As the millennium was about to turn, The Matrix arrived in theaters like a speeding bullet—or maybe a very slow-moving one, filmed with the then-novel extreme-slo-mo special effect that would become known as “bullet time.” Digital technology played a much smaller role in most people’s lives in 1999. Now that, in the 18 years since […]
And for a big, beautiful drama starring Kevin Costner as patriarch of the Dutton ranching family and co-created by Taylor Sheridan, whose movies Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River have won varying degrees of critical acclaim, it is a little surprising how absent Yellowstone feels from the Online Discourse. Everyone in the show’s […]
Batalon even joked about this, pointing out that Jamie Foxx’s appearance in the video was, itself, something of a spoiler—after all, No Way Home’s most surprising conceit is that it weaves every previous attempt at a Spider-Man cinematic universe into one movie. Not only are the real spoilers for No Way Home more exciting than […]
Only toward the end of this medieval-looking diversion does it become clear that the adults are acting out the famous scene from The Empire Strikes Back in which Darth Vader informs Luke Skywalker just how closely the two of them are related. The new HBO 10-episode limited series based on the novel may believe in […]
The show, which premiered on HBO in 1998, would end the following year, and, aside from two increasingly ill-advised feature films, Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha have lived in infinite syndicated loops ever since. The impulse behind And Just Like That, created by original writer Michael Patrick King, is nothing if not nostalgic, but, at […]
The fear that Kendall might have drowned turned out to be misplaced, by the concern wasn’t: As the show’s third-season finale, “And the Bells Say,” makes clear, Kendall was actually trying to die by suicide, and it was only quick action by his publicist Comfrey that kept him alive. Lili Loofbourow: I may have been […]
The pair also helped elevate Southern sonics and slang, in an era when the region was dismissed by the East and West coasts, and brought many of the creatives of the legendary Dungeon Family collective to the fore: production powerhouse Organized Noize, rapper-singer crew Goodie Mob, and supergroup Purple Ribbon All-Stars, the latter of which […]
The same process of elimination that meant I was always Baby Spice when I played pretend with my preteen friends—I had the blonde pigtails—meant I was a Miranda: the powerful corporate attorney, the marathon runner, the bride who didn’t wear white, the woman who reamed out a sandwich for catcalling her. The episode where she […]
In the witty and swift-moving biopic Being the Ricardos , Sorkin puts some of this insider knowledge to work in exploring the politics—global, sexual, and professional—behind the scenes of the smash 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy. Most of the events touched on in Being the Ricardos really happened, though not on the compressed one-week timeline Sorkin imagines, moving from I […]
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He’s one of the two officers who come to Apple Records HQ on Savile Row to try, and mostly fail, to shut down the legendary January 30, 1969, rooftop performance that climaxes both films. But only now do we get to hear the ganglier one—I think he’s PC Ray Dagg, and the other PC Ray […]
No one is fonder of a small-time wheeler-dealer than Paul Thomas Anderson, and Gary’s last name is “Valentine” for a reason: the man behind the camera clearly loves this brashly self-confident boy, not least because the actor playing him is the 18-year-old son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anderson’s longtime collaborator and close friend. […]
The words “put the money in the bag and I stole the key, that was the last time you ever saw me” tumble out of Swift’s mouth so fast, I’m not convinced they were not divinely delivered into her brain. One of the songs”from the vault”—new tracks, for those who don’t speak Swift—on Red is […]
Bradley is concerned about how Alex is holding up, but she’s also got problems of her own: Her brother, an addict, has been missing for two days after Bradley cut ties with him. Don’t let your shame of what other people think run your life.” In the final minutes of the episode, we see Bradley […]
Lauded by mainstream critics and anime fans alike for its visual style, Yoko Kanno’s soundtrack, and its explorations of mortality, nihilism, and identity, Cowboy Bebop has enjoyed an excellent reputation since its 1998 premiere. Netflix’s take on the show has a love-hate relationship with its source material, retaining the premise and almost every single character […]
But to really understand the full power of the show, you also have to understand han, a uniquely Korean concept that can be loosely translated to a form of intense grief and unresolved resentment. The prominence of han rose during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and then again during the Korean War—explaining its close association […]
And there’s a clip of people begging for help—a camera operator livestreaming the performance for Apple Music waved them off. On Thursday’s episode of What Next, I spoke to Stereogum senior editor Tom Breihan about what went wrong at Astroworld, whether Travis Scott is to blame, and why tragedies like this keep happening at concerts. […]
In the first episode of Squid Game, the protagonist Seong Gi-hun , a former automobile factory worker with crippling debt and a gambling addiction, is trying and failing to get a prize from a claw machine. Squid Game isn’t the only show about economic desperation holding down a spot in Netflix’s Top 10. Maid, which […]
Jack Pratt, now 9, was born nine weeks early, spent a month in the neonatal intensive care unit, and underwent several surgeries. I’ve learned too much about the toxic ways we prize “healthy” babies, congratulate “successful” parents, and continue to see disability and illness as an imperfection and a failing. How could I fail at […]
In the past few years, as ABBA hinted at and then confirmed a return, capped this week by the release of the new album Voyage, one wondered what the band had to gain from it. As successful as it was, ABBA’s whitest-of-white Europop was scorned by the anglo-American rock establishment and counterculture alike in their […]