Canonizing 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 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.
From 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 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
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The 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.
Wonka? 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.
Practicing 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.