She filed some of the podcast’s most listened-to episodes, including a two-part series on Chile’s violent transition from socialism to capitalism under University of Chicago-trained economists, an examination of what Georgetown University owes to the descendants of enslaved people who were sold to save the college from financial ruin, and an investigation into a massive […]
Encanto is the latest animated Disney musical that tells the story of the Madrigal family, whose members are tucked away in the mountains of Colombia. …Read the full story
In a particularly grim episode, Kendall holds a blowout fortieth birthday party and discovers that the hope he once had that his siblings might take his side against their father is long, long gone. This season, each week, we are ranking members of the main cast of Succession based on how fast they are speeding […]
And finally today, watching movies in actual movie theaters is a thing again, at least for the moment. FOLKENFLIK: “House Of Gucci” tells the story of how the Gucci family lost control of the company that still bears their name and of how the company’s former CEO, Maurizio Gucci, lost his life to a hitman […]
Thanksgiving may be a time for loving gatherings and joyful celebration for some families, but not for the Blake family in Stephen Karam’s dark, psychological drama “The Humans.” Erik and Deirdre Blake, played by Richard Jenkins and Jayne Houdyshell, travel from their home in Scranton, Pa., to spend the holiday in the almost completely unfurnished […]
Abloh was the founder of the label Off-White and artistic director for Louis Vuitton Menswear, making him one of the most powerful Black designers in the world and a luminary who helped cement streetwear as high fashion. And so he really kind of changed the image of what a fashion designer should be, which is […]
His shows ranged from the vaudeville-inspired romp “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum”… BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: At the climax of most musicals, characters sing their hearts out about enchanted evenings or defying gravity or what I did for love. MONDELLO: This is Bobby in “Company,” the musical that established the Sondheim […]
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson worked with the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on films from “Boogie Nights” to “Magnolia.” In “Licorice Pizza,” Anderson has cast Hoffman’s teenage son, Cooper Hoffman, opposite pop singer Alana Haim. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Encino, Calif. Most of the kids ignore her, but one boy, Gary Valentine, starts chatting her up […]
Thanksgiving is a time of family togetherness and sometimes family squabbling. Then she hears his last name, bats her eyes and unleashes on him the full force not of a clever party girl on the make, but of Lady Gaga. MONDELLO: Maurizio’s dad, Rodolfo Gucci, played by Jeremy Irons, objects to his son’s marriage and […]
James Bond drive through Matera, Italy in No Time To Die. We wondered how James Bond manages to stay healthy,” says co-author Teun Bousema, a researcher at Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Bond’s seeming imperviousness to infectious disease is perhaps not surprising, given his ability to regularly survive all kinds of potentially lethal […]
The Madrigals live in a magical house, and each member of the large family has a magical gift. She’s voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, an actress from TV’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and the film “In The Heights.” There is another member of the family, Bruno, voiced by John Leguizamo. To prepare for “Encanto,” Lin-Manuel Miranda traveled with […]
The words “Licorice Pizza” are never spoken in Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, Licorice Pizza, and so you may wonder where the title comes from, especially if you weren’t in Southern California in the ’70s. One of them is Cooper Hoffman, the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was one of Anderson’s regular […]
An artist known as much for his unflinching lyrics about his near-death experiences as he was for his sense of humor, and an altruistic relationship to collaborators and fans, Young Dolph understood people were not the sum of their good deeds or public beefs. Dolph, a flashy rapper who loved designer clothes, luxury cars and […]
This is primarily a guide to the romances and romantic comedies that are so very thick on the ground at this time of year, plus a few that seem to be specifically aimed at adults but not aren’t romances . There is no centralized repository of holiday offerings other than ones created by other fallible […]
I get asked sometimes, who’s your favorite author? And I’m always taken aback because it feels a little like asking a parent, who’s your favorite child? Which, you know, I couldn’t possibly choose. So it feels significant to say out loud that if there is one author whose books I am guaranteed to gobble up, […]
“You can’t be a real writer if you don’t have children,” a famous author once told Ann Patchett when they were both speaking at a book festival. “Emily Dickinson,” she protested. The full-hearted essays collected in These Precious Days are rebuttals, in various forms, of that cruel and limiting idea. In one essay, “Flight Plan,” […]
The six-episode series , is small in scope, and self-contained, and the conflicts take place at ground-level. Loosely based on a beloved run of comics written by Matt Fraction with art by David Aja, the series has Clint facing off against a gang of dim-bulb Russian gangsters he calls the Tracksuit Mafia. We get a […]
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Poet Robert Bly, a tireless advocate for his art form, who over the course of half a century transformed American poetry and was also central to the controversial men’s movement, died Sunday. Bly argued in his 1990 book, Iron John: A Book About Men, that society causes men to be disconnected from their feelings, and […]
In the wake of last week’s news that the current president is not running again, the Roys descend upon the secretive political gathering where the Republican nominee for president is to be effectively anointed . This season, each week, we are ranking members of the main cast of Succession based on how fast they are […]