It’s interesting how some people are afraid to call Donald Trump an insurrectionist despite the evidence presented by the events of January 6th. However, there are valid arguments against disqualifying Trump under the Fourteenth Amendment, such as the potential implications of removing the immense decision of who gets to be president from the electorate’s control. […]
I don’t give a fuck about your concerns. Here is what you need to know about the Mar-a-Lago documents and the legal troubles of the former President. The Mar-a-Lago documents refer to a cache of classified documents seized during an FBI raid at Donald Trump’s private residence in Florida. The investigation is ongoing, but it […]
“I will confess I was always a little skeptical of the tax incentives. “It’s very rare that we get opportunities to have policies with a benefit-to-cost ratio of 3 or 4 to 1. Since then, that bill has been cut in two, renamed the Build Back Better Act, killed, resurrected, maybe killed again, and generally […]
In late 2019, the median number of days that a house was on the market was 51, according to the real-estate site Redfin. In other words, houses have been selling at higher prices, more quickly—and buyers haven’t been able to find much relief by broadening their search to other areas, because this is happening in […]
As the last show of 2021, it would’ve marked the end of a full year of uninterrupted programming, after the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 led to canceled episodes and remote sketches. Only hours before the show was set to air, amid the rise of the coronavirus’s highly contagious Omicron variant, the show […]
The first time Billie Eilish appeared on Saturday Night Live, the then-17-year-old put her famously green hair in two topknots, donned a graffiti-print outfit, and climbed the walls of a rotating room to underscore her eerie, enigmatic image. In the past year, she’s recorded the newest James Bond theme song, dropped her second album, released […]
What did it mean, this winking reference to sex and weed? What was the richest man on Earth trying to convey about his mind and the market, which are edging ever closer to the same thing? In a recent episode of Succession, the Roy family finds itself asking similar questions while attempting to decode the […]
Every late-in-the-season tragedy and act of bloodshed, whether real or intangible, has been tied to the element that classically represents femininity, emotion, and intuition. Tonight’s episode, “Chiantishire,” named for the unfortunate moniker upper-class Brits give the region of Tuscany, ended with Kendall Roy . At its peak, no show can rival it, but its characteristic […]
But I didn’t realize what a frightening character he was going to be until Phil retired to his bed, pulled out a banjo, and started angrily plucking at it; that humble string instrument hasn’t been played so malevolently on-screen since the notorious “dueling banjos” of Deliverance. Campion’s first feature film in 12 years, based on […]
But Ridley Scott’s new movie takes its time before delving into the insidious, gilded world of the Italian luxury label. But even though Rodolfo’s apartment is impressive, with high-end art adorning the walls, Scott films it like a tomb, a cavernous hideaway for a man who barely remembers how to enjoy his success. House of […]
Ray Stevenson, whom he directed in the comic-book adaptation Thor in 2011, once remembered Branagh encouraging him to play his role as loudly as possible. With Belfast, a new work of cinematic memoir that explores Branagh’s childhood in 1960s Northern Ireland, he is finally swimming to shore, telling a nuanced family story that’s tinged with […]
After more than a year without many huge concerts, the history lesson felt like a warning of what might happen when they returned in earnest: that many people might act especially recklessly, and many organizers especially opportunistically. Eight attendees died and hundreds more were injured after the crowd surged during a nighttime set by the […]
The star-laden blockbuster, which is dropping on Netflix this week, features three A-list names, all in familiar roles: Dwayne Johnson as a tough FBI agent, Ryan Reynolds as a motormouthed art thief, and Gal Gadot as a mysterious criminal who forces the two men to team up against her. I went into my screening wondering […]
And the story at the center appears mellow: Two women, Irene , rekindle their friendship after years apart. Irene and Clare are light-skinned Black women who can pass for white, but while the former rarely strays past the color line, the latter has crossed it entirely. Based on the 1929 book by Nella Larsen, Passing, […]
Kristen Stewart hit the height of her fame as the star of the Twilight movies about a decade ago, and to many audiences she will always be a teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. Here was the headliner of a franchise that would make her the highest-paid actress when she was 22 years […]
Helen Lyle , a plucky, white graduate student researching urban legends in Chicago, is drawn to the city’s dilapidated Cabrini-Green projects, where she learns of a monster named the Candyman: a vengeful Black ghost who appears if you say his name five times while looking in a mirror. But the legend around him, and his […]
Early in the morning, she works on her family’s fishing boat, sorting fresh-caught haddock from the boots that get stuck in their net and, as the only hearing member of the Rossis, helping translate sign language to vendors onshore. It won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film […]
If I close my eyes, I can see the jacket photo on the glossy hardcovers in my childhood bedroom: Collins, standing in front of a blandly wealthy backdrop, her hair as rich as chocolate and her shoulders padded past the point of no return. From the late ’60s—when she published her first book, The World […]
If you are so easily destabilized, even with ample warning, she seemed to be chiding us, how can you trust any of your instincts? Even the most nuanced journalists, who acknowledge many possible versions of the truth, ultimately seek to clarify and explain. On the one hand, Malcolm carefully undermines the entire project of literary […]
and the ensuing easement of gathering restrictions, after more than a year of the coronavirus pandemic, are making for a wedding season of grand proportions. This left newly engaged couples with hopes of walking down the aisle in 2021 to compete with the pandemic postponers for peak-wedding-season dates this year. Zola, a wedding-planning and registry […]