met-sin%C3%A9ad-o-connor.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-america-met-sin%C3%A9ad-o-connor.htmlSinead O’Connor has died at the age of 56. In light of her passing, we’re re-running this 2022 essay on the singer’s first Stateside performance. February 22, 1989, the 31st annual Grammy Awards. Among the nominees for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female are Tina Turner, Pat Benatar, Melissa Etheridge, Toni Childs, and Sinéad O’Connor. O’Connor has performed once on Late Night with David Letterman, but she has yet to appear on primetime American television./when-did-nick-jonas-get-hot.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-did-nick-jonas-get-hot.htmlAs the publicity blitz for his new album keeps reminding us, Nick Jonas is sexy now. For adults who didn’t grow up idolizing the Jonas Brothers, it’s a disconcerting transition — that adorable, promise-ringed moppet has turned into a shirt-doffing, penis-grabbing hunk. How did this happen? And, just as important, when? For casual observers, one date will live in infamy: July 30, 2013, the day a 20-year-old Jonas showed off the Jonabs in an instantly viral shirtless Instagram./why-kenan-thompson-is-the-most-underrated-snl-cast-member-ever.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-kenan-thompson-is-the-most-underrated-snl-cast-member-ever.htmlKenan Thompson on SNL. Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series Underrated, we chat with writers and performers from the comedy world about an unsung comedy moment of their choosing that they think deserves more praise. Jan Hooks used to refer to Phil Hartman as “The Glue.” As a Saturday Night Live cast member from 1986–1994, Hartman discovered that the most effective way to separate himself from the rest of the herd was by binding the herd together./wicked-little-letters-should-ve-been-for-the-sickos.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wicked-little-letters-should-ve-been-for-the-sickos.htmlThere’s a great psychosexual drama lurking inside this otherwise serviceable trifle starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley. For the most part, Wicked Little Letters is a serviceable trifle. It’s a bouncy English countryside jaunt that would be perfect as a weekend PBS movie — if it weren’t for the sexually graphic profanity driving the plot, of course. This is more critique than praise, because the film wastes the very clear assets it has, including a premise bursting with possibility and a cast headlined by Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley./yes-that-was-paris-jackson-in-swarm.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-that-was-paris-jackson-in-swarm.htmlOh, there’s layers to this casting. Swarm dropped today on Amazon Prime Video, and the internet is buzzing over a scene where a stripper named Hailey describes herself as Black and explains, “My dad’s half.” The show’s main character, Dre — hearing this information but not seeing it — asks incredulously, “Half what? Black?” “Yeah,” Hailey replies. “That’s why my stage name’s Halsey.” As it turns out, Hailey is played by none other than Paris Jackson … yes, as in the daughter of Michael Jackson./your-box-office-explained-wimpy-kid-sucker-punches-sucker-punch.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-box-office-explained-wimpy-kid-sucker-punches-sucker-punch.htmlThis Weekend’s Winner: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (No. 1 with $24.4 million). Julian Schnabel’s Miral, modest $65,000 from just four screens. This Weekend’s Loser: Zach Snyder’s Sucker Punch (No. 2 with just $19 million) How It All Went Down: Despite spending more than double what it cost to make Diary of a Wimpy Kid just to advertise Sucker Punch, the ladies somewhat predictably passed on the film./20-must-see-movies-on-the-new-kino-film-collection.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-must-see-movies-on-the-new-kino-film-collection.htmlBattleship Potemkin. Everyone knows about how great the Criterion Channel is, but have you heard about the Kino Film Collection? You should. The film distributor Kino Lorber — known for its arthouse and international releases — launched its own channel on Prime Video in November. For $5.99 per month, the collection includes new Kino Lorber releases like Chile ’76 and Four Daughters along with hundreds of catalog titles from acclaimed filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Bujalski, Jia Zhangke, Jafar Panahi, and Todd Haynes./a-brief-history-of-onscreen-periods.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-history-of-onscreen-periods.htmlUntil as recently as 1972, pads and tampons couldn’t be advertised on TV. When the ban was finally lifted, the ads were far from accurate — instead of blood, a blue liquid was used to show absorbency. It wasn’t until 13 years later, in 1985, that the word “period” (as a reference to menstruation) was even uttered on TV, by a pre-Friends Courtney Cox in a Tampax commercial. The evolution of how we think and talk about periods has been both influenced and mirrored by depictions onscreen./a-new-show-restages-matthew-barney-s-1991-breakthrough-and-it-s-even-better-the-second-time.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-show-restages-matthew-barney-s-1991-breakthrough-and-it-s-even-better-the-second-time.htmlMatthew Barney, DRILL TEAM: screw BOLUS (1991). By the time Matthew Barney’s debut solo show opened at Barbara Gladstone’s Greene Street gallery in 1991, the work of this 24-year-old artist had already rocked my world. The previous year, in an otherwise unremarkable large group show in the now-defunct Althea Viafora Gallery in Soho, I saw a TV monitor depicting a naked male — Barney — scaling a rope to the ceiling, then descending over a shape of cooled Vaseline./actress-karen-black-dead-at-74.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/actress-karen-black-dead-at-74.htmlActress Karen Black, best known for her roles in Nashville and Five Easy Pieces died today of ampullary cancer, her husband Stephen Eckelberry confirmed on Facebook. She was 74. Black rose to fame in 1969’s Easy Rider, and followed that film up with Five Easy Pieces (for which she was nominated for an Oscar); Drive, He Said; A Gunfight, and then won a Golden Globe for her role as Myrtle Wilson in 1974’s The Great Gatsby./adria-arjona-had-a-full-mood-board-for-hit-man-s-sexy-scenes.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adria-arjona-had-a-full-mood-board-for-hit-man-s-sexy-scenes.htmlMood board vibes. Pinterest: great for weddings and for blocking sexy, passionate movie scenes. Get your head out of the gutter; we’re talking about Glen Powell’s latest film, Hit Man. If you loved the sensual chemistry between Powell and his co-star Adria Arjona, you have her to thank — it wasn’t in the original script of the movie. She told Cosmopolitan that she created a “full mood board of images” that she wanted to have them replicate during the intimate moments./akon-exclusively-to-blame-for-your-earache.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/akon-exclusively-to-blame-for-your-earache.htmlMartin Klimas’s Amaryllis IV (2007) “I say ‘you’re welcome’ every time I hear [rappers singing].” —Akon takes credit for Kanye’s new album [MTV] “He’s an idiot. He’s always going on about these brilliant songs he’s written. And I’m like, ‘Well let’s hear ‘em, then.’ If I were walking around all day and seven hours out of eight, was telling everybody what a great songwriter I’d become over the last three weeks, I’d want to play them to people./all-the-ways-the-woman-in-the-window-s-book-and-movie-endings-differ.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-the-ways-the-woman-in-the-window-s-book-and-movie-endings-differ.htmlSpoilers ahead.  After two years of waiting and wondering when Amy Adams will know peace, The Woman in the Window finally dropped on Netflix on Friday. Adapted from the psychological thriller by Dan Mallory (under the pseudonym A. J. Finn), the film follows Adams as Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist who believes she’s witnessed the murder of her next-door neighbor and new friend (Julianne Moore). But when she meets Alistair Russell (Gary Oldman), he tells her she’s never met his wife, Jane (Jennifer Jason Leigh)./angela-kinsey-vulture.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/angela-kinsey-vulture.htmlshe’s ba-ack Sept. 25, 2023 Dunder Mifflin Is RestockingA reboot of The Office? Is this what we were fighting for? By Jason P. Frank ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeRo7SmuMBmoqKmo5rGcA%3D%3D/annamarie-tendler-vulture.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/annamarie-tendler-vulture.htmlcomedians in cars getting coffee July 6, 2018 The Funniest Moment From the New Season of Comedians in Cars Getting CoffeeHow Annamarie Tendler won John Mulaney’s episode with a look. By Jesse David Fox ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeRo7uiucCroJ5lpJq7pbjEq2Y%3D/armie-hammer-is-sorry-for-his-asshat-tweet-about-stan-lee.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/armie-hammer-is-sorry-for-his-asshat-tweet-about-stan-lee.htmlCall Me by Your Apology. Gather ‘round Hammer Heads, Armie Wives, and the real-life Winklevoss twins who definitely smugly read that New York Times Facebook exposé: After Armie Hammer shaded fans for posting selfies with Stan Lee after the comic-book icon’s death, Hammer has apologized. “While attempting to provide some unnecessary social commentary about the current selfie culture, I (in true asshat form — thank you Jeffrey Dean Morgan) inadvertently offended many who were genuinely grieving the loss of a true icon,” Hammer wrote on a Notes-app screenshot./art-ificial-intelligence-vulture.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/art-ificial-intelligence-vulture.htmllast night on late night Apr. 2, 2024 Jon Stewart Unleashes His Censored AI Critiques“The way of life you’re accustomed to is no match for the promise of more profits and new markets.” By Hershal Pandya ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeRp8FutcWimqKZnGK2r8DEpaOin5WjsKZ7/ashton-kutcher-and-reese-witherspoon-hook-up-for-netflix-rom-com-your-place-or-mine.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ashton-kutcher-and-reese-witherspoon-hook-up-for-netflix-rom-com-your-place-or-mine.htmlReese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher will have to clean up good for his new role opposite Reese Witherspoon in the Netflix rom-com Your Place or Mine. Aline Brosh McKenna of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend wrote the script and will make her feature-film directorial debut with the project, per Deadline. Witherspoon and Kutcher star as two best friends on opposite coasts who swap homes for a week and … [cheesy rom-com twist to be disclosed]./below-deck-down-under-recap-the-ceo-returns.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/below-deck-down-under-recap-the-ceo-returns.htmlBelow Deck Down Under Ice, Ice, Maybe Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Down Under Ice, Ice, Maybe Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Aside from the growing tension between the crew in both departments and season one deckhand Culver’s return, this episode was sort of a snoozefest./beyonc%C3%A9-leads-the-2023-grammy-nominations-with-9.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonc%C3%A9-leads-the-2023-grammy-nominations-with-9.htmlQueen, to you. Good morning to Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, and the rest of the Knowles-Carters. The 65th annual Grammy Award nominations were announced by Olivia Rodrigo, Jimmie Allen, Cyndi Lauper, Smokey Robinson, Luis Fonsi, Machine Gun Kelly, and more November 15. The Beyhive will have much fodder to lord over the heads of the Swifties in the coming months. Beyoncé claimed the most nominations with nine, including nods in all three major categories: an Album of the Year nomination for Renaissance and Record and Song of the Year nominations for “Break My Soul./billy-porter-took-the-tonys-stage-during-a-commercial-break-and-sang-gypsy.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/billy-porter-took-the-tonys-stage-during-a-commercial-break-and-sang-gypsy.html“I didn’t come here to work tonight,” Billy Porter joked from the 73rd Annual Tony Awards stage Sunday night, immediately before putting in work. During a commercial break (a commercial break!), the Tony-winning star of Pose was asked by host James Corden to take part in a short round of Corden’s Broadway karaoke, for which Porter instantly belted out “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from Gypsy. “Oh, you’re changing the key?” Porter teased the accompanist, who quickly picked out a key in Porter’s range./blindspot-recap-bye-bye-lover-boys.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blindspot-recap-bye-bye-lover-boys.htmlBlindspot Authentic Flirt Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Blindspot Authentic Flirt Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jaimie Alexander as Jane Doe. Almost everyone acts like someone they are not in this episode of Blindspot. Jane and Weller are posing as international assassins./brian-wolk-vulture.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brian-wolk-vulture.htmllast night’s gig Oct. 29, 2007 Morrissey Meets With Crowd’s Approval“Thank you for coming. And God help you all.” So quoth Morrissey, opening his show (one of five at the Hammerstein Ballroom) last night.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeSp7aiuoywpqWjXw%3D%3D/can-a-boneless-chicken-commercial-be-art.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-a-boneless-chicken-commercial-be-art.htmlLooking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series “Underrated,” we chat with writers and performers from the comedy world about an unsung comedy moment of their choice that they think deserves more praise. More than most late-night shows, Late Night With Seth Meyers has real longevity in the writers’ room. When people get hired there, they stay there./chiara-atik-author-archive.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chiara-atik-author-archive.htmlcomparative lit Jan. 21, 2014 Girls and Little Women: How Hannah Horvath Is Like Jo MarchJo March and Hannah Horvath are both the voices of their generations, or of a generation.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZLCptcCrmGaZpJ64cA%3D%3D/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-recap-swimming-with-the-fishes.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-recap-swimming-with-the-fishes.htmlChilling Adventures of Sabrina The Weird Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Weird Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, it took a couple episodes but we are in a GROOVE with this season./civil-war-isn-t-the-movie-you-think-it-is.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/civil-war-isn-t-the-movie-you-think-it-is.htmlKirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny in Civil War. This review was published on April 12, 2024. As of May 24, Civil War is available to purchase or rent onAmazon and iTunes. Americans sure do love to see their institutions destroyed onscreen. I remember back when it was sorta-kinda news that audiences applauded and cheered as aliens blew up the White House in Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996). Since then, it’s been standard operating practice for blockbusters, particularly the disaster-y ones, to incinerate or otherwise defile a monument or an iconic government building./colson-whitehead-on-his-zombie-novel-growing-up-on-horror-films-and-turning-his-book-into-a-movie.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/colson-whitehead-on-his-zombie-novel-growing-up-on-horror-films-and-turning-his-book-into-a-movie.htmlWith a résumé that includes a Harvard degree, a MacArthur Fellowship, and five seriously well-received previous books, native New Yorker Colson Whitehead has now delivered a zombie novel? Yes, he has — although, being a Whitehead work, Zone One is not what you might expect. We spoke to the author and learned that he actually is a huge horror-movie fan, has very mixed feelings about Hollywood book options, and his vision of a crumbling city under siege was fed by his memories of Manhattan in the seventies./crazy-ex-girlfriend-recap-bunch-of-friends.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crazy-ex-girlfriend-recap-bunch-of-friends.htmlCrazy Ex-Girlfriend Josh Is Irrelevant. Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Josh Is Irrelevant. Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The episode title this time really says it all: “Josh Is Irrelevant.” As disconcerting as it might be for Josh Chan himself to hear, he was never the point of this show./daniel-radcliffe-learned-accordion-in-the-bathroom-for-weird-the-al-yankovic-story.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daniel-radcliffe-learned-accordion-in-the-bathroom-for-weird-the-al-yankovic-story.htmlFor an actor taking on a role as a tortured yet brilliant rockstar, learning to play an instrument is essential to selling the smoldering intensity of the performance. Though the Roku original movie Weird: The Al Yankovic Story parodies the self-serious excesses of biopics like Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Walk the Line, star Daniel Radcliffe, sporting a mustache and a curly wig, still had to actually strap on an accordion and pump his way through Weird Al classics like “My Bologna” and “I Love Rocky Road./dear-new-york-times-please-tell-us-which-expletives-lena-headey-prefers.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-new-york-times-please-tell-us-which-expletives-lena-headey-prefers.htmlLena [expletive] Headey. To quote the New York Times, “Are you [expletive] serious right now?” Today the paper published a profile of Lena Headey, which, like all Game of Thrones profiles, can’t say much about the plot of the show she stars in, and so instead focuses more on her professional and personal life outside of it. Unfortunately, it’s hard to get a great sense of Lena Headey as a person, because, per the paper’s longtime style, the New York Times also bleeps out all the expletives she says./elton-john-sued-by-former-security-guard-for-sexual-harassment.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elton-john-sued-by-former-security-guard-for-sexual-harassment.htmlJohn. An LAPD official who worked in Elton John’s security detail for more than a decade has sued the singer-songwriter for battery, sexual battery, and harassment, according to court documents obtained by the L.A. Times. The complaint, filed in California on Monday, claims that from 2002 to 2014 John made aggressive comments and performed inappropriate actions, with escalating “frequency and intensity after 2010.” The former employee, Jeffrey Wenninger, wants unspecified damages for pain, health care, and lost wages./emma-stone-had-a-great-time-as-billie-jean-king-s-date-at-the-u-s-open.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emma-stone-had-a-great-time-as-billie-jean-king-s-date-at-the-u-s-open.htmlLook at these two. Emma Stone may have already completed her performance as Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes — good enough, the consensus goes, that she’ll likely be in the Oscar conversation yet again this year — but the actress is making clear that she still has more to learn from the tennis pro. Stone joined King at the women’s final of the U.S. Open on Saturday afternoon, where the latter reportedly imparted much wisdom on the sport./everyone-who-whoopi-goldberg-has-asked-to-be-in-sister-act-3.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyone-who-whoopi-goldberg-has-asked-to-be-in-sister-act-3.htmlAsking people to be in your movie is a tough habit to break. As any regular viewer of The View knows, there are two questions moderator Whoopi Goldberg loves asking the show’s guests on live television. The first of which is to come back to guest co-host, an offer that never materializes, and the second is asking them to co-star with her in the long-awaited Sister Act 3./everything-we-learned-from-buying-beverly-hills-about-kyle-richards-and-mauricio-umansky-s-split.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-we-learned-from-buying-beverly-hills-about-kyle-richards-and-mauricio-umansky-s-split.htmlIn a power move at 2023’s BravoCon, Netflix lined the Las Vegas Strip with Selling Sunset billboards featuring slightly bitchy Bravo-centric copy to amuse the tens of thousands of swarming Andy Cohen acolytes. In an obvious nod to #Scandoval, one giant ad read, “Hey Ariana, we can help you find a new house.” I was thinking of this when clips from Netflix’s other real-estate reality show, Buying Beverly Hills, started skittering around Housewives Twitter (calling it Housewives X makes it sound like a supervillain)./giant-pants-swallow-julianne-hough-on-oscars-red-carpet.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/giant-pants-swallow-julianne-hough-on-oscars-red-carpet.htmlIsn’t it rich? Are we a pair (of pants)? “You hike me! You really hike me!” … is what Julianne Hough’s giant white clown-pants would have said had they had a mouth to scream as Hough hoisted them up all the way up her torso on the red carpet leading into the the 96th annual Academy Awards, where the dancer and presenter is hosting ABC’s official Oscars Red Carpet Pre Show./good-omens-makes-for-a-cheerful-apocalypse.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-omens-makes-for-a-cheerful-apocalypse.htmlDavid Tennant and Michael Sheen. There are a lot of pitfalls for a TV adaptation of a book: translating the characters onto the screen doesn’t always go the way it should; finding ways to replicate a book character’s interiority (this is where the final season of Game of Thrones failed); bulking up or trimming down various plots as needed; rebalancing various characters’ roles to improve on the original (see: The Magicians)./gossip-girl-recap-recap-xoxo-dan-humphrey.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gossip-girl-recap-recap-xoxo-dan-humphrey.html “Gossip Girl is dead,” confessed Lonely Boy a.k.a. Foodle Owner a.k.a. Gossip Girl to the NJBC, Dorota, JXB, and Rufus as his Golden Girl turned Golden Retriever drooled lovingly by his side. After six years of cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and lying, Dan Humphrey finally revealed his inner teen mean girl — and somehow made it out alive of the episode without getting slapped or punched by his high-school idols. And while many commenters reeled at Dan’s “coming out,” the finale was about so much more than GG’s big reveal./gretel-hansel-gets-the-dark-gritty-reboot-treatment-in-new-trailer.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gretel-hansel-gets-the-dark-gritty-reboot-treatment-in-new-trailer.htmlTruth be told, Hansel and Gretel has always been one of the creepier fairy tales to come out of the Brothers Grimm, what with all the child abuse, cannibalism, and witchcraft. Osgood Perkins, director of the upcoming Gretel & Hansel, sees your spooky children’s classic and raises you a straight-up horror film. The movie, which stars It’s Sophia Lillis and The OA’s Alice Krige, is a dark, unsettling reimagining of the Grimms’ original story, as evidenced by the new trailer for the movie./grey-s-anatomy-recap-cliffhanger.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grey-s-anatomy-recap-cliffhanger.htmlGrey’s Anatomy It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Season 18 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Season 18 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Finally! Finally some big time drama on Grey’s Anatomy this season!/grimes-used-elon-musk-s-own-platform-to-reveal-their-third-child.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grimes-used-elon-musk-s-own-platform-to-reveal-their-third-child.htmlGrimes and a random man from South Africa. Grimes has got this baby-announcement thing down. First, literally hide your child from a magazine reporter; next, mention your new child while attacking her ex/co-parent on his own social-media platform? The musician confirmed reports of her third child with Elon Musk in a deleted tweet (sorry, a deleted X) to his biographer Walter Isaacson, writing, “tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer./help-there-s-so-much-pop.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/help-there-s-so-much-pop.htmlFrom the hyperpop mania of Charli XCX to the whiskey-soaked sounds of Beyoncé’s country foray to “That’s that me, espresso.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images, YouTube The temperatures are warming, the windows opening, and a pop or pop-adjacent album is being released every week. This year’s song-of-summer bracket promises bops and bangers of all types, fit for many situations. Here, a guide to maximizing the current deluge./how-a-comics-writer-fixed-romeo-and-juliet-by-giving-it-a-happy-ending-and-many-others.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-a-comics-writer-fixed-romeo-and-juliet-by-giving-it-a-happy-ending-and-many-others.htmlWhen Ryan North — the writer behind Marvel’s The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and the Adventure Time books — was in ninth grade, he read his first Shakespeare play: Romeo and Juliet. He wasn’t impressed. His problem was with the ending: “I found it really frustrating,” North says. “I always thought that if Romeo just waited for five minutes, if he stopped to pick up some flowers or something, he’d show up, Juliet would be awake, and you’d get a happy ending./how-dare-murder-mystery-2-be-any-good.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-dare-murder-mystery-2-be-any-good.htmlJennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler in Murder Mystery 2. Every once in a while, the simulation throws a curveball at you. Murder Mystery 2, Netflix’s sequel to the utterly disposable 2019 Adam Sandler–Jennifer Aniston comedy Murder Mystery, a film about as inventive as its title, doesn’t look promising at all. It has Sandler and Aniston returning as husband and wife Nick and Audrey Spitz, two New Yorkers who in the previous film wound up in the middle of a wealthy European family’s blood-soaked inheritance high jinks and attempted to solve the case./how-netflix-became-the-new-king-of-reality-tv.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-netflix-became-the-new-king-of-reality-tv.htmlDay 7: Love Is Enormous Twenty-five moments, one per day in the walkup to Christmas, that brought definition to reality TV’s ever-blurring lines in 2023. Day 7: Love Is Enormous Twenty-five moments, one per day in the walkup to Christmas, that brought definition to reality TV’s ever-blurring lines in 2023. It’s oddly appropriate that one of the biggest Netflix reality-show moments of 2023 revolved around an unplanned twist. On April 16, the streamer’s much-hyped plan to air a live reunion special for its hit show Love Is Blind went spectacularly awry when technical demons prevented the vast majority of subscribers from actually watching the event./how-the-ending-of-the-cloverfield-paradox-relates-to-the-other-cloverfield-movies.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-ending-of-the-cloverfield-paradox-relates-to-the-other-cloverfield-movies.htmlSpoilers below! Photo: Netflix Major spoilers for The Cloverfield Paradox below. Movies are like skyscraper-sized monsters tearing through Manhattan: You generally know when one’s coming. Not so with Julius Onah’s The Cloverfield Paradox, which stunned the world’s geeks by being abruptly announced and released in the space of just a few hours on Sunday night. It’s the third film in the J.J. Abrams–produced Cloverfield franchise, which began almost exactly ten years ago with Matt Reeves’s Cloverfield and continued with 2016’s Dan Trachtenberg–helmed 10 Cloverfield Lane./how-to-play-lady-macbeth-imagine-being-mauled-by-tigers.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-play-lady-macbeth-imagine-being-mauled-by-tigers.htmlPhoto: Richard Termine/Courtesy of BAM Kate Fleetwood, who plays shady Lady Mac in the excellently scary British production of Macbeth that opened on Broadway last night after a sold-out run at BAM, didn’t threaten us with violence after the show the way her co-star Patrick Stewart did the other day. Not that her mind can’t go that way. The production is set in a dank basement kitchen that players enter via a sinister elevator./huey-lewis-on-his-new-soul-album-and-the-eternal-power-of-love.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/huey-lewis-on-his-new-soul-album-and-the-eternal-power-of-love.htmlAlong with his homeboys the News, Huey Lewis has been dormant since 2001’s Plan B. But now Huey Lewis is back! A few weeks ago, the band released Soulville, a Stax cover album that features Huey’s vocal takes on classic cuts from the likes of Solomon Burke, the Staple Singers, and Joe Tex. Vulture recently got Lewis on the phone to talk about musical influences, Detroit vs. Memphis, and, of course, Back to the Future./i-think-you-should-leave-with-tim-robinson.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-think-you-should-leave-with-tim-robinson.htmlvulture lists May 29, 2023 20 of Tim Robinson’s Best (Non-ITYSL) SketchesDon’t think of this as a list of sketches from SNL, the Second City, and elsewhere. It’s more of a “cosmic gumbo.” By Hershal Pandya ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeZYsGptc2kZLKnpWLAqbvUpZtmpJWWw6Z51qKroWWknrpuvs6boKern6N8/idris-elba-and-macklemore-challenge-you-to-the-dance-off-of-your-nightmares.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/idris-elba-and-macklemore-challenge-you-to-the-dance-off-of-your-nightmares.htmlFinally, it’s happened. Someone has managed to make Idris Elba unsexy, and that someone is, of course, Macklemore. Just when you’re longing to get an eyeful of Idris dressed to the nines in some impeccably tailored Bond suit, here he is serving Cruella De Vil in the Mack’s bizarre new video for their “Dance Off” collaboration. (Yep, that happened.) His look comes complete with a giant fur coat (obviously), a fedora, and Idris doing his best “Thriller” narration — and that’s just the first 16 seconds./into-the-breach-s-final-level-is-hard-without-breaking-the-rules.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/into-the-breach-s-final-level-is-hard-without-breaking-the-rules.htmlStage Fright Not all video-game levels are created easily. Stage Fright Not all video-game levels are created easily. Imagine chess, but instead of knights and pawns, you’ve got combat mechs and techno beetles. You build a team of pieces to suit your strengths and counter your opponent’s strategies, all in the service of defending cities scattered about the board — alongside mountains, rivers, ice fields, and more — from a violent alien race./it-became-this-joke-but-it-was-the-most-spectacular-thing-of-its-time.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-became-this-joke-but-it-was-the-most-spectacular-thing-of-its-time.htmlAn oral history of Cats on Broadway, as told by its original cats. 25 Days of Cats 25 Days of Cats is exactly what it sounds like: 25 days of coverage dedicated to the pop culture phenomenon that is Cats. Six of the original cast members celebrate the 2,000th performance of the Broadway musical Cats. In honor of the occasion, the show’s producers sent a gift of 2,000 yellow roses. Pictured: Marlene Danielle (foreground), and (rear, L-R), Steven Hack, Susan Powers, Bonnie Simmons, Anna McNeely, and Joel Robertson./it-s-time-to-stop-ignoring-the-golden-palace.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-time-to-stop-ignoring-the-golden-palace.htmlOn April 25, 2009, my phone began to blow up with texts: I’m so sorry for ur loss  RIP BEA :-( TYFBAF It happened. I’d sensed it before it was even confirmed, but the news was official: Bea Arthur had passed away. My favorite Golden Girl was gone. Almost a year later, I would get her face tattooed on my arm above a laurel wreath and the words “Thank you for being a friend./jamie-foxx-and-dave-franco-stomp-some-vamps-in-day-shift.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jamie-foxx-and-dave-franco-stomp-some-vamps-in-day-shift.htmlClearly, Netflix wants to be back on top of Vulture’s Streamer Power Rankings, and they know that the quickest route to our hearts is by adding vampires to stuff. Day Shift, Netflix’s upcoming film about some sick vampire killers, includes some kick-ass vampire killing by stars with various levels of kick-assery. The movie debuts on August 12 and is directed by J.J. Perry, who coordinated the stunts on John Wick 2, which Netflix helpfully refers to as “[teaching] John Wick how to kick ass” in this trailer./jeff-goldblum-to-play-one-of-lea-michele-s-gay-dads-on-glee.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeff-goldblum-to-play-one-of-lea-michele-s-gay-dads-on-glee.htmlIt’s a central point of Glee’s rich mythology, established in the pilot, that Lea Michele’s Rachel Berry has a pair of gay fathers at home. Mid-season 3 — on Valentine’s Day, to be exact — those mystery dads will be revealed. One is Jeff Goldblum, the other is Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, and their characters are called Hiram and LeRoy Berry. Go forth with the knowledge that Goldblum and Mitchell will definitely sing./jersey-shore-recap-snooki-s-in-love-at-least-until-dinner.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jersey-shore-recap-snooki-s-in-love-at-least-until-dinner.htmlJersey Shore Should We Just Break Up? Season 3 Episode 6 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At times, tonight’s Jersey Shore seemed like an installment in the gory Saw franchise — not for the many references to blood, feces, and vomit, mind you — but because we’d have rather self-amputated our limbs than sit through another insufferable SamRon breakup. Seriously, enough. Please, MTV, you can send the rest of the cast to Italy for Season 4, but why not have SamRon see if they can work their issues out on the streets of Cairo?/joe-pera-is-bringing-his-new-comedy-special-directly-to-you.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joe-pera-is-bringing-his-new-comedy-special-directly-to-you.htmlForget about Eras Tour. This is Pera’s Tour: a stand-up special based on comedian Joe Pera’s recent year-and-a-half-long tour of places like the upper Midwest, the lower Midwest, Buffalo, Scotland, and Phoenix, to say nothing of Seattle, Montana, Texas, and more. The creator of too-pure-for-this-world Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With You has made his very first hour-long special, called Joe Pera: Slow and Steady, and he’s independently financing, producing, and releasing it himself./kurt-andersen-wants-hugh-jackman-in-chains.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kurt-andersen-wants-hugh-jackman-in-chains.htmlFrom left, Andersen, Elfman, Yazbeck.Photos: Patrick McMullan (Andersen), Getty Images Let’s face it, often when Broadway announces a forthcoming project, you get that ew-why-are-they-doing-that-and-who-are-these-people feeling? (We’ll admit such a feeling was driving us when we blew off the first performances of Rent thirteen years ago, then a few months later couldn’t sell our own mother for a press ticket.) But sometimes you get the opposite feeling — just a momentary burst of, Hey, this could be kind of cool./lawyer-from-netflix-s-living-undocumented-files-aclu-lawsuit-against-ice.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lawyer-from-netflix-s-living-undocumented-files-aclu-lawsuit-against-ice.htmlIn Netflix’s Living Undocumented, an immigration lawyer attempting to accompany her client, who was forced to enter an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Kansas City, is blocked by an agent who shoves her across the door’s threshold and causes her to fall. Later, the agent returns and allows her inside. The interaction intensifies later in the episode, “The World Is Watching,” when Kansas City lawyer Andrea Martinez exits the center on a stretcher with a fractured foot and lacerations on her knee and leg./look-yellowjackets-is-just-an-over-the-garden-wall-sequel.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/look-yellowjackets-is-just-an-over-the-garden-wall-sequel.htmlMalevolent forest spirits, cannibalism, Elijah Wood: Even citizen detectives can’t deny this kind of evidence. In the first episode of Yellowjackets season two, a new character enters the picture in the present-day timeline. He’s mysterious, goes by an alias, lurks in corners, is obsessed with murder, and we only hear his voice. No, he’s not another villainous spirit like the Man With No Eyes. He’s just Walter./making-sense-of-kanye-west-s-surreal-the-life-of-pablo-madison-square-garden-event.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/making-sense-of-kanye-west-s-surreal-the-life-of-pablo-madison-square-garden-event.htmlKanye West. Thursday, Kanye West unveiled Yeezy Season 3 and debuted his long-awaited new album, now titled The Life of Pablo, at Madison Square Garden. As we await the album’s official release, Vulture music critic Lindsay Zoladz, New York writer-at-large Rembert Browne, and Vulture editors Dee Lockett and Kevin Lincoln discuss the spectacle, the controversy, and our first impressions of the album. Lindsay: MY PABLOS, what’s good? So, a new Kanye West album exists./mayor-of-kingstown-recap-hunters-and-gatherers.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mayor-of-kingstown-recap-hunters-and-gatherers.htmlMayor of Kingstown Rag Doll Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mayor of Kingstown Rag Doll Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We just passed the 30th anniversary of the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase, during which an entire nation was glued to their TV sets, waiting to see if a disgraced NFL superstar could elude the cops on the Los Angeles freeways and side streets./meryl-streep-to-appear-on-30-rock-win-another-emmy.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meryl-streep-to-appear-on-30-rock-win-another-emmy.htmlAlex Melamid’s 50 Cent (2005) When news broke that Alec Baldwin had successfully recruited Meryl Streep to appear on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock, we kind of groaned a little on the inside. Not because we don’t love Meryl, mind you; it’s more that we like our 30 Rock just plenty when there aren’t guest stars mucking up the mix (we’re looking squarely in your direction, Salma Hayek)./modern-family-recap-aunt-mommy.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modern-family-recap-aunt-mommy.htmlDrinking, incest, the Dunphy kids being responsible? Hard to say what behavior was most shocking in last night’s Modern Family. In the night’s major plotline, Phil and Claire are celebrating (he made a successful sale, she realized her kids wouldn’t burn the house down by electrocuting a squirrel) and Cam and Mitch are yearning for a second child that will somehow have both of them as a biological father. Celebrating meets yearning and the foursome gets DRUUUUUUUNK./mulholland-drive-vulture.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mulholland-drive-vulture.htmlhorror week Oct. 23, 2014 Why David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Is a Great Horror FilmDisagree all you want, but it’s deeply scary and disturbing. By Bilge Ebiri ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGedqrmpu8ulmKecXZm%2FqsLEaA%3D%3D/my-78-indispensable-instagram-accounts.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-78-indispensable-instagram-accounts.htmlThis article originally appeared in Jerry Saltz’s Favorite Things, a new limited-run, subscriber-only newsletter in which our chief art critic writes about the cultural products that have shaped his perspective. To read the full series, click here to sign up for the newsletter. When it comes to Instagram, I was a last adopter. I had heard of it but was too digitally primitive to understand what it was. I had been all about Facebook (where I have 99,628 followers) and Twitter (560,000)./netflix-s-iron-fist-is-a-tedious-unremarkable-bummer.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflix-s-iron-fist-is-a-tedious-unremarkable-bummer.htmlMarvel’s Iron Fist. Pop quiz, readers: Marvel’s Iron Fist is: 1. The name of the intellectual property law firm that Marvel has on retainer; 2. What gets brought down on the heads of filmmakers who get too artsy while directing Marvel movies; 3. Cosplay porn; 4. A 13-hour Netflix series. The answer is, of course, 4. And I’ll admit upfront that my verdict is speculative. I’ve only seen six hours of Marvel’s Iron Fist, the Netflix series created by Scott Buck./normal-people-recap-sometimes-i-run-sometimes-i-hide.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/normal-people-recap-sometimes-i-run-sometimes-i-hide.htmlNormal People Episode 6 Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Normal People Episode 6 Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In six weeks, something in Marianne’s life is going to go so far south she will accidentally shatter a wine glass in the sink and sob over the shards./on-desus-and-mero-elizabeth-warren-has-a-plan-to-solve-an-escape-room.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-desus-and-mero-elizabeth-warren-has-a-plan-to-solve-an-escape-room.htmlThe whole world is an escape room at the moment, so why not test your mettle? Desus and Mero gave Elizabeth Warren some problem-solving practice, taking her to an escape room in Boston. The gang make it out with 50 seconds to spare, which bodes well for the Democratic hopeful. And dealing with a vengeful submarine-captain ghost is good practice for debating Trump. Warren’s strategy: “Let’s not argue with him; let’s just fix it./p-valley-shows-stripping-for-what-it-is-labor.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/p-valley-shows-stripping-for-what-it-is-labor.htmlFor the women who dance there, The Pynk is a haven, but it can only protect them from so much for so long. “These n - - - - - s lucky I likes to do a good job.” There’s something to be said for taking pride in your work. For the women of The Pynk — the strip club at the center of Starz’s new drama P-Valley —pride is very nearly all they can hold on to./paul-walker-s-daughter-sues-porsche-over-dad-s-wrongful-death.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paul-walker-s-daughter-sues-porsche-over-dad-s-wrongful-death.htmlPaul Walker. Almost two years after Paul Walker’s untimely wreck, his daughter has filed a wrongful-death suit against Porsche, alleging safety shortcuts ultimately led to the Fast & Furious actor’s fiery, fatal crash. Meadow, 16, submitted the complaint Monday in L.A. Superior Court with her guardian Brandon Birtell; they want to recoup unspecified damages and hold the car manufacturer responsible. “This wrongful death action arises from the demise of Paul Walker, who was a passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT,” the filing reads./performing-for-ghosts-riz-ahmed-s-the-long-goodbye.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/performing-for-ghosts-riz-ahmed-s-the-long-goodbye.htmlRiz Ahmed in The Long Goodbye. Riz Ahmed’s The Long Goodbye starts with a downcast eye, so close to the camera that it’s out of focus. His first lines are murmured. They ever ask you where you from Yeah but where you really from The question seems simple but the answer’s kinda long. Even after he meets the camera’s gaze, it’s clear he’s not sure he wants to be doing this./pinocchio-trailer-jiminy-cricket-inserts-himself-in-geppetto-s-business.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pinocchio-trailer-jiminy-cricket-inserts-himself-in-geppetto-s-business.htmlIs Jiminy Cricket nosy or just an earnest observer of the travails of Geppetto? The insect was everywhere in the first trailer to Guillermo del Toro’s lush stop-motion Pinocchio, based on the classic Carlo Collodi novel. No top hat for him; this Jiminy is first seen journaling at home about his backpacking trips across the land, identifying one particular story worth telling. He recounts a tale of “imperfect fathers and imperfect sons … and loss and love” — the story of the wooden boy Pinocchio and his father, Geppetto./real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-blonde-deaf-and-dumb.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-recap-blonde-deaf-and-dumb.htmlThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Objection, Your Honor Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Objection, Your Honor Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eileen Davidson. It has finally happened, ladies and gentlemen who love gentlemen./robert-elswit-vulture.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robert-elswit-vulture.htmlart history Apr. 18, 2024 37 Ripley Shots That Would Blow Caravaggio’s MindThe black-and-white Netflix series relies on visual motifs that reflect its central character’s alienation. It absolutely rips. By Roxana Hadadi ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeipK%2BmvtNmnKWrp57BcA%3D%3D/rupaul-s-drag-race-all-stars-season-premiere-recap-reading-the-dawl.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupaul-s-drag-race-all-stars-season-premiere-recap-reading-the-dawl.htmlRuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Drag Queens Save The World / The Paint Ball Season 9 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Drag Queens Save The World / The Paint Ball Season 9 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s time to welcyum welcome you to the second edition of RuPaul’s Variety Hour./sandra-oh-on-her-emmy-nomination-for-killing-eve-it-s-not-just-me-at-this-moment.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sandra-oh-on-her-emmy-nomination-for-killing-eve-it-s-not-just-me-at-this-moment.htmlSandra Oh was working when she got the news that she had received her sixth Emmy nomination and first for the show Killing Eve. She was with her friend and fellow actor Michelle Krusiec, talking through the Hansol Jung play, Wild Goose Dreams, which Oh had previously starred in. “My friend is auditioning for the play,” she said on the phone a few hours later. “We were talking about it because I was already familiar with the character that she was going in on./series-finale-time-seven-reasons-we-ll-miss-fringe.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/series-finale-time-seven-reasons-we-ll-miss-fringe.htmlFringe was one of the best TV shows that no one was watching. (All right, that a few very loyal people were watching.) When it began five seasons ago, the show was ostensibly about Agent Olivia Dunham, who was recruited to a special “fringe” division in the FBI, institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop, and his estranged son, Peter. The trio became a team, and while the show eventually mutated into something weirder and grander and more wonderful than fans ever could have expected, its main characters never lost sight of their ultimate goals — trying to solve the increasingly strange crimes they come across and preventing (or causing) the end of the world time and time again./shadow-to-presumably-bring-dark-sexual-edge-to-sonic-3.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shadow-to-presumably-bring-dark-sexual-edge-to-sonic-3.htmlShadow. We could have had it all with Sonic the Hedgehog 2. We had high hopes when Idris Elba was cast as Knuckles in 2021, but he vowed to not make his vocal performance as the cartoon echidna sexy. Although this might not be the only reason for the film’s tepid critical reception, it certainly didn’t help. 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Current and former performers in Sleep No More, the popular immersive staging of Macbeth, described being subjected to and feeling at risk of sexual assault from audience members in a report from BuzzFeed News. 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Being a Saturday Night Live host/musical guest is still one of the most important gauntlets a celebrity can run. Do well, and your sketches will be posted on TikTok alongside videos of people making slime for eternity. Do poorly, and you’re Ashlee Simpson, also posted on TikTok for eternity. Next on the docket is babygirl-at-large Jacob Elordi, who will kick off the new year as host on January 20./southern-charm-recap-boys-oh-boys.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/southern-charm-recap-boys-oh-boys.htmlSouthern Charm Spilling the JT Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Charm Spilling the JT Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Charm has always been a show about the awful things men do and the women who let them get away with it./succession-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlLogan Roy is the head of a massive media conglomerate called Waystar RoyCo that definitely isn’t a stand-in for Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, no sir. When Logan suffers a stroke, his four children — Kendall, Roman, Siobhan, and to a lesser extent Connor — all compete to see who has what it takes to sit in daddy’s business throne. Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Braun, and J./surviving-r-kelly-claims-aaliyah-s-family-forced-to-sign-nda-after-annulment.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/surviving-r-kelly-claims-aaliyah-s-family-forced-to-sign-nda-after-annulment.htmlR. Kelly Surviving R. Kelly, the revelatory Lifetime documentary series that has illuminated the star’s myriad horrific sex crimes, grooming, and child abuse, detailed new allegations about the end of Kelly’s unlawful marriage to the then-teenage Aaliyah. According to multiple sources in the docuseries, Aaliyah’s family agreed to an NDA after the annulment with one source saying the family promised not to press charges if Kelly sold the family the rights to his first three albums./talking-to-max-silvestri-about-brooklyn-twitter-and-big-terrific.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-max-silvestri-about-brooklyn-twitter-and-big-terrific.htmlBrooklyn-based comic Max Silvestri has been in the business for a decade now. His free weekly standup show Big Terrific, a New York comedy scene staple that he started with friends Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, celebrated its fifth anniversary this past March. Since Liedman and Slate moved to LA, Silvestri’s been running Big Terrific on his own, and in addition to his weekly hosting gig, he’s writing reality cooking show recaps for Grantland and Eater, appearing in web videos all over the place, and keeping busy as a standup, all the while maintaining a consistently very funny Twitter presence./talking-to-syd-mead-the-visionary-behind-elysium-blade-runner-and-40-years-of-sci-fi.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-syd-mead-the-visionary-behind-elysium-blade-runner-and-40-years-of-sci-fi.html951023 - Elysium Syd Mead can predict the future. At least, that’s what Hollywood pays him to do. Working as an industrial designer in the 1970s for corporations like Ford, Philips Electronics, and Intercontinental Hotels, Mead established himself as one of the tech world’s premier forward-thinkers. His illustrations would take modern concepts and propel them, with scientific and aesthetic consideration, into the far reaches of the 21st century. Inevitably, filmmakers tapped Mead to mix his artistry with live-action science fiction./the-100-greatest-beach-books-ever.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-100-greatest-beach-books-ever.htmlFrom mass-market candy to high literature. The 50th-anniversary reissue of Valley of the Dolls has prompted a flood of celebrations of Jacqueline Susann’s supposedly disposable chronicle of pill-popping. One reason for that novel’s enduring popularity? Its status as an all-time-great Beach Read. That’s a slippery category, but the formula is pretty straightforward. 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After a third season full of werewolves, Nazis, and the fabulous Vampire King of Mississippi, True Blood is ready to hit us with the good stuff./unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-s-tituss-burgess-is-very-good-at-selling-his-pinot-noir-on-instagram.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-s-tituss-burgess-is-very-good-at-selling-his-pinot-noir-on-instagram.htmlView this post on Instagram New York was thirsty @PBTBWine #PinotByTitussBurgess #PBTBwine A post shared by Tituss Burgess (@instatituss) on Mar 4, 2016 at 1:40pm PST Like his Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt character, Tituss Burgess can hawk a product. The pinot noir entrepreneur knows that the best way to curry interest is to give your audience a taste of the good stuff, and so he poured a bottle of his $25 wine brand out of a New York City window, possibly straight into your mouth./we-see-you-white-american-theater.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-see-you-white-american-theater.htmlWe See You White American Theater - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGenmnq0scRmsKitXay1qsDEZpimnaKesKK6jK2fnpmkmr9w/welcome-to-the-circus.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-the-circus.html19 moments that defined YouTube drama’s economy … and then destroyed it. Inside YouTube’s Drama Economy Presented by Left to Right: Jeffree Star, D’Angelo Wallace, Logan Paul, Shane Dawson, Tati Westbrook, James Charles, and Tana Mongeau. Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Youtube Inside YouTube’s Drama Economy Presented by Left to Right: Jeffree Star, D’Angelo Wallace, Logan Paul, Shane Dawson, Tati Westbrook, James Charles, and Tana Mongeau. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter./what-the-flerken-everything-you-need-to-know-about-captain-marvel-s-cat.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-flerken-everything-you-need-to-know-about-captain-marvel-s-cat.htmlThe face of a liar. Note: A flerk ton of Captain Marvel spoilers ahead. Brie Larson may be the titular star of Captain Marvel, but the unlikely scene-stealer is a cat named Goose, who has captured the hearts and minds of Marvel Cinematic Universe fans everywhere with his deceptive little cat face. Part of Goose’s charm is that he appears to be a cat, and everyone (the internet, at least) is horny for cats./what-s-new-on-netflix-november-2015.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-new-on-netflix-november-2015.htmlAt the beginning of (and throughout) every month, Netflix Streaming adds new movies and TV shows to its library. Here is a quick list of several that you might be interested in. Some of these may also have previously been on Netflix, only to have been removed and then added back. Feel free to note anything we’ve left out in the comments below. Treat Yo’ Self: Master of None (Season 1)/who-here-hasn-t-dreamed-of-nicolas-cage.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-here-hasn-t-dreamed-of-nicolas-cage.htmlDream Scenario starts off as a funny, thoughtful look at how we all live in public today. Some movies can be a little too clever for their own good. Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario starts off with a rich, surreal premise, and for much of its running time, it mixes playful, cringe-comic energy with an undercurrent of existential anxiety. But it eventually manages to undo much of what made it so tantalizing by turning metaphor and subtext into a more narrow-minded satire./why-you-ll-hear-modern-songs-playing-on-westworld.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-you-ll-hear-modern-songs-playing-on-westworld.htmlWhen you’re watching Westworld, pay special attention to the player piano in the saloon — at key moments, it could kick in a little Soundgarden, Rolling Stones, or even Radiohead for the paranoid androids and human guests inhabiting its world. It might seem both thrilling and a bit disconcerting when you first hear modern music in the Wild West setting, and that’s the point, according to show composer Ramin Djawadi, who also scores the music on Game of Thrones./zombies-on-the-walls-why-does-so-much-new-abstraction-look-the-same.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zombies-on-the-walls-why-does-so-much-new-abstraction-look-the-same.htmlart June 17, 2014 8:00 am By Jerry Saltz Share Share Tweet Pin It 6 Photos For the past 150 years, pretty consistently, art movements moved in thrilling but unmysterious ways. They’d build on the inventions of several extraordinary artists or constellations of artists, gain followings, become what we call a movement or a school, influence everything around them, and then become diluted as they were taken up by more and more derivative talents./10-great-forgotten-kiss-songs.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-great-forgotten-kiss-songs.htmlIt was No Respect Week here at Vulture, which meant we celebrated things that never seem to get any love: schlock rock, Adam Sandler cry-fests, romance novels, over-the-top action sequences, and, yes, a novelty song by a comedian whose catchphrase was “No respect.” Something else that doesn’t get appreciated enough? We leave you with the music of the American rock group Kiss. Let’s put Kiss in perspective. The biggest obstacle to a proper understanding of the band’s music has always been the makeup and merchandise./a-letter-to-my-future-daughter-s-best-friend-by-dan-fitzpatrick.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-letter-to-my-future-daughter-s-best-friend-by-dan-fitzpatrick.htmlDear Chloe, Or Madison, or Avery, or Harper. I can never remember. Anyway, the bond between a father and daughter is a special one, which I will treasure for all my days. There will be jokes laughed at, heartbreaks comforted, and secrets shared. Unfortunately, you will be there too. I haven’t met you yet, but deep in my heart I already know how much you annoy me. One thing I want you to understand is that nobody is perfect, and our flaws are often what make us special./a-lifetime-of-norman-lear.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-lifetime-of-norman-lear.htmlRita Moreno, John Amos, Valerie Bertinelli, and other collaborators reflect on working with the 101-year-old TV legend. Norman Lear. Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for VH1 Norman Lear. This post was originally published on July 27, 2022, to mark Norman Lear’s 100th birthday. We are republishing it after the news of Lear’s death, alongside Kathryn VanArendonk’s obituary for the TV legend. Television as we know it could not exist without Norman Lear. Throughout his 70-plus years in the business, the writer and producer brought topics like racism, abortion, divorce, drug use, and poverty to prime time./a-naked-fan-broke-into-chris-brown-s-house-and-he-instagrammed-her-unfortunately.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-naked-fan-broke-into-chris-brown-s-house-and-he-instagrammed-her-unfortunately.htmlYikes! Chris Brown might be off the hook for an alleged battery case in Las Vegas, but that doesn’t mean his legal troubles are over. For once the tables have turned, and it’s Brown who could be taking someone to court. In an Instagram post, the singer alleges that a female fan broke into his home while he was out of town. According to TMZ, Brown returned to his California residence Wednesday night to find a naked woman he didn’t know in his bed./album-review-heartbreak-drake-returns-on-views.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/album-review-heartbreak-drake-returns-on-views.htmlLast year, Drake made a power play for rap regency with two wildly successful surprise retail mixtapes, an Apple deal that gave him a bimonthly Beats 1 radio show, and a string of releases from his own OVO Sound imprint. When his mettle was tested by Philly rapper Meek Mill’s charge that he used an uncredited writer for a verse, Drake responded with two surgically effective diss tracks — the smarmy “Charged Up” and the acerbic, Grammy-nominated “Back to Back” — and “Hotline Bling,” a single that would earn him the best solo sales and chart placements of his career./alison-brie-and-dave-franco-are-engaged-mazel-tov.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alison-brie-and-dave-franco-are-engaged-mazel-tov.htmlLike any Brooklyn couple. These summer months have raged against love, tearing asunder the most famous of couples. But there is still hope for young love that has not been besmirched by nannies or The Voice. Community’s Alison Brie and James Franco’s little brother Dave are engaged! The couple have been dating since 2012, and Brie confirmed the news when she flashed her engagement ring at the premiere of Sleeping With Other People, which, hopefully, will not happen to them!/amber-tamblyn-explains-the-moving-poem-she-wrote-about-lindsay-lohan.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amber-tamblyn-explains-the-moving-poem-she-wrote-about-lindsay-lohan.htmlActress Amber Tamblyn’snewest book of poetry, a collection called Dark Sparkler, is out this week, and mostly centers around dead or otherwise fabled Hollywood starlets. There is one who committed suicide by breathing carbon monoxide in her garage, one who jumped to her death off the “H” in the Hollywood sign, one who was strangled by her jealous ex-boyfriend in the driveway of their home. You’ll already know the stories of some (Dana Plato, Jayne Mansfield, Brittany Murphy), but others (Dominique Dunne, Frances Farmer, Heather O’Rourke) will send you down a dark Wikipedia spiral through Hollywood’s most tragic demises./american-horror-story-freak-show-recap-clowning-around.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-horror-story-freak-show-recap-clowning-around.htmlAmerican Horror Story Edward Mordrake, Part 2 Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story Edward Mordrake, Part 2 Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have a sneaking suspicion that thousands of American Horror Story fans are going to run out this morning and go to Jo-Ann Fabric, Michael’s Craft Store, and whatever shoe store is next to them in the mini-mall so that they can buy some lace, hot-glue-gun it to a mask, and then shine their knee-high boots./an-actor-named-patrick-wilson-responds-to-twitter-s-discovery-of-his-secret-scheme.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-actor-named-patrick-wilson-responds-to-twitter-s-discovery-of-his-secret-scheme.htmlAs a very wise Twitter user named @maplecocaine once said, “Each day on Twitter there is one main character. The goal is never to be it.” On Monday, an obscure character actor named Patrick Wilson was Twitter’s main character, and, much like when he actually plays a main character, the rules simply don’t apply to him like they apply to other people. The Golden Globe– and Emmy-nominated star started trending during the day when user @Skoog said of Wilson’s many varied roles: “the mf really said i’m gonna be in a million movies but absolutely refuse to be famous./an-introduction-to-spanish-horror-15-movies-you-need-to-see.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-introduction-to-spanish-horror-15-movies-you-need-to-see.htmlSpanish filmmakers — particularly those with a horror background — seem to be having a Stateside mini-moment in these early stages of 2018. This weekend, screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez’s directorial debut, the eerie Marrowbone, hits theaters. It’s the story of a family down on its luck and battling both ghosts and serial murderers. Earlier this year, Paco Plaza’s possession piece Veronica made a splash when it premiered on Netflix, and the J./an-ode-to-solange-s-best-new-song-almeda.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-ode-to-solange-s-best-new-song-almeda.htmlSolange. Before we get to hear one of the best songs on Solange’s new album, When I Get Home, the artist sets her terms: “Fuck these ho ass niggas,” a voice declares. (Let me go on the record here: yes.) “They all be talkin’, they all be sayin’ shit.” Another clearer voice clarifies: “Do nothing without intention.” It’s a refrain my own mom has repeated — sometimes with tenderness, and sometimes to scold me — often: Everything matters; everything should mean something./arrow-s-katie-cassidy-on-the-black-canary-laurel-s-transformation-and-tonight-s-huge-e.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arrow-s-katie-cassidy-on-the-black-canary-laurel-s-transformation-and-tonight-s-huge-e.htmlLaurel has gone through a lot in three seasons of Arrow: the deaths of her sister and her boyfriend, addiction, constantly being taken hostage by bad guys. The whole time, actress Katie Cassidy knew that eventually she’d be suiting up to play the Black Canary. While being a hero hasn’t exactly gone smoothly either (the first time she tried to fight a bad guy, she ended up in the hospital), last week she helped save the city!/as-seen-at-sundance.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/as-seen-at-sundance.htmlSundance 2023 Presented by Sundance 2023 Presented by In Park City, Utah, at the first in-person Sundance Film Festival since 2020, you could go be devastated by the Cynthia Erivo–Alia Shawkat film Drift, about an impoverished refugee, then fête it in a lounge at an after-party sponsored by Chase Sapphire. Sundance has always been half about the movies and half about the atmosphere surrounding them. Strangers talk to you in line for coffee or for a panel./at-home-where-else-with-jimmy-fallon.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-home-where-else-with-jimmy-fallon.htmlThe late-night host makes a quarantine comeback, with an assist from his wife and kids. Jimmy Fallon with wife Nancy and their kids at home on Sunday, April 5. Photo: Courtesy of Jimmy Fallon Jimmy Fallon with wife Nancy and their kids at home on Sunday, April 5. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly./boygenius-s-guide-to-listening-to-the-members-of-boygenius.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boygenius-s-guide-to-listening-to-the-members-of-boygenius.htmlMusical supergroups tend to be inevitably disappointing. Sometimes throwing a bunch of great artists together doesn’t result in great music. Personalities clash, styles don’t blend, and monumentally high expectations are dashed. Not so in the case of Boygenius, the supergroup (maybe the problem is expectations inherent in the word itself?) made up of Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers. In recent years, all three artists have released some of the best works of their still-young careers./cannes-let-s-talk-about-jane-fonda-s-campy-cameo.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cannes-let-s-talk-about-jane-fonda-s-campy-cameo.htmlJane Fonda. When we first see Jane Fonda around 90 minutes into Paolo Sorrentino’s new film Youth, she’s standing with a hand on her perfectly arched hip, staring at an artwork on the wall and calling it a piece of shit. “Human beings really know how to be pathetic when they want to be,” she spits at no one in particular. She then examines her lipstick in a knife./cardi-b-doesn-t-need-more-press-but-she-d-like-it-if-you-watched-her-new-music-video-anyway.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cardi-b-doesn-t-need-more-press-but-she-d-like-it-if-you-watched-her-new-music-video-anyway.htmlPop, pop, guess who, bitch? It’s Cardi B! She doesn’t give a shit that you’re maybe giving her shit for that strip-club-fight court drama, so here’s her new Press music video to tell y’all how she’s really feeling. She’s making out with hot chicks. She’s going au naturel and leading an army of very naked chicks! Oh, yeah, and, uh, she’s also murdering a bunch of people and winds up in jail?/check-out-a-meryl-streep-three-wolf-moon-t-shirt.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/check-out-a-meryl-streep-three-wolf-moon-t-shirt.htmlGoes great with your Stockard Channing dreamcatcher. Sources I'm With Kanye See a Meryl Streep–Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dga3yusdGyo2arpKeypryMrZ%2BrnZVixLC4xWakqKeeYsGmsYysn6KqpGO1tbnL/chris-parnell-and-ana-gasteyer-on-their-comedic-marriage-of-the-minds.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chris-parnell-and-ana-gasteyer-on-their-comedic-marriage-of-the-minds.html“<3 CP + AG <3 2gether 4ever <3." That's what is inscribed in all of my notebook covers after reading what Chris Parnell has to say about playing Gasteyer’s husband on Suburgatory: It is just pure joy. It’s just an absolutely delight. Ana, she pointed out that we’ve been playing versions of these characters since we were in our 20s, back at the Groundlings and then at Saturday Night Live and now we’re actually old enough to play them for real and get paid for it like that./commedia-all-italiana-comedy-italian-style.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/commedia-all-italiana-comedy-italian-style.htmlA confluence of economic prosperity, skilled directors, screenwriters at the top of their game and equally gifted actors created a perfect storm of talent to birth Commedia all’italiana. This film genre translates as “comedy, the Italian way” or Italian-style comedy, but it is specifically associated with a group of films produced from the late 1950’s to the early 1970’s. Thanks to the success of the Marshall Plan after WWII, Italy was experiencing a kind of economic freedom that translated to their everyday life and their art./danny-masterson-rape-accuser-gives-graphic-court-testimony.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/danny-masterson-rape-accuser-gives-graphic-court-testimony.htmlOne of Danny Masterson’s accusers delivered nearly six hours of tearful testimony on Tuesday, at a preliminary hearing to determine if a trial will be ordered against the actor and practicing Scientologist, the Los Angeles Times reports. Masterson was charged last June with raping three women by force or fear at the height of his fame in the early 2000s. He pleaded not guilty and has denied the allegations./das-racist-was-in-anthony-bourdain-s-refrigerator-last-night.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/das-racist-was-in-anthony-bourdain-s-refrigerator-last-night.htmlIn any normal holiday-cooking special, one would expect a generic baking segment with sugar cookies, roast animal of some sort, and maybe some really terrible holiday music. But for a jaded veteran like Anthony Bourdain, it’s exactly the opposite. On his special last night, while doing some “serious damage” to a cow, he opened his refrigerator to grab another ingredient. But instead of butter or a cold one, it was the heads of Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri and Victor Vazquez in the fridge, nestled in a dozen jumbo eggs./dave-holmes-visits-1988-to-pay-respect-to-casey-kasem-s-last-true-american-top-40-countdown.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-holmes-visits-1988-to-pay-respect-to-casey-kasem-s-last-true-american-top-40-countdown.htmlOn Sunday, we woke to the sad news that Casey Kasem had died at the age of 82. Though we knew he’d been sick for a long while, the news still stung, if only because we remember him sounding so young, so high-spirited. For this week’s installment of Somewhere in Time, I’m hopping in my trusty DeLorean GIF and heading back to August 6, 1988, for Casey’s last countdown at the helm of American Top 40./death-and-other-details-season-finale-recap-a-snow-trap.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-and-other-details-season-finale-recap-a-snow-trap.htmlDeath and Other Details Impossible / Chilling Season 1 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Death and Other Details Impossible / Chilling Season 1 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Say what you want about Death and Other Details, but you have to admit, the show does deliver answers./did-steve-carell-really-improv-anchorman-s-i-love-lamp-or-is-he-just-saying-it-because-he-s.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-steve-carell-really-improv-anchorman-s-i-love-lamp-or-is-he-just-saying-it-because-he-s.htmlCarpet. Desk. Lamp. Those are the iconic three items Steve Carell’s perpetually awkward weatherman, Brick Tamland, declares his love for in one of Anchorman’s funniest scenes, much to the confusion of his Channel 4 News Team. (Just wait until he kills a guy with a trident.) There’s a solid chance in the years since that you’ve had to endure a line-by-line reading of that lamp-y vignette from a friend or random bystander, but as Carell revealed during a recent 92nd Street Y talk, filming it was all-the-more hilarious because it was completely improvised./do-you-really-need-a-review-of-hotel-transylvania-transformania-here-s-one-anyway.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-really-need-a-review-of-hotel-transylvania-transformania-here-s-one-anyway.htmlHotel Transylvania: Transformania Aim low and you’ll rarely miss. That’s been the ethos of the Hotel Transylvania films ever since the very first one in 2012. Over the years, these movies have scored by never promising too much: Mix some obvious (but not necessarily unfunny) jokes, a by-the-numbers story, Adam Sandler doing the world’s worst Dracula accent (which, thanks to the alchemy of Sandler’s commitment to never committing, somehow becomes the world’s best Dracula accent), stitch it all together with some visual inventiveness courtesy of director and cult animator Genndy Tartakovsky, and voilà, you’ve got a hit./drake-and-21-savage-s-fake-her-loss-press-tour-is-their-loss.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-and-21-savage-s-fake-her-loss-press-tour-is-their-loss.htmlNo, Drake and 21 Savage weren’t on the cover of Vogue. No, they’re not doing a Tiny Desk concert (yet). And no, Drake didn’t go on Howard Stern to talk about porn. The rappers have spent the past few days engaging in a bizarre, labor-intensive press cycle of fake opportunities around their new album Her Loss, out tomorrow. And all it makes us want to do is actually see them do these things./eastbound-down-series-finale-recap-our-journey-ends-here.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eastbound-down-series-finale-recap-our-journey-ends-here.htmlEastbound & Down Chapter 29 Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Eastbound & Down Chapter 29 Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » So, This Is It. For realsies this time. Forever. And for an episode that would otherwise be a conventional, solid end to the most sentimental season of this whole raunchy-as-fuck, odd series, the last five minutes are really what made it shine./emily-in-paris-trailer-say-la-vee-lily-collins.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-in-paris-trailer-say-la-vee-lily-collins.htmlOur Younger withdrawal just got a little more manageable. Netflix debuted the first trailer for its upcoming rom-com series Emily in Paris, which stars Lily Collins (daughter of the “In the Air Tonight” maestro) as a very fashionable marketing executive who gets the job of a lifetime in the French capital. “I’m kind of the American point of view,” the tells a skeptical Parisian after insisting that she feels like “Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!/everybody-rise-and-discuss-sondheim-s-90th-birthday-livestream.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everybody-rise-and-discuss-sondheim-s-90th-birthday-livestream.htmlAudra, and Meryl, and Christine! Oh my! On Sunday evening, Stephen Sondheim’s fans — both famous and not — gathered at their computers at 8 p.m. to celebrate the Broadway legend’s 90th birthday. And then they sat there for a long time because the Broadway.com live feed was delayed for half an hour or so, then briefly started, then saw its host Raúl Esparza’s audio cut out, and then stopped and rebooted half an hour after that./everything-everywhere-banshees-lead-2023-sag-award-nominations.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-everywhere-banshees-lead-2023-sag-award-nominations.htmlHope you didn’t have too wild of a Golden Globes night because now it’s onto the SAG Awards. The Screen Actors Guild announced nominations for its annual film and TV awards on January 11 because what better way to chase the mess of the Globes with some union-sanctioned honors? The nominations tracked pretty closely withthe Globes as The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once led with five nods each./ex-bad-boy-pastoral.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ex-bad-boy-pastoral.htmlDan Colen is still painting. But instead of raising hell, he’s raising pigs and sheep. Dan Colen. Photo: Ryan Lowry Dan Colen. His boots sunk in pig shit, his head rising six feet six inches above them, Dan Colen, 40, is at home, a giant silhouetted against a gray Columbia County sky. Once he was young, wild, and downtown notorious: In 2007, he appeared on the cover of New York, spooning his also notorious best friends, the artists Dash Snow and Ryan McGinley, in what didn’t appear to be a very clean bed./from-friends-to-lovers-the-fanfic-to-romance-pipeline-goes-mainstream.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-friends-to-lovers-the-fanfic-to-romance-pipeline-goes-mainstream.htmlAli Hazelwood, a New York Times best-selling author of the romance novels The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, and Love, Theoretically, found her literary agent in January 2020 in an unusual way. Instead of the long process most authors undertake that involves sending out countless letters seeking representation, it was an agent who reached out after reading stories Hazelwood had written on Archive of Our Own, a popular fan-fiction site./fumi-abe-is-indie-by-default.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fumi-abe-is-indie-by-default.htmlFumi Abe. Fumi Abe (@TheFumiAbe) is a New York–based stand-up comedian and the co-host of Asian, Not Asian, a podcast where two Asian guys not from Asia talk about American issues no American seems to care about. He also produces a monthly comedy show at Black Cat LES every third Wednesday called Hack City Comedy. This week, Abe talked with me about shortening his name, doing comedy in different cities, and finding inspiration in daily interactions./glenn-frey-eagles-guitarist-dies-at-67.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glenn-frey-eagles-guitarist-dies-at-67.htmlGlenn Frey. Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey has died at age 67, the band’s official web site reports. According to a statement from the group, Frey died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis, and pneumonia. Frey got his start as a musician in Detroit in the 1960s alongside Bob Seger and Jackson Browne, and one of his earliest recordings came as a session guitarist on Seger’s “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man./going-west-with-the-cast-of-tulsa-king.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/going-west-with-the-cast-of-tulsa-king.htmlClockwise from top left: Tulsa King stars Garrett Hedlund, Dana Delany, and Andrea Savage with showrunner Terence Winter. If the Taylor Sheridan-verse seems to be expanding by the day, that’s because it is. The creator and executive producer of Yellowstone, the most popular yet hard-to-find show on television, is behind multiple current and forthcoming spinoffs of the modern Western epic, as well as the totally separate The Mayor of Kingstown and, now, Tulsa King, which debuted last Sunday on Paramount+ and a special screening at Vulture Festival./golden-globes-pianist-chloe-flower-will-not-get-beaten-up-by-michelle-yeoh.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/golden-globes-pianist-chloe-flower-will-not-get-beaten-up-by-michelle-yeoh.htmlDon’t blame Chloe Flower. The composer and musician, who plays and writes her own music, took on an inaugural role at the 2023 Golden Globes on January 10, providing live performances of memorable, Golden Globe–winning TV show and movie themes to usher viewers in and out of commercial breaks. After being introduced by host Jerrod Carmichael at the top of the show as the piano player, she was on-camera periodically throughout the night./heidi-gardner-s-teen-movie-critic-has-complicated-thoughts-about-joker.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heidi-gardner-s-teen-movie-critic-has-complicated-thoughts-about-joker.htmlDuring David Harbour’s SNL episode, Todd Phillips’s new Joker movie wasn’t only mentioned once during the expertly done parody for an Oscar the Grouch movie. It also received a mention during “Weekend Update,” when cast member Heidi Gardner returned as teen movie critic Bailey Gismert to fill Michael Che in on all the films she’s checked out recently. What did she think of It Chapter Two? “Pennywise, you keep hanging out with those same kids?/high-fidelity-is-a-great-cover-of-the-original.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/high-fidelity-is-a-great-cover-of-the-original.htmlLike the Robs before her, Zoë Kravitz’s Rob is a pop music savant, but Hulu’s new adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel pushes that characterization into more interesting, challenging territory. During one of the many list-making conversations in Hulu’s High Fidelity, which premieres in full today, a debate ensues about the top-five musical reinventions of all time. When Simon (David H. Holmes), an employee at Championship Vinyl, mentions Cyndi Lauper and her Memphis Blues album, he is shouted down by friend and co-worker Cherise (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who says Lauper’s decision to record a single blues album doesn’t count./hollywood-should-do-the-obvious-thing-and-give-us-meg4n-and-ship.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hollywood-should-do-the-obvious-thing-and-give-us-meg4n-and-ship.htmlIn a better world, the sequel to M3GAN would be MEG4N and Plane would be followed by Ship. Instead, we’re getting M3GAN 2.0 and Plane 2: Stowaway. Sometimes the decision-makers in Hollywood have a great thing going and then they totally, arbitrarily blow it. (For example: watching Barbenheimer save cinema and then punting other blockbuster releases to next year rather than ending the ongoing labor strikes.) There may not be a clearer example of bigwigs beefing it than two upcoming sequels to 2023 movies, both of which had perfect, incredible titles sitting right there only for studios to end up going in a more boring direction./hotel-artemis-is-an-inventive-if-meandering-genre-hangout.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hotel-artemis-is-an-inventive-if-meandering-genre-hangout.htmlThe word “steampunk” gets thrown around a lot these days to describe things that (pushes up glasses) aren’t really steampunk. I haven’t looked yet, but I can imagine that Hotel Artemis, a colorful bit of low-stakes humans-first future-fi, is getting the label. In fact, like Blade Runner before it, it is merely taking its cues from the grungy Art Deco bones of the downtown Los Angeles in which it takes place./house-of-the-dragon-s-ewan-mitchell-wanted-his-nude-scene-to-shock-you.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/house-of-the-dragon-s-ewan-mitchell-wanted-his-nude-scene-to-shock-you.htmlSpoilers follow for the third episode of House of the Dragon’s second season, which premiered on HBO June 30. Google Ewan Mitchell and the second result, right beneath his bio, is an Instagram fan account dedicated to the actor, with the bio “Ewan Mitchell can run me over, respectfully.” When I suggest to him that thirst posts like these will reach drought levels after his nude scene in this weekend’s episode of House of the Dragon, he smiles./how-does-sean-penn-possibly-live-up-to-the-career-high-of-interviewing-el-chapo-by-directing-a-musi.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-does-sean-penn-possibly-live-up-to-the-career-high-of-interviewing-el-chapo-by-directing-a-musi.htmlTom Petty’s pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch released their second album in May, and now there’s a music video to accompany the hauntingly moody “I Forgive It All.” The country-rock tune is quite poignant — sample lyrics: “I have not been down these roads since I was a child / I ain’t broke and I ain’t hungry but I’m close enough to care” — but it’s perhaps the video’s creative personnel that overshadow the track itself./i-m-special-jim-parsons-adapting-thought-catalog-writer-s-book-as-a-pilot.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-m-special-jim-parsons-adapting-thought-catalog-writer-s-book-as-a-pilot.htmlJim Parsons, of Big Bang Theory fame, and his gay lover, Todd Spiewak, have optioned a book to make a half-hour comedy series, according to Deadline. Here’s what’s notable about this: • The book is a memoir by Ryan O’Connell, who was the first writer at Thought Catalog and has penned millions of blog posts explaining what it’s like to be a millennial. He literally might be the “voice of his generation” if he’s not in the same generation as Tavi./in-an-open-letter-artists-are-asking-the-whitney-to-take-down-a-painting-of-emmett-till.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-an-open-letter-artists-are-asking-the-whitney-to-take-down-a-painting-of-emmett-till.htmlThe Whitney Biennial this year has been celebrated as a much-needed sanctuary, one that has served as both a salve and an affirmation of the swirl of political feelings many people are currently going through. But that doesn’t mean it has been without controversy: A group of artists are asking that a painting of Emmett Till’s dead body, titled Open Casket by white artist Dana Schutz, be removed from the exhibit, saying that the painting uses black suffering for “profit and fun,” and that the artist’s depiction treats “Black pain as raw material./iona-rozeal-brown-vulture.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iona-rozeal-brown-vulture.htmlIona Rozeal Brown - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: art candy Dec. 3, 2007 Artist Iona Rozeal Brown Wigs OutBritney, be warned. Iona Rozeal Brown’s Weave Attack may, on an aesthetic level, harken back to classic Japanese prints and Pam Grier circa Foxy Brown, but our Afro-ed heroine seems to be slowly overpowered by the strands of synthetic hair around her. `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !/it-s-time-to-retire-dirty-dancing-jokes.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-time-to-retire-dirty-dancing-jokes.htmlLast night’s premiere of The Millers brought Will Arnett and Margo Martindale (among others) back to prime time. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the show is not good, at all. And the worse news: The episode ends with a big Dirty Dancing homage dance sequence. No. This is unacceptable. No more Dirty Dancing dances! Mercifully, The Millers did not do “the lift,” but it’s still just the latest in a very long line of dozens and dozens of other Dirty Dancing allusions./jack-benny-says-goodbye-sort-of.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jack-benny-says-goodbye-sort-of.htmlThe Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at./jenna-ortega-on-twisting-the-good-christian-girl-trope-in-x-and-her-almost-return-to-you.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jenna-ortega-on-twisting-the-good-christian-girl-trope-in-x-and-her-almost-return-to-you.htmlIn Ti West’s homage to 1970s slasher films, X, Jenna Ortega adds a retro twist to her growing résumé as a scream queen. She steps into an ode to artful gore as Lorraine Day, the seemingly naïve girlfriend of a young director (Owen Campbell) who invites her to help him shoot a low-budget project — without telling her it’s a porno. Lorraine, dubbed “church mouse” by the movie’s producer (Martin Henderson), becomes beguiled by the group of porn stars turned amateur filmmakers as they shoot on a rural Texas farm./jennifer-westfeldt-on-her-toronto-hit-friends-with-kids.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jennifer-westfeldt-on-her-toronto-hit-friends-with-kids.htmlTen years after Kissing Jessica Stein, Jennifer Westfeldt is poised for a major comeback with her New York comedy and directorial debut Friends With Kids, which just premiered to raves at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Westfeldt and Adam Scott play two single Manhattan yuppies who watch their best-friend couples (Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm) become miserable new parents. To avoid the bickering marital trauma triggered by newborns, the two friends decide to get pregnant and share custody like a divorced couple — with disastrous results./jim-gaffigan-announces-contagious-summer-tour-dates.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-gaffigan-announces-contagious-summer-tour-dates.htmlJim Gaffigan is going on tour. Gaffigan recently announced dates for his new tour Contagious, which kicks off this Saturday in Kentucky and makes stops in Seattle, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, and more this summer. Check the full list of tour dates below, then head over to Gaffigan’s website for ticket info. 2/21 – Lexington, KY (University of Kentucky: Singletary Center for the Performing Arts)2/22 – Jacksonville, FL (University of North Florida)7/16 – Seattle, WA (McCaw Hall)7/17 – Seattle, WA (McCaw Hall)7/18 – Portland, OR (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall)7/20 – Eugene, OR (Hult Center)7/21 – Redding, CA (Redding Civic Auditorium)7/22 – Santa Rosa, CA (Wells Fargo Center)7/23 – Saratoga, CA (Mountain Winery)7/24 – Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara Bowl)7/25 – Los Angeles, CA (Greek Theater)7/26 – San Diego, CA (Humphrey’s)7/29 – Broomfield, CO (1st Bank Center)7/30 – Salinas, KS (Stiefel Theatre)7/31 – Lincoln, NE (Pinewood Bowl Amphitheater)8/1 – Cedar Rapids, IA (U./jonah-hill-s-laugh-is-the-best-part-of-war-dogs.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonah-hill-s-laugh-is-the-best-part-of-war-dogs.htmlLet’s talk about Jonah Hill’s laugh in War Dogs. Early in Todd Phillips’s new movie, which tells the story of Ephraim Diveroli (Hill) and David Packouz (Miles Teller) — two real-life 20-somethings who supplied the United States government with guns during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars — the shady, bombastic Diveroli tries to buy weed from a bunch of guys sitting on the hood of a car in Miami. When the dealers accept his money and don’t bother supplying the stuff, Diveroli goes to the trunk of his car, pulls out a submachine gun, and crazily fires shots into the air, sending his tormenters running./jonathan-bailey-was-the-only-student-in-the-land-of-oz.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonathan-bailey-was-the-only-student-in-the-land-of-oz.htmlSometimes, being the only student in a school feels like a bad dream, a nightmare even. But for Jonathan Bailey, it was just a couple of days in the land of Oz on the set of Wicked. As the only actor in the Equity Union, the British actors’ guild, he suddenly found himself the only person able to work on set during the SAG AFTRA actors’ strike. “I think we had 10 days left filming before the strike hit,” he explained to Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy./justin-timberlake-vic-mensa-and-the-pitfalls-of-being-an-ally-to-marginalized-groups.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-timberlake-vic-mensa-and-the-pitfalls-of-being-an-ally-to-marginalized-groups.htmlJustin Timberlake and Vic Mensa. Last weekend, the annual Pride celebrations and the BET Awards hit on the same summer Sunday evening, as they often do, and incidents arose out of each event that illuminated a need for keener, more informed social-justice advocacy from stars in and around hip-hop. One of the BET show’s highlights was activist and Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams’s Bet Humanitarian Award acceptance speech, in which he spoke sharply and passionately about the fight against systemic racial inequality./kaitlyn-bristowe-is-the-bachelorette-franchise-s-katniss-everdeen.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kaitlyn-bristowe-is-the-bachelorette-franchise-s-katniss-everdeen.htmlGirl very much on fire. This article has been updated to reflect Monday night’s episode of The Bachelorette. A few weeks ago, I described The Bachelorette star Kaitlyn Bristowe as “revolutionary” for her frank, unapologetic attitude toward sex on a show that had historically treated the word as taboo, and her remarkable ability to act like a normal person (i.e., sometimes be a total mess) while juggling multiple relationships within a machine of psychological manipulation and manufactured romance./kratos-s-contradictions-are-amplified-in-god-of-war-ragnar%C3%B6k.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kratos-s-contradictions-are-amplified-in-god-of-war-ragnar%C3%B6k.htmlThe joke and tragedy of 2018’s God of War was that Kratos, a taciturn and brooding Spartan warlord, could only solve problems using brute force. THWACK went his axe as it lodged into machinery to solve a puzzle. SCHUNK and SPLAT went the heads of enemies that stood in the way of the demigod and his objective. While the game’s writers wrung plenty of comedy from this fist-first approach, they also took seriously the question of what this might do to a person./lil-tay-drops-new-music-new-allegations.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lil-tay-drops-new-music-new-allegations.htmlLil Tay is not only alive, she’s going live. On Saturday, the teenage rapper publicly appeared on social media for the first time since claims of her death were shared to her Instagram account in August. While on Instagram Live, Lil Tay took the opportunity to share both new music and new allegations against her dad, Christopher Hope. “Five years ago, I became famous. And my abusive, absentee father — who had not been in my life for years up ‘til that point — decided to come back into my life to take control over my career and my money,” she said./margo-price-after-the-storm.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/margo-price-after-the-storm.html“I’m just soaking in the unemployment and the misfortune as I’ve done in the past. I’m sure that I’ll gain something from it — maybe new perspective, or maybe good songs.” The spring release of Margo Price’s third album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, was supposed to be a pivotal moment for the Grammy-nominated singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter — “a rebirth of sorts,” she describes it. And then the tornado hit./mish-barber-way-vulture.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mish-barber-way-vulture.htmlMish Barber Way - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGednsCpecGaqZudomLEosWO/my-sister-s-keeper-s-evan-ellingson-dead-at-35.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-sister-s-keeper-s-evan-ellingson-dead-at-35.htmlActor Evan Ellingson, best known for his role in My Sister’s Keeper, has died at the age of 35, Deadline reports. He was found dead on Sunday in his home in Fontana, California, according to the San Bernardino County sheriff coroner’s office. Ellingson’s father reportedly spoke to TMZ, explaining that his son was in a sober-living home. My Sister’s Keeper director Nick Cassavetes remembered the former child star in a post, writing, “My soul is crushed today./netflix-adds-paradise-pd-animated-series-from-brickleberry-creators.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflix-adds-paradise-pd-animated-series-from-brickleberry-creators.htmlNetflix has added another animated comedy to its lineup. The streaming network has ordered ten episodes of a half-hour animated series from Brickleberry co-creators Waco O’Guin and Roger Black called Paradise PD, which is set in a small-town police department. The official logline: “They’re bad cops. Not bad like no-nonsense. Not bad like cool. Bad like sh—y. Paradise PD: They’re the worst responders.” Corresponding to the above first-look photo from the series, the voice cast includes Dana Snyder, Cedric Yarbrough, Dave Herman, Tom Kenny, Sarah Chalke, and Kyle Kinane (as the dog, Bullet); Snyder voices both characters on the far-left and far-right./never-have-i-ever-s-two-heartthrobs-are-team-each-other.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/never-have-i-ever-s-two-heartthrobs-are-team-each-other.htmlJaren Lewison as Ben and Darren Barnet as Paxton. Mild spoilers below for Never Have I Ever. When Jaren Lewison and Darren Barnet first saw each other at a screen test for Never Have I Ever, they assumed they were competing for the same role. But in the Mindy Kaling-produced Netflix teen rom-com, the two actors instead play two ends of a love triangle: Barnet is Paxton Hall-Yoshida, the ab-muscled jock who’s the target of our hero Devi’s (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) affections from afar, and Lewison is Ben Gross, Devi’s academic nemesis turned romantic interest in the style of Mr./nine-perfect-strangers-recap-frame-of-reference.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nine-perfect-strangers-recap-frame-of-reference.htmlNine Perfect Strangers Earth Day Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nine Perfect Strangers Earth Day Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I was surprised when Michael Shannon signed on to Nine Perfect Strangers. Hear me out: I had read Liane Moriarty’s novel, and I thought it was a little pulpy and a little less demanding than Shannon’s usual TV fare (Boardwalk Empire, Waco, The Little Drummer Girl); he didn’t seem to fit in this woo-woo resort location./noah-kahan-has-homesickness-to-thank-for-his-transition-to-folk-pop.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/noah-kahan-has-homesickness-to-thank-for-his-transition-to-folk-pop.htmlEarlier this summer at the Newport Folk Festival, a collective text message rocked the crowd: Noah Kahan had to drop out at the last minute due to a vocal injury. I heard a collective sigh of disappointment, and I looked up to see the entire audience with their faces aghast. Which makes sense: As the summer transitioned to fall, the Vermont-based artist was suddenly everywhere — on TikTok, performing on SNL and alongside collaborators like Post Malone and Hozier./our-brother-kaizen.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-brother-kaizen.htmlHe would be called a murderer and a domestic terrorist. But to us, he was family. Our struggles with systemic racism were the same. Comedians Keith and Kenny Lucas first met their friend Kaizen Crossen in a Newark housing project called the Garden Spires (pictured). Photo: Google Maps Comedians Keith and Kenny Lucas first met their friend Kaizen Crossen in a Newark housing project called the Garden Spires (pictured). Photo: Google Maps Comedians Keith and Kenny Lucas first met their friend Kaizen Crossen in a Newark housing project called the Garden Spires (pictured)./randall-einhorn-vulture.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/randall-einhorn-vulture.htmlthe industry June 4, 2010 Industry Roundup: Jeremy Renner, Snow WhitePlus: Neal McDonough to play “Dum Dum” in ‘Captain America.’ By Josh Duboff ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeilrulrculZJ6hnp28s7qO/ranking-all-the-songs-from-les-mis%C3%A9rables.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ranking-all-the-songs-from-les-mis%C3%A9rables.htmlStage actor Jon Robyns (C), as Enjolras, performs ‘Do You Hear The People Sing’ during a photo rehearsal for Les Miserables at the Barbican Center in London, Britain, 22 September 2010. A new production of Les Miserables, which is celebrating 25 years of the hit stage play, runs until 02 October. Let’s talk about Les Misérables. But not the movie, the show. Or rather, the cast recordings and concert records — those staples, the versions we’ve heard over and over and over./real-life-piper-kerman-shares-tips-on-surviving-incarceration.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-life-piper-kerman-shares-tips-on-surviving-incarceration.htmlPiper Kerman, whose memoir cum Netflix series Orange Is the New Black detailed her experience in a women’s prison, shared some tips on surviving incarceration when we ran into her backstage at an Amnesty International “Art for Amnesty” event in Brooklyn this past weekend. Although she says she wasn’t able to swap any prison stories with Martha Stewart when they met (the two were released from prison the same day), Kerman’s advice to those facing time behind bars is as straightforward as a Martha Stewart recipe: Shut up, and look out./ring-in-2019-to-the-sound-of-anderson-cooper-taking-shots-on-cnn-s-new-year-s-eve.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ring-in-2019-to-the-sound-of-anderson-cooper-taking-shots-on-cnn-s-new-year-s-eve.htmlAs is their tradition, CNN’s New Year’s Eve crew gets looser than you’d expect, considering they have to host for literally hours in the driving rain. And while it’s no Don Lemon getting drunk enough to pierce his ear on live television* last year, Anderson Cooper’s audible horror after taking hourly tequila shots with Andy Cohen is just what you need to close out the year/not feel bad about howling and grimacing through your own round of shots./ron-perlman-on-hellboy-nicaraguan-cigars-and-his-next-door-neighbor-selma-blair.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ron-perlman-on-hellboy-nicaraguan-cigars-and-his-next-door-neighbor-selma-blair.htmlCourtesy of Universal Ron Perlman’s three-decade career has been as consistently charming as it is veiled. To all but the most hard-core of cinephiles, he was “that guy”: the lion-faced beast of TV’s Beauty and the Beast, Wesley Snipes’s skinhead nemesis in Blade II, and yet another “manimal” in The Island of Dr. Moreau — not to mention his extensive career as a voice actor courtesy of Perlman’s distinctive northeastern baritone./run-the-jewels-are-counting-on-ugly-holiday-sweater-parties-still-being-a-thing-with-new-run-the-yul.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/run-the-jewels-are-counting-on-ugly-holiday-sweater-parties-still-being-a-thing-with-new-run-the-yul.htmlSure, anyone could host a holiday party where they blast Run the Jewels’ “A Christmas Fucking Miracle” on repeat, but what about playing that song while wearing a festive T-shirt or sweatshirt with Killer Mike’s and El-P’s faces? In the 2016 edition of their annual “Run the Yules” holiday sweater (not actually a sweater) there are the aforementioned mugs, a red reindeer, green hearts, snowflakes, and Christmas trees. Run the Jewels announced the merchandise on Twitter, writing, “Perfect for your next ugly-sweater holiday party./rupaul-s-drag-race-season-12-ru-veals-a-premiere-date-and-a-star-spangled-collection-of-queens.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupaul-s-drag-race-season-12-ru-veals-a-premiere-date-and-a-star-spangled-collection-of-queens.htmlThere’s no season like Drag Race season, because at this point, Drag Race season never does stop. Sure, the U.K. edition of the series just ended, and sure, AJ and the Queen just came out on Netflix, but now VH1 is here to announce that season 12 will come to and/or for you on February 28, with episodes of Untucked airing immediately after each installment. The network packaged the reveal with a very Americana preview introduction to the collection of 13 queens vying for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar./sam-smith-calls-in-madonna-for-reinforcement-on-vulgar.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sam-smith-calls-in-madonna-for-reinforcement-on-vulgar.htmlSam Smith is back from getting hot at the body shop and they’ve called in back-up. In the first verse of their new single, “Vulgar,” Smith says (because it’s really more says than sings on this song), “All black in stripper heels, move like Madonna.” It’s a dance-inspired track about having a bad-bitch attitude and feeling your oats, so Madonna is the perfect point of comparison. But on the next verse, Madonna herself taps in and says, “If you fuck with Sam tonight, you’re fucking with me./saturday-night-live-recap-gal-gadot-makes-out-with-kate-mckinnon.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-night-live-recap-gal-gadot-makes-out-with-kate-mckinnon.htmlSaturday Night Live Gal Gadot Season 43 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Gal Gadot Season 43 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This summer, Israeli model turned actor Gal Gadot knocked people over — both metaphorically and physically — playing the Amazonian princess Diana in Wonder Woman./shailene-woodley-and-aaron-rodgers-are-disney-vloggers-now.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shailene-woodley-and-aaron-rodgers-are-disney-vloggers-now.htmlAaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley are officially the corniest celebrity couple ever. They just gave what may be their first in-person interview as an engaged couple as an exclusive to an unofficial theme-park fan vlog called Chip and Company. In the bizarre video, the NFL player–slash–Jeopardy! host and the actress-slash-person sit with empty Mickey Mouse mugs in the middle of a Disney World hotel lobby like bored kids “playing TV host” while Mom and Dad fight at the check-in desk./spike-lee-talks-obama-the-end-of-mookie-s-brooklyn-and-the-hollywood-color-line.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spike-lee-talks-obama-the-end-of-mookie-s-brooklyn-and-the-hollywood-color-line.htmlPeople keep talking about Red Hook Summer as a return to your roots. Do you feel that way? I am glad you asked that, because I am going to try to shake the narrative as much as I can. This is not Spike going back to his roots. Red Hook Summer is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn. I am a professor at NYU—I’ve been one the last fifteen years—and one of the courses they are teaching in cinema studies this summer is “Scorsese’s New York./squid-game-the-challenge-recap-collective-organizing-and-its-discontents.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/squid-game-the-challenge-recap-collective-organizing-and-its-discontents.htmlSquid Game: The Challenge Episodes 6-8 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Squid Game: The Challenge Episodes 6-8 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This recap covers episodes six, seven, and eight, “Goodbye,” “Friend and Foe,” and “One Step Closer./station-eleven-recap-day-zero-pain.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/station-eleven-recap-day-zero-pain.htmlStation Eleven A Hawk From a Handsaw Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Station Eleven A Hawk From a Handsaw Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In Year Twenty, Kirsten Raymonde (played as an adult by Mackenzie Davis) roams northern Michigan with a band of traveling players that she met back in Year Two./stress-screaming-along-to-this-new-phoebe-bridgers-song-is-all-you-need-right-now.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stress-screaming-along-to-this-new-phoebe-bridgers-song-is-all-you-need-right-now.htmlAs we’re living in one of the most limited worlds we’ve ever known, Bridgers provides expansive, necessary catharsis on “I Know the End.” You could call Phoebe Bridgers’s new album Punisher sparse, hushed, or contained, but then you’d be missing out on one of the beautiful things about it: “I Know the End,” the closer that starts out subdued before building into an explosion. Bridgers fittingly saves the standout moment of the album, a song that confidently stares down the end of the world, for a coup de grâce./swarm-gets-sticky-icky.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/swarm-gets-sticky-icky.html@BeyLegion, is that you? Stan culture is coming out of twitter.com and into Donald Glover’s Swarm. The Amazon Prime Video series — the title of which probably derives from Beyoncé’s fandom, the Bey Hive — stars Dominique Fishback as an obsessed, Houston-based fan named Dre who goes to increasingly violent lengths for her fave R&B singer. As Glover’s first project in his Amazon Studios deal, the show takes on the most extreme case of obsessed fans and took inspiration from facts and rumors surrounding Twitter fans and their online presence./talking-animal-house-and-national-lampoon-with-matty-simmons.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-animal-house-and-national-lampoon-with-matty-simmons.htmlMatty Simmons and Ivan Reitman on the set of Animal House in 1978. As the founding publisher of National Lampoon magazine and the person responsible for expanding the Lampoon brand to radio, theater, and film, Matty Simmons led the charge in creating a new kind of comedy during the 1970s. From producing the National Lampoon Radio Hour and stage shows, where he gave work to pre-SNL up-and-comers like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner to producing Animal House, one of the highest-grossing and most-imitated movies of all-time, Simmons had a vital role in the changing of the guard that occurred in American comedy during the ‘70s./taylor-swift-continues-her-international-era-s-tour.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-continues-her-international-era-s-tour.htmlUpdate, Thursday, November 2, 2023: Is it the end of the era? Not just yet. Taylor Swift has once again extended her Eras Tour, this time adding three new dates to the previously announced Canada leg with opener Gracie Abrams. This means that after circling the globe, the tour that reportedly helped make Swift a billionaire is set to conclude in Vancouver in December 2024 … for now, at least./the-11-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-11-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-watch-this-weekend.htmlClockwise from top: Ahsoka, Invasion, Bottoms, Gran Turismo. The end of summer no longer feels far, far away, but as that subtle reference to Star Wars might’ve hinted, we’ve got some good TV shows and movies to stream as we get through the last of August. There’s the highly anticipated Ahsoka, which sets up the future of the franchise. We’ve got a video-game movie, a teen-girl fight-club film, some delicious reality-TV mess, and two big titles coming to VOD./the-90s-kids-shows-that-informed-adam-conover-s-comedy-the-most.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-90s-kids-shows-that-informed-adam-conover-s-comedy-the-most.htmlBeakman’s World. Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series Underrated, we chat with writers and performers from the comedy world about an unsung comedy moment of their choosing that they think deserves more praise. If you came of age during the ’80s and ’90s, you were most likely well-nourished by the bumper crop of children’s educational TV programs that aired during those decades./the-audio-of-harvey-weinstein-trying-to-coerce-an-actress-into-his-room-is-horrifying.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-audio-of-harvey-weinstein-trying-to-coerce-an-actress-into-his-room-is-horrifying.htmlWeinstein. Harvey Weinstein has been removed as the head of the Weinstein Company following a bombshell investigation that uncovered decades of allegations of sexual harassment against him, and now The New Yorker has obtained audio of Weinstein confessing to groping a woman. In a confrontation recorded by the NYPD of Weinstein and Filipina-Italian model and aspiring actress Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, Weinstein is heard instructing Gutierrez to come into his hotel room and sit in the bathroom for five minutes and drink water while he showers./the-best-and-most-evolved-of-modest-mouse-according-to-isaac-brock.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-and-most-evolved-of-modest-mouse-according-to-isaac-brock.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. WELL! Isaac Brock is trying to remember his band’s old songs. It’s been 25 years since Modest Mouse released its first album, 1996’s This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, and closer to 30 since the Washington band has existed./the-great-gatsby-and-all-your-favorite-works-from-1925-have-now-entered-the-public-domain.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-gatsby-and-all-your-favorite-works-from-1925-have-now-entered-the-public-domain.htmlA new year has arrived, and with it, a new crop of literature, music, films and other media enter into the public domain. “That means that copyright has expired,” explains Center for the Study of the Public Domain director Jennifer Jenkins told NPR. “And all of the works are free for anyone to use, reuse, build upon for anyone — without paying a fee.” In other words, as of today, the seminal works of 1925 are yours to have, to hold and to adapt into an anachronistic musical or zombie-filled prestige horror-drama./the-imperfect-legacy-of-romeo-must-die.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-imperfect-legacy-of-romeo-must-die.htmlTo Hollywood, the “hip-hop kung fu movie” was a short-lived fancy. To me, it was a phenomenon. Jet Li and Aaliyah, 2000’s Romeo and Juliet. Photo: Warner Bros. Jet Li and Aaliyah, 2000’s Romeo and Juliet. Photo: Warner Bros. Jet Li and Aaliyah, 2000’s Romeo and Juliet. On a March night 21 years ago, Hollywood’s latest riff on the Hong Kong action movie Romeo Must Die was having its red carpet premiere at Westwood’s Mann Village Theater./the-making-of-justin-theroux-s-maniac-character-and-his-blow-job-robot.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-making-of-justin-theroux-s-maniac-character-and-his-blow-job-robot.htmlSally Field and Justin Theroux in Maniac. Not pictured: The Sucktube. While writing Maniac, creator Patrick Somerville and director Cary Joji Fukunaga invented an ordinary enough character: Dr. James Mantleray, a doctor who oversees a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial that aims to cure mental illness, until it all goes terribly wrong. Then, they decided to cast Justin Theroux. “They admitted, ‘We really want someone with a point of view and a take on it,’” Theroux told Vulture ahead of Maniac’s premiere, adding that aside from the basic story line, Mantleray wasn’t very defined on the page./the-mick-it-s-always-sunny-and-the-magic-of-kaitlin-olson.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mick-it-s-always-sunny-and-the-magic-of-kaitlin-olson.htmlDuring the Rashomon-esque, ninth season episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, “The Gang Saves the Day,” we get a brief glimpse of what each member of the Gang envisions their lives being like after surviving a robbery attempt. In Deandra “Sweet Dee” Reynolds’ (Kaitlin Olson) daydream, the rest of the Gang is dead (by her own hand) and she’s the star of a sitcom where she plays Mr. Covington, a butler to a wealthy family in a mansion far away from Philly./the-most-overlooked-and-transformative-of-the-who-according-to-roger-daltrey.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-overlooked-and-transformative-of-the-who-according-to-roger-daltrey.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “I survived with three bloody addicts in a group. But I try not to think of it like that.” The story of the Who has always been the story of society. The volatile intensity of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon reflected their audience — it was always about their audience — as if they were holding up a cracked mirror to their own experiences with angst, isolation, and rage./the-o-c-producers-say-killing-off-marissa-was-a-terrible-mistake.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-o-c-producers-say-killing-off-marissa-was-a-terrible-mistake.htmlJosh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage both say killing off Marissa Cooper in the season-three finale of The O.C. was a “terrible mistake.” In a chapter from Alan Sepinwall’s upcoming oral history of the show (excerpted in Vanity Fair) the cast, crew, production, and Television Without Pity commentariat all discuss the reasons Mischa Barton was essentially fired from The O.C. — and why, in hindsight, those reasons sucked. “Any rewatch or reevaluation of a show that came from a time before the present is going to require a tough look at our treatment of women overall,” says recapper Daniel Blau Rogge./the-old-weird-america-pleasures-of-dead-outlaw.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-old-weird-america-pleasures-of-dead-outlaw.htmlWe live in an age of franchise bloat and narrative distension: Why adapt a book into one movie when you could stretch it into two or three, and they could all be three hours long? Save the world, sure, but then you’ve got to save the universe, then the multiverse, then the metaverse, and then you’ve got to blow it all up and start again, with bigger budgets and hotter actors./the-pile-of-h-that-was-h-my-dad-says.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pile-of-h-that-was-h-my-dad-says.htmlSometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get things right. That’s where Brilliantly Canceled comes in, looking at the shows that didn’t make it past their first season and saved us all a ton of grief. Writers adapt all types of stories to the screen. Whether they be based on works of fiction, like novels, comics, or plays; myths, handed down from generation to generation; or even real stories that happened to real people./the-raucous-sorry-to-bother-you-is-the-punk-film-2018-deserves.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-raucous-sorry-to-bother-you-is-the-punk-film-2018-deserves.htmlLakeith Stanfield. This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival. The film industry loves to indulge actors who get the directing bug, for better or worse — you can look at this year’s (or any other) Sundance lineup for proof of that. Sorry to Bother You makes me wish that more musicians did. I’m not sure very many of the resulting films would look like Boots Riley’s rambunctious, surreal comedy, but you can feel the difference in a film whose director is listening to it with the same attentiveness that he’s watching it./the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-recap-let-s-get-naked.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-recap-let-s-get-naked.htmlThe Real Housewives of New Jersey A Retreat to Remember Season 8 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey A Retreat to Remember Season 8 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week on Jerz, we got more info on Margaret’s story with her kids, and it turns out their rejection has a lot to do with her cheating on her husband./the-real-housewives-of-potomac-recap-rockin-robyn.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-potomac-recap-rockin-robyn.htmlThe Real Housewives of Potomac Stand In Your Truth Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Stand In Your Truth Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We have officially made it to episode three and have yet to see any Potomac taglines./the-ron-swanson-burger-a-recipe.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ron-swanson-burger-a-recipe.htmlOn last week’s Parks and Rec, when Ron Swanson was asked whether or not he’s ever had a turkey burger, he responded with “Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. Delicious.” Of course, someone has now made just such a burger: a five-pound monstrosity of meat, one that looks like it would put even the mustachioed one himself into a mighty food coma. If you think you’ve got a pushbroom thick enough to handle having this thing run ‘neath it, the recipe is included./the-secret-life-of-pets-strengthens-animation-s-stranglehold-on-this-year-s-box-office.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secret-life-of-pets-strengthens-animation-s-stranglehold-on-this-year-s-box-office.htmlAfter three weeks atop the box office, Finding Dory has finally ceded its crown — to another animated movie. The Secret Life of Pets broke out with a remarkable $103 million opening, the best-ever for an original animated property. That’s nearly $30 million better than Zootopia managed in its first frame back in early March, and considering how that movie has since managed to crack $1 billion worldwide, the future looks equally bright for Pets, which comes via Universal and Illumination, the evil geniuses responsible for last year’s insidious everywhere hit, Minions./the-story-of-combat-jack-hip-hop-s-flagship-podcaster.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-of-combat-jack-hip-hop-s-flagship-podcaster.htmlReggie Ossé, a.k.a. Combat Jack. Combat Jack — Reggie Ossé as he was known to his friends — was lying in his hospital bed. His big belly pressed tight against his blue gown. His face was gaunt, missing 10 or 15 of the pounds that typically rounded out his cheeks. It was late October, nearly two weeks after he’d checked in to Brooklyn’s NYU Lutheran Medical Center. His voice was weak, still above a whisper but lacking the Crown Heights–inflected intensity that, on his namesake podcast — the Combat Jack Show — had made him new-media royalty./the-succession-timeline-kind-of-makes-sense-now.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-succession-timeline-kind-of-makes-sense-now.htmlJust forget the 10-consecutive-days thing, okay? Succession seems to be grounded in a reality similar enough to ours (minus any explicit signs of COVID or Trump) that we hold its plots and characters to real-world standards. We publish an obituary for Logan Roy like he’s a real guy; we purchase Waystar Royco corporate gear to wear to our desk jobs. But the sped-up pace of events during season four (death, pregnancy, and, most of all, the return of Marcia) have revealed our favorite prestige corporate-intrigue drama to be more of a soap opera than it lets on./theater-camp-is-too-sweet-to-take-issue-with.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-camp-is-too-sweet-to-take-issue-with.htmlThis celebration of dorks, divas, and devotion to one’s art would feel sweet at any time, but as actors join writers on the picket line, it ends up being a little spicy as well. Immediacy is the last thing on the mind of Theater Camp, a cheerfully nostalgic movie filled with children who worship Liza Minnelli and adults who love the performing-arts sanctuary of their youth so much they came back as teachers./tiff-has-a-whole-lot-of-supply-not-enough-demand.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiff-has-a-whole-lot-of-supply-not-enough-demand.htmlHit Man. Anybody up for a movie? The Toronto International Film Festival, trapped in the stalemate precipitated by the AMPTP’s questionable refusal to make a deal with Hollywood’s unions, opened this year with more films for sale than ever, per The Wrap. A total of 50 movies were available for acquisition deals at the start of the festival. Unfortunately for film sales, the buying aspect of it all is moving at a snail’s pace./time-out-j-cole-just-dropped-a-new-video-for-amari.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-out-j-cole-just-dropped-a-new-video-for-amari.htmlMulti-hyphenate J. Cole casually followed up his pro basketball debut with a new music video for “a m a r i” today. The new video, part of his sixth studio album, The Off-Season, has 36-year-old Jermaine Cole reminiscing on his rapid rise. “Made it out, it gotta mean something,” he finishes off, as his younger self holds onto him for dear life. “Hold onto your inner child,” flashes onto the screen./tyler-the-creator-teases-camp-flog-gnaw-with-kendrick-lamar-and-baby-keem.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tyler-the-creator-teases-camp-flog-gnaw-with-kendrick-lamar-and-baby-keem.htmlSee you at Dodgers stadium. Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem created a safe space for Tyler, the Creator to announce his annual music festival, Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. The upcoming festivities return for their ninth installment on November 11 and 12 at the usual venue: Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. The official lineup has yet to be announced, but previous years saw the likes of SZA, Solange, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and Mac Miller grace the stage./viggo-mortensen-to-star-in-movie-version-of-depressing-book.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/viggo-mortensen-to-star-in-movie-version-of-depressing-book.htmlPhoto: Getty Images Mortensen on The Road: Viggo Mortensen will star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Oprah-approved apocalypse novel The Road. [MTV] Joel to Close Shea Stadium: Billy Joel will play the last show ever at Shea Stadium before it’s demolished in 2008, provided he does not try to drive himself to the venue. [Newsday] Led Zep Announce Reunion: Led Zeppelin have officially announced that they’ll set aside their differences to make lots of money./watching-the-rewatcher.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watching-the-rewatcher.htmlWhen the YouTuber behind Mike’s Mic recaps TV, the results are often better than the shows themselves. Photo: Phebe Schmidt/Creative Direction: Phebe Schmidt; Lighting Direction: Alec Barnett; Hair and Makeup: Colette Miller; Set Design Assistant: Poppy Oliver; Retoucher: Dave Mercer This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The reaction video has been a staple of YouTube for more than a decade./we-ranked-all-the-songs-on-spotify-s-life-sucks-playlist.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-ranked-all-the-songs-on-spotify-s-life-sucks-playlist.htmlThe rapper Cyhi the Prynce once said on Kanye West’s “So Appalled,” “If God had an iPod, I’d be on his playlist.” The method of music storage might be outdated now, but playlists loom larger than ever in the streaming era of music-listener culture, with subscription services like Apple Music and Spotify acting as the presumptive deities. For the latter service, there seems to be playlists for pretty much any mood and situation./we-ll-take-two-of-whatever-bad-bunny-is-selling-on-saturday-night-live.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-ll-take-two-of-whatever-bad-bunny-is-selling-on-saturday-night-live.htmlBad Bunny has everything you need to get through quarantine: music, inspirational messages, and now, sketch comedy. The rapper joined Kenan Thompson (as former Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz) in “Big Papi’s Cooking Show” on this week’s Saturday Night Live. Ditching the bad for big, Big Papi’s “Puerto Rican cousin” Big Bunny joins the show to offer you two quarantine essentials: “big ass pots,” large enough to fit “22 different animals, even big ones like llama and yak,” and big ass sweatpants, presumably for after you eat 22 different kinds of meat./what-do-a-ap-rocky-s-new-songs-tell-us-about-his-next-album.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-do-a-ap-rocky-s-new-songs-tell-us-about-his-next-album.htmlA$AP Rocky. Over the past three days, A$AP Rocky has been releasing new songs on SoundCloud, placing each one under a different genre hashtag: Tuesday’s “5ive $tar$” was labeled hip-hop and rap, Wednesday’s “Above” alternative rock, and yesterday’s “Money Bags Freestyle (Dean Blunt Meditation)” ambient. What unites the songs, besides their brevity, is their silence. The tracks feature some of Rocky’s sleepiest flows to date over beats often so drowsy they barely qualify as beats./what-s-every-former-kids-in-the-hall-writer-up-to-now.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-every-former-kids-in-the-hall-writer-up-to-now.html“I got that one from the kids in the hall.”–Sid Caesar, blaming his writers whenever a joke would bomb It’s taken me many years to wrap my head around the concept of television writers. It seems like I’ve always more or less operated under the assumption that people on TV just wandered in front of the cameras and were cool/funny, and then they went and cashed their massive paychecks. This felt doubly true for sketch comedy shows, going back to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, where each of the six members of the troupe were credited as creators, writers, and performers./what-s-west-of-westeros.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-west-of-westeros.htmlAll things considered, Sunday night’s Game of Thrones finale ended pretty well for House Stark. Bran is the King on the Iron Throne, with Bran himself being the only person who saw that coming. Sansa is Queen in the North and currently rocking a great gown. Jon Snow had to murder the woman he loved, yes, but at least he’s still alive and back at the Night’s Watch, where he’s got a new mandate that includes being nice to the Wildlings and, I assume, eventually rebuilding the gigantic hole in the Wall./when-cheers-became-cheers-an-appreciation-of-endless-slumper.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-cheers-became-cheers-an-appreciation-of-endless-slumper.htmlTed Danson as bartender Same Malone in Cheers. Thirty-five years after it first premiered, Cheers remains a sitcom benchmark, a comedy institution that left an indelible mark on the modern television landscape. Over the course of its 11 seasons, Cheers perfected the workplace–cum–surrogate family template established by The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi. It helped introduce TV audiences to the viability of will-they, won’t-they relationships, multi-episode arcs, and disconnected cold opens./why-beyonc%C3%A9-and-jay-z-s-joint-album-didn-t-debut-at-no-1.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-beyonc%C3%A9-and-jay-z-s-joint-album-didn-t-debut-at-no-1.htmlFor all of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s world-stopping power, they can’t control the powers that be – the Billboard charts. Despite dominating the conversation, music industry, and universe with their surprise joint album, Everything Is Love, they ultimately weren’t the favorites on this week’s Billboard 200. Instead, they lost out to, of all things, a boy band (just when you thought those were a dying art!). Separately, Bey and Hov nabbed No./why-wasn-t-cabin-in-the-woods-scary.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-wasn-t-cabin-in-the-woods-scary.htmlThe Cabin in the Woods made a decent $14.8 million this weekend at the box office — not exactly at the high end of horror movie openings, but a respectable haul for a movie that’s been on the shelf for years. Still, if you pay attention to online chatter, Cabin may as well have been a blockbuster, for all the hype and sterling reviews it got (92 percent fresh at Rotten Tomatoes is nothing to sniff at./you-made-a-musical-out-of-a-delorean.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-made-a-musical-out-of-a-delorean.htmlFrom Back to the Future: The Musical, at the Winter Garden. I think I first encountered Doc Brown and Marty McFly as a little kid on an amusement-park ride at Universal Studios, which I remember was confusing because I hadn’t yet seen any Back to the Future movies. Still, there was a certain elemental logic to the odd-couple pairing of a cool misfit kid and a local mad scientist as long as you didn’t think too hard about the logistics of their meeting./here-are-the-voices-behind-bojack-horseman-past-and-present.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-are-the-voices-behind-bojack-horseman-past-and-present.htmlJuly 27, 2016 12:15 pm By Sofia Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 40 Photos Photo: Getty Images; Netflix BoJack Horseman, Netflix’s adult animated series about a ‘90s sitcom star turned sad, alcoholic has-been (who also happens to be an anthropomorphic horse) returned for a third season last Friday. As expected, it delivered more shenanigans — both hilarious and deeply depressing — from BoJack and his animal and human cohorts, who are voiced by a star-studded cast including Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, and Allison Brie./revisiting-the-19th-century-s-cat-painting-renaissance-price-15-000-lol.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisiting-the-19th-century-s-cat-painting-renaissance-price-15-000-lol.htmlart May 4, 2015 2:00 pm By Kyle Chayka Share Share Tweet Pin It 8 Photos Photo: Bonhams A clutch of canvases on display at Bonhams auction house in advance of its May 6 sale of 19th-century European paintings should look very familiar to viewers today. The works feature languid felines and frolicking kittens engaged in activities like playing with string, crowding on top of desks, and reclining on pillows./7-existential-quandaries-raised-by-the-cars-series.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-existential-quandaries-raised-by-the-cars-series.htmlCars 3. The Cars franchise is many things to many people. For young children, it is the opportunity to be transported into a world full of good-natured wisecracks and bright, shiny metal. For Disney, it is an opportunity to separate those children’s guardians from their wallets for many Christmases to come. And for those of us whose brains spiral out of control in the darkness of the cineplex, each new Cars film is a veritable rabbit-warren of unsettling thought-paths./a-brief-overview-of-sitcom-aliens-and-what-they-say-about-the-u-s.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-overview-of-sitcom-aliens-and-what-they-say-about-the-u-s.html27 Jan 1979 — Original caption: TV Show Mork and Mindy. Actor Robin Williams and actress Pam Dawber shown in scenes from TV show. Realism in comedy has been the trend for the last several years, thanks in part to the rise of the single-camera mockumentary format. But it’s not the only way to go. The Neighbors, which premieres tonight on ABC (read our critic’s review here), attempts to buck the trend by setting itself in a posh cul-de-sac populated by aliens who disguise themselves as humans./a-few-editorial-notes-on-the-connector.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-few-editorial-notes-on-the-connector.htmlThe temptation, when you see a work of art about a world with which you’re intimately familiar, is to get out a red pen as you watch and mark down all the places where the facts are off. It’s not necessarily a healthy or charitable way to respond, and if the rest of the piece is coherent and engaging on its own terms, it shouldn’t matter, but it can be hard to resist the knee-jerk urge to go, “well, that’s not how that works./a-rare-conversation-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-writer-herman-wouk.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-rare-conversation-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-writer-herman-wouk.htmlHerman Wouk has never been one for half-measures. His two-volume World War II saga, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, ran to nearly 2,000 pages and was adapted into a corresponding pair of TV miniseries. His third novel, The Caine Mutiny, won a Pulitzer, spawned a Broadway play, and gave Humphrey Bogart a defining role of his career. Wouk’s meaty, breezy fiction (on the Navy, the Holocaust, Israel, Nixon, a starry-eyed Jewish girl who called herself Marjorie Morningstar) earned him millions of readers but precious few glowing reviews./a-scandal-refresher-every-last-thing-to-remember-from-the-first-half-of-season-5.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-scandal-refresher-every-last-thing-to-remember-from-the-first-half-of-season-5.htmlOlitz is on the fritz. #Gladiators, I’m not sure how you spent the nearly three-month hiatus of Scandal, but much of my time was focused on starting my new charity called “Jesus Be Some Wig Glue,” which is devoted to repairing the hairlines of watchers of Shonda Rhimes’s TV shows, who, week after week, get their wigs snatched after some crazy plot twist has gone down. So far, I have fixed 27 people’s scalps, and I’m pretty much waiting on the MacArthur grant to recognize my genius and give me an award./alison-brie-slaps-on-her-gay-goggles-and-talks-about-being-naked-again.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alison-brie-slaps-on-her-gay-goggles-and-talks-about-being-naked-again.htmlAlison Brie is charming and funny and such but she tends to talk about only two things when she goes on talks shows: going to art school and times when she was naked. Last night on Conan, she did both in one story. Apparently, when she was in college, everyone thought it was hilarious when she would jaunt around campus with no clothes on. Sure Alison, they all liked seeing you naked because it was funny, not because you are a super attractive person./all-37-of-this-year-s-eurovision-song-entries-ranked.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-37-of-this-year-s-eurovision-song-entries-ranked.htmlSerbia, Israel, and Sweden’s entries in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Forget King Charles’s coronation. For fans of precision-tooled pop, elaborate stage production, and voting reveals which provide more high drama than a Succession box set, this week’s most important event across the pond is undeniably the 67th Eurovision Song Contest. Standing in for last year’s winners Ukraine, the United Kingdom, specifically Liverpool, will be hosting the whole shebang for the first time since 1998./american-horror-story-s-evan-peters-on-his-nude-scenes-cock-socks-and-balls.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-horror-story-s-evan-peters-on-his-nude-scenes-cock-socks-and-balls.htmlJust one episode into the new season of American Horror Story, Evan Peters found himself facing aliens, getting hosed down in the nude, and being caned by Jessica Lange. He of course knew to expect the unexpected, having had to lube up to wear a gimp suit for the first edition of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology. But he’s traded in the rubber for a similarly constricting straitjacket to play Kit Walker, an inmate at an insane asylum who is suspected of being a serial killer known as Bloody Face./an-exhaustive-list-of-all-of-the-allegations-against-harvey-weinstein.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-exhaustive-list-of-all-of-the-allegations-against-harvey-weinstein.htmlRose McGowan, Lupita Nyong’o, and Mia Kirshner. On Thursday, the New York Times published a bombshell report detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein. Since then, multiple women have come forward to share additional accusations against the powerful producer, including several instances of alleged sexual assault. By Tuesday afternoon, another report by the Times featured additional allegations by several high-profile actresses — including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. We have compiled a list of all the allegations against Weinstein, which we will update continually as new accusations come to light./an-oral-history-of-david-pumpkins.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-oral-history-of-david-pumpkins.htmlThis story originally ran in October of 2017. Following David’s return to Saturday Night Live in October 22, we are republishing it with a new chapter. “Haunted Elevator” is a Saturday Night Live sketch about confused people trying to figure out what this guy named David S. Pumpkins’s deal is. The now-classic sketch (more commonly referred to as “David Pumpkins”), starring Tom Hanks as Mr. Pumpkins, was written by similarly confused people trying to figure out what his deal is./animal-collective-s-geologist-on-their-new-ep-their-upcoming-movie-and-sampling-the-grateful-dea.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/animal-collective-s-geologist-on-their-new-ep-their-upcoming-movie-and-sampling-the-grateful-dea.htmlIn January, Animal Collective released Merriweather Post Pavilion, a gorgeous, wonderfully weird set of psychedelic electro-pop. But the trio — Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, Dave “Avey Tare” Portner, and Brian “Geologist” Weitz — are a restlessly creative crew, and this month they return with a killer five-song EP titled Fall Be Kind. Vulture checked in with Weitz to talk about the new disc, the band’s rabid fan base, and why the Grateful Dead were punk before punk even existed./as-count-olaf-neil-patrick-harris-is-a-wonderfully-bad-actor.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/as-count-olaf-neil-patrick-harris-is-a-wonderfully-bad-actor.htmlNeil Patrick Harris. Of the many comfortable forms of pop culture available to you in recent months, one of my favorites involves watching Neil Patrick Harris pretend to be a sailor, badly. In the fifth and sixth episodes of Netflix’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Harris plays Captain Sham, a lonesome sailor who’s looking for love with Alfre Woodard’s neurotic Aunt Josephine. Of course, as is obvious to both the audience and the show’s protagonists, the Baudelaire children, Captain Sham is really the nefarious Count Olaf in disguise, following them so he can get his hands on their fortune./asghar-farhadi-s-about-elly-is-suspenseful-visually-masterful-and-on-its-own-terms-perfect.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/asghar-farhadi-s-about-elly-is-suspenseful-visually-masterful-and-on-its-own-terms-perfect.htmlAsghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning A Separation (2011) was a devastating portrait of an Iran in which there’s no common ground, everyone is forced to lie, and justice is a pipe dream. (But opiates are hard to find, so pipe dreams aren’t readily available.) The film was amazingly bleak, but so illuminating I came away strangely optimistic: The first step in curing a disease is being able to see it whole./ashley-zukerman-knows-this-is-succession-s-bleakest-episode-yet.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ashley-zukerman-knows-this-is-succession-s-bleakest-episode-yet.htmlSpoilers follow for Succession season four, episode eight, “America Decides.” No matter which left-leaning campaign political operative Nate Sofrelli (Ashley Zukerman) is running, he can’t escape the Roys. After an absence following season three’s “The Disruption,” Nate is back in their destructive orbit, first as a guest of old friend Kendall at the preelection “Tailgate Party” — where Nate, realizing the optics of rubbing shoulders with the Roys while working for presidential nominee Daniel Jiménez (Elliot Villar), leaves early — then on the phone with Shiv and Ken as the polls close during “America Decides./azealia-banks-is-proud-as-f-ck-of-donald-trump.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/azealia-banks-is-proud-as-f-ck-of-donald-trump.htmlAzealia Banks. The trolls are coming home to roost. Longtime Donald Trump supporter and then abandoner Azealia Banks has taken to Instagram to congratulate Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election, and to apologize for briefly recinding her support. “I’m fucking proud as FUCK of you,” Banks writes. “I must say that I am TRULY inspired by this and feel deep amounts of vindication. Thanks for letting me know that I’m not crazy (even though I fronted a few times) liberals run hollywood and it’s been a COLD WORLD OUT HERE FOR ME AS A TRUMP SUPPORTER./best-of-netflix-amazon-and-hulu-streaming-airplane-movies.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-of-netflix-amazon-and-hulu-streaming-airplane-movies.htmlThis weekend, as you search for a movie to watch, you can either go see Non-Stop or pick one of approximately 14 billion options available on streaming over a variety of services, be it Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, On Demand, or other sites. Every Friday, Vulture tries to make life easier by narrowing it down to a handful of heartily recommended options. This week, we’ve booked tickets for an airplane-themed comedy, musical, docudrama, and horror anthology./breaking-bad-s-giancarlo-esposito-will-star-in-one-of-j-j-abrams-s-pilots.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-bad-s-giancarlo-esposito-will-star-in-one-of-j-j-abrams-s-pilots.htmlActor Giancarlo Esposito attends the North American Premiere Of “Lilyhammer”, a Netflix Original Series at Crosby Street Hotel on February 1, 2012 in New York City. Breaking Bad baddie and upcoming Community guest star Giancarlo Esposito will star in J.J. Abrams’s upcoming pilot Revolution for NBC. The “high-octane drama,” from Supernatural creator Erik Kripke, is about a group of people trying to survive “in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist./breaking-down-the-funniest-childish-gambino-lyrics.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-down-the-funniest-childish-gambino-lyrics.htmlUnlike Donald Glover’s past and current shows, his stand-up specials, cultclassic feature, sketch videos, and blockbuster cameos, his rap alter-ego Childish Gambino is not meant to funny. Gambino’s new record, Camp, is an outlet for all the thoughts and feelings that only get hinted at in the quadruple threat’s stand-up. These include growing up poor, being bullied, feeling misunderstood, and generally not having a place. In other words: serious shit. That didn’t stop Glover from penning some zingers that both lighten the mood and give his comedy fans something to hold on to as he rises to the top of a whole new set of charts./brockhampton-is-ready-to-leave-a-hell-of-a-legacy-behind.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brockhampton-is-ready-to-leave-a-hell-of-a-legacy-behind.html“Maybe it is over.” Brockhampton started with a modest goal. Texas-born rapper, singer, and producer Kevin Abstract only wanted to start a band, an “all-American boy band.” The gifted friends and collaborators he found along the way — some from Texas and others from Connecticut, Florida, Ireland, and elsewhere — flouted boy-band convention. They represented a variety of races, regions, and sexual orientations. They worked out their issues in their art, making music about the quest to find happiness where predecessors in the field sang songs about teenage relationship drama./bryan-fuller-on-hannibal-s-cancellation-and-where-he-wants-to-take-the-show-in-season-4.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bryan-fuller-on-hannibal-s-cancellation-and-where-he-wants-to-take-the-show-in-season-4.htmlIt’s not over till he says it’s over. Earlier this week, Hannibal’s executive producer Bryan Fuller got news that NBC had decided not to continue airing his series because the ratings weren’t high enough to make it worth their while. This decision was widely described as a “cancellation,” but the horrible finality of that word is misleading. Hannibal wasn’t funded and produced in-house by NBC, which means they didn’t decide to stop the show from existing; they just decided not to air it on NBC anymore./can-you-tell-which-larry-david-is-older-we-doubt-it.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-you-tell-which-larry-david-is-older-we-doubt-it.htmlWhen the first season of Curb Your Enthusiasm aired in 2000, Larry David was 54 years old. For comparison, that is how old Paul Rudd is right now. But the benefit of looking older when you’re young is that it’s hard for others to tell the difference when you age. To the untrained eye, once a man is bald, he is sorted into the category of “old.” As a result, when fans picture Larry David on Curb, they see the same person during the final season as they did for the first, 24 years ago./cassie-sues-diddy-for-rape-and-sex-trafficking-in-new-filing.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cassie-sues-diddy-for-rape-and-sex-trafficking-in-new-filing.htmlDiddy. R&B singer Cassie filed a lawsuit against Diddy on November 16, accusing the hip-hop mogul of a pattern of control and sexual abuse, per the New York Times. The suit, filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, alleges that Diddy, real name Sean Combs, subjected her to beatings, coercive drug use, and forced intercourse with sex workers while he filmed the encounters, arguing she is a victim of sex trafficking, sexual battery, sexual assault, and violations of New York City’s gender-motivated violence law./casting-emma-stone-as-allison-ng-in-aloha-should-have-been-a-great-white-nope.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/casting-emma-stone-as-allison-ng-in-aloha-should-have-been-a-great-white-nope.htmlActors You Already Knew Weren’t Asian: Emma Stone. Over the weekend, I watched with a growing sense of dread as people on Facebook and Twitter debated whether or not people of mixed Asian descent could look like Emma Stone. One woman even posted photos of a child that she knew who had Asian ancestry, but still had blonde hair and light eyes. See? Just like Emma Stone. The occasion for all this phenotypic scrutiny was Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, in which his female protagonist, Allison Ng (“ing like ring,” she explains) is played by Emma Stone./check-out-claire-s-cute-dog-assistant-on-outlander.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/check-out-claire-s-cute-dog-assistant-on-outlander.htmlClaire, our time-traveling heroine on Outlander, is on a very serious mission to change history. And because that’s not enough, she takes on some additional work, starting in Saturday’s episode. With husband Jamie off making headway with various princes and ministers of finance, Claire starts to volunteer at a local hospital in 1740s Paris. Given her background as a WWII combat nurse with modern medical knowledge, Claire has a distinct advantage over the hospital’s official employees, save one./dane-dehaan-on-chronicle-road-tripping-with-shia-labeouf-and-looking-like-leonardo-dicaprio.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dane-dehaan-on-chronicle-road-tripping-with-shia-labeouf-and-looking-like-leonardo-dicaprio.htmlDane DeHaan. If you haven’t been introduced to Dane DeHaan on In Treatment or True Blood, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to see the 24-year-old up-and-comer on the big screen this year. He has three meaty movies on the docket (The Road’s John Hillcoat and Blue Valentine’s Derek Cianfrance directed two of them), and starting today you can see him in the supernatural, found-footage thriller Chronicle. He plays a brooding teenager who acquires supernatural powers./dave-holmes-revisits-the-top-40-songs-from-the-week-1982-s-annie-premiered.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-holmes-revisits-the-top-40-songs-from-the-week-1982-s-annie-premiered.htmlThis week, we finally get to see the Jay Z/Will Smith–produced reboot of Annie that we did not ask for but will take anyway, because of our plucky, can-do spirit. (But, you know, we will take it cautiously. Cameron Diaz? No “We’d Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover”? Will Stacks? It’s a tense time to be a fan of Annie.) So how’s about you and your loyal dog hop in my DeLorean GIF for a trip back to the week of May 19, 1982, when the original Aileen Quinn/Albert Finney film adaptation had its U./david-cross-and-bob-odenkirk-are-doing-a-book-stand-up-tour-this-fall.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-cross-and-bob-odenkirk-are-doing-a-book-stand-up-tour-this-fall.htmlBob and David may be coming to a town near you. We reported last month that Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are releasing a book together called Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show this fall, and this week, Cross revealed that he and Odenkirk will be doing a book tour with some stand-up mixed in to promote the book’s release. Cross announced the tour during a live conversation with Michael Cera at NYC’s 92nd Street Y Wednesday night, adding that his Mr./david-lipsky-author-archive.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-lipsky-author-archive.htmlsitcom smackdown Mar. 15, 2013 Sitcom Smackdown Semis: Seinfeld vs. SimpsonsWho will go against Cheers in the finals, Jerry or Homer?ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZLGiwsidZKWhoKi4uns%3D/eight-is-enough-star-adam-rich-s-cause-of-death-revealed.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eight-is-enough-star-adam-rich-s-cause-of-death-revealed.htmlAdam Rich for Eight Is Enough in 1979. Adam Rich’s died from an accidental fentanyl overdose, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office has now confirmed in an autopsy report. Rich, who starred in all 112 episodes of the popular ABC dramedy Eight Is Enough, died at age 54 at his home in Los Angeles on January 8. A family member confirmed the news to TMZ, but no cause of death was initially shared./emily-in-paris-recap-up-up-and-away.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-in-paris-recap-up-up-and-away.htmlEmily in Paris Love Is in the Air Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily in Paris Love Is in the Air Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alfie has returned from London with some disappointing news for his girlfriend: His family still has no idea she exists./family-guy-killed-off-a-main-character.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/family-guy-killed-off-a-main-character.html[Spoiler Alert] Last night on Family Guy, Brian was hit by a car and, well, died. Like, dead died. He didn’t come back via time travel or dream sequence. The Griffins even got a new dog (voiced by The Sopranos’ Tony Sirico) because, as executive producer Steve Callaghan told E!, “By losing Brian, it felt like a void needed to be filled both comically, and also for the interpersonal relationships between all the characters./flo-milli-is-all-about-her-cash-in-the-weak-music-video.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flo-milli-is-all-about-her-cash-in-the-weak-music-video.htmlFlo Milli is too busy counting her cash to worry about men. The 20-year-old rapper from Alabama just dropped her debut EP with RCA Records Ho, Why Is You Here?, and with it, a music video dedicated to her one true love: dollars. She rocks giant rollers with dollar-sign earrings, a money do-rag with a train for days, and stiletto Timbs, pointed toes and all, as she bosses around a calvary of men./forever-recap-we-missed-it.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/forever-recap-we-missed-it.htmlForever Andre and Sarah Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Forever Andre and Sarah Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » We begin “Andre and Sarah” from the vantage point of two characters we haven’t seen before: a black guy named Andre (Jason Mitchell), and an Asian woman named Sarah (Hong Chau)./fx-and-fxx-cancel-legit-and-chozen.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fx-and-fxx-cancel-legit-and-chozen.htmlSister networks FX and FXX just canceled two of their comedies. THR reports that FX has canceled Legit and that FXX has canceled Chozen. Both series have been suffering from low ratings. Chozen, a first-year animated show about a profane white rapper voiced by Bobby Moynihan, ended its one and only season in March. Legit, co-created by and starring Australian comedian Jim Jeffries as a fictionalized version of himself, concludes its second season tonight on FX./geeks-are-angry-about-iron-man-becoming-a-black-girl-but-not-for-the-reason-you-d-think.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/geeks-are-angry-about-iron-man-becoming-a-black-girl-but-not-for-the-reason-you-d-think.htmlRecently revamped heroes. When Marvel Comics announced that a 15-year-old black girl named Riri Williams would be taking over as Iron Man later this year, the company was prepared for an attack from the right. Indeed, Brian Michael Bendis — the veteran scribe who introduced Riri in an Iron Man comic a few months ago and who will be writing her upcoming adventures — sounded a bit cocky about the high ground he held against his potential critics./get-ready-to-never-stop-working.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/get-ready-to-never-stop-working.htmlWhat Hallmark’s tenured holiday hunks have learned from a combined quarter-century in the feelings game. Though most pronounced during the holiday season, the work Paul Campbell, Andrew Walker, and Tyler Hynes have done for the Hallmark Channel spans genre and equinox. Photo: Dina Litovsky Though most pronounced during the holiday season, the work Paul Campbell, Andrew Walker, and Tyler Hynes have done for the Hallmark Channel spans genre and equinox./going-to-the-movies.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/going-to-the-movies.htmlNow way more delicious, comfy, convenient, sensorial … Photo: William Mebane Last winter, ​​the city saw two beloved theaters shutter: the Upper West Side’s Lincoln Plaza Cinema and the Lower East Side’s Landmark Sunshine. Those closures, combined with the drop in movie attendance nationwide in 2017 to its lowest point in 25 years, prompted a panicked slate of headlines predicting the Death of the Movie Theater. But what a difference a year makes./grey-s-anatomy-recap-a-tough-loss.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grey-s-anatomy-recap-a-tough-loss.htmlGrey’s Anatomy All Star Season 19 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy All Star Season 19 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Meredith Grey may be gone (for now), but it’s business as usual at Grey Sloan Memorial. That means we get a couple of compelling patient stories and some romantic entanglements — even a make-out session on an elevator./have-you-seen-heckboy-yet.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/have-you-seen-heckboy-yet.htmlHave you seen the new Heckboy? I have never been particularly into demon-superhero action blockbusters or their widely panned reboots, but for Heckboy, I will make an exception. Even if it means taking an unscheduled trip to Dickson, Tennessee, which appears to be the only place in the country currently screening Heckboy. CNN reports that Belinda Daniel — the owner of the Roxy 8 movie theater in Dickson — likes to edit out any offensive language in movie titles, so as not to corrupt the minds of students at the neighboring elementary school./hear-tina-fey-read-two-excerpts-from-bossypants.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hear-tina-fey-read-two-excerpts-from-bossypants.htmlThe L.A. Times’ Jacket Copy has two clips from Fey’s audiobook, for those of you who like a nice midday story time complete with weird “fashion people” accents. Related: the text of Bossypants’ “Prayer for my Daughter,” with helpful illustrations. [Jacket Copy/LAT] Hear Tina Fey Read Two Excerpts From Bossypants ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgaXy1tc2alp%2BdqZSvsL%2FSsqeapqSorKLBw6KmmJqfpLhvtNOmow%3D%3D/here-comes-the-boom-a-laugh-at-the-chubby-guy-movie-sans-the-laughs.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-comes-the-boom-a-laugh-at-the-chubby-guy-movie-sans-the-laughs.htmlCall me crazy, but Kevin James doesn’t seem to be an inherently funny guy. Sure, he has an odd, cylindrical shape that promises lots of humorous pratfalls, but he also possesses a kind, Everyman-ish face that actually makes us not want to see him too hurt, or humiliated, or debased. He’s been mentored by Adam Sandler (whose Happy Madison company produced several other James vehicles, including this latest), but we don’t expect from him Sandler’s sociopathic mischief, or Ben Stiller’s owlish klutziness./hollywood-shelter-dog-golden-globes-gets-officially-adopted.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hollywood-shelter-dog-golden-globes-gets-officially-adopted.htmlYour fabulous host! Viewership for the 2024 Golden Globes was up 50 percent compared to 2023, which means Hollywood’s shelter pup gets to stick around on TV. CBS and Dick Clark Productions agreed on a contract, stating that the Globes will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ through 2029. “CBS’s collaboration with the Globes for this year’s broadcast was a big win for both of us and established strong momentum for awards shows in 2024,” CBS CEO George Cheeks said in a statement./hope-davis-is-hillary-clinton.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hope-davis-is-hillary-clinton.html“We did, of course, want to get as close visually as we could. I’m wearing some wigs and some teeth. The pantsuits have been made exactly to spec. There are some bright pantsuits.” —Hope Davis, on playing Hillary Clinton in The Special Relationship [ArtsBeat/NYT] “I think bromance is passé. We are two men who happen to be roommates who wrestle a lot!” —Robert Downey Jr., on the exact nature of the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Watson [MTV]/house-of-the-dragon-recap-brothers-in-arms.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/house-of-the-dragon-recap-brothers-in-arms.htmlHouse of the Dragon Rhaenyra the Cruel Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of the Dragon Rhaenyra the Cruel Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Want to watch House of the Dragon with us? Sign up for our new subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessively chronicling season two./how-is-shawn-mendes-as-a-boyfriend-an-investigation-into-wonder.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-is-shawn-mendes-as-a-boyfriend-an-investigation-into-wonder.htmlTo say that Wonder is mostly about Camila Cabello would be an understatement. Not even a global pandemic has managed to stop the Shawn Mendes–Camila Cabello relationship cringe fest, which officially began last year following years of friendship. Remember the over-the-top kiss that continues to haunt our nightmares? Well, over the last nine months we’ve seen the two pop stars very in love, and not afraid to let anyone know it./how-the-good-fight-brought-the-trump-era-to-tv-from-the-pee-tape-to-metoo.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-good-fight-brought-the-trump-era-to-tv-from-the-pee-tape-to-metoo.htmlThe 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25. More than any other TV show this season, The Good Fight knows how to spin real-life news into ripped-from-the-headlines drama. Much as they did in The Good Wife, the show’s creators, Robert and Michelle King, tend to avoid giving lectures, and instead situate their characters in the middle of major news stories, then figure out how to make them scheme their way through it all./how-to-dress-like-the-third-richest-woman-in-the-world-according-to-loot.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-dress-like-the-third-richest-woman-in-the-world-according-to-loot.html“New money is more fun money” was the mantra guiding costume designer Kirston Leigh Mann on Apple TV+ comedy series Loot. Mann and Maya Rudolph’s seventh collaboration in a decade (including The Good Place, Forever, and Amy Poehler’s 2019 directorial debut Wine Country) also marked their most extravagant: Rudolph plays freshly minted billionaire Molly Novak (née Wells), whose divorce settlement from a tech CEO (Adam Scott) just made her the third-richest woman in the world./how-wandavision-s-pitch-perfect-title-sequences-channeled-tv-s-past.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-wandavision-s-pitch-perfect-title-sequences-channeled-tv-s-past.html[Clockwise from top left] WandaVision circa the 1960s, the ‘80s, the ‘70s, and the late ‘90s/aughts. Our current golden age of TV is also a golden age of TV title sequences. From the overlapping moody silhouettes of True Detective to the dripping wax-figure goop of Daredevil, from the board-game relief maps of Game of Thrones to the neon hues of the synth-drenched Stranger Things, splashy, expensive-looking title sequences have become an expected element of high-profile series./i-ate-the-shawn-mendes-bowl-the-way-shawn-intended.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-ate-the-shawn-mendes-bowl-the-way-shawn-intended.htmlShawn Mendes has shown that he likes an avocado. So guac isn’t optional in the Shawn Mendes Bowl. It’s mandatory. Shawn Mendes is a fast-casual pop star, which is a few notches below fine pop dining (divas and vocalists) but a step up from fast-food pop star (see: the Chainsmokers). Sure, he can occasionally be indulgent and very delicious, owing to an ecstatic charisma and stage presence, but most of his music amounts to a wide-appeal sonic work lunch./is-cardi-b-and-megan-thee-stallion-s-bongos-a-joint-slay-or-perfunctory-play.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-cardi-b-and-megan-thee-stallion-s-bongos-a-joint-slay-or-perfunctory-play.htmlAre you trying to shake a little something or what? Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s latest joint single, “Bongos,” is like a personality test for twerking. The music video catches all sorts of ass being thrown, served, and displayed over a dembow-type beat, with no breaks for a chorus, let alone a hamstring stretch. It’s a literal change of pace for both rappers, on their first releases since Cardi’s stint as a drill rapper collaborating with Kay Flock, her remix of Latto’s “Put It on da Floor,” and Megan Thee Stallion’s vindicating 2022 album, Traumazine./it-s-a-sin-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-s-a-sin-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069moqyjYq5uv8inZg%3D%3D/jake-paul-offers-to-retire-from-boxing-in-exchange-for-better-ufc-conditions.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jake-paul-offers-to-retire-from-boxing-in-exchange-for-better-ufc-conditions.htmlViner turned Disney star turned YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul has put his money where his gloves are, sort of. He challenged UFC president Dana White for better working conditions for fighters. Jake Paul demands several things: an increase in minimum fighter pay to $50,000, guaranteeing UFC fighters 50 percent of annual revenues, and long-term health care for all fighters. He challenges White to accept the offer in five days and implement changes by the end of March./janelle-monae-vulture.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/janelle-monae-vulture.htmlbest of 2018 Nov. 2, 2018 The Best Songs of 2018 (So Far)Including Cardi B, the Weeknd, Kacey Musgraves, Beach House, Janelle Monáe, Kendrick Lamar, and more. By Vulture Editors ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGealrumuMueZKannpaycA%3D%3D/killing-eve-recap-a-life-most-ordinary.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/killing-eve-recap-a-life-most-ordinary.htmlKilling Eve Making Dead Things Look Nice Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Killing Eve Making Dead Things Look Nice Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The first time we lay eyes on Eve, in the series premiere, she’s half-asleep and fully hungover from Bill’s birthday party./lana-del-rey-couldn-t-fit-priscilla-in-her-schedule.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lana-del-rey-couldn-t-fit-priscilla-in-her-schedule.htmlDid you know that Lana Del Rey released an album this year called Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? Maybe that’s why she didn’t have time to be on the Priscilla soundtrack. (She only worked one shift at Waffle House, so that can’t be it.) Sofia Coppola recently told E! News that Lana could’ve been part of the Priscilla Presley biopic. You know, the one that Jacob Elordi says he prepared for by eating about a pound of bacon every day./lessons-in-chemistry-is-maddeningly-inert.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lessons-in-chemistry-is-maddeningly-inert.htmlThe handsome Apple TV+ adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’s best-selling novel is carefully considered and completely uninterested in challenging its audience. In Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus’s wildly popular, 1960s-set debut novel, Harriet is the nosy neighbor of cohabitating chemists Calvin Evans and Elizabeth Zott. Blunt-spoken and unhappily married to a caricature of a bad husband — Garmus describes him as “dull” and “stupid” with “a thicket of body hair” — Harriet becomes both the regular babysitter for Mad, Elizabeth and Calvin’s daughter, and a representative of every unfulfilled white woman who discovers new possibilities past what is supposed to be her prime./luke-cage-recap-false-idols.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luke-cage-recap-false-idols.htmlMarvel’s Luke Cage Blowin’ Up the Spot Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Marvel’s Luke Cage Blowin’ Up the Spot Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Simone Missick as Misty. What makes a great villain? Within the realm of superheroes, the greatest villains hold up a mirror to protagonists./m-night-shyamalan-plot-twists-ranked-by-twistedness.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/m-night-shyamalan-plot-twists-ranked-by-twistedness.htmlThis post was originally published in 2015. We have updated it to include Split. A well-executed plot twist is a neat trick, employed by wily directors eager to give an audience that’s seen it all something new. M. Night Shyamalan has made his career on the plot twist. Aside for a few notable exceptions, his body of work is full of gotcha moments, laboring heavily under their own ambitions, trying in vain to surprise a jaded audience, and, more often than not, failing miserably./madonna-may-own-a-french-painting-thought-to-have-been-destroyed-in-wwi.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madonna-may-own-a-french-painting-thought-to-have-been-destroyed-in-wwi.htmlConsider it a dare. The mayor of a city in northern France is asking Madonna to open her (he)art collection. That’s because the singer owns a painting that may have been lost since World War I, according to Brigitte Fouré, mayor of Amiens. The painting — “Diana and Endymion,” by Jérôme-Martin Langlois — was completed in 1822, commissioned by Louis XVIII for Versailles. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Amiens showed the painting beginning in 1878, but it was thought that it had been destroyed when it disappeared after the city was bombed in 1918./maxine-groffsky-vulture.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maxine-groffsky-vulture.htmlMaxine Groffsky - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.head.appendChild(trackingScript); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', subXAnimationElements); }ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGedlsWqusRmnqunlpvArMWO/meet-the-new-generation-of-influencer-parents.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-new-generation-of-influencer-parents.htmlHeidi, Charli, and Marc D’Amelio. Nepotism babies have existed since time immemorial. Nepotism parents? They’re a more recent phenomenon. No technological development has made sudden, extreme fame more attainable than YouTube and TikTok, which has launched the careers of tens of thousands of micro-celebs. Hoping to emulate their pre-social-media forebears, from Dina and Michael Lohan to momager-in-chief Kris Jenner, the next generation of influencer nepotism parents is just as comfortable in front of a camera as its progenitors./michelle-wolf-is-already-defending-her-sarah-huckabee-sanders-jokes.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michelle-wolf-is-already-defending-her-sarah-huckabee-sanders-jokes.htmlMichelle Wolf. As it goes with literally every single White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a headlining comedian capped off the evening with some jokes — some people liked the jokes, or some people really didn’t like the jokes. Daily Show contributor Michelle Wolf had the honor of making everyone giggle uncomfortably this year, and as expected, her set is divisive among attendees and viewers, with the main point of contention being the remarks she made about Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders./neptune-frost-smirks-at-the-narrowness-of-western-thinking.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neptune-frost-smirks-at-the-narrowness-of-western-thinking.htmlRoxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Saul Williams’s Afrofuturist, anti-colonialist film is a mission statement by way of a musical. Neptune Frost is a mission statement by way of a musical, and its defining image is a middle finger taking up the whole lens./new-girl-cast-found-guilty-of-having-the-perfect-people-v-o-j-simpson-halloween-costume.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-girl-cast-found-guilty-of-having-the-perfect-people-v-o-j-simpson-halloween-costume.htmlThe court of internet opinion is in session, and in the case of best Halloween group costume we rule in favor of The New Girl cast for their spot-on take on The People v. O.J. Simpson. Though Fox will not be airing a special October-31-themed episode of the sitcom owing to the World Series schedule, the costumes will appear in a Christmas-centric flashback episode that will air later this year./new-nickelodeon-phone-dropping.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-nickelodeon-phone-dropping.html“It’s really gross how often you talk about high school,” says a wise character in the Zoey 102 trailer. Jamie Lynn Spears reprises her role as Zoey Brooks, a now-30-year-old millennial who thinks her adult life pales in comparison to what she envisioned for herself as a teenager at the show’s boarding school, Pacific Coast Academy, in the upcoming film continuation of the series Zoey 101. When fellow alumni Quinn Pensky (Erin Sanders) and Logan Reese (Matthew Underwood) ask Zoey to be maid of honor at their wedding — via futurist PearPhone Pro — she’s in crisis./new-on-netflix-january-2024.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-on-netflix-january-2024.htmlEach month, several films and TV shows are added to Netflix’s library; we recommend the titles worth watching. For more streaming guides and Netflix picks, head to Vulture’s What to Stream hub. Each month, several films and TV shows are added to Netflix’s library; we recommend the titles worth watching. For more streaming guides and Netflix picks, head to Vulture’s What to Stream hub. Cats. This Month’s Critic’s Picks 🐱 Cats The world has literally never been the same since Cats premiered in 2019./outlander-is-no-game-of-thrones-but-that-s-a-good-thing.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/outlander-is-no-game-of-thrones-but-that-s-a-good-thing.htmlOutlander is already being positioned as a feminist answer to Game of Thrones, but I don’t see much resemblance other than the fact that it’s on pay cable, is based on a series of best-selling fantasy novels, and many of its characters ride horses and swing swords. This new Starz drama from Ronald D. Moore is, like his brilliant and sometimes infuriating reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, defiantly its own thing: part romance-novel fantasy, part time-travel story, and part wartime drama (set across two time periods)./ranking-all-13-of-fx-s-excellent-retired-dramas.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ranking-all-13-of-fx-s-excellent-retired-dramas.htmlThis article contains spoilers for the series finale of Justified. Justified finished its six-season run last night not with the explosion-filled deathfest some came to expect, but rather with an explosion-filled survivalfest. (When Boyd Crowder has dynamite, Boyd Crowder will use dynamite, thank you.) The episode was filled with callbacks and allusions, which crystallized the sense of completion and conclusion that any finale would aspire to. Now Justified joins the hallowed ranks of former FX dramas — as good a lineup as one can picture, really; HBO has more duds, Showtime fewer hits./rob-reiner-and-morgan-freeman-on-mortality-sci-fi-and-wrangling-movie-rights.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rob-reiner-and-morgan-freeman-on-mortality-sci-fi-and-wrangling-movie-rights.htmlRob Reiner and Morgan Freeman. After working together on The Bucket List, Morgan Freeman and director Rob Reiner are back again with another feel-good family movie about finally living your life just as it’s coming to a close in The Magic of Belle Isle. Freeman plays an irascible writer named Monte Wildhorn, who hides out on Belle Isle one summer after his wife dies, determined just to drink his life away, only to find new inspiration when he’s no longer looking for it./roswell-new-mexico-recap-the-last-of-us.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roswell-new-mexico-recap-the-last-of-us.htmlRoswell, New Mexico Creep Season 1 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Roswell, New Mexico Creep Season 1 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Though the central alien trio in Roswell are all orphans, Michael is the only one who grew up without parents./rupaul-s-drag-race-season-finale-recap-all-hail.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rupaul-s-drag-race-season-finale-recap-all-hail.htmlRuPaul’s Drag Race Grand Finale Season 16 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Grand Finale Season 16 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » In my conversations with Drag Race watchers over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself playing a shifting role./russian-doll-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/russian-doll-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 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In the passage, Schulman explains away his behavior by saying he “hadn’t been aware of” the fact that the person he punched was a woman, because she was “short, stocky, crew-cut-styled./shakira-s-12-best-dance-moves-in-gifs.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shakira-s-12-best-dance-moves-in-gifs.htmlShakira performs a song during the kick-off celebration concert for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at the Orlando Stadium on June 10, 2010 in Soweto, South Africa. With her brand-new self-titled album out this week, you might be hearing a lot from Shakira in the next few months. Sure, her duet with Rihanna was a bit of a bust, but with a judging gig on The Voice and hips that still do not lie, Shakira’s never really left our thoughts./sharp-objects-is-not-just-another-dead-girl-show.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sharp-objects-is-not-just-another-dead-girl-show.htmlMother (Patricia Clarkson) and daughters (Eliza Scanlen and Amy Adams) on Sharp Objects. In her recent book of essays Dead Girls: Surviving an American Obsession, Alice Bolin describes the characteristics that define the Dead Girl Show, a TV series kickstarted into motion by the untimely demise of at least one young woman. “The Dead Girl Show’s notable themes are its two odd, contradictory messages for women,” Bolin writes./southern-charm-season-finale-recap-winter-blunder-land.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/southern-charm-season-finale-recap-winter-blunder-land.htmlSouthern Charm Wreck the Halls Season 8 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Charm Wreck the Halls Season 8 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The real Christmas miracle in this episode is that this bizarre season is finally over./summer-house-recap-hot-tub-vibe-machine.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-house-recap-hot-tub-vibe-machine.htmlSummer House Mice Will Play Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Summer House Mice Will Play Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The most disturbing thing aboutthis season of Summer House is how every week our witless revelers arrive at their production-paid-for estate to find an art installation’s worth of Amazon boxes perched on the front step./survivor-recap-ave-maria.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/survivor-recap-ave-maria.htmlSurvivor Momma Bear Season 46 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Survivor Momma Bear Season 46 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » OMG, Maria is fu … Oops. Sorry. I forgot this is a family show. OMG, Maria is screwed. She has played, by far, the best game of anyone left in Jeff Probst’s petri dish, but she might just have shot herself right in the foot by deciding to stick with Q rather than continue her very fruitful alliance with Charlie./taylor-kitsch-on-lone-survivor-the-normal-heart-and-why-he-d-never-do-the-friday-night-lights-mo.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-kitsch-on-lone-survivor-the-normal-heart-and-why-he-d-never-do-the-friday-night-lights-mo.htmlTaylor Kitsch. Based on the memoir by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the Peter Berg–directed Lone Survivor follows four Navy SEALs (Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch) trying to stay alive after their location is discovered during a covert mission in Afghanistan. Though Wahlberg is the face on the poster, it’s Kitsch who unexpectedly shines: After toplining three misfires last year in John Carter, Battleship, and Savages, he’s finally found the right vehicle for his easy, masculine charisma, and as Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, he displays the sort of leading-man potential that many predicted when Kitsch came off a hot run in the TV series Friday Night Lights./the-20-best-thrillers-on-hbo-max.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-20-best-thrillers-on-hbo-max.htmlAmerican Psycho. Don't have HBO Max yet? Sign up here This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter HBO and HBO Max. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. Everyone loves a good thriller. We love to turn off the world and give ourselves over to a filmmaker who knows exactly where to take us next. Whether we’re predicting an upcoming twist or just going along for the ride, there’s something about a great thriller that almost feels interactive./the-21-most-barbra-streisand-moments-in-her-netflix-concert-film.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-21-most-barbra-streisand-moments-in-her-netflix-concert-film.htmlIf you’re at all familiar with Barbra Streisand, you know exactly what to expect from her Netflix concert film, Barbra: The Music …The Mem’ries …The Magic!, which debuts November 22. Seemingly built for the express purpose of pleasing parents whose kids teach them how to use Netflix over Thanksgiving, the special is Barbra at her most idiosyncratic. She sings! She sways! She talks about Funny Girl! She orders crab!/the-best-and-worst-of-talking-heads-according-to-chris-frantz.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-and-worst-of-talking-heads-according-to-chris-frantz.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. The rise of Talking Heads (not the Talking Heads, show some damn respect) is, dare we say, a story so good — so enviable — that it’s become synonymous with the downtown New York City music folklore ever since: The quartet’s first gig was opening for the Ramones at CBGB in the mid 1970s, and just as effortlessly as Tina Weymouth can groove her bass strings, they became critical darlings of rock with their debut album, Talking Heads: 77./the-entire-history-of-diversity-at-the-emmy-awards.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-entire-history-of-diversity-at-the-emmy-awards.htmlUzo Aduba accepts her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Orange Is the New Black during the 2015 Emmy Awards. The 2016 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes, on June 27. Uzo Aduba, Viola Davis, and Regina King made headlines when they took home acting awards in their respective drama categories at the 2015 Emmy Awards./the-escape-puzzle.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-escape-puzzle.htmlNew crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture Games Get the 10x10 crossword and Cinematrix sent to your inbox when they're ready to play. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us./the-good-place-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-place-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYrSwu8Nmp6WZk5p8/the-humor-at-the-heart-of-rupaul-s-drag-empire.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-humor-at-the-heart-of-rupaul-s-drag-empire.htmlWhen RuPaul Charles started doing drag, he was doing “gender fuck” drag in the punk scene in Atlanta. It was messy, androgynous drag that had a strong DIY spirit and flipped the middle finger to gender conventions. It wasn’t about the illusion of womanhood, but rather how gender was a joke. It was only after he had moved to New York that RuPaul realized the career-making potential in doing something more polished and urbane./the-last-chance-u-creator-and-coach-on-that-pandemic-season-and-the-emotional-moment-you-didn-t-se.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-chance-u-creator-and-coach-on-that-pandemic-season-and-the-emotional-moment-you-didn-t-se.htmlThe East L.A. College Huskies with John Mosley (head coach) in episode five, “Colby Ranch,” of Last Chance U: Basketball season one. Over five seasons on Netflix, the docuseries Last Chance U developed a formula for success — or at least a set of tried-and-true parameters for good sports drama. Every season is set in the junior-college scene, where teams are populated by young men who have struggled through academic, economic, or personal setbacks, including “drop-downs” from major conferences, each hoping to play their way up from the bottom rung./the-last-dance-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-dance-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice and to receive email correspondence from us. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYrmiv9Nmm5qmk5p8/the-most-underrated-and-satisfying-of-the-black-keys-according-to-patrick-carney.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-underrated-and-satisfying-of-the-black-keys-according-to-patrick-carney.htmlSuperlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “When we started, we never even intended to be a type of band that sold a couple thousand records.” Chances are high that your initial Black Keys education came from the following two albums: 2010’s seductively bluesy Brothers or 2011’s garage-rollicking El Camino./the-real-housewives-of-potomac-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-housewives-of-potomac-tv-episode-recaps-news.htmlThe wealthy town of Potomac, Maryland, is just outside of Washington DC, and there’s drama to be found there. The Real Housewives of Potomac follows the personal and professional lives of a group of women. 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At a moment when the theatrical experience feels imperiled, Oscar-winning directors have treated us to shot after shot of characters gazing beatifically up at the silver screen, transported out of their ordinary, humdrum lives through the wondrous power of cinema./theater-review-hypocrites-and-a-vicious-sock-puppet-in-hand-to-god.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-hypocrites-and-a-vicious-sock-puppet-in-hand-to-god.htmlHand to GodMCC at the LucilleLortel TheaterWritten by Robert AskinsDirected by Moritz von StuelpnagelCast Steven Boyer Geneva CarrMarc Kudisch Alex Mandell Michael Oberholtzer Sarah Stiles For centuries, theatrical antiheroes have vied for attention by going to extremes, but Tyrone, in Robert Askins’s Hand to God, may be the first, onstage at least, to bite off an ear. He’s as violent and vengeful as Sweeney Todd, and, despite his evangelical upbringing, as comically foul-mouthed as any Mamet mook./theater-review-the-iceman-cometh-needeth-rethinking.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theater-review-the-iceman-cometh-needeth-rethinking.htmlDenzel Washington in The Iceman Cometh. The revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh — now at the Bernard B. Jacobs under the direction of George C. Wolfe and strapped with heavy star power in Denzel Washington — is the kind of production that puts prospective audience members off “classics” for good. Whether you’re a card-carrying member of the O’Neill Society or you simply flipped a coin at the TKTS booth, you’d be within your rights to run screaming from the theater by the first of the show’s two intermissions./there-s-no-cheating-in-these-plays.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-s-no-cheating-in-these-plays.htmlWhen Marin Ireland yells, cries, or laughs, it fills the room from top to bottom. Not that any of those are that hard in this particular room. Ireland just finished starring in a Jack Serio’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Set in an 85 seat loft at Home Studios, after previously playing a 40 seat apartment, it’s performed with house lights on (until they’re not), and audience members scattered around the periphery of the room, staring at the actors and each other./these-actresses-were-way-too-young-to-play-movie-mothers.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/these-actresses-were-way-too-young-to-play-movie-mothers.htmlHere’s how rough Hollywood can be on older women: In the new comedy Tammy, Susan Sarandon is cast as Melissa McCarthy’s grandmother, despite the fact that only 24 years separate them in age. This isn’t the first time an actress has seemed way too young to sire her screen kin (in one classic case, Anne Bancroft was only eight years older than her The Graduate screen-daughter Katharine Ross), and it’s not even the most egregious example in Tammy, where McCarthy also cast the 11-years-older Allison Janney as her mother./this-demetri-martin-shkreli-impression-is-both-hilarious-and-terrifying.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-demetri-martin-shkreli-impression-is-both-hilarious-and-terrifying.htmlEarlier this week, the 11th annual Schtick or Treat comedy show took place in Brooklyn. The show, which always takes place right around Halloween, features a lineup of comedians who perform in disguise as characters, or in most cases, perform sets as impressions of famous comedians. Last year, Tyler Fischer’s performance as Bill Burr became one of the most passed-around clips from the show, and this year, comedian Jeremy Kaplowitz has gifted us all with a very special Halloween shtick of his own: “Demetri Martin Shkreli./this-drag-race-all-stars-lip-sync-got-sickening.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-drag-race-all-stars-lip-sync-got-sickening.htmlRuPaul’s Drag Race fanatics have o-fficially been fed. In the third episode of this sixth All Stars season, which premiered yesterday on Paramount+ (yes, us live-tweeters and memers are still pleading … Why?), legendary lip-sync assassin Trinity K. Bonet proved to be the top All Star of the week, which meant she’d face off against another secret lip-sync assassin in the hopes of winning [RuPaul voice] “TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS./this-previously-untold-twin-peaks-story-is-perfectly-eerie.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-previously-untold-twin-peaks-story-is-perfectly-eerie.htmlDirector David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti. Since the mid-1980s, director and noted coffee enthusiast David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti have together conjured some of the most visceral cinematic worlds, from Blue Velvet’s sinister, sunshined streets to the seemingly serene Pacific Northwest logging town of Twin Peaks. The dynamic between Badalamenti’s sound and Lynch’s vision makes the world of Twin Peaks — where slinky jazz, soap-opera cliff-hangers and rumbling reverb co-mingle amid sawmills and waterfalls — feel real beyond the screen./this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-incels-the-arizona-mafia-and-more.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-week-in-true-crime-podcasts-incels-the-arizona-mafia-and-more.htmlThe true-crime-podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick their favorites. Urge to Kill: “Lot B12” This new podcast from the Portland, Oregon-based TV station KGW begins straightforward enough: During the early-morning hours of July 24, 2016, 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer went missing from her home in Bend, Oregon, after having had a disagreement with her boyfriend, Camron Reimhofer, and leaving for a walk./veep-recap-a-warlord-and-a-peace-lady.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/veep-recap-a-warlord-and-a-peace-lady.htmlVeep Qatar Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Veep Qatar Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Tony Hale as Gary, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina. Selina Meyer’s problems are so relatable. Don’t you just hate it when you’re attending the funeral of a crown prince and you can’t tell your Sudanese warlords from your doormen, the chitchat is super awkward because, as Selina would say, “It’s like six degrees of Al Qaeda in here,” and you have to worry that the U./wanted-to-see-marvel-s-black-widow-try-these-5-movies.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wanted-to-see-marvel-s-black-widow-try-these-5-movies.htmlScarlett Johansson in Lucy. In a different reality, we’d right now be in the midst of Hollywood’s blockbuster season, enjoying the nearly weekly unveiling of a major-event movie, including much-anticipated sequels (Wonder Woman 1984) and the improbable return of Tom Cruise’s most beloved 1980s hot shot (Top Gun: Maverick). Instead, well, you’re cooped up trying to figure out what to watch while not going stir-crazy. 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Watch Ben Schwartz Dick Around with Owen Wilson and […] ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdgany4rdOcn2aalaN6tK%2FHsJirrKpisaqvymaYq6elo7Fuw8itn2anp5q7bsPIpaqopl2Wu6V51aKlnJ1dq662s8enZaGsnaE%3D/wayward-pines-recap-we-didn-t-start-the-fire.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wayward-pines-recap-we-didn-t-start-the-fire.htmlWayward Pines City Upon a Hill Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wayward Pines City Upon a Hill Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jason Patric as Theo, Nimrat Kaur as Rebecca. My, my, my! Things are getting awful bloody in Wayward Pines./we-ll-have-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-forever-always.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-ll-have-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-forever-always.htmlSo it goes … If you heard the screaming of a Swiftie last night, it could have been because the Eras Tour has hit Los Angeles, the first hints at Reputation (Taylor’s Version) dropped, or because Prime Video confirmed The Summer I Turned Pretty would be returning for a third season based on Jenny Han’s book series. A new episode six development might also mean a Reputation era is upon us too./what-happens-next-in-joe-jonas-and-sophie-turner-s-custody-battle.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happens-next-in-joe-jonas-and-sophie-turner-s-custody-battle.htmlOn September 21, Sophie Turner fired a powerful shot in her split from Joe Jonas: She filed a petition in Manhattan federal court demanding that their two children return to England. Jonas, who filed for divorce from Turner in Florida a few weeks prior, had engaged in “wrongful detention” of their daughters in the States, she alleged. Then, on October 10, the couple came to a temporary custody agreement that will see the children spending time in both the U./what-is-the-great-mistake-lurking-in-don-t-stop-believin.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-great-mistake-lurking-in-don-t-stop-believin.htmlCheck a map, Steve Perry! Ever since 1998, when The Wedding Singer first resurrected Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”, the 1981 arena-rock anthem has achieved pop-culture permanence, whether soundtracking The Sopranos final scene, becoming synonymous with Glee, scoring a thousand flash mobs, or being piped into every professional sports arena in the land. With nearly 4.5 million digital units sold, it’s the most downloaded twentieth-century track in the history of counting such things./what-judy-greer-thinks-of-that-halloween-kills-ending.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-judy-greer-thinks-of-that-halloween-kills-ending.htmlThis interview contains major spoilers about Halloween Kills. Let’s begin at the end: Judy Greer is Michael Myers’s final victim in Halloween Kills, and she loves it. Greer’s thrilling climax in 2018’s Halloween, in which she cocked a gun and left audiences yelping in delight, felt like a much-earned milestone after years of playing quirky sidekicks. Now she gets a classic horror-movie death at the hands of one of the genre’s spookiest stalwarts./what-we-do-in-the-shadows-recap-hello-my-name-is-sally-rhubarb.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-recap-hello-my-name-is-sally-rhubarb.htmlWhat We Do in the Shadows Local News Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What We Do in the Shadows Local News Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Aside from personal injury lawyers who advertise on the subway, news anchors are the best kind of local celebrity: Ubiquitous./you-probably-shouldn-t-eat-all-of-this-house-of-the-dragon-food.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-probably-shouldn-t-eat-all-of-this-house-of-the-dragon-food.htmlIn the greatest political upheaval this town has seen since Kathy Hochul pushed congestion pricing out of a tower window to appease her New Jerseyan overlords, eight great houses of New York City have declared fealty to one of two sides of House of the Dragon’s upcoming civil war, raising their banners for #TeamGreen (Alicent Hightower and King Aegon II) or #TeamBlack (King Viserys I’s daughter, Rhaenyra Targaryen)./young-dolph-sees-himself-in-the-hall-of-fame-on-his-first-posthumous-song.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/young-dolph-sees-himself-in-the-hall-of-fame-on-his-first-posthumous-song.htmlBefore his death, Young Dolph had already secured a legacy in Memphis as an independent rapper who became one of the city’s biggest recent breakthroughs. So it’s fitting that the MC’s first posthumous single, “Hall of Fame,” takes stock of his success. “You can walk in any trap and I bet they know my name / Frank Matthews of the South, put me in the hall of fame,” he raps, comparing his hustle to the drug kingpin.