Midway 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.
Last 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 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.
Intervention 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 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.
Revisit 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.
Malice: “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.
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The 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.
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