Knight 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.

Robocop. 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.

College 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.

Welcome 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.

Out 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 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.

For 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.

Superlatives 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.

Isn’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.

After 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.