The Fug Girls Track Chris Colfers Most Bananas Glee Outfits
June 2024fugging it up May 22, 2012 10:00 am By The Fug Girls Share Share Tweet 23 Photos Photo: FOX Tonight marks the end of Glee’s third season, and while the formerly ground-breaking musical is now so cartoonish it may belong in Fox’s animation block, at least we’ll always have Kurt.
11 TV Period Dramas to Fill the Downton Abbey-Size Hole in Your Life
June 2024Damian Lewis as the tormented lead in The Forsyte Saga. Oh, Downton Abbey. We’ll miss your soapy shenanigans, class dynamics, romance, and yes, even your most miserable moments.
20 Years Later, Eves Bayou Is Still a Stunning Portrait of Black American Life
June 2024Jurnee Smollett as Eve. I don’t quite remember the first summer I went to Loreauville, Louisiana. But I distinctly recall the emotions of returning to those acres of land, where my great-grandfather built a home we’ve called our own for 100 years — awe and glory, love and hope, and a twinge of melancholy.
25 Essential Iranian Films You Can Stream Right Now
June 2024Historically, poetry was Iran’s most prominent cultural export. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, however, movies have carried the country’s artistic banner through the threat of censorship and the regime’s crackdown on filmmakers.
50 Cent Cuckolds Rick Ross, Captures the Moment on Video
June 2024We’ve been following the escalating beef between 50 Cent and Rick Ross for quite some time, but it wasn’t until now that shit got real, y’all!
7 Essential Marilyn Monroe Books to Read After Watching Blonde
June 2024In life and in death, Marilyn Monroe merchandized sex, sensuality, and stardom. Even today, she represents a visual shorthand for our idea of the ultimate celebrity.
89 Film and TV Moments That Capture 2017
June 2024In a year that was otherwise pure hot garbage, the movies and TV shows of 2017 shined as treasures within all the trash.
A Comprehensive Look at the Alcohol Consumed in Book Club
June 2024Jane Fonda. “Wine … because no good story started with someone eating a salad,” someone once said, according to Pinterest.
Adrianne Lenker Says Big Thiefs Israel Shows Were Nave and Not Thought Out
June 2024Big Thief Big Thief had some reflecting to do after canceling two shows set for Israel in 2022 due to criticism from fans.
Album Covers - Vulture
June 2024shake it off Oct. 25, 2016 Ryan Adams Says He’s Done Covering Full AlbumsAdams claims he’s never, ever getting back to doing that again.
Alex Garland Doesnt Know If Civil War Is Irresponsible
June 2024“There’s a part of me that is thoughtful and there’s a part of me that is delinquent.” Photo: Murray Close/Murray Close Photo: Murray Close/Murray Close Alex Garland’s Civil War, about reporters covering a conflict in the United States at some unspecified future date, might be the most controversial movie of the year.
All 10 Saw Movies, Ranked
June 2024Unlike the slasher movies of the 1980s or the exploitation horror films of the 1970s, the modern wave of torture films (or, as New York’s David Edelstein dubbed it, “torture porn”) has been marked by highly stylized violence with landscapes designed for and devoted to pure punishment.
All 27 Pixar Movies, Ranked
June 2024This previously published story has been updated to include Elemental. Trying to rank all 27 Pixar feature films in order of quality is like trying to rank your children by how much you love them.
All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Knowledge, Fleas, and Family
June 2024All Creatures Great and Small By the Book Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small By the Book Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We knew cow death was coming, but we didn’t know baby cow death was coming.
All the 2021 Super Bowl Commercials
June 2024After a blowout game full of memes, a streaker and, surprisingly, poetry, the Super Bowl commercials are here to make your parents complain about how much better the ads were when they were young.
Amazons Prime Video Is Letting You Crank Up the Dialogue Now
June 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Prime Video’s interface face-lift continues. Amazon’s Prime Video is hear for you.
Amy Poehler and Julie Klausner on Difficult People, Donald Trump, and Woody Allen
June 2024Amy Poehler and Julie Klausner. In its third season, as is often the case in a sitcom’s third season, Difficult People is definitively more confident.
An Exhaustive List of Shadow and Bones Biggest Season-Two Reveals
June 2024Welcome back to the Grishaverse, my little crows! Season two of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone finds Sun Summoner Alina Starkov on the run as she figures out how to bring down the Shadow Fold in Ravka, while her newest allies, the Crows, return to Ketterdam to get up to what they do best — wearing hats on a tilt and thievery!
Another Years Acclaimed Lesley Manville Has Never Heard of Michael Bay
June 2024It’s a relief to report that Lesley Manville is warm, witty, and energetic in person, because her performance as the lonely alcoholic Mary in Mike Leigh’s Another Year is so indelible.
Antony Hegarty (and Friends) on Future Feminism and Whether Beyonc Is a Witch
June 2024Cut the World, Antony and the Johnsons’ gorgeous 2012 live album with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, contained some stage banter that was a bit more inspired than your average “Hello, Cleveland!
Are You an Elite Employee?
June 2024How online were you in February? You should know this, too … Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: adinross, BenHart_Freedom, Khloe Kardashian, sharavinaaa Despite its short-king status, February delivered more than its share of internet moments.
Azealia Banks Filmed Herself Cleaning a Closet She Claims to Have Performed Witchcraft Rituals in, a
June 2024If you think you are incapable of being further surprised by this year or by Azealia Banks, then this video of the rapper and Twitter personality cleaning out her small witchcraft den might shake the numb off of you.
Ballers Recap: To Be a Somebody
June 2024Ballers Head-On Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ballers Head-On Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ballers.
Becky G Debuts New Song DOLLAR at Prime Day Concert
June 2024Amazon is currently throwing a giant party to celebrate their annual Amazon Prime Day. It’s similar to an upfront and a giant Amazon commercial, but it’s also a concert!
Beyonc Is Taking This Lion King Thing Pretty Far
June 2024Beyoncé. Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba! We have more than a month to go until we hear Beyoncé’s sweet voice say things like “pinned ya again!
Bridgit Mendler Doesnt Have Her Ph.D. Yet
June 2024Former Disney Channel star and current Northwood Space CEO Bridgit Mendler is eager to beef up her resume— despite it being probably the most diverse portfolio of all the child stars.
Brooklyn Library Spreads the Gospel of Jay-Z With The Book of Hov Exhibit
June 2024Is it too late to throw a line about the library into “Empire State of Mind”? The Brooklyn Public Library debuted a massive exhibit dedicated to Jay-Z’s life and career, called “The Book of Hov,” on July 13, in the same borough where the rap mogul grew up.
Chris Evans Believes Homophobia Will Die Out Like Dinosaurs
June 2024Lightyear may be banned in 14 countries due to its inclusion of a same-sex kiss, but Chris Evans isn’t bothered.
Dave Holmes Pays Respect to Rappin Rodney and 99 Other Hits From 1984
June 2024It’s No Respect Week here at Vulture, which means we’re celebrating things that never seem to get any love: schlock rock, Adam Sandler cry-fests, over-the-top action sequences, romance novels, and, yes, a novelty song by a comedian whose catchphrase was “No respect.
Deaf U Reveals Trumps ASL Sign Name, Which He Should See As an Honor
June 2024In July, Netflix ordered a new documentary series titled Deaf U, and the clip above is arguably one of the funniest — and most educational!
Discover What the Spielberg Face Looks Like
June 2024Think about it: Have you seen a Spielberg movie that doesn’t include SOMEBODY looking awestruck? Because it’s happening. [Buzzfeed]
Django Unchained Action Figures Discontinued: Should They Have Ever Existed in the First Place?
June 2024Earlier today, the Weinstein Co. discontinued their line of Django Unchained action figures amid a good deal of controversy.
Does Alex Genuinely Care for Anyone?
June 2024This discussion originally appeared in Beach Read Book Club, a limited-run newsletter where New York staff discuss the season’s buzziest books alongside our readers.
Drake Dueted With Nelly Furtado, Got COVID-19 at October World Weekend
June 2024Looks like one October World Weekend guest was a surprise even to Drake: the novel coronavirus. (Maybe it took a private flight there!
Ebiri: Kristen Wiigs Presence Is Too Much for Hateship Loveship
June 2024This is going to sound strange, but Hateship Loveship might have been a better movie had Kristen Wiig been a lesser actress.
Emmy Rossum Was Once Asked to Wear a Bikini to a Meeting With a Director So He Could Critique Her We
June 2024Rossum. Just this week, we heard a casting horror story in which Alison Brie was asked to go topless at an audition for a three-line role on Entourage.
Everything That Happened at Nipsey Hussles Funeral
June 2024After some reported ticketing delays at the door, the public memorial service for the late Nipsey Hussle got underway at the Staples Center in Los Angeles a week after the rapper was murdered in that same city he dedicated his life and career to serving.
F9 Brings an Improbably Good Gearhead Daddy-Issues Opera Home
June 2024Cinéma, it lives. F9 opens on a racetrack in 1989, right before what will become the defining incident in the life of glowering hero Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) — the death of his father, who’s one of the drivers competing, in a fiery crash.
Fargo Recap: Different Journeys, Same Destination
June 2024Fargo Did You Do This? No, You Did It! Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fargo Did You Do This?
Freak Dance Review: No Butts Allowed That Aint Working
June 2024It’s pretty remarkable how many dance movies Hollywood has churned out over the years. What’s even more remarkable, though, is how godawful terrible most of them are.
Friendship Timelines - Vulture
June 2024friendship timelines Dec. 20, 2018 A Timeline of Carrie Fisher and Penny Marshall’s Enviable FriendshipFrom dropping acid to throwing Hollywood’s hottest birthday party.
Game of Thrones Ice Dragon Is an Icon
June 2024By the end of Game of Thrones season seven, it’s hard to find a character worth getting behind.
Gary Farmer Has Seen It All
June 2024‘As I look back on everything, it seems to me that having a career at all is pretty special in itself.
George & Tammy Series-Premiere Recap: Playin Possum
June 2024George and Tammy The Race Is On Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » George and Tammy The Race Is On Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » To understand why they called George Jones “the Possum,” you must see a picture of the real guy.
Half of Back to the Future Was Shot Without Michael J. Fox
June 2024Marty McFly is a towering fictional figure in American popular cinema who’s inextricably linked to Michael J. Fox. But what you might not know is that Fox was not originally cast in the role, and filmmakers went very far into production with a completely different actor.
Heels Chris Bauer Knows Wild Bill Is Alive and Well in Me
June 2024The title of Starz’s Heels is a layered one. Yes, it’s about the frequently feuding brothers of a small-town wrestling dynasty who confront their problems in and out of the ring.
Heres the Trailer for Joe Rogans Netflix Standup Special Triggered
June 2024Joe Rogan’s new standup special debuts on Netflix next week, and the streaming network just released the trailer.
How Hacksaw Ridge, a True-Life Story of a Hero-Pacifist, Became Mel Gibsons Goriest Movie Yet
June 2024Andrew Garfield, center, on the set of Hacksaw Ridge. Director Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is notable for two reasons: One, because it tells the true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a World War II medic and Seventh-day Adventist who, despite refusing to touch a weapon because of his pacifist beliefs, saved scores of his comrades and won the Medal of Honor.
How The Acts Actors Compare to Their Real-Life Counterparts
June 2024This post was originally published on May 3, 2019, to coincide with the release of Hulu’s The Act. We are republishing it in light of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s prison release on December 28, 2023, after she served eight years of her original ten-year sentence.
How the Tiny Graywolf Press Became a Big Player in Book Publishing
June 2024A quartet of Graywolf scores. Before she won multiple awards and wrote one of the Times Book Review’s top-ten books of 2014, the young poet Eula Biss tried to sell a book of essays to major publishing houses.
How to Be Good at Comedy, by Johnny G: Comedian and Owner of House of Yuks, Canton Ohios #1 Choic
June 2024So you’re funny around the water cooler, huh? You think you got what it takes to make it big in showbiz?
I Watched Generation Q With a Bar Full of Brooklyns Biggest L Word Fans
June 2024The cast of The L Word: Generation Q. To be clear, this is NOT the party I was at. “It’s The L Word, so even if it’s trash, I don’t care,” one woman tells me when I ask if she’s optimistic about The L Word: Generation Q.
Its Football Time for Rob McElhenney
June 2024Rob McElhenney knows that award shows are one night, but football is forever— okay, it’s a season, but it lasts longer than one night in January.
Jody Hill to Reboot Dukes of Hazzard, Kind of, Maybe
June 2024Eastbound & Down co-creator Jody Hill is currently writing a remake of Dukes of Hazzard for him to direct.
Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace
June 2024The reviews keep coming in for The Pale King, but in this week’s New Yorker, Jonathan Franzen has a rich, raw, complicated remembrance of his friend David Foster Wallace.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Disagrees With Jerry Seinfelds Thoughts on Political Correctness
June 2024Elaine to Jerry: “SHUT UP!!!” After Jerry Seinfeld complained about political correctness’s impact on comedy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus took a different stance during her recent interview with the New York Times.
Kate Berlants Mirror Maze
June 2024Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a 10 hour movie.
Kaz Oshiro - Vulture
June 2024Kaz Oshiro - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: basel blog Dec. 10, 2007 Who Bought What at Art Basel Miami?
Lana Del Rey Loses Music, Manuscript in a Robbery
June 2024Lana Del Rey took to Instagram to inform her fans about a recent robbery and what exactly was taken from her (and from us, the fans).
Mary Berry, Prince William, and Kate Middleton Invite You to A Berry Royal Christmas
June 2024It is the royal mashup of our dreams. Mary Berry, Duchess of Cakes, and Prince William and Kate Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are teaming up to film a BBC special, A Berry Royal Christmas, in December.
Mary Steenburgen on Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist, Songwriting, and Her Surprise Good Place Cameo
June 2024Mary Steenburgen. Any actor would be lucky to have Mary Steenburgen’s career. For the past 45 years, she’s jumped between roles as a leading lady and as a character actress, between comedy and drama, and between film and television, not to mention the occasional theater project.
No.1: If You Hate Justin Bieber, Kill Yourself: Little Girl Explains Rules of Fan Club
June 2024The second rule of Justin Bieber Club is never talk about Justin Bieber Club. (The rules start at the one-minute mark.
Okay, You Can Do This on the Set of a Christopher Nolan Movie
June 2024Christopher Nolan. Update, 6/30: It turns out you are allowed — nay, encouraged! — to sit on the set of a Christopher Nolan movie.
Paul Mescal Reportedly Replacing Blake Jenner in Merrily We Roll Along Film
June 2024Only one of them gets to roll along merrily. Phoebe Bridgers, is officially put on vocal coach duty!
Picard Season 3 Looks Borg-eous
June 2024Well, this is an Enterprise-ing development: The trailer for season three of Star Trek: Picard was just released, and boy does it have stakes.
Public Nudity, Near Deaths, and Other Wild Tales From Chateau Marmont
June 2024From left, Montgomery Clift, Jim Morrison, and Natalie Wood. The Chateau Marmont, Hollywood’s answer to the Hotel Chelsea, has had its share of thrills and tragedies over its 90-year history in Los Angeles.
Queen Sugar Recap: Betting the Farm
June 2024Queen Sugar As Promised Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Queen Sugar As Promised Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Tina Lifford as Violet, Omar J.
Queer Eye for the Cult Guy: Camp Classics Turned Cult Classics
June 2024What makes a cult classic? A critically panned movie that garners a small but devoted following and rides that wave all the way to a revered place in film history.
Ranking Serpicos Weirdo Outfits
June 2024Early on in Sidney Lumet’s 1973 film, Serpico, the titular cop, Frank Serpico (Al Pacino), gets sworn in as a member of the NYPD.
Read Laurie Andersons Obit for Husband Lou Reed
June 2024Laurie Anderson remembered her late husband Lou Reed in a short obit for the East Hampton Star, a small newspaper from a town on Long Island that Reed and Anderson often visited.
Ready or Not, Ms. Lauryn Hill Is Going on Tour
June 2024Lauryn Hill onstage in 1999. Ready or not, here comes Ms. Lauryn Hill. The Grammy-winning hip-hop artist announced The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 25th Anniversary Tour on August 22, a 17-date showcase that will hit arenas around the world.
Remember: Bane Was a Terrible Villain in Batman & Robin
June 2024We understand if you don’t remember how crappy a villain Bane was in Batman & Robin, because Batman & Robin is widely considered to be an abomination that is best forgotten.
Rihanna Technically Makes Her Triumphant Return to Music on PartyNextDoors Believe It
June 2024Rihanna will never stop trolling. It’s in her DNA. It’s her lifeblood. It’s a fundamental part of who she is.
Riley Keough Remembers Lisa Marie Presley As the Best Mom
June 2024Riley Keough discussed the legacy of her mother, the late singer Lisa Marie Presley, in a recent Vanity Fair cover story.
RuPauls Drag Race TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024The OG Drag Race series has been going strong for 15 seasons and counting, spawning lots of spin-offs and international variants.
See SNLs Vanessa Bayer Hire a Shady Surrogate-Mother-for-Hire
June 2024In the web series “I Wanna Have Your Baby,” SNL’s Vanessa Bayer is ready to be a mommy, even at the cost of hiring a pretty ganky surrogate.
Seth Meyers - Vulture
June 2024emmy insider June 24, 2021 For Your Tiny, Secret ConsiderationSeth Meyers writes about the incredible new (and definitely real) limited series that deserves an Emmy nomination this year.
Shonda Rhimes - Vulture
June 2024the industry June 6, 2023 The Binge PurgeTV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.
SNLs David Pumpkins Sketch Works Because It Confused You
June 2024Tom Hanks as David Pumpkins (and Bobby Moynihan as Dancing Skeleton) “Any questions?” is how Saturday Night Live’s breakout sketch “Haunted Elevator” ends, and it’s an appropriate button, since many viewers seemingly came away with some.
Snowfall Recap: Preparing for the Worst
June 2024Snowfall Ebony + Ivory Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Snowfall Ebony + Ivory Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The tantalizing world of drugs, money, and violence is the obvious attraction of series about crime lords, but it’s the character development and psychological analysis of these larger-than-life gangsters that makes good television.
So a Corporation Has Stolen Your Joke
June 2024In my fulltime job as Humor Editor for Groupon, I’m confronted daily by how difficult it can be to make a large company’s social media presence seem funny and engaging, especially to a broad demographic that might not all share the same sense of humor.
St. Vincents Annie Clark on Strange Mercy, the Worst Year in Life, and the Little Girl in H
June 2024In conversation, Annie Clark drops F-bombs with casual ease. But as her onstage persona St. Vincent, she chooses her words with extreme care, and her new album, Strange Mercy, proves it.
Station ElevenRecap: Leavin Jeevan
June 2024Station Eleven Dr. Chaudhary Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Station Eleven Dr.
Supernatural Season 9 Finale Recap: Obsessed and Possessed
June 2024Supernatural Do You Believe In Miracles Season 9 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Supernatural Do You Believe In Miracles Season 9 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Only on Supernatural could a double-edged sword have teeth on one side.
The 10 Best TV Shows on Starz
June 2024Outlander It may not have the scale of Netflix or the same sheen as HBO or even Paramount’s Showtime, but Starz continues to build its original programming with hits like Outlander, Party Down, and the massive franchise that is Power.
The 100 Songs That Define New York Rap, Ranked
June 2024It’s not a sound, it’s an attitude. Photo-Illustration: Stevie Remsberg Hip-hop started out in the parks and traveled around the globe and back, picking up new accents and flavors in every region and time zone, rubbing elbows with other genres and cultures, and adapting to new climates and temperaments.
The Americans Recap: Were in Trouble
June 2024The Americans Pastor Tim Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Americans Pastor Tim Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Keri Russell as Elizabeth, Frank Langella as Gabriel.
The Dana Gould Hour - Vulture
June 2024The Dana Gould Hour - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Sept. 26, 2016 ‘The Dana Gould Hour’ Plumbed True Emotional Depths via ‘Star Wars’ in […]Dana Gould quickly became a legend in the go-go comedy scene of the 1980s both for his famous precocity and for being the only standup […] By Nathan Rabin Apr.
The Day the Clowns Cried: Harmony
June 2024What’s the use of frivolity in an unstable time? That’s the question asked, in form and content, by Harmony, a light curio of a musical that comes with a riptide of political anxiety.
The French Puzzle
June 2024New 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.
The Great British Baking Show Recap: Mexican Standoff
June 2024The Great British Baking Show Mexican Week Season 13 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Mexican Week Season 13 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have long said that the country of Mexico should sue the United Kingdom at the Hague for the crime that is Mexican food on this here island (and the little bit of Ireland that colonialism won’t let go of).
The Love Is Blind Cast Wear Their Heart (And Their Style) On Their Sleeves
June 2024One of Chelsea’s many shoes. After four seasons, Netflix knows that love can be blind. However, having stylish and cute outfits on the show isn’t.
The Man in the High Castle Series Finale Recap: My Fellow Americans
June 2024The Man in the High Castle Fire From the Gods Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Man in the High Castle Fire From the Gods Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » How do you end a four-season show based on a what-if premise?
The Music Video for Stupid Love, the Lady Gaga Song Youve Absolutely Never Heard, Has Arriv
June 2024Remember that catchy song that leaked about three weeks ago that you absolutely did not under any circumstances listen to because that would be music piracy and you would never do that?
The Next iOS Update Comes Complete With a Pair of David Bowie Emoji
June 2024David Bowie, in Emoji form Every iPhone user knows that a new iOS update can bring with it a host of quirks and issues that take a while to adapt to.
The Nun 2 Collects $88 Million at Box Office
June 2024The Nun 2 has conjured up a winner at the box office this weekend. The horror sequel earned $88 million worldwide against a $38.
The Power of Christ Compels You to Watch Julianne Hough Get a Goop Exorcism at Davos
June 2024Julianne Hough Part of the sick, fabulous appeal of Eyes Wide Shut is that it bravely posits the question: What do the unimaginably wealthy do together behind closed doors?
The Pros and Cons of Gary Ross Leaving The Hunger Games
June 2024(L to R) Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks and Gary Ross. Less than a month ago, Gary Ross told us that he intended to direct Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games, but when we asked him how he felt about committing several years of his life to one franchise, his answer surprised us: “I didn’t think about that at all,” he confessed.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Big Mistake, Huge
June 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills An Unwise Surprise Season 13 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills An Unwise Surprise Season 13 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week on our favorite program Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things, but separately.
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives ClubRecap: Face of an Angel, Mouth of a Serpent
June 2024The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Dazed and Excused Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Dazed and Excused Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I don’t think I can fully articulate how pleased I am to be recapping this episode of the season, as the women went to one of my favorite places: the dispensary.
The Serpent Queen Season-Finale Recap: Trust No One
June 2024The Serpent Queen A Queen Is Made Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Serpent Queen A Queen Is Made Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Here we are at The Serpent Queen finale.
The Umbrella Academy Season Twos Most Ridiculous Soundtrack Choices, Ranked
June 2024While a clear effort to replicateseason one’s semi-viral “I Think We’re Alone Now” sequence, the “Twistin’ the Night Away” beauty parlor sequence is actually one of season two’s least embarrassing needle drops.
The Vampire Diaries Recap: Ask Me to Remember
June 2024The Vampire Diaries The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Vampire Diaries The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Follow me here: The sound was off on The Vampire Diaries last night, which initially was annoying but then ended up being this fascinating experiment in oneness.
What Will a Shonda Rhimes Netflix Show Look Like?
June 2024Sandra Oh and Princess Diaries sequels! If you could build anything you wanted in Shondaland, what would you want to see?
Whats So Funny About Being Black?
June 2024The past few weeks have been a … trying time for Black America, to say the least. But even in times of tragedy, Black Americans have historically striven to find a lightness.
Why Were Seduced by Rashid Johnsons Studio Rituals
June 2024The mug Johnson reuses to drip black soap and black wax onto his works. When I inquired with Rashid Johnson, an artist who works in photography, video, and sculpture, about participating in this project, he said, “Oh, yeah, I’m all about ritual.
Winning TimeRecap: All-Star Breaking Point
June 2024Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty California Dreaming Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty California Dreaming Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winning Time, a show about the team that defined the NBA in the 1980s, has finally entered that decadent decade.
Writer of The Assignment Insists the Movie Is Not Transphobic, Because There Arent Even Trans Cha
June 2024Michelle Rodriguez. This weekend The Assignment hits theaters. You may know it by its previous title, (re)Assignment, which references the movie’s premise: Michelle Rodriguez plays a hit man named Frank who, after pissing off the wrong doctor, wakes up having been surgically transformed into a woman.
Yellowstone Recap: Back in the Saddle
June 2024Yellowstone I Killed a Man Today Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone I Killed a Man Today Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » By now I should be used to Yellowstone stumbling through half-realized storylines and banal mythopoetic navel-gazing in the middle of its season, only to rally toward the end.
Yes, Dear < Taxi: What Older Shows Would You Like to See on TV Again?
June 2024Erik Adams wrote an interesting article for the A.V. Club yesterday, called, “Is television a medium without a past?” It’s about how while the film and music industries keep looking to the past for inspiration, to the point where original ideas feel shocking, TV doesn’t work the same way.
Youve Heard This One Before
June 2024Maggie Nelson believes we react too quickly and think ungenerously. In her new book, she’s guilty of both. On Freedom is out Sept.
Zooey Deschanels Long Con Pays Off, Will Finally Appear on Property Brothers Show
June 2024Zooey Deschanel has been working that classic con (meeting someone, falling in love, eventually getting to appear on their HGTV show) for over a year now, and it’s finally come to fruition.
18 Essential Episodes of Criminal Minds
June 2024One thing was clear when Criminal Minds premiered in 2005: The show was horrific. That’s not a criticism — it was the initial appeal.
A Beginners Guide to the Ghost in the Shell Universe
June 2024The 1995 Ghost in the Shell anime. The Scarlett Johansson version of Ghost in the Shell is being released this Friday, whether we want it or not.
Action Bronson Has a Very Special Branzino Recipe
June 2024141080211RK072_2012_SXSW_Mu The Queens rapper also has some goat-roasting tips, but here is his masterpiece: “I grilled branzino, made a vinaigrette infusing olive oil with the weed, lemon, capers, a little bit of basil, a little bit of parsley, and some red onions.
Adrienne Warren Stands Up
June 2024She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb. Photo: Erik Tanner for New York Magazine Photo: Erik Tanner for New York Magazine On November 6, 2019, the night before she opened in the starring role of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Adrienne Warren developed a herniated disk in her back — though she didn’t know it yet.
Alison Brie on Why She Endorses Trudys Decision on Sunday Nights Mad Men
June 2024Spoilers for Sunday night’s episode of Mad Men ahead. In a sense, Mad Men will conclude just as it begins for Pete and Trudy Campbell.
And Just Like That Recap: A Big Move
June 2024And Just Like That There Goes the Neighborhood Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And Just Like That There Goes the Neighborhood Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bad news, friends: If you’ve arrived at this recap to see if there has been any further development on the fact that last week Carrie — out loud, mind you — wondered if choosing Big over Aidan was actually a terrible mistake, the answer is a resounding no.
Anna Kendricks Love Life Will Soon Be Available on WarnerMedia Streaming Service
June 2024Rom-coms are back, baby, and if there’s one person who’s spent her entire career honing both sides of the hyphenate, it’s Anna Kendrick.
Are You Ready for the Summer of Thirsting After Andy Garca?
June 2024This post originally ran after the author had seen Book Club. It has been updated to reflect her experience seeing Mamma Mia!
Audra McDonald Is Finally Coming Back to Broadway
June 2024Nothing against her boozy Zoom performances, of course, but we’ve been waiting for this: Audra McDonald is finally returning to Broadway this fall.
Audrey Hepburn Was the Inspiration for Inside Outs Joy
June 2024Joy (left), and Hepburn. On Tuesday at the computer-graphics convention Siggraph, The Hollywood Reporter writes, Pixar revealed the physical inspirations for Inside Out’s team of anthropomorphic emotions.
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Band That Sounds Exactly Like the Postal Service Claims Not to Have Been Influenced by Postal Servic
June 2024You may not have heard of them, but Owl City hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with their ultracatchy pop number, “Fireflies.
Below Deck Recap: Aye-Aye, Captain
June 2024Below Deck The Fish Stinks from the Head Season 10 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck The Fish Stinks from the Head Season 10 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alissa may or may not have clairvoyant capabilities.
Benedetta Is Pure Verhoeven, for Better and for Worse
June 2024Benedetta For a movie in which an adult nun’s childhood statuette of the Virgin Mary is carved into a dildo and then used on her, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is surprisingly unsurprising.
Breaking Down the Origins of Kendrick Lamars Surprise Album, untitled unmastered.
June 2024Cornrow Kenny does it again. Back in 2014, Kendrick Lamar bid The Colbert Report farewell with the debut of a thunderous new untitled song.
Bryan Cranston and Your Other Faves Are Standing by for Your Call on The Late Shows Celeb Hotline
June 2024If you can put down your hoagie for two goddamn seconds, and lord knows you can’t, then pick up the phone with those mayo-covered hands of yours and dial The Late Show’s Celebrity Chat Line.
Bugs, Drugs, and Talking Wizards: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Prize-Nominated Swallow Me Whole
June 2024Yesterday, Nate Powell’s Swallow Me Whole became the first graphic novel to be nominated for an L.A. Times Book Prize since Art Spiegelman’s Maus.
Cherry Jones on Succession and Why Nan Pierce Is a Wannabe Katharine Graham
June 2024Cherry Jones. As Succession’s Roy family has tried to extend their control over the media world this season, they’ve run up against their bizarro-world counterparts in the Pierces, a blue-blooded but just as slimey media dynasty that controls a more prestigious, but less profitable news giant.
Chris Appleton Reportedly Filed For Divorce from Lukas Gage
June 2024Just days after their wedding was featured on The Kardashians, celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton has filed for divorce from actor Lukas Gage.
Contestants Go Half-Male, Half-Female on RuPauls Drag Race
June 2024With only six competitors left, things on RuPaul’s Drag Race are starting to heat up. Tasked with following the two strongest episodes of the season, “Prancing Queens” keeps the hot streak alive and asks the queens to do the unthinkable: dance.
Curtis Sittenfelds 10 Favorite Books
June 2024Bookseller 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.
Dakota and Elle Fanning to Finally Play Sisters Onscreen in The Nightingale
June 2024The Sisters Fanning are following in the footsteps of countless other actor siblings and bringing their sisterhood to the screen in the World War II drama The Nightingale.
David Arquette Once Called Tom Cruise Sean by Mistake
June 2024There is a lot to love about this interview with actor and pro-wrestling legend David Arquette for All Elite Wrestling’s Hey!
Democrats and Republicans Are Getting Weird About Hawk Tuah Girl
June 2024Hailey Welch said she wouldn’t hawk tuah Trump on the Plan Bri Uncut podcast. We guess not wanting to hawk tuah a 78-year-old wrinkly presidential nominee and recently convicted felon makes you a political figure now.
Did Will Byers Come Out in the Stranger Things Finale? An Investigation.
June 2024Over the course of its four seasons, Stranger Things has asked and answered a lot of questions: What is the Upside Down?
Every Bizarrap Session, Ranked
June 2024Since 2019, Gonzalo Julián Conde, better known as Argentine producer and DJ Bizarrap, has turned his home studio into the hottest room in Latin music.
Every Sex-Tape Joke Andy Samberg Has Made on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
June 2024Andy Samberg as Jake and Melissa Fumero as Amy. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is finally back! After Fox callously canceled it last spring after five seasons, NBC picked it up almost immediately, and it returns to the air this Thursday.
Fargo Recap: Fully Actualized
June 2024Fargo Loplop Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fargo Loplop Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jeffrey Donovan as Dodd.
Fleishman Is in Trouble Recap: Friendship Honeymoons Over
June 2024Fleishman Is in Trouble This Is My Enjoyment Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fleishman Is in Trouble This Is My Enjoyment Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The past can be a dangerous place.
Fred Savage Accused of Physical Harassment on The Grinder Set
June 2024Fred Savage. A former costume designer has accused actor Fred Savage of physical harassment on the set of the TV show The Grinder.
Fuller House Series-Premiere Recap: Cut Them Out
June 2024Fuller House Our Very First Show, Again Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Fuller House Our Very First Show, Again Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Let’s just get this out of the way right now: I love Kimmy Gibbler.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Winking Burlesque of Femininity
June 2024Wednesday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, this Wednesday (Oct. 12) at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. Wednesday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, this Wednesday (Oct.
Ghostface Killah on Rehab and His Many Inspirations
June 2024Photo: Getty Images Ghostface Killah was responsible for two of 2006’s best hip-hop releases with Fishscale and More Fish, and this year he’s done it again with his excellent new solo album The Big Doe Rehab and 8 Diagrams, the long-anticipated new record from Wu-Tang Clan.
Greys Anatomy Recap: Back in the Saddle Again
June 2024Grey’s Anatomy Blood, Sweat and Tears Season 20 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Blood, Sweat and Tears Season 20 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Let’s assess the situation, shall we?
Greys Anatomy Recap: Baked Goods
June 2024Grey’s Anatomy Everyday Angel Season 15 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Everyday Angel Season 15 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we get into the meat of this stellar Grey’s episode, can we please have one moment of silence for the glorious gift that is that Doctor Jam Band?
Greys Anatomy Recap: Dinner Theater
June 2024Grey’s Anatomy The Last Supper Season 16 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy The Last Supper Season 16 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daaaaaang, Grey’s Anatomy.
Greys Anatomy Recap: Highs and Lows
June 2024Grey’s Anatomy I Want a New Drug Season 15 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy I Want a New Drug Season 15 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, that was bleak.
Hallelujah, Zack Snyder Is Trying to Make a Watchmen TV Show With HBO
June 2024But who’s gonna watch it? The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
Here Are the Best Answers From H. Jon Benjamins Reddit AMA
June 2024H. Jon Benjamin, the beautifully monotone voice behind Bob Belcher (Bob’s Burgers) and Sterling Archer (Archer), entertained Redditors today with an AMA that was equal parts sarcastic and insightful.
House of Questions: All Eyes on HBOs Dragon
June 2024Game of Thrones ended its epic eight-season run three years ago as the most-watched show in HBO history, an unlikely outcome given how it started back in April 2011.
House of the Dragon Star Emma DArcy Brings You the Next Drink of the Season
June 2024If you are on certain (queer) parts of TikTok, there has been one sound ringing through your head.
How Annie Was Updated for 2014
June 2024Will Gluck isn’t the first to remake Annie, but he’s certainly the first to attempt to modernize it for the big screen.
How Dicks: The Musicals Grotesquely Adorable Sewer Boys Were Born
June 2024Just what exactly are the “Sewer Boys,” the reptilian hybrids kept in a cage by Nathan Lane in Dicks: The Musical?
How the Strokes andthe Early-Aughts New York Rock Boom Went Bust
June 2024Cover Image: Fabrizio Moretti at Radio City Music Hall in 2002. In 1998, five New York friends — Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr.
I Have So Many Questions About The Jinxs Wonder Twins
June 2024The standouts of the Durst prosecution team are John Grisham protagonists run through a Workaholics filter. One does not expect to laugh during The Jinx: Part Two, director Andrew Jarecki’s return to the orbit of eccentric and ominous accused serial killer Robert Durst.
Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People
June 2024With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house. Photo: Emilio Madrid Midway through the new version of An Enemy of the People adapted and directed respectively by the power couple Amy Herzog and Sam Gold, a full bar is lowered from the ceiling.
Idle Chatter About The Idol
June 2024After years of reshoots and exposés, The Idol hit HBO. Or Max, or whatever. The first episode saw Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) weather a nude leak, dance at Tedros Tedros’s (Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye) club, and evade questions from Vanity Fair reporter Talia (Hari Nef).
Introducing The Critics, a New Culture Newsletter
June 2024No writing thrills like a sharp piece of criticism. Great criticism is an invigorator, a world-expander, a perpetual-motion machine — a reminder that finding out how other people see a thing is sometimes more exciting than the thing itself.
Its a Black History Month Miracle! Disney Revives The Proud Family
June 2024Suga Mama still a real one. Finally, a Black History Month miracle! It’s day 27 out of 29, but better late than never.
Jane Alexander on Snoring Through Chasing Manet and Simulating Sex in Tell Me You Love Me
June 2024Jane Alexander is, at 69, perhaps the oldest person ever to simulate oral sex onscreen (in HBO’s, Tell Me You Love Me).
Joe Pera Attempts to Help Me Get a Christmas Tree
June 2024Joe Pera in Joe Pera Talks With You. There is a moment in Joe Pera’s 2016 special, Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree, when the character Joe Pera finds himself confronted with a harsh reality.
Kanye West Tells Joe Rogan My Calling Is to Be the Leader of the Free World
June 2024KOTUS. Within the first five minutes of Kanye West’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, West tells Rogan, “I believe my calling is to be the leader of the free world,” meaning the president of the United States, and that the calling was given to him by God.
Keke Palmer Says Comparing Her With Zendaya Was Also a Form of Colorism
June 2024The incomparable Keke Palmer. Keke Palmer has something to say about comparisons between her and Zendaya: Nope! In a November 16 interview ahead of her Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the KeyTV founder elaborated on her feelings surrounding a tweet comparing the two stars’ careers.
Kevin Can F**k Himself Recap: No Exit
June 2024Kevin Can F**k Himself The Unreliable Narrator Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kevin Can F**k Himself The Unreliable Narrator Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As we’re heading toward the end of the show, Kevin Can F**k Himself is digging deeper into its subtext and metaplay as Kevin’s monstrous abusiveness affects every character, while Allison and Patty’s gal-pal bond is proving too bright to snuff out.
Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, Saved by the Bell Co-stars Pay Tribute to the Late Dustin Diamond
June 2024Following the death of Dustin Diamond on Monday due to stage-four lung cancer, the actor’s co-stars from NBC’s iconic high-school sitcom Saved by the Bell took to social media to remember the actor as “kind,” “smart,” a “gentleman,” and a cut-up on set.
Lets Talk About the Bonkers Twist in Serenity
June 2024Spoilers for Serenity abound. Every January, moviegoers and critics alike are treated to a slate of new releases that major studios dump from their roster during awards season.
Lets Talk About the Ending of Black Mirrors Hang the DJ
June 2024Like all episodes of Black Mirror, the end of “Hang the DJ” offers up a closing twist that forces the audience to rethink everything they’ve seen so far.
Looking Back at Martin Shorts First Prime-Time Show
June 2024Martin Short has had two different programs on TV known as The Martin Short Show: a sitcom in 1994, and a talk show in 1999 (I wrote about the sitcom a few years back).
Louis C.K. Apologized to Sarah Palin for Those Mean Tweets; She Was Real Chill About It
June 2024Louis C.K. apologized to Sarah Palin for that Twitter rant he went on back in 2010. “I wrote some really horrible tweets about her,” he told Howard Stern Wednesday.
Magic Mike XXL Is a Lot Less Naked Than You Were Expecting, But You Might Not Mind
June 2024In Jaws, you barely see the shark. In Jurassic Park, the fearsome T. rex is teased early on but not glimpsed in full until much later.
Maya Rudolph Finally Did the Rachel Dolezal Impression Weve All Been Waiting For
June 2024Rachel Dolezal’s 15 minutes of fame have (thankfully) come and gone. But because many comedians — including Dave Chappelle — didn’t quite know what to make of her story, most refrained from poking fun at her expense.
Mckenna Grace Found Hope at the End of A Friend of the Family
June 2024There are no dragons in Peacock’s true-crime drama A Friend of the Family. Bob Berchtold, the titular family friend and pedophile who twice abducted the devout Mormon tween Jan Broberg in the 1970s, is a much less fantastical, and arguably more frightening, monster.
Miranda Julys New Novel Will Ignite Your Group Chats
June 2024There is something vague and unseeing in the gaze young women cast at older ones. Those figures paddling across the slough of middle age, headed toward the glowing shores of the golden years — the ones no longer desirable but, inconveniently, not yet dead — are out there, on the horizon, but they’re a little … fuzzy.
Molly Ringwald Will Play Archies Mother on Riverdale, As 80s Stars Are the New TV Moms
June 2024Molly Ringwald. Let it be known that the casting director at the CW’s Riverdale is a goddamn genius: Molly Ringwald is joining the show as Archie’s mom, Mary Andrews.
Nicki Minaj Does Something for the Barbz
June 2024Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj said playtime is over … now. The rapper has released her first studio album in five years, the third installment in the Pink Friday trilogy, just in time for her 41st birthday, December 8.
Nika Lomazzo Urges Caution When Kissing Your Friends on the Mouth
June 2024View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vulture (@vulture) Thanks to COVID-19, comedians are trapped at home like the rest of us, so we decided we would do something a little different from our usual “Follow Friday” column while we’re all isolating.
One Mississippi - TV Episode Recaps & News
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Poker Faces Natasha Lyonne Is Finally Playing Someone Who Likes People
June 2024With Russian Doll, Natasha Lyonne has already created a character so iconic, they’ve become a Halloween costume. (And if you’re queer, the uniforms from But I’m a Cheerleader also make for an easy and recognizable ’stume.
Queen Charlotte Is Bridgertons Diamond of the Season
June 2024Dearest loyal readers, As more than one distinguished member of the Ton understands, the announcement of a new prequel lately inspires a sensation of resignation among those with refined tastes.
R. Kelly Accuser Testifies That He Made Her Lie to Gayle King
June 2024Kelly in 2019. TW: This post contains graphic details of sexual assault and domestic violence. After luring a 17-year-old into his orbit under false pretenses of nurturing her music career, R.
Sarah Silverman Says Her Bedwetter Musical Will Open Sometime Next Year
June 2024Sarah Silverman and Mike Birbiglia at Tribeca. “I am uncomfortable saying this, but you’re one of the people who intimidates me the most.
Sex Gets You Killed in Horror Movies, But the Slasher X Wants to Reexamine Why
June 2024X begins with a group of bohemian young people, led by would-be impresario Wayne (Martin Henderson), driving out of town to shoot a porno.
Shark Tank Contestant Who Pitched Face Masks in 2009 Has No Regrets
June 2024Irina Blok can spot a trend 11 years early. Last night, as I was performing my ritual of devouring multiple Shark Tank reruns on CNBC, I watched a pitch from the show’s first season featuring a woman who was ahead of her time.
Sincerity - Vulture
June 2024Sincerity - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Sept. 8, 2011 Comedy After 9/11: Sincerity and IronyComedy felt frivolous, and in some cases downright insensitive in the weeks after September 11, 2001.
SNL Recap: Saoirse Ronan Explains How to Pronounce Her Name
June 2024Saturday Night Live Saoirse Ronan Season 43 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Saoirse Ronan Season 43 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Until this fall, the Bronx-born and Ireland-raised 23-year-old actor Saoirse Ronan was best known for her dramatic roles including Oscar-nominated performances in adaptations of Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn.
Some People Wait a Lifetime for a Moment Like Matt Rogers Meeting Kelly Clarkson
June 2024Who doesn’t love watching a fan meet their fave? Matt Rogers’s years-in-the-making encounter with his idol (no pun intended) happens on November 28’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Steve Carell and Tina Fey Get a Second Date
June 2024Hubba hubby. There may be a reboot of The Office going on elsewhere, but Steve Carell’s getting back to the sitcom on his own terms.
Survivor: Contestants Respond After One Player Outs Another as Transgender
June 2024Zeke Smith. On Wednesday night’s episode of Survivor: Game Changers the elimination ceremony took an ugly turn with real world consequences when contestant Jeff Varner revealed to his other castmates that fellow player Zeke Smith is a transgender man.
Taylor Swift Wants to Sell You a Cardigan Cardigan
June 2024Not a cardigan. With her new surprise album folklore dropping tonight, Taylor Swift is taking you back to nature, but not without the comforts of a cream cable-knit cardigan with black-matte buttons, dark-gray trim, light-gray star embroidery on both arms, and a light-gray album-title patch on left chest with dark-gray font.
Taylor Swifts Long-Overdue Haim Collab Tries to Be Cold-Blooded But Is Mostly Just Cold
June 2024Este Haim and Taylor Swift. Last year, Taylor Swift was spotted getting off a plane with the Haim sisters, Lorde, and her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn.
The 10 Best Family Films and TV Shows on Apple TV+
June 2024Don’t have Apple TV+ yet? sign up here So you have an Apple TV+ subscription and a family to entertain — what do you do?
The 8 Most Catholic-School Things About Lady Bird
June 2024I love Lady Bird with all of my of twisted little ex-Catholic-schoolgirl heart. Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age movie is a love letter to Sacramento, and to the kinds of bitter fights only mothers and daughters can have, but most of it revolves around a Catholic-school education.
The Bad Batch Recap: Good Soldiers Follow Orders
June 2024The Bad Batch The Outpost Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch The Outpost Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » From the moment The Bad Batch was announced, everybody was waiting for the show to answer one big question: What happened to the clones once the stormtroopers were introduced?
The Cast of The Watcher on What Theyd Do If They Were Being Watched
June 2024Vulture and New York TV critic Jen Chaney previously worked for the Washington Post and has bylines at the New York Times and Vanity Fair.
The Girlfriend Experience Is One of the Best Shows of the Year
June 2024I don’t even know where to begin with The Girlfriend Experience, a Starz drama about a law student who has a secret life as a high-end call girl.
The Greatest Night in Pop Is a Huge Blast of Gen-X Nostalgia
June 2024Netflix’s new documentary about the making of “We Are the World” will be hard to resist for a lot of us.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Cute and Cordial
June 2024The Real Housewives of Atlanta Bosom Buddies Season 9 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta Bosom Buddies Season 9 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kandi Burruss.
The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Rules of Engagement
June 2024The Real Housewives of Miami Diamond Rings and Rumors Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Diamond Rings and Rumors Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It is not every day that we get to witness a birth.
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Overcooked Beef
June 2024The Real Housewives of Potomac Sisterhood of the Traveling Beefs Season 7 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Sisterhood of the Traveling Beefs Season 7 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In high school, one of the common summer activities would be taking a day trip to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey.
The Real Star of Olivia Colman and Emma Stones Favourite Fingering Scene Was a Big, Wet Sponge
June 2024Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz gave us a master class in sexy period drama lady-sex thanks to The Favourite, but when the cameras start rolling for the 20th take to get the best fingering angle, sometimes a certain light, porous substance needs to be summoned to keep everyone sane.
The Story of Trina Robbins, the Controversial Feminist Who Revolutionized Comic Books
June 2024Don’t mistake Trina Robbins’s gentleness for shyness. There have been many comic books with all-female creative teams since the 79-year-old writer-artist-editor came up in the “underground comix” scene of the late 1960s and early ’70s.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Recap: Teenage Dream
June 2024The Summer I Turned Pretty Love Fest Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Summer I Turned Pretty Love Fest Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In this episode largely defined by characters asking way too much of each other, what could be more natural or more understandable than Belly, hammered and sobbing, drunk-dialing her mom and begging her to come and “fix it”?
The True Height of Fast and Furious Actors, in One Helpful Graphic
June 2024Hollywood magic. The Fast and Furious franchise is full of incredible special effects, but none are more impressive, or more subtle, than the series’ efforts to make all of its leading actors appear exactly the same height.
The Vulture Transcript: Anne Rice on Twilight, Her Casting Dreams for a New Lestat, and Her Ever-Evo
June 2024Thirty-five years ago, Anne Rice single-handedly launched a permanent pop-culture vampire fixation with Interview With the Vampire, the first installment of her best-selling ten-book series The Vampire Chronicles.
The Wasteland Puzzle
June 2024New 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.
Theater Review: Significant Other Is Still a Too-Loud, Too-Long Wedding Reception
June 2024From Significant Other, now at the Booth. What is Jordan Berman’s problem? He’s 28, adorkably gay, and gainfully employed at an advertising agency.
They Follow to Follow It Follows
June 2024Text everybody you know on your clamshell phone because this is big news: David Robert Mitchell, creator of the 2014 horror film It Follows, is making a sequel to the now–cult classic, titled, of course, They Follow.
Tim Allen Cant Stay Ho-ho-home in The Santa Clauses Trailer
June 2024Could Santa be a stay-at-home dad? According to Disney+’s trailer for The Santa Clauses, no … or at least not for long.
Tony Rice, Bluegrass Icon, Dead at 69
June 2024Tony Rice, one of the most influential bluegrass guitarists of all time, died on December 25, the International Bluegrass Association confirmed.
Top Gun: Maverick Finally Lands on Digital
June 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. If you feel the need — the need to experience Top Gun: Maverick from the comfort of your couch, that is — you’re in luck.
Travis Scott Is Letting Kanye West Into Utopia
June 2024Travis Scott pulled off his Ye-esque performance of Utopia with help from Ye. Scott performed his Billboard album chart-topping album, interspersed with hits from previous albums, in Rome’s Circus Maximus.
Trolls World Tour Is an Anti-Rockist Variation on Infinity War
June 2024Anna Kendrick’s Poppy and Justin Timberlake’s Branch. Last night, like some kind of fucking idiot, I watched Trolls World Tour.
Troy Ave Says Hes the Real Victim in Deadly Irving Plaza Shooting
June 2024Troy Ave. On Monday, rapper Troy Ave (née Roland Collins) pled not guilty to multiple charges, including attempted murder, in connection with last week’s deadly shooting at a T.
True Detective TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024“How humanity pollutes the natural world has been a core True Detective inquiry, and Night Country confronts it by suggesting the land, especially in the corners of the world where humans were never supposed to survive, remembers things we forget.
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Universal Wants to Assure Everyone That Russell Crowe Dropped the Weight Before Shooting Robin Hood
June 2024Hey, have you heard the news? Russell Crowe is fat! Or, at least, that’s what was written in the Paper of Record over the weekend, which sent everyone affiliated with Team Crowe into crisis damage-control mode.
Vanderpump Rules Season Finale Recap: Here Lies Friendship
June 2024Vanderpump Rules Unfriended Season 8 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules Unfriended Season 8 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Congratulations, boys and girlfriends.
Watch the First Two Episodes of Hudson Valley Ballers
June 2024Above Average released the first two episodes of the new web series “Hudson Valley Ballers” today, and they are as hilarious as expected (and feature a creepy disappearing doll, which is always a bonus).
We Actually Find Out What Happened to Audrey Horne in Mark Frosts New Twin Peaks Book
June 2024For viewers who tuned into Twin Peaks: The Return to eagerly find out what happened to fan-favorite character Audrey Horne, the events of the third season proved to be surprising — and, for some, even maddening — for what befell the town’s resident high-school vixen.
What Went Down in Crown Heights (and 5 More Podcasts Worth Trying)
June 2024This 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.
Whats the Goss About Cost(ner)?
June 2024John Dutton (Costner). You might have heard there’s some drama going on with Yellowstone, and we’re not just talking about all those bodies dumped at the train station.
Why Mr. Robots Film References Are Subtler Than You Think
June 2024Mr. Robot is one of the most pop-culture-fluent series on TV. Rather than merely recycle favorite references, writer-director Sam Esmail and his collaborators use their knowledge base to create a work that’s uniquely personal.
Will Daisy Jones & the Six Actually Go on Tour?
June 2024At least give us a Coachella performance. All the rumours on the faux-’70s rock band Daisy Jones & the Six going on tour are just that … for now.
Ye Thought Wearing a White Lives Matter Shirt Would Be Funny
June 2024Ye. Update October 9: Ye’s “funny” shirt idea has somehow cascaded to the rapper getting restricted on Twitter and Instagram this weekend after posting antisemitic material on both platforms.
You Recap: My Old Country Home
June 2024You Hampsie Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You Hampsie Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The police are oh so grateful to Joe for his tip, which apparently checked out.
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Relive Elton Johns 1975 Dodger Stadium Concert
June 2024gallery October 9, 2015 8:00 am By Terry O'Neill Share Share Tweet Pin It 16 Photos Photo: Terry O’Neill/Iconic Images Terry O’Neill’s new book, Two Days That Rocked the World: Elton John Live at Dodger Stadium, documents the rock superstar’s October 1975 career-peak concerts.
17 Essential Brooklyn Nine-Nine Episodes
June 2024This week, the men and women of New York’s 99th precinct will gather one last time as Brooklyn Nine-Nine reveals its eighth and final season, capping off more than 150 episodes of consistent and impressive workplace comedy.
30 Rock Recap: Liz Got Married, Dummies!
June 202430 Rock Mazel Tov, Dummies! Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 30 Rock Mazel Tov, Dummies!
32 Reasons Why the Eagles Are the Best Band in the Universe
June 2024The Eagles L-R: Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, Don Henley, Randy Meisner c. Early 1970s. This post originally ran in May 2007.
A Rundown of the Best and Worst Cinematic Robin Hoods
June 2024As a character that pretty much every human being can recognize and no corporate entity can own outright, Robin Hood has been a staple of the movies since the silent era.
ADefinitive Breakdown of Phish Fandom
June 20241.0s, a.k.a. OG Phish fans. It’s 5:55 p.m. on the Friday night before New Year’s, and I’m sipping my second (okay, third) IPA at a bar around the corner from Madison Square Garden.
Ah, So Thats Who Killed Sam on How to Get Away With Murder
June 2024How to Get Away With Murder Kill Me, Kill Me, Kill Me Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How to Get Away With Murder Kill Me, Kill Me, Kill Me Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » So who killed Sam?
Ahead of Its Time, The John Larroquette Show Was Brilliant
June 2024If you don’t remember The John Larroquette Show,it debuted on NBC in the fall of 1993. It’s never been released on DVD and isn’t available to stream.
All That Actor Calls Dan Schneiders Apology Video a Nice Performance
June 2024Dan Schneider, the disgraced overlord of Nickelodeon’s golden era, was first accused of misconduct in 2018, when Hollywood was reckoning with the abuse baked into the industry amid the Me Too movement.
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June 2024fall preview Aug. 31, 2020 39 Movies We’re Excited to See This FallWest Side Story, Dune, Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in a seaside Romance.
An Exhibition of Kurt Cobains Works, Art, and Possessions Is Being Planned
June 2024In a new (very interesting) profile in the New York Times about Jeff Jampol, who runs a private company that specializes in managing the estates of deceased famous musicians, an enticing tidbit of information was revealed regarding the estate of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain.
An Honest Evaluation of LL Cool Js Entire Career
June 2024Last week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2019 inductees, a class of 7 acts culled from 15 nominees spanning the pop spectrum.
Anna Baryshnikov Breaks Down That Dickinson Dance Number
June 2024Anna Baryshnikov. “I am a shrewd Yankee witch. Respect that.” The line is from Emily Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, in Apple TV+’s second season of Dickinson.
Archer Recap: Lingua Franca
June 2024Archer Bel Panto: Part One Season 7 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Archer Bel Panto: Part One Season 7 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » H.
Assessing the Larry-Laurie David Split by the Sixth Season of Curb Your Enthusiasm
June 2024Photo: Getty Images For some, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm’s sixth season has been an exercise in exorcising the elephant in the room: the real-life curbing of Larry and Laurie David’s fourteen-year-marriage.
Backstage at the Birth ofSesame Street
June 2024Frank Oz and Jim Henson entertain a child between takes. In the late 1960s, the photographer David Attie was getting regular work from a magazine called Amerika that few Americans ever saw.
Below Deck Recap: Rhylee Returns
June 2024Below Deck A Recipe for Disaster Season 7 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck A Recipe for Disaster Season 7 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Rhylee makes her glorious return to Below Deck this week, which is long overdue because this season’s drama has mostly amounted to butt sounds behind closed bathroom doors.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Not Really Doin Questions and Answers Right Now
June 2024Boardwalk Empire The Milkmaid’s Lot Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Boardwalk Empire The Milkmaid’s Lot Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are lots of fine scenes and set pieces in this episode, but they don’t hang together nearly as well as those from last week’s propulsive hour.
Brad Pitts 12 Best Movie Haircuts
June 2024How do you like your Brad Pitt? Brad Pitt comes and goes every few years. You never know which Brad Pitt you’ll get, either.
Breaking Down the Multi-Billion-Dollar Seinfeld Economy
June 2024Seinfeld not only paved the way for much of modern television (as our Matt Zoller Seitz argues), it also created its own financial empire.
Britney Spears Is Battling in Court With Her Father Again Over His Big Lies
June 2024Despite Britney Spears being freed from her conservatorship two years ago, the battle between the singer and her father is far from over.
Broadway Theaters Shut Down As New York Governor Bans Gatherings Over 500
June 2024“I don’t want to see Broadway go dark if we can avoid it,” Bill de Blasio said. As the coronavirus continues to spread in New York City and the world, shutting down numerous cultural attractions and events, Broadway too will close.
Charles Mingus: Jazz Legend, Cat Toilet Trainer
June 2024Check out the rest of Vulture’s gift guide picks on our 2021 Advent Calendar! Check out the rest of Vulture’s gift guide picks on our 2021 Advent Calendar!
Cher Just Found Her Sister-in-Singing
June 2024When Kelly Clarkson covers your song for Kellyoke, you don’t want to acknowledge that someone just outsang you on national TV.
Chris Pine Says Wonder Woman Is Set During World War I; Hes As Pumped for the Period Costumes As
June 2024You’ll be Peaky Blinded by those blue eyes. We’ve seen superhero movies set in the present, the future, the ’70s, World War II, and even the Days of Future Past, but we haven’t seen many that are set during World War I.
Cox-Arquette Doing Friends Derivative Comedy
June 2024Courteney Cox and estranged hubby David Arquette are expected to start pitching a new comedy that is eerily reminiscent of another comedy Cox famously starred in, Friends.
David Edelstein on His Acting Crush Rachel Weisz
June 2024Photograph by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine It helps to begin with what Rachel Weisz isn’t, which is the kind of movie star who talks about being “normal” and craving privacy while making sure to vacuum up every gaze in the room.
David Letterman Was In on the Joaquin Hoax
June 2024Well, this is a little… I don’t know what. Disappointing? Annoying? In any case, apparently David Letterman was in on this whole Joaquin Phoenix “character” during their famous interview.
Depeche Mode Return to the Studio and the Road After Fletchs Death
June 2024Depeche Mode activated. Depeche Mode is back in duo mode. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band is returning after the 2020 death of founding keyboardist Andy “Fletch” Fletcher for its first shows and album as a duo.
Did You Know Ellsworth Kelly and Alexander Calder Were Pals? They Even Exchanged Art Gifts.
June 2024Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen.
Download Songs From Fred Armisens Margaret Thatcher Saturday Night Live Sketch
June 2024After Margaret Thatcher’s April passing, Saturday Night Live aired the below sketch, “History of Punk,” in which Fred Armisen played first-wave punk star Ian Rubbish, who lost all of his cred because of his love of Thatcher.
Drag Races Kornbread The Snack Jet Didnt Plan on Opening Her Chocolate Bar
June 2024Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté entered RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 on a high. She made an impression from her first moments in the werkroom, throwing playful shade at Willow Pill’s look (“Comfy couture!
Drops of God Offers an Intoxicating Pairing
June 2024The Apple TV+ manga adaptation overcomes clichéd writing to serve a series unlike anything else on TV. Nothing’s sweeter than death to kick off a story.
DuckTales 7 Most Woo-oo!Worthy Episodes
June 2024This post originally ran in March 2021. We’re republishing it now that the complete series is available on Disney+.
Erin Andrews Named Dancing With the Stars Co-host
June 2024NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 31: Erin Andrews attends the Super Bowl XLVIII Party Hosted By Shape And Men’s Fitness at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 31, 2014 in New York City.
Eve Best Saw Rhaenyss Kamikaze Mission As a Relief
June 2024Spoilers follow for House of the Dragon’s fourth episode, “The Red Dragon and the Gold,” which premiered on HBO on July 7.
For All Mankind Recap: Coup Coup Ca-choo!
June 2024For All Mankind Bear Hug Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind Bear Hug Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Bear Hug” includes an actual military-involved coup, and that’s only the second-most dramatic coup in the episode.
Get Ready to Watch Disneys Live-Action Mulan from the Comfort of Your Couch
June 2024The live-action remake will be available to stream on Disney+ this September — for a fee. In a drastic move that would have been all but unthinkable in the halcyon Hollywood era directly preceding our global pandemic, Disney announced plans to release its mega-budget live-action adaptation of Mulan on Disney+ September 4.
Get Ready With David Corenswets Superman
June 2024David Corenswet in the first look of Superman. Superman has a new leading man … and a new outfit of the day.
Greenleaf Series Premiere Recap: The Prodigal Daughter
June 2024Greenleaf A Time to Heal Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Greenleaf A Time to Heal Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Oprah Winfrey as Mavis, Lynn Whitfield as Mae.
Harmony Korines New Anti-Movie Aggro Dr1ft Looks Cool For a Few Minutes
June 2024The night-vision hit-man feature starring Jordi Molla and Travis Scott is a unique exercise in tedium. This review was originally published on September 2, 2023 out of the Venice Film Festival.
Heather Morris Somehow Both Drags and Defends Her Glee Co-Star Lea Michele
June 2024It looks like would-be wig pooper Lea Michele has one (1) person somewhat in her corner and it’s her former co-star Heather Morris.
Here She Comes Now
June 2024The writer Lucy Sante always tried to keep a safe distance from herself — and her own desires. Until, at 66, she broke free.
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June 2024frank postin’ Nov. 9, 2023 Notorious Recluse Logs OnFrank Ocean is eating salad, thrifting books, and even posting a snippet of a new song.
House of the Dragon Season-Finale Recap: Blood of the Dragon
June 2024House of the Dragon The Black Queen Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of the Dragon The Black Queen Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For all its ambition, House of the Dragon has had a narrow scope.
How Mad About You Made One of the Boldest Bottle Episodes Ever
June 2024‘Genie in a Bottle’ is a recurring feature where each week a different bottle episode (an episode set entirely in one location, often designed to save money) from a comedy series is examined.
How Nick Cannon Svengalied a Nude Mariah Carey Magazine Cover
June 2024You know how when you’re doing a photo shoot for a middling gossip rag, and you’re like, Man, I wish the whole world could see my naked pregnant wife?
How to Be an Artist
June 202433 rules to take you from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least help you live life a little more creatively).
How Todays Most Daring, Weird Cartoons Transform the Minstrel Aesthetic
June 2024Drawing a line between weird and not-weird cartoons might seem like a fuzzy endeavor, as far as animation is concerned.
How Watchmen Brought Doctor Manhattan to Life
June 2024When Angela met Manhattan… Doctor Manhattan, one of the most iconic characters from the original Watchmen comic, has had an outsized presence in HBO’s adaptation without ever appearing in the flesh.
Ian McKellen Has Had Prostate Cancer for Six or Seven Years
June 2024Sir Ian McKellen. In an interview with Mirror, Ian McKellen was worried they’d make him sound bad: “You are going to write ‘Ian McKellen is decrepit.
In Exception to the Rule, Detention Is a Whole Other Class of Punishment
June 2024Helen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019.
In Praise of Sigourney Weavers Teen Angst in Avatar: The Way of Water
June 2024Spoilers follow for Avatar: The Way of Water. Avatar: The Way of Water plays out like a greatest-hits compilation of James Cameron’s filmography, with the underwater world-building of this sequel evoking the jungle immersion Cameron pulled off with the first Avatar, a third-act sinking ship that brings to mind Titanic, and the Marines’ AMP suits looking quite similar to the bright-yellow power loader Ripley wielded while fighting the xenomorph queen (and, as importantly, flirting with Hicks) in Aliens.
Jack Black Discusses the Inspiration for His Farting, Fat Tropic Thunder Character
June 2024Photo: Getty Images “I have done lots of farting in movies. And I’ve been fat in almost all of my movies.
Juliana Canfields Jess Is Not Invisible. Shes Indispensable.
June 2024Jess Jordan (Juliana Canfield) is omnipresent. Kendall Roy’s assistant since the second episode of Succession, she’s an often invisible force who manages to accomplish her boss’s near-impossible tasks with zero drama.
Keep the Throwbacks Coming After Miley Cyruss Plastic Hearts With These Albums
June 2024Just a few influences and then some. Miley Cyrus has long worn her influences on her sleeve, from duetting with everyone from Joan Jett to her godmother, Dolly Parton, to covering musicians from every genre under the sun.
Kyra Sedgwick Answers Every Question We Have About Phenomenon
June 2024Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t.
Lila Shapiro Author Archive
June 2024the industry Sept. 26, 2023 Romeo and Juliet Was a TragedyIn 1968, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were the most famous teenagers in the world.
Mac DeMarco Has Given Up Cold Foods
June 2024Brr. Mac DeMarco’s salad days really are gone — at least if the salads are cold. The indie singer-songwriter bizarrely revealed in a new interview that he has given up eating “cold foods” as part of a health kick.
Meet the Manic Pixie Prostitute, a New Brand of Quirky Stock Character
June 2024And she brought her “midget guitar!” Sources Leila Cohan-Miccio Meet the Manic Pixie Prostitute ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dhZ3yurc2immaoma22pnnPq6asrJmpwrWxjaGrpqQ%3D
MoMAs Glorified Lava Lamp
June 2024Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity. Photo-Illustration: Elizabeth Bick This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
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Nancy Meyers Searches for Her Own Comfort
June 2024For decades, she’s been the foremost purveyor of onscreen hygge. Now she’s ready to retire it all. It’s Nancy Meyers Week.
Neil Gaimans Writing a Non-Fiction Book on Norse Mythology
June 2024Neil, himself. It’s hardly news that Neil Gaiman fancies gods. He wrote a whole book about ‘em — American Gods — back in 2001, one that’s currently being adapted into a much-anticipated and frighteningly well-cast Bryan Fuller series on Starz.
PachinkoRecap: The 1923 Great Kant Earthquake
June 2024Pachinko Chapter Seven Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Pachinko Chapter Seven Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we get into the recap, I want to preface this by saying this episode is entirely original in its story.
Paris Hilton Really Did Sign With Cash Money
June 2024150153804AC00005_Marlon_Gob She was talking it up at Cannes, and now Birdman confirms it: Paris Hilton has signed with Cash Money Records.
Patti LaBelle Was Hot As Hell in Her Masked Singer Costume But Dammit, She Wore It Anyway
June 2024In case anyone still needed convincing that The Masked Singer is an absurd, Bizarro World farce of a show, the singing competition eliminated legendary songstress Patti LaBelle in eighth place out of 16 contestants.
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June 2024photography Oct. 27, 2013 Fantasy Camp: Photographs by Underground Legend Bob Mizer Come Up for Air“He was part of the process of creating this new masculine identity, which coincides with the invention of the teenager and biker movies and surf culture.
Piranha 3D Director Alexandre Aja on Using 80,000 Gallons of Blood
June 2024This Friday, Piranha 3D, the year’s biggest B-movie masquerading as a late-summer blockbuster, opens nationwide. But unlike the straight-to-TV hokum that airs weekly on the SyFy Network, Piranha 3D boasts a surprisingly famous cast (Adam Scott!
Please, Was the Original Bambi Not Horrifying Enough?
June 2024What kind of person watches a movie in which a deer’s mother gets shot right in front of him and thinks, Hmm, this isn’t disturbing enough?
Revisiting the 15 Greatest Amy Winehouse Performances on YouTube
June 2024There’s a brief turning point in Amy, the stirring new Amy Winehouse documentary that came out this weekend, where we momentarily forget the embattled singer’s fate.
Rose McGowan Made a NSFW Music Video
June 2024Rose McGowan is making moves in the music industry, and you can take this video as her warning shot. Dubbed “RM486,” the song is McGowan’s first project released under her own name, one that places Hollywood and beauty standards in its sights with tinges of Die Antwoord and surrealism.
RuPauls Drag Race U.K.Season-Finale Recap: Camp As Christmas
June 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Grand Finale Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race U.
Ryan Reynolds Gives Green Lantern a 1 Out of 10 (1=Bad)
June 2024Ryan Reynolds, a person with eyes and ears, knows Green Lantern was bad. On a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live, he said the movie “suffers from that typical Hollywood disease which is that we get a poster, we get a release date, we got an actor, we don’t have a script, but we’re just gonna start shooting anyway.
Sam Raimi on Oz, The Avengers, and Two Huge Movies He Never Made
June 2024Sam Raimi. When it comes to the new film Oz the Great and Powerful, it’s only fair to pay some attention to the man behind the curtain: director Sam Raimi, who took on the Wizard of Oz prequel after completing the original Spider-Man trilogy.
Saturday Night Live Recap: SNLRepeats Old Sketches for Its First Fourth Chinese Host
June 2024Saturday Night Live Simu Liu Season 47 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Simu Liu Season 47 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Another week, another young Marvel star.
See Viola Davis Put Her Whole Face Into Her Role As Michelle Obama
June 2024Now that’s what we call looking the part. EW has released first look photos of Viola Davis playing Michelle Obama in Showtime’s The First Lady, the White House drama about three former First Ladies that is set to air on Showtime in the spring of 2022.
Sense8 Recap: Litos Pride
June 2024Sense8 Isolated Above, Connected Below Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sense8 Isolated Above, Connected Below Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Lito, Alfonso Herrera as Hernando.
Some Like It Hot Is a Perfect Comedy to Get Lost In on a Friday Night
June 2024Friday 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.
Someone Blackmailed Bella Thorne With Her Nudes, So She Decided to Post Them
June 2024In a move that she hopes will empower other women, Bella Thorne, noted cat enthusiast, has decided to upload numerous topless photos of herself to her social media channels after a male hacker tried to blackmail and “threaten” her with them.
Taylor Kissing Joe and Everything Else You Missed at the Truly Chaotic 2020 NME Awards
June 2024Wild times ahead. The NME Awards are like the Grammys’ cheeky British cousin. This year’s ceremony, the music publication’s 67th, was a particularly chaotic event.
That 90s Show TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024Two things are inexorable: the march of time and also TV reboots. So, in a way, That ‘90s Show is the perfect series, as it’s a legacy sequel to the beloved sitcom That ‘70s Show and a potentially grim reminder of how old you’re getting.
The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
June 2024Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Want more TV and movie picks?
The 25 Best Taskmaster Tasks
June 2024Over the past few years, the British comedy game series Taskmaster has risen from very specific Anglophile favorite to what’s arguably the internet’s favorite casual watch, a weekly dose of delightfully bonkers mayhem that has all the warmth of The Great British Bake-Off mixed with the savage wit of Would I Lie to You?
The Baby-Sitters Club Recap: Best Summer Ever?
June 2024The Baby-Sitters Club Hello, Camp Moosehead! Part 1 Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Baby-Sitters Club Hello, Camp Moosehead!
The Comedians Stephnie Weir on Hollywoods Brutality, Dysfunctional Producers, and Funny
June 2024No offense to Billy Crystal and Josh Gad, ostensible stars of FX’s The Comedians, but Stephnie Weir is its breakout performer.
The Cottage Needs More Doors to Slam
June 2024From The Cottage at the Hayes Theater. There’s a fizz that bubbles up near the end of a door-slamming farce when the characters, one by one, have to explain to one another what’s actually going on.
The Deuce Director On How Men Often Direct Sex Scenes Differently Than Women
June 2024L-R: Method Man and Maggie Gyllenhaal. In case you’re still wondering if David Simon’s new HBO show, The Deuce, co-created with George Pelecanos, is any good: Yes, it is.
The Gimp Unleashed: Pulp Fictions Creepy Bondage Slave Tells All
June 2024“Hello. This is the Gimp. I hear you’ve been looking for me?” In one of the strangest moments in Pulp Fiction, the two pawnshop rapists who have kidnapped boxer Butch Coolidge (played by Bruce Willis) and crime-lord Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) task a leather-clad bondage slave — “well, bring out the Gimp …” — with watching over Butch as they set about to violate Marsellus in a separate area of their basement dungeon that is also referred to, cryptically, as “Russell’s old room.
The Great American Baking Show Is Having a Star-Studded Holiday
June 2024Finally, America gets what it deserves: vindication for GBBO’s Mexican week. The Roku Channel is presenting The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday.
The Grinch Handles Dr. Seusss Classic With Care
June 2024Movies and books love to tell us that mean, terrible characters can be changed and redeemed and made nice again, but that’s not always the case in real life, is it?
The Name on Everybodys Lips Is Jinkxie
June 2024The Drag Race champ says she’s “always aspired to be washed-up.” In Chicago, she’s definitely the star. Jinkx Monsoon is ready to pop her Broadway cherry.
The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Strip N Slide
June 2024The Real Housewives of Orange County Backyard Bikini Clash Season 17 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Backyard Bikini Clash Season 17 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In season nine, we watched Vicki Gunvalson’s daughter Briana move away to Oklahoma and saw Vicki deride the state at every turn.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake CitySeason-Finale Recap: Welcome to My Food Court!
June 2024The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Why Can’t We Be Friends Season 2 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Why Can’t We Be Friends Season 2 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Did this episode need to exist?
The Roast: A History
June 2024The cancellation of Comedy Central’s Roast of Kid Rock has already led one writer to bemoan the odiously unclassy state of today’s roasts.
The Walking DeadRecap: Eat the Rich
June 2024The Walking Dead New Haunts Season 11 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead New Haunts Season 11 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If you felt a bit of whiplash with this episode, perhaps that’s because we’ve jumped backward, which is still forward, and then slowed things way down.
The White Lotus Recap: Hawaiian K-Hole
June 2024The White Lotus A New Day Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The White Lotus A New Day Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When The White Lotus started filming at Maui’s shut-down Four Seasons in the fall of 2020, the series was capturing a tension between visitors and locals that had evaporated when the pandemic hit.
The Witchers Geralt Is a Hero for the Gig Economy
June 2024Geralt may be ageless, and you can blame mutation for the white hair, but those premature grays wouldn’t surprise anybody who sees the stress of his day-to-day-life.
Theater Review: At Encores!, a Brief Return to The Wild Party
June 2024Are you Team Lippa or Team LaChiusa? For theater types, the dueling musicals of The Wild Party — one by Andrew Lippa, one by Michael John LaChiusa, both somehow given their premieres in the spring of 2000 — provide an opportunity for personal branding and group identification that others may get from, say, The Hunger Games.
This Was The Fast & the Furious But One of the Cars Is a Bear
June 2024Cocaine Bear director Elizabeth Banks breaks down the “scientific precision” of that mostly-improvised ambulance chase. This piece was first published in March.
Tokyo Vice Recap: Choose the Right
June 2024Tokyo Vice Week 2 (Episodes 4-5) Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Tokyo Vice Week 2 (Episodes 4-5) Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Damn, welcome to episodes four and five of Tokyo Vice, where everything heats up.
Try As They Might, the Golden Globes Will Never Top Elizabeth Taylors Gladiator!!! Moment
June 2024The Gold Rush Brought to you by The Gold Rush Brought to you by The most unhinged envelope-opening ever is exactly why we love the Golden Globes.
Two New Magic Mike Pictures Exist, Are Important
June 2024Dark Shadows Entertainment Weekly premiered two new images from the Steven Soderbergh male stripper epic, and you don’t just get a look at Matthew Bomer, you get Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer bare-chested and wearing stripper bow-ties.
Two Nickelodeon Alumni Visit the House of Mouse
June 2024A Cat and a sponge walk into Toon Town … Cat Valentine and Spongebob Squarepants had a cute date at the Nickelodeon Hotel.
Vanderpump Rules Recap: Bottle Service
June 2024Vanderpump Rules SUR Going South Season 6 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 1 star * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules SUR Going South Season 6 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 1 star * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There is a lot of strange and questionable behavior on Vanderpump Rules, a Russian plot to poison the minds of people with too many vowels in their first names, but nothing is as strange or as questionable as what we learned in this episode.
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Visions of the Collapse
June 2024We used to be a country. A proper country. Five Nights at Freddy’s. The new horror movie Five Nights at Freddy’s, based on the ultrapopular video-game series, takes place largely inside an abandoned children’s pizza parlor with singing animatronic animals, modeled after the real-life Chuck E.
Wall Street Journal Critic Mixes Up Dev Patel and Kal Penn in Lion Review
June 2024If you head out to the movie theaters this weekend to see Dev Patel and his beautiful hair in Lion, please remember that you’re indeed seeing Patel on the big screen and not, as an unfortunate error in the Wall Street Journal may indicate, another actor of Indian descent.
Weve Drunk This Blood Before
June 2024Two vampire remakes are currently competing for TV audiences’ attention. Surprisingly, they both have teeth. There are two remakes of vampire classics currently competing for the public’s attention: Interview With the Vampire, underway on AMC, and Let the Right One In, which debuted Sunday night on Showtime.
What Sorry for Your Loss Understands About Mourning a Loved One
June 2024Elizabeth Olsen and Mamoudou Athie in Sorry for Your Loss. It takes a while to emotionally reckon with each episode of Sorry for Your Loss, playwright Kit Steinkellner’s Facebook Watch series about a family dealing with an unexpected death — the last two installments especially.
What the Debate Around Black American and British Actors Gets Wrong
June 2024In the wake of its February release, writer-director Jordan Peele’s debut film, Get Out, has done what few others in recent memory have — it’s a genre film that became a surprising box office success and cultural lightening rod, while centering on an exploration of racism and black identity.
Whats New on Netflix: September 2016
June 2024Kaboom! At the beginning of (and during) every month, Netflix adds new movies and TV shows to its library.
Where Do the Songs From Kanyes Leaked Album Rank Among the Top 30 Things Hes Done This Fall?
June 2024This is a public service announcement: after months of anticipation, consternation, and breathless internet reportage, Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is actually here.
Why One Days Twist Ending Suffers From The Killing Disease
June 2024One Day, the romance starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, based on the best-selling novel by David Nichols, opened this past weekend.
Yes, That Is The Scrubs Poison Dance In Fortnite, and No, Donald Faison Is Not Getting Royalti
June 2024Donald Faison. For the first time since the show wrapped in 2010, the cast of Scrubs came together for a reunion at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles.
You Belong to Me
June 2024It’s a Fanmade World From One Direction to Soderbergh: The Fan Culture Revolution. Laura Miller unpacks the tense tug-of-war between artists and their creations’ biggest admirers; your fanfiction reading list; Steven Soderbergh said he was done making movies.
You Can Finally Read Julian Casablancas and Dev Hyness Uncensored Conversation on Racism
June 2024This is a must-read. Earlier this week, Oyster published a lengthy interview between Strokes front man Julian Casablancas and Dev Hynes.
@DALIAMALEK on Online Bravado and Using Twitter in Egypt
June 2024Dalia Malek is a comedian, legal advocate, international human rights, and refugee law expert/PhD. She is from California and used to live in Egypt and England.
5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month
June 2024People will occasionally tell me they think listening to an audiobook is “cheating.” Cheating on what? Physical books? One of the great things about reading is you can’t do anything else while you’re reading.
9 Influences on Rebecca Blacks Reinvention, From Madonna to the Friday Hate
June 2024She’s still giving us charming saccharine-laced pop, but she’s not the teen who sang about the best day of the week.
9 Notorious Prince Philip Stories
June 2024As Netflix’s The Crown segues into the 1960s in its second season, one of the most striking differences from season one is the treatment of Prince Philip.
A Crash Course in the History of Disney Animation Through Disney+
June 2024Aside from its more dubious accomplishments, 2020 marked the 80th anniversary of two of the greatest animated films of all time: Pinocchio and Fantasia, both of which represented creative highs for the once-humble animation studio that turned into an intellectual-property-gobbling behemoth.
A Guide to Thirsting on Marwan Kenzari, the New Hot Jafar
June 2024If Disney’s animated Jafar gave you complicated feelings about men with eyeliner and elegant headwear, then the new live-action Aladdin is going to take you to a whole new cave of wonders.
A Posthumous Final SOPHIE Album Is Coming
June 2024Sophie. SOPHIE’s career ended abruptly when the visionary producer died in January 2021 at just 34. She had debuted new music months before and had collaborations with Jlin and Basside slated to come out.
Amsterdam Should Feel Intoxicating, But Its Exhausting
June 2024Whenever David O. Russell’s film is operating on an edge of uncertainty, it works. But the freewheeling freewheeling-ness grates.
And Just Like That Is Sexless in the City
June 2024This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
And Just Like That TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024emergency discussion Aug. 24, 2023 And Just Like That … Can’t Let Go and Neither Can WeNo matter how hard this season tried to push us away with unhinged coat choices and olive-slurping, we kept smashing that play button.
Are They Really Just Gonna Call It Max?
June 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. HBO may free herself from the name Max. When we offhandedly say, “Please, no more plus’d-up streaming services,” I have to admit this isn’t what we expected as an alternative.
Are You There God? Its Margarets, Ranked
June 2024Puberty, periods, and preteen angst: not exactly Hollywood’s favorite subjects, yet all three are out in full force in Are You There God?
Beef Season-Finale Recap: Youll Be Given Love
June 2024Beef The Great Fabricator / Figures of Light Season 1 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Beef The Great Fabricator / Figures of Light Season 1 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Have you noticed that on Beef no one unexpectedly dies?
Big Freedia on Slaying Beyoncs Formation and Being Surprised by Its Release
June 2024Beyoncé may lead the formation in her latest world-stopping event, the surprise release of “Formation” one day before she performed it at the Super Bowl, but she isn’t the only southern queen whose voice you’ll hear on the song.
Big on BookTok: What Happens When an Unexpected Audience Embraces Your Work
June 2024TikTok is cacophonous. Creators on the platform chime in on sea shanties, protest pink sauce, and make flowcharts of viral lesbian breakups; it’s noisy and frenetic, fueled by earworms and chaotic visuals.
Breaking Down the She-Hulk Finales Most Meta Easter Eggs
June 2024Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law sure was something. Throughout the Disney+ series’ run, Tatiana Maslany’s eponymous lawyer smashed cases, heads, and even Charlie Cox’s Daredevil.
Chin Dildo Starring H. Jon Benjamin, Of Course
June 2024Guys, this is really powerful. I thought it was going to be just a bit but it’s obviously a metaphor for… umm… how a lot of people stuck their chins out during the housing crisis or how people are really taking it on the chin from the economy or how people like to fuck others with their chins.
Christopher Nolans Inception Poster Goes Down a Familiar Street
June 2024Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio–starring Inception poses something of a marketing challenge in that it does not feature Batman and nobody understands what the hell it’s about (it still looks awesome, though).
Cinematrix No. 3: February 28, 2024
June 2024Cinematrix A new Cinematrix drops every morning. Play today’s Cinematrix here. In honor of our 100th grid, we’ve decided to republish our five most popular grids to date.
Coffy - Vulture
June 2024Coffy - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: chapters Mar. 4, 2024 She Had Razors Hidden in Her HairOn the glory of blaxploitation icon Pam Grier’s two greatest onscreen catfights.
Color Palettes - Vulture
June 2024wes anderson June 14, 2012 Check Out a Chart Illustrating the Wes Anderson Film Color PaletteMoonrise Kingdom: surprisingly dark! By Eliot Glazer
D Nice - Vulture
June 2024club quarantine Mar. 22, 2020 DJ D-Nice Is Throwing a Quarantine Party on Instagram and Everyone’s InvitedSince you can’t go to the club, he’s bringing the club to you.
Diana Gabaldon on Why Outlander Isnt Really a Romance and Writing Her First Episode
June 2024Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Outlander. Outlander, the television series, is based on a series of books by Diana Gabaldon (season two is adapted from Dragonfly in Amber).
Diddy Apparently Filmed Himself Having Sex With Cassie and Called It a Cologne Ad
June 2024Want to feel like a real sexy manly man? Then dash on a few droplets of Diddy’s new cologne 3AM, and you, too, can have sex with Cassie, aka Sophie Donovan from Step Up 2: The Streets, in various positions.
Drake Is Speaking Spanish Again in Bad Bunnys New Music Video
June 2024Bad Bunny first teased a collaboration with Drake all the way back in January when he posted a video of the two on Instagram, in which Drake said, “I’m on the way.
Ed Sheeran to Give Us a Maths Lesson With the + - = x Tour
June 2024Ed Sheeran is continuing his bad habit of naming things after math (sorry, maths) symbols. The pop star announced his North American + - = ÷ x tour, which you’re supposed to pronounce “the Mathematics Tour,” as a press release has to emphasize multiple times.
Eddie Murphy Live
June 2024The razor-edged king of late-night comedy. Photo: New York Magazine Photo: New York Magazine Editor’s note: This review originally appeared in the December 10, 1984, issue of New York.
Elizabeth Olsen on Nudity, Photo Shoots, and Emulating Emma Stone
June 2024Most profiles of Elizabeth Olsen can’t help but mention her famous twin sisters, but there’s a lot more to this up-and-comer than her family name.
Emily in Pariss Biggest Faux Pas Is Emily Herself
June 2024Rare kudos to Emily for resisting the temptation to add a beret to her ensemble here. The mythological quality around Paris is strong.
Every Billy Crystal Oscars Song Parody, Ranked
June 2024The Gold Rush Everything you need to know about this year’s awards season race. The Gold Rush Everything you need to know about this year’s awards season race.
Every Spike Lee Film, Ranked
June 2024This article originally ran in August 2012 and has been updated to include the director’s most recent films. It is hard to fathom that Spike Lee is 63 years old.
Every WrestleMania Main Event, Ranked
June 2024WWE’s “grandest stage of them all” is wrestling at its most sublime — or its most exhausting. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty This article was originally published on April 3, 2024.
Everything Carrie Ever Wondered About on Sex and the City
June 2024Sex and the City is typically remembered for its racy content and fashion significance. But the show was never really about those things.
Explaining Batmans Odd Dream in Batman v Superman
June 2024Beautiful dreamer. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is nothing if not ominous. The movie is filled — perhaps to a fault — with references to events and characters that audiences are presumably going to see in future installments of the so-called DC Extended Universe (or DCEU).
Finding Raffi
June 2024Iam ashamed to admit this, but the main thing I wondered after meeting Raffi — the beloved children’s entertainer, the one-man Beatles of my childhood and many childhoods — was how often, if ever, he had sex with his grown-up fans.
Fineshrine Video: Purity Rings Shady Adonis Cult
June 2024Here is what we can be sure of, after three viewings of the video for “Fineshrine,” off Purity Ring’s upcoming debut (Shrines, out July 24): Both humans in this video have a lot of cuts and bruises, as if they are taking those sternum-cutting lyrics pretty seriously.
French Actress Corinne Masiero Dons Donkey Costume, Strips Nude In Csar Awards Protest
June 2024On Friday, France’s César Awards returned to Paris’s L’Olympia stage to honor this year’s films and filmmakers. The ceremony has been a site of controversy before, and this year’s awards were no different, but while several recipients spoke out in favor of reopening theaters, only one performer came prepared for a protest with a costume change.
George Clooneys The Monuments Men Pushed Back
June 2024Looks like we won’t be hearing that Michelangelo joke until January at the earliest, as George Clooney’s WWII fine art action film The Monuments Men has been moved back from its original December 18 release date.
Good Omens TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024This 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.
Grimes Renames Her Second Child ?
June 2024Grimes Grimes and the father of her children, Twitter tyrant Elon Musk, renamed their second daughter after a question mark (which is also the status of their relationship).
Here Are the Lyrics to 30 Rocks Rural Juror Song
June 2024The 30 Rock series finale closed out with Jenna singing a Rural Juror song, a mostly slurred ballad that highlighted the series’ love of absurd wordplay and the character’s love of the spotlight.
Here Are the Rihanna and Chris Brown Collaborations
June 2024Well, here we go. As much speculated, Chris Brown is indeed featured on the new expanded version of Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake” (Brown’s first line: “Girl I wanna fuck you right now.
Heres the Exclusively Gay Moment in Beauty and the Beast
June 2024No one strings you along like Gaston! Mild spoilers follow for 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, which has a nearly identical plot to 1991’s Beauty and the Beast.
Hogwarts Legacy Is J.K. Rowlings Legacy, Summed Up in a Feverishly Awaited Dud of a Game
June 2024“Does it get any more cozy than Hogsmeade?” The first time you hear this refrain in Hogwarts Legacy, the new blockbuster open-world video game based on the Harry Potter franchise, you may find yourself agreeing with your character, who has just said it.
How (Almost) Every Best Picture Nominee Can End Up With a Trophy
June 2024This article originally appeared in Gold Rush, a subscriber-only newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race. Sign up here. The members of the modern Academy love a Best Picture nominee.
How Broad City Turned Bevers Into a Shirtless Hunk
June 2024The old Bevers had a bangin’ bod. Spoilers ahead for the Broad City season-four premiere. The premiere of Broad City’s fourth season shows the genesis of Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana’s (Ilana Glazer) friendship way back in 2011.
How Everything Everywhere All at Once Won Best Picture
June 2024TFW you win Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress. Somewhere in the middle of the Best Original Song performance of “This Is a Life” — I think it was the moment David Byrne unveiled his hot-dog fingers while Best Supporting Actress nominee Stephanie Hsu made bagel shapes with her arms — it struck me: I cannot believe a movie this weird is the Oscar front-runner.
How For All Mankind Soundtracks Decades of Alt History
June 2024FAM music supervisor Christine Greene Roe begins each season with an “initial era playlist” that is hours long — season three’s 1990s era included 139 songs.
How Is Kim Doing After the Waterworks Episode of Better Call Saul?
June 2024Vulture and New York TV critic Jen Chaney previously worked for the Washington Post and has bylines at the New York Times and Vanity Fair.
How to Stream Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and More at Lollapalooza 2023
June 2024There was a time when you had to brave crowds, porta-potties, and Wrigleyville bros to enjoy sets at Lollapalooza.
How Torres and St. Vincent Are Subverting Sexualized Rock-Star Archetypes
June 2024Torres. Six nude women sit by a pool, each with an album cover painted across her back, each facing away from the camera: anonymous, obscured.
Howd You Make That?
June 2024Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough. James Joyce’s crayon edits of Ulysses. Photo: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.
If I Could Turn Back Time Id Save That Cow
June 2024i turn to moo June 25, 2021 Songwriter Diane Warren Saved a Cow?Warren got the cow to an animal sanctuary north of LA.
Iggy Azaleas History of Hip-Hop Controversy: A Timeline [Updated]
June 2024Iggy Azalea. In Iggy Azalea’s short career, the Australian rapper has been no stranger to controversy, particularly of the racial-appropriation sort.
Is a Movie Called The Boogeyman Allowed to Be This Bleak?
June 2024Sophie Thatcher in The Boogeyman. The Boogeyman might be the quietest horror movie I’ve seen in ages. To an unsettling degree.
Its About Time Owl City Explained in Painstaking Detail What the Hell It Means to Get 1,000 Hu
June 2024This guy. What must it be like to be Owl City, a dude best known for a song containing several nonsensical lyrics about fireflies hugging him?
Its Always the Perfect Time to Watch Living Single
June 2024Living Single Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians?
Its Time to Join Charlis Brat Pack
June 2024Hot. Charli XCX has fully unleashed her Brat pack. She gave a taste of her internet hot girl crew with the music video for “360,” reminding us we could be “so Julia.
J. Cole Is Really Sorry About His Kendrick Lamar Diss
June 2024Goofy. J. Cole fired back at Kendrick Lamar’s diss with “7 Minute Drill” on his surprise mixtape Might Delete Later.
Jane Goodall on Her New Doc and Her Love Story in Africa
June 2024At a time when hurricanes are leveling entire islands and wildfires are ripping through California, it seems important to be reminded of our connection to nature.
Joel Kim Booster and Patti Harrison to Host a New Digital Series at Comedy Central
June 2024Joel Kim Booster and Patti Harrison. The very funny and delightful Joel Kim Booster and Patti Harrison are teaming up to host a new digital series in the works at Comedy Central.
Kacey Musgraves Covered Como La Flor in Houston Because Anything for Selena
June 2024Como se dice yee haw?! Capping off a month in which it would seem impossible for Kacey Musgraves to capture our hearts any further, following her Grammy win for Album of the Year, her hilarious embrace of the memes from that show, and then her very pink Oscars cameo, we now direct your attention to her latest delight.
Kanye on SNL: Scowls, Screaming, The Waterboy
June 2024The weekend of Kanye continues: After debuting “New Slaves” on various walls across the world Friday night, ‘Ye hit Saturday Night Live to perform the first half of that song and another called “Black Skinhead.
Kathryn Hahn on Afternoon Delight, Drunk Book Clubs, and Her Onscreen Stripper Lust
June 2024Kathryn Hahn. Films about female midlife crises invariably use the same device: Older Woman Has Affair With Younger Man. Afternoon Delight invents a slightly different rubric: Older Woman Adopts Younger Stripper.
Killer Mike Said What He Said
June 2024Is the Southern rap legend a truth teller or a capitalist in activist’s clothes? Photo: Brinson+Banks Killer Mike is a fascinating character, a rapper whose nonlinear career path took him from incredible work with OutKast to the mixtape grind and then into arenas and music festivals alongside El-P, his partner in Run the Jewels.
Kindred Recap: Role Playing
June 2024Kindred Furniture Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kindred Furniture Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “They don’t have to understand.
Kindred Recap: Time Keeps on Slipping
June 2024Kindred Sabina Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kindred Sabina Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kindred uses the genre of science fiction to manipulate reality and close the emotional gap between the descendants of slavery and those who experienced it.
La La Land Salutes, and Updates, the Hollywood Musical
June 2024Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land. In his review of Damien Chazelle’s debut feature, the audacious microbudget 2010 musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, the critic J.
Larry David, Wanda Sykes, Bill Burr, and More to Play New York Comedy Fest 2013
June 2024The New York Comedy Festival is turning 10 this year, and they’re drawing some pretty big names this time around. The organizers behind the fest, which is produced in association with Comedy Central, announced the 2013 lineup yesterday.
Larry Wilmore Knows No Bounds
June 2024He’s kept the golden age of Black TV comedy alive for three decades. He’ll make any network eat its words.
Les Miserables - Vulture
June 2024oscars 2013 Jan. 20, 2013 Edelstein: Why I Hate the OscarsThere are few sadder things in the entertainment world than watching artists go into contortions over the value of awards.
Lets Code-Break the And Just Like That Poster
June 2024Oh, there is nothing like New York in the spring summer! It’s a time of year that just makes you want to get indoors, in front of your AC unit, to watch your favorite Max Original, And Just Like That.
Lets Have a Comedian Perform in Next Years Super Bowl Halftime Show
June 2024The NFL season is over. The Chiefs have been crowned, again. The 49ers are looking back at what went wrong, again.
Movie Review: Dark Shadows Is a Camp Travesty
June 2024How apt that each episode of the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows began the moment One Life to Live ended, for this was a show in which the characters lived many lives in many historical eras (plus parallel time), a show that would go on to have more lives of its own — the latest a camp travesty by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins.
Neil Patrick Harris on Playing The Matrix Resurrections Tech Bro Analyst
June 2024This post contains spoilers for The Matrix Resurrections. Neil Patrick Harris’s character in The Matrix Resurrections isn’t what he appears to be.
Netflix Is a Joke Fest Is Taking Another Trip to L.A.
June 2024Netflix’s live-comedy era continues. During the pre-show for Chris Rock’s live Netflix special Selective Outrage, Ronny Chieng announced that the streamer is bringing its comedy festival back next summer.
New Details on Underground Hollywood Poker Ring Implicate a Major Studio Boss and Yankees Player
June 2024Tobey “Wunderkind” Maguire, Matt Damon. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) It’s been over a year now since the FBI uncovered a multi-million-dollar Texas Hold’em celebrity poker ring run out of Los Angeles’s fanciest hotels and catering to major Hollywood talent: Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Leonardo DiCaprio, among others.
Nirvana - Vulture
June 2024vulture lists June 17, 2019 Every Nirvana Song, RankedThirty years after the band’s debut album, we look back at their entire catalogue.
Okay, Lets Talk About Behind Her Eyes Double Twist Ending
June 2024Be careful, Eve Hewson, there’s a twist coming. This piece completely spoils the ending of the Netflix series Behind Her Eyes.
Old-School Game Shows and Live Sitcoms: Inside ABCs Retro Renaissance
June 2024Elizabeth Banks hosting Press Your Luck. The ’70s (and ’80s) have been super to ABC the past few weeks. Last month, Live in Front of a Studio Audience — the Jimmy Kimmel–produced special featuring live re-creations of All in the Family and The Jeffersons — was a surprise smash, reaching more than 20 million viewers (including reruns and delayed viewing).
Outlanders Caitriona Balfe on That Swoon-Worthy Bathtub Scene
June 2024Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan in Outlander. Back in September, when Caitriona Balfe did a Twitter Q&A to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the day Starz announced that she’d been cast as Outlander’s Claire Fraser, a fan asked her to pick her favorite scene she’d filmed for the show’s fourth season.
Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon Go Ape for Printouts of NFTs
June 2024It was all going so well. Paris Hilton joined The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon to talk about her wedding.
Paul McCartney Wrote a 900-Page Memoir About His Lyrics
June 2024Okay, this is a rare instance where a book should actually be longer than its current page count.
Paul Mescal Is Our Disappointment Heartthrob
June 2024Not everything Paul Mescal has been in over the course of his short career has been a romance, but they’re all love stories of one sort or another — when not between lovers, then between a mother and her wayward son or a daughter and her elusive father.
Reading Lists from a 31-Year Old Matthew Barney, a 44-Year-Old Cindy Sherman, and Others
June 2024The following recommended reading lists have been excerpted from An Ideal Syllabus: Artists, Critics, and Curators Choose the Books We Need to Read, a slender little book published in 1998 by Frieze and edited by our own Jerry Saltz.
Roswell, New Mexico Recap: Pod People
June 2024Roswell, New Mexico Barely Breathing Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Roswell, New Mexico Barely Breathing Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hello and welcome to this week’s recap of my favorite show, which is named Liz & Michael: Science Bros.
Ryan Stiles on Why Long Form Improv Doesnt Work on TV
June 2024Short form improv has been on TV for a while now, first on the British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyways and now on Drew Carey’s Improv-a-Ganza.
Sanditon Recap: Pineapple Party
June 2024Sanditon Episode 2 Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sanditon Episode 2 Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The first night of Sanditon brought us two episodes, so after the premiere’s rollercoaster of exposition and scandalous sea-bathing, let’s dive right into the second.
Taylor Swift Calls Out Netflix, Ginny & Georgia for Taylor Swift Joke
June 2024Continuing to be “truly, so much,” Netflix’s new mother-daughter drama Ginny & Georgia has caught criticism for including a joke about Taylor Swift.
That Whole Gerri-Roman Thing on Succession Has Escalated Quickly
June 2024Us watching the bathroom scene. Spoilers below for Succession season two. Fellow Gerri-Roman shippers (Gerri-Romanderers?), we have much to discuss.
The 9 Best Plays (and 1 Best Musical) of 2014
June 2024This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics’ year-end lists. 1. Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
The AfterpartyRecap: Dont Look Behind You
June 2024The Afterparty Chelsea Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Afterparty Chelsea Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode features the Hillmount alum most affected by the St.
The Circles Creator Guides Us Through the Shows Beautiful Web of Lies
June 2024Even the “chips” on The Circle are a lie! Netflix’s The Circle is bewildering viewers everywhere. Part reality show, part game show, part dating show, the series follows contestants living alone in apartments and competing against each other solely over a social-media platform called the Circle in order to win $100,000.
The Crying Game
June 2024How do actors learn to sob on cue? And can I? Oprah’s acting coach, a soap star, a clown-class graduate, and others explain.
The Goldfinch: When Adaptation Is Way Too Reverent
June 2024The movie is too artful to deserve outright rejection, but too arty to keep you from saying, “What did I just see?
The Great British Baking Show Recap: October Surprise
June 2024The Great British Baking Show Halloween Week Season 13 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Halloween Week Season 13 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode might be a little bit of a pander to GBBO/GBBS’s burgeoning American audience, because Halloween isn’t nearly as big of a thing in the U.
The Idea of You Author on the Movies New Ending
June 2024Spoilers for The Idea of You movie and book. As The Kids in the Hall once said, with American movies “It’s always the happy ending.
The Many, Many Musical-Theater References Behind Schmigadoon!s Songs
June 2024The musical numbers in Schmigadoon! gleefully reference everything from Oklahoma! to Guys and Dolls and The Music Man.
The Morning Show Did a Surprise Jennifer AnistonBilly Crudup Sweeney Todd Duet
June 2024Maybe, just maybe, Apple TV+ has justified its existence by getting Jennifer Aniston to sing Sweeney Todd. On this week’s episode of The Morning Show, Aniston’s character, the embattled morning news host Alex Levy, hosts a theater fundraiser with super-fancy karaoke, at which Billy Crudup’s scummy network executive, Cory Ellison, makes an appearance and ropes Alex into a duet of “Not While I’m Around” from Sweeney Todd.
The Morning Show Is Silly, Melodramatic, and Undeniably Captivating
June 2024The idea of communicating what it feels like to watch the second season of the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show is absurd on its face.
The New Haunted Mansion Is Full of the Ghosts of Imagineers
June 2024Spoilers ahead for Haunted Mansion, in theaters now. Disney’s newly released second attempt at a Haunted Mansion movie is definitely more representative of the theme-park ride it’s based on than the 2003 film featuring Eddie Murphy.
The OA Part II Is a Glorious, Ridiculous Mind-bender
June 2024Kingsley Ben-Adir and Brit Marling in The OA Part II. Remember The OA, that Netflix spiritual thriller that polarized audiences when it debuted back in December of 2016?
The Old Man Series-Premiere Recap: On the Run
June 2024The Old Man I Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Old Man I Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Hello and welcome to my fellow The Old Man viewers.
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: The Suspect Husband
June 2024The Real Housewives of Potomac Shade in a Bubble Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Shade in a Bubble Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I wish I had a pithy little intro paragraph that deftly connected the themes of this episode to something else.
The Umbrella Academy Recap: And Behind Door No. 1
June 2024The Umbrella Academy Kugelblitz Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Umbrella Academy Kugelblitz Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Just one episode after I suggested that The Umbrella Academy hadn’t stirred up enough intrafamily drama this season, the show returned to what it does best: stirring up intrafamily drama.
The Umbrella Academys Biggest Changes From Comics To Television
June 2024Fans of superheroes, time travel, dysfunctional families, doomsday scenarios, and anything My Chemical Romance-adjacent should take note of The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book series created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.
The Wheel of TimeRecap: A Day in the Life
June 2024The Wheel of Time The Flame of Tar Valon Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Wheel of Time The Flame of Tar Valon Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Moiraine, drinking tea.
The Whitsunday Puzzle
June 2024New 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.
The Wild Things Ride the Boston Subway
June 2024It’s okay to wear the most unoriginal costume of the year if you actually go as all-out as the movie upon which it was based.
The Wiz Rolls Back Into Town
June 2024If you’re at all familiar with The Wiz, elements of Charlie Smalls’s score hit with Pavlovian precision. There’s the groove of “Ease on Down the Road,” the seductive slickness of “Slide Some Oil to Me,” and of course that triumphal, transporting lilt that kicks off “Home.
Theater Review: Broadways Big Fish
June 2024Big Fish, at the Neil Simon Theatre. Big Fish, the new musical from composer Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) and director Susan Stroman (The Producers), is a heartbreaker, though perhaps not the kind its creators were hoping for.
Timothe Chalamets Eternal Online Boyhood
June 2024There’s Something About Timothée Six years ago, he became the most in-demand young actor in Hollywood. What makes him so irresistible?
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June 2024vulture 10x10 Sept. 28, 2023 The Gerry Puzzle7-Down, Six Letters: “Nature’s pocket,” per an episode of Broad City. By Malaika Handa ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGemqrm1wdGeZGpoqGZ9cIvSrZirrG1qfQ%3D%3D
We Give Our Vote to Carolyn
June 2024She’s Felicia. This season of Survivor, its 44th, did not open on sweeping oceanfront vistas of Fiji. Nor did it begin with the classic imagery of flames over the show’s logo or footage of the cast arriving on the island by boat.
Whats the Best Way to Watch Randomized Heist Series Kaleidoscope?
June 2024If you follow the rules and save “White” for last, there are 5,040 possible ways to watch Kaleidoscope. Rule-breakers who throw the finale into the mix have a mind-boggling 40,320 ways to watch.
Why Cold As Ice Is the Perfect Song for That Wendys Super Bowl Commercial
June 2024You don’t want these patties. Let’s be honest — some of us are way more excited for the Super Bowl commercials than the game itself.
Will Smith Is Resurrecting Himself for I Am Legend 2
June 2024Will Smith using his fingers to demonstrate which I Am Legend film he’s currently developing. While speaking at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, Will Smith shared an update on the development of I Am Legend 2, which is set to star himself and Michael B.
Great Moments in Dystopian Knitwear
June 2024slideshow July 16, 2014 3:00 pm By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 13 Photos Snowpiercer has a lot going for it.
13 Great Film Podcasts, According to a Film Critic
June 2024Nicholas Quah. Podcast Critic, Vulture. Writes the 1.5x Speed newsletter. Creator, Hot Pod. Contributor, Fresh Air. Member, Peabody Awards Board of Jurors.
16 Noteworthy Documentaries Celebrating LGBTQ+ Women
June 2024Clockwise from top left: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement, Tig, Rebel Dykes, and The Death and Life of Marsha P.
A Greys Anatomy Catch-up Guide, No Matter How Far Behind You Are
June 2024Ever wondered if the actors who play your favorite doctors on TV could actually save your life? You can find out for yourself at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles when Grey’s Anatomy cast members Camilla Luddington, Jake Borelli, Alexis Floyd, Adelaide Kane, Midori Francis, and Niko Terho compete in our medical-trivia competition on November 13 — tickets are on sale now!
A Guide to the Most Delightful and Sinister Dollhouses in Pop Culture
June 2024Hereditary Dollhouses — those handy miniature metaphors for either childhood wonder or the corruption of innocence — are having a big summer.
A Short History of Val Kilmers Obsession With Mark Twain
June 2024Val Kilmer as Mark Twain in Cinema Twain. Reading Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s recent New York Times profile of Val Kilmer, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Batman and Tombstone actor’s twin obsessions are Christian Science and Mark Twain.
A Very Sinful Recap of Lucifer Season 5
June 2024Since Lucifer’s move to Netflix in season four, the lust factor has been upped. In the first half of Lucifer’s fifth season, sins abound.
A$AP Mob Pays Tribute to the Life of A$AP Yams
June 2024Steven Rodriguez, known better as A$AP Yams, has died at the age of 26, according to social-media posts by fellow A$AP Mob members.
An Intermediates Guide to Conner OMalley
June 2024Conner O’Malley. When we last checked on Conner O’Malley, it was mid-2018. We were a year and a half into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the kinds of characters O’Malley portrayed in his cult online videos — miserable American men bursting with unrestrained rage fueled in equal parts by conspiracy theories, 3 p.
An Ode to A Knights Tale and Its Perfect David Bowie Dance Scene
June 2024Once upon a time in a treacherous land called LAX, two men met at the flying-saucer-shaped restaurant that used to hover over the tarmac.
Anders Holm on Pretend-Dating Mindy Kaling, Godlessness, and Nudity
June 2024Hallelujah! Pastor Casey and Mindy are still going strong as The Mindy Project heads into its final episodes of the season.
Artist George Condo Explains His Five Covers for Kanye Wests Twisted Fantasy
June 2024Last spring George Condo received a phone call from Hawaii. It was Kanye West, asking if the painter was interested in collaborating on art for his upcoming album.
Ask a Juilliard Professor: How Real Is Whiplash?
June 2024Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash stormed its way into theaters last weekend with a militaristic take on jazz musicians, their mentors, collaborators, and ambitions.
Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan on Life After Beth and the Rise of Chris Pratt
June 2024Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza. Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan are possessed of two of the most withering deadpan stares in the business, so they’re perfectly matched in the new film Life After Beth, though the twist is that they both get to play sweet in it.
Bad Bunnys Ex-Baby Is Suing Him Over Bad Bunny, Baby
June 2024Bad Bunny, baby. Bad Bunny’s next project could be Un Álbum Sin Ti. The reggaeton star’s ex-girlfriend is suing over his use of a now-iconic recording of her saying “Bad Bunny, baby” on songs, records, promotions, concerts, TV, radio, social media, and music platforms, claiming it was done without her consent.
Belle And Sebastian - Vulture
June 2024the industry Aug. 12, 2010 Industry Roundup: Mustafa, AMCPlus: Belle and Sebastian name their upcoming record. By Josh Duboff
Ben Stillers Sweetest Story About His Dad Involves a Bad LSD Trip
June 2024If you read The New Yorker’s interview with Ben Stiller about his father, the late Jerry Stiller, but wanted more Jerry memories, this clip from Ben’s chat with Jimmy Fallon last night should do the trick.
Benny Safdie Is Really Proud of How His Eyebrows Shined in Oppenheimer
June 2024“Every once in a while I have a straggler that I’ll just pluck out, ’cause it looks a little too crazy.
Billions Recap: Acts of Aggression
June 2024Billions Fight Night Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Fight Night Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When I said I was down for a brawl between Mafee and Dollar Bill in my previous recap, the last thing I expected was for Billions to actually go through with it.
Billions Recap: Bittersweet Symphony
June 2024Billions Hurricane Rosie Season 7 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Hurricane Rosie Season 7 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Hurricane Rosie” is available to stream now via Paramount+ with Showtime.
Blue Ivy Carter Narrates Hair Love Audiobook, Stays Booked
June 2024Future Grammy winner Blue Ivy Carter. Blue Ivy Carter is begging you to pick up a book. The illustrious 8-year-old mogul has scored yet another bag and added yet another legacy to her name.
Bobs Burgers Recap: Gene Jacket
June 2024Bob’s Burgers Adventures in Chinchilla-Sitting Season 5 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bob’s Burgers Adventures in Chinchilla-Sitting Season 5 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Story
Brass Eye - Vulture
June 2024british comedy July 17, 2018 Meet Brass Eye, the Original Who Is America?A look back at Chris Morris’s prescient British comedy series.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: Ms. Pac-Mans Nipple
June 2024Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween II Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween II Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’ve already come out strongly in favor of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s all-cast-antics episodes, particularly when it comes to reprising one of my favorites, last year’s Halloween team-up to steal Holt’s Medal of Valor.
Cheryl Strayed Was $85,000 in Debt When Her Memoir Wild Got Published
June 2024Cheryl Strayed. Dollar figures can be misleading. That was the disheartening lesson learned by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild, in 2003 with her debut novel, Torch.
Chris Brown Accused of Rape in a $20 Million Lawsuit
June 2024Admitted abuser and accused rapist Chris Brown. Chris Brown is facing a new rape allegation. An unnamed woman filed a $20 million lawsuit against the R&B singer, obtained by Vulture, which alleges he drugged and raped her on a yacht docked at a home owned by Diddy on Star Island in Miami.
Cinemas Bluest Characters, Ranked
June 2024Blue is not a color that occurs in nature very often, except for the Floridian cold springs where blue-flavor Gatorade is harvested and bottled directly from the source, I think.
Comedy - Vulture
June 2024remembrances Mar. 1, 2019 There Will Never Be Another Brody Stevens“I defy you to name another comedian, who when you saw him onstage, whether he was killing or bombing, made you as happy and proud to be a comedian.
Cyber-System Overload: How Online Were You in August?
June 2024Girl dinner is over. It’s time for some girl math. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: anna..paull, Chrissi Poland, kaarinjoy, Kyle Gordon, Misery_xⓋx Were you (a) brave, (b) well behaved, (c) not afraid, or (d) all of the above this month?
Dave Chappelle, Live Goat Do a Surprise Set at Kevin HartChris Rock Show
June 2024Dave Chappelle, who has apparently made a habit out of doing surprise sets for unsuspecting audiences, was the unannounced opener for Kevin Hart and Chris Rock at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
Def Leppards Joe Elliott on Tom Cruises Rock of Ages Performance and Denying He Had a Mullet
June 2024Joe Elliott of Def Leppard. At the start of Def Leppard’s single “Rock of Ages,” front man Joe Elliott intones that it’s “better to burn out than fade away.
Disney+ Lights the Black Flame Candle on a Hocus Pocus Sequel
June 2024Come, little ’90s kids, I’ll take thee away, into a land of enchantment. We’re paraphrasing, but that seems to be the Disney+ business strategy before its launch on November 12, and it’s right out of the Sanderson Sisters’ spell book.
Early Lyrics to Purple Rain and Other Musical Details From Princes New Book
June 2024The Beautiful Ones includes a few new musical details sure to delight any Prince fan. Famously, when Prince died, he left behind a mysterious vault of unreleased music — enough for over 100 albums, as was widely reported at the time.
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June 2024funny business Apr. 25, 2011 Ed Helms Will Host SNLAnd yes, it’s official that Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga will be on the season finale.
Egypts Ancient Comedy History
June 2024Have you heard the one about the bored Pharoah? It’s literally one of the oldest jokes in the book, or the papyrus scroll in this case.
Every 30 Rock Reference in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season Two
June 2024We’ve known since season one of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt that the show shares similarities with 30 Rock. Tina Fey and Robert Carlock are behind both shows, while Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond, composes the music for UKS and 30 Rock.
Fear the Walking Dead Will Be a Huge Hit at Laundromats Everywhere
June 2024Every now and then, I’ll trot out that hacky TV-critic line about how a certain show is perfect to half-watch while you’re folding laundry.
Ghostface Killah Has His Own Brand of Weed Called Wu Goo, Because Its 2016 and This Is America
June 2024Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ghostface Killah is releasing his own brand of concentrated marijuana called Wu Goo, because why the hell not?
Guess Who Wasnt at Lance Basss *NSYNC-o de Mayo Birthday Bash?
June 2024They all said hi, hi, hi to each other. Lance Bass’s virtual birthday party served as an always-welcome (and seemingly always 80 percent) *NSYNC reunion this week, with Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and JC Chasez showing up for their boy in their sombreros and Star Wars sweatshirts.
Halle Berry Is Not Taking Bruno Marss Booty Call
June 2024Halle Berry The new Bruno Mars record, 24K Magic, is finally here, purchasable and streamable at your leisure. It’s a relatively low-key release with few of the usual pop-world frills: There are no major production flourishes nor superstar guest vocalists here.
Hilary Reid Author Archive
June 2024strippers and stripping Aug. 9, 2013 Five Questions Posed to Everyone Who Plays a StripperSee how Jennifer Aniston, Channing Tatum, Natalie Portman, and others answered the same questions about getting in shape, visiting strip clubs, and more.
His Rose Is Timeless
June 2024America’s new favorite hunk is a 72-year-old widower. He may be the best thing ever to happen to The Bachelor franchise.
Hitman: Agent 47 Pretends (Poorly) to Be an Action Movie
June 2024“The history of man is defined by war, and war by the men who fight it.” So begins the voice-over for Hitman: Agent 47, the new film based on the IO Interactive video-game series.
How Girl Meets World Successfully Built on Boy Meets Worlds Legacy
June 2024Remakes, comebacks, and sequels are rarely good, but that doesn’t mean we’ll ever stop making them. Nostalgia (not to mention money) is a powerful force, one that can pull any well-meaning creative bringing back beloved characters for another go.
How That Navarro Cheer Mix You Cant Stop Listening to Is Made
June 2024Netflix’s Cheer centers on the Navarro College Bulldogs. Throughout the Netflix docuseries Cheer, we learn so much about the sport and the athletes dedicating their lives to it.
How to Swap Bodies With Anyone You Want, According to the Movies
June 2024Do you hate your life? Are you constantly wishing you could inhabit someone else’s body? Do you have mystical skulls or ancient talismans just sitting around?
Immaculates Ferocious, Gross-Out Ending, Explained
June 2024It isn’t often that the very last shot of a movie feels like its raison d’être, maybe the entire reason the film was made in the first place.
Incredible Synergy: Matthew Rhyss Perry Mason Wears Same Hat As Perry the Platypus
June 2024Mr. Mason to his colleagues, Agent P to his friends. (We wish.) HBO has debuted the first look of its Perry Mason limited-series reboot starring Matthew Rhys, which finds our pre–Raymond Burr criminal-defense lawyer patrolling around 1931 Los Angeles as he investigates a “child kidnapping gone very, very wrong.
Invincible Offers Superheroes With a Side of More Superheroes
June 2024This is only a fraction of the costumed heroes you will meet in Invincible. Invincible, a new series premiering tomorrow on Amazon Prime Video, is an hour-long animated superhero drama with the violence of The Boys, the storytelling structure of a Netflix drama, the look of the animated ’90s X-Men, and the outlook of … this part I’m still not entirely sure about.
James Francos Homage to Threes Company Draws a Crowd
June 2024Last night at Sundance, James Franco wore many hats (or, to put it perhaps more accurately, he wore many wigs).
Jay-Zs Former Partner Kareem Biggs Burke Nabbed by the Feds
June 2024Kareem “Biggs” Burke, who co-founded Roc-a-Fella Records alongside Jay-Z and Damon Dash, was arrested today in Bergen, New Jersey, as part of a federal drug sweep operation (awesomely named Green Venom) that turned up $1 million in seized profits and 177 pounds of marijuana.
John Oliver Begrudgingly Shares the Exact Birthday As John Cena
June 2024It’s amazing what late-night hosts can discover about their guests when they aren’t retreading Vulture interviews about mascots.
Johnny Depp Fans Are Really Into His Defamation Trial Against Amber Heard
June 2024Fairfax County, Virginia, court officials would not tolerate disorder. Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard was starting the morning of April 11 with jury selection.
Julia Roberts and George Clooney Play Lovers to Exes to Lovers?
June 2024Here’s a step-by-step primer for getting a divorced couple back together: 1. The exes team up to sabotage their daughter’s impulsive wedding to a man she met in Bali.
Julian Casablancas Likes at Least 60 Percent of the New Strokes Album
June 2024The most reluctant comeback in rock-and-roll history rolls on! Ahead of Angles’ (still, somehow, despite all the shit-talking) much-anticipated release, the New York Times profiles the Strokes — and finds them to be just as ambivalent about the album as the rest of the media has.
Justin Long Talks Barbarian Spoilers, Being Breastfed Onscreen, and the Longaissance
June 2024Spooky season is here, and so is the Longaissance. Actor, comedian, director, and ex–mustache connoisseur Justin Long has starred in a number of cult classics — from Dodgeball (2004) to Accepted (2006) to He’s Just Not That Into You (2009).
Ken Jennings Is Jeopardy!s Greatest Player of All Time
June 2024As much as ABC would’ve liked the ratings for a few more days, we’ve found our GOAT — and we’re not talking about the ruminant mammal.
Last Night on Late Night: Adam Sandler Got Tom Cruises Okay to Play Katie Holmess Husban
June 2024Last night on Late Show with David Letterman, Adam Sandler says he made a concession to Tom Cruise, who apparently thought the comedian’s role as Katie Holmes’s husband in Jack and Jill was “bizarre” — “Anything I do with your wife in the movie, you can do with my wife in real life.
Let It Burn: Assassination Nation and the Cinema of the End
June 2024The marketing for Assassination Nation suggests an orgy of empowering ultraviolence: “You asked for it, America,” blare the posters, above an image of four young women in shiny red coats brandishing an assortment of deadly weapons.
Little Women - Vulture
June 2024the gold rush Jan. 13, 2020 The Oscars? Still So White.It’s difficult to see this year’s nominees as a result of anything other than the Academy’s continuing and glaring shortcomings.
Make the Cats Kiss, You Cowards
June 202425 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.
Marilyn Monroe Haunted the Blonde Set Because We Keep Disturbing Her Peace
June 2024Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe still knows no peace. The latest case of disturbing the late bombshell actress is, of course, the upcoming film Blonde starring Knives Out breakout Ana de Armas as Norma Jeane in a fictionalized account of her life based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name.
Meet The Eric Andre Shows Carousel of Oddballs
June 2024Minute-to-minute, so much happens on The Eric Andre Show that the constant barrage of stimuli tends to blur together.
Melisandres Stunning Reveal on Game of Thrones
June 2024She’s got powers. Spoilers ahead for the season-six premiere of Game of Thrones. Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who plays Bran Stark on Game of Thrones, first got a glimpse of what Melisandre really looked like when he encountered actress Carice van Houten on set, just before she shot her scene.
Native Comedy Is Happening Everywhere
June 2024Adrianne Chalepah, Jackie Keliiaa, and Joey Clift. When Joey Clift was growing up, he adored comedy but assumed it was a world in which he’d never be welcomed, because he rarely saw Native American communities like his own represented onscreen.
Netflix Orders Selena Gomezs Teen-Suicide Drama 13 Reasons Why to Series
June 2024Selener. Netflix has ordered the adaptation of Jay Asher’s best-selling YA novel 13 Reasons Why (stylized as TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY because teens) as a 13-episode series, reports The Wrap.
Nona Willis Aronowitz on Writing About Feminism, Her Mother Ellen Willis, and Catcalling
June 2024In the fall of 2007, journalist Nona Willis Aronowitz and photographer Emma Bee Bernstein, friends from their New York City childhoods, packed a Chevy Cavalier and took off on a cross-country road trip.
Nore Davis Will Be Your Stand-up Superhero
June 2024This week, we’re highlighting 24 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.
Over My Dead Body - Vulture
June 2024true crime podcasts Feb. 15, 2019 This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Is Ron Burgundy a Psychopath?Plus, a new podcast from Down Under.
Party Down Recap: Hot Tub Time Machine
June 2024Party Down Steve Guttenberg’s Birthday Season 2 Episode 4 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fear lurks just behind any creative exercise, whether it’s acting, writing, or franchising a failing soup restaurant.
Peter Atencio - Vulture
June 2024Peter Atencio - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Aug. 18, 2016 Watch the Trailer for Amazon’s New Comedy Pilot ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’Earlier this year, Amazon announced they had a new comedy pilot in the works starring Jean-Claude Van Damme called Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and […] By Megh Wright
Play GIRP, the Impossible Rock-Climbing Game From the Creator of QWOP
June 2024If you remember this very floppy track runner who frustrated and delighted audiences with his inability to stand up, then you’ll be pleased to know he has a brother.
Quincy Jones Remembers Sidney Poitier: I Will Miss You Forever My Dear Brother
June 2024Music legend Quincy Jones has paid tribute to trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier in a lengthy remembrance on Twitter.
Rupert Grint on Snatch, Identifying With Ron Weasley, and Why Hes Not Thrilled About Being a Huff
June 2024You know Rupert Grint as Ronald Weasley, the Harry Potter character he became synonymous with for more than a decade of his life.
Ryan Goslings Got This Ken-ergy, If You Will
June 2024His story must be told. What came first, the Ken-ergy or the Kenjuring? Ryan Gosling, rom-com heartthrob or indie murderer — pick your poison — plays Barbie’s washboard abs, employment-challenged, himbo boyfriend in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming pepto-colored existential musical about the dolls facing reality.
See How a Bane Mask Makes Any Villain Look Scarier
June 2024We’re still trying to get our hands on a Bane voice filter so that we can rerecord famous movie lines while sounding like a jovial Sean Connery slowly dying at the bottom of a well.
Shia LaBeoufs Rattail Is Terrifyingly Glorious
June 2024Shia LaBeouf has clearly seen both Jared Leto and Cary Fukunaga’s man-braids and wasn’t impressed. Behold, the rattail:
Sinad OConnor, As Remembered by Collaborators and Famous Fans
June 2024Sinéad O’Connor. News of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor’s death broke July 26. Fans and friends alike have come to social media to remember O’Connor as a gifted performer, a Cassandra unappreciated in her time, and a devoted mother.
Skinamarink Isnt Like Other Horror Movies
June 2024Kyle Edward Ball’s viral indie sensation has an analog aesthetic but was very much born from the internet.
Slow Horses Recap: Walk Into It
June 2024Slow Horses From Upshott With Love Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Slow Horses From Upshott With Love Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One major advantage of Slow Horses telling a single story over six episodes is pace.
Southern Charm - TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024Episode 15 Wreck the Halls Episode 14 Trawlin’ and Brawlin’ Episode 13 St.
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Through the Looking Glass
June 2024Star Trek: Discovery Terra Firma Part 1 Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Discovery Terra Firma Part 1 Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s a moment in this week’s episode when I realized what was happening and screamed.
SuccessionRecap: Not Very Wedding-y
June 2024Succession Pre-Nuptial Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Succession Pre-Nuptial Season 1 Episode 9 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.
Tales of the Walking Dead TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024When the dead started coming back to life and feasting on the flesh of the living, it wasn’t just Rick Grimes and his fellow Georgians who had to fend off walkers.
The 12 Best Romantic Comedies on Netflix Right Now
June 2024Notting Hill This list has been updated to reflect Netflix’s current offerings. Romantic comedies: They make us laugh, they make us cry, they make us laugh at how much we cried.
The 14 Best Clip-Show Parodies, From Its Always Sunny to Community
June 2024Charlie Day in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. You’re in the middle of enjoying an episode of your favorite sitcom, when all of a sudden a character says, “Remember the time …?
The 2023 Roots Picnic Is a Convention for the Canceled
June 2024Just a chill, totally normal weekend of music. Fresh off the goodwill of holding down the Grammys’ 50th anniversary of hip-hop tribute, the Roots seem ready to squander all of that away with their annual festival.
The 25 Best Horror Movies Since The Shining
June 2024This list initially ran on October 29, 2013. Also, read Bilge Ebiri’sessay on why Mulholland Drive is a great horror film.
The Beach Bum Is Part Tragedy, Part Provocation
June 2024Matthew McConaughey. Harmony Korine teases you — even his first name seems ironic. In his druggy symphonic poem, The Beach Bum, he feigns harmoniousness, but the movie is full of dissonances, small and mighty.
The Best TV of 2022
June 2024Television’s future looks hazier than ever, but these shows make a clear case for optimism. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.
The Ending of Late Night With the Devil Flubs the Punch Line
June 2024Quick, what do horror movies have in common with the monologues of late-night talk-show hosts? Someone tends to get eviscerated in both, via blade, claw, or zinger.
The Never-ending Storyteller
June 2024Daniel Benmergui had an innovative indie-game concept. Actually creating it was a whole different story. Video-game developer Daniel Benmergui says the most popular speech he ever gave was one called “From Rockstar to Living With Your Mom!
The Quiet Storm
June 2024Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she’s always been uncompromising. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ms. Conductor
June 2024The Real Housewives of Orange County Hot Mess Express Season 14 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Hot Mess Express Season 14 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You know how all actors really just want to direct?
The Royal Family - Vulture
June 2024behind the scenes Nov. 19, 2019 Meet The Crown’s Royal Protocol AdviserFondly referred to as “Major Dave,” Royal Household veteran David Rankin-Hunt is on hand to ensure the series’ ceremonial details are spot on.
The Talented Mr. Bernardini
June 2024A young Italian is accused of pulling off the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he? One of the few public photos of Filippo Bernardini from his Facebook profile.
Theater Review: Wives, in Four Exuberant Feminist Conversations
June 2024From Wives at Playwrights Horizons. Jaclyn Backhaus’s Wives, a swift and playful feminist manifesto, tells us flat-out that it’s looking to mess with narrative norms.
Theres Another War Brewing in the Steely Dan Universe
June 2024Update, March 18 at 11:30 a.m.: Donald Fagen, that funky one, has denied Aimee Mann’s claims she was dropped from Steely Dan’s upcoming tour because she’s a woman.
This Was the Best Lip-Sync Season of RuPauls Drag Race
June 2024Performing a great Drag Race lip sync is about making do with what you’re given. Sometimes, that means tackling a Madonna classic that any great drag queen worth her salt would be ready to perform; on other days, it’s bodying the theme song to Disney Channel’s Shake It Up.
This Week In Rap - Vulture
June 2024the week in rap Nov. 7, 2018 This Week in Rap MusicFrom slick ’70s drug rap to vital California storytelling, and everything in between.
This Weeks Atlanta Insists That Attention Must Be Paid
June 2024The first scene in this week’s Atlanta focuses on a man we’ve never seen on the show before: Marshall (Justin Bartha), a guy waiting in line at a coffee shop, his AirPods blasting WNYC’s Radiolab directly into his brain.
Timeline: George Clooneys History of Pranking
June 2024George Clooney is a prankster. It’s the third thing people say about him, after noting how charming and handsome he is (not necessarily in that order).
To Understand The Muppets Mayhem, Watch Hey, Youre As Funny As Fozzie Bear
June 2024Today the latest entry in the Disneyfied Muppets premieres on Disney+. The Muppets Mayhem follows the Electric Mayhem (the Muppet Show house band, former residents of the Happiness Hotel) as they try to rekindle the fame they once had.
Toni Morrisons Joyful, Unfinished Work
June 2024Begin with unabashed joy, at the end of Toni Morrison’s 1977 masterpiece Song of Solomon: “Without wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his knees — he leaped.
Top Gun: Maverick Finally Lands on Paramount+ and EPIX
June 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. “Gonna take it riiiiiiiiiiiiiight into the …” funky post-theatrical release schedule.
Vultures Tribeca Film Festival Movie Commitment Calculator
June 2024The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off late yesterday with an opening night screening of First Monday in May, and now the moviegoing floodgates are open: There are more than 100 festival films available to see over the next week and a half, but only so much time in your schedule to make room for them.
Welcome to Wrexham Recap: Wrexham Is Here to Make Friends, Actually
June 2024Welcome to Wrexham The Quiet Zone/Nott Yet Season 2 Episodes 2 - 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to Wrexham The Quiet Zone/Nott Yet Season 2 Episodes 2 - 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This recap covers episodes two and three, “The Quiet Zone” and “Nott Yet.
What 9 Comedians Would Produce With a Marvel-Size Budget
June 2024We gave them a mountain of imaginary cash to pitch the comedy special of their dreams. Today’s Specials All jokes aside, stand-up is getting artful onscreen.
What Are You Supposed to Do With Fame When You Get It? Zadie Smiths Swing Time
June 2024The burden of having become Zadie Smith, international literary celebrity, surely hangs over the work of the novelist who bears the name.
Whats Real and Whats Not in Dune: Part Twos Biggest Action Scenes
June 2024Cinematographer Greig Fraser breaks down the “magic tricks” that made sandworm riding, bazooka attacks, and gladiator fights look convincing.
Who Will (and Should) Win at the 2024 Grammys?
June 2024In this article General Pop & Dance/Electronic Metal, Rock & Alternative R&B Rap Country Latin African & Global Maybe you wrote the Grammys off after Beyoncé lost Album of the Year yet again in 2023.
Whos Who in The Irishman: A Character Guide
June 2024The most fascinating mobsters and significant bystanders in Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie, explained. Martin Scorsese’s nonpareil gangster testament The Irishman factors in decades of American history, Teamster corruption, and violent Mafia lore, all condensed into a screenplay by writer Steven Zaillian.
Why Jay Leno Is Right About Late Night
June 2024Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon can finally breathe easy because Jay Leno says he wouldn’t want to host The Tonight Show ever again.
Why Will and Jadas Red Table Talk Is So Unusual in the History of Celebrity
June 2024Red Table Talk, the talk show hosted on Facebook Live and executive-produced by Jada Pinkett-Smith, is built around a feeling of intimacy.
Will Hollywoods New Sympathy for The Help Extend to Latina Maids?
June 2024Whatever you think of The Help, it’s been a great thing for the formerly throwaway screen stereotype of the black maid, inviting us to see these supporting characters as leads, to follow them back to their own homes, and to begin a larger conversation about how they were mistreated during the Civil Rights era.
WWHL: Katie Maloney Wasnt Shocked by the Scandoval
June 2024We’re beginning Week 3 of the #Scandoval, and new facets of this fractal drama continue to unfurl. This week’s episode of Vanderpump Rules centered on Lala and Raquel having an argument over the latter’s tendency to go for spoken-for men.
Zac Efrons Baywatch Character Is Surprisingly Similar to Ryan Lochte
June 2024Efron and Lochte. Zac Efron has another Olympian connection: the Wrap reports that Efron’s character’s backstory in the upcoming Baywatch movie is an unintentional retelling of the saga of Ryan Lochte, who recently embarked on an apology tour after it was discovered that his claims he was robbed at gunpoint in Rio were fabricated to cover up drunken vandalism.
Neil Patrick Harris on Hosting the Tonys and Guesting in Sleep No More
May 2024tonys 2012 May 26, 2012 2:00 pm By Scott Brown Share Share Tweet 3 Photos Photo: Stevan Keane When one checks into the McKittrick Hotel, home of the full-immersion dance-theater phantasm Sleep No More, one expects the unexpected.
Shia LaBeoufs Ample Collection of Dirty Tees: A Slideshow
May 2024shameless lusting June 27, 2014 4:15 pm By Lindsey Weber, Maya Robinson Share Share Tweet Pin It 12 Photos Photo: Splash News, Bauer Griffin/Getty Images, Turgeon-Steffman/Splash News Shia LaBeouf appeared this morning, fresh out of police custody, in a shirt so perfectly ripped that it could’ve jumped straight into a Transformers scene.
9 Tidbits From Rob Lowes New Memoir, Love Life
May 2024Rob Lowe’s second memoir, Love Life, is more notable for what isn’t there than what is. For instance, there’s no mention in the just-published book of the infamous sex tape he filmed with an underage teen, the nanny lawsuits, or if he ever got anything in return for sending a nude photo of himself wrapped in a toy snake to Andy Warhol.
A Daisy Jones & the Six Page-to-Screen Character Guide
May 2024The biggest hurdle in adapting a novel like Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & the Six is reproducing the format: a transcribed oral history of a fictional rock band loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac, told by interviewees speaking 40 years after their final performance.
A History of Inductees Snubbing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sorted by Pettiness
May 2024With the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony returning to its newish Brooklyn stomping grounds next week, one of the six deserving inductees is already causing trouble for the boomer proceedings: those pesky Radiohead lads.
A Quantitative Ranking of Adam Sandlers Movie BFFs
May 2024With actor cronies Kevin James, Chris Rock, and David Spade mugging beside him in Grown Ups 2, Adam Sandler continues the successful phone-a-friend casting strategy he’s employed ever since his theatrical breakout in 1995’s Billy Madison.
All the Shots Drake Takes on Her Loss
May 2024This guy. The album may be called Her Loss, but really, Drake is making it everyone’s loss. Across his new album’s 16 tracks, Drake takes unnecessary shots at a number of figures — everyone from Megan Thee Stallion to former ex-friend Ye to rumored ex Serena Williams and her husband.
Amazons Patriot Is an Oddball Show
May 2024Who is the audience for Patriot? I’m not sure, but the mere fact that this Amazon series makes me ask that question counts as praise in my book.
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And Now, Lets Argue About the Gilmore Girls Boyfriends
May 2024This post originally ran on September 24, 2014. We are re-running it in advance of the new season of Gilmore Girls.
Archer Recap: The Origin of Sterling Archer
May 2024Archer Deadly Prep Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Archer Deadly Prep Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Aisha Tyler as Lana, H.
Are You a Mean Girls Superfan?
May 2024This quiz was originally published April 30, 2014. With the new Mean Girls in theaters, it has been updated to include questions related to the musical adaptations.
Aretha Franklin Will Be Buried in Red Louboutins, Naturally
May 2024Tuesday began a week of services honoring the late legend Aretha Franklin, who died at 76 of pancreatic cancer on August 16, leading up to her funeral on Friday at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit.
Arnold Schwarzeneggers Mr. Freeze Costume Dripped Battery Acid Into His Mouth in Batman and Robin
May 2024Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Back in the innocent days of the 1990s, when a new superhero film wasn’t released every week or so, the sting of a comic-book movie flop was especially painful.
Beach Houses Alex Scally on Teen Dream
May 2024Baltimore duo Beach House have been critical darlings since their 2006 self-titled debut, but they’ve really got the Internet going nuts with their third album, Teen Dream, released last week on Sub Pop.
Ben McKenzie on Southland and Being O.C.-Free
May 2024Last year, Ben McKenzie — best known for playing bad boy Ryan Atwood on the SoCal teen masterpiece, The O.
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May 2024best of 2022 Dec. 7, 2022 The Best Songs of 2022This year’s music provided a fleeting and desperately needed moment of salvation.
Bill Murray Barely Saves the Incredibly Obvious St. Vincent
May 2024On the grand scale of lovable-curmudgeon-befriends-impressionable-youth movies, St. Vincent probably ranks somewhere around the middle — slightly better, perhaps, than the self-important Gran Torino, but not nearly as good as Rushmore or Bad Santa (which itself was a spoof of such movies).
BillionsRecap: Oh, The Humanity
May 2024Billions Hindenburg Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Hindenburg Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode feels like déjà vu all over again.
Cruel Summer Recap: Dont Speak
May 2024Cruel Summer The Miseducation of Luke Chambers Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cruel Summer The Miseducation of Luke Chambers Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The penultimate episode of Cruel Summer: I’m Just a Girl in the World edition, told entirely from the perspective of poor, doomed Luke, has unfortunately forced me to consider the possibility that this whole season would have been better if it had been told from his perspective to begin with.
Daily Show Correspondent Named Weekend Update Co-Anchor
May 2024There are now enough comedy news shows on TV that they can poach each other’s on-air talent. The New York Times reports that Michael Che, who made his first appearance as a Daily Show correspondent in June, will replace Cecily Strong on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update.
Daisy Jones & the Six Recap: The Making of Honeycomb
May 2024Daisy Jones and The Six Someone Saved My Life Tonight Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daisy Jones and The Six Someone Saved My Life Tonight Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It had to end with Daisy and Billy making magic at the same mic.
Dicks: The Musical Is About Fking Identical Twins (Not Like That)
May 2024Everybody say “All love is love!” Dicks: The Musical is ready to bring chaos to your local multiplex.
Drake Sets the Record Straight About Why Hotline Bling Sounds Like D.R.A.M.s Cha Cha
May 2024Case closed, probably. Shortly after Drake showed off his unique dance moves in the video for “Hotline Bling” that debuted last night, Virginia rapper D.
Earth to Echo Gets How Hard It Is to Be a Teen
May 2024It sounds too craven to miss: Mix the warm and fuzzy kids-meeting-aliens antics of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Super-8 (or Mac and Me, if you must) with the bro-tastic found-footage style of Project X or Chronicle.
Elvis Got Drafted Again
May 2024It looks like they’re really making Elvis take up arms against the Axis powers. Baz Luhrmann’s King of Rock and Roll, Austin Butler, stars in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Masters of the Air, which follows an airmen regiment tasked with conducting bomb raids over Nazi Germany.
Empire of Light Is Somber, Static, and Shallow
May 2024Olivia Colman in Empire of Light. A grim yellow pall hangs over the drab, empty spaces of Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light.
Every HBO Miniseries, Ranked
May 2024Some of the network’s best, most daring work has come in the form of a limited series. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and HBO Photo-Illustration: Vulture and HBO This article was last published in 2020; it has been updated to include new series.
Fox Considers the Pros and Cons of Renewing Terra Nova
May 2024Before they head off on their holiday breaks, execs at Fox will be making a list, and checking it at least twice, as they try to determine the fate of freshman drama Terra Nova.
Fred Armisen Cant Stop Making Comedy
May 2024Clockwise from top left: Fred Armisen as Gustave Calderon, Archer; Vivienne “Big Vivvy” Van Kimpton, Documentary Now!; Dr.
George R.R. Martin Corrects Bulls**t Reports Hes Opening a Film Studio
May 2024George R.R. Martin. Look, we all know how hard it is to get stuff done. It’s especially hard when you feel pressure.
Girl, the Strike (Is Over)
May 2024SAG-AFTRA confirmed on Twitter that they have reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, with the strike officially ending at 12:01 a.
Glee and Archie Comics, Together at Last
May 2024Glee is jazz-handsing its way into Archie comics, the AP reports, for a four-issue crossover. Glee writer (and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark re-writer) Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will be writing the stories, which will include appearances from Rachel, Finn, and Kurt.
Glee Makes Bret Easton Ellis Feel Like Hes Stepped in a Puddle of HIV
May 2024Just as Kings of Leon and Glee have made peace, along comes another famous person eager to get into it with Ryan Murphy.
Glitter, Tears, and Beyonc
May 2024You know something’s up when one of Los Angeles’s busiest tourist traps gets shut down on a weekday.
Greta Lee and Kingsley Ben-Adir Are In Talks to Get Trapped Together
May 2024Fast X director Louis Leterrier has locked in on his next project — now he just needs to find some actors to put on house arrest.
Heels Can Be Clunky But Also Winning
May 2024Jack (Stephen Amell) and Ace (Alexander Ludwig) are brothers, and Heels won’t let you forget it for one single second.
Here Are New Songs From No Doubt and Green Day
May 2024Good morning and welcome to the time-travel portion of our Monday! The date is July 16, the year is 2012, and the new music is from … No Doubt, a band that has not put out a studio album since 2001, and Green Day, a band that has been putting out music pretty consistently but still is associated most closely with waiting for that Dookie secret song and yelling at your parents because the CD is not over just because it’s silent and could they please chill out?
Here Are Some Totally Normal Responses to These New Black Panther Stills
May 2024Chadwick Boseman. Countdown to Black History Month: Marvel’s Black Panther movie is still months away (mark your calendars for February 16, 2018!
How Does the Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It Hold Up?
May 2024The Nostalgia Fact-Check is a recurring Vulture feature in which we revisit a seminal movie, TV show, or album that reflexively evinces an “Oh my God, that was the best ever!
How Long Does It Take the Roy Siblings to Tell Connor?
May 2024Spoilers for season four, episode three, of Succession, “Connor’s Wedding.” As is probably fitting for his whole deal, Connor Roy has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad wedding.
How Much Could the Best Villain Lairs Fetch on the Market Today?
May 2024Bates Motel in Bates Motel. This week, Vulture is looking closely at an array of evildoers, and the various projects in which they do evil.
In Conversation: M. Night Shyamalan
May 2024The director on his failures, his successes, and Glass. Photo: Martin Schoeller Over the course of a 20-year filmmaking career, from the breakout The Sixth Sense through critical duds like The Happening and After Earth, M.
Its Time to Change Your Relationship With Spoilers
May 2024Into It with Sam Sanders Get new episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe to the podcast here. Into It with Sam Sanders Get new episodes every Tuesday and Friday.
Its Time to Talk About the Twerkulator TikTok Dance
May 2024City Girls, JT and Yung Miami. When have we needed a song called “Twerkulator” more? Baddies everywhere have declared summer at a standstill until City Girls release their viral unreleased track, “Twerkulator.
Jo Firestones Cure for the Common Comedy Special
May 2024Jo Firestone What even is a comedy special? Somebody complaining about the complaints they received about their last hour of stand-up?
Joe Exotic Will Attempt to Explain Himself in New Special
May 2024What happened to the tigers, Joe? Everyone gets hooked on Joe Exotic. As the Netflix documentary Tiger King shows (and proves, with its new viral following), once people get to know Joe Exotic, they can’t seem to get enough.
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May 202425 days of cats Dec. 10, 2019 Where Can I Sing Cats Karaoke?Warm up your pipes and prepare to belt “Memory.
Kimmy Schmidt vs. the ReverendIs What Interactive TV Was Made For
May 2024Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) and Titus (Titus Burgess) go for a trike ride in Kimmy vs. the Reverend … unless you tell them to do something else.
Lana Del Rey Wasnt Working at Waffle House for Clout
May 2024She could definitely break up a fight. Lana Del Rey has broken her silence on the employment allegations.
Lea Michele on the Scream Queens Red Devil Reveal and Why No One Writes for Women Better Than Ryan M
May 2024Spoilers ahead. For the past few months, Scream Queens has delighted viewers with its amusingly outrageous and bloodthirsty collegiate antics, as it was slowly revealed that not one, not two, not three, but four Red Devil killers were roaming the fictional Wallace University thirsty for blood and guts.
Lessons in Chemistry Recap: The Surprise Factor
May 2024Lessons in Chemistry Her and Him Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lessons in Chemistry Her and Him Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One of the biggest obstacles Lessons in Chemistry will have to contend with is big, many times uncomfortable tonal shifts.
Lindsay Lohan, Dismembered
May 2024Photo by Getty Images “At first I was like, ‘I can’t do this, I’m getting my legs cut off. I don’t want to look like that in scenes, I want to look decent.
Lionsgate Cuts Out the Middleman, Will Make a Chinese-Language Now You See Me Spinoff
May 2024The original Now You See Me. China’s love for Now You See Me is a big reason why the 2013 magic caper wound up launching the most unlikely franchise in Hollywood, so now Lionsgate is taking the next logical step and expanding the NYSM cinematic universe with a Chinese-language spinoff.
Louis C.K. Put Me in a Lose-Lose Situation
May 2024Six months after accusing Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct, comedian Rebecca Corry reflects on how the decision to speak out has affected her life.
Luc Besson on Lucy and Knowing the Limits of the Human Brain
May 2024Luc Besson. Once upon a time, Luc Besson was a kind of anomaly. A popular director from France whose visually ravishing films featured both expertly made action scenes and doses of dreamy lyricism, he transcended cultural boundaries.
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May 2024radio vulture July 20, 2016 Mixtape Review: 21 Savage’s Savage ModeThis music is built from the same casual hopelessness that shocks us cold whenever we awake to fresh news of mass murder or police brutality.
Michael B. Jordans Got Two Jobs in Creed III
May 2024Michael B. Jordan in a first-look photo for Creed III. My man Michael B. Jordan has two jobs (in the upcoming Rocky franchise installment).
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Movie Review: Why Isnt The Expendables 2 More Insane?
May 2024There are times during The Expendables 2 when you wonder if maybe a Wayans or Zucker brother was involved in making it; you could easily re-title it Action Movie and send it out into theaters as a spoof.
My Boys Star Jordana Spiro Just Made Her First Movie
May 2024Though she’s known for her acting work, Jordana Spiro has spent the past ten years quietly — and deftly — building her resume as a filmmaker.
Nashville Recap: Same As It Ever Was
May 2024Nashville For the Sake of the Song Season 6 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nashville For the Sake of the Song Season 6 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It was old home week on Nashville as we checked in on lots of minor characters we haven’t heard from in a while: Emily, Glenn, Darius … Gunnar and Will.
Nick Jonas Loves Getting Hard With His Homies on Saturday Night Live
May 2024Last night’s Saturday Night Live was even more musical than usual, probably because the writers built their sketches around host Nick Jonas’s set of melodic skills.
Parks and Recreation Season Finale Recap: The Return of Burt Macklin
May 2024Parks and Recreation Are You Better Off? Season 5 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Are You Better Off?
Penny Dreadful Recap: Blood Lust
May 2024Penny Dreadful Predators Far and Near Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Penny Dreadful Predators Far and Near Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eva Green as Vanessa Ives.
Power Season Premiere Recap: The Thick of It
May 2024Power Call Me James Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Power Call Me James Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Omari Hardwick as James St.
Project Almanac Is a Good B-Movie That Hits Its Marks
May 2024Frank Sinatra (via Paul Anka) is probably the only person who has ever had too few regrets to mention; the rest of us find solace in fantasies of going back and doing it again.
Rampage Is the Only Mutant Alligator Movie With the Guts to Re-create 9/11
May 2024I had no idea that Rampage was based on a video game until, somewhere around the point where a giant flying wolf eats Joe Manganiello, an arcade cabinet makes an extremely conspicuous cameo in the background of the villains’ penthouse lair.
Reid Scott on the Joys of Playing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisels Final Big Bad
May 2024“Gordon is a product of his time. He’s a product of his environment. He’s a good man, but he’s got that 1960s slightly misogynistic outlook baked in.
Review: The Joys of Terrible Theater, Celebrated in Stage Kiss
May 2024Not content to defy credulity, The Last Kiss — an astonishingly vapid 1932 play by the justly forgotten team of Erbmann, Landor, and Marmel — dares to defy mathematics as well.
Rick and Mortys Creators on the Shows Best and Weirdest Merch
May 2024“You’ve gotta open your eyes, Morty.” The Rickaverse is expanding at an accelerating rate. Adult Swim’s megahit, adults-only cartoon sci-fi series Rick and Morty, which last fall completed its third season, has recently been renewed for 70 episodes.
Shiv Is Exactly Who You Think She Is
May 2024Shiv, almost feeling guilty for a second for betraying her gender. It’s tempting to think of Succession’s Shiv Roy as someone worth rooting for, if only because the people around her so clearly aren’t.
Should I Watch Season 7 of Gilmore Girls? Your Pressing TV Questions, Answered
May 2024Welcome back to Stay Tuned, Vulture’s TV advice column. Each Wednesday, Margaret Lyons answers your questions about your various TV triumphs and woes.
SNL Will Have Fewer Commercials But More Branded Content Next Season
May 2024NBC is mixing up its advertising strategy for Saturday Night Live next season, and with that comes some good news and some bad news.
Some Native Americans Are Boycotting Avatar 2
May 2024Not everyone wants to go back to Pandora. According to the L.A. Times, several Native American groups are protesting the release of James Cameron’s Avatar sequel over resurfaced comments from the director.
Stephen Colbert Fondly Recalls His Terrible Late Show Start
May 2024Stephen Colbert. Despite Stephen Colbert solidly kicking Jimmy Fallon to the curb in the ratings week after week, his Late Show tenure didn’t begin as fortuitous, as it took more than a year for him to settle into a groove that both viewers and CBS executives appreciated.
Stockard Channing Joins a Comedy Pilot About a Mean Actress Who Says Whatever She Pleases
May 2024There are worse things she could do than star in a show or two. Stockard Channing (Alicia’s mom on The Good Wife, who does whatever she pleases; Abbey Barlet on The West Wing, who does whatever she pleases; Rizzo in Grease, you get the point) is starring in an NBC comedy pilot about a “legendary actress” who does whatever she pleases.
Summer Houses Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke Wont Have Their Fall Wedding
May 2024Update, September 14: Lindsay Hubbard has now shared her side of her split from Carl Radke, saying she was “humiliated by how it went down” and “heartbroken.
Take Me Home Tonight Trailer: Welcome Back, Topher Grace
May 2024A few years ago, it seemed like Topher Grace was set to transition from TV to film effortlessly, like in 2004, when he appeared in movies like In Good Company, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, and P.
The 10 Best Versions of the Song Sleigh Ride
May 2024“Sleigh Ride” is unequivocally the best Christmas song of all time. And it’s not even a Christmas song — it’s a holiday song, a celebration of the winter season despite folks like the Carpenters and Sesame Street trying to change a lyric from “birthday” to “Christmas” and claim it for the all-consuming tinsel avalanche of Christmas ubiquity.
The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies History
May 2024Good finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide Gay
May 2024This list was originally published on December 9, 2021. It has been updated to include new releases. Not too long ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) pretend or (b) settle for a second-rate film with a queer character who had very few lines, ambition, or development.
The Best Tom Petty Songs to Perform at Karaoke
May 2024There’s so much that can be said about Tom Petty, one of the virtuosos of modern American music, in light of his untimely death earlier this week at the age of 66.
The Biggest Loser Introduces Most Tragic Contestant Ever
May 2024On last night’s season premiere of The Biggest Loser, a woman named Abby revealed the most tragic backstory of any TV reality-show contestant we’ve known: Her entire family — a husband and two small children — was killed in a car accident a few years ago, which led her to gain weight.
The Bikeriders Finally Parks at Focus Features
May 2024Elvis Help — Disney has fallen off its bike! Focus Features will release The Bikeriders on June 21, 2024.
The Blunt Talk of Noah Gardenswartz
May 2024“It’s weird having a handler,” were Noah Gardenswartz’s first words as he was escorted into an empty hotel banquet room where Comedy Central’s production team had set me up for a day of interviews.
The Boys Needs a New Punch Line
May 2024Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off.
The Emmys Arent Going Anywhere
May 2024If recent ratings trends hold up, tonight’s strike-postponed Emmys on Fox will be lucky to reach more than 6 million viewers and may well end up the least-watched ever.
The History of Michelle Williams and Busy Philippss Best Friendship
May 2024Campy teen dramas have given us so much. It’s been nearly two decades since two up-and-coming teen stars met on Dawson’s Creek, and Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps have become one of Hollywood’s closest friendships ever since.
The Mindy Project Recap: Piano Man
May 2024The Mindy Project Pretty Man Season 1 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Pretty Man Season 1 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s true, the second best part of living in New York is knowing that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are sharing our weather.
The One That Got Away
May 2024In Celine Song’s semi-autobiographical debut feature, Past Lives, there are two love interests and no easy choices. Past Lives is in theaters June 2.
The Safdie Brothers Are Into Telemarketing Scams Now
May 2024Two telemarketers go undercover vigilante double agent at their own workplaces to expose a billion-dollar scam? Why, tell me more.
The Search for the Next Will and Kate
May 2024Meg Bellamy as Kate Middleton (pictured in 2005). Ed McVey as Prince William (pictured in 2001). This article was originally published on August 28.
The Story Behind Larry David Playing Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live
May 2024Larry David as Bernie Sanders. As Bernie Sanders’s profile grew over the past couple years, so, too, did the number of people saying he reminded them of Larry David.
The Trump Verdict Memes Are for the History Books
May 2024Guilty. If you turned on cable news at 5:07 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, you watched the birth of a meme in real time.
The Writer Behind Noras Wu-Tang Clan Tattoo on The Leftovers
May 2024Carrie Coon and Regina King in The Leftovers. The second most random thematic element of this week’s Leftovers episode (after the invocation of a certain ’90s sitcom) is the stealthily effective use of the Wu-Tang Clan — or as tattoo-sporting Nora Durst knows them, “the Wu-Tang Band.
The X-Files Recap: California Sun
May 2024The X-Files This Season 11 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The X-Files This Season 11 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Fox announced that the first and last episodes of this season of The X-Files would be the only ones written and directed by Chris Carter, the safe assumption was that the eight in the middle would be “Monster of the Week” episodes, ones that stand apart from the show’s mythology.
Theater Review: Continuity, Where Little Hollywood Crises Face the Big Global Ones
May 2024From ‘Continuity,’ at MTC Stage II. “You can blame it on continuity,” says a harried movie director into a walkie-talkie, giving the crew a reason not to let the diva leading actress change her hair.
Theater Review: In Yen, London Misery Makes Great Company
May 2024Lucas Hedges, Ari Graynor, and Justice Smith in Yen. Who’s to blame for Hench and Bobbie? The two boys, 16 and 14, live alone in a rundown “social housing” block in a London suburb, with one shirt between them and only what food they can nick.
This Week in Web Videos: Making a Murderer Parodies
May 2024It’s been a week and a half since the holiday Netflix binge concluded, and I’m very surprised there aren’t more quality Making a Murderer parodies.
Tim Carvell - Vulture
May 2024the industry Nov. 24, 2010 CBS Lines Up Sitcoms From Two Comedy Scribes’Daily Show’ and ‘SNL’ writers have projects in the works.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Is Ready to Be Consumed and Forgotten
May 2024Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Thoroughly frivolous and yet somehow still exhausting, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts might have worked fine as a Saturday morning cartoon back in the days when Saturday morning cartoons were a thing.
Travis Barkers Finger Is Now the Enema of Blink-182 Fans
May 2024Ow. Looks like the Chainsmokers and Halsey will have to put their plans to get closer to their toxic ex at a Blink-182 concert on hold for a bit.
Wait, Is Maggie Rogers a Pop Star Now?
May 2024Maggie Rogers. The CliffsNotes version of 24-year-old Maggie Rogers’s rise to stardom goes something like this: In March 2016 in her final year at New York University where she did a double major in Music and English, Rogers attended a Masterclass with Pharrell Williams.
Wait, What Happened in the Dark Finale?
May 2024Martha and Magnus in Dark’s third season. But can you tell which universe they’re in? With a show as complicated as Netflix’s Dark, you’d think it’d be impossible to wrap up every story line — but Dark has a character who gives birth to her own mother, so doing the impossible is pretty much its thing.
Were Unsure How Jimmy Fallon Survived This Monologue, But He Did, and Were Proud of Him
May 2024Time for a cute chaos agent reprise. Doing yet another at-home edition Tonight Show while his two daughters, Winnie and Franny, tried to figure out what he does for a living, what should’ve been a quick monologue for Jimmy Fallon somehow turned into the following series of events: (1) a gummy-worm odyssey, (2) his face becoming a Play-Doh canvas, and (3) a silent plea for Xanax when he realized he became the second priority to Chutes and Ladders.
What Does It Mean for a Rape Scene to Be Done Well?
May 2024Aisling Franciosi as Clare in The Nightingale. Within the first ten minutes of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is a rape scene that sets the tone for the film’s depictions of violence in 1825 Tasmania.
Whats New on Netflix Streaming: June 2014
May 2024At 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.
Where to Eat and Pee Between the Harry Potter Plays
May 2024Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. If you’re planning on seeing both parts of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in one day, you’ve likely thought: What on earth am I going to do with myself between 4:40 p.
Which Young Potter Star Is Having the Best Career Right Now?
May 2024They’ve been busy! As J.K. Rowling continues to tank her reputation with anti-trans ideology, the lasting legacy of the Harry Potter films may really be all the careers of young actors that they launched.
White House Plumbers Recap: Project Gemstone
May 2024White House Plumbers Please Destroy This, Huh? Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » White House Plumbers Please Destroy This, Huh?
Who Needs an Auteur?
May 2024It’s a testament to the strange state of Hollywood today that the highest-grossing domestic film in 2014 was Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and I bet you can’t name its director.
Why A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Means So Much to Game of Thrones Book Readers
May 2024It started when Jaime Lannister stood and said, almost to himself, “Any knight can make a knight.” In that moment the butterflies started whirring around my stomach, my throat drew tight, my eyes started swelling.
Why Game of Thrones Season 8 Got a New Title Sequence
May 2024In the final season of Game of Thrones, at least one thing is completely different. The show’s opening credits have been remade with brand-new locations, designs, and an improved sense of scale.
Young Jeezy Signed Freddie Gibbs
May 2024Very good mixtape rapper Freddie Gibbs — best represented by his popular single, “National Anthem (Fuck the World)” — has landed a major-label deal, via Young Jeezy’s Island Def Jam imprint, CTE.
11 Rules for Writing an Original Christmas Song Today
May 2024According to the people behind hits for Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande, *NSYNC, and more. Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice.
14 Things We Cant Stop Thinking About After This Years Cannes Film Festival
May 2024This year’s sprawling Cannes Film Festival has finally come to a close, and even though your Vulture correspondents Kyle Buchanan and Emily Yoshida are back in the United States, their thoughts still drift eastward to the Croisette.
19 Things The Matrix Predicted About Life Today
May 2024How a 1999 Keanu Reeves movie anticipated (almost) everything about the way we live. We Are Living in the Matrix A weeklong series about how a 1999 movie predicted kind-of-everything about life 20 years later.
19 Wonderful Short Books and Stories to Read Now
May 2024This week we’re providing a series of Vulture Hacks: expert advice, gear guides, and recommendations to help you maximize your entertainment experience.
25 Essential Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episodes
May 2024The MST3K gang watches Hobgoblins. The world is, we are being repeatedly told, going back to a thing the maskless call “normal.
42 Universities on the Status of Bill Cosbys Honorary Degrees
May 2024Bill Cosby has been the recipient of nearly 60 honorary degrees — everything from fine arts, music, education, and law — since his ascent into Hollywood in the 1960s.
A Guide to Broadways Many Jessie Muellers
May 2024One of the Jessies, in Waitress. Performers of the kind whose names run above the title on Broadway musicals often have a signature — an idiosyncrasy, some way of essentially playing themselves.
Adam Scott on Big Little Lies, Projectile Vomit, and Eds Beard
May 2024Adam Scott. Adam Scott went home to film Big Little Lies in the Monterey Peninsula. The actor, who grew up in Santa Cruz, California, plays Ed, the husband to Reese Witherspoon’s wound-up Madeline.
Al Roker Returns to Today Show After Health Battle
May 2024Al Roker returned to the Today show on January 6 — two months after he was first hospitalized for blood clots.
Allow the Quiz Lady Trailer to Introduce You to a Tatted-Up Sandra Oh
May 2024Whether as a doctor, professor, intelligence agent, or mother-slash-giant-red-panda, Sandra Oh has proven that she can handle a serious role.
American Horror Story: Delicate Recap: All of Them Witches
May 2024American Horror Story When the Bough Breaks Season 12 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story When the Bough Breaks Season 12 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have a pet theory about series in which episodes get shorter as the season progresses.
Andrew Bird - Vulture
May 2024last night’s gig Oct. 8, 2008 Obama Fund-raiser Brings ‘Limeys’ Franz Ferdinand to Tiny VenueThe mood at Barack Rock was more relaxed and celebratory than the tenor of the hard-fought campaign would lead anyone to believe!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Adds IRL Aquarium Tour
May 2024Good news if you live near an aquarium: Nintendo and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have announced an aquarium tour this summer.
Ariana Grande Is Telling This Story Herself
May 2024Boca Raton musical-theater prodigy Ariana Grande initially intended to pour her heart into her starring role as Glinda in the movie adaptation of Wicked before returning to music.
Below Deck Sailing YachtSeason-Finale Recap: Docking for the Season
May 2024Below Deck Sailing Yacht All Roads Lead to Gaisy Season 3 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Sailing Yacht All Roads Lead to Gaisy Season 3 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Those cheeky, sneaky, Bravo bastards!
Boman Martinez-Reid Turns TikToks Into Reality-TV Epics
May 2024Even if you’re not addicted to TikTok — or to Keeping Up With the Kardashians — chances are you’ve seen a parody video from Boman Martinez-Reid, a.
Brendan Frasers Clapping Jag at Golden Globes Gets Hilarious Gwen Stefani Remix
May 2024What a difference a weekend makes. While Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford likely spent all day yesterday licking their wounds after Extraordinary Measures took in a disappointing $7 million at the box office this weekend, just one weekend prior they spent their Sunday night chumming around with their multimillionaire peers at the Golden Globes.
Britney Spears Says Music Is Not My Focus at the Moment
May 2024In Britney Spears’s explosive 2021 testimony against her conservatorship, she recounted being “forced” to tour by her team in 2018, saying she went ahead with the shows “out of fear.
Broad City Recap: All Caps Abbi
May 2024Broad City Game Over Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Broad City Game Over Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Paul W.
Cardi Bs Album Intro, Get Up 10 Is Bronx Rap Poetry at Its Finest
May 2024This is quite the statement. With 40 years of hip-hop history since its birth in the Bronx, you could be forgiven for worrying that rappers might have started to run out of new things to say.
Cat Person Is Cringe Horror
May 2024The film adaptation of a famous New Yorker short story is appropriately grimace-inducing, but it can’t help overexplaining its terror.
Chris Klein Explains His Dreadful Mamma Mia Audition
May 2024Actor Chris Klein arrives at the premiere of Universal Pictures’ “American Reuinion” at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on March 19, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
Comedy Undercard: Family Matters vs. Step by Step
May 2024Vulture is in the midst of its Sitcom Smackdown, a three-week contest that pits the best sitcoms of the last 30 years against each other to crown the ultimate winner.
Damien Hirst Will Take the Hate With the Love in Venice
May 2024“Demon With Bowl,” at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. “Money is a really good way to get people’s attention,” said Damien Hirst, sitting in a conference room of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice a few weeks ago, taking a break from planning the de-installation of his most colossal, and controversial, show yet.
Dan Stevens Is Really Over Downton Abbey
May 2024At a British Airways and VisitBritain party to “promote British tourism” yesterday, Dan Stevens (a.k.a. Matthew Crawley) was asked a question about his recent Downton departure — which makes sense, since the show is a major cultural export and also because Dan Stevens is only famous because of Downton Abbey.
Dear DC Comics: Stop Republishing Hush
May 2024Twenty years and 13 rereleases later, “Hush” is back yet again. Warning: Numerous spoilers for the Batman story “Hush” follow.
Doctor Who Christmas-Special Recap: Sunday Best
May 2024Doctor Who The Church on Ruby Road Season 14 Episode 0 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Doctor Who The Church on Ruby Road Season 14 Episode 0 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode could be summed up with a single quote from The Incredibles: “Coincidence?
Drake Reveals Dual Album Covers for Nothing Was the Same
May 2024Just as he revealed his upcoming VMAs performance, last night Drake also tweet-announced an updated release date (September 24) for his upcoming album, Nothing Was the Same, and revealed a set of covers.
Duck Soup - Vulture
May 2024Duck Soup - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Mar. 31, 2015 The 20 Best Comedy Movies of All TimeThe funniest movies tend to burrow into our brains like no other form of popular entertainment.
Edelstein: Blue Jasmine Is Woody Allens Streetcar Named Desire, With a Madoff Twist
May 2024Given that Woody Allen works in a closed creative ecosystem (no musical or theatrical influences after 1960, no cinematic ones after 1970), it’s amazing how skilled he is in making his old ideas seem fresh, lively, even urgent.
Emily Blunt Vetoed Sicario Nude Scene: My Tits Didnt Agree With It
May 2024Emily Blunt in Sicario. While visiting Howard Stern this week, Emily Blunt answered the question on exactly one person’s mind: Why wasn’t there any nudity in Sicario?
Getting Personal with Gilbert Gottfried
May 2024Judd Apatow calls it “hilarious, oddly moving.” Entertainment Weeklysays it’s “remarkable, fascinating, totally unexpected.” Even Anthony Jeselnik skipped the jokes for a rare minute to say, “This film is a hilarious, humanizing, and shockingly intimate portrait of a comedian we all previously thought unknowable.
Gossip Girl Recap: Desperately Seeking Serena
May 2024Gossip Girl Desperately Seeking Serena Season 1 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gossip Girl Desperately Seeking Serena Season 1 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Spring has sprung on the Upper East Side, and for the students at Constance Billard and St.
Hawke, Gere, and Snipes at Brooklyns Finest
May 2024Shannon Kane stars in the new film Brooklyn’s Finest, in which she has a nude scene with Richard Gere. When we caught up with her at the movie’s New York premiere this week, we wondered if Gere gave her any pep talks before the risqué shoot.
Here There Are Blueberries Keeps This Moment at Arms Length
May 2024Moisés Kaufman first saw the photographs that prompted the creation of Here There Are Blueberries in 2007. He first contacted Rebecca Erbelding, the archivist and historian who brought the photos to light, in 2010.
Heres Bonnaroos 2014 Comedy Lineup
May 2024The Bonnaroo Music Festival announced its 2014 comedy lineup today. Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious, Taran Killam, Hannibal Buress, Neal Brennan, TJ Miller, Rory Scovel, Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments, Sasheer Zamata, Seth Herzog, Emily Heller, and Brad Williams will all be performing at Bonnaroo’s comedy theater.
Heres Will Ferrell in a Wig to Remind You of the Before Times
May 2024When it seems like there isn’t a good thing in the world, Will Ferrell arrives in a ridiculous costume. We can’t thank him enough for his service.
Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed
May 2024Three VFX workers break down why Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania looks the way it does. Over Presidents’ Day weekend, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stung with unexpected venom at the box office, surpassing financial expectations to arrive as 2023’s first blockbuster movie.
How Hunger Games Director Coaxed Jennifer Lawrence to Record Another Song for Mockingjay P
May 2024The Lawrences. When The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 came out last year, the biggest surprise in the film wasn’t a plot twist but a song.
How James Marsden Became Dead to Mes Semi-Identical Twins
May 2024Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.
How Kate Winslet Won a Role in Steve Jobs and Managed All That Sorkin Dialogue
May 2024Michael Stuhbarg, Michael Fassbender, and Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle’s selective biopic, ran a painfully public gauntlet to production, riddled with false starts, jettisoned stars, and even a supporting role in the Sony-hack saga.
Is Anything Real in Scene Partners? Is Everything?
May 2024If you tried to adapt an M. C. Escher painting for the stage, you might end up with something like John J.
Isaac Hayess Son Claims His Father Didnt Quit South Park in Protest Over That Scientology Epis
May 2024Chef. Of the many controversies South Park has kicked up during its run, the aftermath of its 2005 episode, “Trapped in the Closest” may have been the most mysterious.
James Franco
May 2024James Franco has famously resisted being identified as merely an actor, pursuing a simultaneous life in the art world — making videos of dollhouses split in half, painting fat pets, and restaging Cindy Sherman’s iconic 1977–1980 “Untitled Film Stills,” with Franco himself standing in for Sherman, who was (in her own version) standing in for a variety of actresses in B-movies.
Jennifer Lawrence Returns With a Mystery Movie From a Theater Director
May 2024Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence has largely been on a break from the industry for the last year, but Variety reports that she’s finally taking on a new project.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Early Rock and Roll Star, Dead at 87
May 2024Jerry Lee Lewis, known for helping rock and roll go mainstream with his flashy piano performances — as well as for his numerous offstage controversies and seven marriages — has died at age 87.
Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey, and The Roots Perform All I Want for Christmas with Kids Instru
May 2024Here’s Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, joined by Mariah Carey, in a video recorded backstage before a Late Night taping in which they play “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” entirely using elementary school classroom instruments.
Jimmy Fallons Daughters Are Chaos Agents of Cuteness
May 2024Prior to getting heckled by J Balvin about the questionable aesthetic state of his “treehouse room” (“are you for real?
Jonathan Horowitz - Vulture
May 2024Jonathan Horowitz - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Jan. 31, 2017 Staring at Trump’s Body, What Do You See?
Jordan Klepper Heads to an NRA Convention to Promote His Comedy Central Special
May 2024Daily Show correspondent and upcoming Comedy Central late night host Jordan Klepper has a new special premiering this weekend, and today the network uploaded a new promo.
Josh Duggar: I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever
May 2024Embattled reality-TV star Josh Duggar has issued a public apology following reports identifying him in the Ashley Madison hacks. Duggar does not admit to having a Ashley Madison account in his lengthy statement, which was initially published on his family’s website Thursday, but he confesses to cheating and having a porn addiction.
Justin Timberlake Would Like to Assure You That Hes Not an Asshole
May 2024What’s it been like for Justin Timberlake to go from a music career where he calls all the shots to a movie career where he’s a pliant actor for auteurs like David Fincher?
Kanye Badly Yearns for a Wordless Future, for Obvious Reasons
May 2024What do we talk about when we talk about the gospel of Kanye West? If it were up to him, absolutely nothing, because there’d be no words left with which to attempt to communicate our many opinions.
Kimora Lee Simmons Says Her Family Wont Be Bullied by Ex Russell Simmons
May 2024Kimora Lee Simmons has taken to Instagram to speak out against her ex-husband, Russell Simmons. She claims that he verbally abused their family, including their two daughters Ming and Aoki Lee Simmons, just one day after she went on Instagram live to talk about their strained relationship.
King Charles III Isnt Dead Yet
May 2024I mean, as far as anyone knows. It’s alive! Despite reports to the contrary, King Charles III is still up and kicking.
Metalheads Get Very Mad About Justin Biebers Shirt, Instantly Become Less Metal
May 2024Enter Sandman. Early in his weeklong residency on Ellen, Justin Bieber sat down for an emotional chat about his penis while wearing a Metallica shirt.
Mistrial Declared in YNW Melly Double-Murder Case
May 2024The double-murder case against rapper YNW Melly ended in a mistrial July 22 after three days of deadlock from the jury.
Monologues - Vulture
May 2024last night on late night Aug. 11, 2021 Stephen Colbert Bids Adieu to Andrew Cuomo“Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.
Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Thought Hed Fled His Past, Then He Accidentally Made a Movie Abo
May 2024Barry Jenkins. The Friday before Donald Trump was elected president, I met up with Barry Jenkins, the writer and director of the film Moonlight, to talk about the way things turn out for people.
Morgan Wallen Says He Donated Profits From Album Sales Spike After Racial-Slur Video
May 2024Just less than six months after a video emerged of Morgan Wallen saying the N-word, the country star returned to the national spotlight with his first interview, on Good Morning America.
Movie Review: Todd Solondzs Dark Horse Achieves Compassionate Revulsion
May 2024It’s hard to get on and harder to stay on Todd Solondz’s wavelength, but his films are worth the near-constant recalibrations.
Nathan Fielder Makes a Riveting Commercial for the Toy Ball Doink-It
May 2024Nathan for You’s second season finale aired last night, and the above commercial is the end product of Fielder’s mission to rebrand one toy company’s product by associating it with a child’s first step into adulthood: “Doink-It: The Only Proof You’re Not a Baby.
Nick Jonas on Why Hes Always Naked, His Sexy Thriller Careful What You Wish For, and His New Albu
May 2024Three years ago, tween heartthrob turned thirst trap Nick Jonas filmed Careful What You Wish For, an erotic thriller in which he takes his shirt off a lot, loses his virginity to his married neighbor (Isabel Lucas), unwisely continues the affair, oh, and (spoiler!
Out With the Velvet Seats, in With the Dance Floor
May 2024How one show got a theater to transform itself into a disco. Here Lies Love is in previews at the Broadway Theatre starting June 17.
Reggie Watts Looks Forward to the AI Takeover
May 2024Some artists might be insulted by the idea that their art is ephemeral, but not Reggie Watts. The category-defiant comedian had already made tons of improvised tunes on concert stages and in TV studios over the years before he made a lasting impression playing some of the most ephemeral music of his career: the bumper music on The Late Late Show With James Corden.
Riz Ahmed Doesnt Want to Be Post-Racial
May 2024Riz Ahmed in Venom In the super-antihero/anti-superhero movie Venom (which arrives in theaters today and is expected to gross around $65 million over its debut weekend), the British-Pakistani rapper-actor Riz Ahmed plays a character named Carlton Drake.
Saint Clair Cemin - Vulture
May 2024seeing out loud Dec. 4, 2014 3-Sentence Reviews: Franz West, Matt Hoyt, and MoreIn a couple of cases, three very long sentences.
Sarah Silverman Talks Original vs. New Nazis in Someone You Love
May 2024A few days removed from Mother’s Day, comedian Sarah Silverman is still marking the importance of the occasion.
See Jay-Zs First Live Performance of Glory
May 2024How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! By being Jay-Z and then having a baby with your wife, Beyoncé, writing a song about lil Blue Ivy, and performing it in a flawless tuxedo during a benefit for your charity, the United Way of New York City and the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation.
See Proof That The Kings Speech Was Filmed on a Gay-Porn Set
May 2024To be fair, Speech and U.K. Naked Men both used the same distinctive set in their separate productions, but it kinda makes you wonder how Lionel Logue paid the bills before the stammering king came along.
Seth MacFarlane Takes a Cheap Shot at Jeremy Pivens Hairline in Latest Wheres My Emmy? V
May 2024Earlier this week, Seth MacFarlane launched a supremely unfunny Emmy campaign for Family Guy by way of YouTube. The first entry from the so-called Smartest Person on Television took a few digs at The Office, none of which were particularly original or enlightening.
Sex Education Recap: Buzzkill
May 2024Sex Education Episode 5 Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sex Education Episode 5 Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jean Milburn has never been perfect.
Shameless Recap: The Hammer Comes Down
May 2024Shameless “NSFW” Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Shameless “NSFW” Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ethan Cutkosky as Carl, William H.
Sharleen Spiteri on the Best of Texas and Worst of the Music Industry
May 2024Superlatives 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.
Shelby Lynne on Her Life As an Outlaw
May 2024Shelby Lynne’s such a country outlaw, she won’t even let you call her “country” anymore. That Grammy she won for 2000’s I Am Shelby Lynne might’ve been the last sign of any Nashville sweetheart in her: On her raw new folk-rock set Tears, Lies, and Alibis, she’d rather fans see her as just another old-fashioned liquor-gargling, trailer-hitching singer-songwriter, thank you very much.
Spamalot Returns, and Its Not Dead Yet
May 2024The bright side of life. On a Broadway overrun with recycled cinematic IP — flying DeLoreans, questionable adventures in cross-dressing, big red windmills, revenge shopping sprees — the revival of Eric Idle and John Du Prez’s Spamalot is a big, fat, raspberry-blowing bait and switch.
Stage Dive: Can John Leguizamo Get Out of His Own Head?
May 2024John Leguizamo, now in his mid-40s, opens his fifth one-man show in classic b-boy mufti, executing a frenetic, cock-of-the-walk b-boy dance-off: Johnny Legs vs.
Steven Soderbergh to Produce and Direct Series for Cinemax
May 2024Should we actually be concerned that Steven Soderbergh doesn’t know what retirement means? Because he is the busiest.
Sukeban Is Coming to Make You a Wrestling Fan
May 2024If all you know of pro wrestling are guys like CM Punk and John Cena, buckle the hell up.
Taylor Swift Almost Kept the Christmas Lights Up Till April on Lover
May 2024Leave them up till Halloween, if you’re real. Taylor Swift famously grew up on a Christmas tree farm so she knows a thing or two about holiday decorations.
Terrence Howard Explains His Iron Man Ousting
May 2024Terrence Howard was on Watch What Happens Live last night, alongside Best Man Holiday co-star Nia Long, and he had lots of interesting things to say.
Thats the Idea, Lets Amuse Each Other! Shannon and Sparks in Waiting for Godot
May 2024Michael Shannon, Ajay Naidu, and Paul Sparks in Waiting for Godot. There are certain folk songs, like “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” that shock you when you realize they were written not that long ago, in a world with cars and telephones, by a specific human being with a bank account, an address, and a name that isn’t “Trad.
The 39 Most Disturbing Moments on American Horror Story
May 2024From the first minutes of Murder House through the latest episode of Freak Show, American Horror Story is responsible for countless nightmares thanks to its weekly doses of disturbing moments.
The Affair Creator Defends Her Show, Says She Worked Closely With Ruth Wilson on Sex Scenes
May 2024Last summer, Ruth Wilson left The Affair, the Showtime series she starred in, without giving a reason but hinting in the press at a possibly bad situation that prompted her departure.
The Bad Batch Recap: Were in the Endgame Now
May 2024The Bad Batch Tipping Point Season 2 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch Tipping Point Season 2 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This is it.
The Best Comedy Specials of 2023
May 2024The best hours reached for transcendence through gravity and sheer goofiness, often at the same time. Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk ; Photos: Oluwaseye Olusa/HBO, Amazon Studios, HBO, Greg Endries/HBO There’s a variety of comedy special that belongs in its own particular class: the Update Special.
The Best Romance Novels of 2021 (So Far)
May 2024For many of us, 2021 feels like a year dedicated to recovery mode, the aftermath of something life-changing and unpredictable where we now have the opportunity to start to pick up the pieces from the year before.
The Book of Mormon and Hamilton Already Feel Like Theyre From Another Time
May 2024Hamilton (from 2015) and The Book of Mormon (2011) read differently now. Every decade gets at least one Broadway juggernaut.
The Bookstore Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The Boss Is Hungry: Every Food or Drink Name-Dropped in a Rick Ross Song
May 2024One of the many spectacles on Rick Ross’s God Forgives, I Don’t (out, finally, this week) is a song called “Diced Pineapples,” which turns out to be not so much about canned fruit as it is about sex.
The Chi Recap: The Standoff
May 2024The Chi Quaking Grass Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Chi Quaking Grass Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Chi.
The Cover of Snoop Doggs New Album Has It All
May 2024Snoop’s never been shy about using questionable cartoon art for album covers, but we think he’s outdone himself this time.
The Days of Kitchen-Sink Rap Albums Are Done
May 2024Nipsey Hussle. Thanks to the continued success of Kendrick Lamar and TDE, alongside reliable talents like YG and Tyler, the Creator and strong up-and-comers like Mozzy and Kamaiyah, the West Coast, rap’s once and future superpower, is experiencing a boom.
The Fall of the House of Usher Series-Finale Recap: Thats So Verna
May 2024The Fall of the House of Usher The Raven Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Fall of the House of Usher The Raven Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » “And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted — nevermore!
The Hottest New Release on BookTok Is (Checks Notes) 1984?
May 2024No longer content with knotting and whatever the fey court gets up to, BookTok has moved on to hornified versions of classic literature.
The Insect-Lined Marriage Bed of Anna Faris and Chris Pratt
May 2024According to Anna Faris’ New Yorker profile, the Scary Movie star bonded with then-boyfriend Parks and Rec’s Chris Pratt over collecting exotic insects.
The Morning Show Season-Premiere Recap: Out of This World
May 2024The Morning Show The Kármán Line Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Morning Show The Kármán Line Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » They did it.
The Quirky Allure of Twin Peaks
May 2024This article first appeared in the May 7, 1990 issue of New York Magazine. Vulture is republishing it today in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Twin Peaks.
The Roys Will Be Back in Town for Succession Season 3 on October 17
May 2024They here for you. You’ve seen the trailer, you’ve heard about their summer in Italy, and now, finally, you know when the Roy family is bringing their whole mess back to TV.
The Serpent Queen Recap: Lessons in Vengeance
May 2024The Serpent Queen To War Rather Than to Bed Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Serpent Queen To War Rather Than to Bed Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have identified the sole hindrance to my total enjoyment of The Serpent Queen: There is not enough Samantha Morton (a.
The Taste of Things Is Ravishing, Delectable, and Maybe Even a Little Radical
May 2024Benoît Magimel in The Taste of Things. The Taste of Things begins with a nearly 40-minute sequence of one elaborate meal being prepared and consumed.
The Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round Eight: Are You There, Elena? Its Us, TVD Fans
May 2024The Vampire Diaries Because the Night Season 4 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Vampire Diaries Because the Night Season 4 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Um, okay, so.
The Walking Dead Recap: Girl Power
May 2024The Walking Dead The Same Boat Season 6 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead The Same Boat Season 6 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How many synonyms for “zombie” can there possibly be?
Theater Review: 13 Hours of Shakespeares Henrys, in Brooklyn
May 2024Antony Sher as Falstaff, at BAM in King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings. The Brits need no excuse to do Shakespeare large; any year can be made to commemorate something.
Theater Review: A Grown-up Peter Pan From Sarah Ruhl
May 2024From Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, at Playwrights Horizons. I hope it’s not giving too much away to say that the final image in Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, directed by Les Waters at Playwrights Horizons, is, literally and figuratively, an uplifting one.
There Are Even Fewer Female Buddy Comedies Than You Thought
May 2024The venerable movie genre known as the buddy comedy, which hit its stride in the eighties with the likes of 48 Hrs.
This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Janelle James, Red-Flag Expert
May 2024Janelle James. 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.
Tracy Morgan and Will Arnett Make Hockey Jokes
May 2024The 2012 NHL Awards were last night. I know what you’re thinking: “Oh no, I missed the 2012 NHL Awards and the 2011 NHL Awards and the 2010 NHL Awards and the 2009, 2008, 2007— Wait, how old are the NHL awards?
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May 2024twinks vs. dolls May 5, 2024 Dua Lipa and Her Sonny Angel Doll Are Really Into ChallengersThe SNL host pitted her date against her doll collection, churros and all.
U-God Is Suing RZA and Wu-Tang Clan for $2.5 Million Because Some Beefs Are Forever
May 2024Nothing’s changed. In the latest chapter of a feud that has stood the test of time, U-God is suing Wu-Tang Clan again.
What Would She Expect Out of Me? Would She Like It?
May 2024Marc Maron on grieving Lynn Shelton and the first joke he made about her death. Photo: Oluwaseye Olusa/HBO It is a trope for supposedly transgressive comedians to show how willing they are to go there by introducing a word they are not supposed to say, then saying it a bunch of times.
When Meagan Prematurely Ends Her Trip to Mars, Lets Respond in a Dignified Manner, by Erik Cofer
May 2024You guys, Meagan is our friend. She has her faults, but she always means well. I guess what I’m really trying to say is that when Meagan’s plan to help establish a colony on Mars and ultimately save humanity from extinction inevitably fails and she comes crawling back to Earth, let’s show her the support she deserves.
Will Fifty Shades Have Enough Sex? (No.)
May 2024Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson. Am I supposed to be turned on by this? We’re just days away from the cheekily timed Valentine’s Day release of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, and at this point, its publicity push is like a cold shower made of pus and gravel.
YellowstoneRecap: Everythings Not Okay
May 2024Yellowstone No Kindness for the Coward Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone No Kindness for the Coward Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In former recapper Noel Murray’s excellent New York Times interview with Taylor Sheridan this week leading up to 1883, Sheridan discussed why Yellowstone might not get the critical attention you’d expect for an audience of its size.
You Recap: Look What I Found
May 2024You Candace Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You Candace Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Did any of you ever read Ella Enchanted?
Zoe Kazan on the Difference Between Nude Scenes and Ones in Panties
May 2024Photo: Monique Carboni Zoe Kazan — granddaughter of Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront, Gentlemen’s Agreement) and daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord (Reversal of Fortune and Memoirs of a Geisha, respectively) — grew up in Venice Beach, California, but after graduating from Yale, the young actress decided against heading back west immediately.
10 Strange Stories From Ron Miscaviges Scientology Tell-all Ruthless
May 2024Much of what you’ve read about Scientology is true — at least according to Ron Miscavige, a longtime acolyte and father of David Miscavige, the head of the Church of Scientology.
20 Sweet, Tenacious, Crazy Comedy Songs About Love
May 2024Spend your Valentine’s Day listening to this guy. This article was originally published on February 14, 2020. It has been updated to include more songs.
A Brief History of George Clooney Apologizing for Being a Bad Batman
May 2024It’s been 17 years since George Clooney played Batman, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he keeps saying sorry for it.
A Guide to the Short, Not-That-Dramatic Misunderstanding Between Natalie Portman and Jessica Simpson
May 2024Sometimes the world of media and celebrity gives us a rich, dramatic feud — think Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Fukunaga, Bradley Cooper and a press tour where he doesn’t repeat the same six lines ad nauseam.
A Valuable, Shot-by-Shot Description of Fifty Shades of Greys First Sex Scene
May 2024Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades of Grey. How much sex is there in the big-screen version of Fifty Shades of Grey?
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May 2024the industry Sept. 10, 2007 Zac Efron Grows Up FastPlus industry news on Led Zeppelin, Fernando Meirelles’s latest, and Al Gore.
Amazons Adding Ads to Prime Video, Too
May 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. If other streaming services have commercials, why can’t Amazon? Prime Video is just the latest streamer to announce it will introduce ad-supported and ad-free tiers, making Prime Video more like if you paid for Freevee.
Angelina Jolie Ordered to Produce Years Worth of NDAs in Winery Case
May 2024Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Angelina Jolie is contesting Brad Pitt’s request for NDAs in their yearslong winery dispute, “Page Six” reported on April 26.
Angelina Jolies Tonys Date Was Her Daughter, Vivienne
May 2024It’s not every day that a producer assistant gets to attend the Tonys, let alone see her show win Best Musical.
At 70, Andrea Martin Is Getting Her Big Break
May 2024Very few people stay funny for 50 years. Fewer still stick around long enough to land the perfect sitcom role at age 70.
Billy Porters Never-Ending Performance
May 2024Our 2023 Honorary Degree recipient had to wait for the culture to catch up to him (even as he coaxed it along).
Brazilian Fans Want to Make Jesus a Swiftie
May 2024A god and a statue. In 1966, John Lennon (in)famously remarked that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.
Bryan Cranston Is the Perfect Narrator for You Have to Fucking Eat
May 2024Is there anyone better to play the exasperated father in Adam Mansbach’s book “You Have to Fucking Eat” than Bryan Cranston?
Carla Gugino on Her Really Surreal Sucker Punch Role, and Being a Late-Blooming Sexpot
May 2024Throughout her 23-year career, the fetching Carla Gugino has played feisty schoolgirl (ALF) and feisty U.S. marshal (Karen Sisco); secret agent (Spy Kids) and Hollywood agent (Entourage); scantily clad parole officer (Sin City) and scantily clad matriarch (Watchmen).
Christopher Nolan Is Going Nuclear With Oppenheimer
May 2024Serious stuff. Christopher Nolan is going nuclear. No, he’s not (still) upset about Tenet’s pandemic-era release (though he did permanently abandon ex-BFF Warner Bros.
Clare Torrys Voice Is Seared Into Your Brain Whether You Know It or Not
May 2024The Undersung Our critics on great artists who might’ve been lost to the canon. The Undersung Our critics on great artists who might’ve been lost to the canon.
Digging Through the Comedy and Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
May 2024Garry Shandling. Late last year, a new Garry Shandling website launched, serving as a loving tribute to the comedian’s life, work, and continuing legacy.
Diving Deep Into the Dirtiest Joke Ever in The Aristocrats
May 2024It’s no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of the comedy world.
Doja Cats Controversial Career, From Overnight Star to Canceled Overnight
May 2024Doja Chat. Doja Cat’s wigs may have gotten their lives together, but the eccentric, unfiltered rapper-slash-singer has never once given up her unruly ways.
Doja Cats New Music Video Has Our Attention
May 2024Attention-seekers, it’s your lucky day. A month after meowing at the Met Gala, Doja Cat has shared the first taste of her next album with her new single, “Attention.
Edward Nortons Slow Fade From Greatness
May 2024Edward Norton and Willem Dafoe in Motherless Brooklyn. Some people make acting look easy, vanishing into roles in ways that render all decisions about timing and technique invisible.
Enjoy the Unlikely Chemistry of Natasha Lyonne and Waris Ahluwalia
May 2024Natasha Lyonne is a veteran actress who’s rebounded from a well-publicized stint in rehab with new roles on stage and in the upcoming American Reunion, as well as a recent guest spot on New Girl.
Every Poignantly Weird Question Reggie Watts Has Asked Guests on The Late Late Show
May 2024In the vast majority of The Late Late Show episodes, host James Corden briefly hands over the interviewing duties to his eccentric bandleader — and right-hand man — Reggie Watts to see if he has a question for any of the guests gracing the show’s comfy couch that evening.
Everybody Shut Up! Elmo Has a Puppy Now.
May 2024Billie Eilish will meet Sesame Street royalty. Everybody just shut the fuck up for a second, this is important.
Expats Recap: 2014
May 2024Expats Central Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Expats Central Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s a reason the fifth episode of Expats, titled “Central,” was chosen to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Fargo Recap: Into the Woods
May 2024Fargo Linda Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fargo Linda Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Much of “Linda” only makes sense in retrospect, including a song on its soundtrack.
Fiascos Smooth-Sailing Pericles
May 2024The last time I watched Fiasco Theater take on Shakespeare in the cozy brick box of Classic Stage Company, it was December 2017.
Fifty Shades Freed Is Memento With Butt Plugs
May 2024Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades Freed. The Fifty Shades franchise is so many things to so many people.
Fred Armisen Wants to Host the Oscars for Cars
May 2024Fred Armisen was back in the bandstand for the December 5 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, and the Wednesday actor used his platform to float an idea that’s going to make Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno weak in the knees: an Oscars for movie cars.
Gen V Series-Premiere Recap: Orientation
May 2024Gen V God U Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Gen V God U Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » In the first scene of Gen V, Prime Video’s new spinoff of The Boys, we travel back to eight years ago: the day A-Train was announced as the first Black member of the Seven.
Gossip Girl Co-Creator Josh Schwartz on the Enduring Romantic Legacy of Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf
May 2024For the next three weeks, Vulture is holding a TV Couple Scuffle to determine the greatest couple on television in the past 30 years.
Heres How MTVs Catfish Actually Works
May 2024Filmmaker and Catfish investigator Max Joseph told us after last week’s episode that the MTV reality hit “is about breaking through to people and getting them to see themselves and understand their decisions and their actions.
Hot Summer Nights Is a Confused Attempt to Cash In on 90s Nostalgia
May 2024So what has the movies’ wade into ’90s nostalgia reaped so far? It’s about to hit its stride — Jonah Hill’s coming-of-age drama Mid90s hits the trend on the nose this fall, and even the MCU is getting in on the trend with next year’s Captain Marvel.
House of the Dragon Recap: Pawn, Queen, King
May 2024House of the Dragon The Green Council Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of the Dragon The Green Council Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In the Game of Thrones universe, penultimate episodes are the most likely to pummel viewers with spectacular feats of warfare choreography, or shock them with cruel twists.
How Belle and Sebastian Loosened Up and Created Some of Their Best Work in Years
May 2024Like the films of director Wes Anderson or cartoons made by Adventure Time animator Pendleton Ward, the songs of Belle and Sebastian illuminate the magic and wonder of the natural world.
How Couples Therapy Put Therapy on TV (Without Ruining the Therapy)
May 2024Elaine and DeSean in an episode of Couples Therapy. This article was published on September 26, 2019, after Couple Therapy’s first season.
How Crazy Rich Asians Costume Designer Picked 8 Key Looks
May 2024Adapted from Kevin Kwan’s 2013 best seller, Crazy Rich Asians tells the story of Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), a young NYU professor who follows her beau Nick Young (Henry Golding) to his home in Singapore, to both attend Nick’s best friend’s wedding and finally meet the Young family.
How One Joke Evolved Along With Rhea Butchers Gender Identity
May 2024Rhea Butcher One of the absolute most compelling things about following comedy is getting to see how a comedian evolves as their life does.
How Sorry to Bother You Found (and Used) Its White Voice
May 2024“You don’t talk white enough,” veteran telemarketer Langston (Danny Glover) advises his young deskmate in an early Sorry to Bother You scene.
How the Director of This Ones for the Ladies Made a Dick-Swinging Stripper Documentary
May 2024The linchpin of This One’s for the Ladies, a new documentary about “strippers and the women who love them,” is a male dancer named Satan.
I Think I Found the Rolex Buyer From John Mulaneys Baby J
May 2024Toward the end of his new comedy special, Baby J, John Mulaney tells the story of one of “the most desperate things” he did to get drug money prior to going to rehab for cocaine addiction at the end of 2020.
I Watched 8 New Movies Directed by Actors. Are Any of Them Actually Good?
May 2024Clockwise from top left: Poolman, Woman of the Hour, Knox Goes Away, and Hell of a Summer. How have the SAG and WGA strikes affected this year’s Toronto International Film Festival?
Independent Movie Theaters Across the Country Brace for the Worst
May 2024Theater owners say COVID-19 poses the biggest challenge since 9/11. Some worry they’re facing a breaking point for theatrical distribution entirely.
Is Dave Chappelle Shooting Another Netflix Special?
May 2024Chappelle in 8:46. On June 12, Netflix dropped a big surprise on YouTube. In the middle of a pandemic, the streamer released a new special from Dave Chappelle titled 8:46, which was filmed just a few days prior during one of Chappelle’s ongoing shows in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he currently lives.
Isabelle Fuhrman to Reprise the Glory Of, the Story of Love In Upcoming Orphan Prequel
May 2024Not every horror movie villain is an immediate icon, but between the classic “evil child” premise of 2009’s Orphan, the film’s now-infamous twist, and its odd similarity to last year’s “Ukrainian orphan” news story (here, watch this Dr.
Jay Z Accidentally Admitted in Court That Sometimes Even He Forgets About Tidal
May 2024It’s okay, Hov. AfterJay Z’s attempt to delay his extremely convoluted “Big Pimpin’” trial was turned down, the rap mogul took the stand Wednesday for the first time.
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May 2024inside baseball Feb. 18, 2022 In Defense of “Scriberia”Inventing Anna makes it sound horrible, and it was not horrible. It was nice.
Joker: Folie Deux to Star Lady Gaga and to Be Watched by Gay People
May 2024J-j-j-joker face. Oh, oh, oh, oh, she’s in love with Jo-kuh-uh, Jo-kuh-uh! Italianx icon Lady Gaga will be starring in Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to Todd Phillips’s Oscar-winning film Joker, giving the Joker franchise a guaranteed in with the gay community (next up: Folie à Deux jockstraps).
Jon Stewart, Jonathan Van Ness, and Eric Andre Help Samantha Bee Sing a Song of Eggnog
May 2024If there is one thing people in need … well, need, it’s definitely a celebrity-benefit single talking about how much they need stuff.
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May 2024young adult fiction Aug. 7, 2017 The Toxic Drama on YA TwitterYoung-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
Keanu Reeves Flirts With Winona Ryder and Her Flannel Pajamas in Destination Wedding Clip
May 2024Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder — a pair of icons who may or may not be married — star in Destination Wedding, an end-of-summer rom-com stinger.
Kim Cattrall Talks Meet Monica Velour, Looking Ugly
May 2024While the world waits with bated breath for Carrie Bradshaw and Co. to return to the big screen in May, Kim Cattrall is making the rounds in support of an indie flick in which she plays a woman who’s just about the polar opposite of Samantha Jones.
Lady Gaga Responds to the Chainsmokers Perfect Illusion Diss, As a Reminder That No One Dis
May 2024In a recent Rolling Stoneprofile, Alex Pall, a member of the Chainsmokers, responded oh, so elegantly when asked about Lady Gaga’s “Perfect Illusion“: “It sucks.
Lee Ji-han, K-Pop Singer and Actor, Dies in Seoul Crowd Surge
May 2024Lee Ji-han was among the over 150 mostly young people who died in the crowd crush. Lee Ji-han, a K-pop singer and actor best known for his role in a music competition series, was among the more than 150 people who died in the Seoul crowd surge October 29, a tragedy that occurred during Halloween celebrations in the city’s Itaewon neighborhood.
Living the Standup Life with Sam Morril
May 2024Sam Morril is a great writer of jokes. His comedy often comes from a place of uncomfortable honesty. “I look exactly like my biological father so I showed my friend a picture, and he said, ‘wow, it’s like you guys were separated at birth.
Matthew McConaughey to Be Honored by Napa Valley Film Festival, the Most Matthew McConaugheySound
May 2024According to Deadline, Matthew McConaughey is set to be feted at the sixth annual Napa Valley Film Festival on November 10, a pairing that fits like a gorgeous linen suit unbuttoned all the way down and, well, Matthew McConaughey.
Maya Rudolph Out, M&Ms In
May 2024We at Vulture support national treasure Maya Rudolph in all her endeavors. If those endeavors include changing the name of M&M’s to Ma&Yas and adding clams, then so be it, actually.
Melanie Lynskey and Jane Levy Are Castle Rocks Most Lovable Weirdos
May 2024As co-stars in Hulu’s Castle Rock, Melanie Lynskey and Jane Levy seem like they were destined to be acting partners.
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May 2024the industry July 9, 2008 Ron Weasley to Play Someone Other Than Ron WeasleyPlus: Stephin Merritt’s Neil Gaiman musical is ready for the stage.
Modern Family Recap: Kill Kenny
May 2024Modern Family Party Crasher Season 4 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Modern Family Party Crasher Season 4 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » May I begin by motioning to add “first of all, Kenny — sick ponytail” to that venerated tome known as Phil’s-osophy?
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May 2024the industry Sept. 16, 2015 Pacific Rim 2 Probably Is Not Happening AnymoreIt’s been pushed back “indefinitely.” By Nate Jones
Peacocks Brave New World Canceled After One Season
May 2024NBCUniversal’s new streaming platform Peacock has canceled one of its most high-profile shows, Brave New World, after one season. The scripted sci-fi series executive produced by Homecoming’s David Weiner and Grant Morrison was originally developed for USA Network but ultimately landed at Peacock in the hopes that it would become a tentpole series that would help launch the streaming network.
Pour a Gimlet and Stream These 6 Shows About Glamorous Lady Sleuths
May 2024Miss Fisher in all of her glory. Maybe they can all band together and solve the case of how many bottles of alcohol we’ve consumed in quarantine.
Resident Evil TV Episode Recaps & News
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Richard E. Grant on His Golden Globe Nomination, and Iconic Gay Bar Julius
May 2024Richard E. Grant. Richard E. Grant scored his first Golden Globe nomination Thursday morning for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Rihanna Is in Maybe 5 Minutes of Valerian and They Are All Spectacular
May 2024Rihanna. If you are a person who gets excited about Rihanna playing a shape-shifting alien named Bubble doing a stripper routine in the middle of a $180 million sci-fi epic from the director of The Fifth Element — and, really, who wouldn’t be?
Rising Star Bob Dylan Gets His First Billboard No. 1 With Murder Most Foul
May 2024A very talented, promising young musician just earned his first No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and he goes by the name of [checks notes] Bob Dylan?
Rosamund Pike on Her Breakout Role in Gone Girl
May 2024This interview contains spoilers for Gone Girl. Do not click through if you have not read nor seen Gone Girl.
Sarah Jessica Parker Felt Too Shy for Sex and the City Nude Scenes
May 2024Early on, Sarah Jessica Parker established boundaries as to how she was going to embody the iconic Carrie Bradshaw.
Secret Invasion TV Episode Recaps & News
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See a Venn Diagram Connecting Reality-TV Shows
May 2024It’s not your imagination — there really are that many reality shows about swamps, weddings, Louisiana, and cake. And here’s visual proof: The following Venn diagram maps the overlapping relationships between reality shows.
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May 2024the comics page Dec. 5, 2007 Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Lawless’Today on the Comics Page, we’re proud to present an excerpt from Lawless, the second collection of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s outstanding noir comics series Criminal, on sale December 12 from Marvel Icon.
SNLs Brutally Honest Tour Guide Wants to Temper Vacation Expectations for You
May 2024We didn’t think we’d be getting four free minutes of therapy when clicking on this Adam Sandler sketch, but, well, here we are, and we have a lot to think about with our (nonrefundable, ugh) summer plans.
Sterling K. Brown Fears Thomas Janes Bare Feet More Than Any Predator
May 2024A panel for The Predator during Comic-Con International 2018. The crowd at San Diego Comic-Con was assembled to watch footage from Shane Black’s new take on The Predator, but Sterling K.
Taylor Swifts Super-Popular Museum Exhibit Is Coming to NYC, Where We Will Welcome It
May 2024Taylor Swift, Museum Curatrix There is little America’s bosom bestie Taylor Swift can make or do that does not turn to gold (in the monetary sense), including — it would seem — a museum exhibit.
Teresa Giudices House and Danielle Staubs Sex Tape Are Both For Sale
May 2024“These bitches around here don’t know what I’ve been through.” Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice has reportedly put her Towaco, New Jersey, mansion on the block for $3.
That Time Radiohead Went Synth Shopping With a Fan in Austin
May 2024And you thought your Thom Yorke story was cool. If you call yourself a Radiohead fan and count that one random Thom Yorke sighting in Oxford as an intimate experience with your personal hero — even if it was an impromptu garden party concert!
The 100 Hardest Video-Game Bosses of All Time
May 2024The one trait they share is an ability to end your game swiftly. Photo: Diego Patino/Vulture Photo: Diego Patino/Vulture We originally published this list in 2017, and have updated it to reflect the most recent, cutting edge advancements in boss difficulty.
The 23 Best TV Shows to Stream As Youre Falling Asleep
May 2024Sweet Dreams Are Made From Screens Working through our bedtime dependence on devices. Sweet Dreams Are Made From Screens Working through our bedtime dependence on devices.
The 30 Best TV Shows on Hulu Right Now
May 2024The Act. Best TV Shows on Hulu by Genre Drama Comedy Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter Hulu.
The Bachelorette Recap: Tantric Roses
May 2024The Bachelorette Week Five Season 20 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bachelorette Week Five Season 20 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I know I said this all last week, but I can’t tell y’all how excited I am that my first time in the saddle recapping The Bachelorette is the franchise’s best season in years.
The Big Bang Theory Recap: Big Brother
May 2024The Big Bang Theory The Sibling Realignment Season 11 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Sibling Realignment Season 11 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eleven seasons in, there’s not much The Big Bang Theory hasn’t explored with its characters, but the subject of Sheldon Cooper’s big brother Georgie is one the writers were wise to save for this date.
The Challenge: Double Agents Recap: A House Divided
May 2024The Challenge A Most Wanted Man Season 36 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Challenge A Most Wanted Man Season 36 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As I said in my last recap, the producers have truly been making things up as they go along this season in terms of rules and twists and “security breaches” and eliminations.
The Good, the Bad, and the Overly Proper: Dialect Coaches Rank the American Accents of TVs Foreig
May 2024Speaking with Vulture last year, British actor Dominic West joked that landing his gig on The Affair meant “taking work from honest, hardworking Americans.
The Hardest Horror Movie Sound I Ever Foley-ed
May 2024What does decapitation sound like? How about a demon birth? Foley artists explain just how difficult it is to engineer the sounds of horror.
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Rolling Loud California 2024
May 2024HIGH: Sexyy Red for President Since its inception a decade ago, Rolling Loud has been mired in controversy. Few other festivals have a Wikipedia section titled “Notable events and incidents,” or allegedly books artists without them knowing.
The Latest OnlyFans Drama Involves a YouTuber Posting a Video of Herself As a Toddler
May 2024Don’t mistake the end of the year for any letup in online shenanigans. The latest case in point: Beauty YouTuber Gabi DeMartino has been suspended from OnlyFans after she posted a video of herself as a toddler, lifting up her skirt and exposing herself to a camera.
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Drowning in Drama
May 2024The Real Housewives of Potomac Home Sweet Drama Season 8 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Home Sweet Drama Season 8 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I am loathe to be prescriptive about a season of television at the second episode, but as a studied protégé of the Reality Television Arts and Sciences in the Brian Moylan School of Housewifery and Hooligans, I would be lying if I didn’t say I had early concerns about the direction of this season of Potomac.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Premiere Recap: Good Time Girls
May 2024The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Welcome to Salt Lake City! Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Welcome to Salt Lake City!
The Stories Behind the Crowns of The Crown
May 2024The star! Netflix’s The Crown is a royal soap about the spare (King George VI) assuming the throne of the heir (Edward VII) and the ultimate ascension by his daughter Elizabeth.
The Strain Recap: Troubles Lumen
May 2024The Strain Fallen Light Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Strain Fallen Light Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Corey Stoll as Ephraim Goodweather.
TheBelow Deck MedReunion Part Two Finally Clarified the Valium Situation
May 2024Over two months later, the moment Below Deck fans been waiting for is here: the part of the Below Deck Mediterranean reunion where we finally find out what happened with chief stew Hannah Ferrier’s firing.
There Will Be Less Nudity in Westworld Season Two
May 2024Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy got to tackle the inevitable nudity question at the season-two premiere screening at Tribeca Film Festival.
These Are Our Demands for a Twilight TV Show
May 2024Her. For decades (okay, only one and a half), scholars have attempted to answer that age-old question: Where the hell has that loca Bella been?
This Is Really the Cover of Lil Waynes Tha Carter IV
May 2024The sequel to The Carter III will, appropriately, boast a sequel to the cover of Tha Carter III. Last time it was baby Wayne, with face tats; this time it’s (one assumes?
This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Broken Harts, Cold, and More
May 2024The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, 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 exceptional, the noteworthy.
This Weekends Concerts, From Gorillaz to Vampire Weekend
May 2024Vulture showed up to work yesterday, but many of you across the country were a bit luckier and actually had Columbus Day off.
Vera Farmiga and George Clooney to Join Mile-High Club
May 2024The Air Up There: Vera Farmiga has joined George Clooney in Jason Reitman’s upcoming comedy Up in the Air. The story focuses on a stressed out human-resources executive (Clooney) whose only joy in life becomes the prospect of reaching a million frequent-flier miles, a goal he single-mindedly pursues as the rest of his life falls apart.
Watch the Trailer for VH1s TLC Biopic, CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story
May 2024As if the groundbreaking Behind the Music episode weren’t enough, VH1 is continuing their ongoing love affair with R&B group TLC by crafting a made-for-TV biopic about the three women.
Water for Elephants Is Best When Its Behind the Times
May 2024From Water for Elephants, at the Imperial. The weakest part of Water for Elephants, the new musical by book writer Rick Elice and composer-lyricists PigPen Theatre Co.
We Deserve Better Than Rosewood
May 2024Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. Fox is looking for a new cop or cop-adjacent procedural. It’s part of a network’s balanced breakfast these days.
Wednesday Season-Finale Recap: The Devil You Know
May 2024Wednesday A Murder of Woes Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Wednesday A Murder of Woes Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » I realize, now that we’ve reached the season finale, that we have virtually never seen Wednesday or her friends in class, or doing homework, or preparing for exams.
What Celebs Got Stuck in the Glastonbury Mud?
May 2024Put your wellies on, it’s Glastonbury! Not since the bygone days of last week (at the Eras Tour London dates) have the stars come out in such numbers.
Where Are the Serious Movies About Non-Suffering Black People?
May 2024DF-02720.CR2 Hattie McDaniel, the first black person to win an Oscar, did so for her role in Gone With the Wind as Mammy in 1939.
Which Barbie Scene Made You Cry the Hardest?
May 2024This article was originally published on July 28. We are recirculating it now timed to Barbie’s streaming debut on Max.
Which January Detective Is Right For You?
May 2024The winter of 2024 is fully upon us, and January brings a bumper crop of the figures to which we turn for solace and comfort during the shortest days of the year: detectives.
Why Everything Is Awesome From The Lego Movie Deserves an Oscar Nomination
May 2024Despite How to Train Your Dragon 2’s Golden Globes win this past weekend, I’d still predict that The Lego Movie is Oscar’s frontrunner for Best Animated Feature, and an absolutely surefire bet to be nominated in that category tomorrow morning.
Why Is Sexuality on Trial in Game of Thrones?
May 2024Loras Tyrell on Game of Thrones. Spoilers ahead for Sunday night’s episode of Game of Thrones. “If the Faith arrested all the pillow biters in King’s Landing, there’d be no room in the dungeons for anyone else.
Why The Simpsons Is the Best TV Show Ever
May 2024Today sees the release of TV (THE BOOK), a collection of essays and arguments from our critic Matt Zoller Seitz and HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall that determine the best 100 American TV shows of all time.
Will Ferrell Nails the Star Trek Theme on James Cordens Late Late Show
May 2024Will Ferrell’s early stand-up involved Star Trek material. Specifically, singing material. Watch this deer-in-the-headlights vibrato king slay, and then brace yourselves: You might experience a flashback to this other Ferrell gem.
Winning Time Finale Recap: Leave the Dynasties to Us
May 2024Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty What Is and What Should Never Be Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty What Is and What Should Never Be Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Given that the majority of this season finale covers the in-game drama of the 1984 NBA Finals, a seven-game classic between the Lakers and the Celtics, it’s worth noting how persuasively Winning Time has handled the actual basketball on the show.
Winning TimeRecap: What Happens in Vegas
May 2024Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty The Best Is Yet To Come Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty The Best Is Yet To Come Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winning Time’s third episode is all about the past, present, and future Lakers coaches, beginning with Jerry Buss’s search for a new leader after the sudden resignation of Jerry West.
Woody Harrelson Is Joining SNLs Five-Timers Club This Month
May 2024After getting Pedro Pascal to star as a dystopian Mario last night, Saturday Night Live has another plumber on deck.
Xavier Dolan on Blink-182, Bottoming, and Being the Worlds Biggest Kate Winslet Fan
May 2024The 27-year-old director Xavier Dolan packs more into his years than most people — after all, he’s already helmed six movies, and his lovely and galvanizing 2014 entry Mommy was an award-winning Cannes Film Festival sensation — but even by his own high standards, 2016 was quite the annum.
Yes, They Once Tried to Make a Broadway Musical Out of Lolita
May 2024Yeesh. Alan Jay Lerner needed a hit. The Broadway lyricist and librettist was a decade removed from his greatest successes, when his partnership with composer Frederick Loewe produced something approaching unholy alchemy.
You Premiere Recap: Lonely Boy Is a Psycho Now
May 2024You Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » You Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » What is You?
Your Honor Recap: The Telltale Brain
May 2024Your Honor Part Seven Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Your Honor Part Seven Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The last episode of Your Honor ended with Bryan Cranston’s Michael Desiato in a familiar Walter White spot, begging for his life and playing one last, desperate trump card.
Step Inside Don Drapers Kitchen, Office, & More
May 2024behind the scenes March 11, 2015 4:35 pm By Brooke Marine Share Share Tweet Pin It 14 Photos Photo: Thanassi Karageorgiou/?
The 50 Best Bootleg Bart T-Shirts
May 2024streaming week September 25, 2014 12:15 pm By Jesse David Fox Share Share Tweet Pin It 50 Photos Photo: BootlegBart/Facebook It’s easy to forget Bartmania.
12 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets
May 2024Warning: Spoilers for Yellowjackets season two lie ahead. With a harrowing cabin-in-the woods pregnancy and a literal flesh-eating feast, Yellowjackets’ second season finally lived up to its stomach-churning potential.
30 Years Later, Defending Your Life Is Still the Best Movie About the Afterlife
May 2024For someone who dropped out of Hebrew school post–bat mitzvah and can recite all of Grey’s Anatomy by heart but not a single prayer, I’m not the first person you’d expect to adore pieces of pop culture revolving around the afterlife.
6 Rules for How to Design a Movie Superheros Costume
May 2024With comic-book movies bigger than ever before, it’s a boom time for concept artists with a very specific skill set: the ability to pluck a colorful superhero costume from the comics and make it faithful enough to please a fan, yet realistic enough to convince your average moviegoer.
A Beginners Guide to New Queer Cinema
May 2024A scene from the “Homo” section of Todd Haynes’s Poison. If you’re wondering where the “queer” is in cinema these days, you’re better off looking to the past.
After Her Sugar Sphinx, Kara Walker Is a Whole Different Kind of Public Figure
May 2024At the time of the debut of her most recent public-art project, which was also her first public-art project, Kara Walker would clandestinely ride her bike from her home in Fort Greene to the then-defunct Williamsburg Domino Sugar factory, in which her massive sculpture was housed.
Alan Cumming Answers Every Question We Have About GoldenEye
May 2024It had been an unusually long time from one Bond to the next — six years — when GoldenEye, the 17th installment of the monolithic spy franchise, was released in 1995.
Alice in Borderland Recap: How to Live
May 2024Alice in Borderland Episode 6 Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alice in Borderland Episode 6 Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Like the players in Borderland, the citizens have wildly different ideas about humanity that inform how they play the game.
All Creatures Great and Small TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024This beloved PBS series, an adaptation of the 1970s book series by Alf Wight (writing under the pen name of James Herriot), follows three veterinarians working in the Yorkshire Dales shortly before the outbreak of World War II.
American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: The Blood Moon
May 2024American Horror Story Chapter Four Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story Chapter Four Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cuba Gooding Jr.
And Just Like That Recap: Clutching Your Pigeon
May 2024And Just Like That The Real Deal Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And Just Like That The Real Deal Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » By my calculations, this episode had seven separate story lines running through it.
Apparently, Taylor Swifts Tour Merch Looks That Way on Purpose
May 2024A young fan tries on a freshly unfaded Eras Tour tee. After attempting to expose the flaws of Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift fans are adding another pressing issue to their docket: tour merch.
Ballers Recap: Im on a Boat
May 2024Ballers Move the Chains Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ballers Move the Chains Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I swear, some people just don’t know how to act when they get on a boat!
Bridgerton Recap: The Rhythm Method
May 2024Bridgerton Swish Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bridgerton Swish Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We’ve reached the scene fans and critics of The Duke and I — Bridgerton season one’s source material — have wondered about since the show was announced: a scene that has only grown in controversy since publication in 2000 due to the developing discourse around consent during sex in both real life and art.
Celebrate Mothers Day With 20 of the Most Terrifying Moms in Movie History
May 2024If we’ve learned one thing from horror and horror-adjacent films, it is that mother does not always know best.
Chicken & Biscuits Serves Up Sustenance at a Church Funeral
May 2024From Chicken & Biscuits, at Circle in the Square. Criticism is subjective. One person’s passion is another’s poison; opinions are countless as grains of sand.
Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked by Whether Id Risk My Life to See Them
May 2024RIP to these real ones. One of Christopher Nolan’s favorite things to do — besides insist beyond reason and science that everyone visit a movie theater during a pandemic to see Tenet, because it is simply too cinematic to be seen in the safety of one’s own home — is to make movies wherein a female character dies tragically, subsequently motivating a male protagonist into action.
Composer Brian Reitzell Explains His Psychotic Music for NBCs Hannibal
May 2024NUP_162262_0230.JPG The score for NBC’s Hannibal might be the closest someone’s come on TV to soundtracking the experience of losing one’s marbles.
Considering the Ankara Assassination Photos As History Painting
May 2024I’ve never seen anything like the photographs by Burhan Ozbilici* of the assassination of the Russian ambassador at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey.
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May 2024good one podcast May 2, 2023 The Hans & Franz Movie That Never WasDana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, and Robert Smigel discuss bringing the hit SNL characters back to life in podcast form.
Danny DeVito on Drunken Interviews, IASIP
May 2024So far this season (their fifth), the scheming, amoral, possibly mentally challenged gang in It’s Always Sunning in Philadelphia has committed the following acts: Sold space in Sweet Dee’s womb, tried to flip a house with the previous owners still in it, demanded a refund on a half-eaten pear, fired each other, evicted each other, printed their own currency, propositioned a widow at her husband’s funeral, and blithely watched an attempt by Frank — the group’s father figure, benefactor, and eager cohort, played by Danny DeVito — to hang himself.
David Cross Announces the Oh Come On Tour
May 2024David Cross is hitting the road this summer. Today the North American dates were announced for the David Cross: Oh Come On Tour, which officially kicks off at the Chicago Theatre on June 1st and makes stops in San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Vancouver, Madison, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Denver, and more through late August.
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May 2024stage dive Sept. 28, 2010 Stage Dive: The Small-Town Desperation of A Bright New BoiseThis is a rube tragedy — a respectful and honest-feeling one, for a change.
Derry Girls Recap: A Tale of Two Ghost Stories
May 2024Derry Girls The Haunting Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Derry Girls The Haunting Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Derry Girls episodes are good, and some are great.
Diamonds Video: Rihanna Is Into Horses Now
May 2024As all relevant music videos must in 2012, the visual treatment for Rihanna’s Sia-penned, slightly underwhelming “Diamonds” takes place at the end of the world, or at least in a world where it is standard practice to roam around the streets covered in fire while alarming green clouds swirl above.
Empires Cookie Lyon Paper Dolls Print Them Out!
May 2024Is there any TV character more deserving of her own paper-doll set than Empire’s Cookie Lyon? From fur shrug to fur coat to floor-length cape, basically everything she wears is fire.
Every American Horror Story Season, Ranked From Worst to Best
May 2024When comparing the seasons of most long-running television dramas, it’s like comparing apples to apples: You’ve got the same characters, the same actors, and the same locales.
Every Rambo Movie, Ranked
May 2024The first Rocky film famously made Sylvester Stallone’s career, but it’s worth remembering that his other ongoing franchise, Rambo, was one he initially thought would kill it.
Everything We Know About Amazons Fallout TV Show
May 2024Ella Purnell’s time on Yellowjackets may be over, but she’s ready to set the world on fire in a new series for Amazon.
George R.R. Martin Among 17 Authors Suing Over ChatGPT
May 2024Litigation is coming: Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is among 17 writers who have joined a proposed class-action lawsuit over ChatGPT.
Grace and Frankie Is a Show Trapped in the Wrong Format
May 2024Lily Tomlin walks among us. Be grateful. Comedy pilots are often set on the Day Everything Changed. Diane gets dumped and loses her job, but maybe she can work here at Cheers?
Hank Azaria on Crying After Sex, Going Topless, and Playing a Simpsons Character on His New Show, Fr
May 2024Hank Azaria is getting out from behind his cartoon bodies on The Simpsons to play a real-life, leading-man character on the new NBC sitcom Free Agents (premiering tonight at 10:30 p.
Heres a Really Gross Red Band Clip From Shes Out of My League
May 2024He didn’t think about baseball. In case anyone with a 13-year-old’s sense of humor trapped in an over-17-year-old body was worried that the upcoming comedy She’s Out of My League starring Jay Baruchel isn’t going to continue the R-rated comedy tradition of having at least one imaginatively gross scene, worry no more.
Heres How to Play a Vinyl Record at 45 RPM
May 2024The Swift Syllabus Ongoing education about the singer’s many intersecting universes. The Swift Syllabus Ongoing education about the singer’s many intersecting universes.
Horror Stories of Womanhood: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Anatomy of a Suicide
May 2024From Anatomy of a Suicide, at the Linda Gross. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a horror film.
How Did Megan Thee Stallion Become the Next Hottest Rapper Out of Houston?
May 2024She got it from her mama. Photo: Maciek Jasik Photo: Maciek Jasik Hip-hop has not historically been welcoming to women who rap: They’re ignored or pitted against each other or allowed to be successful only one at a time.
How Does the New It Movie Deal With Stephen Kings Orgy Scene?
May 2024The Losers. Since its publication in September of 1986, It has enjoyed a long shelf life, first as a book that spent 14 weeks at the top of the New York Times best-seller list and then worming into nightmares as a TV mini-series in 1990 starring Tim Curry as the titular demonic clown/embodiment of children’s deepest fears.
How Michelle Wolf Reckoned With Her Post-Correspondents Dinner World With Jokes
May 2024Michelle Wolf. Michelle Wolf riled up the right wing (and a portion of liberal media) when she hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2018.
How Underground Resistance Became the Public Enemy of Techno
May 2024Funkadelic never said that a lecture is funkier than a party — but they weren’t far off. To wit: understanding why one of New York’s hottest techno tickets this weekend isn’t some 2 a.
Jason Ritter on His Film I Am I, Why VOD Is Important, and His Fred Savage Fan Letter
May 2024Jason Ritter. Sometimes there’s a little bit of legwork involved in being a Jason Ritter fan. With a career that’s toggled between interesting character roles in limited-release movies (2005’s Happy Endings, 2008’s Good Dick) and bigger parts in short-lived TV shows (Joan of Arcadia, The Class, The Event), his always-nuanced performances can often prove hard to catch.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner Got Married in Vegas and We Have Diplo to Thank for Recording It All
May 2024Does this make Joe a king in the North? In news almost as sudden as that time [redacted] defeated [redacted] on Game of Thrones, robe-wearing Instagram queen Sophie Turner and Vulture contributor Joe Jonas have gotten married!
Jonah Hills Mid90s Shows Promise, But Never Quite Makes an Impact
May 2024Lucas Hedges and Sunny Suljic in Mid90s. On the surface, aside from a brief shot of someone watching Goodfellas on a TV, there’s nothing remotely Scorsesean about Jonah Hill’s Los Angeles–set coming-of-age skater drama Mid90s.
Jonathan Franzen, Greil Marcus, and Mary Harron on the Greatness of the Mekons
May 2024Being known for being unknown is a bit of a booby prize, but over the course of 35 years, the British multi-genre-punk band the Mekons has managed to make underachieving a heroic ideal.
Kendricks Drake-Villain Origin Story Begins With DMX
May 2024The Drake–versus–Kendrick Lamar rap spat is the stuff of blog-era millennial dreams. The artists have circled each other for more than a decade, slinging subliminal barbs back and forth since 2012.
Kenneth Branagh on Dealing With Divas and Shakespearean Conspiracy Theories
May 2024Kenneth Branagh. In the Michelle Williams dramedy My Week With Marilyn, Kenneth Branagh portrays Sir Laurence Olivier in a way we’re not accustomed to seeing him: frustrated and cussing up a storm.
Lady Gaga Will Miss Her Friend Tony Bennett Forever
May 2024Bennett and Gaga. When Tony Bennett died on July 21 at 96, the name that sprung to mind for many was Lady Gaga.
Lil Nas X Receives an Outstanding Zero BET Award Nominations
May 2024The BET Award nominations are out, and Grammy-winning rapper and chart-topper Lil Nas X somehow extends his yearslong record of zero nods.
Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, and Imagine Dragons Are a Merry Band of Maniacs in the Video for Suicide
May 2024The official soundtrack for Suicide Squad (out August 5!) is an impressive mélange of musicians, with the DC antihero film recruiting the likes of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eminem, and Panic!
Maniacs Billy Magnussen on Playing a Colorful Douchebag
May 2024In Vulture’s review of Maniac, Jen Chaney refers to Billy Magnussen as playing “a douche of many different colors.
Margot Robbie Got Her Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Role by Writing a Fan Letter
May 2024Margot Robbie is a Quentin Tarantino fan from way, way back. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star made a self-vow to write a letter to Tarantino asking to work with him, once she felt like she was a good enough actress.
Meanwhile, William H. Macy Is Riding His Motorcycle
May 2024William H. Macy. Yesterday in the college admissions scandal: Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman said she would plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Milo Ventimiglias This Is Us Facial Hair Is Dead; Long Live Milo Ventimiglias This Is Us Facia
May 2024I will remembeard you. Will you remembeard me? Dearly beloved, we gather today to mourn the loss of something taken from us all too soon, which brought great joy and mystery into our lives.
Money, Love, and Music, All at Odds in I Can Get It for You Wholesale
May 2024Adam Chanler-Berat and Sarah Steele in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, at Classic Stage Company. Since it was first (and last) seen on Broadway in 1962, I Can Get It for You Wholesale has developed a lopsided reputation based on one very specific fact.
Ms. Marvel TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024“Premiering June 8, Disney+’s six-episode miniseries about Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Pakistani American Muslim teenager who discovers she has superpowers, is an exuberant and vivid reminder that once upon a time, before these stories became the monoculture, they were primarily for adolescents.
Munch on This Saturday Night Live Season-Premiere Promo
May 2024Pete Davidson is hitting up an ex this weekend. After breaking up with Saturday Night Live last year, he’s back to host the season 49 premiere.
Neil Patrick Harris Explains His 'Gone Girl' Sex Scene
May 2024For Gone Girl’s memorable sex scene — its climax ending in a pool of blood — Neil Patrick Harris and Rosamund Pike spent a whole afternoon working through the scene with the “exacting” director David Fincher and, at one point, with Ben Affleck looking on.
Nicolas Cage Gets Philosophical With Vulture
May 2024At the Cinema Society and Amnesty International–hosted screening of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Vulture spoke with Nicolas Cage about how the movie was conceived, the distractions of shooting in New York City, and the character’s hairstyle.
Nims Island Trailer Includes a Special Guest Appearance By New York?
May 2024Courtesy of Walden Media This spring’s family adventure Nim’s Island stars Jodie Foster as children’s-book author Alex Rover, who writes thrilling adventures but because of agoraphobia can’t bring herself to leave the house.
Nubia Proclaims Black Queens Matter in Drag Race and Beyond
May 2024Peppermint, Bob the Drag Queen, Bebe Zahara Benet, Monique Heart, and Shea Couleé open the premiere of Nubia, a celebration of “opulence, regality, and pure, unadulterated Black excellence.
Olivia Rodrigos VMAs Performance Was Just an Appetizer
May 2024Olivia Rodrigo performing at the 2023 VMAs. Guts will be spilled the world over. In a follow-up to last night’s theatrical MTV VMAs performance, Olivia Rodrigo announced the Guts world tour, a 57-date run in support of her critical darling of a sophomore album.
Parker Posey Doesnt Know If She Can Live Here
May 2024The actress on aging in the city, terrible boyfriends, and why she doesn’t read her press. Beau Is Afraid is now available on demand.
Pieces of a Woman Hinges on One Heaving, Tremendous Home-Birth Scene
May 2024The filmmakers and Vanessa Kirby explain how the 24-minute shot came together. “It so terrified me, the idea of getting it wrong,” says star Vanessa Kirby.
Poker Face Recap: You Cant Kill the Revolution
May 2024Poker Face Time of the Monkey Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Poker Face Time of the Monkey Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’m chuffed to see Peacock jettison the binge model in favor of weekly releases for the rest of Poker Face.
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May 2024george clooney Dec. 14, 2011 George Clooney Onboard for Prop. 8 Play ReadingHe’s the first actor to join the event for Dustin Lance Black’s play.
Real Housewives of Miamis Dr. Nicole Martin on Her More Authentic, Less Censored Season
May 2024When season four of The Real Housewives of Miami premiered on Peacock, it became the first canceled series in Housewives history to be resurrected, and as the revival’s excellent fifth season wraps up, it’s difficult to imagine how we survived eight long years without it — and without Dr.
RHOA Recap: Wheres the Beat?
May 2024The Real Housewives of Atlanta Beauties and the Beat Season 8 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta Beauties and the Beat Season 8 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hi, people!
Rian Johnson Doesnt Think Its a Star Wars: Episode VIII Spoiler to Reveal Who the Last Jedi
May 2024The only Jedi left. Ever since the title for for the eighth film in the world’s most popular space-family drama was revealed as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, fans have been speculating on whom and what it was referring to.
Robert Pattinson Leaves No Room for the Elephant in Water for Elephants
May 2024Water for Elephants, Francis Lawrence’s glamour-soaked adaptation of Sara Gruen’s Depression-era circus novel, stars Robert Pattinson’s Stubbled Jawline, Robert Pattinson’s Furrowed Brows, Robert Pattinson’s Supple Lips, and Robert Pattinson’s Tousled Hair.
Roulades Dont Care If Youre the Goddamn Future King and Queen of England
May 2024Things get competitive when The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge try making Christmas roulades with Mary Berry and Nadiya Hussain!
Seth Rogen Is the Latest Actor to Journey Into The Twilight Zone
May 2024Seth Rogen. The wheels of production are turning for Jordan Peele’s revival of The Twilight Zone, which will start airing on CBS All Access sometime next year.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Recap: Blaze It
May 2024She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Is This Not Real Magic? Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Is This Not Real Magic?
Sherman Hemsley Dead at 74
May 2024Actor Sherman Hemsley died at his home in El Paso, Texas, today. He was 74. Hemsley is best known for his role as George Jefferson, a character that originated on All in the Family and later anchored his own spin-off, The Jeffersons, from 1974–85.
Show Me the Alien Foreheads
May 2024Every single time Hera (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) appears on screen in Ahsoka, my immediate thought is not, “Look at this wonderful alien design,” but rather, “This whole thing is a hat.
So, Whats Kerrys Deal on Succession?
May 2024Logan Roy has a way of collecting Lady Macbeths, and the next in line might be personal assistant-slash-potential baby mama Kerry Castellabate, played by Zoë Winters.
Starstruck Series-Premiere Recap: The Meet-cute
May 2024Starstruck NYE Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Starstruck NYE Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Since we’re in rom-com season and the return of Starstruck is quickly approaching, Vulture is returning to where the romance began with weekly recaps of season one.
Stephen Dorff on Avoiding Chest Acne and Man Breasts for His Entirely Shirtless Role in
May 2024Stephen Dorff. Stephen Dorff’s career has been anything but predictable. Case in point: After starring in Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere last year, he went on to play a porn king in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star.
Survivor Recap: Call Me by Your Nami
May 2024Survivor Cancel Christmas Season 46 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Survivor Cancel Christmas Season 46 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We are only six minutes and 19 seconds in the episode when someone says, “Siga Strong.
Talking to Dana Gould About His New Special, Podcast, and Comedy Heroes
May 2024Last month, veteran standup Dana Gould released his newest standup special and album, I Know It’s Wrong. Debuting at number one on iTunes in comedy, the album is his first since 1998.
Taylor Swifts Lover Songs Ranked by Queer Energy
May 2024A very scientific ranking. After weeks of rainbows and glitter and clues and bisexual colors, Taylor Swift’s Lover has landed.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Hottie and the Robottie
May 2024John: “I always have to be the meat in the sandwich.”Photo courtesy Fox Do kids today fantasize about an upbringing that involves military training in the jungles of Central America?
Thank God For Small Favors
May 2024Thank God For Small Favors - Vulture `; // integrate Sub(x) scripts and elements if (hostname !== 'subs.nymag.com') { // do not integrate on this subdomain document.
The 30 Best TV Shows on Netflix Right Now
May 2024Band of Brothers. Best TV Shows on Netflix by Genre Drama Comedy Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy This post is updated frequently as TV shows leave and enter Netflix.
The Baby-Sitters Club Is a Welcome Surprise and Utter Delight
May 2024Say hello to your friends (left to right) Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph), Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Mary Anne Spier (Malia Baker), and Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), in Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club.
The Bear Is the Best Kind of Workplace Romance
May 2024This article was originally published on June 26, 2023. We’re taking it out of the freezer and serving it again ahead of The Bear’s third season on Hulu.
The Bear Recap: Fire Suppression
May 2024The Bear Bolognese Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bear Bolognese Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s make-or-break time for the staff of the Bear.
The Best Books of 2023
May 2024Ten authors whose original ideas challenged our preconceived notions of the world. Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk Each year, we experience a bounty of excellent new books being published, and if we’re lucky, we’re able to read a tenth of them by December.
The Controversial History of Michael Jordans Republicans Buy Sneakers, Too Quote
May 2024Michael Jordan, appearing with the subject of the controversy. If you know one thing about Michael Jordan, it’s that he was the greatest basketball player of all time.
The Curse TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024From the start, The Curse appears to be the ideal vehicle for its creators’ storytelling obsessions. Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime drama stars Fielder and Emma Stone as Asher and Whitney Siegel, a couple desperate to sell their liberal-fantasy eco-conscious home-flipping scheme as a new series on HGTV, with Safdie playing their shameless producer.
The Departed Screenwriter William Monahan Developing a Show for Starz
May 2024Screenwriter William Monahan attends the premiere of “Body of Lies” at the Frederick P. Rose Theater on October 5, 2008 in New York City.
The Duffer Brothers Recap Stranger Things 2, Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak
May 2024As a supplement to our recaps of Stranger Things 2, we asked Matt and Ross Duffer — recent subjects of a New York Magazine profile and the creators of the Netflix sci-fi drama — to get nitty-gritty about the creative decisions behind each of the season’s nine episodes.
The Full House Theme-Song Writers Made Mr. Robots Creepy Sitcom Tune
May 2024It takes a lot to make a hack… Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail has filled his show with visual and narrative references to great films of the past.
The Gatekeepers of SoundCloud Rap
May 2024XXXTentacion. Once a year, on career day, Nick Catchdubs, the DJ, producer, and founder of the independent record label Fool’s Gold, drives across the Hudson River to the New Jersey school where his mom teaches.
The Goldbergs - Vulture
May 2024the showrunner transcript May 28, 2014 The Goldbergs’ Adam Goldberg on Critics, S2“My dad has passed away, and isn’t here to defend himself.
The Good Wife Recap: Victory Dance
May 2024The Good Wife Great Firewall Season 2 Episode 16 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Show of hands if you thought this episode was going to be more satisfying than it was.
The Handmaids Tale Recap: Do No Harm
May 2024The Handmaid’s Tale Heroic Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Handmaid’s Tale Heroic Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s a weird condition called “alarm fatigue” that hospital personnel sometimes develop.
The Handmaids Tale Season-Finale Recap: They Never Let Anyone Get Away
May 2024The Handmaid’s Tale Safe Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Handmaid’s Tale Safe Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » For all its faults — plot lines that spin out of control, inconsistent world-building, an overreliance on Elisabeth Moss’s eyebrows — I do love this show.
The Mindy Project Recap: Miserables Sans Casey
May 2024The Mindy Project Magic Morgan Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Magic Morgan Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Cocoa Spheres and glass noodle salad, all set to Les Miz, in the opening sad-single-girl bit were perfect; the rest of the episode was less clear.
The Night Manager Series Premiere Recap: Joining the Fight
May 2024The Night Manager Episode One Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Night Manager Episode One Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine.
The Nightmare Puzzle
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The Real Ari Gold on His New Movie With Adrian Grenier
May 2024Ari Gold has made a film co-starring Adrian Grenier. No, we’re serious: This Ari Gold, of course, is nothing like the agent played by Jeremy Piven on Entourage, which also happens to star Grenier.
The Traitors Recap: If I Only Had a Brain
May 2024The Traitors Welcome to the Dark Side Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Traitors Welcome to the Dark Side Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Is that white smoke I spy emerging from the castle chimney?
The True Story of the Guy Who Threw a Pie at Phyllis Schlafly
May 2024On Mrs. America, revenge is as sweet as pie. The FX on Hulu historical drama looks at second-wave feminism through the lens of its infamous opponent, Phyllis Schlafly — the housewife turned conservative agitator who stopped the Equal Rights Movement in the 1970s — but in this week’s episode, “Bella,” Schlafly is momentarily brought to a halt when she’s pied in the face by a radical-left activist.
Theater Review: Good Grief Is a Memory Play in a Hall of Mirrors
May 2024From Good Grief, at the Vineyard. The story goes that when Bertolt Brecht* was very old, and too ill to accompany his company on their tour to London, he gave his actors only two words of direction before they left: Play lightly.
Theater Review: Is Will Enos Thom Pain Still Revolutionary?
May 2024Michael C. Hall in Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing). It’s been fourteen years since Thom Pain — a “cold, grave, somewhat angular person … a wounded, stray-dog type, but with an odd intellectual aspect, perhaps even a little frail … charismatic … seductive … unpredictable … unknowable” — first walked onto a stage and, within a year, turned his creator, the playwright Will Eno, into a Pulitzer finalist.
There Are Actually Two Almost-Threesomes in Challengers
May 2024The official line on Challengers is that the movie, despite hinting at the possibility in its marketing, does not actually contain a scene in which Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor have a threesome with Zendaya.
This BoJack Horseman Episode Is a Must-Watch, Even If Youve Never Seen the Show
May 2024Back in June, members of team Vulture picked their favorite TV episode of 2016 at the year’s halfway point.
Transparent Season-Finale Recap: To Shell and Back
May 2024Transparent Exciting and New Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Transparent Exciting and New Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Judith Light as Shelly.
Veteran Production Designer Jack Fisk on the Wilderness of The Revenant and the Decadence of Knight
May 2024Feb. 8, 2016 - Beverly Hills, California, U.S. - Jack Fisk arrives for the Oscar Nominee Luncheon 2016 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Waldos Hawaiian Holiday - Vulture
May 2024the comics page Mar. 12, 2008 Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday’, the Sequel to ‘Repo Man’Alex Cox’s Repo Man is one of the great cult movies of the eighties; now Cox has written a sequel, not for the screen but for the page.
Was Emily Blunts No Diggity Enough to Beat Anne Hathaways Wrecking Ball?
May 2024Spike TV’s biggest hit is its gayest show yet: Lip Sync Battle, hosted by LL Cool J and with an inexplicable Chrissy Teigen waving in the background.
What Is Every Song on Taylor Swifts folklore Actually About?
May 2024A lowercase girl album, like a lowercase girl, signifies ambivalence, nonchalance, and unfortunately, a Trojan horse of emotional terrorism. Last night I dreamt I was dashing through thorny brush in a black forest, bloodying my legs in desperate search of a clearing in the trees.
Whats Going on With Alec Baldwins Rust Manslaughter Trial?
May 2024Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in the Rust set shooting started in earnest on Wednesday, July 10, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with opening statements.
Whats New on Hulu: April 2016
May 2024At the beginning of (and during) every month, Hulu adds new movies and TV shows to its library. We figure you might want to know about them.
White House Correspondents Association President Believes Michelle Wolfs Jokes Didnt Emb
May 2024Wolf. If you’re daring enough to open Twitter today, you’d pretty much find a 50/50 split over people lauding or lamenting Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday evening.
Would You Believe Not Everyone Was Into J.Los Motown Tribute at the Grammys?
May 2024From the moment it was announced that the very talented Jennifer Lopez would perform a Motown tribute at Sunday’s 2019 Grammys, people started questioning why she was chosen for the occasion, instead of, say, a black singer influenced by Motown’s classic style.
Zosha Millman Author Archive
May 2024korrasami forever Aug. 19, 2020 Legend of Korra Walked So Queer Characters on Kids’ TV Could KissBy 2020 standards, the series’s final beat looks like a small step for LGBTQ+ representation, but it helped embolden other series to make big strides.
The When Harry Met Sally Movie Premiere Was So 1989
May 202480s nostalgia July 14, 2014 4:15 pm By John Sellers Share Share Tweet Pin It 14 Photos Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd.
5 Ben E. King Classics That Arent Stand by Me
May 2024American soul and R&B singer-songwriter Ben E. King, August 14, 1974. Within the pantheon of classic rhythm and blues, the Drifters stand out as one of the few outfits that helped to define the sound — that irresistible synthesis of doo-wop, gospel, blues, and soulful harmony.
61 Essential Queer Horror Films
May 2024This article was originally published on June 25, 2018. It has been updated with additional films. From 1934 until 1967, Hollywood movies were shaped by the Production Code, otherwise known as the Hays Code.
A Brief Guide to the Best Late-Period Metallica Songs
May 2024Metallica’s brutal 2004 group therapy film Some Kind of Monster is one of the few honest music documentaries to visualize the mental minefields of being in a band.
A Brief History of Taylor Swifts Horniest Songs
May 2024Swift in the “Style” music video. Taylor Swift is not an artist made for sex playlists. That’s fine!
A Close Look at Matt Damons 45 Lines of Dialogue in Jason Bourne
May 2024Mute Damon Earlier this month, The Guardian reported that Matt Damon only had about 25 lines in Jason Bourne. This raised some questions, since Damon plays the titular Jason Bourne.
A Shonda Story
May 2024Rhimes made Bridgerton a TV phenomenon but hadn’t written its world. Queen Charlotte is all hers. Photo: Adama Jalloh Spoiler alert: This story contains major character and plot details.
Ahsoka Season-Finale Recap: Long Live the Empire
May 2024Ahsoka The Jedi, The Witch, and the Warlord Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Ahsoka The Jedi, The Witch, and the Warlord Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » And so we arrive at the end of Ahsoka.
Alex Strangelove Is an Admirably Honest Depiction of Coming Out in High School
May 2024In Alex Strangelove, the teens swear. And not just in a PG-13 “one fuck limit” (i.e. “Am I a bet, am I a fucking bet?
All Your Questions About Bill Cosbys Overturned Verdict, Answered
May 2024Bill Cosby outside Montgomery County Court House in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in April 2018. It’s been nearly a year since Bill Cosby was denied parole for refusing to attend prison workshops for sex offenders, and now the 83-year-old comedian is walking free.
AMC, Cinemark, and Regal Cinemas Welcome You Back, Mask-Free, If Youre Vaccinated
May 2024It’ll help hide how hard you’re sobbing about family during F9, but sure, go ahead and head back to the movies mask-free, provided you’re fully vaccinated.
Angus Cloud, Euphoria Star, Dead at 25
May 2024Angus Cloud Angus Cloud, the actor best known for playing Fezco on Euphoria, is dead at 25. “It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today,” Cloud’s family said in a statement confirming the news.
Behind Shunt McGuppin with Superegos Jeremy Carter
May 2024Shunt McGuppin, the foul-mouthed, backwards country western singer from the popular podcast Superego finally has his own album and it’s everything you want it to be.
Beloved Song Returns to Beloved Movie
May 2024Get your tissues ready. Update, December 9, 2022: Well, it took two dang years, but it finally happened: “When Love Is Gone” is back, baby!
Bette Midler at Hulaween
May 2024Our latest Party Lines slideshow traverses a bevy of celebrity Halloween parties, bringing you oodles of expensive costumes and irreverent quotables explaining those expensive costumes.
Bruce Springsteen Postpones Rest of 2023 Shows for Peptic Ulcer Treatment
May 2024Update September 27: Bruce Springsteen is under doctor’s orders to postpone more shows. According to CNN, Springsteen’s pernicious peptic ulcers have forced the Boss to cancel the rest of his 2023 dates.
Cake Wrecks - Vulture
May 2024cake wrecks Oct. 24, 2013 Drake’s Birthday Cake Is a Wonderful Cake WreckAnd it looks delicious. By Lindsey Weber
Can You Lose an Oscar With a Bad Acceptance Speech?
May 2024And the Winner Is… Appreciating the art of a great Hollywood acceptance speech. And the Winner Is… Appreciating the art of a great Hollywood acceptance speech.
Could Frank Ocean Really Bring an Ice Rink to Coachella?
May 2024“Ice-cold, baby, I told you” —Frank Ocean At first, it sounded too random to be true: Frank Ocean’s late, messy Coachella set was supposed to involve … an ice rink?
Courtney Love Wants to Be Pals With Billy Corgan Again
May 2024There’s over a month to go in Courtney Love’s promotional cycle for the new Hole album, Nobody’s Daughter, and we’re already seeing Love take her public shenanigans to new attention-getting heights.
Creating Characters with Lauren Lapkus
May 2024From sitcoms and guest appearances on television to the mega-blockbuster Jurassic World, Lauren Lapkus’s acclaim is growing. A mainstay in the comedy podcast world, she created some of the most memorable characters on Comedy Bang!
Cuba Gooding Jr. Says He Didnt Intend to Exhibit Sexual Misconduct When He Lifted Up Sarah
May 2024Cuba Gooding Jr. Last month, Cuba Gooding Jr. got himself involved in some controversy at PaleyFest when, during a panel for American Horror Story, he was photographed lifting up co-star Sarah Paulson’s dress.
Directors Commentary
May 2024Hello, I’m director Eric Wenger, pleased to be here providing commentary for the twentieth-anniversary DVD re-release of Daniel Kaufman’s Bar Mitzvah Video: The Director’s Cut.
Doctor Who Season-Finale Recap: Old Dog, New Tricks
May 2024Doctor Who Empire of Death Season 14 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Doctor Who Empire of Death Season 14 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Can Russell T.
Dracula Has Been Way Weirder Places Than a Boat
May 2024The Last Voyage of the Demeter did not win the box office this weekend, but it did have the meme guys locked up.
Emmy Rossum on the Hot, Tuna-Sandwich-Tinged Sex of Shameless
May 2024Emmy Rossum, perhaps best known for playing doe-eyed innocents (i.e. The Phantom of the Opera) is getting down and dirty with her role as the scrappy, sexy Fiona Gallagher on Showtime’s Shameless, which airs Sundays on at 10 p.
Everything You Actually Need to Know Before Going Into the New Hunger Games Prequel
May 2024It’s been eight years since the Jennifer Lawrence–led series ruled pop culture, but fear not — here’s a refresher on the dystopian world of Panem.
Expats TV Episode Recaps & News
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From Modeling to Standup with Phil Hanley
May 2024Former model turned comedian Phil Hanley is a example in structure. His jokes and stage presence are delivered with a cool, collected pacing, even when he’s incorporating his own signature style of crowd work.
Get Caught in the Madame Web
May 2024“He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died,” Dakota Johnson says with complete seriousness while discussing her nemesis in the new trailer for Madame Web.
Gwyneth Paltrow Found the Perfect Place for Her Oscar
May 2024Every Vogue 73 Questions video is a little dystopian. Following a celebrity through their carefully curated home as they answer questions they are well prepared for … It’s giving The Rehearsal.
Halle Bailey Did Not Announce a Pregnancy, Actually
May 2024Let her live! Is it a “Busy Boy” or a “Baby Girl?” Well, neither (as far as we know).
Heres How You Can Make the Funniest Pie From Waitress
May 2024Keri Russell in Waitress. In both the Keri Russell film Waitress and the Sara Bareilles–written musical it inspired, pie is a means of self-expression.
Heroes Reborn Recap: This Isnt a TED Talk
May 2024Heroes Reborn Needs of the Many Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Heroes Reborn Needs of the Many Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ryan Guzman as Carlos Gutierrez.
How a Group of Desperate Comics Creators Hatched Doomsday, Supermans Deadliest Foe
May 2024The Man of Steel trades blows with the bony monster. Sure, Batman and Superman fight in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
How Friends Decided to Pair Off Monica and Chandler
May 2024This story was originally published in November 2013. We’re republishing it today for the 25th anniversary of Friends. This story was originally published in November 2013.
I Miss the Tom DeLonge Twang
May 2024Ask a Blink-182 fan to explain the band’s appeal and they’ll probably talk about the pop-punk trio’s ability to capture teenage angst, or their insanely catchy harmonies, or something about running through the streets naked.
Ice Cube Gave a Searing Explanation for How Bill Maher Crossed the Line
May 2024Oh yeah, Ice Cube gave @billmaher the talk he needed to hear pic.twitter.com/i7jYbCtm5P — Tormund XtopHodor, First of His Name (@tommyxtopher) June 10, 2017 Bill Maher opened Friday night’s episode of Real Time by obliquely referencing the controversy surrounding his casual use of the “n-word” from last week.
Imagine Being Able to Kiss, Cuddle, and Hump Your Husband, Ryan Gosling
May 2024Hey girl, don’t you wish the Ryan Gosling Husband Pillow were real? Sources But You're Like Really Pretty See a Ryan Gosling Body Pillow ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgbXyzxcCnZKCno6G2r7OMm6adsV2ltq24zrBloaydoQ%3D%3D
James Deen on The Canyons, Social Anxiety, and Sasha Grey
May 2024James Deen. No one in The Canyons is as notorious as Lindsay Lohan, but her co-star James Deen probably rates a close second, and he wouldn’t want it any other way.
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May 2024in this climate?! June 7, 2024 What’s So Funny About Greta Thunberg?Comedians across the political spectrum can’t stop doing jokes about the Earth-minded Swede.
Joaquin Phoenix and a Hammer: The Story Behind the Years Most Unforgettable Action Sequence
May 2024Lynne Ramsay is a bad ass. The Scottish writer-director of modern classics such as Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar is also a brilliant writer and visual poet and one of the most important living filmmakers we have, but at the end of the day, please do not forget: Lynne Ramsay is a bad ass.
John Boyega Is Done With Star Wars: Im Good Off It
May 2024John Boyega Star Wars actor John Boyega needs a break from the space opera that made him famous.
John Gemberling Talks Playing a Man-Baby on Broad City and Being a Man-Baby in Real Life
May 2024On Broad City, John Gemberling plays Matthew Bevers, better known simply as Bevers, the worst roommate ever. He isn’t even technically Abbi’s roommate, but a hanger-on — the boyfriend of her actual roommate, who is never in the country.
Juice WRLD Doesnt Want to Be Emo Anymore
May 2024The rapper, who has died at 21, got big off of raw, sad songs. Juice WRLD. Photo: Kelia Anne for Vulture Juice WRLD.
Lana Del Rey Takes Quavo to the Country
May 2024When Lana Del Rey first began teasing a duet with ex-Migo Quavo, it seemed like she was putting her country pivot Lasso on the back burner.
Lars Ulrich on the Most Underrated of Metallica and What Makes a Great Drummer
May 2024Superlatives 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.
Last Night on Late Night: Connie Britton: The Best Way to Destroy a Sex Tape on Nashville
May 2024Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Connie Britton shared her thoughts on how Nashville (spoiler alert!) could have better destroyed its sex tape.
Latto and Mariah Careys Big Genius Energy
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Listen to This Look What You Made Me Do Cover for Killing Eve Maybe Sung By Taylor Swifts B
May 2024Yeah… Nils is definitely back. If you were watched the Sunday, May 24 episode of BBC’s Killing Eve, you may have noticed a brand new cover of a familiar song, Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” occurring during the episode.
Listen to Your Heart TV Episode Recaps & News
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Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Recap: Real Friends
May 2024Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Sex, Lies and Videotape Season 5 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Sex, Lies and Videotape Season 5 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We start this episode of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood exactly how we ended the last, with A1 jumping over a table to snatch Safaree’s genetically modified hairline.
Love Is Blinded by Hot People
May 2024Do vibes override Netflix’s reality dating experiment? Near the end of the penultimate episode of Love Is Blind season five, Izzy and Stacy have a tense argument about finances.
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May 2024the industry Mar. 25, 2009 Tom Hanks, Reporting for DutyPlus: an indie Allen Ginsberg movie showdown. By Amos Barshad
Mary Poppins Is Not As Good As You Remember
May 2024Mary Poppins is one of the biggest and most beloved Disney classics ever, a film so enormous in its cultural reach that it has now inspired another movie, Saving Mr.
Matt Weiner and James Wolk Address the Bob Benson Conspiracy Theories
May 2024Seriously, what’s Bob Benson’s deal. We know something is up, but what? Last week, we presented many theories, like Benson is an investigative journalist and/or murderer.
Michael K. Williams Plays DMX in Moving Tribute Performance at the 2021 BET Awards
May 2024No, that’s not a hologram. This year’s BET Awards were brought to an emotional climax on Sunday night as the show memorialized rapper DMX, who died in April of this year.
Moonrise Kingdom Kid Kara Hayward Lines Up Her Next Role
May 2024Kara Hayward, one of the two Moonrise Kingdom 13-year-olds Vulture had a lovely chat with last spring (she played daughter to Bill Murray and Frances McDormand), has lined up her next role in Sisterhood of the Night.
Movies - Vulture
May 2024movie review Sept. 6, 2013 Movie Review: SalingerShane Salerno’s bio-documentary attempts to uncover the mystery behind the Catcher in the Rye author.
Mute Is Meh, But Gets Points for Being Extremely Random
May 2024We’ve met amateur detectives of all races, religions, and genders, and with all sorts of afflictions and hidden talents, but Alexander Skarsgård is almost certainly the first mute Amish illustrator/bartender to hit the dirty streets in search of a missing person.
Olivia Rodrigo Is Perfecting the Formula on vampire
May 2024The first time I heard Olivia Rodrigo’s new single, “vampire,” I got a bit of, well, déjà vu.
One Day at a Time Recap: Positive
May 2024One Day at a Time One Halloween at a Time Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One Day at a Time One Halloween at a Time Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The longer we remain in isolation, the harder it gets to compartmentalize our pre-pandemic existence with our current reality.
Oprah Wouldnt Strip Down for The Butler
May 2024Oprah. Last night, after a screening of The Butler hosted by O, the Oprah Magazine at the Hearst tower, Gayle King moderated a discussion with Forest Whitaker, who stars as Eugene Allen, the real-life White House butler who served eight presidents; Oprah Winfrey, who plays Allen’s wife in the movie; and director Lee Daniels.
Ozark Recap: What Do You Want?
May 2024Ozark Boss Fight Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ozark Boss Fight Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How can Wendy Byrde and Helen Pierce keep Marty Byrde alive and keep their money-laundering operation going at the same time?
Pandemics: An Essential Reading List
May 2024Just as the film Contagion has found a second life with news of the coronavirus outbreak, so too are novels about epidemics popping up on reading lists around the country.
Power Book II: GhostRecap: No Loose Ends
May 2024Power Book II: Ghost Forced My Hand Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Power Book II: Ghost Forced My Hand Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Although the ending of episode seven feels a bit unfinished, the opening scene brings us the Mafia-esque action that feels familiar to Power viewers.
Randy and Jason Sklar Crack Jokes From the Cheap Seats
May 2024Riffing, heckling, interrupting: whatever you want to call it, making fun of bad movies and TV shows is a time honored tradition shared by basement dwelling teens and obnoxious teens in movie theaters alike.
Reacher Recap: Road to Nowhere
May 2024Reacher A Night at the Symphony Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reacher A Night at the Symphony Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reacher, more so than Reacher, is full of surprises: As he and his three former subordinates in the 110th Special Investigations Unit sit in a diner at the top of the season’s fourth episode, poring over the mostly-useless information they collected during their smash-and-grab raid of New Age Technologies HQ in the prior action-packed installment, this land mass of a man who never misses an opportunity to say that he prefers the blues turns out to be in possession not merely of facts, but of opinions pertaining to Talking Heads.
Reality Bites - Vulture
May 2024reality bites June 3, 2024 Andy Cohen Vs. the HousewivesHow the Watch What Happens Live host survived the ‘Reality Reckoning’ (at least for now).
Retracing Lokis Journey Through the MCU
May 2024The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most memorable villain (sorry, Thanos) gets his own show this week with the six-episode Disney+ series Loki, and the first question on most viewers’ minds is probably, “Didn’t I see Loki die?
Reza Aslan Addresses Your Leftovers Finale Questions
May 2024Liv Tyler and Chris Zylka in The Leftovers season two finale, “I Live Here Now.” Many spoilers ahead for season two of The Leftovers.
Richard Madden Underestimates How Much Green Juice Wed Watch Him Drink
May 2024Much to everyone’s delight, the former King in the North and current Rocketman star Richard Madden has been repeatedly spotted out with Sam Smith’s former boyfriend Brandon Flynn.
Richard Pryors Widow on What to Expect From His Diaries, Including His Bisexual Experiences
May 2024Richard Pryor. “Quincy started pouring the tea,” Jennifer Pryor, Richard Pryor’s widow, said over the phone, “and I had to take that teakettle away from him.
Robin Williams Broke Robert De Niros Nose, and 9 Other Things We Learned in This New Biography
May 2024Robin Williams. After a long career as a kinetic, childlike stand-up, TV personality, and film star, Robin Williams hung himself in 2014 after struggles with depression, addiction, a Parkinson’s diagnosis and an undiagnosed case of Lewy body dementia.
Robot Renesmee Hits Some Choreo in M3gan
May 2024Give whoever cut the M3gan trailer a raise for including shots of some memeworthy choreo. Plus, they tease scenes with Brian Jordan Alvarez!
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May 2024very meta movies June 17, 2019 The Between Two Ferns Movie Just Got 100 Percent More Lauren LapkusLapkus, Ryan Gaul, and Jiavani Linayao play Galifianakis’s “loyal crew.
Sarah Snook Is Actually Australian in the Run Rabbit Run Trailer
May 2024Enough! Enough children making ominous drawings in crayon and a respected authority like a child psychologist or teacher saying something like, “It’s clear there’s something troubling Mia.
Sasha Velour - Vulture
May 2024we’re queer July 12, 2023 Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka Aren’t Here Anymore“As we move forward with our exciting individual projects, we welcome Sasha Velour, Priyanka, and Jaida Essence Hall,” the queens stated.
Schitts Creek Season Finale Recap: Curtain Call
May 2024Schitt’s Creek Life Is a Cabaret Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Schitt’s Creek Life Is a Cabaret Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Schitt’s Creek really knows how to do a season finale, doesn’t it?
Should Atheists Watch The Leftovers? Your TV Questions, Answered
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SNL Review: Blake Shelton Aint From Round Here
May 2024One thing that’s forgotten about the early years of SNL was how much it was a show that anyone could host.
So, Who Exactly Are the Main Suspects in the Wolverine Leak?
May 2024Ever since a not-quite-finished work print of Wolverine leaked online on Monday night, Fox executives have understandably been in a tizzy trying to figure out exactly how a copy of their $130 million film escaped their clutches.
Streamliner - Vulture
May 2024No one should have to try to find great entertainment on their own. Streamliner is Vulture’s comprehensive what-to-watch navigator: a regularly-updated overview of the best movies, TV shows, and original series for you to enjoy on the services of your choice.
SZA Fans, Desperate for New Music, Made an Unreleased Track Go Viral
May 2024Singer, songwriter, soul healer SZA. Another social-media platform, another place to bully musicians into releasing music. SZA fans are giving her the motivation to release new music by making unreleased snippets go viral on TikTok.
Taylor Swift Postpones Rio de Janeiro Concert Due to Extreme Temperatures
May 2024After a fan died from cardiorespiratory arrest at her Rio de Janeiro concert, Taylor Swift announced that she is postponing her Saturday show due to intense heat.
The 20 Best Real Housewives Fights
May 2024The suits at Bravo probably tell their advertisers that people watch the many Real Housewives iterations because the shows are aspirational: They offer viewers a window into a rarefied world that is out of reach for most of them.
The 25 Funniest Drunk History Segments, Ranked
May 2024In 2007, Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner produced six short sketches for Funny or Die called Drunk History, in which the inebriated retellings of historical events (Edison versus Tesla, the life of Benjamin Franklin) were reenacted with community-theater-level production values, A-list comedians, and total commitment to the storyteller’s every fumbled word and modern vernacular.
The Acts Calum Worthy on His Method for Making a Murderer
May 2024In order to play Nicholas Godejohn, the man who committed the murder at the heart of Hulu’s hit true-crime drama The Act, actor Calum Worthy may well have done more preparation than Godejohn and his then-girlfriend Gypsy Blanchard did for the murder itself.
The Basement Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The Expendables, Ranked by How Expendable They Are
May 2024It’s right there in the name: They’re expendable. The members of the mercenary team in Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables movies are theoretically the people who take on missions the government can’t or doesn’t want to take, and thus they’re especially willing to put their lives on the line in dangerous situations.
The Gentlemen Recap: Fight Night
May 2024The Gentlemen I’ve Hundreds of Cousins / All Eventualities Season 1 Episodes 5 - 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Gentlemen I’ve Hundreds of Cousins / All Eventualities Season 1 Episodes 5 - 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And just like that, we’re back on track.
The Hercules Musical Is Coming to Some Stage, Somewhere, Someday
May 2024During Sunday night’s temporary return of the The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Alan Menken — the man who brought you the music of The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, and Little Shop of Horrors — started rattling off what he’s been up to lately.
The Lost Roles of Bill Murray
May 2024Casting 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.
The OA - TV Episode Recaps & News
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The Office Recap: Life of Brian
May 2024The Office Junior Salesman/Vandalism Season 9 Episodes 13 - 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Office Junior Salesman/Vandalism Season 9 Episodes 13 - 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s not entirely clear why we had a double shot of The Office last night.
The Parody Puzzle
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The Police Could Turn Anything Into a Hit
May 2024Song Roulette A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles. Song Roulette A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles.
The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler
May 2024The girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom, and wrote herself into the world. Photo: Miriam Berkley Photo: Miriam Berkley This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
The Time Is Right to Rediscover Rubicon
May 2024Nine years ago, AMC was riding an original programming high. After trying to compete with Turner Classic Movies at its own game for over two decades, the veteran cable channel developed two flagship original dramas that would define their era of television.
The Weeknd Sued Over Sample Used in The Hills, Has Officially Reached Peak Stardom
May 2024“I can’t feel my face when I’m sued.” You’re not a music superstar until you’ve been taken to court over one of your hits.
Theater Review: The Performers
May 2024In The Performers, an entirely insubstantial, where’s-the-beef porn farce from the young playwright David West Read, a sensitive, self-regarding adult-film actor named “Mandrew” (Cheyenne Jackson) reveals a shocking personal secret to Lee (Daniel Breaker), the New York Post reporter who’s interviewing him on the eve of the Adult Video News Awards in Vegas: He talks to his mom every day, on the phone.
Theres Going to Be a Sonic the Hedgehog Movie
May 2024After the success of The Smurfs, Sony is doubling down on peoples’ nostalgia for decades-old blue creatures they grew up with.
Tracing the Career of Tween-Lit Doyenne Judy Blume
May 2024After 44 years, Judy Blume’s first feature-film adaptation, Tiger Eyes, arrives next week. In honor of that, we present below the tales of a fourth-graders’ superstar.
truTV Announces a Pile of Premiere Dates, New Series, and Shows in Development
May 2024Lots of news just broke over at truTV. When it comes to returning series, the network confirmed premiere dates for Guy Branum’s Talk Show the Game Show (Thursday, February 1st at 10:30pm and 11:00pm), The Chris Gethard Show (Tuesday, March 20th at 11:00pm), and six animated episodes of Adam Ruins Everything (Tuesday, March 20th at 10:00pm).
Um, We Should Talk About That Wild For All Mankind Finale
May 2024Gordo’s been jogging again. One of the best things about alternate history stories — good ones, at least — is the way they illustrate how tiny changes get magnified into enormous historical ramifications.
Vanderpump Rules - TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024Episode 24 Reunion Part 3 Episode 23 Reunion Part 2 Episode 22 Reunion Part 1 Episode 21 Welcome to TomTom Episode 20 Lost Cause Episode 19 Reiki Breaky Heart Episode 18 Karma’s a Bitch Episode 17 The Smoking Gun Episode 16 SUR Going South Episode 15 Nothing Here for Me Episode 14 Watch Your Back Episode 13 Vegas!
Vivarium Director Lorcan Finnegan Is Aware of How Creepy His Movie Seems Now
May 2024The story of the movie Vivarium dates all the way back to 2011, when director Lorcan Finnegan and screenwriter Garret Shanley made a short film called Foxes, about a young couple that gets trapped in an empty housing development.
Wanted to Watch Pixars Soul? Try These 5 Movies Instead.
May 2024I Lost My Body. If not for the pandemic, we’d be in the midst of Hollywood’s epic summer season, enjoying the nearly weekly unveiling of major movies, whether it’s the latest Wes Anderson comedy-drama (The French Dispatch) or the improbable return of Tom Cruise’s 1980s hot shot (Top Gun: Maverick).
Watch Billy Crystals Funny, Poignant Eulogy for Muhammad Ali
May 2024Billy Crystal, a close friend of Muhammad Ali, eulogized the boxing legend at his memorial service in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday.
Watch Robin Thicke Be All Sexy and Naked With His Wife, Paula Patton
May 2024Watch Alan Thicke’s son do the smooth-and-sexy R&B thing with wifey in the title track off his upcoming album. [Idolator]
We Made a Track List for Taylor Swifts Supposedly Lost Album
May 2024Being a Taylor Swift fan means you lean into speculation and theories no matter how out there they are.
What to Stress-Watch, and How to Watch It, on Election Night
May 2024Guide us through this, O mighty Wolf. Looking for Election Day news coverage? Literally throw your remote at the wall and see what channel it accidentally lands on — that’s how to find Election Day coverage on Tuesday, November 3, because it will be everywhere.
Whats Going on With House of the Dragons Mysaria?
May 2024Spoilers follow for House of the Dragon through episode nine, “The Green Council,” and George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood.
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Linda Nochlin Didnt Just Ask the Un-Askable, Sh
May 2024Linda Nochlin, standing in front of Deborah Kass’s 1997 work Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin). In 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin blew through the gates of art-world patriarchy with her paradigm-changing-on-a-dime essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
William Guest, Member of Gladys Knight and the Pips, Dead at 74
May 2024Guest, left, with the rest of the group in 1973. William Guest, who was a member of the legendary soul group Gladys Knight and the Pips, has died at 74.
Winter House Recap: An Indecent Proposal
May 2024Winter House Cold Shoulder Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winter House Cold Shoulder Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wait.
Younger Recap: Arrivals and Departures
May 2024Younger Make No Mustique Season 7 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Younger Make No Mustique Season 7 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Things have been so uneven on this final season of Younger that we’re now getting what we want (or perhaps for some viewers, wanted) — a Liza and Charles reunion — but it doesn’t feel in any way satisfying.
Michael K. Williams Shares His Tales of R. Kellys Wild, Weird Wrap Parties
May 2024trapped in the closet November 18, 2012 10:00 am Share Share Tweet Pin It 10 Photos This week, R.
11 (Not Obvious) Board Games You Can Play Over Zoom
May 2024With a little creativity, these excellent games work virtually. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Retailers Board games are having a moment right now, but there’s a tight constraint on the craze, since our options for players are limited to the folks with whom we’re self-isolating.
17 Moments in The Shining Where Jack Nicholson Looks Totally Crazy
May 2024It’s not often that classic horror films are discussed this early in the year (Halloween is five months away!), but this weekend’s release of Room 237, a documentary that explores the obsessions behind and crazy theories about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, has pushed the 1980 movie to the forefront of cinephile conversations.
96 Movies You May or May Not Want to See This Summer
May 2024Because cinema is back, baby! From top left, clockwise: Space Jam, The Suicide Squad, Fast & Furious 9, Zola, and In the Heights Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and A24 From top left, clockwise: Space Jam, The Suicide Squad, Fast & Furious 9, Zola, and In the Heights Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and A24 From top left, clockwise: Space Jam, The Suicide Squad, Fast & Furious 9, Zola, and In the Heights Sometime in the near future, you are possibly going to do something that might have been unthinkable a few months ago: You are going to go see a movie.
A Hopeful Dystopia
May 2024Station Eleven envisions a post-pandemic future that isn’t a total downer. Showrunner Patrick Somerville (left) and director Hiro Murai.
A Persia of the Mind and the Loins
May 2024Reza Shafahi is 83 years old. He grew up wealthy in Iran and was a famous wrestler. Then, Shafahi says, his “troubles began.
A Quick Guide to the Enigma That Is Diana Jenkins
May 2024“The only thing better than having it all is having even more!” says Diana Jenkins in her intro for season 12 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
A Stage Adaptation of Clue Is Coming to the Conservatory No, Wait, Ballroom No, Wait, Region
May 2024Colonel Mustard did it! It’s always Colonel Mustard! All your generic dinner theater murder mysteries are going to be so jealous, because Clue is getting an official stage adaptation.
All 87 Times Someone Says Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey
May 2024We’ve given you the thinking woman’s guide to Fifty Shades of Grey, the “mommy porn” literary sensation that just sold to Hollywood for millions of dollars, but there is still one notable quirk we need to discuss.
Anna Chickadee Cardwell, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Star, Dies at 29
May 2024Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, a star of TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the oldest daughter of Mama June Shannon, has died following a battle with stage-four adrenal carcinoma, according to her family.
Best Mad Men Props on eBay
May 2024Good news, Mad Men fans and office-furniture enthusiasts: The eagerly anticipated charity auction of Mad Men paraphernalia to benefit the lung-cancer program at California’s City of Hope hospital is finally under way on eBay (it ends August 22).
Big Mouth Season 3 Takes a Bigger-Picture View of Puberty
May 2024Missy (Jenny Slate), leading the rebellion against a dress code in season three of Big Mouth. In its animated portrait of kids navigating the choppy waters of puberty, Big Mouth has focused largely on the sexual aspects of coming of age.
Bobby Rydell, Bye Bye Birdie Star, Dead at 79
May 2024Bobby Rydell, Bye Bye Birdie actor and teen pop star, died at age 79 from pneumonia, according to Variety.
Brad Pitt, Actor and Sculptor, Has Excellent Taste in Music
May 2024Hand Brad Pitt the aux cord. Your local Wokest White Man in Hollywood has proven time and time again to be an art bae of the highest regard: He skipped the Oscars (where his Plan B–produced Moonlight won best picture) because he was busy sculpting.
Can You Answer the Jeopardy! Clues James Holzhauer Couldnt?
May 2024This quiz has been updated to reflect more questions James Holzhauer got wrong before his run came to an end.
Community Recap: Butt Crack Bandit!
May 2024Community Basic Intergluteal Numismatics Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Community Basic Intergluteal Numismatics Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Good morning.
Count the Jokes and Scenes that The Hangover Part II Reprised from The Hangover
May 2024The Hangover Part II set box-office records this weekend while getting bashed by the critics (Tomatometer score: 35.) And one could argue that the same cause has led to two different effects: While the familiarity of the sequel — the plot is nearly identical, and many quotes, scenes, and references are repeated — brought back the original movie’s audiences in droves, it also left critics turned off by perceived laziness.
Cozy Up With Julia, a Warm and Welcoming Treat
May 2024The effort to loop Julia Child (played by Sarah Lancashire) into the cultural and historical context of her time makes Julia a better show than it could otherwise have been.
Curb Your Enthusiasm Recap: Defamatory Brick
May 2024Curb Your Enthusiasm Fish Stuck Season 12 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Curb Your Enthusiasm Fish Stuck Season 12 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The fifth episode of this season of Curb Your Enthusiasm opens with a dedication to the late Richard Lewis, the great comedian and Larry David’s best frenemy, both on- and off-screen.
Deadwood Recap: All Are Necessary
May 2024Deadwood Here Was a Man Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Deadwood Here Was a Man Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to 12 Days of Deadwood, in which Matt Zoller Seitz, author of the upcoming A Lie Agreed Upon: The Deadwood Chronicles, revisits the first season of the landmark HBO drama one episode at a time.
Do Androids Dream of Nicolas Cage?
May 2024Nicolas Cage is playing his dream role. Or his nightmare role, depending on who you are. Dream Scenario is another example of the “A24 film that could only be led by Nicolas Cage” phenomenon, following Cage playing himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
Does Cookie Monster Have Legs? An Investigation
May 2024The head and shoulders in question. On Sesame Street, it’s nothing strange to see Elmo riding his tricycle, Grover flying through the air, or Big Bird just walking around.
Dominic West on The Affair and Idris Elbas Mike Wire
May 2024It’s been six long years since we’ve seen Dominic West’s cocksure cop McNulty patrolling the mean streets of Baltimore. The British actor returns Stateside in Showtime’s The Affair, an intimate relationship drama told from his-and-hers perspectives.
Drake Decides Boomboxes Are Overrated, Congratulates Rihanna With Billboard
May 2024When you’re making a grand gesture, and it happens to be for Rihanna, remember to always go with the billboard.
Eastbound & Down Co-creator Jody Hill on the Shows Most Cringeworthy Moments
May 2024When Eastbound & Down co-creator Jody Hill started making the show with Danny McBride, he remembers HBO voicing reservations about the constant F-word-ing.
Eric Jerome Dickey Wrote Books We Couldnt Wait to Grow Into
May 2024The author Eric Jerome Dickey, who died Sunday at 59. There are grown-folks books, and there is grown-folks business, both of which I found myself often meddling in too much as a kid.
Even If You Know Tina Turners Story, You Should Watch Tina
May 2024The one, the only. This review originally ran on March 24th, 2021. Since the documentary is a great way to celebrate the life and music of Tina Turner, who died today at 83, we’re republishing it.
Even Jean Doumanian Is Going to the SNL 40th Anniversary Special
May 2024If you thought Eddie Murphy and Jack Nicholson were unlikely guests for SNL’s 40th anniversary special on February 15th, get ready for another surprise: In a new interview with Deadline, former SNL producer Jean Doumanian – who briefly took over for Lorne Michaels after he left the show in 1980 – confirmed that she will also be attending the live event:
Every HBO Show, Ranked
May 2024Taking stock of the premium network’s formidable catalogue. Photo-Illustration: Emily Denniston/Vulture and Photos by HBO Photo-Illustration: Emily Denniston/Vulture and Photos by HBO This story was originally published in 2019 and has been updated to reflect HBO’s more recent titles.
Everything to Know About Tove Lo, Swedens Newest Pop Sensation
May 2024Last week, the Swedish pop singer Tove Lo made her American TV debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers; she’s climbing up the Hot 100; and she’s about to tour with Katy Perry.
Explaining the End of Hereditary
May 2024Alex Wolff in Hereditary. Major spoilers below for Hereditary. So you’ve made it through Hereditary. Well done! But are you feeling a little overwhelmed by that final scene?
Finding the Fun in Failure
May 2024Stage Fright Not all video-game levels are created easily. Stage Fright Not all video-game levels are created easily. People have strong feelings about Bennett Foddy.
Fleishman Is in Trouble Recap: If I Could Turn Back Time
May 2024Fleishman Is in Trouble Free Pass Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fleishman Is in Trouble Free Pass Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How the flim-flamming flip-flop did Toby Fleishman wind up here?
Fresh Off the Boat Recap: Dirty Laundry
May 2024Fresh Off the Boat How to Be an American Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fresh Off the Boat How to Be an American Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Randall Park as Louis, Constance Wu as Jessica.
George Saunderss New Novel His First Is Very, Very Weird
May 2024George Saunders’s face isn’t on any coins, but the post office issuing a Saunders stamp someday seems plausible. He’s not quite as beloved as the president who strides glumly through his new book, but for a writer, his approval ratings are high.
Gossip Girl Recap: Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
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Greta Gerwigs 10 Favorite Books
May 2024Bookseller One Grand Books asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they shared the results with Vulture.
Greyscale 101: Your Guide to GOTs Stoniest Malady
May 2024Jorah Mormont at the Citadel. Spoilers ahead for the Game of Thrones season-seven premiere. Jorah Mormont has reached rock bottom.
Here Are Some Glorious Photos of Beyonc in Ivy Park Merch
May 2024An entrepreneur. Well, if you haven’t received your giant orange Ivy Park clothing rack, then it’s safe to assume you’re not getting one.
Here Are Your 2017 Grammy Winners
May 2024Chance the Rapper. Music’s biggest night may have felt a little less star-studded this year, with some notable absences in Frank Ocean, Kanye West, and Drake, but the 2017 Grammy Awards still brought us the glory of Bruno Mars’ Prince tribute and a pregnant Beyoncé just sitting.
How Do the Wokest Parts of Mary Queen of Scots Line Up With History?
May 2024Mary Queen of Scots. Modern period pieces are in a pickle: Many of history’s most famous stories involve some degree of religious conflict, but those divisions are basically incomprehensible to contemporary audiences.
How Drag Races Resident Composer Is Bringing a Queer Sensibility to TV Music
May 2024In addition to being the de facto house composer for the last few seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Leland has written multiple tracks for The Other Two and Love, Victor.
How Michaela Coel Wrote I May Destroy Yous Dreamlike Ending
May 2024The original working title for I May Destroy You was January 22. Michaela Coel eventually scrapped it, in part, because she felt it would invite too many questions about how her own experience with sexual assault informed the series.
How the BoJack Horseman Animation Studio Tripped up Olivia Wildes Booksmart
May 2024Human Molly (BeanieFeldstein) and Human Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) holding some freaky dolls on set. “You have to put my heel in your hole.
I Took Two Kids to The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. They Noticed Things That I Didnt.
May 2024My 5-year-old companion, Alice, liked the dresses. To paraphrase Tolkien: One does not simply walk into The Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
Inside The New Show, Lorne Michaels Early-80s Sketch Show Flop
May 2024In the Broadway Video offices, I asked a couple of staffers if they had tapes of The New Show. “Of course,” replied the taller one.
Is This the Best Glendale Could Do for Taylor Swift?
May 2024A lavender haze is in the forecast for Glendale, Arizona, beginning on Friday, when Taylor Swift kicks off her Eras tour at the city’s State Farm Stadium.
Jamie Foxx on Hospitalization: I Didnt Want You to See Me Like That
May 2024Foxx. After being hospitalized back in April, Jamie Foxx is making bigger steps in his recovery process. Foxx posted a video on his Instagram Friday, July 21, thanking his fans for their support through his unnamed illness.
Jason Segel, Ed Helms to Play Brothers in Home
May 2024Mellow Bros: Jason Segel and Ed Helms will star in Jeff Who Lives at Home, a “stoner comedy” from Mark and Jay Duplass for Paramount.
Jennette McCurdy Reads a Belittling Email From Her Mom on Red Table Talk
May 2024I hope McCurdy and her inbox have found peace. Hopefully this news finds you better than this email found Jennette McCurdy.
Jerry Ferrara on the End of Entourage, Losing All That Weight, and the Meaning of Swagger
May 2024Turtle, Jerry Ferrara’s lovable Entourage character, is having one hell of an eighth and final season: He’s gone from being Vinny Chase’s wisecracking, weed-smoking broke friend to being Vinny Chase’s wisecracking, weed-smoking millionaire-investor friend.
Joe Budden Goes Rogue
May 2024This article first ran in Hot Pod, an industry-leading trade newsletter about podcasting by Nick Quah. This article first ran in Hot Pod, an industry-leading trade newsletter about podcasting by Nick Quah.
Julia Garner on Her Difficult Role on The Americans, and Kimmys Daddy Issues
May 2024“You know,” 15-year-old wild child Kimberly Breland tells her much older friend “Jim” on tonight’s episode of The Americans, “sometimes I think you’re the only one who really cares about me.
Kevin Costner Isnt Sorry for Casting His Beautiful, Whispering Boy
May 2024Shhh. Close your eyes and picture this: You’re on set just outside Moab, Utah; it’s 109 degrees; and you’re dressed in period costume to film Horizon: An American Saga with Kevin Costner himself, when suddenly you hear it: a whispering boy.
Kid Cudis Entergalactic Is Pretty, Affecting, and a Little Too Smooth
May 2024Craig Jenkins is a critic who writes about music and television and comedy and video games, and he wishes there were more than 24 hours in a day.
Lets Go Through Debra Messings Exceptional Instagram
May 2024Debra Messing’s Instagram is like your mom’s Instagram, but better. There are puppy kisses! Healthy snacks! She loves a good selfie.
Lets Talk About the Cliffhanger Ending of Fast X
May 2024How will our friends get out of this scrape?! Warning: This post spoils many plot details of Fast X.
Loretta Lynn Was Fearless
May 2024This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
Mac Miller Found a Home in Rap
May 2024Mac Miller. It’s not wrong to say that Mac Miller was misunderstood, but it’s not quite correct, either. The rapper — who was born in Pittsburgh, but spent much of his career in the San Fernando Valley — was often defined by these facts: he was a white guy who achieved quite a bit of success straight out of the gate, and he made rap music that went pop so fast, it felt like a default setting.
Man in Tutu and Monkey Penis Pouch Bravely Makes Olympic Debut
May 2024The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang have been a showcase of truly remarkable athleticism, grit, endurance, and sportsmanship.
Margot Robbies 24-Hour Birthday Party Sounds Exhausting as Hell
May 2024Two years ago, in honor of her 24th birthday, Margot Robbie invited her friends to a 24-hour birthday party slash unrelenting torture chamber of fun.
Mayfair Witches Recap: We Are Never Getting Back Together
May 2024Mayfair Witches Transference Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mayfair Witches Transference Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have a question.
Millie Bobby Browns Tarot Cards Read Gloria Steinem
May 2024The founder of Ms. magazine. Psychics can do a lot of things — talk to your dead grandfather, read the stars, tell you when a strong, handsome man is coming into your life, etc.
Mitski Joins the Choir on Bug Like an Angel
May 2024After her 2022 album Laurel Hell, Mitski’s sights may be set on something higher. The singer-songwriter released “Bug Like an Angel” on July 26, a simply strummed acoustic rumination that comes alive thanks to a 17-strong choir.
Movie Review: I Spit on Your Grave Is the Sickest Kind of Pleasure
May 2024I’ll never say the Red Sox suck again. I promise! There’s a new grave-spitter-on-er in town: comely Sarah Butler in Steven R.
My Brilliant Friend Premiere Recap: The Sounds of Violence
May 2024My Brilliant Friend Le Bambole (The Dolls) Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » My Brilliant Friend Le Bambole (The Dolls) Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » As a young girl in the 1950s, my mother was convinced that her maternal grandparents hated one another.
Noah Schnapp Breaks Down His Hardest, Scariest Stranger Things 2 Scenes
May 2024The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.
People! Are! Worth! Saving!
May 2024Over the last 72 [checks iPhone to see what day it is and also what year it is at this point] hours, I have lost the ability to mark the passing of time.
Poker Face Series-Premiere Recap: A Knives Out TV Mystery
May 2024Poker Face Dead Man’s Hand Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Poker Face Dead Man’s Hand Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » To have a poker face is to be entirely inscrutable — free to lie without the threat of detection, free even to tell outrageous truths without betraying a hint of self-consciousness.
Red-Carpet Look Book: Carey Mulligan
May 2024With her pixieish looks and bona fide ingenue status, Carey Mulligan has been dubbed “the new Audrey Hepburn” more times than she probably cares to count — but none of Hepburn’s LBDs were made of embellished leather, like Mulligan’s gladiatorial Prada number.
Richard Curtis on About Time, Love Actually, and Being a Fool for Love
May 2024Richard Curtis. Ten years (ten years!) after Love Actually, writer-director Richard Curtis has returned with his newest romantic comedy, About Time.
Robyns Emotional Catharsis
May 2024Pop stars cannot afford to go away, but Swedish artist Robyn has never been like any other pop star. Honey — her eighth album, released last year — was her first in eight years.
Roy Wood Jr. and Jordan Klepper Put North Carolinas HB2 Law to the Test on The Daily Show
May 2024Here’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where correspondent Roy Wood Jr. heads down to Raleigh to put North Carolina’s HB2 law, or “bathroom bill,” to the test by setting up a fake barbecue food truck and refusing service to anyone he suspects might be gay.
Russian Dolls Love Letter to Video Games
May 2024Charlie Barnett and Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll. “All right,” Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia Vulvokov says in the opening minutes of Russian Doll, as she surveys a birthday party we’ll come to know very, very well over the next eight episodes.
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Saweetie Runs (Around) the World in Her New Fast (Motion) Music Video
May 2024If you’re wondering how Saweetie keeps up her torrent of new material coming out this spring, it might have something to do with her ability to grow 50 feet tall and run around the circumference of the Earth at will.
See Some Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Blues Brothers
May 2024In 1978, photographer Norman Seeff got to goof off with the men in black. Sources Retronaut See Some Never-Before-Seen Blues Brothers Photos ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dga3yvsdWeqWaalZu8s7GMrJyepl2Xubax0maZq6eknbKzv4ypn6isn6h7qcDMpQ%3D%3D
See the First Picture of Daniel Craig in Skyfall
May 2024For the first time ever, James Bond could use a shave. [MTV Movies] See the First Picture of Daniel Craig in Skyfall ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZ3ylrc2inKVlk6euqrOMrKKynpGhuW%2B006aj
SnowfallRecap: Liars, Tigers, and Bears
May 2024Snowfall The Iliad: Part 2 Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Snowfall The Iliad: Part 2 Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At the end of Homer’s 24-book-length poem The Iliad, the mighty Greek warrior Achilles slaughters his Trojan enemy, Hector, for his role in the death of his friend, Patroclus.
South Parks Trey Parker and Matt Stone Revive Casa Bonita Restaurant
May 2024Fans of themed dining experiences, rejoice! The creators of South Park have announced a reopening date for famed gimmicky Mexican restaurant Casa Bonita and restore it to its former glory.
Succession Did It in Episode Three
May 2024“Connor’s Wedding” is a triumph of anticlimax. Spoilers for season four, episode three, of Succession, “Connor’s Wedding.” A familiar set of tropes tends to accompany a main character’s death on television, and it often involves enormous, overwrought hoopla.
Tara Reid Answers Every Question We Have About The Big Lebowski
May 2024Role 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.
Taylor Swift Playing a Dead Body on CSI Sums Up Her Entire Brand
May 2024Taylor Swift as Haley Jones in 2009 CSI episode, “Turn, Turn, Turn,” opposite George Eads as Nick Stokes. By March of 2009, you might have seen 19-year-old Taylor Swift on the cover of Rolling Stone, clutching a guitar and defiantly gazing at the camera through a puff of blonde hair.
Thats Where I Am Is Maggie Rogerss New York Movie Moment
May 2024Where is Maggie Rogers in her “That’s Where I Am” music video? New York! The singer-songwriter took a little leave from grad school at Harvard to return to the concrete jungle where music videos are made and shoot a little clip for her latest, the first single off upcoming album Surrender.
The 15 Best Comedy Clubs in North America
May 2024In partnership with Humber College’s Comedy Writing and Performance program. For the last four decades, live standup has defined itself in relation to comedy clubs, those altars of joke-telling that began building their congregations during the 1980s comedy boom.
The Afterparty Season-Finale Recap: Saving Grace
May 2024The Afterparty Vivian and Zoë Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Afterparty Vivian and Zoë Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The time has come for us, fans of The Afterparty — the time to find out whodunnit once and for all and to wrap up all the other storylines of the season.
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ranked
May 2024Avery Brooks in Deep Space Nine. When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered 25 years ago, it was entering into a storied science-fiction enterprise that prized camaraderie and intellectual curiosity.
The Big Bang Theory Recap: When Sheldon Met Sheldon
May 2024The Big Bang Theory The VCR Illumination Season 12 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The VCR Illumination Season 12 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, give it up to Sheldon Cooper for being incredibly resilient in the face of what he’d considered a career-defining failure.
The Coldest Case in Laramie Is Serials Grimmest Production Yet
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The Continentals Big Bad Problem
May 2024The Continental relies on Mel Gibson to give main baddie Cormac O’Connor depth and a suggested inner life — which he doesn’t.
The Definitive Guide to 2019s Deluge of New Christmas Movies
May 2024There are people out there who, every year, complain about “Christmas creep.” They fret about how all of the numbing, consumerist holiday malarkey — store displays and ad campaigns and Starbucks promotions — starts earlier and earlier every fall.
The Dropouts Camryn Mi-young Kim on Capturing the Groundedness of Whistleblower Erika Cheun
May 2024Camryn Mi-young Kim As depicted in The Dropout, Elizabeth Holmes built her doomed blood-testing start-up Theranos, valued near $9 billion at its height, on technology that never existed.
The Four Realms From The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Explained
May 2024Gang’s all here. Midway through the title of the movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, you arrive in an uncertain place, much like Dante at the beginning of The Inferno.
The Jury in Taylor Swifts Trial Finds David Mueller Guilty of Assault and Battery
May 2024After about four hours of deliberation, jurors for the Taylor Swift sexual-assault trial in Denver, Colorado, unanimously found former radio host David Mueller guilty of assault and battery during a meet-and-greet event in 2013.
The Killing Recap: Its On
May 2024The Killing Seventeen Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Killing Seventeen Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, so let me get this straight.
The Last of Uss Merle Dandridge Doesnt Know If Marlene Was Right
May 2024Spoilers follow for the season finale of The Last of Us, “Look for the Light.” When Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin were casting the HBO drama The Last of Us, they brought on several voice actors from the original game.
The Microbes Puzzle
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May 2024lights camera action June 28, 2024 15 Horror Movies About ShowbizMaXXXine is the latest in a canon of films about how Hollywood’s dream is killing us.
The Outsider Recap: Lost Colony
May 2024The Outsider Roanoke Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Outsider Roanoke Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Why did HBO choose to open The Outsider with a two-night premiere?
The Righteous GemstonesRecap: Second-Chance Men
May 2024The Righteous Gemstones Never Avenge Yourselves, But Leave It to the Wrath Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Righteous Gemstones Never Avenge Yourselves, But Leave It to the Wrath Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In all likelihood, Eli Gemstone lives to see another day.
The Star Market: Can The Conspirator Energize James McAvoys Career?
May 2024James McAvoy stars in movies, but he’s not yet a movie star. He seemed on the cusp right after 2008’s blockbuster Wanted, but in the years since he’s pulled back, focusing on prestige fare like Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination drama The Conspirator, out in theaters today.
The Teens on 13 Reasons Why Have a Lot of Tattoos
May 202413 Reasons Why. Here’s a list of things I did when I was 15: I labeled myself cool because I was using Netflix Instant to get into a totally obscure show called Freaks and Geeks.
Theater Review: Can Kiss Me, Kate Survive a 2019 Gaze?
May 2024From the Roundabout’s Kiss Me, Kate, at Studio 54. This might count as blasphemy, but sometime after high school, I began to wonder if Monty Python and the Holy Grail is more fun to sit around and talk about than to actually watch.
This Is What Christian Bale Looks Like With a Comb-Over
May 2024Are you the sort of person who likes to be prepared for things — say, the way a celebrity-slash-superhero might look once hair loss begins?
This Weekends Concerts, From Buddy Guy to Wu-Tang Clan
May 2024Our latest installment of the past weekend’s live music festivities is short, sweet, and, as always, aggressively eclectic. On the docket: Melvins, Weezer, Natalie Cole, Flo Rida, Buddy Guy, Wu-Tang Clan, Harry Connick Jr.
Timeless Series Finale Recap: The Ghosts of Christmas Future
May 2024Timeless The Miracle of Christmas Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Timeless The Miracle of Christmas Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The only item on my Christmas list this year was a copy of Lucy’s damn journal.
Toronto: If Scarlett Johansson Tried to Seduce You, Would You Even Realize?
May 2024The editors of Us Weekly have really fallen down on their jobs: For several weeks in 2011, Scarlett Johansson drove around Glasgow trying to have sex with random dudes, and nobody reported a thing!
Torrey Peters Goes There
May 2024The author’s debut novel, Detransition, Baby, wades into two of the most vulnerable questions for trans women. Detransition, Baby (One World) is out January 12.
Watch a Mash-Up of Celebrities Demanding Gun Control (in Real Life) Gratuitously Using Guns (Onscree
May 2024Last week, we pointed you to a PSA from Mayor Bloomberg’s gun-control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, in which the rich, famous, and pretty decried the need for stricter gun control (or something not quite specified).
Watch an Early Teaser for Alejandro Gonzlez Irritus Biutiful
May 2024Javier Bardem is a drug addict with two months to live in what is unlikely to be the funniest movie of the year.
We Have Many Questions About That The Undoing Finale
May 2024Does one place a murder weapon in the top rack or bottom rack of the dishwasher? The last episode of the HBO miniseries and Nicole Kidman wig showcase The Undoing, “The Bloody Truth,” ended with a bang, a whimper, and the thwap, thwap, thwap sound of an incoming helicopter.
Weezer Just Put Out This Really Messy Cannoli Commercial Thats Really Their New Single Th
May 2024Rivers Cuomo. Weezer have released a semi-lyric music video for their latest single, “Thank God for Girls,” which, as it turns out, is a lot like watching a mix of a weird Carl’s Jr.
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Recap: The True Meaning of Kibbutz
May 2024Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Staff Party Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Staff Party Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wet Hot American Summer.
Who Cares About Joke Stealing?
May 2024Unpopular Opinions is a new weekly column in which a writer takes a stand against popular opinion, whether it’s asserting the true merit of a supposedly guilty pleasure or dissenting against the universally lauded.
Will & Grace Recap: Oldies But Goodies
May 2024Will and Grace Who’s Your Daddy Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Will and Grace Who’s Your Daddy Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Now this is the Will & Grace revival I’ve been waiting to see!
Winters Bones John Hawkes on His Oscar Nomination and Deadwood-Inspired Cussing
May 2024Prior to earning an Oscar nomination for his menacing, mercurial turn in the Ozarks meth drama Winter’s Bone, John Hawkes, a scruffy dude from rural Minnesota with an expansive résumé of roles as underdogs and lowlifes, was simply That Guy.
Ye Is Praying That He and Kim Kardashian Get Back Together
May 2024There’s nothing like a holiday to make you want to reach out to an ex. On Thursday, November 24, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) posted an Instagram video captioned “Thanksgiving Prayer,” in which he expressed his desire to reconcile with Kim Kardashian.
18 Jokes That Would Get Jerry Seinfeld Canceled Today
May 2024Ya canceled! On April 28, a puff of white smoke emerged from every highly combustible Cybertruck engine in America, signaling that Elon Musk has elected a new anti-woke warrior.
29 Celebrities Who Deserved to Jockstrap-Up Before Kim Kardashian
May 2024Paddington Bear and Kim Kardashian. Kim Kardashian recently exposed her weapons of ass destruction on the cover of Interview magazine, wearing a white jockstrap in front of the American flag as the Founding Daddies intended.
30 Rock Recap: Its a Jack-Off
May 202430 Rock Today You Are A Man Season 6 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 30 Rock Today You Are A Man Season 6 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 30 Rock never hurts for jokes, and last night’s episode had plenty of solid — even hilarious — moments and lines.
A History of X-Men: Days of Future Pasts Incredibly Uneven Marketing Campaign
May 2024The X-Men franchise is one of Hollywood’s biggest, but even though Fox has had now seven chances to get things right, these movies have never, ever been marketed all that well.
A Righteous Cock Fight
May 2024How The Righteous Gemstones pulled off a giddy, gruesome, emotionally devastating “mid-jack-off” altercation. Photo: HBO Photo: HBO Spoilers follow for the sixth episode of the third season of The Righteous Gemstones, “For Out of the Heart Comes Evil Thoughts,” which premiered on HBO on July 16.
After Atypical, Keir Gilchrist Is Done Playing Teenagers
May 2024Keir Gilchrist. Keir Gilchrist, 24, has played high schoolers for most of his career, from his first major role on The United States of Tara, as a gay teenager named Marshall, to lovestruck teens in indie films like It’s Kind of a Funny Story and It Follows.
All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Take the Biscuits, Edward
May 2024All Creatures Great and Small Edward Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Edward Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I don’t know why this season continues to keep our beloved characters apart, but I am metaphorically picketing the writers with a little sign that says, “Everyone in the same room.
An Unsub at Paramount+ Is Reviving Criminal Minds
May 2024A.J. Cook. Crime procedurals never die. Whether they live on in syndication, streaming libraries, or with a full-on reboot, someone with long wavy hair is solving a murder every minute of every day.
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Bates Motel Series-Finale Recap: Good Night, Norman
May 2024Bates Motel The Cord Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Bates Motel The Cord Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates.
Behind the Camera with Ken Marino
May 2024Although Ken Marino says he learned nothing about how to be a Latin lover while directing How to Be a Latin Lover, he enjoyed collaborating on the development of such an outlandish character.
Better Call Saul Recap: Dead Ends and Fresh Starts
May 2024Better Call Saul Winner Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Better Call Saul Winner Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Werner was never able to see when the real danger was coming.
Beyoncs Appearance on J. Balvin and Willy Williams Mi Gente Points Toward a Better, Mo
May 2024Musicians and their fans routinely speak of music as a universal language, and they’re not entirely wrong. Melodies and rhythms really do float over the barriers of spoken language that separate the human race.
Billions Recap: Master of Puppets
May 2024Billions Short Squeeze Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Short Squeeze Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades.
Bon Jovi Founding Bassist Alec John Such Has Died
May 2024Alec John Such, the original bassist for Bon Jovi, has died. He was 70. Jon Bon Jovi announced the passing of his former bandmate on social media, writing “To be honest, we found our way to each other thru him — He was a childhood friend of Tico and brought Richie to see us perform.
Brandi Carliles Story Is Too Big to Fit in a Song
May 2024The folk-rock star’s memoir Broken Horses offers the most intimate look into her life yet. Photo: Jai Lennard Brandi Carlile has been plagued with terrible sore throats since she was a little kid.
Brett Gelman Punched and Kicked His Way to Becoming Stranger Things Action Hero
May 2024My fingers are like arrows! My arms, like iron! My feet, like spears! With no disrespect to Vecna and his 001 tattoo, the biggest surprise in Stranger Things 4 was the reveal that Murray, the show’s resident conspiracy theorist with a fondness for kimonos, wasn’t bullshitting about his karate prowess: He whoops the ass of a Russian smuggler 10,000 feet in the air in the fifth episode, kicking off his metamorphosis into an unflinching action hero.
Brit Marling Shares Harvey Weinstein Story, Calls Out Hollywoods Soft and Sometimes Literal
May 2024Brit Marling. In a new article for The Atlantic, Brit Marling talks about her own hotel-room confrontation with Harvey Weinstein, the “economics of consent,” and the sexual politics that startled her when she first arrived in Hollywood.
Bryan Adams Goes Wide With It in Bizarro Coronavirus Veganism Rant
May 2024On Monday, singer Bryan Adams swung so wide with a coronavirus rant, he spun past concert cancellations, whizzed by “bat eating,” and landed on, of course, veganism.
Chewbacca Is a Can of Coke Zero Now
May 2024A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Chewbacca was a wookiee. He was friends with Han Solo and a tough cookie.
Claire Messud Writes Novels for a Different Century
May 2024Claire Messud’s best-known book, The Emperor’s Children, came out in 2006. It is the sort of best seller you don’t encounter as much these days, ponderous and churning with detail.
Clarence Williams III, The Mod Squad and Purple Rain Star, Dies at the Age of 81
May 2024Clarence Williams III, Linc Hayes in ABC’s The Mod Squad, died Friday at the age of 81 due to colon cancer, his management confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
Cold Caves Wes Eisold, the Worlds Least Likely Critical Darling, on Hardcore, Theft, and Makin
May 2024It’s 3:30 a.m. on a recent weeknight outside a private second-floor rock club above a deli on Avenue B. Wes Eisold, the man behind Manhattan synth-pop project Cold Cave, is smoking with a D.
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May 2024comics talk to comics Feb. 4, 2016 Ben Schwartz Talks to Paul F. Tompkins“To me, the making each other laugh is the by-product of it.
Crunchyroll Is Finally Fusing With Funimation
May 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. “Fuuuuuu-sion! HA!” It’s official now: The anime streaming giants that merged last year are consolidating their libraries under a single orange flag.
Dakota Johnson Confirms Her Grandma Tippi Hedren Still Lives With, Oh, 13 or 14 Lions and Tigers
May 2024Is Dakota Johnson extremely mellow about the sheer number of big cats owned by her grandmother, The Birds and Marnie star Tippi Hedren, because she’s so used to being around lions and tigers, or is that just Dakota Johnson’s whole vibe?
Disgust Is Tom Seguras Love Language
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Doja Cats Most Satanic Scarlet Lyrics, Ranked
May 2024Doja Cat cosplaying as Lucifer in the “Paint the Town Red” music video. Another year, another satanic-panic record.
Drake Files Lawsuit Against Woman Who Allegedly Lied About Pregnancy and Rape
May 2024Drake. Drake has filed a lawsuit against a woman whom he claims to have had a consensual sexual encounter with, who then went on to allegedly make false accusations against him.
Edelstein on A Million Ways to Die in the West: Theres One Good Joke
May 2024There’s one good meta-joke in A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane’s Western parody-cum-vehicle for his own charm: that life on the frontier in 1880 is venal and backward, and that “everyone wants to kill you.
Every Black Mirror Episode, Ranked
May 2024This list was previoiusly published. It has been updated to include episodes from Black Mirror’s sixth season. Anthologies are all the rage these days, from Ryan Murphy’s ever-expanding empire of miniseries to Joe Swanberg’s collection of romance shorts.
Every Celebrity Tahani Has Name-Dropped on The Good Place
May 2024You don’t have to watch The Good Place for long to realize that Tahani Al-Jamil is more than a hot, rich fraud with legs for days.
Fox News Wont Stop Attacking Red Hot Chili Peppers for Some Inexplicable Reason
May 2024When the Red Hot Chili Peppers released The Getaway earlier this summer, one middle-aged dude certainly didn’t buy the album: Fox News host Greg Gutfeld.
Future Man Is a Bawdy, Tiresome Riff on Sci-Fi Classics
May 2024Future Man is not unwatchable, but it’s pretty bad. Hulu’s time-travel comedy about a janitor recruited to save humanity from extinction is produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the minds behind This Is the End, Superbad, and Pineapple Express, and written by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, who penned the screenplay for Rogen and Goldberg’s Sausage Party.
Geddy Lee Will Release a Memoir in 2112 No, Sorry, 2022
May 2024If we don’t get an entire chapter dedicated to the infamous Colbert Report interview, well … who are we kidding, we’ll be devouring it with a bunch of honeydew regardless.
Girls Recap: Too Much History
May 2024Girls What Will We Do This Time About Adam? Season 6 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Girls What Will We Do This Time About Adam?
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May 2024the real housewives of potomac Sept. 29, 2020 A Literary Analysis of Gizelle Bryant’s Award-Winning NovelLet’s review some of the best literary devices in My Word, the recipient of the African American Literary Award for Best Fiction.
Greys Anatomy Recap: The Old Switcheroo
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy Odd Man Out Season 12 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Odd Man Out Season 12 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ellen Pompeo as Meredith.
Hear Japanese Breakfast Cover Weezers Say It Aint So
May 2024Oh, how the tables turn, Mr. Cuomo! Weezer, the band that is now a glorified cover band (and seems pretty chill about it) has become the covered.
Heels TV Episode Recaps & News
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Here Are the 2016 Oscar Winners
May 2024To the victors go the statuettes. The least-predictable Oscars race in recent memory just wrapped. A few categories were nearly locked in—see Best Actor and Actress.
I Basically Had to Sell Myself Again: How Barbra Streisand Got The Broadway Album Made
May 2024An exclusive excerpt from her memoir. Photo: Richard Corman Editor’s note: In 1985, coming off the success of Yentl and more than a decade of mostly rock and pop recording, Barbra Streisand began work on what was to become The Broadway Album.
In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino
May 2024We’re five months from the release of The Hateful Eight. How close to finishing are you? We’ve got a little bit more than an hour finished right now.
ITS STAN LEES UNIVERSE
May 2024Stan Lee died at the age of 95 on November, 12, 2018. This piece was initially published in early 2016.
Jason Sudeikis to Join Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, and Kristen Wiig in Heist Comedy
May 2024Director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) is building one hell of a cast for his next movie, an untitled comedy about an armored car heist.
Julie Klausners Fight for Gender Equality Through Vagina Jokes
May 2024Difficult People. Over the course of a three-season run on Hulu, Difficult People featured hundreds, if not thousands of jokes.
Justin Kirk on the Weeds Backlash, Uncle Andys Classic Masturbation Monologue, and Missing
May 2024He can romance his teenage nephew’s girlfriend, fall in love with his dead brother’s wife, teach a tween uncomfortable lessons about self-pleasuring with a microwaved banana peel, horn in on his sister-in-law’s drug-dealing business, and still serve as the moral center of the family — if the family in question happens to be on the lam, and mom is in the slammer.
Kate Berlant Plays the Fool
May 2024The influential, very offline comedian perfects her self-described clown show. Photo: Philip Montgomery This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
Kendrick Lamar Earns His Black Belt in Rap on the DAMN. Tour
May 2024Kendrick, at an earlier performance. Kendrick Lamar admittedly knows very little about kung fu, at least not the Chinese discipline most associated with martial arts.
Lady Gaga to Melania Trump: Your Husband Is 1 of the Most Notorious Bullies We Have Ever Witnesse
May 2024When Melania Trump made an appearance on Thursday for Donald Trump’s campaign, she delivered a speech to supporters in Philadelphia discussing her plan to eliminate internet bullying if she becomes First Lady of the United States, EW reports.
Leaked Clip From Where the Wild Things Are Looks Great, Whatever It Is
May 2024Update: Warner Bros. to Fire Spike Jonze from Where the Wild Things Are? Earlier: Exclusive: We Read the Where the Wild Things Are Script
Let Fallen Leaves Finnish Gloom Give You Life
May 2024The great Aki Kaurismäki delivers one of his most charming films with this tale of missed romantic connections.
Listen to This Beck and Sia Duet From the Annie Soundtrack
May 2024Expected songs on the Annie soundtrack: “Hard Knock Life,” “Maybe,” “Tomorrow.” Unexpected songs on the Annie soundtrack: “Little Girls (2014 Film Version),” a Miss Hannigan redemption song (“Who Am I”), and a duet by Beck and Sia.
Mad Men Recap: The Price of Impulsiveness
May 2024Mad Men Commissions and Fees Season 5 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mad Men Commissions and Fees Season 5 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There were two central dramas on Sunday’s Mad Men, a luxurious shame bath titled “Commissions and Fees.
Method Actor Shia LaBeouf Charged With Battery and Petty Theft for Stealing a Hat
May 2024If you ever get into a fight with Shia LaBeouf, be sure to hold onto your hat. The actor, who recently turned heads with his committed of performance as Jeff Spicoli in the Fast Times at Ridgemont High reading, is back in the news for allegedly fighting with man and ultimately stealing his hat.
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May 2024‘80s royalty June 12, 2024 The Brat Pack, RevisedThe original New York magazine article that defined the term didn’t capture who the true teen stars of the ‘80s were.
MSNBC Taps Two New Anchors to Replace Joy Reid on Weekends
May 2024Six months after MSNBC promoted anchor Joy Reid to weeknights, the cable-news network has finally settled on a replacement for her on the weekends.
New Parody of Judd Apatow Films Makes Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer Look Like Geniuses
May 2024Aside from perhaps Uwe Boll, there aren’t two more maligned people in Hollywood than the creative duo of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the schmucks who have brought you feature-length parody movies like Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, and Date Movie.
Once and Future Oscar Winners Star in Tom Brady Fan-Fiction Film
May 2024Gisele Bündchen may be off the Tom train, but there are still four women who have a thing for Mr.
Orange Is the New Blacks Taylor Schilling on Cockroaches, Laura Prepon, and Pipers White-Privi
May 2024Please be advised: For this interview, we talked to Taylor Schilling about the second season of Orange Is the New Black, from top to bottom.
Quiet Obsessions, Unplugged: Aberdeen and The Animal Kingdom
May 2024Cassie Workman in Aberdeen. When the SoHo Playhouse isn’t kitted out with a full set, you can really feel its age.
Rachel Bilson Says She Lost a Job After Speaking Openly About Sex
May 2024Rachel Bilson revealed that she recently lost a job over remarks she made on a podcast about her sex life.
Radical Optimism Gets Some Radical Meme-ism
May 2024Meme queen Dua Lipa has released her latest record, Radical Optimism, with, well, radical optimism. It’s in the middle of the girlie-pop renaissance, with what feels like hundreds of new pop albums dominating the airwaves.
Reading The Worst Person in the Worlds Glowing Reviews Made Renate Reinsve Puke
May 2024The Norwegian actress leads Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World. Her performance (and that tampon scene) is grabbing attention.
Sarah Silverman - Vulture
May 2024appreciations June 24, 2021 A Tribute to ‘Good King’ ConanTwelve comedians reflect on O’Brien’s incredibly influential late-night legacy. By Dan Reilly
See the Super Bowl Ad for Kung Fu Panda 2
May 2024Will this help the movie win its upcoming Battle of the Sequels? [ET] See the Super Bowl Ad for Kung Fu Panda 2 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgZ3y0scSYq6Gdj6jCsbHRmJmor5yUrqWrxaipmKOlo7RvtNOmow%3D%3D
Seitz: Roger Ebert on TV Was the Gateway Drug for New Film Obsessives
May 2024I grew up in Kansas City and Dallas in the seventies and eighties. To put it mildly, these were not film towns.
Selling Sunsets Emma Hernan Is in Her Single-Girl Era
May 2024Emma Hernan is no stranger to power moves. Zipping around on private jets, running an empanada business while selling A-list properties, walking on ledges, and filming a hit reality show are all in a day’s work.
Short Reviews of the 7 Nintendo Switch Games That Arent Zelda
May 2024The Switch, Nintendo’s first console since 2012’s Wii U, arrived in stores last Friday (and then quickly disappeared). Ireally like it (even if parts of it still feel rushed).
Shuck the Shuck Up and Listen
May 2024Now that the sun’s out and temps are up, it’s time to declare a song of spring. “Song of spring” doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily as “song of summer,” but it’s a real thing, and it’s necessary to have something playing in your ears as you strut to the subway.
Stephen Colbert Wants His Late-Night Podcast to Be TikTok for Your Ears
May 2024Listen up: Stephen Colbert has launched a companion podcast for his late-night show, and he wants you to know that it will be like “TikTok for your ears.
Suzanne Shepherd, Sopranos and Goodfellas Actress, Dead at 89
May 2024Suzanne Shepherd. Suzanne Shepherd, the actress best known for her roles in The Sopranos and Goodfellas, has died at the age of 89, Variety reports.
Take the Johnny Depp Movie-Hair Quiz
May 2024In the sci-fi thriller Transcendence, which opens this weekend, Johnny Depp spends the majority of his time onscreen inside a computer.
Talking to Wayne White About Cartooning, Pee-wees Playhouse, and Humors Role in the Art
May 2024Prior to the release of the 2012 documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing, artist Wayne White’s work had much more mainstream recognition than his name.
The 20 Best Comedies on Hulu Right Now
May 2024Empire Records. Don't have Hulu yet? Sign up here This post is updated frequently as movies leave and enter Hulu.
The 46 Best Movies Over 3 Hours Long
May 2024This story was originally published in 2016 and has been updated to include more movies. There’s something to be said for movies that get in and out in under 90 minutes, but there’s also a distinct pleasure in watching those movies whose running times sprawl beyond three hours — especially if you happen to, say, be quarantined at home for extended periods of time.
The AfterpartyRecap: Mad Dog
May 2024The Afterparty Danner Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Afterparty Danner Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I still can’t decide whether I would’ve preferred this episode to be substantially longer or not to exist at all.
The Comedy Cellar Is Coming to a Big Screen Near You
May 2024If you went to the movies the week of December 18, 1987, you were spoiled for choice. You could have bought tickets to see blockbusters like Wall Street; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; or Three Men and a Baby.
The Conspiracist Manual That Influenced a Generation of Rappers
May 2024From Pale Horse Rider, by Mark Jacobson, to publish September 4 by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
The Crowns Balmoral Test Barbours Are Not Just Jackets
May 2024The clothes in Netflix’s The Crown are impressively, forensically accurate. Prince Charles wears the three-button, narrow-lapel suits he favored as a youth before switching to drapey double-breasted numbers later in life.
The Daily Show (and Its Circus of Guest Hosts) Is Back
May 2024Hosts du jour. One Dulcé Sloan stranded in the host’s chair, one successful WGA strike, one Hasan Minhaj truth-in-comedy exposé , and one departed Roy Wood Jr.
The Enduring Uncoolness of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
May 2024The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are not cool, and haven’t been since creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s 1984 comic introduced them to the world.
The Expanses Dominique Tipper on Naomi Nagatas Hard Time in Hard Vacuum
May 2024If the politics of our current world feel violent and chaotic, just wait to see what we get up to in the far-flung future of Amazon Prime Video’s The Expanse.
The Golden Compass: Armored-Polar- Bear Fight!
May 2024When this, the much-anticipated film version of Philip Pullmann’s beloved fantasy novel, hit theaters, fanboys were up in arms: That’s not what Lord Asriel’s like!
The Gossip Girl Superfan Quiz
May 2024So, you know Gossip Girl: where Humphreys live and how they feel about waffles and excessive eye makeup; where Waldorfs wanted to go to college and their love of Audrey Hepburn; whom the Van der Woodsens have dated and where they celebrate Thanksgiving; what the Bass family does to numb the pain and their favorite color.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Series-Premiere Recap: Spontaneity and Wit
May 2024The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** If you’re the type to pick up what Amy Sherman-Palladino is putting down, the pilot of The Marvelous Mrs.
The On Fire Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The Pink Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The Prosecutor Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The Punisher Is an Ultraviolent Mistake
May 2024Jon Bernthal in The Punisher. Marvel’s The Punisher, which spotlights a supporting character from season two of Daredevil, is frustrating even by the standards of Marvel’s hit-and-miss Netflix programs.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Spain in the Butt
May 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Tapas and Tattletales Season 13 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Tapas and Tattletales Season 13 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week on our favorite program, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things in Spain!
The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Heir Jordan
May 2024The Real Housewives of Miami Adios Mexico! Season 6 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Adios Mexico!
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Reality Reckoning
May 2024The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Mysteries, Revealed? Season 4 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Mysteries, Revealed?
The Rolling Stones Cant Get What They Want, Since Trump Keeps Using Their Music
May 2024Perhaps inspired to reach their full Pet-tential by the recent action of a certain music icon’s estate, the Rolling Stones have threatened to pursue legal action against Donald Trump for his continued use of their music at political rallies.
The Trailer for Smile Boldly Asks, What If Smiling But Scary?
May 2024When the Vulture staff saw that a trailer for a new film titled Smile had been released, we kicked back our feet, ready to enjoy the show.
The Transatlantic Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The True Winners and Losers of the 2024 Las Culturistas Culture Awards
May 2024’Twas the night before the Tonys, and all through Kings Theatre … nobody cared because a much more important awards show hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang was already underway.
The Walking Dead Recap: Overdone
May 2024The Walking Dead Prey Season 3 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead Prey Season 3 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, that was productive.
There Might Be Another Maya Rudolph Show in the Works
May 2024Another Maya Rudolph variety special — or even a series — could be in the works at NBC. The network always described last May’s special as a sort of backdoor pilot, but after it aired, execs didn’t say much publicly about whether the ratings were good enough to warrant more Maya.
Tim Minchin Is Making a Groundhog Day Musical
May 2024Tim Minchin and Matthew Warchus, the composer and director of Tony-winning Matilda the Musical, are adapting the 1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day into a stage musical, The Daily Mail reports.
Tina Turner Upstaged Everyone
May 2024Before Tina Turner became a pop star, she was a rock pioneer. Turner, who died this week at the age of 83, got her start at 18 years old, frequenting the Manhattan Club in St.
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Are De-Aged to Teenagers in Here
May 2024Well, it looks like Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis is making another feel-good life-story epic for those nostalgic about the past.
Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Story Tasters
May 2024Top Chef Goodbye Wisconsin Season 21 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Top Chef Goodbye Wisconsin Season 21 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And there I was, double-wielding jerk wings in my fists, ready to engage in one of my favorite challenges of the series: the blindfolded taste test.
UCLA Gymnast Nia Dennis Is Back With More Beyonc in a New Floor Routine
May 2024UCLA’s star gymnast Nia Dennis caught our eyes last year, when she performed a viral floor routine inspired by Beyoncé’s Homecoming.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Superstars of Tragedy
May 2024Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Kimmy Meets a Celebrity! Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Kimmy Meets a Celebrity!
Watch Sarah Paulson, Key and Peele, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Face Their Critics in Jimmy Kimmels L
May 2024Really good group this time around, also including Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, and Kurt Russell. Fun and games aside, though, it’s time to put the security for Michael B.
We Deserve a Better Song of Summer
May 2024It is July 8, and our presumptive Song of Summer is Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy.” The song has been No. 1 for six weeks running; it has been performed on Dancing With the Stars and The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon; I overheard two strangers at dinner decide that “Yeah, I guess ‘Fancy’ is the Song of Summer?
What Does It Mean for Basquiat to Be Back in the East Village?
May 2024The Brant Foundation New York opens this month. Jean-Michel Basquiat is returning to his East Village roots. For the first time in 37 years, the artist, who died at 27 in 1988, is having a major solo show in his old stomping grounds.
What Happened on Downton Abbey Season 3, and Where We Hope Its Headed
May 2024Okay, yes — you probably remember what happened at the very end of season three, when Matthew Crawley crashed into a giant truck and died mere hours after the birth of his first child.
Whats the Deal With Aryas Dagger on Game of Thrones?
May 2024Arya sure you don’t remember that dagger? This story was originally published in August 2017. It’s been updated to reflect what happened on Game of Thrones in “The Long Night.
Whats Your Favorite Matthew Perry Role (That Isnt Chandler Bing)?
May 2024Matthew Perry knew that he would be remembered for “Friends, Friends, Friends,” as he wrote in his 2022 memoir. Indeed the actor, who died last week at the age of 54, was so good on the iconic NBC sitcom that he stole scenes even when unseen, inside a box.
When a Supreme Court Podcast Gets You Fired
May 2024Nicholas Quah. Podcast Critic, Vulture. Writes the 1.5x Speed newsletter. Creator, Hot Pod. Contributor, Fresh Air. Member, Peabody Awards Board of Jurors.
Where 17 Game of Thrones Characters Stand Going Into Season Four
May 2024While we Game of Thrones fans have had ten months to recover from the Red Wedding, for the people of Westeros, it’s like it was just yesterday.
Which Movie Has the Most SNL Cast Members In It?
May 2024“[Saturday Night Live] is the Harvard of Comedy, you know. Everybody passed through it. You bump into people. I saw Randy Quaid the other day; he’s like a frat brother.
Why Tubi Is Updating Its Whole Look (and Sound)
May 2024Don’t be surprised if Tubi looks — and sounds — a bit different the next time you open the app.
Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Aaron Paul, and Alison Brie Are Animal-People in the BoJack Horseman
May 2024Here’s the trailer for Netflix’s new animated series BoJack Horseman, which will make its debut on the streaming network next month and stars Will Arnett as the washed up former horse star BoJack with Aaron Paul, Amy Sedaris, and Alison Brie as his group of animal-people friends.
Zombie Post Malone Doesnt Scare Kathryn Newton or Young Thug in Goodbyes Video
May 2024Don’t let the ’50s aesthetic fool you — this video for Post Malone’s song “Goodbyes” begins with the rapper suffering a graphic stabbing death, complete with squishy sound effects!
10 Times Dolly Parton Was a Literal Angel
May 2024The angel herself. Dolly Parton is the reigning savior of Christmas and 2020. Her Netflix Christmas special, “Christmas on the Square,” premieres on November 22, and features Parton as an angel who encourages kindness and charity in a Scrooge-esqe landlord, played by Christine Baranski.
12 Weird and Awkward Eighties MTV Videos We Swore Wed Hallucinated
May 2024Thanks to the rise of MTV, the eighties were a pioneering time in the development of music videos. But the Wild West spirit fostered by the network in its early days led to some amazing juxtapositions: For every critically acclaimed song or big-budget gem, you’d get a dozen that, had you not been a middle-school kid riding a Mello Yello high, should have left you wondering, What just happened?
13 TV Conversation Starters for Your Fourth of July Barbecue
May 2024Fourth of July weekend has begun, and you know what that means: barbecues! And you can’t spell “BBQs” without “Qs,” as in “questions.
3 Body Problem Recap: Science Over Mysticism
May 20243 Body Problem Red Coast Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 3 Body Problem Red Coast Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If the universe winks at you and no satellite is around to capture it, did it really happen?
30 Hollywood Classics Streaming for Free in the Public Domain
May 2024At first glance, the public domain appears to be a deep, intimidating vortex of innumerable media. To some extent, this is true — by way of making it slightly less so, let’s talk about what, exactly, it is.
A Brief History of Nicolas Cage Almost Playing Superman and Battling a Giant Spider
May 2024An image from the 2015 documentary The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened? This piece was originally published in June.
A Song of Beer and Trivia: Vulture Bar-Hops With Game of Thrones Obsessives
May 2024As Game of Thrones meet-up groups go, the Brotherhood Without Banners towers over other collectives of George R.R. Martin obsessives like the Mountain That Rides standing next to Tyrion.
Abbott Elementary Recap: Sister, Sister
May 2024Abbott Elementary Teacher Appreciation Season 2 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Abbott Elementary Teacher Appreciation Season 2 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Siblings bring out a special version of us, pulling us back to our childhood and the foundation of our entire lives.
Alan Ruck Thanks God Nobody Died in That Halloween Car Accident
May 2024Alan Ruck has addressed the car accident that likely spooked some onlookers this Halloween. Per the Los Angeles Times, the Succession star crashed his electric pickup truck into a Hollywood pizza place on October 31 in a collision involving four vehicles.
Ashanti Never Dated Narcissist Irv Gotti
May 2024Ashanti and Irv Gotti. Ashanti is setting the record straight about her alleged relationship with Irv Gotti. “Let’s clear this up,” Ashanti told Angie Martinez on the IRL podcast on October 26.
Ava DuVernay Is Making a Colin Kaepernick Series for Netflix
May 2024Colin Kaepernick The revolution might not be televised, but it will be streamed. On June 29, Netflix announced that it is developing a six-episode scripted dramatic series from Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick about Kaepernick’s high-school years, called Colin in Black & White.
Below Deck Recap: Captain Lees Comeback
May 2024Below Deck Big Deck Energy Season 10 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Big Deck Energy Season 10 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Our new stew is not so new after all.
Billy Porter Emcees CNNs LGBTQ Town Hall in SNL Cold Open
May 2024“Warren-ing! Warren-ing! The senator is here,” announces Billy Porter, who graced the Saturday Night Live stage as an emcee and hype-person in a cold-open parody of CNN’s recent LGBTQ Town Hall.
Californication: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert
May 2024Californication So Here’s the Thing … Season 3 Episode 7 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Breaking up is hard to do.
Cameron Esposito - Vulture
May 2024vulture tv awards 2015 June 21, 2015 Cameron Esposito Presents the 2015 Vulture TV AwardsAll week, we’ll be honoring the best in television from the past year.
Cassies Coats on The Flight Attendant, Ranked
May 2024HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, a splashy murder mystery and psychological thriller is one of the best TV shows of the year.
Conan OBriens Long Time Prop Master Bill Tull Has Died
May 2024Bill Tull, who worked with Conan O’Brien from Late Night to his eponymous TBS talk show, has died.
Dont You Get It? The Talking Mongoose Represents God
May 2024The big dueling movies this summer are, obviously, Barbie and Oppenheimer. But in September, a quirkier and more British double-header comes to theaters.
Drake and SZA Release Track Inspired by the Kids Choice Awards
May 2024Drake and SZA. Update September 17: Halle Berry is refusing to be slimed out by Drake. On Friday, Berry posted on Instagram that she had to be the “bigger guy,” in a situation, which fans immediately knew was about the Drake/SZA joint post.
Drake Breaks Michael Jacksons Thriller-era American Music Award Nomination Record
May 2024You desperately needed ammunition for your “Views is better than Thriller” argument and somehow, against all odds, you finally got it.
Edelstein on To the Wonder: Round and Round It Swirls. Where It Stops, Who the Hell Knows?
May 2024Speaking of Terrence Malick at a Cannes press conference for The Tree of Life (the elusive director was a no-show), Brad Pitt said, “He’s like a guy with a butterfly net waiting for the truth to go by.
Emilia Clarke on Game of Thrones Violence Against Women: Dont Take It Too Seriously
May 2024Will Clarke narc the Starks? Just as George R.R. Martin and Amanda Peet did before her, Emilia Clarke has waded into the murky rhetorical waters of discussing the violence against women on Game of Thrones in an interview with Entertainment Weekly Radio.
Follow Friday: Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit)
May 2024Everybody is a jokester on Twitter, but only a select few are truly worthy enough to have all of their witticisms transmitted to you, the ever busy comedy fan trying to navigate through an increasingly congested internet.
George & Tammy Series-Finale Recap: Help Me Make It Through the Night
May 2024George and Tammy Justified and Ancient Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » George and Tammy Justified and Ancient Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » There was never going to be a happy ending for George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
Ghosts Recap: Only Murders in the Mansion
May 2024Ghosts Whodunnit Season 2 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ghosts Whodunnit Season 2 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s nothing like a deadline, a healthy supply of red murder-board yarn, and the crushing guilt of holding a secret from your friend for a century to get to the truth of a murder mystery.
Go See Challengers With Your Secretly Rich Friends
May 2024When we meet Patrick Zweig, played by Josh O’Connor, in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, it’s abundantly clear that this guy needs money.
Growing Up on TV
May 2024Remember the days when child actors on TV entered a scene to deliver cute, whiny one-liners before they were sent to their rooms?
Gucci Mane on Spring Breakers and Sleeping Through His Sex Scene
May 2024Gucci Mane. As Vulture reported yesterday, Gucci Mane slept through his big Spring Breakers sex scene. But many of us still weren’t sure: Was the sex real or simulated?
HBOs Documentary About Domestic Violence Is Difficult to Experience, Essential to Watch
May 2024It took longer for me to get through Private Violence, a feature-length profile of an advocate for battered women that airs on HBO tonight at 9 p.
House of Cards Season One Recap, Episodes 13: Two Kinds of Pain
May 2024House of Cards Chapters 1-3 Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » House of Cards Chapters 1-3 Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Turn off 40 percent of the lights in your apartment for that David Fincher effect, stick a flag pin in your lapel, and start talking directly to the camera: It’s time for House of Cards.
How Comedy Podcasts Are Evolving Into More Than Just Talk Shows
May 2024Marc Maron brews a warm cup of Just Coffee, walks outside to his garage to meet his guest, and the two sit down to talk about…well, whatever.
How Hustlers Pulled Off the Meta Cameo of the Year
May 2024How Everything Works Brought to you by How Everything Works Brought to you by The most incredible 2008 simulacrum happens about halfway through the movie.
How Sexy Is Sampling Right Said Freds Im Too Sexy?
May 2024Fred and Richard Fairbass, of Right Said Fred. They are those eternal, evergreen words, handed down from song to song as if sent from the heavens above: “I’m too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts.
How Torturous Is A Dogs Way Home for Animal Lovers?
May 2024Near the end of Mary Harron’s 2000 film American Psycho, as Patrick Bateman’s insanity reaches fevered heights, the (maybe) serial killer picks up a kitten and appears to be on the verge of shooting it at the insistence of an ATM’s instruction screen.
Impeachment: American Crime StorySeason-Finale Recap: Monicas Story
May 2024American Crime Story The Wilderness Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » American Crime Story The Wilderness Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The tenth and final episode of Impeachment is here, and I’m just now realizing that I have no clue which specific moment in U.
In the Quasi Trailer, the Super Troopers Gang Gets Medieval
May 2024Drop what you’re doing right meow. Quasi, the new movie from the gang at Broken Lizard — the sketch group turned production company behind cult classics Super Troopers and Beerfest — is nearing its April 20 release on Hulu.
Inside Hardcore Game of Thrones, the Podcast That Treats Westeros as a Real Place
May 2024Game of Thrones is everywhere. Between the books, show, after-shows, and podcasts – not to mention YouTube explainers, online fan discussion, cosplay conventions, apps to learn Dothraki – it can almost feel like Westeros has been willed into existence.
Irish Wish Is a Crypto-Fascist, AI-Generated Harbinger of Doom
May 2024For years, I have cheerfully covered the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe–Industrial Complex, consuming its endless exports with the assumption that, in the end, it was all harmless fun, just a series of categorically but admirably bad movies about fake monarchies and horny yet prude journalists.
Its Love, Korean Style on Netflixs XO, Kitty
May 2024Netflix has released a first look at the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before spinoff, XO, Kitty, and it’s bringing back PowerPoint comedy.
Its Tragic and Disappointing That Marvel Is Canceling Fantastic Four
May 2024Excerpt from cover to Fantastic Four No. 1. Art by Jack Kirby. Marvel Entertainment has done what Dr. Doom, the Skrulls, and even the world-devouring might of Galactus couldn’t do: killed the Fantastic Four.
Ive Never Told Anybody That Story
May 2024Playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable made its debut Off Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2004, the same year the Catholic Church released a report saying that more than 4,000 priests in the United States had molested more than 10,000 children in the prior 50 years.
Jerry Saltz Dives Into the Lower East Side Art Scene and Emerges Optimistic
May 2024Last week on the Lower East Side, the art galleries opened the 2014-2015 season in a bigger, more viable, and better place.
Joe Alwyn Made His Peace With the Taylor Swift Breakup
May 2024It feels like just yesterday that people were crying on Cornelia Street after finding out it’s all joe-ver.
Jordan Peele Drops a Cryptic Release Date
May 2024Jordan Peele “Eight-hundred and fifty-eight days,” whispers the dead girl from The Ring. That’s how long we have to wait for Jordan Peele’s secret new joint, according to a cryptic graphic of a date that the filmmaker posted on social media.
Joss Whedon on Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers, and Nude Blondes
May 2024Joss Whedon. The Cabin in the Woods has been out in theaters for a few days now, which has given audiences a bit of a chance to see it, scream, sit up in shock or recognition — whatever they need to do to digest this teen slasher movie that redefines the horror genre, from the minds of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard.
Justin Timberlake Says He and Janet Jackson Made Peace About Nipplegate
May 2024Though it’s been more than a decade since Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s breast on live national television during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, the world hasn’t forgotten just how little he’s ever said about it.
Kit Harington and Ed Sheerans Friendship Meet-Cute Happened at a Urinal
May 2024Once upon a time at a pair of urinals, Ed Sheeran met Jon Snow. On the Late Late Show, Kit Harington told Nicole Kidman and host James Corden about the nutty beginning of his friendship with the singer: “I was in the men’s urinal taking a piss.
Lily Allen Wont Be Shamed
May 2024It’s been over ten years since British pop star Lily Allen made her cheeky U.S. debut with 2006’s Alright, Still.
Listen to a New Passion Pit Song, Take a Walk
May 2024Says lead singer Michael Angelakos, “On [upcoming album] Gossamer, there is more of a dichotomy between the lyrics and the music.
Loki Season-Premiere Recap: Back to Basics
May 2024Loki Ouroboros Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Loki Ouroboros Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Loki’s first season was a tug-of-war between genuine artistry and mechanical shared-universe concerns; the latter eventually won out in a disconnected finale designed to tease half a decade of future films.
Louis C.K. Tells Jimmy Fallon About His Latest Boating Misadventures
May 2024On last night’s Tonight Show, guest Louis C.K. told Fallon about the time he attempted to take his boat out to the ocean only to get bombarded with huge cargo ships in the process.
Mark Linn-Baker Faked His Departure on The Leftovers
May 2024This just in — according to the season two premiere of The Leftovers, reports of actor Mark Linn-Baker’s Sudden Departure were greatly exaggerated.
Masters of Sex Recap: The Reclining Lotus
May 2024Masters of Sex All Together Now Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of Sex All Together Now Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We all knew where this was going, and last night we finally got there.
Meow Wolf Is Bringing a Kooky Movie Theater to LA
May 2024Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver. A new movie theater is opening in Los Angeles in 2026. A fork has been found in a kitchen.
Mike Myers Was a Huge Diva While Filming The Cat in the Hat
May 2024As if any other bad news could possibly plague Mike Myers’s infamous 2003 comedy The Cat in the Hat — it was so widely panned that Dr.
Millie Bobby Brown Is Fed to the Dragons
May 2024Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, Millie Bobby Brown is a young woman engaged to be married to the prince.
Mob Wives Big Ang Has Been Diagnosed With Stage 4 Cancer
May 2024Big Ang in early January. Big Ang, breakout star of Mob Wives and Staten Island’s most charismatic barkeep, has been diagnosed with stage-four cancer.
Mrs. Maisels Michael Zegen Knows You Dont Like Joel
May 2024Michael Zegen. In season one of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Michael Zegen’s character Joel Maisel begins as the loutish, cheating husband who unintentionally puts Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) on her path to comedy fame.
Music Review: Abebe on the Scissor Sisters Magic Hour
May 2024Scissor Sisters perform at the Bowery Ballroom on May 6. If you reacted to news of Donna Summer’s death (at 63, of cancer) by revisiting her early discography, you’ll have already been reminded of the breadth and poignancy she brought to mainstream disco—the way her records could span throbbing dance classics to musical theater to misty sentimentality.
My Lady Jane Has What Every Other Tudor Drama Is Missing
May 2024The premise of the new Prime series My Lady Jane is both straightforward and simple to explain. First, what if instead of being yet another show about Henry VIII or Elizabeth I, there was a show about Lady Jane Grey, who was beheaded nine days into her rule as queen?
Netflix Actually Paid Adam Sandler Money to Write These Native American Jokes
May 2024Get ready for a bunch of juvenile sex jokes about teepees, peepees, and “zum-zums,” because not long after a dozen Native American actors walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s upcoming film Ridiculous 6, Defamer got their hands on a December 2012 version of the script, and it’s just as bad, if not worse, than you might have predicted.
New Girl Recap: The No-Nail Oath
May 2024New Girl Parking Spot Season 2 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » New Girl Parking Spot Season 2 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Here’s the paradox of Nick Miller: He’s a crotchety old-young man who pronounces WiFi “wiffy” and keeps his car hidden under a canopy of cardboard boxes, but he’s also the source of some of the most powerful sexual tension on television.
Nicolas Winding Refn on Drives Graphic Violence, His Hollywood Experience, and Albert Brookss
May 2024Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn is known on the festival circuit for Bronson and the Pusher trilogy, but he’s racing for the multiplexes with Drive.
No Rape, No Penis-Measuring: Behind the 5 Big Ways Lifetimes Flowers in the Attic Deviated From t
May 2024All in all, Lifetime’s adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, which aired over the weekend, turned out to be a lot more faithful to V.
Only Murders in the BuildingRecap: Romantic Fury
May 2024Only Murders in the Building Double Time Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Only Murders in the Building Double Time Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week on Only Murders in the Building, Charles learns that Jan, the first person he has let into his life in years, is lying to him.
Ozark Recap: This Is a Dream
May 2024Ozark You’re the Boss Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ozark You’re the Boss Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As Marty works the Mexican cartel, Wendy works the Ozarks, trying to keep her foundation alive by getting in Ruth’s way.
Passengers Is an Intriguing Space Romance Thats Sunk by Its Ending
May 2024Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers. The mega-budget sci-fi thriller romance Passengers, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, is shaping up to be one of the most critically razzed movies of the year, but I was on its side and then some until its bummer of an ending.
PJ Harvey Went Big, in Both Sound and Message, at NYCs Terminal 5
May 2024This spring British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey released The Hope Six Demolition Project, the latest in a string of acclaimed solo albums stretching back into the early ‘90s, each pairing raw blues, punk-rock furor, and incisive lyricism.
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May 2024year in culture 2017 Dec. 5, 2017 The 10 Best Songs of 2017Vulture’s music team picks its favorite songs of the year.
Pop Smokes Manager Says Theyll Change Rappers Posthumous Album Art After Backlash
May 2024Given the tragic untimely death of rapper Pop Smoke, the stage name of Bashar Barakah Jackson, in February of this year, it’s reasonable to assume his fans would be sensitive about the arrival of his posthumous debut album, which is scheduled to drop on Friday, July 3.
Rami and Ramy
May 2024Two American series dare to depict the reality of Palestinian life under occupation. Photo-Illustration: Photos: Getty, Hulu This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
Report: Ferris Bueller Spot Is for Honda
May 2024That Ferris Bueller–themed commercial is for Honda, according to Jalopnik, which claims the full spot — directed by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips — will swap in Honda models in some of the movie’s key car-centric scenes.
Reports of Paula Abduls Death Possibly Exaggerated
May 2024Could Paula Abdul’s tweeted resignation from American Idol have been a clever ploy to get more money? That is what some are saying!
RHOBH Recap: Raise Hands, Hearts, and Voices
May 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills She Hearts You, She Hearts You Not Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills She Hearts You, She Hearts You Not Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Merry Christmas, Movie House!
Rick and Morty Recap: Other Peoples Problems
May 2024Rick and Morty Pickle Rick Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Rick and Morty Pickle Rick Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A few weeks ago, San Diego Comic-Con was packed with people wearing free Pickle Rick T-shirts, carrying inflatable Pickle Ricks, and shouting to each other, “Look!
Sara Bareilles Will Return to Waitress Once Again, This Time With Gavin Creel
May 2024Sara Bareilles. At this point, Sara Bareilles is less a pop star and more a regular Broadway performer.
Saturday Nights Children: Robert Downey Jr. (1985-1986)
May 2024Saturday 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.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Trailer vs. the Original Comics: A Comparison
May 2024Just how well has director Edgar Wright captured the visual grammar of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comics in this summer’s Scott Pilgrim vs.
Sean Baker on Making This Summers Indie Hit, Tangerine
May 2024Our critic David Edelstein called the new film Tangerine “everything an entertaining, old-fashioned, mainstream Hollywood comedy should be but no longer is,” and that rave is all the more remarkable being that Tangerine couldn’t be more contemporary.
See Rooney Mara Basically Naked on the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Poster
May 2024After last weekend’s trailer “leak,” today we get a look at the green-band trailer (which is more or less just an HD version of the red band) and an international poster, below.
Showtime Snags the Rights to Bill Clinton and James Pattersons Forthcoming Novel The President Is
May 2024Clinton; Patterson. Forget Peak TV, here comes POTUS TV: Former President Bill Clinton and blockbuster author James Patterson (Kiss the Girls) are setting up shop at Showtime.
Silicon Valley Recap: Paying the Piper
May 2024Silicon Valley Bachman’s Earning’s Over-Ride Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Silicon Valley Bachman’s Earning’s Over-Ride Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks.
Smooth, Solid, and Cool: 25 Perfect Pop Songs for Figure Skating
May 2024Among all the sports at the Winter Olympics, figure skating is the strangest and the most distinct: unlike the others, there’s a unique element of fine art inscribed into its history.
Steven Tyler Sued for Sexual Assault of a Minor, Again
May 2024Steven Tyler. Steven Tyler is facing his second sexual-assault lawsuit of the year. A woman has come forward with new allegations against the Aerosmith lead singer, accusing him of assaulting her twice when she was a teenager, per NBC News.
Super Mario Bros Becomes the First Movie of 2023 to Hit $1 Billion Globally
May 2024Update April 30: Wa-hoo! The Brothers Mario have done it. The Super Mario Bros Movie became the first film of 2023 to cross the billion-dollar mark, despite 1) the whole film being up on Twitter for hours and 2) selling many more children’s tickets than other box office juggernauts like Top Gun: Maverick.
Taylor Swift Mourns Fan Who Died Before Brazil Concert
May 2024Taylor Swift is mourning a fan who died during the Eras Tour’s latest stop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Taylor Swifts Swear-iest Midnights Lyrics, Ranked
May 2024Taylor Swift, seen here possibly dreaming up vigilante shit. On Midnights, Taylor Swift is in her after-dark era — literally, in the sense that there is no sun at midnight (well, unless you’re in the Arctic Circle, but Taylor tends to stay in warmer climes), but also because Taylor is really embracing her swear words this time around.
Thats the Last Time I Plan an Art Heist on Facebook Events, by Bizzy Coy
May 2024Alphonse, Natasha, and Mister Fingers, I write this letter with a heavy heart. I thought we were friends—no, more than friends.
The 12 Best Game of Thrones Battles, Ranked
May 2024It’s hard to believe, now that it’s the biggest show on television — and we mean physically huge — but it took Game of Thrones nearly two years to build to its first major onscreen battle.
The Best Anime Streaming Services of All
May 2024Simulcasts? Dubs? Free subscriptions??? Let us guide you. Streamliner At your service. From the top: Ping Pong the Animation, Akira, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Evangelion 3.
The Crown Season-Premiere Recap: Cruel Summer
May 2024The Crown Persona Non Grata Season 6 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown Persona Non Grata Season 6 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to the beginning of the end, Crown fans.
The End of the F***ing World Recap: The Virgin Homicides
May 2024The End of the F***ing World Episode 3 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The End of the F***ing World Episode 3 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When The End of the F***ing World was being written, no one could have known how prescient or satisfying an episode like this would turn out to be.
The Mindy Project - TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024Episode 26 Homewrecker Episode 25 Freedom Tower Women’s Health Episode 24 My Kid Stays in the Picture Episode 23 There’s No Crying in Softball Episode 22 Princeton Charming Episode 21 Under the Texan Sun Episode 20 The Greatest Date in the World Episode 19 Baby Got Backslide Episode 18 Bernardo & Anita Episode 17 Mindy Lahiri Is DTF Episode 16 So You Think You Can Finance Episode 15 2 Fast 2 Serious Episode 14 Will They or Won’t They Episode 13 When Mindy Met Danny Episode 12 The Parent Trap Episode 11 The Lahiris and the Castellanos Episode 10 The Departed Episode 9 Jody Kimball-Kinney Is My Husband Episode 8 Later Baby Episode 7 Mindy and Nanny Episode 6 Road Trip Episode 5 Stay-at-Home MILF Episode 4 The Bitch Is Back Episode 3 Leo Castellano Is My Son Episode 2 C Is for Coward Episode 1 While I Was Sleeping ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069mraCVYrqqusOyZKmqn5%2BypMCO
The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Separation Anxiety
May 2024The Real Housewives of Orange County Bye Bye Beadors Season 11 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Bye Bye Beadors Season 11 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kelly Dodd.
The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: What the Duck?
May 2024The Real Housewives of Orange County Friendship Overboard Season 17 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Friendship Overboard Season 17 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Phew.
The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Recap: The Cries Have It
May 2024The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Part 1 Season 12 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Part 1 Season 12 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Here it is, ladies and homosexuals, the giant raging grumble let forth from the center of the Earth.
The Royal Hotel Will Give You a Secondhand Hangover
May 2024The Royal Hotel is a bar, and if there were ever a point in its history in which its name was not intended to be ironic, ironic is very much how it reads by the time Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) show up to work there.
The Story of the Dress That Might Win La La Land the Costume Oscar
May 2024This is the dress. When the first ads for La La Land hit billboards and subway stations from L.A. to New York, the image was instantly iconic: a violet night sky, the sparkling city background, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling mid-dance, and that yellow dress.
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On Recap: Heavy Stuff
May 2024The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On “Change of Heart” / “Time to Answer the Ultimatum” Season 2 Episodes 7 - 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On “Change of Heart” / “Time to Answer the Ultimatum” Season 2 Episodes 7 - 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The couples are back with their original partners, and that means it’s time to have some hard conversations, which three of our four couples actually do.
Theater Review: Wasps With a Very Gentle Sting, in What I Did Last Summer
May 2024A playwright is really asking for it when he creates, in a semiautobiographical work, a conflict whose glorious resolution is the writing of the play itself.
Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Conceptual Clumsiness
May 2024Top Chef Restaurant Wars Season 21 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Top Chef Restaurant Wars Season 21 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » First, a mea culpa!
Vultures Very Important Ranking of All 6 Soundtracks From The O.C.
May 2024Not too many years ago, buying each subsequent edition of The O.C.’s soundtrack — or “mixes,” as the six compilations were cleverly dubbed — was as much of a badge of fan-hood as tuning in to watch the show every week.
Walking Time Bomb
May 2024The director Stacy Title is paralyzed and cannot speak. But she is determined to make one final movie. Title at home in Los Angeles in April.
Watch the Full Melissa McCarthyAir Marshal Sex Tape From Bridesmaids
May 2024Cheez Whiz and pool toys are involved. (NSFW, clearly.) [Splitsider] Watch the Full Melissa McCarthy–Air Marshal ‘Sex Tape’ From Bridesmaids ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdhZXyjvsidnKylkZ6xtKvFrqOll6OaxaDAwKmcZ6Ckork%3D
Watch the Trailer for Anthony Jeselniks Netflix Special Thoughts and Prayers
May 2024Anthony Jeselnik’s latest standup special Thoughts and Prayers heads to Netflix this month, and the streaming network dropped the first trailer today.
Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers
May 2024If you’re looking for the most anticipated books of 2019, chances are your search will start with Google and end at Amazon.
What Makes for Great Detective Sketch Comedy?
May 2024How Mysterious! Brought to you by How Mysterious! Brought to you by Bill Hader as Keith Morrison on SNL.
What We Do in the Shadows Is the Best Comedy on TV Right Now
May 2024FX’s What We Do in the Shadows. My favorite comedies tend to share an underlying ideology. They often begin with a very dumb idea — American Vandal’s spray-painted dicks, for instance — and then they take that idea very, very seriously.
What You Need to Know About That Black-and-White House on Game of Thrones
May 2024The House of Black and White. “Welcome to the House of Black and White! Hide your eyes!” This is how Game of Thrones executive story editor Bryan Cogman introduces the set at Belfast’s Titanic Studios, where the interiors of the show’s latest location are shot.
Where Is Britney Spears?
May 2024After her conservatorship ended, some of her fandom latched on to a new theory: What if she had never been freed at all?
Who Is She? Bill Nighys Sylvanian Oscars Date Revealed.
May 2024Look. British thespian and first-time Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy used the 2023 Oscars red carpet on Sunday to debut some new arm candy.
Why Full-Frontal Male Nudity Was All Over TV in 2015
May 2024Mark Duplass strips down on Togetherness. This summer, Kevin Bacon released a mock PSA calling on Hollywood’s male actors to “free [their] bacon.
Will Poor Amsterdam Ever Get to See a Drake Concert Following His Third Postponement?
May 2024Drake. If you had to cancel a concert in Amsterdam, it would be because you ate a brownie at a coffee shop and fell down all the flights of stairs at the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, ruining everyone’s enjoyment of all the Dutch maritime history.
Will Smith Zoom Calls and a Four-Quad Weekend: Inside Peacocks Bel-Air Push
May 2024If you were one of the 215 million Americans NBCUniversal says caught some portion of its coverage of the Super Bowl and Olympics over the past two weeks, there’s a good chance you saw a promo (or twelve) for Peacock’s Bel-Air.
Will Somebody Please Break Charlie Puths Heart?
May 2024The singer-songwriter writes perfect love songs. Only problem? He’s never been in love. Just one less lonely boy.
Your Honor Recap: Dead Line
May 2024Your Honor Part Eight Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Your Honor Part Eight Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Michael Desiato is “the stubborn bastard in Court 14 who insists on putting justice over everything.
Yvonne Strahovski Felt Horrible Filming That Handmaids Tale Car Scene
May 2024Spoilers ahead for season one of The Handmaid’s Tale. By the end of The Handmaid’s Tale’s first season, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is taken away by the Eye without the consent of her masters, the Waterfords.
Here Are All of the Wigs Worn on The Americans So Far
May 2024spies like us March 13, 2014 5:00 pm By Margaret Lyons, Paolo Lorenzana Share Share Tweet Pin It 47 Photos Photo: FX The Americans is many things — an espionage drama, a domestic drama, a period piece.
15 Essential British Crime Movies
May 2024The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY Because there are humans everywhere, crime happens everywhere.
20 Great Rom-Com Sidekicks, Ranked
May 2024Should you find yourself the protagonist in aromantic comedy, taking that scary journey toward true love, full of meet-cutes, kisses in the rain, and run-ins with Hugh Grant, you should try your best to not travel alone.
35 Musicians Confess Their Favorite Christmas Songs
May 2024Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice. Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice.
A Shout-Out to Coach Beard and Brendan Hunt, the Quiet Hero of Ted Lasso
May 2024Brendan Hunt on Ted Lasso. Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians?
A Tribute to the Wight in a Bag, a Crucial Player in Game of Thrones Latest Battle
May 2024When Jon Snow and his band of very chilly merry men made a plan to head out from Eastwatch at the end of last week’s episode of Game of Thrones, their primary goal was to capture a wight to prove to Cersei that the White Walker threat really is something she might want to deal with.
A Wake for Alex Trebek
May 2024Jeopardy! contestants, past and present, mourn the loss of their legendary host. Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images This article was originally published following Alex Trebek’s death in November 2020.
According to a New Star Wars Novel, Jar Jar Binks Lived Out the Rest of His Life As a Sad Clown Haun
May 2024“Jar Jar makin some uh-oh mistakens.” After he goofily, accidentally helped give Senator Palpatine control over the galactic senate and made Star Wars fans over the age of 8 question their allegiance to the franchise, we didn’t see much of Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars universe.
Alan Dershowitz Demands an Apology From The Good Fight Over Jeffrey Epstein Episode
May 2024Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart on CBA All Access’s The Good Fight. According to Variety, attorneyAlan Dershowitz has demanded an apology and a retraction from CBS All Access’s The Good Fight over a character’s remark about him in relation to Jeffrey Epstein in the show’s season-four finale, “The Gang Discovers Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein.
All the Changes We Can See in All the Light We Cannot Sees Onscreen Ending
May 2024In its onscreen dénouement, Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer-winning novel undergoes significant changes. Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See is full of gorgeously rich, heartbreaking prose that tells the story of a young blind girl trying to survive Nazi-occupied France, an 18-year-old German soldier with an affinity for science and a pesky moral compass, a cursed jewel called the Sea of Flames, and how they all intersect one night in 1944.
All the Characters Agent Dana Scully Has Inspired
May 2024Some of my greatest memories as a kid involve sitting cross-legged in front of the television obsessively watching The X-Files while my mother braided my hair.
An A-to-Z Guide to Archers Running Jokes
May 2024Along with heavy drinking and weird sex stuff, the average Archer episode has enough recurring gags that even Lana couldn’t hold them all in her giant Truckasaurus hands.
Ariana Grande Is Hyping Up Her Next Album, Thank U, Next
May 2024Ariana Grande. Sweetener, just like her engagement to Pete Davidson, is so last month, folks. Because in a Saturday morning Twitter-palooza, Ariana Grande confirmed the name of her next album will be none other than Thank U, Next, a phrase that had previous life as one of her recent social media disses against Davidson.
Bill Nighy Sizes Up Rupert Grints Sex Appeal and Dishes on His Fabulous Harry Potter Wig
May 2024When Bill Nighy shot the hit-man comedy Wild Target with Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint a few years ago, he thought that co-starring with Grint was the closest he’d ever get to the Harry Potter series, though he was happily proven wrong when he was later tapped to play Rufus Scrimgeour in the two-part Potter conclusion, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Billions Recap: Ill Wait
May 2024Billions The Gulag Archipelago Season 7 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions The Gulag Archipelago Season 7 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “The Gulag Archipelago” is available to stream now via Paramount+ with Showtime.
Black-ish Recap: Imperfect Memories
May 2024Black-ish Just Christmas, Baby Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Black-ish Just Christmas, Baby Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Tyra Banks as Gigi, Tracee Ellis Ross as Bow.
Britta Phillips on Jem, the Live-Action Movie, and Her 80s Girl-Band Film With Julia Roberts and
May 2024Britta Phillips Throwing Josie and the Pussycatscaution to the wind, John M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity), and Justin Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun, are taking the ’80s music cartoon Jem to the big screen.
Byzantium Regained
May 2024In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division of the Roman Empire into two parts. The Western Roman Empire would go on to become something of a decaying backwater, while the eastern half of the empire — known by historians as the Byzantine Empire — flourished for another thousand years and more.
Can The Color Purple Strike Oscar Gold?
May 2024Oscar 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.
Carly Rae Jepsen to Join Broadways Cinderella
May 2024LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 18: Recording artist Carly Rae Jepsen poses in the press room at the 40th American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.
Celebs Brought Forth Plenty of July 4 Content
May 2024Caesar salad, probably: “What am I, chopped lettuce?” This July 4, Caesar salad turned 100 years old. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans were pretty preoccupied with a different birthday.
Chelsea Peretti and Cora Frazier Are Guest Writing at SNL These Next Two Weeks
May 2024SNL is bringing in some new guest writers: standup Chelsea Peretti and humor writer Cora Frazier. The duo will be serving as writers for the next two episodes, hosted by Justin Bieber and Christoph Waltz, respectively.
Close Your Eyes and Imagine Eddie Redmayne and Jamie Dornan Doing Pottery
May 2024Jamie Dornan, left, and Eddie Redmayne. Over the weekend, Eddie Redmayne and Jamie Dornan interviewed each other for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, diving into each other’s equally illustrious 2020 film roles.
Corky Lee Was Chinatown to Me
May 2024A protest in support of Chinese American news anchor Kaity Tong after her firing from WABC-TV in 1991. Anyone who knew Corky Lee will tell you that he seemed to know everyone and be everywhere.
Cyndi Lauper on Lady Gaga and Missing the Eighties
May 2024Cyndi Lauper, at 56-years-old, can still throw some punches. You may have seen her recently slugging it out on The Celebrity Apprentice or flash backed with her on Gossip Girl, 30 Rock, or American Idol.
Danny Masterson Will Have to Stand Trial for Alleged Rape of 3 Women During the Early 2000s
May 2024Almost a year after being initially charged with the alleged rape of three women, That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson has been finally ordered to stand trial.
Diana Rigg Concerned Lauren Ambrose Is Not Willing to Destroy Her Voice for My Fair Lady
May 2024Sing out, Lauren! In order to protect her voice, Lauren Ambrose is ducking out of the Sunday matinee performances of My Fair Lady.
Did Kanyes Movie Just Enter the Best Picture Oscar Race?
May 2024Vulture’s Oscar Futures has pegged The Social Network and The Kings’ Speech as early favorites for a Best Picture nomination, with critical favorites from earlier in the year The Kids Are All Right and Toy Story 3, plus upcoming buzzy features Black Swan and 127 Hours also in the discussion.
Did You Know That Theres a Lana Del Rey Album Coming This March?
May 2024Lana Del Rey. If the simple title Blue Banisters had you worried last time, don’t be: Lana Del Rey is still in her wordy era.
Drakes Photo of Taylor Swift Has to Mean Something
May 2024Welcome the latest addition to Taylor Swift’s squad: Something’s going on between the pop star and Drake, per a photo the rapper posted to his Instagram of him giving her an awkward hug.
Ebiri: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 Has All the Speedy Action and Wordplay of the First
May 2024The indiscriminate hyperactivity of most kids’ movies today usually feels like a problem. The ones that slow things down a little (like Wall-e) or twin their zip with visual or verbal wit (like Monsters Inc.
Euphoria Recap: A Very Narrow Window of Cool
May 2024Euphoria Pilot & Stuntin’ Like My Daddy Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Euphoria Pilot & Stuntin’ Like My Daddy Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Two hours into HBO’s new teen drama, Euphoria, I’m still not really sure who it’s for.
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May 2024christina grimmie June 13, 2016 Selena Gomez’s Stepfather Raises $120K for Christina GrimmieSelena Gomez performed an emotional tribute to Christina Grimmie on Saturday night.
Hadestown First Listen: Hear 3 Songs From the New Broadway Cast Recording
May 2024It’s coming, wait for it. “It’s an old song,” Hermes sings as the narrator of Hadestown, “and we’re gonna sing it again and again.
Hannah Einbinder Cant Escape the Hannah Horvath Dilemma
May 2024This article originally appeared in Dinner Party, an evening newsletter about culture and current events. Sign up here to get it every weeknight.
How Game of Thrones Filmed Its Dothraki Temple Fire Scene, Plus the Curse Word That Made a Khal Unco
May 2024Spoilers ahead. Rather than allow herself to be consigned to a fate of professional widow (or worse), Daenerys Targaryen instead became the leader of the Dothraki by burning down a hut containing some 21 khals and bloodriders and then emerging unscathed.
How I Met Your Mother Recap: Lost in Translation
May 2024How I Met Your Mother Romeward Bound Season 8 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How I Met Your Mother Romeward Bound Season 8 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What an awkward episode.
In Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith Centers Herself
May 2024Don’t worry, Jada Pinkett Smith’s new memoir, Worthy, addresses the Slap. It addresses a number of the inconsistencies and oddities with her marriage and/or separated marriage and/or NOT divorce from her kind-of-still-husband, Will Smith.
Inside Out 2 Is Happening, But Only Amy Poehlers Feeling the Joy
May 2024We know why she’s smiling. (It’s money). Huge news for fans of sexy animated daddies: Pixar is officially making Inside Out 2.
Is The Wolf of Wall Street Trailer Peak Leo DiCaprio? A GIF Investigation
May 2024Have we reached peak DiCaprio with the new Wolf of Wall Street trailer? He throws a little person, for God’s sake!
J. Prince Says He Asked Drake Not to Release His Overwhelming Second Pusha-T and Kanye Diss Tr
May 2024Drake. Like a good friend who holds you back from a fight — even though you both agree you absolutely would have kicked the other person’s ass — Houston-based producer and Rap-a-Lot Records CEO J.
Jaboukie Young-White Will Probably Get Suspended Again
May 2024Jaboukie Young-White. The best tweet came from the FBI: “Just because we killed MLK,” read a message seemingly sent from the bureau’s official, verified Twitter account, “doesn’t mean we can’t miss him.
James Franco Bought a 13-Year-Olds Fan Art
May 2024James Franco has always had a thing for art that dissects and plays around with his own celebrity, so why not add one additional meta layer onto that?
Janelle James on Her Debut Album Black and Mild and Comedys Point of No Return
May 2024Janelle James is in too deep. Eight years ago she started down the difficult and objectively foolish path of standup comedy, and now it’s too late to turn back.
Jean-Claude Van Dammes Early Films Suffered From Too Much Acting
May 2024Photo: Getty Images “I’ve made 36 movies in 20 years and I overacted a lot in my early career. So it’s very difficult for me to look at myself in those early movies.
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May 2024magical meetings Nov. 20, 2021 Lizzo and BTS Become BFFs at Harry Styles ConcertThe “Dynamite” “Rumors” are true. By Alejandra Gularte
Ken Jeong and Shaquille ONeal to Take on Odd Jobs in TBS Comedy Pilot
May 2024Shaquille O’Neal and Ken Jeong. Having competed against each other in TBS’s Drop the Mic series earlier this year, Ken Jeong and Shaquille O’Neal are now teaming up for a new show at the network.
Late Night With Seth Meyers
May 2024last night on late night July 15, 2014 How This Saturday Night Live Cast Member Enraged a Cat ShelterAlso, an impersonation of Andrea Merkel responding to Germany’s World Cup win.
Looking Recap: Nooner Module
May 2024Looking Looking for Results Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Looking Looking for Results Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For Looking fans, and even for those who were impatient with the show at first, the fifth episode of season one, where Jonathan Groff’s Patrick and Raúl Castillo’s Richie have sex and spend the day together getting to know each other, was a watershed for the series, showing off the same gritty intimacy that defined Looking co-creator Andrew Haigh’s 2011 feature film Weekend.
Masters of the Air Recap: The Hell Over Berlin
May 2024Masters of the Air Part 7 Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of the Air Part 7 Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of the Air’s seventh chapter leaps ahead several months to March 1944.
Michelle Yeoh Gave Jenny Yang Earrings After Their The Brothers Sun Fight Scene
May 2024Yang wore the custom necklace to the premiere. They say to never meet your heroes, but no one ever said anything about choking them onscreen, and Jenny Yang just got to check that off her bucket list.
Mike Myers on How the Not! Joke Went From Waynes World to Donald Trump
May 2024As a longtime Saturday Night Live sketch player and brain behind the Austin Powers and Wayne’s World franchises, Mike Myers has created a massive number of quotable jokes.
Ms. Pat Knows Youre Shocked
May 2024Ms. Pat in Y’all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? The highlight of Y’all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?, the new Robert Townsend–directed Netflix special from comedian Ms.
NBC Is Rebooting Remington Steele as a Comedy
May 2024’80s TV show Remington Steele is coming back, albeit with a bit of a genre tweak. Deadline reports that NBC is developing a reboot of Remington Steele, turning the 1982-1987 Pierce Brosnan detective comedy-drama into a half-hour comedy.
Neil Gaimans American Gods Is More Relevant Than Ever In Trumps America. That Scares Him.
May 2024There’s a scene early on in American Gods, the best-selling 2001 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman, where someone accuses a man of being a “hustler.
Not Rosy: The Bachelors Peter Weber and Madison Prewett Break Up
May 2024Congrats to Barb and the large number of margaritas she’s about to endorse into her mouth in celebration.
Orange Is the New Blacks Diane Guerrero on Maritzas Disturbing Mouse Scene, Colorism, and That
May 2024Spoilers ahead for season four of Orange Is the New Black. It’s not often a show waits four seasons to explore one of its central characters, but Orange Is the New Black, a series spoiled with colorful people with even more colorful pasts, is unlike any other show.
Order Up! Jonas Brothers Drop New Song Waffle House.
May 2024Jonas Brothers and the restaurant they definitely didn’t actually write a song about. Wait, who ordered the new Jonas Brothers song?
Parks and Recreation Recap: The Merger Czar
May 2024Parks and Recreation Döppelgangers Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Döppelgangers Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Attention: Eagleton is now under martial law!
Paul F. Tompkins and Seth Green Relive Seth Greens Teenage Stand-up Career
May 2024The latest episode of Paul F. Tompkins’s “Speakeasy,” his weekly web series for MadeMan.com, dropped yesterday, and in it, he sat down with Robot Chicken’s Seth Green for a sophisticated barroom chat.
Queen Sugar Recap: Live to Fight Another Day
May 2024Queen Sugar The Horizon Leans Forward Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Queen Sugar The Horizon Leans Forward Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » “The Horizon Leans Forward” is a meticulously crafted episode that delivers the outcomes of this season’s major plot points.
Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds Script Finally Spell-Checked
May 2024When Quentin Tarantino’s grammar-scalping script for Inglourious Basterds leaked last summer, “inglourious” and “basterds” weren’t the only words misspelled. But now with it a strong contender for this year’s Best Original Screenplay Oscar, the Weinstein Company probably figured they should give the thing a proofread, which they did before making it available (warning: PDF link) at their For Your Consideration site (see the same dialogue from both versions of the script, above).
Ranking the 37 Contributors to We Are the World
May 2024This article originally ran on March 6, 2015. We’re republishing it now around the release of the Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop.
Reminder: There Were Other Great 2016 R&B Albums Before Frank Oceans
May 2024The last time Frank Ocean released a record, thirsty culture critics coined a genre to describe it. The rise of alt-R&B, as it was charitably dubbed — hawks preferred PBR&B — was predicated on the idea that traditional R&B had grown stale enough to engender a backlash.
Rick Never Gonna Give You Up Astley Had the Worst Time Filming That Music Video
May 2024Before your favorite ancient meme, the rickroll, began terrorizing innocent people on the internet with the ungodly smooth voice of a British man, Rick Astley was a normal fella from Lancashire with dreams.
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May 2024young jeezy Dec. 19, 2011 Watch a Documentary About Young JeezySamuel L. Jackson narrates a new documentary about the rapper, with a little help from his equally famous friends (hi, Rihanna!
Sabrina Carpenters Feather Video Got a Priest in Big Trouble
May 2024One priest is feeling so much lighter, like a feather, after being relieved of duties for allowing Sabrina Carpenter to film a music video in his church.
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May 2024movie review Dec. 11, 2020 Wolfwalkers Will Charm You. Wolfwalkers Will Save You.Prepare to be astonished by this animated film from Ireland.
Sinad OConnor Was Always a Protest Singer
May 2024Having survived a childhood marked by abuse at the hands of her mother, Sinéad O’Connor found her voice at a Catholic girls’ reform school, where a nun bought her a guitar and a book of Bob Dylan songs.
Smallville Actress Denies Claims She Was a Recruiter for Alleged Sex Cult
May 2024Kristin Kreuk. The day after the leader of an alleged sex cult was arrested and charged with sex trafficking, reports emerged that Smallville actress Kristin Kreuk had recruited women to be sex slaves.
SNLs Cool Guitarist Is Happy to Represent the Audience
May 2024“Whatever laughing muscle is within me isn’t online at that time.” Back in October 2020, months after Diondre Cole dared to inquire “What up with that?
Somethings Got to Give, Just Not Marilyn Monroes House
May 2024Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood house has been saved from demolition and declared a landmark, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Steven Universe Returns With a Whole World of Episodes (Okay, 5)
May 2024Your gem-powered faves Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl are returning from their hiatus to celebrate little Steven’s birthday with not one but five episodes of Steven Universe starting January 4.
Stranger Things Fan Megan Thee Stallion Declares Herself Team Stancy
May 2024Back in July, we published our seven biggest questions following the finale of Stranger Things season four, the biggest of which was: When will Steve and Nancy get back together?
Succession Power Rankings: Everyones Disgusting!
May 2024For maybe five seconds, this almost seems like a functional family unit. It’s fitting that the first power rankings of Succession’s final season involve an actual power struggle.
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May 2024T Bone Wolk - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: obits Mar. 1, 2010 R.I.P T-Bone WolkThe Hall & Oates bassist has died at 58.
Ted Lasso Recap: Adventures in Extreme Team Bonding
May 2024Ted Lasso The Strings That Bind Us Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ted Lasso The Strings That Bind Us Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s easy to resolve to change your life when on vacation and away from the everyday routine.
Ted Lasso Recap: Hats Off to Roy Kent
May 2024Ted Lasso I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ted Lasso I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Roy Kent is not an expressive man, but that doesn’t mean he’s not an emotional man.
The 8 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
May 2024Clockwise, from the top: Only Murders in the Building, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Painkiller, Strange Planet. We’re in the thick of August, a month that is not traditionally a hotbed of great new releases, but there are still some worthwhile movies and TV shows debuting this week.
The Bear Recap: Youre The Peace
May 2024The Bear Apologies Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bear Apologies Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At the Los Angeles premiere of The Bear, creator Chris Storer said this season is about legacy (see: episode seven, “Legacy“), but it’s also about “finding the right people when you’re supposed to find them.
The BET Awards Couldnt Stop Talking About Drake and Kendrick
May 2024Even when neither of them popped out at last night’s BET Awards, Kendrick Lamar and Drake were still the men of the hour.
The Continental Series-Premiere Recap: There Will Be Guns
May 2024The Continental: From the World of John Wick Brothers in Arms Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Continental: From the World of John Wick Brothers in Arms Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Continental Hotel is both the physical and spiritual epicenter of the world of John Wick — a way station and sanctuary to the infernal order of assassins, mercenaries, and other homicidal maniacs that serve the High Table, a secret all-powerful fraternity seemingly as old as time.
The Director of Downfall Speaks Out on All Those Angry YouTube Hitlers
May 2024The sound and der Führer When the Conan-Leno debacle began, two things were certain: One, it would change the face of late night, and two, someone would apply it to the Downfall Hitler meme.
The Fabelmans Brilliant David Lynch Cameo Is All About Perspective
May 2024Steven Spielberg knew how The Fabelmans would end decades ago. The director’s semi-autobiographical film follows the journey of Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), a young, passionate filmmaker fated for greatness, eventually leading him to the office of another great filmmaker, John Ford.
The Florida I Know and Love Is Finally on TV
May 2024Kirsten Dunst in On Becoming a God in Central Florida and Patty Guggenheim in Florida Girls. Ah, Florida. The birthplace of Gatorade, air conditioning, and key lime pie.
The Golden Bachelor Recap: Zip Your Lip
May 2024The Golden Bachelor Episode 3 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Golden Bachelor Episode 3 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And then there were 12.
The Handmaids Tale - TV Episode Recaps & News
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The Hidden Inception Within Inception
May 2024A man with some things on/in his mind. This story originally ran in 2010. We are republishing it in light of the release of Christopher Nolan’s 12th film, Oppenheimer, which has its own “troubling” ending worth discussing.
The Making (and Unmaking) of a 23-Hour Times Best Seller
May 2024When Lani Sarem was a little girl, she had a fantasy. Like so many little girls and boys, she wanted to be a star, and for a brief moment this summer, her dream seemed poised to come true.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisels Marin Hinkle on the Herculean Task of Doing Stand-up Comedy
May 2024Rose Weissman won’t stop. You thought being threatened over a herring lunch in Brighton Beach would bring her burgeoning matchmaker empire down?
The Oscars Got a Barbenheimer Ratings Boost
May 2024Thanks to a big Barbenheimer boost — and a ton ofviral social-media moments — the 2024 Oscars scored a post-pandemic high of 19.
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
May 2024the owls are not what they seem Oct. 7, 2014 What Can We Expect From Showtime’s Revival of Twin Peaks?
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives ClubRecap: All Tea, All Shade
May 2024The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Speak Easy, Act Tough Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Speak Easy, Act Tough Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How do you solve a problem like Dorinda?
The Rise and Rise of Mindy Kaling
May 2024When was the moment you realized you were an admirer of Mindy Kaling’s work? Was it her bitingly sharp writing in The Office, her acting in the delightful rom-com The Mindy Project, or, if you’re one of the lucky OG Kaling-ers, her Off Broadway run at the beginning of the millennium when she ridiculed two famous Boston thespians?
The Royals Smeared Meghan Markles Jam
May 2024Jam bam thank you ma’am. Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam. At the height of global concern over the whereabouts of Princess of Wales Kate Middleton in March, Meghan Markle decided it would be the most opportune time to make a very important announcement of her own: She’s launching a line of jellies and jams!
The Saga of Sarah Jessica Parkers Pumpkins
May 2024A city of 8.6 million is going to have some tricks, as well as some treats. Sarah Jessica Parker was the recipient of both this Halloween when someone (Kim Cattrall?
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Trailer: Ben Stiller Gets a Life Magazine
May 2024It’s been a few months since we caught our first glimpse of Ben Stiller’s Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The Sexy Book Of Sexy Sex
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The Simple, Goreless Joys of Happy Death Day
May 2024Jessica Rothe in Happy Death Day. I’d be shocked to read a review of Happy Death Day that didn’t say, “It’s Groundhog Day meets Scream!
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The Story Behind the Crazy Chick Flips Out in Barnes & Noble Bookstore Meltdown
May 2024The story of how a promo video filmed in 2011 by a local theater troupe for its new show ended up on The Shade Room in 2016 is the story of so many viral videos: Created with intention, it eventually finds an audience through circuitous means, slowly and increasingly obscuring the original.
The Ted Bundy Tapes Examines an Infamous Serial Killer, But Finds Only a Horrifying Void
May 2024Ted Bundy, who was executed 30 years ago after confessing to the murders of 30 women, loved attention but didn’t want to be caught and punished for his crimes — a common conundrum among serial killers.
The White Lotus TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024Mike White’s comedy-drama (which at times borders on cringe-horror) was a breakout success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as The White Lotus took an all-star cast to a beautiful Hawaiian resort and let them unleash their worst, most privileged impulses.
The Wrestling Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
Theres an Art to Setting Chris Hemsworth on Fire (and Getting Netflix to Let You Do It)
May 2024Stuntman turned director Sam Hargrave set his movie star ablaze and nearly blew himself off a moving train while filming Extraction 2.
These Two Last Suppers Are My Quarantine Obsession
May 2024Andrea del Castagno, The Last Supper (1445–50). Tribulation, shock, gravitas, confusion, silent states of being, psyches agape — it is perhaps the most dramatic moment in Western history.
Twin Peaks Alumni: Where Are They Now?
May 2024TWIN PEAKS - Episode Three - Season One - 4/26/1990 FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLaughlin, right) at former homecoming queen Laura Palmer’s funeral with a lineup of mourners/suspects, from left: Shelly Johnson (Madchen Amick), Norma Jennings (Peggy Lipton), Ed Hurley (Everett McGill) and Nadine Hurley (Wendy Robie).
Vanessa Hudgens, What Are You Doing?
May 2024Vanessa Hudgens laughs in the face of death! Ha! Without the public service announcements of days gone by, many celebrities have taken it upon themselves to use their social-media platforms to spread information and helpful messaging about coronavirus and social distancing.
Warner Bros. Responds to Aurora Theaters Decision to Not Show Joker
May 2024The Aurora, Colorado movie theater where a mass shooter killed 12 moviegoers and injured 70 more in 2012 will not screen Joker.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Should Have Been Weirder
May 2024Bilge 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.
What Does a Celebrity Social-Media Manager Actually Do?
May 2024California scheming!!! All your favorite bands, brands, and beef jerkies have one now: a social-media manager. Recently, Jake Updegraff, an independent social-media manager, created a celebrity trend for his client Alicia Silverstone that was worthy and viral enough to be deemed a meme.
What Is Jury Dutys Ronald Gladdens Next Role?
May 2024After becoming an overnight internet sensation and a potential candidate for People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Jury Duty’s Ronald Gladden is afraid of staying in the spotlight for a little longer.
What Is the Detroit Leaning Referred to in the Pretenders Brass in Pocket?
May 2024Less than a minute into the music video for the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket” — one of the first clips ever aired on MTV — we see teddy-boy-coifed bassist Pete Farndon maneuvering a pink whale of an automobile toward the diner where singer Chrissie Hynde is waitressing.
Will You Accept This New Pop Song From The Bachelors Colton Underwood?
May 2024Colton Underwood. Despite being faced with a quintessential “wrong reasons” conundrum as he heads into his Bachelor hometown dates, Colton Underwood wants you to forget about the negativity and listen to his groovy tunes instead.
You Recap: Call Me by My Name
May 2024You Farewell, My Bunny Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You Farewell, My Bunny Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One of my favorite television tropes is how people are always dressing so inappropriately for funerals.
Youngers Hilary Duff on Getting Beat Up This Season and Returning to Lizzie McGuire
May 2024Warning: Spoilers ahead of the season six finale of Younger. Following a short (and, uh, titillating) reign as Empirical Press’s HBIC, Kelsey (Hilary Duff) kicked off Wednesday’s Younger finale by officially resigning, a selfless demotion to save the company from total bankruptcy.
A Discussion of Blade Runner 2049 in 2022
May 20242equels W3ek 4ise5 Presented by 2equels W3ek 4ise5 Presented by What a five-year-old movie can tell us about the future of franchises and whether films are moving backward.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Recap: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
May 2024Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Melinda Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Agents of S.
Album Review: Radioheads Shtick Resonates Anew in the Trump Era With A Moon Shaped Pool
May 2024It was rarely spoken of in polite company, but Radiohead’s position has been a bit precarious for more than a few years.
Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life
May 2024Alec Baldwin, photographed by Steve Schofield. As told to Joe Hagan. I flew to Hawaii recently to shoot a film, fresh on the heels of being labeled a homophobic bigot by Andrew Sullivan, Anderson Cooper, and others in the Gay Department of Justice.
All the 2020 Super Bowl Commercials
May 2024Peggy Olson was just starting to tackle the Super Bowl commercial craze in the penultimate season of Mad Men. And now, over 50 years after Super Bowl II, the “big game” is still the prime programming slot for advertisers, who shell out north of $5 million to capture American eyeballs for 30 seconds, according to Reuters.
Aminah Nieves Found Healing Playing Teonna on 1923
May 2024With Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), the chief of the Broken Rock Indian Reservation, Yellowstone underlines the fraught relationship between present-day Native Americans and the descendants of white settlers.
And Just Like That Recap: The One Where They All Make Friends
May 2024And Just Like That Some of My Best Friends Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And Just Like That Some of My Best Friends Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s no secret that And Just Like That … has gotten off to a real rough start.
Anne Hathaway Will Star As [Your Name] in Harry Styles Fanfic Movie
May 2024The fangirls of the 2000s are growing up, whether you like it or not. Many popular fan-fiction adaptions, like Fifty Shades of Grey and After, have hit the big screens, and it seems like there’s no stopping Wattpad authors from taking over the film industry and bringing big stars with them.
Ballers Season Finale Recap: One Last Shot
May 2024Ballers Game Day Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Ballers Game Day Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Dwayne Johnson as Spencer.
BET Awards 2022: Full Winners List
May 2024The Culture’s biggest night returned on Sunday, June 26, with the future Color Purple star Taraji P. Hensen on hosting duty for the second year in a row.
Black Mirror Recap: Shoot for the Moon
May 2024Black Mirror Mazey Day Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Black Mirror Mazey Day Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At around 42 minutes, “Mazey Day” is by far the shortest episode of this season of Black Mirror.
BPM Is a Vital Testament to Public Action
May 2024The title of the stark French AIDS-crisis drama BPM stands for “beats per minute,” which can evoke a heartbeat or a discotheque, both of which figure in the film.
Bruce Fromong, the Man O.J. Was Convicted Of Robbing at Gunpoint, on That Crazy Night In Vegas
May 2024Viewers couldn’t be blamed for walking away from O.J.: Made in America’s climatic episode still asking themselves, “Wait, so what were the circumstances that led up to the Las Vegas robbery?
Building Successions Haunted House
May 2024For the first episode without Logan, director Lorene Scafaria wanted to keep the claustrophobia alive. “It’s the first real delivery on the title of the show.
Camila Cabellos June Gloom
May 2024Camila Cabello has been famous since she was 15, when she auditioned for The X Factor in a secret plot to meet Harry Styles.
Cannes: Paris Hilton Cried While Watching The Bling Ring
May 2024Sofia Coppola landed one unlikely cameo for her fact-based crime caper The Bling Ring, which premiered yesterday at Cannes: Paris Hilton, whose mansion was repeatedly burglarized by the titular teenage thieves nearly five years ago.
Charlie Puth Is So Inspired by LGBTQ+ Culture
May 2024Maybe for the next album he’ll go in the Abbey. You know by now that Charlie Puth is a font of musical knowledge, drawing inspiration from across the charts, across history.
Christina Aguilera Is Back With New Msica on EP La Fuerza
May 2024Christina Aguilera is returning to her roots — personally and professionally. The pop star’s new EP, La Fuerza, isn’t just a Spanish-language project from the proudly Latina singer, it’s Aguilera’s first Spanish project since 2000’s Mi Reflejo, her second studio album released near the beginning of her music career.
Cougar Town Recap: No Use Crying Over Spilled Fake Blood
May 2024Cougar Town A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own Season 3 Episode 2 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cougar Town A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own Season 3 Episode 2 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » So, wedding planning seems like a nightmare.
Daisy Ridley Goes on Dates and Ideates in the Sometimes I Think About Dying Trailer
May 2024Daisy Ridley is riddled with intrusive thoughts of her own demise in the trailer for Sometimes I Think About Dying, and once you see her office lighting, you’ll sort of see where our girlie’s coming from.
Depeche Mode Say Good-bye With Ghosts Again
May 2024Heaven is dreaming, and it’s thinking of Andy Fletcher. Almost a year after the unexpected death of the founding Depeche Mode keyboardist, fellow members Dave Gahan and Martin Gore have released their first single as a duo, “Ghosts Again.
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Dont Even Think About It, by Alex Pearson
May 2024Don’t even think about it. I would not sleep with you if we were the last two people on Earth.
Downton Abbeys Wig Master Answers All of Our Pressing Questions
May 2024Can you spot the wig? When Vulture placed an international call to Downton Abbey’s hair-department head, Anne Oldham, we intended to have her walk us through all the snazzy women’s haircuts in the film.
Encyclopedia Brown Is a Go: What Other Kid Lit Series Should Be Movies?
May 2024Earlier this month, 20th Century Fox declared its intent to make a Choose Your Own Adventure movie, based on the 185-book series that has dazzled children for decades.
Eric Schaeffer Talks Gravity, His Penis
May 2024Eric Schaeffer’s new Starz show, Gravity (starring Krysten Ritter), follows a group of people who’ve tried (and failed) to kill themselves.
Every Brad Pitt Movie Performance, Ranked
May 2024A closer look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s body of work. Brad Pitt is an undeniable movie star. But is he a great actor?
Every Easter Egg in the New Halloween
May 2024From the time it was announced, there was little doubt that David Gordon Green’snew sequel to Halloween was going to be a love letter to the 1978 original.
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May 2024the times they are a changin’ Nov. 15, 2012 The Mindy Project and the Contemporary Peril of Reusing JokesAre the rom-com references getting to be too much?
Everything We Know About Avatar 3
May 2024Spoilers for The Way of Water ahead. If Avatar: The Way of Water taught us anything, it’s that humans are greedy — for eternal life, for revenge, for tulkun brain juice, and for more Avatar movies.
Find Out What Beavis and Butt-Head Would Look Like in Real Life
May 2024Thanks, makeup artist Kevin Kirkpatrick. Can we turn away now? [BuzzFeed] Find Out What Beavis and Butt-Head Would Look Like in Real Life ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZnyjscCvoKxlkaOxbq7UrauhnZGZerOxwKVkpaGWmnupwMyl
Freaky Friday to Take Us Away a Second Time
May 2024Okay, do Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen next. AAAHhhhhh! AAAhhhhh! There used to be one movie and now there’s gonna be two!
Gilmore Girls Scott Patterson on Why It Was Hard to Be Luke Again, and the Scene That Made Him Un
May 2024Spoilers ahead for all four episodes of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. If there’s one thing that’s changed less than Stars Hollow on Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, it’s Luke Danes.
Grant Gustin to Warble in Water for Elephants
May 2024He’s glad you came. For the many, many, many of us whose sexual awakening was the Glee performance of “Smooth Criminal,” there’s some big Broadway news.
Greys Anatomy Finally Told Us What Happened to Alex Karev
May 2024After weeks of teasing, tonight Grey’s stopped playing around and told us where Alex Karev has been since Justin Chambers’s midseason departure.
High Fidelity TV Episode Recaps & News
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House of Villains Recap: The Lesser of 3 Evils
May 2024House of Villains No More Mr. Nice Villain Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of Villains No More Mr.
How TV Writers Crafted Abortion Stories Before the Fall of Roe
May 2024Both Better Things on FX (left) and The Chi on Showtime (right) depicted abortion stories for their characters in the last two years.
I Am Filled With Dread Whenever Netflix Buys a Movie I Love
May 2024Hit Man, we hardly knew you. Hit Man deserves to be seen in a theater. Somewhere along the way, it was branded as elitist to say that, though I feel like no one trying to make the streaming-is-for-the-people argument really has their heart in it anymore.
In Real Life, Magic Mikes Cody Horn Would Never Stop Channing Tatum From Stripping
May 2024Cody Horn. Cody Horn knows that you’re coming to the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike to watch some hot men strip, and that puts her in a bit of a bind: Her character, Brooke, is the one who’s trying to convince her brother Adam (Alex Pettyfer) and her potential love interest Mike (Channing Tatum) to stop peeling off their clothes for money.
In The Boy and the Heron, the Lie Is the Point
May 2024Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film leans on his lived experience, but as with all his stories, that’s not really what makes it great.
Japanese Breakfasts Michelle Zauner Has a Question for Taylor Swift
May 2024Can Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner ask you a question, Taylor Swift? During a spot on her book tour for her best-selling memoir Crying in H-Mart, Zauner shared a story of the drunken moment when she met Swift at a bar during a Grammys after-party.
Jay Z and Kanye Have Definitely Discussed Watch the Throne 2
May 2024Jay-Z, Kanye West==GQ, Rocawear, and Hennessy Celebrate New York Fashion Week==Hotel Gansevoort, NYC==September 15, 2010==©PartickMcmullan==Photo - MARC DIMOV/PatrickMcmullan.com== == “We don’t have any dates lined out for it, but we definitely spoke about dropping solo albums and then going back to do Watch the Throne 2, so we’ll see what happens,” Jay Z equivocated in a new radio interview with L.
Jay-Z Zooms Into the 2024 Tony Awards
May 2024And where was Lil Mama? Once again, it must be said: concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
Jenny Raftery Author Archive
May 2024high school tv showdown Nov. 12, 2015 The Continual Resurrection of Buffy in Fanfic“There are days you never forget, moments you remember.
Jerry Lewis Is Making a Nutty Professor Musical
May 2024The New York Times has a story about Jerry Lewis, at 86, directing a musical adaptation of The Nutty Professor in Nashville.
John Mayer Is Toto-ly in Love With You in New Last Train Home Music Video
May 2024As promised, the new single from John Mayer’s upcoming eighth studio album, Sob Rock, is ’80s enough to make Bryan Adams take that first real six-string back to the five-and-dime.
Jokes Seth Cant Tell (Because SAG Is Still on Strike) Won Late Night This Week
May 2024We (late-night television) are so back (because even though SAG-AFTRA hasn’t resolved its strike against the AMPTP, late-night hosts are obligated to work under SAG’s Netcode agreement), baby!
Judge Plans to Dismiss Romeo and Juliet Child-Abuse Lawsuit
May 2024Los Angeles Superior Court judge Alison Mackenzie said on Thursday that she will dismiss Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting’s lawsuit against Paramount for allegedly sexually exploiting and distributing nude images of minors, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Justified: City Primeval Recap: A Shooting Match
May 2024Justified: City Primeval The Smoking Gun Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Justified: City Primeval The Smoking Gun Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Aw, Raylan.
Kanyes Twitter Is Alive! (Kind Of)
May 2024Except for a single picture of Jay, Bey, and Kim (left), Kanye’s Twitter has been silent since the heartbreaking purge of early October.
Laura Dern Almost, Literally Moved in With Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
May 2024Laura Dern and Greta Gerwig. Over the course of her 40-year career Laura Dern has made a habit of working with Hollywood’s very best filmmakers, and says that today she considers Jurassic Park’s Steven Spielberg and Blue Velvet’s David Lynch “family.
Lawrence Burney Author Archive
May 2024Lawrence Burney is a writer, a critic, and the founder of True Laurels, an indie magazine covering Baltimore’s music and culture scene. His work has appeared in publications such as New York Magazine, GQ, and Pitchfork.
Lil Wayne Performs a Fitting Song for Kamala Harris
May 2024He’s in a silly goofy mood. Lil Wayne’s got more than ad hoc guitar features and a good verse on a Tyler, the Creator song.
Lizzo Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit From Former Dancers
May 2024Lizzo. Three of Lizzo’s former dancers have filed a lawsuit against her; her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc.
Looking Back at Bob Hopes Early Work
May 2024The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history.
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May 2024vulture remix Nov. 16, 2015 Watch The Hunger Games Become a ’90s Action MoviePrime yourself for Mockingjay — Part 2 with our latest Vulture Remix.
Members of the Revolution Share Their 5 Favorite Prince Stories
May 2024Prince with Wendy Melvoin from the Revolution. Though Prince was one of pop music’s very brightest stars, he knew that he could shine even brighter surrounded by a great band.
Minority Report Recap: As Smart As We Are Pissed
May 2024Minority Report Honor Among Thieves Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Minority Report Honor Among Thieves Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nick Zano.
Mrs. Davis Recap: Story Time
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Mums the Word: Elizabeth Remains a Cipher in the New Biography The Queen: Her Life
May 2024There go the royals, shaking hands and cradling bouquets and reminding us all that they’re there, that they’re working, that they have, in their parlance, a “role.
Muppet Movies, Ranked
May 2024Legendary filmmaker Orson Welles was certainly onto something when he claimed Sesame Street was the greatest thing to happen to television.
Nine Perfect Strangers Is Alluring But Empty
May 2024Vacations are supposed to recharge us, to transform us from the exhausted husks who wheeled our bags into the hotel lobby into more relaxed, possibly even more enlightened human beings.
Nineteen Things You Must Do at This Weekends Gathering of the Juggalos
May 2024Today saw the kickoff of the 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos, a yearly chance for the face-painted fans of Insane Clown Posse to get together and make Deadheads look civilized.
No, Selena, We Meme You Because We Love You
May 2024Only Memes in the Building. Even if you didn’t watch the 2023 MTV VMAs on September 13, you probably saw a clip of Selena Gomez’s face.
Okay, But Who Will Play Sean Penn in the El Chapo Biopic?
May 2024Oscar bait. After news broke Friday that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, one of Mexico’s most famous drug kingpins and escape artists, had been captured while trying to make a biopic about his life, you might have though that news couldn’t get any stranger.
Parks and Rec Recap: Ron and Tammys
May 2024Early in Parks and Rec’s run, when it was revealed that Tammy was the name of both of Ron Swanson’s ex-wives and also his mother, it created more questions than answers.
Poldark Recap: The French Connection
May 2024Poldark Episode 7 Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Poldark Episode 7 Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ross Poldark, way down in the hole.
Rage Against the Machines Bassist Has No Breakup Intel, Because Im the Bass Player
May 2024Tim Commerford, killing in the name of relatability, has no idea whether his very famous band has broken up or not.
Rap Sh!t Series-Premiere Recap: Bienvenidos a Miami!
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Richard E. Grant Answers Every Question We Have About Spice World
May 2024Role 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.
Rolling Stones Drama Coming Soon, Courtesy of Richard Branson
May 2024BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - JUNE 01: (L-R) Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones pose for a photograph during a dress rehearsal prior to the opening concert of the 2007 European leg of their ‘A Bigger Bang’ World Tour at the Videohouse on June 1, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.
Rory Gilmore, Dont Catch a Cold, Please Put on a Coat
May 2024Today, Netflix released a set of four seasonal posters for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. They seem fine.
Russell Peters on Being Comedys Cult Superstar
May 2024On December 11, Russell Peters will headline at Madison Square Garden. It’s the first time he’ll have played the Garden’s big room — he’s done the smaller WaMu theater before — but arenas are familiar territory for the 44-year-old comedian.
Schmigadoon! Series-Premiere Recap: Welcome to Musical Hell
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Search Party Season-Finale Recap: Dory Is Going to Hell
May 2024Search Party Frenzy; Psychosis Season 2 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Search Party Frenzy; Psychosis Season 2 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » In interviews about Search Party season two, the writers and actors often mention Hitchcock as a reference point.
Seductively Deck the Halls With This Trailer for HBO Maxs Christmas Dating Show
May 2024If you mix Bachelor in Paradise with Love Is Blind, inject it with 3, and stuff it into a stocking, ho ho ho!
Seth Rogen Shares His Tale of Eating 60 Grams of Mushrooms in Amsterdam on Jimmy Kimmel Live
May 2024Seth Rogen visited last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his upcoming Christmas movie The Night Before, and while he was there he told Kimmel about the time he and a friend traveled to Amsterdam at age 18, split 60 grams of mushrooms, attempted to have a “nonsensical picnic,” and got so high they ended up in Paris: “We arrived in Paris in the middle of the night as we were kind of sobering up, being like ‘Why are we in Paris right now?
Sex on Bridgerton Is All About Keeping Everyone From Rolling Off the Tiny Beds
May 2024Among its many strengths, Bridgerton is successful because it delivers exactly what it promises. Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) marries Simon, the Duke of Hastings (Reǵe-Jean Page) under unfortunate circumstances, but then it turns out that they actually love one another!
Shrills Costume Designer Had to Make Aidy Bryants Outfits From Scratch
May 2024Aidy Bryant in Shrill. Hulu’s Shrill isn’t interested in makeovers. Based on Lindy West’s memoir of the same name, the new comedy doesn’t put Aidy Bryant’s character Annie in a constant battle with her bathroom scales or the food she eats, and she isn’t relegated to being the funny fat friend or the punch line.
Slow Burn Hits the L.A. Riots (and 4 More Podcasts Worth Trying)
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So, Uh, What Happened on Game of Thrones?
May 2024Reliving seven seasons of beheadings, recastings, and internet controversy. There will never be another show like Game of Thrones.
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May 2024good one podcast Dec. 3, 2018 For Rachel Bloom, All Roads Lead Back to Space JamOn this week’s Good One, Rachel Bloom talks about writing “Space Jam,” her first attempt at blending her musical and sketch-comedy backgrounds.
Star Market: Whats Megan Foxs Show Biz Worth?
May 2024A tattooed sexpot with the mouth of a Gallagher brother, Megan Fox might have been born to be famous on the Internet.
Terry Crewss Amazing Pectorals Perform Jingle Bells As Your Early Christmas Present
May 2024Terry Crews has an amazing set of pectorals. They bounce, they nip-synced “Ebony and Ivory” with Jimmy Fallon, and they even did a victory gloat after Crews’s lip-sync battle against Mike Tyson.
The 15 Best, Most Essential Episodes of The Venture Bros.
May 2024“All the strangers came today / And it looks as though they’re here to stay.” Maybe it’s a bit obvious to open an article about The Venture Bros.
The Bachelorette Recap: Full Circle
May 2024The Bachelorette Week 7 Season 20 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bachelorette Week 7 Season 20 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we get into the recap, here are two pieces of Bachelor World news worth discussing.
The Bear Is Trapped
May 2024Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) can’t move ahead while he’s haunted by his past, making The Bear’s third season feel stuck in place.
The Buffy Cast Supports Stacey Abramss Spike Theory
May 2024Buffy and her OTP. The 23-year conversation around Buffy Summers’s true love continued this week, this time with major reinforcements, thanks to a tweet by Stacey Abrams.
The Critics Have Spoken, and Oppenheimer Is the Name on Their Lips
May 2024In this article Leaderboard Gameplay Prizes Scoring Categories There comes a time each year where the juggernaut of awards season is revealed, and this weekend was just that for Christopher Nolan’s epic, which picked up eight wins at the annual Critics Choice Awards last Sunday night.
The Family - TV Episode Recaps & News
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The Great British Baking Show Recap: Such a Tart!
May 2024The Great British Baking Show Patisserie Week Season 14 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Patisserie Week Season 14 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I never like it when the main thing you take away from an episode is that the elimination is wrong.
The Harry Potter Reunion Says All Baby Emmas Look Alike
May 2024Update, Tuesday, January 4 at 9:30 p.m.: 1, 2, 3, and poof! The Emma’s are now in their rightful homes, er streaming platforms.
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May 2024The Man With Feeet - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Dec. 2, 2010 Finally, Comedy in Viewmaster FormYou remember the Viewmaster, right?
The Most Transgressive and Personal of Blondie, According to Debbie Harry and Chris Stein
May 2024Superlatives 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 Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Phaedra Visits Apollo in Prison
May 2024The Real Housewives of Atlanta Turning Over a New Peach Season 8 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta Turning Over a New Peach Season 8 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Phaedra Parks.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap, Reunion Part 2: No Bunny Knows
May 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion Part Two Season 7 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion Part Two Season 7 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Now comes the time that we have all been anxiously awaiting.
The Real Zola
May 2024A’Ziah King’s Twitter tale of a strip-club road trip gone awry is now a big buzzy movie. Now she’s ready to make her story her own again.
The Shed Artwashes Hudson Yards. Who Artwashes the Shed?
May 2024Rachika Nayar’s Our Hands Against the Dusk. You’re never that far from an advertisement at the Shed, the enormous culture building that sits at the top of the High Line.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Recap: My Sunshine Boy
May 2024The Summer I Turned Pretty Love Fool Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Summer I Turned Pretty Love Fool Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, this is something new and exciting.
The Swallow Trailer Forces You to Imagine the Feeling of Gulping Down Nails
May 2024You may remember Swallow from Vulture’s list of the most anticipated horror films coming up in 2020. As the movie plays out slowly, you might mistake it for a haunting indie drama, but that would underestimate the crippling terror of living a hermetically sealed life that you hate and turning to, well, unconventional coping strategies to neutralize your suburban Stepford malaise.
The Time to Watch Mollys Game Is All the Time
May 2024Friday 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.
The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Richard Linklater on Boyhoods Saddest Moment
May 2024Over the next few weeks, Vulture will speak to the screenwriters behind 2014’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack.
The Toughest Scene I Wrote: The Coen Brothers on Inside Llewyn Davis
May 2024In this series, Vulture has been speaking to the screenwriters behind 2013’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack.
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season-Finale Recap: Bring Him Home
May 2024The Walking Dead: Dead City Doma Smo Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Walking Dead: Dead City Doma Smo Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Well, at least Hershel got a souvenir from his trip to Manhattan.
Theres a New Taylor SwiftInspired Cookie Recipe for Midnights
May 2024The 1950s shit they want from her. Joy Wilson, a.k.a. Joy the Baker, is still surprised by how passionate Swifties are about their favorite singer and their love of baking.
Tis the Season for Mariah Carey to Set Yet Another Record
May 2024Mariah Carey might not legally be the queen of Christmas, but her reign over the festive season is undeniable.
Twice Serves Double the Surprises With Their New Album and Scientist Music Video
May 2024Twice is serving twice the surprises, dropping their music video for “Scientist” and a brand-new album. A high-production-values visual ecstasy, the “Scientist” set is giving viewers bubble gum pop crossed with a scientific playground.
Watch a Spirited ASL Performance of Cee Los F-ck You
May 2024ASL (American Sign Language) song fans will know that emotion makes or breaks the performance. Below is the perfect ratio of sass to happiness.
What to Expect in Outlander Season 4, According to Diana Gabaldons Books
May 2024Spoilers below for Outlander and the Outlander book series. All done catching your breath about Outlander’s season-three finale?
What We Do in the Shadows Recap: Shout at the (Jersey) Devil
May 2024What We Do in the Shadows Pine Barrens Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What We Do in the Shadows Pine Barrens Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In this recapper’s humble opinion, the best episodes of What We Do in the Shadows are the ones that bring the whole gang together — not much of a surprise, given how much of the show’s success rides on the cast’s comedic chemistry.
Who in the Big Little Lies Universe Has Seen Call Me by Your Name?
May 2024In the Big Little Lies season-two premiere, a lot has changed around Monterey: Madeline now has AirPods and sells houses, Celeste and Bonnie give long blank stares in nature, Jane has a new job at the aquarium, and Renata is still Renata.
Who the Jessica Jones Characters Are in the Comics and How They Connect to the Marvel Universe
May 2024via GIPHY Marvel’s Jessica Jones introduces the titular character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with Luke Cage, who’ll have his own series next year.
Who Thought Stoppard Needs More Sex?
May 2024Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Caroline Grogan in Arcadia. It’s a red flag when a production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia begins with a lengthy helping of the 1980s moaner “Wicked Game” as the audience sits in the dark.
WKRP in Cincinnatis Turkeys Away Is Still the Best Thanksgiving Episode Ever
May 2024This story was first published in November 2018. We’re republishing it today with the latest details about where to stream WKRP.
Woody Allen: Changing Soon-Yis Life Has Been One of His Greatest Pleasures
May 2024The marriage between Woody Allen and Soon-Yi, the adopted daughter of his former partner Mia Farrow,* is something that has not aged gracefully — a feature that only becomes more pronounced whenever Allen discusses it.
Younger Recap: The Don Ridley Problem
May 2024Younger Big Little Liza Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Younger Big Little Liza Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Dust off your best Chandler Bing impression because I have a question: Could Liza be juggling any more story lines this week?
A Barbie Post-Credits Scene Is Coming to Party
May 2024C’mon, Barbie, we’re seeing Barbie again. Just when you thought the pinkpocalypse had reached its zenith, Barbie said, “But wait, there’s more.
A Brief History of the Alternate Movie Endings Lost to Time
May 2024The Art of Ending Things How great entertainment sticks the landing. The Art of Ending Things How great entertainment sticks the landing.
A Collection of House of Cards Best Frank Underwood Side-Eye GIFs
May 2024No one has ever had more contempt for the fools that surround them than House of Cards’s Veep, Frank Underwood.
A Third Elvis Is Coming to Your Screen in 2024
May 2024A new Elvis will join the likes of Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi. But this time, a baby will be heading into the big screen— if you count YouTube.
Abbott Elementary Season-Finale Recap: Selfish Era
May 2024Abbott Elementary Franklin Institute Season 2 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Abbott Elementary Franklin Institute Season 2 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Our precious Janine and Gregory slow burn almost combusted into a full flame before taking an altogether different route.
Abduction Trailer: Taylor Lautner Roundhouse Kicks His Way Past Twilight
May 2024Doesn’t it seem like light years ago that people were speaking of Taylor Lautner as a hot commodity? Technically, of course, he still is: Abduction, his first big solo project, hasn’t yet been released, and therefore, by the laws of the universe, cannot have yet flopped.
An Ode to Daenerys Targaryens Amazing Coat on Game of Thrones
May 2024Winter has come to Game of Thrones. It’s a time of White Walkers and endless darkness and tragic death.
Ariana Grandes Positions Ends Up on Top of the Billboard Album Charts
May 2024Following in the tiny, high-heeled footprints of its debut single of the same name, Ariana Grande’s Positions has found itself in the best position of all: on top.
Arrested Development Hidden Jokes: Episodes 11 and 12
May 2024Is there really anything else left to say? Yes, we’re still on our Arrested Development Easter-egg hunt, and if you don’t know that by now, we haven’t been hammering your over the head with it often enough.
Avatar: The Way of Water Might Be James Camerons Most Personal Film
May 2024It’s also, as you might suspect, spectacular. James Cameron is never leaving Pandora. That much is certain after seeing Avatar: The Way of Water, his sequel to 2009’s ginormo-hit, Avatar.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Deserved So Much More
May 2024Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians?
Ben Gibbard Picks the Best Death Cab for Cutie Songs
May 2024In the early ‘00s, the band Death Cab for Cutie became synonymous with a sort of muted adolescent angst. Lead singer Ben Gibbard, whose gentle voice lends a childlike quality to the music, often used opaque lyrics to capture the mystifying passions of young love.
Billy Joel Is Basically Going on Tour With Stevie Nicks
May 2024Business is booming for these two boomers: Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks have announced that they’re co-headlining three shows together this spring, with more dates expected to come.
Bobs Burgers Recap: Rolling in the Arugula
May 2024Bob’s Burgers Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bob’s Burgers Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Story
Breaking Bads Anna Gunn Looks Back on All the Bizarre Fan Hate She Received As Skyler White
May 2024Anna Gunn. There’s been more of a conversation about toxic fandoms as of late, as apparently people just cannot stop themselves, but one actress intimately familiar with the “bizarre and confusing” heat of audience anger started experiencing it in 2008, with the premiere of the critically acclaimed Breaking Bad.
Breaking Down the Ever-So-Gritty Venom Trailer
May 2024Superhero movies are known for their bluntness, but Venom exists in a fog of ambiguity. The title character is a superpowered antihero who was born in the pages of Spider-Man comics, and Spidey now exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Can Anyone Trust The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling?
May 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?
Candice Patton Says Racist Mistreatment Was Free Range on The Flash
May 2024Candice Patton. Candice Patton shared her early experiences on the set of The Flash on the first episode of Elliot Knight’s The Open Up Podcast, claiming that the CW and Warner Bros.
Chris Noth Accused of Sexually Assaulting Four Women
May 2024Update, Thursday, December 23, at 3:55 p.m.: Another woman has come forward accusing Chris Noth of sexual assault.
Dan Harmons Naked Periscopes Are the Motivational Tool We Need to Beat 2017
May 2024At the start of 2017, mulling over the awful year that was and pressed down by one disheartening news alert after the other, some people started to fear that there was one high-profile death in 2016 that they maybe forgot to account for: the death of comedy Twitter.
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Daredevil Recap: The Origin of Karen Page
May 2024Daredevil Karen Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daredevil Karen Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All of this started with Karen Page.
Dark Matter Recap: Truth or Dares
May 2024Dark Matter In the Fires of Dead Stars Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dark Matter In the Fires of Dead Stars Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Guess who’s coming to dinner?
David Bradley on The Strain, Game of Thrones, and the Unexpected Fallout From the Red Wedding
May 2024The Strain’s David Bradley. How you recognize the British character actor David Bradley might depend on your age and interests.
David Hyde Pierce Almost Missed His Julia Moment
May 2024Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on June 27.
Dear Edward Recap: When the Fairy Tale Is Over
May 2024Dear Edward Folklore Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dear Edward Folklore Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ooooh baby, this episode of Dear Edward has a little bit of everything: We’ve got romance, we’ve got breakups, we’ve got truly dickish dads showing up, we’ve got emotionally loaded dumplings, and yes, we’ve got $3,500 dollar bottles of Champagne being drunk with sugar cubes in them.
Double Take
May 2024Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton on learning to write their stories separately after a lifelong friendship. Photo: El Hardwick Photo: El Hardwick Let Rosa Walton make something immediately clear about her and her bandmate, Jenny Hollingworth: “We’re not dating.
Drake on Take Care, Rapping Past 30, and Yes, Sweaters
May 2024The non-musical talking points on Drake are as follows: He’s a former Degrassi star; he’s Jewish; he got dumped by Rihanna; he wears a lot of sweaters.
Eat, Pray, Love Author Eat-Pray-Pulls Book Set in Russia
May 2024Elizabeth Gilbert, bookless author. If you go to Italy to eat, India to pray, and Indonesia to love, what do you go to Russia for?
Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash Resigns From Sesame Street Amid New Allegations
May 2024Last Monday, it was reported that longtime Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash would take a leave of absence after being accused of having a sexual relationship with an underaged partner.
Emily Palmer Heller Author Archive
May 2024emergency discussion July 3, 2023 What Do We Want From Bachelor Nation?The franchise that began as an earnest attempt at matchmaking and became an “incestuous influencer parade” is experiencing an identity crisis.
Every American Idol Finalist, Ranked From Worst to Best
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Everything Everywhere All at Once Dizzies Itself Into Transcendence
May 2024Jobu Tapaki (Stephanie Hsu), the universe-hopping villain of Everything Everywhere All at Once, wears ensembles of escalating outrageousness over the course of the film: a matching plaid cape trench and visor set, a stylized golfing costume, an Elvis-esque rhinestoned jumpsuit.
Fighting Hotel Insomnia With HGTV
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Here Are All the Jokes Workaholics Is Retiring, and You Should Too
May 2024Best Workaholics cast ever When the gang from Workaholics hang up their ties after their seventh season this year, they will be laying to rest not only a very successful and long-running sitcom but also a massive list of joke-based clichés that their writers have continually retired since season two.
Heres a First Look at Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns, Though Really Anyone Could Be Under Th
May 2024Supercalifragilisticexpiunrecognizable. Those lips! That nose! That half of an ear! Who else could it be? Disney, via Entertainment Weekly, has released a first look at Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the 1964 musical which stars … hmmmm, let’s just check our notes to be sure … Emily Blunt as the titular magical nanny.
Holland Taylor Answers Every Question We Have About Legally Blonde
May 2024Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t.
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Could Use Your Prayers
May 2024The movie Honk for Jesus: Save Your Soul belongs to Regina Hall. By the end, she has seized it with both hands thanks to a performance that, especially in the film’s second half, is explosive, multi-layered and, unfortunately, much more purposeful than the film itself.
Hoon Lee on Banshees Season 2 Finale and His Hope for Season 3
May 2024Hoon Lee. Last night, Banshee wrapped its second season with two major character deaths and an unclear sense of what’s next for the show’s transgender computer hacker, Job.
How I Met Your Mother Recap: Vanilla Thunder
May 2024How I Met Your Mother The Window Season 5 Episode 10 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last episode, the commenting consensus was that HIMYM had burrowed itself into a rut.
How Is Kim Doing After the Breaking Bad Episode of Better Call Saul?
May 2024Vulture and New York TV critic Jen Chaney previously worked for the Washington Post and has bylines at the New York Times and Vanity Fair.
How King of the Hills Meet the Propaniacs Accidentally Predicted Meme Culture
May 2024A recurring theme throughout King of the Hill’s run is that Hank and Bobby had little in common. The show made it clear that the pair loved each other, but Hank could never quite relate to his son, and Bobby couldn’t help but find Hank’s love of propane woefully boring.
How to Dress Like Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza
May 2024In Licorice Pizza, Alana Haim plays Alana Kane, a Valley-dwelling firecracker who’s not a girl, not yet a woman, and not quite sure which one she wants people to think she is.
How to Overcome Accent Anxiety in 4 Simple Steps
May 2024Done properly, the work of a dialect coach is everywhere and nowhere at once. Done wrong, a so-called dialect disaster will preoccupy viewers to distraction.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May Once Again Attempt (and Quickly Fail) to Name Their
May 2024Amazon Prime has released a teaser for its upcoming motoring show starring the merry band of hooligans Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, and it’s sure to make you nostalgic for the old Top Gear days.
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara Never Stopped Being Funny Together
May 2024Stiller and Meara together in 1970. Jerry Stiller has passed away at the age of 92. Today he is probably best known for his work as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld, Arthur Spooner on King of Queens, or perhaps Maury Ballstein in the Zoolander films, but his comedic career goes back into the 1950s.
Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, and More Join Will Ferrells IFC Show Spoils of Babylon
May 2024The cast of Funny or Die’s new IFC series The Spoils of Babylon keeps getting more and more impressive. The network announced today that Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Tim Robbins, and Michael Sheen are joining the cast, which already includes Kristen Wiig, Tobey Maguire, Haley Joel Osment, and Will Ferrell.
Jessica Jones Recap: You Never Forget Your First
May 2024Marvel’s Jessica Jones AKA The Double Half-Wappinger Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Marvel’s Jessica Jones AKA The Double Half-Wappinger Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s a bright new day in New York City for one Gregory Salinger, who is getting out of prison and holding a press conference with his new attorney, Jeri Hogarth.
Jim Parrack on His True Blood Return, Hoyts Dream Girl, and Drinking Blood IRL
May 2024True Blood’s Jim Parrack. Warning: This interview contains minor spoilers for “Almost Home,” the latest episode of True Blood.
Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck Stole Lyrics From an Incarcerated Folk-Poet
May 2024Johnny continues to reach new Deppths. On Thursday, August 4, a story in Rolling Stone suggested that Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck may have plagiarized the late folk-poet Slim Wilson on their song “Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade” by using lyrics without crediting them to him.
Juno Temple Joins Woody Allens Next Film, Which, With a Few Tweaks, Could Be Vinyl Season Two
May 2024Juno Temple. Hey, maybe Woody Allen was one of the few die-hard Vinyl–heads. Juno Temple, who played a young music exec on HBO’s recently canceled drama, has joined Allen’s upcoming film, which will be a period drama set in the late ‘50s — though, could we just shimmy it into the ‘70s?
Kathy Hilton Might Not Actually Come Back to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
May 2024Kathy Hilton and Lisa Rinna. Hunky, I’m dorrying. This past weekend at the second-ever BravoCon, a bunch happened: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Lisa Rinna got booed on stage, New York’s Dorinda Medley basically got herself un-paused, and Atlanta’s Kenya Moore almost death-dropped.
Kendrick Really Hates That Man
May 2024Can he still show his face in the 6? The time has come for Drake to enter himself into witness protection.
Kristen Stewart Reveals Why She Didnt Make a Snow White Sequel: All the Ideas Were F*cking Terrib
May 2024Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman. In a perfect world, Kristen Stewart would be as beloved for her acting talent and her no-bullshit approach to celebrity as Jennifer Lawrence is.
Lana Del Rey Got Her First No. 1 Album
May 2024A hearty congratulations to Lana Del Rey, whose new album Ultraviolence is currently atop the Billboard 200 charts. She sold 182,000 to claim the spot (just 16,000 over Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour, which is at No.
Lana Del Rey Teases Her New Album By Suggesting She Has Become an Optimistic Ghost in the Hollywood
May 2024My new record - Lust For Life - is coming soon pic.twitter.com/cm6QV0gjkX — Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) March 29, 2017 In the past, Lana Del Rey’s general vibe has oscillated ever so slightly between a depressed Marilyn Monroe and Dusty Springfield in a love coma.
Lenny Kravitz on The Hunger Games, Sexuality, and Glee
May 2024Lenny Kravitz. In a movie where almost everyone is dressed in outrageous costumes, you’d expect someone like Lenny Kravitz to fit right in — after all, the man has rocked some remarkable stagewear as one of music’s best-known stars.
Margot Robbie Stepping Into Wes Andersons World for New Film
May 2024The list of auteurs currently working with Margot Robbie continues to grow. The star is joining Wes Anderson’s upcoming film, set to begin shooting in Spain later this month, in a reportedly supporting role, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Marvels The Defenders Is a Pretty Grim Slog
May 2024Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist, and Jessica Jones in Marvel’s The Defenders. Marvel’s The Defenders is a reasonably satisfying superhero team-up with a gritty undertone that’s characteristic of the comic studio’s previous Netflix shows.
Meat Loaf, Legendary Bat Out of Hell Rocker, Dead at 74
May 2024RIP. Meat Loaf, the incomparable singer and actor whose 1977 debut, Bat Out of Hell, became one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died at the age of 74.
Missing the Live-Action Mulan? Try These 5 Movies
May 2024Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman. 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), new installments of beloved properties (No Time to Die), and promising date-night fare (The Lovebirds).
Mockingjay Director Francis Lawrence on Reworking Philip Seymour Hoffmans Part and Getting His St
May 2024When it came time to decide where exactly to split the third installment of The Hunger Games trilogy so that one book could be two films, director Francis Lawrence said it came down to understanding that Mockingjay had “two separate stories, and two very distinct dramatic questions.
Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians Matches Childhood Wonder With Dazzling High-Tech Eye Candy
May 2024Haven’t we run out of iconic beings to cluster in po-mo kids’ movies yet? The Shrek films clustered together characters such as Pinocchio, the Gingerbread Man, Rumpelstiltskin, and Puss ‘n Boots, and more recently, Hotel Transylvania gave us a zippy comic adventure involving Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the gang.
Naomi Watts Has Never Heard of Tuna Casserole
May 2024On Wednesday night, Jimmy Fallon played “The Whisper Challenge” with Naomi Watts. And while that might sound like an indie thriller starring Watts, it’s actually just a game Fallon sometimes plays with guests where one person tries to guess what the other is saying while wearing noise-canceling headphones.
Naomi Watts on The Impossible and Her Weirdest Film Credit
May 2024Naomi Watts. Naomi Watts is no stranger to enduring arduous situations onscreen, but the ante is officially upped in the fact-based disaster drama The Impossible, where she plays Maria Belon, a tourist caught in the deadly Southeast Asia tsunami.
Netflixs Falling for Christmas Is a Dantes Inferno-esque Allegory
May 2024Lindsay Lohan fell — that is to say, from grace, and as a leap of faith, across genres and generations and the shadow of her own public crises, and into the underworld — in the interest of Christmas.
Nobody Stole James Brown
May 2024Despite the insistence of one of James Brown’s daughters, the Godfather of Soul’s body has not gone missing from its mausoleum in Georgia.
One Piece (Live Action) TV Episode Recaps & News
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Our First Lady of Sorrows
May 2024When Natalie Portman finally committed to starring in Jackie, a jarringly intimate portrait of Mrs. Kennedy’s life just after JFK’s murder, her parents gifted her with a valuable piece of research.
Overwatch Character Tracer Revealed As Queer
May 2024Smoochy smoochy It always feels a bit dicey when an entertainment company makes a big revelation in a tie-in product for a popular franchise, rather than in the main story itself.
Refurbished Alice Tully Hall Easy on the Ears
May 2024Eckhart Tolle being fabulously succesful. The rejuvenated Alice Tully Hall has now been open for just over a week, and musicians of various persuasions have been testing its responses during the inaugural festival.
Regina Spektor, Before and After
May 2024The singer-songwriter on her new album, processing pain, and spotting demons Photo: Shervin Lainez Regina Spektor has had a tough 2022, and not in the same way we all have (though that too).
Rogue Ones Alan Tudyk on Playing K-2SO, Writing His Own Lines, and Peeing in Stilts
May 2024Throughout the Star Wars movies, droids have always played the role of comic relief. C-3PO and R2-D2 played off each other as yin and yang, narc subordinate and dogged individual, and carried the burden for the first six films.
RuPaul and J.J. Watt Will Make Their SNL Hosting Debuts Next Month
May 2024February on SNL will be led by football and drag. Two very different newbies are heading to Saturday Night Live next month.
RuPauls Drag Race Recap: Thank You for Being a Friend of Dorothy
May 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race Wizards of Drag Season 8 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Wizards of Drag Season 8 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul.
Seasons 8 and 9 of Trailer Park Boys Are Coming to Netflix This Fall
May 2024Fans of Canadians, kitties, rum and coke, weed, Rickyisms, and all things Trailer Park Boys can finally rejoice after the seven-year wait since the last season ended in 2007.
See an Exclusive, NSFW Picture of Shia LaBeouf From Lars Von Triers Sex Epic Nymphomaniac
May 2024Stacy Martin and Shia LaBeouf in ‘Nymphomaniac.’ Each month, director Lars Von Trier will be teasing a new “chapter” of his eagerly anticipated new film Nymphomaniac, which casts Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, a woman recounting her vast and varied sexual exploits.
Seth Rogens Apocalypse Comedy Adds Rudd, Segel, Kaling, Cera
May 2024NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 08: Actor Seth Rogen attends the New York Times TimesTalk during the 2012 NY Times Arts & Leisure weekend at The Times Center on January 8, 2012 in New York City.
Sheryl Crow Thought Her Rock Hall of Fame Induction Would Be Years Away
May 2024Pardon the easy pun, but here’s something that’s going to make Sheryl Crow happy for the rest of her life: She is among the seven inductees in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2023 class, joining the formidable group of Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, and the Spinners.
Sleuth-Fan Finds Clues That May Suggest a Gilmore Girls Wedding
May 2024Lorelai and Luke sitting in a tree. G-I-L-M-O-R-E. Recently on a tour of the Warner Bros. studios, a Gilmore Girls fan-slash-super sleuth, Jordan McKamie, who was probably carrying a magnifying glass and wearing a houndstooth cap, saw a telltale sign of a possible Gilmore Girls wedding: a prop lamp thing with a tag on it that said it’s for the “WEDDING” set.
Sony Buys Crunchyroll From AT&T for $1.2 Billion
May 2024Big news from the world of anime: WarnerMedia’s Crunchyroll, the leading streaming service devoted to the super popular animation genre, is getting a new owner.
Steve Harvey Actually Thinks His Hack Jokes About Asian Men Are Funny
May 2024Steve Harvey. Apparently if you ever need to get Steve Harvey laughing, you simply need to mention Asian men. Friday on the Steve Harvey Show, the host kicked things off with a segment mocking various self-help books, including one from 2002 titled How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men.
Strange New Worlds Secretly Sad Space Saddies, Ranked
May 2024😢 What a time to be alive: Fans of sci-fi and workplace shows have three solid Star Trek spinoffs to enjoy.
Taylor Swift Kept the VMAs Fed
May 2024Ice Spice with Pumpkin Spice. Taylor Swift continues to keep movie theaters, The Summer I Turned Pretty stans, and Uno fanatics fed, and now she can add the 2023 VMAs to the list.
The 12 Stages of Watching Outer Banks
May 2024One minute you’re just chilling, the next you’re having speargun fights in the middle of the ocean. For some, “escapist TV” means a show that is warm and kind and easy to watch.
The 20 Most Despicable Characters in Downton Abbey History, Ranked
May 2024When we think of Downton Abbey, we think poshness and proper five-course meal etiquette, sipping tea and delighting in the barbed bon mots of the Dowager Countess.
The Actual Tennis in Challengers Is Kind of a Serve
May 2024It’s hard to make actors look like athletes. A real athlete has training, nutrition, hyperspecific sports medicine, and years of muscle memory on their side; an actor gets weeks or a few months of training at most.
The Affair Recap: Person of Interest
May 2024The Affair 303 Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Affair 303 Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Brendan Fraser as Gunther, Dominic West as Noah.
The Best Video Games of 2022
May 2024In a year devoid of many major blockbusters, eccentric titles had their time to shine. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.
The Good Wife Recap: The Pregnant Pause
May 2024The Good Wife A Precious Commodity Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife A Precious Commodity Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It is truly impressive (and a testament to the quickfire storytelling of this show) that Diane Lockhart’s world unraveled as quickly as it did.
The Hardest and Most Medieval of Florence and the Machine, According to Florence Welch
May 2024Superlatives 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 Man in the High Castle Recap: After the War
May 2024The Man in the High Castle The New World Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Man in the High Castle The New World Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Amazon’s most ambitious drama begins with this clever episode, designed to introduce viewers to an alternative universe where Axis powers won World War II.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Crossroads
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The Profit Recap: Sink or Swim
May 2024The Profit Swim by Chuck Handy Season 4 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Profit Swim by Chuck Handy Season 4 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Profit.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Whites Only
May 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Hamptons, 90210 Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Hamptons, 90210 Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Erika Girardi.
The Right Reasons Puzzle
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The Secret to Zac Efrons Baywatch Bod Was Sadness
May 2024Powered by Lasix, which is definitely not the same thing as Lasik. Zac Efron looks great on the cover of the October issue of Men’s Health.
The Sex Lives of College Girls Recap: Carol (From the Movie Carol)
May 2024The Sex Lives of College Girls Sex & Basketball Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Sex Lives of College Girls Sex & Basketball Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kimberly, what?
The Story Behind Insecures Primetime Soap Parody: What If There Was an Empire-Underground?
May 2024Even in a world with too many TV shows to keep track of, there are a few that still demand appointment viewing: Game of Thrones, or the block of Thursday night Shondaland series, or maybe Due North.
The Truth About James Cameron
May 2024Weighing in at almost 11,000 words, Dana Goodyear’s terrific profile of James Cameron in today’s New Yorker is nearly as long and ambitious as one of Cameron’s films and twice as exciting.
The TV Christmas Specials Evolution From Sappy to Self-Aware
May 2024If you believe NBC’s new holiday TV special A Legendary Christmas With John and Chrissy, singer John Legend and his model-author wife Chrissy Teigen live in a modest split-level suburban home with their two young children, where they occasionally throw parties for their family and their neighbors.
The Witches of Eastwick Is a Fascinating Movie to Watch Post-Weinstein
May 2024In TV, movies, and real life, women have been at the forefront of the year’s biggest stories — so this Halloween season, we’re looking at pop culture’s most wicked depiction of female power.
Theater Review: Glengarry Glen Ross Is Selling Its Stars Hard
May 2024Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale in Glengarry Glen Ross. The ticket-scalpers prowling outside the theater call it “the Al Pacino show,” and they’re not snowing you: Pacino is definitely doing Pacino in Daniel Sullivan’s new production of Glengarry Glen Ross.
Theres a Few Places for Us to Watch, Read, and Listen to West Side Story
May 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Oh, something’s coming, and it’s shaping up to be something good.
This Is CNN: Why Youll Be Seeing More High-Profile Documentaries Like Blackfish Between World Cri
May 2024CNN sometimes seems to exist solely as a punching bag for the rest of the media. Trade reporters revel in the network’s slumping ratings, conservatives whine about Piers Morgan on Twitter, Jon Stewart is forever finding a new way to mock it for some perceived gaffe.
This Is How You Lose Her
May 2024fall preview 2012 Aug. 22, 2012 Junot Diaz Loves Short Stories, Even If You Don’t“Writing short stories in a culture like ours is like giving birth to girls in a Dominican conservative family in the fifties.
Timothe Chalamet Is the Perfect Movie Star for 2018
May 2024Timothée Chalamet and his little mustache On its surface, the prestige drama Beautiful Boy (which arrived in theaters to stronger-than-expected box-office returns this weekend) seems like a boilerplate “two hander.
Todd Hayness Dark Waters Shows You Hell on Earth
May 2024Mark Ruffalo in Dark Waters. If meanly-clad-little-David-versus-venomous-corporate-Goliath melodramas like Todd Haynes’s fact-based Dark Waters are more alike than unalike, it’s because there’s really only one way to frame what happens every day in a country controlled by companies with vast coffers, armies of lobbyists, and politicians leased by the year.
True Detective Recap: Death Crow
May 2024True Detective Night Finds You Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » True Detective Night Finds You Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What are you looking at?
Under the Dome and TVs New Ad-less Ways to Make Cash
May 2024UNDER THE DOME TV ratings are going in only direction: down. Viewers have more options than ever for entertainment, be it what to watch or how to watch, and all of this has led to massive ratings declines for the Big Four.
Universal Music Group Is Taking Your Favorite Songs Off TikTok
May 2024Drake and Olivia Rodrigo, two UMG artists who have gone viral on TikTok. TikTok just got a lot quieter.
Vanderpump Ruless Producers Still Love Rachel Leviss, Even If Its Not Mutual
May 2024No strangers to dealing with TV villains, the producers’ panel was hosted by S.E. Cupp. Bethenny Frankel continues to be the elephant not in the room at this year’s BravoCon.
Vulture Contest: Win a Pearl Jam 20 Poster, Signed by the Band and Cameron Crowe
May 2024Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam 20 begins a weeklong run in select cities tonight. In honor of the film (and the fact that Eddie Vedder has been singing to us for two decades), Vulture is giving away two movie posters signed by Crowe and the band, as well as a copy of the soundtrack.
Watch a Supercut of I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning References
May 2024Remember that scene from Apocalypse Now? So does everyone else! Watch a Supercut of ‘I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning’ References ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZnyqecuorZ5lpJ2ybr%2FMnqOlZZ%2Bbeq%2Btz5qjpmWZo3q1tMRmpKiqnp67qHrHraSl
Whos Winning the Barbenheimer Box Office?
May 2024Barbenheimer took over social media by creating memes and a new double feature, accompanied by pink outfits, of course.
Youre the Worst - TV Episode Recaps & News
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YouRecap: Were Going Down Swinging
May 2024You Swing and a Miss Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You Swing and a Miss Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As you all know, I believe You can only achieve its full potential when it stops hedging and just goes FULL BATSHIT.
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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s latest hit, “Downtown,” and its accompanying video raise a few questions: Are mopeds cool? Is the future of pop a line of slick, “Uptown Funk”–esque throwbacks?
10 of Adam Sandlers Best Saturday Night Live Sketches
May 2024Adam Sandler on SNL. Since Adam Sandler was fired from (and quit) Saturday Night Live after only five years on the show, he hasn’t exactly been haunting the halls in 8H.
10 Times George R.R. Martin Described Food More Erotically Than Sex
May 2024“It tasted of oak and fruit and hot summer nights.” Game of Thrones has itsglaring faults, but as a series based on novels, perhaps the most egregious is that it deprives the audience of George R.
13 Essential Music-Festival Documentaries
May 2024In the beginning, there was Woodstock. And Woodstock. In fairness, Woodstock did not invent the music festival, nor did Woodstock invent the festival film.
20 Essential Cold-Weather Thrillers
May 2024This list was originally published on February 2, 2019. There’s a cinematic tradition of snowbound thrillers that make the weather a crucial part of the action — an obstacle, a character-builder, and a source of tension and visceral agony.
8 1/2 Things Learned From Watching Every Episode of Entourage in One Sitting
May 2024ENTOURAGE, (from left): Kevin Dillon, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, ‘Out With A Bang’, (Season 8, ep. 802, aired July 31, 2011), 2004-11.
9 British Murder-Mystery Shows to Stream Right Now
May 2024When it comes to captivating British murder-mystery series, does anything spring to mind as easily as the quintessentially popular Sherlock?
A Criers Guide to From Scratch
May 2024There’s nothing like having a good cry while watching a TV show, but any emotional TV viewer will tell you that sometimes those good cries can really ruin your day.
American Idol Recap: Hangar Stakes
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An Inexplicably Starry Cast Elevates the Potboiler Heist Movie Triple 9
May 2024Woody Harrelson and Casey Affleck in Triple 9. In our brutal, unjust world, perhaps the most honestly hopeful message that a movie (or book or TV show) can deliver is that evil will ultimately consume itself.
Angela Kinsey Tells Vulture What Goes On at the Real Office Christmas Parties
May 2024Angela running an onscreen The Office Christmas party Over nine seasons, one of the most dependably awkward annual rituals of The Office was the Christmas party, as joylessly organized by party martinet Angela Martin.
Ariana Grande Is Flawless From Every Angle in Herpov Debut Performance
May 2024Ariana Grande sings “for all of my pretty and all of my ugly too,” but let’s be honest, what ugly? The flawless 27-year-old released an official live rendition of “pov” with Vevo on Monday, marking her very first performance from positions.
Bates Motel Showrunners On Casting Rihanna As Marion Crane
May 2024Rihanna as Marion Crane. On Monday’s episode of Bates Motel, A&E’s reimagined story of Norman Bates will introduce its latest iconic character borrowed from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho: Marion Crane.
Blackpinks Ros Goes Sol With R
May 2024Everything’s coming up roses for Blackpink’s Rosé. The K-pop singer made her solo debut with the project R, out March 12.
Blink-182s Tom DeLonge Drama Continues
May 2024A day after Blink-182’s Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus fired off a press release claiming founding member Tom DeLonge had left the band, DeLonge penned a letter of his own, defending his honor to the band’s fans on Facebook.
Blitzen Trappers Eric Earley on Destroyer of the Void
May 2024Portland, Oregon, is famous for its lush environs, DIY aesthetic, and a sci-fi–fantasy subculture. Amazingly, the indie folk-rock band Blitzen Trapper, which hails from Stumptown, has managed to fold all of the above into its work — most potently on Furr, the 2008 album which won the group rapturous comparisons to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Wilco, and other earthy white rock dudes.
Brooks Allison Had a Mighty DucksThemed Screamo Band
May 2024View 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.
Christina Aguilera Superfan Johnny Weir Not Impressed by Russian Candyman Routine
May 2024Vladimir Morozov and Evgenia Tarasova. It’s a bad sign in general if your figure-skating routine fails to impress Johnny Weir, doubly so if it happens to be set to Christina Aguilera.
Claws Is Perfect Summer TV
May 2024This year we’re thrilled that Niecy Nash is coming to Vulture Festival for a special conversation with Sherri Shepherd about her life and career.
Comedian/American Patriot Selling Shrek Nudes to Benefit Planned Parenthood
May 2024If you support reproductive freedom and enjoy erotic ogre-themed art, well, then you are truly a man or woman living in America in 2015!
Comedians Reveal What the L.A. Stand-up Scene Actually Pays
May 2024Laurie Kilmartin. In their recent comedy-themed issue, The Hollywood Reporter published a controversial and unsubstantiated claim about the riches to be mined from the Los Angeles stand-up scene.
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Crissy Milazzo (@FrizzyFilazzo) on Hyperbolic Tweets and Emotional Sincerity
May 2024Crissy Milazzo lives in LA, where she’s an editor at Distractify and a freelance writer. Her writing has been on Thought Catalog, Medium, and Refinery 29, and she helps out with the Loudspeakers podcast, Plz Advise.
David Foster Wallaces David Letterman Tribute
May 2024David Letterman, circa 1980. David Letterman retires next Wednesday, which means for about a month now, the internet has been awash in a deluge of valentines.
David Schwimmer on Why He Wanted to Play Robert Kardashian in The People v. O.J. Simpson
May 2024Among other things, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story reminds us of a time in American culture when the name Kardashian sounded foreign.
Dear Edward Recap: Promises, Promises
May 2024Dear Edward Paper Covers Rock Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dear Edward Paper Covers Rock Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In the history of television, has an episode ever been scored to as much sad violin music as “Paper Covers Rock”?
Dexter Recap: Mama Issues
May 2024Dexter Make Your Own Kind of Music Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dexter Make Your Own Kind of Music Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In last week’s recap, I wondered who the Brain Surgeon could be at this late stage in the season.
Does the Very Chilly Dragon Tattoo Generate Any Sexual Heat?
May 2024Daniel Craig, left, and Rooney Mara star in Columbia Pictures’ “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.” With its provocative cocktail of sex and violence, David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has had us asking questions all year.
Dua Lipa, Probably: The Less Glastonbury Knows the Better
May 2024Dua Lipa has pulled off yet another successful surprise. Last month, she shocked the audience at the Academy of Country Music Awards by popping up to sing with Chris Stapleton.
Every Bobs Burgers Christmas Episode, Ranked
May 2024While Bob’s Burgers is best known for its beloved Thanksgiving episodes, the holiday that the series has celebrated most regularly is Christmas.
Fred Williamson Answers Every Question We Have About Black Caesar
May 2024Reasons to Love New York New York celebrates the city’s timeless, peerless connection to movies. Reasons to Love New York New York celebrates the city’s timeless, peerless connection to movies.
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Full House and the Other Topics Covered at the Jack Black Roast
May 2024Jack Black. Jack Black got roasted at the Friars Club on Friday, at an event hosted by Bob Saget. Also there to make fun of him (and each other) were Sarah Silverman, Jeff Ross, Amy Schumer, and DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Get Flipped the Bird by Tons of Famous Movies, Characters in This Glorious Supercut
May 2024Next time you’re having a tough Monday, just whip out this crown jewel of a supercut and aim it at the world.
Happy Halloween From Sabrina Carpenter and Her Pink Hearse
May 2024Happy Halloween, kids — wanna hear a scary story? Sure, you know about the Grim Reaper … but what about the Girlfriend Reaper, who drives around in her pink hearse, killing men?
Harvey Weinstein Has Been Railroaded by #MeToo, New Lawyer Says
May 2024Harvey Weinstein has been “railroaded” by the #MeToo movement, one of the new lawyers on his sexual-assault case said Thursday morning after a court proceeding on yet another shakeup of the producer’s legal team.
Have You Bought Mark Hamills Autograph Sometime in the Last 38 Years? Allow Him to Verify for You
May 2024Very cool. The not-so-secret world of Star Wars collectors is one rife with many hours logged on forums that are often trolled by con artists claiming to have a piece of Star Wars history up for grabs.
Heartstopper Fans Support Kit Connor After Forced Coming Out
May 2024Kit Connor. Actor Kit Connor felt “forced” to come out as bisexual on October 31, and now, the creator of Hearstopper, Alice Oseman, as well as celebrities and fans of the series, is showing support for the show’s 18-year-old star.
HeelsRecap: Dont Come for My Shit
May 2024Heels The Big Bad Fish Man Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Heels The Big Bad Fish Man Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All the puzzle pieces have fallen into place: DWL’s appearance at the South Georgia State Fair in next week’s Heels season finale promises to be even more dramatic than Jack Spade could have planned.
Hello, People? The Sexiest Doctor Is In
May 2024Step aside, Chris Evans. Patrick Dempsey has been crowned People’s Sexiest Man Alive, doctor’s orders. The McDreamy Grey’s Anatomy physician has been given the honor, surprisingly, for the first time, potentially taking the honor away from an influencer.
Heres Where You Can See The Interview on Christmas
May 2024Just like the guy who was born on Christmas, The Interview has risen from the dead, with Sony giving independent theater chains the go-ahead to premiere the film on Christmas Day.
Hollywoods Fame Scholar Is Reinvigorated
May 2024Karina Longworth dug deeper than ever before to make the latest season of hit podcast You Must Remember This. Oh, you like podcasts?
Inside Inside, Inside (a Movie Theater)
May 2024Bo Burnham in Inside. After dropping on Netflix in late May, Bo Burnham brought his special Inside to theaters for one weekend only, from July 22 through July 25.
Inside Out Nails the Science of How Our Memories Function
May 2024One of Riley’s many delicate memories. Ever since Pixar began showing previews of Inside Out, critics have been raving about its stunning animation, beautiful soundtrack, and creative portrayal of protagonist Riley’s inner world.
Jeremy Renner Wont Return to Mission: Impossible Just to Be Killed Off
May 2024If you’re inviting back Jeremy Renner for a project, it better be for a good reason. Renner explained on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he originally took a break from the Mission: Impossible movie series because filming would take place internationally for a year and a half, and he didn’t want to be away from his daughter that long.
Jerry Seinfeld Has Daddy Issues
May 2024Photo: Getty Images Time’ magazines Jess Cagle just posted a classic Jerry Seinfeld profile online. It covers all the bases: Jerry gets photographed in the New York Transit Museum in an untucked oxford, blue jeans and Dad sneakers; he raves about his kids, his wife, and grimy stand-up bars; he talks up his new film Bee Movie; he makes a few observations on the state of TV (The Sopranos was “a really good sitcom.
John Oliver Is Now Selling $1,000,000 Taint Wipes Inspired by Alex Jones
May 2024Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver sets his sights on Alex Jones by taking a closer look at the products for sale on the Infowars online store, the bogus doctor Jones refers to as his “medical expert,” and Jones’s inaccurate claims that he depends on sales from the store to keep his show running.
Jonathan Horowitz Pays Frieze VIPs $20 Each to Make His Art for Him
May 2024The Gavin Brown Enterprise’s booth at Frieze. Gavin Brown’s booths tend to try harder to be interesting than most — and usually succeed.
Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton Grace SXSW 2023 Lineup
May 2024Problemista. HBO may have said adios to Los Espookys (one of the most befuddling of David Zazlav’s many recent cancellations), but its co-creator Julio Torres is still booked and busy.
Kathy Najimy Answers Every Question We Have About Sister Act
May 2024Role 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.
Kenneth Branagh Needs to Make 10 More of These
May 2024The creepy, moody Agatha Christie adaptation A Haunting in Venice is far from perfect, but it feels like the work of a man rejuvenated.
Lets Talk About the Twist Ending of M. Night Shyamalans Old
May 2024Warning: Spoilers ahead. From the moment The Sixth Sense blew audiences’ minds with a shocking conclusion so well conceived it helped mainstream the phrase “no spoilers, please” — M.
Looks Like That Mad Men Bar in Times Square Isnt Happening
May 2024Sad news for anyone hoping to drink like you’re trying to forget World War II. Lionsgate has officially pulled the plug on its Times Square branded entertainment complex, which would have included a Mad Men–inspired restaurant.
Makoto Shinkais Weepiest, Wettest, Most Intricately Animated Movies
May 2024A ranking. Animation: Vulture; Videos: GKIDS, Media Factory, Toho, Makoto Shinkai is known for doing it all. After two decades of making anime features, he is always credited as his films’ director, writer, and storyboard artist, and — on his earliest shorts — he sometimes performed as a voice actor.
Marc Maron on the Most Awkward and Cathartic Episodes of WTF
May 2024If you work any job long enough, the days eventually start to blur together. That’s true even for Marc Maron, whose job is to have engaging conversations with the most famous and interesting people on the planet.
Meek Mill Catches Heat for a Leaked Lyric About Kobe Bryant
May 2024Robert Rihmeek Williams, a.k.a. Meek Mill. Too soon, Meek. Philly rapper Meek Mill caught the wrath of Black Twitter Wednesday night when a leaked snippet of a new track made its way online.
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New Blade Runner 2049 Images Suggest Harrison Fords Contract Specifically Stipulated He Could Wea
May 2024It’s like the saying goes: you can lead a runner to a replicant, but you can’t make him blade. Hot on the heels of the film’s first footage, Entertainment Weekly has some stills from Blade Runner 2049 that offer a glimpse at the gritty, futuristic world Ryan Gosling’s character must navigate in his pursuit of bioengineered fugitives.
Nicholas Cages Joe Exotic TV Series Has Found a Home at Amazon Studios
May 2024While Carole Baskin is practicing her tango on Dancing With the Stars, Joe Exotic will be hanging out at Amazon.
Norman Jewison, Moonstruck Director, Dead at 97
May 2024Jewison with the stars of Moonstruck, Cher and Nicolas Cage. Norman Jewison, Oscar-nominated film director, has died at the age of 97.
Office Recap: Kathy Bates Takes Over
May 2024The Office Manager and Salesman Season 6 Episode 16 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kathy Bates, as Jolene Bennett, CEO of Sabre Corporation, the new owners of Dunder Mifflin, is the next in a long line of intelligent, competent human beings who stumble across the Scranton branch and are befuddled by the extent of the incompetence.
OzarkSeries-Premiere Recap: Washed Money
May 2024Ozark Sugarwood Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Ozark Sugarwood Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The series premiere of Ozark, directed by star Jason Bateman, introduces the world Marty Byrde inhabits by setting the stakes incredibly high.
Pilot Preview: J.J. Abramss Fringe Brings X-Files Weirdness Back to Fox
May 2024Courtesy of Fox This week, Vulture’s taking a look at the best and worst of the fall season’s picked-up TV shows.
Please Stop Comparing Girls to Sex and the City
May 2024These women are nothing alike. At her first appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour, where stars talk about their upcoming projects, Lena Dunham was already on the defensive about her show, Girls, being compared to Sex and the City.
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May 2024freddie gibbs Dec. 16, 2011 See the Note the TSA Left With Freddie Gibbs’s WeedThe TSA: They’re on your side, meaning they’d like you to be more discreet and logical about where you pack your stash.
R.E.M. Call Donald Trump an Orange Clown for Using Their Music Without Permission
May 2024Donald Trump’s taste in music — while perhaps common for the sexagenarian demographic — has caused him some woes since he announced his presidential campaign back in June.
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May 2024you stay classy May 15, 2012 Anchorman 2 Teaser Will Debut With The Dictator“Anchorman2 teaser w Dictator tom night. Dont know what a teaser is,” Ron Burgundy reports via Twitter.
RuPauls Drag Race Recap: Gimme More
May 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race All Queens Go to Heaven Season 15 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Queens Go to Heaven Season 15 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week, I complained that there was too much RuPaul’s Drag Race, and this week I’m going to complain that there’s not enough.
Ryan Reynolds Has Embraced the Fact That He Is Funny, Which Is a Real Win for Ryan Reynolds
May 2024Ryan Reynolds, humorist. Ryan Reynolds spent a whole lot of time working on Deadpool, which went on to be a major box-office success.
Saltz: Christopher Wools Stenciled Words Speak Loudlyand Not Everyone Wants to Listen
May 2024Christopher Wool’s Trouble (1989). In the catalogue accompanying Christopher Wool’s impressive retrospective now at the Guggenheim, the artist Richard Prince writes of this artist’s multiple uses of “spray-painted swirls … transfer drips, splatters, puddles, and ‘by-the-by’ patterns,” and how they “taught an old dog new tricks.
Sara Ramirez Goes After ABC for Biphobic The Real ONeals Joke
May 2024The Real O’Neals. ABC is getting heat from its own ranks after The Real O’Neals aired a controversial joke about bisexuality.
See Kate Winslet Shooting Mildred Pierce
May 2024Kate Winslet was in New York last week shooting Mildred Pierce, an HBO miniseries adapted from James M. Cain’s 1941 novel.
Shawn Mendes vs. Charlie Puth: Which Pop Prince Reigns Supreme?
May 2024Every album release cycle gets the pop heartthrob it deserves, but right now we’ve found ourselves with an embarrassment of riches: This season has given us new albums from Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes, the men vying for Justin Bieber’s throne.
Sleater-Kinney Reorganizes Its World
May 2024“This record is all about finding a way through that and finding yourself even when it’s a difficult time.
SNLs Live-Action Gru Isnt Real and He Cant Hurt You
May 2024On last night’s Saturday Night Live, host Dan Levy fit right in, even breaking out a character that we’d like to see become a recurring sort of thing.
Southern Charm Recap: Bro-Ski
May 2024Southern Charm In Vino Veritas Season 9 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Charm In Vino Veritas Season 9 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I feel like I might have done Olivia’s hurt at the end of the last episode a bit of a disservice.
Steve Lacy Isnt Sorry for Smashing That Camera
May 2024TikTok does not know what hit ’em. Fans at Steve Lacy shows have some bad habits, as have been documented on TikTok over the past few weeks, from interrupting his sets, to not knowing the words to sing along, to throwing stuff onto the stage.
Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks Fulfill a Dream
May 2024King: Steven Spielberg will produce a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic for Dreamworks. The studio is the first one to ever acquire the life rights of MLK, who copyrighted his books and famous speeches during his life and whose estate is controlled by his son, Dexter.
Tatiana Maslany Goes From Orphan Blacks Multiple Roles to Sharing One Onstage
May 2024Over the course of five seasons of Orphan Black, Tatiana Maslany built a career (and won an Emmy) by playing many different selves.
That Was Ab-Soul, This Is Herbert
May 2024To make his new album, the rapper had to get back in touch with reality. Photo: Ashley Pena In 2016, Top Dawg Entertainment was enjoying its ascendance as the premier crew in rap through an exquisite balance of major-label polish and independent organicism.
The 2013-14 TV Season in One Really, Really Depressing Chart
May 2024The 2013-14 television season has officially bit the dust and, like the one before it, the nine months that just passed were marked by steep viewership declines for most of the broadcast networks.
The 50 Best Music Documentaries of All Time
May 2024This story was originally published in 2015 and has been updated to reflect recent releases. The past few years have been something of a golden age for music documentaries — with the Oscar-winning success of Searching for Sugar Man and 20 Feet From Stardom opening up the field for films about less-obvious stars.
The 50 Greatest Western Movies Ever Made
May 2024A hard look at one of cinema’s oldest genres. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos Courtesy of Studios, Getty Images and Shutterstock Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos Courtesy of Studios, Getty Images and Shutterstock This article was originally published in 2021 and has been updated to include The Power of the Dog.
The Best New Board Games and Tabletop Games of 2023 (So Far)
May 2024The holiday-shopping season is upon us, and I apologize if that sent a shiver up your spine, but in the board-game world it means a whole slew of new and upcoming releases as publishers try to get their newest titles into the channel in time for gift-buyers to splurge.
The Best, Worst, and Pumpkin Chord-iest of Smashing Pumpkins, According to Billy Corgan
May 2024Superlatives 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 Challenge: Spies, Lies & AlliesRecap: Cell-shocked
May 2024The Challenge Precious Stones Season 37 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Challenge Precious Stones Season 37 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Not to write about this show in conjunction with Real Housewives for the billionth time, but these editors could really learn something from the Bravo School of Receipts.
The Crown Keeps Its Distance
May 2024With the tragedy of Diana, Peter Morgan plays it safe to the very end. It’s often repeated that Princess Diana was the most photographed woman in the world, the kind of claim that sends you into a spiral of inconclusive Google searches full of tabloid articles that all seem to cite each other — who could possibly calculate that sort of thing?
The Curse Recap: Spinning Teacups
May 2024The Curse Questa Lane Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Curse Questa Lane Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Either be hot or be funny.
The Four TV Shows Jennifer Aniston Was on Before Friends
May 2024One late night in 1994, Jennifer Aniston pulled into a Sunset Boulevard Chevron station, self-doubting and distraught. Her timing was impeccable: Gassing up across from her was Warren Littlefield, the then-president of NBC’s entertainment division, a man with the power to make actors into superstars.
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Coachella 2024
May 2024Is Will Smith paying Balvin to clean up his SEO? Rumors of Coachella’s demise have been greatly exaggerated [Editor’s Note: oops].
The Johnny Rotten and Michelle WilliamsStarring Jesus Christ Superstar Tour Has Been Canceled
May 2024A new version Jesus Christ Superstar, starring unlikely cast-mates Johnny Rotten and former Destiny’s Child Michelle Williams, was abruptly canceled on Friday night before even starting its 54-city tour, which was set to kickoff in New Orleans on June 9.
The Man in the High Castle Recap: Frail Hitler
May 2024The Man in the High Castle Land O’Smiles Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Man in the High Castle Land O’Smiles Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Rufus Sewell as John Smith.
The Matrix Was the One Time the Wachowskis Ambition Intersected With the Mainstream
May 2024We Are Living in the Matrix A weeklong series about how a 1999 movie predicted kind-of-everything about life 20 years later.
The Messy Honesty of Mae Martins Feel Good
May 2024Feel Good. Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians?
The Six-Year Struggle to Regain Ownership of the This Is Fine Dog
May 2024Two panels from KC Green’s “On Fire.” It’s taken for granted that a meme, once set free, will never return to the cage of copyright and creator control.
The Success of Adam Sandlers Ridiculous 6 Should Be Believed, and Not a Surprise
May 2024Yesterday Netflix announced that The Ridiculous 6, Adam Sandler’s abysmal Western movie-thing, has been watched more in its first 30 days on the service than any other film during its first 30 days.
The Ties Were Black, the Lies Were White and Now So Is Taylor Swifts Profile Picture
May 2024We can’t make any promises now, can we, babe? But this must mean something … Update, February 4, Grammys night: Bloggers plan, God (Taylor Swift) laughs.
The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Moonrise Kingdom Co-Writer Roman Coppola
May 2024In this recurring feature, Vulture speaks to the screenwriters of 2012’s most notable movies about the scenes that they found most difficult to crack.
The Wheel of Time Recap: Blood Simple
May 2024The Wheel of Time Daughter of Night Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Wheel of Time Daughter of Night Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A bird’s-eye view of the city of Tar Valon spread out in all its splendor around the great White Tower.
Theater Review: Blood Play
May 2024Two pairs of married friends. A shambling stranger. We’re in a raw, barely born suburb of Chicago, hewn out of farmland, and it’s the fifties: We know from the forced naïveté, the crushing repression, the pine-paneled basement rec room, the overstocked bar.
Theater Review: On Fertile Ground With The House That Will Not Stand
May 2024From The House That Will Not Stand, at NYTW. At the end of the first act of Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand, an angry mother stands center stage, a mounting storm whipping at the windows of her home as she rails against her mutinous daughters: “What’s this?
This Barbie Is Now a Meme
May 2024Only a Barbie can wink this perfectly. Lydia Tár, I Think You Should Leave, and Kendall Roy all made appearances in the Twitter multiverse on April 4 … in posters for Greta Gerwig’s latest movie, future blockbuster Barbie.
To Read bell hooks Was to Love Her
May 2024bell hookstaught the world two things: how to critique and how to love. Perhaps the two lessons were both sides of the same coin.
Tracy Morgan, Hannibal Buress, John Mulaney, and More Are Headed to 2016s Oddball Festival
May 2024The annual Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival returns next month, and today Funny or Die announced the tour dates and comedian lineup.
Triumph Humps a Cat and Promotes The Jack and Triumph Show
May 2024Ahead of The Jack and Triumph Show’s premiere next Friday, Adult Swim released a new promo over the weekend, and it’s a pretty solid indicator of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s willingness to promote his new show: Give him something to hump, and in return he’ll deliver the bare minimum amount of promotion required.
Truth Is What a Comedian Makes of It
May 2024Comics have long pursued “authenticity.” But what that looks like — and how genuine it is — is ever-changing. Hasan Minhaj in Homecoming King.
Vine Dance Star TerRio Is 6, and None of This Was His Idea
May 2024TerRio Harshaw is in first grade, and nearly as wide as he is tall. He’s also the most recognizable star on Vine, despite not having an account.
Whats Up With the Snails in Deep Water?
May 2024Spoilers follow for the film Deep Water, streaming on Hulu as of March 18. In Deep Water, the Patricia Highsmith adaptation from iconic erotic-thriller director Adrian Lyne and screenwriters Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, Ben Affleck’s Vic is a weird guy.
Whats Your Favorite Prince Song?
May 2024How do you choose a favorite song? Do you go by structure and melody? Do you look at its scope and ambition?
Where Do Georgia Music Festivals Go From Here?
May 2024Music Midtown in Atlanta was reportedly scrapped over a ruling that allowed guns during events on public property. The cancellation of Atlanta’s long-standing Music Midtown festival has prompted a lot of speculation and few concrete answers.
Who Is TVs Best Dressed Rich Guy?
May 2024The way a man dresses says a lot about him — much more than he might realize. Everything from the width of his lapel to the break in his trouser signals how he wants to be perceived and who he really is.
Who Will Win the 2020 Name of the Year?
May 2024Name of the Year is a bona fide internet tradition, so when NOTY co-founder Stefan Fatsis asked Vulture to host the final rounds of the 2020 tournament, we just had to say yes.
Whos Been Lie Lie Lying? An Investigation Into Joshua Bassetts New Song
May 2024Finger-pointing ensues. If you are still unaware of theMiley-Nick-Selena-eqse Disney love triangle brewing between High School Musical: The Musical: The Series castmates Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett, please climb out from under the rock you’ve been living.
Why Are All Your Cool Friends Listening to How Long Gone?
May 2024Chris Black and Jason Stewart on their bro-y culture podcast’s unexpected appeal. Jason Stewart and Chris Black. Photo: Cobey Arner Jason Stewart and Chris Black.
William Shatner Watches the Trailer for the Star Trek Movie Hes Not In
May 2024We won’t lie, we’re pretty excited to see Star Trek when it opens next week, even if it blinds us in the process.
Katy Perrys Peacock and the Dying Art of the Double Entendre
May 2024Double entendres have a long and storied history in pop music. Just about anything sounds dirty with the right delivery, and so entendres have ranged from Kelis’s relatively vague “Milkshake” to the not as subtle “Big Ten Inch Record,” a fifties jam by Bull “Moose” Jackson (that has been covered by Aerosmith).
10 People Don Draper Might Have Killed on Mad Men
May 2024This piece originally ran on June 5, 2012. Don Draper sure has been around a lot of death over the show’s six and a half seasons.
3 Body Problem Recap: Forge the New World
May 20243 Body Problem The Stars Our Destination Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 3 Body Problem The Stars Our Destination Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a few heavily plot-driven episodes focused on getting straight to what the hell is happening, “The Stars Our Destination” feels like a necessary cooldown.
40 Books We Cant Wait to Read This Fall
May 2024Including Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Michaela Coel, and more. Fall Preview A cautiously optimistic guide to an (almost) normal season.
6 Artists on the Closing of Legendary Art-Supply Store Pearl Paint
May 2024R.I.P. For months, rumors have swirled that Pearl Paint, the legendary art-supply store on Canal Street, would be closing its doors.
A Big What If
May 2024How the Scott Pilgrim Takes Off co-creators reclaimed the element of surprise. “It was a matter of ‘Why?
A Circe TV Adaptation Is the Latest in a Series of Orders by HBO Max
May 2024HBO Max is stacking up its online-only content roster. One of their biggest announcements so far has been about the release of a Dune: The Sisterhood series that will center around the women of the Bene Gesserit.
A Quick Review of Everything That Has Happened in Eight Seasons of One Tree Hill
May 2024One Tree Hill One Tree Hill begins its ninth and final season tonight, and even though it started as a relatively run-of-the-mill teen soap, it’s become a lunatic fiesta that would make a daytime soap blush and makes the racier ABC Family dramas look like guidebooks to being Amish.
A Review of Every Single Act at Gov Ball 2022
May 2024The Governors Ball, otherwise known as the music festival where tristate-area teens flood the 7 train to smoke weed for the first time, took place this past weekend at Citi Field with a lineup that included J.
A Timeline of Andrea Riseboroughs Controversial Oscar Nomination
May 2024Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie, “a small film with a giant heart.” When the Oscars announced the nominees in their Best Actress category, there was just one name on everyone’s lips: Andrea Riseborough!
ABC Orders Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akils Romantic-Comedy Pilot Documenting Love
May 2024Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil are both skilled at producing, and being a power couple. ABC finally realized this, and ordered a pilot of Documenting Love, a multi-cam comedy from the duo, Deadline reports.
American Horror Stories Recap: Night of Loving the Dead
May 2024American Horror Stories Necro Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Stories Necro Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A person can never really know how they will react to death until death becomes a part of their life.
Amy Schumer Is Returning to TV With a New Comedy Series on Hulu
May 2024Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer is returning to television, but not for the long-delayed season of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central.
Baby Reindeer Recap: Is There Someone Else?
May 2024Baby Reindeer Episode 2 Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Baby Reindeer Episode 2 Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Even in episode one of Baby Reindeer, it was clear something else was going on underneath Donny’s surface.
Batman Chins, Ranked
May 2024Michael Keaton’s acting is Oscar-nominated, but how does his chin stack up? This article originally published in 2019.
Below Deck Mediterranean TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024Episode 20 A Mighty Wind Episode 19 The Bali Is in Your Court Episode 18 A Real Handful Episode 17 Something’s Fishy Episode 16 Cool as a Cucumber Episode 15 Shot Through the Heart, and Ibiza’s to Blame Episode 14 Whole New Ballgame Episode 13 Welcome Back Episode 12 There’s No Place Like Home Episode 11 Cabin Fever Episode 10 Closing Time Episode 9 Viva, Loss Vegas Episode 8 Rise and Don’t Shine Episode 7 No Mushroom for Error Episode 6 Oh Snap!
Below Deck Recap: Panini Problems
May 2024Below Deck Bit of an Ick Season 11 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Bit of an Ick Season 11 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The lava cake gets out to the guests with no further eruptions, but Anthony goes to bed still feeling like a failure.
Billions Maggie Siff on How It Feels to Yell at Paul Giamatti
May 2024When Maggie Siff is interviewed about her Billions character, the always-composed Wendy Rhoades, it’s only a matter of time until the subject of BDSM comes up.
Bow Wow Retires From Rap at Age 29
May 2024Shad Moss. Rappers, they grow up so fast. Shad Moss, who came to fame as the pint-size rapper Lil Bow Wow before abandoning the prefix for his adult hits, announced he will be retiring from music after the release of his forthcoming album, NYLTH.
Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan Are Two Little Ducks in a Pond
May 2024Don’t let your idyllic marriage get in the way of your gay flings. That’s the vibe of Maestro, based on the official trailer.
Bridgerton Recap: You Are a Bridgerton Now
May 2024Bridgerton Joining of Hands Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bridgerton Joining of Hands Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Friends, readers, fellow horndogs, is anyone else having a tough time reconciling the fact that this is still the same season of Bridgerton?
Can You Guess the Oscar Film From the IMDb Parents Guide Content Warning?
May 2024The Gold Rush Brought to you by The Gold Rush Brought to you by You know the Oscars field pretty well by now.
Cassies Lawsuit Against Diddy, Explained
May 2024Cassie sued Diddy for a decadelong pattern of abuse. Cassie sued Diddy in federal court on November 16, accusing the hip-hop mainstay of rape and a decade-long pattern of abuse that began when she was 19 years old.
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Creed III Sets a Major(s) Box-Office Record
May 2024Under one of these grey sweaters is the craziest body you’ve ever seen. One step. One punch. One hundred million dollars.
Curb Your Enthusiasm Recap: The Brain and the Balls
May 2024Curb Your Enthusiasm Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug Season 12 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Curb Your Enthusiasm Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug Season 12 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s a concept in Judaism called “B’shert,” which comes from the Yiddish word for “destiny.
Dexter: New BloodRecap: The View From the Cheap Seats
May 2024Dexter Skin of Her Teeth Season 9 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dexter Skin of Her Teeth Season 9 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If, on average, each episode of a TV show is only truly interesting for roughly 15 minutes out of the allotted 45, then what does that say about the show as a whole?
Diablo Cody on the Athena Film Festival and Male Versus Female Strippers
May 2024Diablo Cody. Now in its third year, the Athena Film Festival kicked off last night in New York, celebrating the works of female directors, screenwriters, and producers (among those on the slate are Beasts of the Southern Wild and Ginger and Rosa).
Did James Corden Change Late Night for Better or Worse?
May 2024After eight years on the air at CBS, The Late Late Show With James Corden comes to an end tonight, a moment that will be commemorated with a prime-time “Carpool Karaoke” special and the final episode of The Late Late Show featuring guests Will Ferrell and Harry Styles.
Dont Freak Out, But Bad Bunnys New Album Drops at Midnight
May 2024Did Bad Bunny not see his shadow or something? Because his new album is coming up quick, just like spring. The Puerto Rican rapper announced his album title, cover art, and release date on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
Encyclopedia Brown Was Our Gateway Detective
May 2024Of all the commercial operations, real and imaginary, ever launched by underage entrepreneurs — from lemonade stands to Lucy’s advice booth — the one nearest and dearest to my heart is this:
Every Super Bowl Halftime Show Since 1993, Ranked
May 2024Football fans might not realize it, but plenty of Americans only attend Super Bowl parties for seven-layer dip, liberal drinking, and the nationally televised pop concert otherwise known as the Super Bowl halftime show.
Falling in Love, Business Proposal Style
May 2024Great contemporary romantic comedies are few and far between on American television these days. While every so often a sleeper hit like Love Life or Starstruck will steal our hearts, many romance fans find themselves turning to novels and other media to get a hilarious-yet-heartwarming tale of opposites attracting against the odds.
Frank Gallagher Met the MostShamelessFate Possible
May 2024OBVIOUSLY, MAJOR SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. COVID-19 has done what a failing liver, alcoholism, drug abuse, dementia, being tossed in the Chicago River in the winter, and a suicide attempt could not do: kill Frank Gallagher.
Get Onboard With Hijack
May 2024Idris Elba’s Sam Nelson is a corporate negotiator pulled into the most stressful pro bono gig of all time.
GLOW Recap: Period Peace
May 2024Glow Maybe It’s All the Disco Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Glow Maybe It’s All the Disco Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The most surprising revelation in “Maybe It’s All the Disco” isn’t Ruth’s pregnancy, or all the sight of all 14 of the GLOW wrestlers syncing up on the same menstrual cycle, but the fact that the episode was written by a man.
Greys Anatomy Recap: The Good-bye Girl
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy I’ll Follow the Sun Season 19 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy I’ll Follow the Sun Season 19 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I am laughing.
Gucci Mane Remembers Young Dolph in Tribute Long Live Dolph
May 2024Gucci Mane is remembering his late collaborator Young Dolph. The rapper paid tribute with new song “Long Live Dolph” just over a month after Dolph, born Adolph Thornton Jr.
Here Are the Winners of the 2023 Writers Guild Awards
May 2024What is an actor without his words? An improv performer, ie: the lowest of the low. The Writers Guild of America held simultaneous bicoastal shows to celebrate the best in scripted content.
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Gets Away With It
May 2024Disney+’s extremely meta sorta-sequel series goes out with its heart on its sleeve. Four seasons in, trying to describe the state of affairs on High School Musical: the Musical: the Series makes you sound like you’re caught up in a YouTube-based conspiracy theory.
How Cash Money Records Changed Rap Forever
May 2024Juvenile. Lil Wayne’s best breakup song isn’t about a romantic relationship. It’s “I Miss My Dawgs,” the wrenching bit of melodrama from the first Carter album, where each of the three verses is dedicated to one of his friends in the Hot Boys, the sensationally talented Cash Money supergroup in which Wayne cut his teeth, each of whom had left the label on acrimonious terms.
How Richard Prince Got Kicked Off Instagram (And Then Reinstated)
May 2024Post this picture on Instagram, and you will likely be banned. Richard Prince, the very famous 64-year-old artist, loved Instagram.
How Taylor Swift Won Back the Public
May 2024The Reputation era was the last time the pop star let someone else define her. Here’s how she rebuilt her image.
How the Grinch Was Made: Revisiting the Classic TV Special on Its 50th Anniversary
May 2024You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. December 18, 2016, marks the 50th anniversary of the first airing of How the Grinch Stole Christmas on CBS, a 24-minute Christmas special that, all these years later, continues to air during the holidays.
Huey Lewis on the Newss Most Humorous and Strategic Music
May 2024Superlatives 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 Dont Like Comics. Will I Like Jessica Jones? Your Pressing TV Questions, Answered
May 2024Welcome back to Stay Tuned, Vulture’s TV advice column. Each Wednesday, Margaret Lyons answers your questions about your various TV triumphs and woes.
In Martin McDonaghs Hangmen, Cruelty Provides the Muse
May 2024Alfie Allen and David Threlfall. Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen seems like a revival. It’s not — its first run was in 2015 — but there’s something deep in its pipes that feels old, old, old.
Is His Dark Materials Finally Getting Good?
May 2024Dafne Keen as Lyra in His Dark Materials. Kathryn VanArendonk: Hello, Philip Pullman hive! Now that we’re almost halfway into the first season of HBO’s His Dark Materials, we’re gathered here today to talk about what we think of the adaptation so far.
Jason Derulo and Girlfriend Jena Frumes Welcome Baby Derulo
May 2024Jason Derulo and his girlfriend, influencer Jena Frumes, announced on Tuesday that they have welcomed a bouncing baby Derulo into the world.
Jazz Pioneer Ornette Coleman Dies at 85
May 2024Ornette Coleman. Avant-garde jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 85, his family told the New York Times on Thursday.
Jody Rosens Songs of the Week: 2 Chainz, Emilana Torrini, Romeo Santos
May 2024NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 09: Recording artist 2 Chainz attends 106 & Park at 106 & Park Studio on September 9, 2013 in New York City.
Joe Rogan Is Just the Start of It
May 2024Since it was first tweeted in 2018, “The right is starting to get better at comedy and it’s making lefties nervous” has remained a meme used to mock the idea of conservative comedy.
John Mayer Is a Friend of the Ewoks
May 2024Aligned. The Rolling Stones have the hot lips. Nirvana has a zoinked-out smiley face. And the Grateful Dead has Technicolor dancing bears that are so cute that you wouldn’t mind doing a few pre-show whippets with them in the back of their vans.
John Mulaney Announces Kid Gorgeous Standup Tour Dates
May 2024Here’s some good news for 2017: John Mulaney is going on tour! Titled Kid Gorgeous, the tour begins in May and makes stops in Ithaca, San Antonio, Knoxville, Baltimore, Wilmington, and more.
Katy Perrys Never Really Over Is the Comeback Single She Desperately Needed
May 2024Katy Perry’s Witness era was an extended exercise in a pop star doing the absolute most, from the hammy woke messaging of the lead single “Chained to the Rhythm” to the 72-hour YouTube livestream, where the singer staged public advice and therapy sessions, right on down to the televised performances.
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Laura Jane Graces Quarantine Album Is Everything Quarantine Music Should Be
May 2024They’re simple, largely acoustic tracks, recorded in analog in just a few takes — music for music’s sake.
Ludacris, Jay-Z, and Nas Claim, Effectively Enough, That Theyre Not in It for the Money
May 2024It’s Luda’s song (off the upcoming album Theater of the Mind — out November 24, as you’ll quickly gather from the annoying voice stamp on the track), and Jay-Z contributes the guest verse with the most old-school exuberance, but you can be forgiven for thinking that it’s stubborn Nas, if anyone, who can most convincingly claim “I Do It for Hip Hop.
Mac DeMarcos This Old Dog and 8 Other Albums to Listen to Now
May 2024Mac DeMarco. Every week, Vulture gathers new albums you can listen to right now. We don’t have a problem admitting it: Keeping track of everything that’s released can be overwhelming, but finding out about interesting music doesn’t have to be work.
Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich Answer All Our Questions About Scream
May 2024Role 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.
Meet Your New Saturday Night Live Cast Members
May 2024Chris Redd Live from New York, it’s one person you might’ve heard of, one you probably haven’t, and one you definitely haven’t!
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May 2024i love mess Oct. 19, 2023 ‘I Feel at Home in Filth’Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson’s Dicks: The Musical is a faggy mess.
Metallicas Lars Ulrich on the Point of the Band in 2016, and Why He Doesnt Talk Politics With
May 2024James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica perform at Coliseo de Puerto Rico. It’s rare that a band arrives at a newly fascinating moment 35 years into its career, and yet here Metallica is.
Mindy Kaling, Ellie Kemper In Peoples Most Beautiful
May 2024People’s Most Beautiful issue cleared off some ass space between Eva Longoria and Zac Efron for two people who dearly deserve it: Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Dives Back Into the Box Office
May 2024While Tom Cruise is technically banned from promoting Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 due to the historic SAG-AFTRA actors strike kicking off on Thursday, his mission to get people back into movie theaters is embedded in our brains forever.
Mrs. Doubtfire Skirts the Problem
May 2024From Mrs. Doubtfire, at the Stephen Sondheim. Despite its place of honor in the Gen-X nostalgia zone — among Pretty Woman and Mean Girls and Moulin Rouge!
Nebraska Moms Like Fifty Shades the Most
May 2024In a continuing effort to understand just how Fifty Shades became so absurdly popular, let us point your attention to these GoodReads charts, which break down the site’s E.
New York Times Critic Janet Maslin Says Dylan Farrow Just Wanted Attention
May 2024Janet Maslin. During a panel discussion in Pleasantville, New York, last night, Times book critic Janet Maslin described Dylan Farrow’s open letter, published earlier this month by columnist Nick Kristof in his usual space, as an “outrageous use of an op-ed column.
Olivia Rodrigo Has Been Brushing Up on the Classics
May 2024License to rock. Olivia Rodrigo may have spent the past few years working on her music career rather than going to college, but she’s still been studying up on the classics — classic rock, that is.
Original Sin TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024The fourth series in the Pretty Little Liars franchise, Original Sin moves the action to HBO Max, where a mysterious figure known as “A” haunts and harasses a group of teenage girls —Imogen Adams, Tabby Haworthe, Faran Bryant, Noa Olivar, and Mouse Honrada — because of something that happened 20 years ago.
Pam Grier on Orgasms in Your 60s, Jackie Brown, and Whats Next
May 2024Pam Grier is telling an audience of 350 Midwesterners about how long she takes to orgasm. In fact, she’s explaining it in great detail, during an onstage Q&A at the Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita, Kansas, where she’s accepting their most prestigious honor, the Ad Astra Award.
Paul Giamatti and Julie Klausner Recreate Scenes from Hit Movies
May 2024Here’s another one comedian Julie Klausner’s videos for Vulture, in which she sits down with actor Paul Giamatti to reenact some romantic scenes from movies like Twilight, You’ve Got Mail, and Magic Mike.
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May 2024reality rumble Mar. 7, 2014 Where Do Most Runners-up on Reality Talent Shows End Up?A precious few become big stars.
Queer Eye Recap: Lets Do the Time Warp Again
May 2024Queer Eye The Renaissance of Remington Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Queer Eye The Renaissance of Remington Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Usually I’m pretty sad when the Fab Five roll into someone’s house.
RuPauls Drag Race Season-Finale Recap: Odds in Her Favor
May 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race Grand Finale Season 11 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Grand Finale Season 11 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, after a long, long, and chaotic season, she won: Silky Nutmeg Ganache is season 11’s victor, and this was well deserved indeed.
SanditonSeason-Premiere Recap: Jane Eyre Comes to Sanditon
May 2024Sanditon Episode 1 Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sanditon Episode 1 Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Who thought we’d be here again?
Scenes from a Marriage TV Episode Recaps & News
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Seventh-Grade Style Icon Claudia Kishis Baby-Sitters Club Outfits, Ranked
May 2024Bold colors and patterns, vintage pieces, and not a matching earring set to be seen? That’s our Claudia. Claudia Kishi is a style icon.
Shania Twain Walks You Through What to Do If, or When, You Pee Your Pants Onstage
May 2024Shania Twain has been an internationally touring star for decades at this point, so it’s not surprising to hear that she’s accidentally peed her pants onstage once or multiple times.
Succession Recap: Raised By Wolves
May 2024Succession Kill List Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Succession Kill List Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s all come full circle now, with Kendall in the backseat of a limo, pumping himself up with rap music, luxuriating in his image as the hip modern executive, Master of the Universe 2.
SXSW Doubles Down on Rachel Sennott
May 2024Seeing double: Sennott in Bottoms (left) and I Used to Be Funny. At the start of I Used to Be Funny, Rachel Sennott scribbles a list of motley topics on her hand: hypocritical youth pastor, teens in Crocs, old babysitter.
Sylvester Stallone Tried, and Failed, to Seduce Princess Diana
May 2024The year: 1993. The host: Elton John. The dinner-party guests: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere, Princess Diana, and some other rich people.
Talking to Anthony Jeselnik About The Jeselnik Offensive, His Career Goals, and What Comedy Ce
May 20242013 has been a prolific year for comedy’s resident dark lord, Anthony Jeselnik, with the debut of his new show, The Jeselnik Offensive, and his new album, Caligula.
The 10 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now
May 2024Killers of the Flower Moon. Don't have Apple TV+ yet? sign up here This article is updated frequently as movies leave and enter Apple TV+.
The 20 Best Documentaries on Max
May 2024Hoop Dreams (1994) HBO has long been a pioneer in nonfiction storytelling. From series like Paradise Lost to The Jinx, it has led the wayin true-crime documentaries, and the network commonly picked up acclaimed ones from Sundance, SXSW, and other film festivals.
The 50 Best Foreign-Language Movie-Musicals Ever
May 2024Last week saw the opening of Sion Sono’s magnificently batty Japanese hip-hop musical Tokyo Tribe, as well as the Bollywood wedding comedy Shandaar.
The Art of Fielding Plagiarism Accusations Have Been a Low-Level Menace for Years
May 2024Two weeks ago, a restaurateur named Charles Green filed suit in a New York court against Chad Harbach. In it, he alleged that the author of the 2011 breakout college baseball novel, The Art of Fielding, “misappropriated” dozens of elements, large and small, from Green’s unpublished college baseball novel, Bucky’s 9th.
The Brutal, Bloody, Bawdy, Beautiful Return of The Great
May 2024The Great is a show perpetually hanging on a precipice of its own making, although it’s astoundingly good at hiding how hard it works to keep its balance.
The Downton Abbey Cast Responds to Water-Bottle-Gate
May 2024A few days ago, Downton Abbey caused a bit of a stir when a very clear anachronism appeared in a promo photo: a water bottle on the mantel above Lady Edith.
The Happy Place Puzzle
May 2024New 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.
The Hardest Song I Ever Chased
May 2024How Everything Works Brought to you by How Everything Works Brought to you by In the Pose season two finale, Blanca performs Whitney Houston’s iconic rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner.
The Iron Giant Is Ready to Tell Us Where Hes Been
May 2024This story originally ran in April 2018, around the release of Ready Player One. We are rerunning it to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of The Iron Giant.
The Met Gala Couples Are in Full Bloom
May 2024Morgan Spector and Rebecca Hall. Couples at this year’s Met Gala are basically cosplaying as Adam and Eve for this year’s theme of Garden of Time.
The Morning ShowRecap: The Nature of Your Relationship
May 2024The Morning Show Laura Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Morning Show Laura Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Julianna Margulies has entered The Morning Show.
The Sympathizer Series-Premiere Recap: Runaway
May 2024The Sympathizer Death Wish Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Sympathizer Death Wish Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » HBO and A24’s adaptation of The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, opens with an oft-quoted passage by the author: “All wars are fought twice.
The Vulture Transcript: Joe Piscopo Dissects His Career, From SNL to the Buff Era and Beyond
May 2024Before Carrot Top and before Dane Cook, Joe Piscopo was a comedy snob’s favorite punch line. But he wasn’t always such an easy, musclebound target.
The Watcher Recap: A Shot in the Dark
May 2024The Watcher Blood Sacrifice Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Watcher Blood Sacrifice Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, well, I spoke too soon about a few things, the first of which being the length of these episodes.
Theater Review: A Close-up Sweeney Todd Gets Extra-Demonic
May 2024Mrs. Lovett with Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Barrow Street. We do not question, despite their umpteen revivals, whether the theater “needs” another production of Othello or The Cherry Orchard or Waiting for Godot.
Theater Review: What Do Charles Busch and Linda Lovelace Have in Common?
May 2024Busch’s The Divine Sister. Transgression nostalgia, anyone? Below 14th Street, two icons of the sexual revolution — Deep Throat and Charles Busch — are reliving their glory days.
True Blood Adds Yet Another Character
May 2024Actress Tina Majorino arrives at the premiere of HBO ‘True Blood’ season 5 premiere held at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on May 30, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
Use This Interactive Map of Friday Night Lights Austin, Texas, Shooting Locations
May 2024This time of year, more than 100,000 souls descend upon Austin, Texas, for SXSW for a certain combination of music, film, computers, comedy, beer, and tacos.
Vincent Gallo Is Suing Los Angeles
May 2024Actor Vincent Gallo attends the C’N’C Costume National fashion show at Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009 on September 22, 2008 in Milan, Italy.
Vulture Visits Don Drapers Apartment
May 2024106 Waverly, right next door to Don’s nonexistent 104 Sunday night’s episode of Mad Men revealed the address of Don Draper’s bachelor pad to be 104 Waverly Place, Apartment 3R, just off Washington Square Park.
Watch a Supercut of Space Helmets in Film
May 2024Go ahead and cross “commemorate space helmets in film” off your resolutions list — Keith Meltonbeat you to it.
What to Watch on New Years Eve and Where to Watch It
May 2024Do you hear that? Off in the distance? It’s the sound of balls preparing to be dropped, plastic glasses shaped like “2023” being unwrapped, and Andy Cohen (maybe) pulling out his shot glasses.
What We Do in the Shadows Recap: Gum in the Gears
May 2024What We Do in the Shadows The Campaign Season 5 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What We Do in the Shadows The Campaign Season 5 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Every once in a while, What We Do in the Shadows likes to remind its viewers that its protagonists are monsters.
Where Is Manny Jacinto in Top Gun: Maverick?
May 2024Spoilers follow for Top Gun: Maverick. One cannot take brief snippets of red-carpet interviews with celebrities as the end all, be all of how they feel about a certain subject.
Which Star Trek Captain Has the Best Managerial Technique?
May 2024Which one of these captains would you want to have as your boss? It’s impossible to be objective when selecting your favorite Star Trek captain.
Who Can Really See Alex?
May 2024This discussion originally appeared in Beach Read Book Club, a limited-run newsletter where New York staff discuss the season’s buzziest books alongside our readers.
Who Is The Masters Master Masturbator?
May 2024It’s okay. Don’t feel dirty because you clicked on that headline. This is as serious as an awkward Philadelphia bathroom hand job.
Why Does Avatar: The Way of Water Look Like That?
May 2024A tour of the VFX technology that pushes the look of James Cameron’s Avatar sequel — shot at 48 fps, twice the industry standard — into a deeper ocean.
Why Is Ted Bundy Suddenly Everywhere?
May 2024All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture.
Why Jon Hamm Hasnt Become a Movie Star, Yet
May 2024In an age of superhero movies and TV anti-heroes, fictional villains are more complex than ever before.
Will & GraceCreator Admits That Certain Drama Between Certain People Plagued Final Season
May 2024Like a piece of unseasoned beef popped into a microwave after two decades in a freezer, rumors began to heat up in late 2019 about growing tensions on the set of NBC’s Will & Grace revival: Megan Mullally had reportedly decided to take a short leave of absence from the sitcom after a major rift with co-star Debra Messing.
Willow Smith Learned About Sex by Walking in on Will and Jada
May 2024Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith. Will Smith will be in for a rude awakening when he watches his family’s new show Red Table Talk.
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May 2024coming soon Mar. 22, 2023 It’s Love, Korean Style in To All the Boys Spinoff XO, KittyKitty (Anna Cathcart) is about to have her love-expert status challenged.
Yellowstone Season-Finale Recap: Were Losing This Place
May 2024Yellowstone Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s hard to have much of a reaction to this season finale of Yellowstone.