Nowhere is that more apparent than in this week’s big moment of bathos: a needle drop of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” during a fight between Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson and her alcoholic brother, Hal , deployed with such self-seriousness it can’t help but be funny. This season, The Morning Show confronted that lack of […]
Eternals, the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has been poised as her powerhouse, meant to push this slick, tangled universe further than ever before, into a realm where an auteur’s visuals stick and the characters — played by the likes of Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek — seem soulful, rather than like action […]
It’s episodes like “La Amara Vita” that make me wish The Morning Show actually started well before the implosion of TMS and Mitch Kessler’s sexual misconduct coming to light so that we could’ve watched more of Alex Levy and Mitch doing their thing on-air and off — their relationship is much more complex and interesting […]
In Jungle Cruise, Disney’s latest adaptation of one of its theme-park rides, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays an inexplicably brawny skipper named Frank, whose love of bad puns belies the fact that he is cursed to be trapped for eternity atop the Amazon River. While I respected and mostly agreed with Bilge’s review, I couldn’t […]
The White Lotus has been circling the possibility that it’s a show with something to say, but this week, Mike White finally lands the plane . For every morsel of intel about Belinda, for example, we watch five minutes of Rachel and Shane’s interminable quarreling — does anyone think she has the backbone to leave […]
And what makes a drug bust even more thrilling to watch? You guessed it: When the drug dealers outrun or outsmart the know-it-all cops. This is most noticeable during their post-sex pillow talk where Raq makes a comment about Symphony “still being in college,” showing she does not really know the difference between an undergraduate […]
Sure, The Green Knight is an epic tale adapted from a late-14th-century English poem about King Arthur and his knights of Camelot, one of which, Sir Gawain, embarks on a deadly, divine quest to battle the titular knight, a gigantic tree creature, along the way facing his magical fate at the hands of his sorceress […]
In no particular order: Rachel Lindsay being painted as an unfeeling Black woman at her “After the Final Rose”; Becca having to address Garrett liking anti-immigrant posts on Instagram; Pilot Pete running through a slew of women during and after his finale; Arie’s unedited break-up with Becca; a car spokesperson and LinkedIn personality telling us […]
Good evening, fellow heathens! For those of you who don’t know me already, my name is Shamira and I will be your guide to the high-drama world of Real Housewives of Potomac this season, which is already off to the races after trying to recover from the chaos that reigned the season prior. Mia: If […]
Isn’t it fun to pick a future with limited information? Doesn’t all that individual choice make you feel informed and optimistic? At various moments in Enemy of the People, audience members seated at scattered tables are asked to choose between two options by hitting a big X button or a big O button. It starts […]
The Kevin Can F**k Himself that cues up a laugh track for every terrible joke Kevin and Neil make about the New England Patriots or Good Will Hunting is not the same show that follows Allison to Sam’s AA meeting and puts her through the agony of meeting his seemingly perfect wife while Allison emphatically […]
“Because I know film history, and from here on, directors do not get better.” Tarantino pleads his case, saying, “I don’t have a reason that I would want to say out loud that’s going to win an argument in a court of public opinion or Supreme Court or anything like that, but at the same […]
Don’t you just hate it when you wander into a mystical town in the middle of the woods full of people who burst into song and dance? Keegan-Michael Key’s character is not a fan of the idea in the upcoming Apple TV+ show Schmigadoon!, nor is he aware that the town in question is a […]
I won’t say whose blood is on her face, yet at various points in the movie, some seemingly feminist guy — a boss, a husband, a doctor — will let his pretense slip. Glazer plays Lucy, a young woman hoping for a child; a lightly grizzled Justin Theroux plays her husband Adrian, who wants her […]
Having studied and truly internalized the pressure-point stimulation of Eminem, who made his millions in part by identifying and uttering the most provocative statements possible in any given scenario, Odd Future waged a campaign of deliberate transgression that netted support and outrage in equal measure but, importantly, used the attention to shine a light on […]
When Liam Neeson’s trucker thriller The Ice Road was first announced, some wondered with more than a little concern if it might be an updated remake of the classic 1953 French thriller The Wages of Fear. The only way to do it is with trucks, and the only way for those trucks to get there […]
“But I wanted to reveal something very different in terms of my success and the struggles.” And Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It is a moving exploration of her turbulent, up-and-down career, which saw her going from being cast in a variety of “exotic” parts in genre pictures, to winning […]
Two singles from CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST have already been released: “Lumberjack,”a braggadocious bop, and “Wus Ya Name,” a flirtier affair. …Read the full story
Yet much of her career to this point has also been driven by the whims of virality, from her 2018 meme hit “Mooo!” to Hot Pink’s “Say So” and “Streets,” which first rose up the charts thanks to TikTok. “You Right,” a song Doja Cat teased for months as a single, wasn’t quite as intentional […]
He had been working as a successful writer, jumping from The Harvard Lampoon to Saturday Night Live to the hottest show on TV, The Simpsons. In 2021, O’Brien has been a talk-show host, a theatrical documentary subject, a tour headliner, a superhero, a Funko Pop! figurine, and, most recently, a podcast vanguardist. After three time […]