See Every Single Outfit Olivia Pope Has Worn on Scandal Season Two
June 2024suit up May 23, 2013 4:05 pm By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 117 Photos There’s much to love about Scandal, from its fiery romances to its nasty political maneuverings.
11 Great Hip-hop Process Documentaries
June 2024Today’s music documentaries increasingly read as little more than slick, self-congratulatory packages produced by the subjects themselves, with a series of friendly talking heads sharing stories laden with hyperbole and mythology.
20 Great Billy Joel Songs That Havent Been Played to Death
June 2024UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Billy Joel performs live on stage during his 1980 US tour This week on How I Met Your Mother, Barney, Ted, and two versions of their future selves harmonized a rendition of Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time.
21 Savages Savage Mode Is Violent Music, But Its Oddly Comforting in Violent Times
June 2024Rap fandom is a peculiar pathology because it forces listeners to compartmentalize worlds of real and hypothetical violence, to revel in one while still finding the other jarring and unacceptable.
26 Things You Might Not Have Known About the Terminator Movies
June 2024THE TERMINATOR, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1984. ©Orion Pictures Corporation/Courtesy Everett Collection It’s been 30 years this week since a naked Arnold Schwarzenegger first brought us the nearly wordless Cyberdyne Systems T-800 Model 101 in the James Cameron–directed The Terminator.
75 Movies to Watch This Fall
June 2024Matt Damon in The Martian. Hopefully, you’ve had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we’ll be breaking them out separately.
Aldis Hodge Accidentally Told The Rock to F- - - Off Before Starting Black Adam
June 2024During DC’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, attendees were given lightning-bolt lanyards that would light up sometime during the event.
Alias Grace Trailer: Margaret Atwood and Murder
June 2024Margaret Atwood fans take note, as the illustrious author’s work is being adapted for TV once again in Netflix’s upcoming and very Canadian Alias Grace, a six-part limited series based on her historical-fiction novel of the same name.
All Hail Erica Sullivan, Olympic Silver Medalist, Swiftie, and Queer Icon
June 2024On Tuesday, Olympic newcomer Erica Sullivan made history in the Olympics’ first ever women’s swimming 1,500m freestyle race, bringing home the silver medal for America.
America Ferrera Did a Triathlon the Same Night She Attended a Pre-Emmys Party, So, You Know, She Mig
June 2024Besides being an accomplished actress and liberal advocate, America Ferrera is, apparently, a badass athlete. The day before the Emmys, Ferrera competed in a triathlon.
Ask a Doctor: Is Batmans Healing Method Sound?
June 2024If you’ve already seen The Dark Knight Rises, you are approved to read the following spoiler-packed post. If you have not yet seen The Dark Knight Rises, we’ll see you back here after you do.
Blake McIver Ewing Answers Every Question We Have About The Little Rascals
June 2024For decades, many of the most beloved children of the big screen all belonged to Our Gang. The short film series, also sometimes referred to as The Little Rascals, was created by Hal Roach (the producer and studio executive behind Laurel & Hardy) in 1922 and spurred 220 shorts starring over 40 child actors before ending in 1944.
BoJack Horsemans Creator Explains Why Christmas Specials, Adulthood Are Terrible
June 2024Netflix’s animated series BoJack Horseman was one of the big surprises of the year: The first few episodes, about a washed-up ‘90s sitcom star, were sharply funny and incredibly quick, but then the series gave way to a more serious through-line about depression and loneliness and fear.
Brunching and Bitching About The Bachelor With Bekah M. and Kendall
June 2024There are many things we could criticize (and we have) when it comes to this season of The Bachelor.
Canadian to Headline Made in America Festival
June 2024Justin Bieber gets his peaches in Georgia, his weed from California, and his headlining sets in Philadelphia. The Canadian pop star is set to perform one of his first live sets since releasing his last two albums, 2020’s Changes and 2021’s Justice, at Made in America, the festival put on by Jay-Z, which takes Philly on September 4 and 5.
Catherine Breillat Is Back, Baby
June 2024The transgressive French filmmaker is in fine, fucked-up form with Last Summer, about a middle-age lawyer who starts sleeping with her stepson.
Cersei Lannisters Crown Was Designed to Show How Lonely She Is
June 2024Spoilers ahead for the season-six finale of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones crowned a new victor on Sunday when Lena Headey’s Cersei Lannister, having (literally) ignited her enemies and lost everything she cared about, took her place on the Iron Throne.
Chapter 1: Everything We Know About the Future of the DC Universe
June 2024If there’s anything everyone at Warner Bros. Discovery wants to get desperately right, it’s the DC Universe. Since director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran were named the co-CEOs and chairmen of DC Studios last October, fans and DC naysayers alike were wondering if the connected universe (formerly known as the DC Extended Universe) could finally get its act together.
Chet Faker Has a No Diggity Problem
June 2024Chet Faker, the hirsute Australian electronic musician whose silky, soulful single “Gold” was recently used in an ad for the new Apple laptop, didn’t know that his first release, a minimalist, unexpectedly charming cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” back in 2011, would lead him to so much success.
Christina Aguilera Earns More Than Other Voice Judges
June 2024Is Christina Aguilera worth as much as all the other judges on The Voice combined? She rakes in “more than $225,000” per episode while the other judges make “around $75,000,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Counterpart TV Episode Recaps & News
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Crazy Days and Nights Blogger Enty Revealed in Lawsuit
June 2024Blind Item Revealed #1 The identity of the gossip blogger known only as “Ent Lawyer” (Enty for short, Entertainment Lawyer for long) has been revealed in Florida court documents.
Daisy Jones & the Six Recap: And the Six Become Six
June 2024Daisy Jones and The Six I Saw the Light Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daisy Jones and The Six I Saw the Light Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Some people just can’t handle their fame.
Damien Chazelles Guide to Beginnings and Endings
June 2024Damien Chazelle and the opening sequence of La La Land. The director Howard Hawks once said that a good movie has three great scenes and no bad ones.
Daniels Unpack the Everything Bagel of Influences Behind Everything Everywhere All at Once
June 2024“We’re very confident about our dumb ideas.” Photo: A24 Photo: A24 Warning: Spoilers! Moreover, this post won’t make a ton of sense if you haven’t seen the movie.
Devos Mark Mothersbaughs Art-Fueled Journey From Akron to Hollywood
June 2024Mark Mothersbaugh at his “Myopia” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. It’s hard to say what Mark Mothersbaugh is best known for — is it his New Wave band Devo?
Elite Season 3s Most Gasp-Worthy Moments
June 2024The horniest, most murder-y teens in all of Spain have returned to grace our screens with the messiest drama you’ll find in a prep-school uniform.
Emma Stone Is in Her Frankensteins Monster Era
June 2024Emma Stone is an abomination (compliment) in Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up film to The Favourite, called Poor Things. This adaptation of Alisdair Gray’s 1992 novel sees Lanthimos reuniting with The Favourite star Stone, who plays Belle Baxter, a drowned Victorian woman who is revived, Frankenstein style, by a mad-looking scientist played by Willem Dafoe.
Erykah Badu on Kendrick Lamars Namedrop on No More Parties in L.A.
June 2024Erykah Badu and Kendrick Lamar onstage during the 2013 BET Awards on June 30, 2013. Erykah Badu is not shy about trading insults or setting the record straight via Twitter.
Every Brooklyn Nine-Nine Episode, Ranked
June 2024Brooklyn Nine-Nine isn’t only one of the funniest comedies on TV, it’s easily the most consistent. There’s almost never a false character moment, there’s a bounty of hilarious bits of physical and verbal comedy in every episode, and the characters are just nice — good people who are good at their jobs and genuinely care about each other.
Extrapolations Good Intentions Arent Good Enough
June 2024“2059 Part II: Nightbirds” suggests the kind of vital series Extrapolations could have been if it readjusted its barometer for whose struggles hold narrative value.
For White Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
June 2024Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation is a work of singular self-absorption. Photo: Catherine McGann/Getty Images This review originally appeared in New York magazine.
Good-bye to the Rowdiest Movie Theater in Brooklyn
June 2024When the Regal Court Street Stadium 12 opened over two decades ago at the intersection of Court and State Streets in downtown Brooklyn, it would’ve been hard to envision anyone mourning its demise.
How Robert Eggers Wove the Nightmares of The Witch Out of Historical Documents
June 2024The Witch is easily one of the most disturbing horror films in recent memory. As the core family of witchcraft-fearing 17th-century New Englanders devolves into hysteria, the film one-ups itself in unsettling scenes that are near impossible to shake days after watching.
I Know What You Did Last Summer TV Episode Recaps & News
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Im Obsessed With Movies That Cast Actors of Wildly Different Ages to Play Childhood Friends
June 2024Annabelle Wallis, Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson, Ed Helms, Isla Fisher, and Hannibal Buress in Tag. Most of the memorable moments in the recent sex farce Blockers are the big cartoonish ones, which you might expect from a movie that gives us John Cena chugging beer through his anus.
Imagine Bella Swan With Henry Cavill
June 2024What does this mean for Robert Pattinson’s The Batman? Bella Swan (as portrayed by Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (portrayed by Henry Cavill), wearing a red cape, enter the woods behind Forks High School.
Indie Label Burger Records Shuts Down Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
June 2024Burger Boogaloo 2017. Indie label Burger Records shuttered today after facing numerous allegations of sexual assault and misconduct by bands on its label, and even more criticism for its response.
Its Not Too Late to Fix House of the Dragons Color Wars
June 2024Want to watch House of the Dragon with us? Sign up for our new subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessively chronicling season two.
Jane the Virgin Recap: Flirt Alert
June 2024Jane the Virgin Chapter Fifty-Nine Season 3 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jane the Virgin Chapter Fifty-Nine Season 3 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Andrea Navedo as Xo, Gina Rodriguez as Jane.
Jersey Shore Recap: The Worst Day of Snookis Life
June 2024Jersey Shore Season 4 Episode 9 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jersey Shore Season 4 Episode 9 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Happy New Year!
Jimmy Fallon Really Hates T-Shirt Cannons
June 2024GQ’s cover story on Jimmy Fallon is an overwhelmingly positive read, full of enthusiastic dinner quotes and random bursts of applause (Fallon’s own) and love for pretty much everyone (Mister Rogers, Jimmy Kimmel, the people who make meatballs at Frankies Spuntino).
Last Night on Late Night: J.J. Abrams Presented a Deleted Benedict Cumberbatch Shower Scene From Sta
June 2024Last night on Conan, J.J. Abrams addressed criticism of Star Trek Into Darkness for its gratuitous display of so much of Alice Eve’s skin, for which writer Damon Lindelof has already apologized.
Lemon Tree Tells Us the Everyday Cost of Fear for Palestinians
June 2024In the 2008 drama starring Succession’s Hiam Abbass, a peaceful lemon grove is declared “a hostile territory” by Israeli government forces.
Love Is Blinds AD Smith Is Sorry She Made You Cry
June 2024There are many moments when you want to shake a woman by her shoulders and scream, “RUN!” Like in real life, when your sweet friend is telling you about her boyfriend and all you hear is a myriad of red flags.
Lt. Joe Kenda Isnt Saying Case Closed Yet
June 2024Joe Kenda still isn’t used to the sound of his voice. When we first spoke 18 months ago, the veteran police detective turned unlikely Investigation Discovery superstar mentioned (in the interview below) that even after 100 episodes, it was strange hearing (and seeing) himself talk on TV.
Mac Miller Found Freedom on Faces
June 2024An oral history of Mac Miller’s 2014 opus, excerpted from The Book of Mac. Photo: Mac Miller/YouTube “Faces actually started forming in my blanket; got some demons in there.
Manhood: How Ethan Hawke Finally Grew Up
June 2024This month, as we move deeper into Oscar-bait season, let’s take a moment to recognize the unexpected rebirth of Ethan Hawke, a solid Best Supporting Actor nominee possibility for his stirring performance in Boyhood.
Mary & George Recap: Bearded Men in Shadows
June 2024Mary and George The Golden City Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mary and George The Golden City Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Look, you can’t be doing a sexy gay history show and suddenly drop us into a random room with a man we’ve never seen before who talks with some other new guy about the Spanish and a battle we also have no idea about.
Mindy Kaling Explains The Mindy Projects Perfect Season 2 Ending
June 2024The season-two finale of The Mindy Project just finished and we have questions! Luckily, we also have Mindy Kaling’s email address, and she graciously agreed to answer them.
My Goal Is to Be the Most Ignorant, Richest Rapper
June 2024At a mansion on the Venetian Islands with Lil Pump, one of SoundCloud rap’s most elusive stars. Photo: Ysa Perez for Vulture Photo: Ysa Perez for Vulture The last time I spoke to Lil Pump for an interview, the teen rapper drifted off to sleep somewhere between anointing himself “the best SoundCloud rapper” and claiming Taylor Swift would feature on his mixtape.
Names of Lollapalooza Headliners Leak
June 2024While the full Lollapalooza lineup won’t be officially announced until April — with the festival going down in Chicago on August 6–8 — some excitable blabbermouth has spilled the beans on the headliners to the Daily Swarm.
No, Game of Thrones Didnt Do a Bottle Episode
June 2024For some viewers, Sunday’s Game of Thrones episode was frustrating because it didn’t get a jump on the much-hyped Battle of Winterfell.
Olivia Rodrigo - Vulture
June 2024in the name of love Sept. 8, 2023 Pop’s Stops, RankedFrom “in the name of love” to “Hammertime,” few gimmicks are as effective as singing “stop” and then literally stopping.
Paris Hilton Says She Was Coerced Into Making Sex Tape
June 2024Paris Hilton. In an excerpt from Paris Hilton’s forthcoming memoir, the heiress says then-boyfriend Rick Salomon pressured her into making a sex tape.
Parker, Stone, And Lopez On The Writing Process For Book Of Mormon, Sacrificing Mighty Ducks Jokes
June 2024Over at Vulture Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Avenue Q’s Robert Lopez discuss writing the songs in the Book of Mormon, and the necessity of sacrificing a specific joke to enhance the show as a whole.
Please Do Not Show These Memes to Lana Del Rey
June 2024Lizzy deciding whether to fuck you the fuck up. It has been quite a day for Miss Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.
R. Kelly Wanted to Fight Dave Chappelle Over Piss on You Sketch
June 2024Dave Chappelle as R. Kelly on Chappelle’s Show. The 2003 Chappelle’s Show sketch about R. Kelly, “Piss on You,” recently received a mention in Lifetime’s new docu-series Surviving R.
Reconsidering Freddy Got Fingered
June 2024In 2001, a critically loathed, sparsely attended movie born out of a hit, hip cable show became synonymous with bad movies, failure, and struck a blow against edgy and weird comedy infiltrating the mainstream.
Reese Witherspoon Developing Barbie Creator Biopic, Not Starring As the Doll Herself, As You Immedia
June 2024They look kind of similar! Anyone could have made that mistake! Reese Witherspoon, Pacific Standard, and Bold Films have reportedly optioned the Robin Gerber biography Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her.
Rian Johnson Outs Knives Outs Benoit Blanc As Queer
June 2024Velma isn’t the only mystery-solver in the LGBTQ+ community. Per Insider, Knives Out director Rian Johnson has confirmed that detective Benoit Blanc is not straight.
Richard Lewis Revisits His Trippy BoKu Fruit-Juice Commercials
June 2024Richard Lewis enjoying a BoKu. When the NBA season was temporarily suspended on March 11, 2020, the basketball podcasting community was left at an impasse: What to discuss?
Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, and Awkwafina Might All Hang Out in Sand
June 2024It came true! Welcome to the best movie poster that doesn’t exist yet. Deadline reports that — okay, deep breaths everyone — Rihanna (actress, Bates Motel), Anne Hathaway (Catwoman), Helena Bonham Carter (Queen Elizabeth), Mindy Kaling (Ben Affleck), and Awkwafina (Neighbors 2) are all close to deals to join Sandra Bullock (All About Steve) and Australian elf queen Cate Blanchett in Ocean’s Eight, an all-female Ocean’s Eleven remake directed by Gary Ross.
Robert Askins - Vulture
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Romantasy Series to Tide You Over Until the Next ACOTAR
June 2024Sarah J. Maas’s “A Court of Thrones and Roses” series is well on its way to becoming a cult classic in the book world — at least for fans of the “romantasy” (romance plus fantasy) genre.
Ryan Reynolds Inserts Himself Into the Death by Peloton Narrative
June 2024Ryan Reynolds did it again, damn his eyes. Peloton gets into a little PR kerfuffle, and who is there to profit?
Sammy Sussman Author Archive
June 2024Sammy Sussman is a freelance investigative reporter based in New York. He is a 2023 graduate of the Columbia Journalism School’s Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.
Sarah Silverman - Vulture
June 2024sundance 2015 Jan. 31, 2015 Sarah Silverman on I Smile Back and Shooting Sex Scenes “I’ve never been naked in anything until I turned 40.
Scenes From a MarriageRecap: Its Now or Never
June 2024Scenes from a Marriage Poli Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Scenes from a Marriage Poli Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Is there such a thing as the right way to leave a marriage?
See Colin Farrell Rhapsodize About Tea in This Exclusive Clip From After Yang
June 2024Those who saw After Yang at Cannes or Sundance know it’s a movie that sneaks up on you.
Sex Education TV Episode Recaps & News
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Slow Horses Season-Premiere Recap: Cicada
June 2024Slow Horses Last Stop Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Slow Horses Last Stop Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Considering the events of last season, when the slobs-versus-snobs battle between Slough House and Regents Park escalated to career- and life-threatening treachery, it’s funny to witness the second season of Slow Horses start essentially at square one.
Stark Sisters Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams Have Matching Game of Thrones Tattoos
June 2024Sure, Sansa and Arya Stark weren’t exactly besties the last time they were in the same place, way back in the first season of Game of Thrones, but compared to the Lannister family relations, their bickering and eye-rolling was like, well, child’s play.
Stranger ThingsRecap: Proof of Life
June 2024Stranger Things Vecna’s Curse Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Stranger Things Vecna’s Curse Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Hop is alive,” it says.
The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics
June 2024From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life. Photo: J.
The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This July 4 Weekend
June 2024Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Want more TV and movie picks?
The 18 Smartest Big Bang Theory Episodes
June 2024For 12 seasons, The Big Bang Theory has been allowing us to hang out with a group of geniuses. And while they’ve displayed more than their share of nerdery and goofiness, the TBBT gang has also exposed viewers to plenty of real-world science and of-the-moment scientific discoveries.
The 2023 Emmy Awards Winners
June 2024Congrats! Or sorry that happened to you. There’s been an awards season event every day this past week: first, the rumor-starting Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7; the Mean Girls premiere on Monday; the diet Oscars on the ninth; the rumors being squashed by Wednesday.
The Best Albums of 2022
June 2024The question of how to find peace hung heavily over the year’s most impactful records. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.
The Character Names in The Expendables 3 Are Insane
June 2024On August 15, The Expendables 3, the latest installment of the elderly ensemble action series, muscles its way into theaters.
The Drag Race Revue Queens Best and Worst of Vegas
June 2024Derrick Barry, Yvie Oddly, Naomi Smalls, Asia O’Hara, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Kameron Michaels star in the new RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue.
The Friday Short: Fission
June 2024In our new weekly feature The Friday Short, we curate one unforgettable short film. If Michel Gondry were to direct a street-art Fantasia, it might look something like Fission.
The Guys in Challengers Should Have Switched Names
June 2024Art Donaldson and Patrick Zweig, but it should be Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson. The guys in Challengers are used to switching it up — between backhand and forehand, who’s on top and who’s on bottom (in tennis, pervs!
The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Archie Comics Writer Dan Parent
June 2024This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to Dan Parent, a comic book writer and artist probably best known for his work with Archie Comics.
The Little Mermaid - Vulture
June 2024vulture lists May 25, 2023 The 10 Best Mermaid MoviesMermaids are some of the most Hollywood-friendly mythical creatures, whether they’re “little” or of the “flesh-eating” variety.
The Lord of the Feelings
June 2024One does not simply walk into Mordor without crying 39 times. Weep Week No, you’re crying. You shall not pass (without crying).
The Marsh Puzzle
June 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 Night Agents Ending Keeps the Line Open for a Second Season
June 2024Who you gonna call? Admittedly, “the night agent” doesn’t have the same ring, but Netflix viewers spent 168 million hours last weekend watching square-jawed FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) go on a thrilling adventure after sitting at a desk and waiting for the phone to ring in The Night Agent.
The Serpent Queen Recap: Heading for a Wedding
June 2024The Serpent Queen The Last Joust Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Serpent Queen The Last Joust Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Does anyone like Henry?
The Story of Bennifer, As Told by the Paparazzi Who Chase Them
June 2024America Runs on Ben A handful of stories about our collective obsession with J. Lo’s favorite Bostonian. America Runs on Ben A handful of stories about our collective obsession with J.
The Tudor 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 Vision 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 Walking Dead Recap: Look at the Flowers
June 2024The Walking Dead The Grove Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead The Grove Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » About three-quarters of the way through this episode, it had all the makings of being the worst of the season, if not the entire series.
The Witcher: Blood Origin Recap: I Live, I Die, I Live Again
June 2024The Witcher: Blood Origin Of Warriors, Wakes, and Wondrous Worlds Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Witcher: Blood Origin Of Warriors, Wakes, and Wondrous Worlds Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well … that was a short cliffhanger, wasn’t it?
The Wonderful 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.
Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? A Roger Ebert Quiz
June 2024On the occasion of the documentary Life Itself, we’re paying tribute to the man behind the thumbs with a game: How well can you remember which films Roger Ebert applauded and which he publicly panned?
Trump Mistakenly (?) Introduced Lil Pump As Little Pimp at Rally
June 2024Wait, have these hats gotten uglier in the last four years? No musician is safe from the random word generator that is Donald Trump’s mind and mouth, not even if you make the list of approved celebrities.
Vulture TV - TV News, TV Recaps, Episode Previews and Celebrity Interviews
June 2024Switched on Pop A podcast about the making and meaning of popular music Listen Now ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57069m
Wanted to See No Time to Die? Try These 5 Movies Instead
June 2024Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. In a different reality, we’d 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) and the improbable return of Tom Cruise’s most beloved 1980s hot shot (Top Gun: Maverick).
Watch Casey Wilson Strip in an Ass Backwards Clip
June 2024During the summer of 2010, before she was on Happy Endings, Casey Wilson shot a movie with comedy partner June Diane Raphael called Ass Backwards.
Watch Some Clips from Last Nights Maya & Marty with Tina Fey, Drake, and More
June 2024Maya & Marty’s second episode aired on NBC last night, and in addition to Rudolph, Short, and regular guests Kenan Thompson and Mikey Day, the show also got some special guest appearances from Steve Martin, Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes, Drake, and Tina Fey.
Watching the Sheen-to-Kutcher Transition on Two and a Half Men
June 2024I kept an open mind, I really did. Before watching last night’s episode of Two and a Half Men, I dismissed everything I knew about the show: the boffo ratings, the slimy acting of Charlie Sheen, the “why are you doing this, Duckie?
Way to Ruin Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Human Characters
June 2024Broken glass is a wonderful babysitter. It’s somewhat shocking to discover that this latest Paranormal Activity — the sixth and supposedly final one in the series — is the first to take advantage of 3-D.
Weeds: We Cant Stop Picturing Conrads Ass
June 2024Weeds Stop Picturing Conrad’s Ass Season 3 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Well, it’s smooth and round, with a crack down the middle …”Photo: Courtesy of Showtime
Were in a Silly Song Summer
June 2024In an era of rending horrors, nothing smooths those pesky wrinkles out of your brain like a nonsense bop.
What If We Didnt Know Abigail Was a Vampire Movie?
June 2024Alisha Weir in Abigail. It’s tough when your movie’s premise also happens to be its biggest and best reveal.
What Mystery Restaurant Got Caught Up in the RHONY Reboot Beef?
June 2024The premiere episode of the 14th season of The Real Housewives of New York City may be sporting an entirely new cast, but they are up to the same old petty drama we’ve come to expect.
Where Does Dark Winds Go From Here?
June 2024Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) interpreting “protect and serve” on his own terms is Dark Winds at its most intriguingly subversive.
Which Game of Thrones Board Game Is Right for Your House?
June 2024Game of Thrones just wrapped up its penultimate season, with reports that the final season might not air until 2019.
Why Daveed Diggs Finally Said Yes to Playing Frederick Douglass for The Good Lord Bird
June 2024When we meet the Frederick Douglass of The Good Lord Bird, he’s in front of a crowd of well-heeled ladies, delivering one of his seismic speeches.
Why Theres Never Been a Female Rivalry Like Faith and Buffys
June 2024The best rivalries between female characters are those that start with a spark of friendship and mutual recognition.
Your Guide to the Fleetwood Mac Albums From Before They Were Fleetwood Mac
June 2024When Fleetwood Mac was released in 1975, its success was not immediate. Its path to becoming a colossal record fixed within the pop-music canon took the better part of a year, when, propelled by hits like “Rhiannon,” it would reach number one on the Billboard charts.
A Comprehensive History of Wu-Tang Clans Endless Beefs
June 2024Wu Tang Clan at the filming of their new video in Los Angeles, Ca. 9/18/00.Wu Tang Clan at the filming of their new video in Los Angeles, Ca.
A History of Ariana Grande Playing Her Controversies Like Atari
June 2024If you only listen to Ariana Grande’s music, you’ve barely gotten half the story of her career. Few celebrities have been more shaped by their media narratives over the past decade than the singer and actress.
American Ninja Warrior Recap: The Dog Days
June 2024American Ninja Warrior Indianapolis Finals Season 8 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Ninja Warrior Indianapolis Finals Season 8 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lorin Ball.
Andor Radicalized the Heros Journey
June 2024The series took the world of Star Wars seriously, and in the process found new life within an old text.
Andy Samberg Explains How SNL Made Natalie Portmans Rap Sequel in Three Days
June 2024Natalie Portman. When Vulture interviewed Seth Meyers about the SNL writers’ quest to pick the best Lonely Island digital short a couple years ago, he kept coming back to Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer’s ability to shoot sequels that actually topped their original sketches.
Ben Foster on Orphans, Tattoos, and Replacing Shia LaBeouf
June 2024Ben Foster. Ben Foster has a way of disappearing into roles — from a tightly wound junkie in Alpha Dog to a sweet, mostly silent cop in the upcoming Ain’t Them Bodies Saints — but that wasn’t really an option for his latest high-profile part: taking over for a fired Shia LaBeouf in Lyle Kessler’s Orphans on Broadway.
Bill Russell, NBA Legend and Hall of Famer, Dead at 88
June 2024Bill Russell, NBA Hall of Famer and legendary Boston Celtics defensive player, has died, his family confirmed on Sunday.
Black Mirror Recap: Farmicide
June 2024Black Mirror Loch Henry Season 6 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Black Mirror Loch Henry Season 6 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Black Mirror is a show about technology, but it’s not always a show about the future.
Bob Dylan Has Made His Third Frank Sinatra Covers Album Proof He Really Was Too Busy for the No
June 2024Mystery solved. Because some people just have to do it their way, Bob Dylan has now made three album’s worth of Frank Sinatra covers.
Book Excerpt: Robert Christgau Remembers the Deaths of Lennon, Marley, and Lester Bangs
June 2024In the late 1960s, Robert Christgau helped invent rock criticism. Ever since, he’s been among the country’s best and most influential arts journalists.
Broadway Star Marin Mazzie Dead at 57
June 2024Marin Mazzie. Marin Mazzie, the thrice Tony-nominated star of musicals like Passion, Ragtime, and Kiss Me Kate, died today at 57, according to Playbill.
Capture the Beauty of SAULTs New Album, NINE, While You Can
June 2024Cleo Sol, one of the members of SAULT and the singer on “Bitter Streets.” As of today, there are only 85 days left to stream or purchase NINE, the new and fifth album by the mysterious (and mysteriously prolific) U.
Cardi B Cannot Disclose What Happened in Her Prom Limo
June 2024Jimmy Fallon is back as the third wheel! On The Tonight Show, Fallon and his co-host Cardi B welcomed John Mulaney.
Citadel TV Episode Recaps & News
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Congrats to Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Yeohs No. 1 Fan
June 2024They would make the best nepo babies. Jamie Lee Curtis is having the time of her life this awards season.
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June 2024bloodbaths Sept. 24, 2009 Even Gary Sinise Is Putting the Hurt on Jay Leno These DaysDavid Caruso isn’t the only Crime Scene Investigator to whoop Jay Leno in the ratings, you know.
Dark Matter Recap: The Last 8 Hours
June 2024Dark Matter Worldless Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dark Matter Worldless Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Beware the plague!
Drake Has Apparently Been Keeping Up With the Kardashians
June 2024We had no idea Drake was such a reality-TV fan. The rapper announced in a Thursday Instagram post that he would drop a new single, “Search & Rescue,” at midnight tonight.
Drakes Lyrics Are As Unserious As Ever
June 2024This new Drake is the epitome of a 2020s-era Drizzy drop. For All the Dogs is overlong. A little corny.
Edelstein on RoboCop: The Rare Reboot That Transcends Its Studios Money-Grubbing
June 2024The RoboCop remake is impressively different from the Paul Verhoeven-directed 1987 bloodbath — it fully justifies its existence.
Eight Loving Arms and All Those Suckers.
June 2024In celebration of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary, this series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city’s culture.
Eliza Scanlen Continues Her Streak of Being in Everything by Joining To Kill a Mockingbird
June 2024Eliza, don’t you want to take a nap? Have some water? You’d think that, considering Eliza Scanlen recently appeared as a creepy teen in Sharp Objects and will soon appear as Beth in Little Women (what happens to Beth redacted), she might want to rest for a bit or something, but no, the Australian actress is heading to Broadway.
Everything We Know About Harry Styless Ex-Girlfriend, Based on Fine Line
June 2024Cherry. Harry Styles Taylor Swift–ed his debut album and straight-up named a girl he had only met once in the song “Carolina.
Exclusive: See Enlisteds Parker Young Get Naked for His Craft
June 2024Lena Dunham isn’t TV’s only comic actor willing to bare all for her craft. On Friday night’s episode of Fox’s new military comedy Enlisted, co-star Parker Young was seen virtually in the altogether during one scene, with a strategically placed lantern covering the private’s privates at one point (and a towel later covering them completely).
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June 2024movie review May 17, 2013 Edelstein: Frances Ha Is Sour, With Glimpses of SublimityNoah Baumbach has a hard time letting go of the notion that drama means building to humiliation.
Gen V TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024The main cast of Gen V may comprise entirely of new original characters, but the story is firmly rooted in the world of The Boys.
Gentleman Jack TV Episode Recaps & News
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Ghosts Recap: Whiskey in the Walls
June 2024Ghosts The Liquor License Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ghosts The Liquor License Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’ve been wondering when Ghosts would get back around to showing us Sam and Jay actually making a little money with their bed-and-breakfast endeavor.
Girls5Eva Let Catherine Cohen Revert to Her Tween-age Self
June 2024Girl5Eva’s arrival on Netflix is a boon for fans of weird, girly, fun comedies, a tragically underserved genre that no one is more poised to rock than comedian Catherine Cohen.
Godzilla vs. Kong Is Heart-Stoppingly Stupid But Sporadically Entertaining
June 2024Godzilla vs. Kong. If all you seek are giant monsters punching each other, don’t let me prevent you from seeing the heart-stoppingly stupid but sporadically entertaining Godzilla vs.
Harry Dean Stanton on Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction and His Spotty Movie Memory
June 2024Harry Dean Stanton. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel once famously ruled that no movie featuring Harry Dean Stanton could be entirely bad.
Hear Lana Del Rey Sing Big Spender
June 2024Lana Del Rey LDR’s Shirley Bassey impression is sampled on U.K. rapper Smiler’s mixtape. [ONTD] Hear Lana Del Rey Sing ‘Big Spender’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZ3ytrc2aZJ2dnGK%2FpsWMm6CgZaOlsq%2BwxKtloaydoQ%3D%3D
Hooray! Greta Gerwig Wants to Make Three More Movies About Sacramento
June 2024Gerwig. A24’s movie podcast has arrived, and with it comes a declaration from Lady Bird auteur Greta Gerwig: She wants to make four films about Sacramento.
How a Label Merger, the Existence of U2, and the Rise of Nu Metal Altered the Trajectory of One Band
June 2024Hypothetical scenario: You’re an unsigned and decidedly underdog band that’s been picked up by a major record label. It’s taking a chance on you, offering to roll the dice with the hopes of making you the next big thing.
How Did The Circle Swing Two Spice Girls?
June 2024Circle, message: OMG, can you believe who is entering The Circle? Dancing-woman emoji, dancing-woman emoji, microphone emoji, SEND!
How Never Have I Ever Found Its Teen Heroine
June 2024In Never Have I Ever, the new Netflix show co-created by Mindy Kaling, Devi Vishwakumar is a straight-A student who plays the harp, is an ace at Model U.
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IATSE Has Reached a Tentative New Basic Agreement With AMPTP
June 2024Looks like there’s a chance we won’t get a sequel to the 2023 Hollywood strike this summer. Crew union IATSE has reached a new tentative Basic Agreement with the studios and streamers in the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Inside Sour Patch Kids Brooklyn Crash Pad for Indie Bands
June 2024Deer Tick’s Ian O’Neil. “We turned down a million dollars to make a song for one of the Twilight movies,” says John McCauley, the front man for indie rockers Deer Tick.
It Might Sound Silly, But Ben Afflecks Hitchcock Remake Is a Great Idea
June 2024The 1951 original. Before I begin to defend the notion that Ben Affleck and David Fincher are remaking Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, I’m going to have to ask you to get past the whole now-it’s-on-a-plane thing.
It Was Brad Pitts Nudes, Specifically, That Didnt Impress Shania Twain Much
June 2024Shania has seen it all. Some of the things that don’t impress Shania Twain much are easier to understand than others.
James McAvoy on Trance, Hypnosis, and Pubic Hair
June 2024James McAvoy. Danny Boyle’s latest film, Trance, plummets James McAvoy into the world of art thieves and hypnotism. When his character Simon can’t remember where he placed a valuable art piece after a heist in which he suffered a head injury, he visits a hypnotherapist (Rosario Dawson) to retrieve his lost memory.
Jane Lynch Answers Every Question We Have About The Fugitive
June 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.
Jay Electronicas Long-Awaited Debut Studio Album With Jay-Z, A Written Testimony, Is Finally Here
June 2024Jay Electronica’s debut album, A Written Testimony, which took a decade to finish, has made it to Tidal five full days ahead of schedule.
Jeezy Is Now a Self-Help Guru
June 2024The southern rap renaissance has several architects, but the story can’t be told without mentioning Jeezy, a dealer turned rapper who, along with producer Shawty Redd, innovated trap music and the second wave of coke rap in the early 2000s.
Julia Roberts Watergate Drama Gaslit Lands at Starz, Recasts Armie Hammer
June 2024Julia Roberts. You’ve read All the President’s Men. You’ve seen All the President’s Men. Now, Julia Roberts stars as the woman who took down the president’s men.
Lana Del Rey Cant See Past Herself on Paradise Is Very Fragile
June 2024For years, paradise has been Lana Del Rey’s fascination. It was the focus of her Born to Die follow-up, on which she sang about long car rides, sex, and the ignorant elegance of being American.
Last Night on Late Night: Christina Applegate Cops a Feel of Pauly Ds Hair
June 2024Last night on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Pauly D shares his knowledge of the Italian language when Christina Applegate’s hand suddenly creeps onto the screen, copping a feel of his “stiff,” “porcupine-y” blowout.
Lauren Bacall, 19242014: How a Hollywood Construct Became a Magnetic Screen Presence
June 2024Publicity photo of American actress Lauren Bacall. ca.1945. You don’t forget the first time you saw Lauren Bacall.
Lily Gladstone Supports Killers of the Flower Moons Native Audience
June 2024Lily Gladstone. When Killers of the Flower Moon stormed into theaters late last month, it sparked a conversation about how best to represent the Indigenous nation at the center of the story.
Listen to Big Seans Breakup Anthem Featuring His Ex, Jhen Aiko
June 2024When I was in high school, the two star theater kids broke up in the middle of our production of Anything Goes.
Lockes Tom Hardy Will Trust His Directors Implicitly Until He Doesnt
June 2024Not every actor can go normcore. Wipe off Johnny Depp’s stage makeup, and you’ve got an actor who seems ill at ease in his own skin.
Michael Che Is Better Than This
June 2024Michael Che in Shame the Devil. It’s been five years since Michael Che released a Netflix special. Last time, the vibe was ecstatic: In Michael Che Matters, he bounced excitedly around a thrust stage, dipping his microphone stand like a dancer; a band kept his entrance and exit loud.
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June 2024movie review Aug. 25, 2023 The Flash in a PanThe latest DC movie is the cinematic equivalent of a snake eating its own tail.
Narcoss Wagner Moura on Playing Pablo Escobar and Why He Learned Spanish Before He Got the Part
June 2024In Netflix’s new series Narcos, Wagner Moura plays megalomaniac Medellín drug lord Pablo Escobar, the narco terrorist who organized his competitors into a cartel that took on the Colombian government and, ultimately, the DEA, guided by the philosophy, “Better a grave in Colombia than a cell in the U.
Neal Brennan Explains How He Pitches Black Comedians Jokes with the N-Word
June 2024Neal Brennan Neal Brennan is a white comedian who often works with comedians of color. It’s a fact that shouldn’t be noteworthy, but since such working relationships continue to be a rarity, it is.
One Simple Fix Could Save The Bear
June 2024Copenhagen-ass ceiling. The Bear is a good name for a TV show, but not for a restaurant. Especially not this restaurant.
Pete Davidson Says He Masturbated to Leonardo DiCaprios, Uh, Acting
June 2024Well, the face says it all, doesn’t it? “I’m not attracted to them, I just think they’re talented” is a slippery slope and Pete Davidson is its latest victim.
Real Steel Takes a Beating Against the Heavy Hitters on Vultures Anticipation Index
June 2024Usually, the top of the Anticipation Index — Vulture’s scientific guide to what upcoming entertainment events are getting the most anticipation on Twitter and blogs — is stocked with that weekend’s big opening movies.
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Ryan Gosling Talks Drive, Ides of March, and The Place Beyond the Pines in His Oddball, Ryan Gosling
June 2024After The Notebook made Ryan Gosling Hollywood’s most bankable sex symbol, he went on to do a string of indies, starring as a teacher with a freebasing habit in Half Nelson; a guy romancing a sex doll in Lars and the Real Girl; and a man whose marriage is unraveling in Blue Valentine.
Sarah Silverman on I Smile Back and Shooting Sex Scenes
June 2024If comedy is just a front to hide the darkness within, then Sarah Silverman has fully lifted the veil with her dramatic turn in the positively bleak I Smile Back.
Sarah Silverman: No Longer the Bitchy Friend
June 2024We caught up with Sarah Silverman at the Toronto Film Festival, which she was attending to support her new film Peep World, which co-stars Michael C.
Say Thanks With Trevor Noahs Third Netflix Stand-up Special
June 2024Trevor Noah Trevor Noah is wasting no time kicking off the next chapter of his career. The comedian, who announced recently that he’s ending his tenure as host of The Daily Show on December 8 to the shock of many — most notably correspondent Roy Wood Jr.
Secret Invasion Season-Finale Recap: One-Term President Stuff
June 2024Secret Invasion Home Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Secret Invasion Home Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Last week, Marvel released the newest trailer for The Marvels, the sequel to Captain Marvel, featuring the character Ms.
See the Best Pink-Carpet Looks From the 2023 MTV VMAs
June 2024Well, well, Barbie’s impact. Cardi B and Offset. Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Cardi B and Offset.
See the Charming Sundance Poster for Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
June 2024The pink-shoed brainchild of Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp is going to Sundance, and so we get to look at this lovely artwork.
Seth Meyers Has Some Notes on Ted Cruzs Stand-Up
June 2024“I have a question: what is politics now?” Seth Meyers was deeply confused and troubled by Ted Cruz doing shitty stand-up at Turning Point USA’s America Fest conference.
Sex EducationSeason-Finale Recap: A Rush of Connection
June 2024Sex Education Episode 8 Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sex Education Episode 8 Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One of the biggest joys of Sex Education’s evolution between seasons has been its approach to its ensemble cast.
Shadows and Seams, Both Visible: No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh
June 2024Carmen Zilles and Kellie Overbey in No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh. “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Sharp Objects Recap: Youre Ruined
June 2024Sharp Objects Closer Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sharp Objects Closer Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my struggle with mental health tipped into self-harm.
Shguns Class Clown
June 2024Allow me to recall the precise moment that elevated Cosmo Jarvis’s John Blackthorne into my personal canon of all-time great TV characters.
Something New Under the Sun, a Neo-Noir Set in an Even Thirstier Hollywood
June 2024Alexandra Kleeman. In Something New Under the Sun, the latest novel from Alexandra Kleeman, a starlet finds herself wandering in the California desert, dehydrated and disoriented.
South Park Takes on Washingtons Football Team
June 2024South Park returns for its 18th season on Wednesday, and predictably, we’re in for plenty of jokes about the controversy over the Washington football team’s name.
Southern Hospitality TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024Southern Hospitality, Bravo’s newest Southern Charm spinoff, spotlights a group of young servers, bartenders, and VIP hosts at Leva Bonaparte’s Garden & Lounge, a circle of friends and frenemies who share much more in common than just their workplace.
Suge Knights Run-ins With the Law: A Timeline
June 2024Last week, news came out that Suge Knight, the former CEO and co-founder of Death Row Records, is being investigated in a possible hit-and-run.
Surprise! Bradley Coopers Gay in Valentines Day
June 2024Just last week, we pondered the question “Why is Warner Bros. trying to hide the fact that Kevin Smith directed Cop Out?
Surprisingly Good Ghost Town Continues the Tradition of the Monday Surprise
June 2024Way back in July we dissed the trailer to this past weekend’s Ricky Gervais comedy Ghost Town, begging Gervais to head back to television and saying the movie looked “eye-searingly terrible.
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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.
Taylor Swift Went Full Swiftmas, Surprised a 96-Year-Old Man at His Home With a Visit
June 2024As we lose one icon after another in the remaining days of The Year We Shall Not Name, at least some people are doing a bit of good to remind us this whole human experiment isn’t just some failed endeavor.
Televisions Richard Lloyd Will Teach You How to Play Guitar
June 2024Richard Lloyd performing at CBGB in 1980. See all 59 Reasons Richard Lloyd, by way of credentials, was one of the guitarists on Television’s Marquee Moon (Tom Verlaine was the other), which is just about the best guitar album to come out of the original New York CBGB’s scene.
The 10 Essential News and Politics Podcasts That Shaped the Genre
June 2024Talking about the news with your friends in 2019 can be embarrassing, tedious, and alienating. Discussing political news in particular — whether we’re “weighing in” on the latest Trump scandal or offering some warmed-over, vague analysis of the Democratic race — makes most of us sound like basic jerks, playing at pundits because we want to feel less passive in the face of chaos.
The 1619 Projects Standout Episode Resonates With Infuriating Timeliness
June 2024When “The 1619 Project” was released in the New York Times in 2019, it included an essay from Princeton University sociology professor Dr.
The Before-Its-Time Raunchiness of Slap Shot
June 2024We can do anything we want. We’re college students! –Tagline for Animal House, 1978 So went the battle cry of the Deltas, the “worst” fraternity at Faber College and the anarchic scourge of its campus administration.
The Best Songs of 2022
June 2024This year’s music provided a fleeting and desperately needed moment of salvation. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.
The Breakfast Club Is Officially Over But Just As You Know It
June 2024Angela Yee “The Breakfast Club” co-host Angela Yee tweeted something intriguing on August 9: “The breakfast club as you know it is officially over.
The Continuing Adventures of Grogu, the Artist Formerly Known as Baby Yoda
June 2024It’s baby, back. The first season of The Mandalorian introduced a compelling, powerful new hero into the Star Wars universe.
The Country Boom Is Happening Outside Nashville
June 2024There’s always been something twangy in Jewel’s music. The singer-songwriter’s voice has a yodel-like warble, and a banjo or steel guitar could fit right into her folkier hits like “You Were Meant for Me.
The Crown Recap: Loves Refrain
June 2024The Crown Annus Horribilis Season 5 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown Annus Horribilis Season 5 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The current season of The Crown feels particularly weighty because of present-day proximity — its events exist in the audience’s living memory.
The Fall Guy Might Be Stunted on Opening Weekend
June 2024Post-Barbie, it’s hard to make comparisons of future Ryan Gosling movie opening weekends. It was the highest opening of last year.
The Good Place Recap: The Butterfly Shrimp Effect
June 2024The Good Place The Brainy Bunch Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** The Good Place The Brainy Bunch Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** The Good Place isn’t what anyone would call a hit show; but it has seeped into the popular consciousness, if only because the premise provides such a useful shorthand for describing our shared sense of where we are as a culture.
The Great British Baking Show Recap: Lady Fingers
June 2024The Great British Baking Show Victorian Season 6 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Victorian Season 6 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ian.
The Milly Rock Remains New York Rap Dance Royalty
June 2024Where It Started At: The NY Rap Story Brought to you by Where It Started At: The NY Rap Story Brought to you by New York changed during the summer of 2014, when the budding career of an animated, magnetic 20-year-old by the name of Bobby Shmurda took flight.
The Montreal 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 Office Recap: Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager
June 2024“Dwight doesn’t trust robots to give us our messages.” Sandwiched between a struggling post-Michael Scott episode and a star-packed season finale lies “Dwight K.
The Rise of the Sped-Up Remix
June 2024Music’s hottest new trend is the Chipmunk effect. How did we get here? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: 20th Century Fox, Charlotte Wales, Getty If you’ve opened TikTok recently, you’ve likely scrolled past a video soundtracked by a fresh take on Miguel’s 2010 single “Sure Thing” — the defining moodiness of the original replaced by a jaunty bounce, and Miguel’s voice, once sultry, turned infantile.
The Toughest Scene I Wrote: How The Lego Movies Startling Surprise Twist Worked
June 2024Vulture is speaking to the screenwriters behind 2014’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. Which pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen?
The Walking Dead: Dead City Series-Premiere Recap: Concrete Jungle
June 2024The Walking Dead: Dead City Old Acquaintances Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead: Dead City Old Acquaintances Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » I keep coming back to The Walking Dead.
Theater Review: A Cyrano Without the Nose? Even If He Sings?
June 2024Peter Dinklage in the New Group’s Cyrano. Look, it’s not a bad idea to turn Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac into a musical, especially if you’ve got Peter Dinklage playing the lead.
This Is Us Recap: The Perfect Husband
June 2024This Is Us I Call Marriage Season 1 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us I Call Marriage Season 1 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Milo Ventimiglia as Jack, Mandy Moore as Rebecca.
This Week in Rap: Papoose Returns, Lor Choc Loves, Lucki Gets Frantic, and More
June 2024Papoose. Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases. In this installment: Papoose is still obsessed with obvious metaphors (but it’s not as bad as you think), Lor Choc makes nuanced love rap, Lucki gets heavy about addiction, and Mozzy and Berner unite.
True Blood Recap: Beyond Therapy
June 2024True Blood F… the Pain Away Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » True Blood F… the Pain Away Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Two main things about supernatural soaps: The inherent sexiness of monsters (which, what?
TV Episode Recaps & News
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Twin Peaks Recap: Just You and I
June 2024Twin Peaks Part 13 Season 1 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Twin Peaks Part 13 Season 1 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Never doubt David Lynch.
Um, Is NewJeans Okay?
June 2024NewJeans. Since grabbing the world’s “Attention” with their July 2022 debut, NewJeans — the K-pop group made up of members Hanni, Minji, Haerin, Danielle, and Hyein — has topped the Billboard 200, scored collabs with Apple and Coca-Cola, and inspired some truly … unforgettable covers.
Vanderpump Rules Recap: Holy Maloney
June 2024Vanderpump Rules Forbidden Fruit Season 10 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules Forbidden Fruit Season 10 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have been writing reality-television recaps for the better part of a decade and, in that time, I have seen some shit: Snooki getting punched in the face, the Boat Ride from Hell, and Bimini somehow losing Drag Race UK.
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June 2024sweet birthday babies Sept. 2, 2019 Celebrate Keanu Reeves’s Birthday by Watching Him Eat Cupcakes.Happy birthday, you beautiful Virgo! By Rebecca Alter
We Were a Part of History
June 2024Beyoncé and the Chicks’ audacious CMAs set, and the volatile reaction offstage, as told by its background performers. Photo: Image Group LA/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Beyoncé may forgive, but, as anyone who’s listened to Lemonade knows, she does not forget.
What Does the Use of a Talking Heads Song Say About a Movie?
June 2024The band Talking Heads is no stranger to movie soundtracks. That being said, the use of one of its most popular songs as the title of (and throughout) the new film This Must Be the Place, takes it to another level.
What Will Happen to Movie Guns in Post-Rust Hollywood?
June 2024Calls for bans on functional firearms have been made, but entertainment-industry consensus regarding the abolition of guns on set remains elusive.
When Every Day Is Groundhog Day
June 2024On the first night of previews for Groundhog Daythe musical, as the lights go down, it’s safe to say that most of the audience already knows the story that’s about to unfold.
Who Killed Ben Glenroy on Only Murders in the Building?
June 2024This man sewed hankies by hand for all of his cast and crew. And what does he get?
Why Does The Walks Poster Put the World Trade Center in Midtown?
June 2024On Monday night, I arrived at what turned out to be incredibly early for a screening of The Walk.
Widows Proves Lukas Haas Is the King of the Pussy Posse
June 2024The Last Supper found dead in a ditch! The Pussy Posse, as christened by New York writer Nancy Jo Sales in 1998, takes up an inordinate amount of space in my brain.
Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler: The Ultimate Comedy Team
June 2024Other than a mere year of overlap on Saturday Night Live(which produced one of the greatest sketches of all time, “Short Shorts for the USA”) and mostly isolated screen time in the no-one-knows-what-it-means-but-it’s-provocative Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler have never performed together in a proper two-hander.
Willow and Jaden Smith to Stretch, Play Adorable Siblings Onscreen
June 2024Photo: Getty Images Siblings Smith in Kibuishi’s Amulet: In what scientists around the globe are calling “the cutest thing ever,” siblings Willow and Jaden Smith will appear together in Warners’ Amulet, based on Kazu Kibuishi’s excellent all-ages graphic novel.
Every Outfit Olivia Has Worn on Scandal Season 3
June 2024slideshow October 28, 2014 3:30 pm By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet 84 Photos Photo: Ron Tom/ABC Olivia Pope is many things.
16 Kids Shows That Are Actually Great
June 2024This story was originally published on December 18, 2019. It has been updated to include more shows just in time for those long, school-free days of summer.
21 Essential Be Gay, Do Crime Movies
June 2024When it feels like the world’s against you, you’ve got to rise up and take action. That’s something queer people have been doing in cinema since the beginning: kicking ass, doing crime, and shaking up a society that feels built to discard them.
3 10 To Yuma - Vulture
June 2024leak of the week Jan. 2, 2008 Oscar Screeners Leak Online, Pirates Saved a Trip to the Movie TheaterIf by some crazy chance you’d like to watch excellent brand-new movies for free in the privacy of your own home while other chumps trek all the way to the theater to pay for them, you’re in luck!
5.6 Million People Got High and Watched Bob Rosss The Joy of Painting on Twitch, So Now Its He
June 2024Bob Ross. Twenty years after his death, 5.6 million people watched Bob Ross’s The Joy of Painting on Twitch last week.
6 Times Steely Dan Nearly Crushed Famous Musicians Morale
June 2024Listening to pretty much any Steely Dan song can best be described as swaddling into a virtuosic sonic cocoon, welcoming a dozen-plus instrumentalists to take you on an unforgettable journey of rock bliss.
60 Great Albums You Probably Havent Heard
June 2024Who needs new music? In this week’s issue of the magazine, our critics show us what’s in their personal collections of old culture, much of it you might’ve missed.
A Celebration of Neighbors Seth Rogen, Back-Hair Pioneer
June 2024At one point in Neighbors, we see Seth Rogen’s character having sex with his wife (Rose Byrne) on their living-room couch.
A Complete Track-by-Track Timeline of Drake and Kendrick Lamars Feud
June 2024Drake. As you may have heard, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are in the throes of an intense (and seemingly never-ending) rap battle.
A Festivalgoers Guide to the Real Cannes
June 2024Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie leaving restaurant Tetou in 2011. Cannes, the beachside town on the French Riviera, is not just a backdrop for yacht selfies.
A Highly Condensed Recap of You, Season Three
June 2024It’s been over a year since we have huddled together inside the human aquarium of Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), deep in the basement of his wife’s bakery, pondering the lengths to which any (in)sane person would go for True Love™.
A Load Of Hooey - Vulture
June 2024A Load Of Hooey - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Oct. 30, 2014 Bob Odenkirk Reads an Excerpt from ‘A Load of Hooey’ on ‘Conan’Bob Odenkirk is currently on tour promoting his new book A Load of Hooey, and he stopped by last night’s Conan to do a live reading as a […] By Megh Wright
A Regal, Repugnant Jude Law Almost Saves Firebrand
June 2024By most accounts, Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, was a well-educated and independent-minded woman who published books of translation and occasionally ran afoul of the king’s more distrustful toadies.
A Rooftop Artists Salon
June 2024Figure drawing alfresco. Clockwise, from left: Anastasiya Tarasenko, David Humphrey, Anna Park, Anna Weyant, Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, Daphne Always, Rebecca Chamberlain, Ryan McGinness, Will Cotton, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Guy Richards Smit, Steve Mumford, Inka Essenhigh, and Hilary Harkness.
A TikTok Gift Guide (But Its Just This Cursed Twilight Bumper Sticker)
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!
A Wellies-Free Review of Glastonbury 2022
June 2024Here in Britain, it feels like the ’70s again. Last week, Kate Bush topped the charts, while train workers went on strike for fairer wages and temperatures soared to numbers that almost reached 1976’s brutal June heat wave.
Al Pacino on His Legendary Roles
June 2024It’s tempting to call him “the inimitable Al Pacino,” although he is the most imitated actor in the world.
All the Days in One Day
June 2024Let’s track all the days in Emma and Dex’s winding, gorgeous, frustrating, and heart-wrenching love story, shall we? Spoilers follow for the Netflix series One Day, including the ending.
Amy Schneider Is Your Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions Champion
June 2024Quiz Queen! Quizeen! This year is coming to a close exactly how it began: Showering trivia legend Amy Schneider with heaps of money and praise.
Ana de Armas Tells Jimmy Fallon That Jar Jar Binks Is a Murderer
June 2024What do Michael Myers from Halloween, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, and Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars have in common?
Bad Bleep Addison Rae Releases Her Lost Album
June 2024Addison Rae. Sound the “Renegade” alarm. The pop genre was given mouth to mouth, taught a TikTok dance, and revived on August 18 when Addison Rae released new music for the first time in over two years.
Baz Luhrmann Is the Stanley Kubrick of Confetti
June 2024The Elvis director’s opulent movies aren’t for everyone, and he’s okay with that. “You’re coming with us or you’re not,” Baz Luhrmann says of his movies.
Beer, Guns, and Rusty Chevrolets: The Comedy Music of the Upper Midwest
June 2024Comedy music already occupies its own little segregated neighborhood – elitists might say a ghetto – within the larger music community.
Behold the Indie K-pop Star
June 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.
Beyoncs New Country Songs Are Plain Ol Fun
June 2024We knew about Beyoncé’s three-act plan for Renaissance before the first installment landed, when she shared a message revealing her intention to release a triple album and Variety published a whisper from a source who said one segment would focus on country music.
Bones/Sleepy Hollow Recap: Crossover to the Dork Side
June 2024Sleepy Hollow The Resurrection in the Remains/Dead Men Tell No Tales Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sleepy Hollow The Resurrection in the Remains/Dead Men Tell No Tales Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » From left: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, and guest stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz from Bones.
Brains Explode As Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip Cover Vampire Weekend
June 2024Kehinde Wiley’s The Virgin Martyr St. Cecilia (2008). Yes, this Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip cover of Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” features Gabriel name-checking himself.
Brittany Runs a MarathonIs a Conflicted Go-for-It Movie
June 2024The story of a 28-year-old woman whose doctor tells her to lose 50 pounds, and who takes up running and decides to train for the New York Marathon in response, Brittany Runs a Marathon is one of the most conflicted go-for-it movies ever made.
Danny Trejo on Machete Kills, Randomly Meeting Clint Eastwood, and His Problem With Oz
June 2024Danny Trejo. Danny Trejo graduated from being an indelible tough character actor to a bona fide leading man with the 2010 action comedy Machete.
David Lee Roth: The Conundrum of a Formerly Flamboyant Front Man in His Fifties
June 2024David Lee Roth of Van Halen performs during their “A Different Kind of Truth” tour I was in high school when Van Halen was at its most powerful, and at 15, there was no cooler hard-rock front man than David Lee Roth.
Did Taylor Swift Rip Off Lorde and Lana Del Rey?
June 2024Much — too much? — has been made about the late-’80s influence on Taylor Swift’s self-proclaimed first pure pop album 1989, but on my first few listens, I detect two more modern shadows looming large: those of current pop-paradigm-shifters Lorde and Lana Del Rey.
Emily in Paris Recap: Mixing Business With Pleasure
June 2024Emily In Paris Scents & Sensibility Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily In Paris Scents & Sensibility Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily’s curls are hair-sprayed to the hilt to watch Alfie and Gabriel play soccer.
Every Cher Movie Performance, Ranked
June 2024God, there’s just something about watching Cher knock men down a peg. She just turned 75, and it still hasn’t gotten old.
Fleishman Is in Trouble Does What the Book Couldnt Do
June 2024There’s a well-worn adage that says the book is always better than the movie (or TV show). That adage is incorrect.
For Your Consideration Ads: A Readers Guide to Oscar-Season Variety
June 2024Every winter, Variety — Hollywood’s trade mag of record — does boffo biz in For Your Consideration ads, the studios’ glossy attempts to convince Oscar voters, Guild members, and Hollywood at large to consider their awards hopefuls at voting time.
Forget Zodiac Signs, Whats Your Favorite Taylor Swift Lyric?
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!
Freaks and Geeks Walks Into Splintered Sunlight
June 2024Freaks and Geeks Discos and Dragons Season 1 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Freaks and Geeks Discos and Dragons Season 1 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » In honor of Freaks and Geeks’ long-awaited return to streaming on Hulu, Vulture is revisiting every episode, one at a time, to see what made this one-of-a-kind high-school series tick.
Friends Countdown: The Definitive Ranking of the Friends Parents
June 2024FRIENDS – “The One After Ross Says Rachel” Episode 1 – Pictured: (l-r) Elliott Gould as Jack Geller, Christina Pickles as Judy Geller, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller – Photo by: J.
Give Dua Lipa a Good Reason Not to Ghost You
June 2024Watch her dance … dance the night away. On November 9, Dua Lipa dropped a choreography-heavy music video for her latest single, “Houdini.
Horrible Bosses Review Round-Up: Like 9-To-5, But With Even More Golden Shower Jokes
June 2024Adam, don’t read this post! Okay, guys, just let me know if anyone wants to go see Horrible Bosses with me; I’m hoping it’ll have some good tips.
House of the Dragon Scorecard: Crown Roast
June 2024That’s a whoopsie. The House of the Dragon Scorecard is an accounting of the events of this week’s episode, in which points are awarded to characters on a scale of 0 to 10.
How Classic Man, One of the Best Music Cues of the Year, Ended Up in Moonlight
June 2024André Holland as Kevin, and Trevante Rhodes as Black. In the second-to-last scene of Moonlight, the lead character takes a car ride with the man he loves.
How Does Mean Girls the Musical Compare to the Original Movie at the Box Office?
June 2024You wanna do something fun? Do you want to read this weekend’s box office? The Mean Girls musical has given us the second pink theater invasion in the past 12 months, even if it’s not a Wednesday.
How the West Was Digitized
June 2024The making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2. Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available October 26. Photo: Courtesy of Rockstar Games Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available October 26.
How You Transformed Penn Badgley Into a Creepy Dreamboat
June 2024Somewhere between watching Joe Goldberg stalk his crush around New York City, surreptitiously masturbate on her doorstep, and commit increasingly bonkers acts of violence to win her love, the viewer of You comes to an uncomfortable realization: This guy is a megacreep … but he’s also pretty hot?
I Dont Know How My Show Is Doing
June 2024Streamers run on data, but that doesn’t mean they’re sharing it with showrunners. Vulture’s Anonymous in Hollywood asks people to share their most unbelievable, tragic, common, hilarious reflections on the industry, no names attached.
Im Trying to Ramp Up the Contradictions in Peoples Lives
June 2024Boots Riley wants a conversation, and I’m a Virgo is just the start. Photo: Courtesy of Prime Video Photo: Courtesy of Prime Video The fact that filmmaker Boots Riley’s new TV series I’m a Virgo is a Prime Video project may seem incongruous.
In Priscilla, Shes the Girl Who Has Everything Except Actual Power
June 2024Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla. This review was originally published on November 2. We are recirculating it now timed to Priscilla’s digital release.
Inventing Anna Recap: Someone Needs a Chill Pill in Ibiza
June 2024Inventing Anna The Devil Wore Anna Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Inventing Anna The Devil Wore Anna Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The second episode of Inventing Anna finds Vivian rolling full steam ahead with her story, interviewing Anna (in the private room for media visits, a.
Invincible Recap: Suspicious Minds
June 2024Invincible Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Invincible Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff, and I’m the only one of us who can’t fly.
Its the End of Top Chef As We Know It
June 2024Over 20 seasons of Top Chef, which debuted slightly over a year after Project Runway brought glossy reality prestige to Bravo, we’ve watched the competition series transform.
James Corden Says a Musical Good-bye to The Late Late Show
June 2024After eight years on the air, James Corden waved his final good night last night from behind his desk at The Late Late Show.
James Marsden Is One of the Best Actors of His Generation. Why Hasnt Hollywood Noticed?
June 2024Throughout his career, James Marsden has made losing into an art form. On HBO’s Westworld, which aired its season-one finale Sunday night, he plays one of the show’s few morally grounded characters, the upstanding gunslinger Teddy Flood whose primary motivation is his romance with girl-next-door Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood).
Jay-Z Kills Auto-Tune; T-Pain Picks Worst Possible Weekend to Buy Big-Ass Chain
June 2024By decree of the Jiggaman, Auto-Tune is dead! On Friday night, Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex premiered the first street single from Jay-Z’s upcoming Blueprint 3, “D.
Jeremy Renner Looks Recovery in the (Hawk)Eye in Diane Sawyer Interview
June 2024The story of Jeremy Renner’s injuries is a far cry from those of the superheroes who seem to be able to fall down a building, get shot and stabbed, and still get back up.
John Mayer Quit Drinking After a 6-Day Hangover From Drakes 30th Birthday Party
June 2024Mayer. John Mayer is a changed man. In addition to being marginally less of a dick, according to him, Mayer has also been sober for two years, indirectly because of Drake.
Jonathan Groff Doesnt Think Hes Hot Enough for a Broadway Version of Frozen
June 2024Jonathan Groff. The big-screen sequel to Frozen is still a ways away, but that hasn’t stopped Disney from pumping the property wherever it can: Last Sunday’s season finale of Once Upon a Time (broadcast on Disney-owned ABC) even ended with the introduction of Elsa, and the show’s producers promise the ice queen will be a prominent character next season.
Kindred Recap: Temperance
June 2024Kindred Temperance Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kindred Temperance Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The indoctrination that makes white supremacist thought and politics in America was more severe and violent in the 18th century than today (an abolitionist ideology could cost your life), though it still persists undeniably.
Lana Del Reys Season of the Witch Cover Injects Some Cali Sun Into Scary Stories Trailer
June 2024It’s her, your little Venice witch. Does Lana del Rey’s dreamy cover of Donovan’s 1966 hit “Season of the Witch” for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark make a ton of tonal sense with the film?
Lets Talk About the Ending of Personal Shopper
June 2024Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper. If you’ve seen Personal Shopper, French director Olivier Assayas’s second collaboration with Kristen Stewart, then you know it concedes on the issue of ghosts fairly early.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings The Magic School Bus Theme Song
June 2024While no other bus-themed song will likely rival the jam that is “Magic Bus” by the Who, who in their right mind wouldn’t get up and groove to a Lin-Manuel Miranda version of The Magic School Bus theme song?
Luke Cages Take on Anti-Black Police Violence Is a Little Confusing
June 2024Still from Marvel’s Luke Cage. Global super-brand Marvel has a long history of awkwardly addressing zeitgeist-y sociopolitical flashpoints. In the near-apocalyptically tense year of 1968, co-writers Stan Lee and Jack Kirby took on countercultural protest by having Thor tell a bunch of hippies to stop lazing around and fight for change within the system.
MacGyver Recap: I Blame MacGruber
June 2024MacGyver Metal Saw Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » MacGyver Metal Saw Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Lucas Till as Macgyver.
Magic Mike Hires CSI: Miamis Adam Rodriguez
June 2024Magic Mike, you’ve already given us Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and some girls. Who do you have for us today?
Mario Lopez Wants to Find Our Next Heartthrobs With New Menudo Series
June 2024Menudo in 1988, featuring a young Ricky Martin. Move over New Kids on the Block, BTS, and One Direction — one of the originals is coming back.
Meecham Whitson Meriweather Author Archive
June 2024Meecham Whitson Meriweather has been covering celebrity, culture, fashion, and entertainment for Vulture since 2022. His work has also appeared in Granta, InStyle (most recently profiling the Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph) and his Substack newsletter Now That I Mention It.
Mmm Real Duff Beer From The Simpsons
June 2024Duff Beer, Homer Simpson’s brain killer of choice, is one of the most iconic fictitious beers in pop-culture history. For years brewers have been trying to capitalize on the beer’s fame and appeal, only to be shut down by 21st Century Fox lawyers.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Recap: The Power of the Work
June 2024Mr. and Mrs. Smith Couples Therapy (Naked & Afraid) Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mr.
My Spirit Left My Body Watching ThisGinny & GeorgiaScene
June 2024The inherent gall of social media is its ability to take something whole and break it up into tiny unrecognizable pieces.
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica 10 Years Later: How Have Other TV Reality Couples Fared?
June 2024Happy ten-year anniversary, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. It’s been a full decade since MTV took us inside the insipid lives of Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson; the August 19 pilot gave us “chicken of the sea,” and from then on there was no looking back.
Parks and Recreations the Cones of Dunshire Board Game, an Oral History
June 2024PARKS AND RECREATION – “The Cones of Dunshire” Episode 609 – Pictured: – (Photo by: Colleen Hayes/NBC) This post originally ran in December 2013.
Paula Mejia Author Archive
June 2024a new chapter June 7, 2024 Power Trip Spreads the GospelFour years after longtime front man Riley Gale’s death, the band needed a new way forward.
Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for The New Yorker, Dead at 80
June 2024Peter Schjeldahl. Peter Schjeldahl, an art critic for The New Yorker since 1998, is dead at age 80.
Piper Perabo on Reasons to Be Pretty, E-mailing Neil LaBute, and Living at the Y
June 2024Photo: Getty Images It’s been eight years since Piper Perabo shimmied onto the radar with her breakout performance in Coyote Ugly, and since then, her career has focused on romantic comedies (Because I Said So, Cheaper by the Dozen, Imagine You & Me).
Plcido Domingo Exits Met Opera Amid Sexual-Harassment Accusations
June 2024After more than a dozen women accused famed Spanish opera singer and conductor Plácido Domingo of various forms of sexual harassment, he has officially departed the Metropolitan Opera and ceased future involvement.
Sad: Lana Del Rey Says Fewer Than 20 Words on Midnights
June 2024Besties. When it was first announced, via Taylor Swift’s TikTok, that Midnights’ track-four “Snow on the Beach” was going to feature Lana Del Rey, gay gasps echoed across the land (on Twitter).
See the Gorgeous, Gruesome Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds
June 2024A handful of artists made their own Inglourious Basterds posters, and the results are really something else. [UnrealityMag] See the Gorgeous, Gruesome Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgZ3y0scSYq6Gdj5y8s7PEqKysl5enwqa%2FzqacmKSfqMFvtNOmow%3D%3D
Seeso Announces Summer Premiere Dates for HarmonQuest, TheresJohnny!, and More
June 2024Seeso just announced a round of summer premiere dates, including season 2 of Dan Harmon’s HarmonQuest, Paul Reiser’s Tonight Show-set series There’s…Johnny!
Sex Education Recap: Im Not Laughing
June 2024Sex Education Episode 4 Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sex Education Episode 4 Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sex Education is one of the most fun shows on TV, but it has never shied away from tough subjects.
Shadow and Bone Season-Finale Recap: A Tale of Two Boats
June 2024Shadow and Bone No Mourners Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Shadow and Bone No Mourners Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » From the moment the creators of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone adaptation made the decision to toss the Crows into Alina Starkov’s story, two facts were going to be undeniable.
Snowfalls Angela Lewis Pitched Louies Villain Turn
June 2024For most of Snowfall’s run, Louie remained a loyal member of the Family. Quick to wield a gun and down to get what she’s owed by any means necessary, Louie was vital to the Family but always remained on the series’ periphery.
Spotify Wrapped 2021: Our Top Questions
June 2024’Tis the season — and no, we’re not talking about for holiday music (which we’ve already been listening to for days, if not weeks).
Steven Soderbergh Went on a Cruise With Meryl Streep and Made a Pretty Good Movie
June 2024Lucas Hedges and Meryl Streep in Let Them All Talk. It appears that, in August of 2019, Steven Soderbergh used a movie as an excuse to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary II with Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, and Candice Bergen, and, honestly, we must respect the man’s hustle.
Sundance Review: Ira Sachss Big-Hearted Little Men Captures Life in Modern New York
June 2024If Martin Scorsese was the quintessential auteur of New York in the 1970s and ’80s — with its wise guys and street toughs — and Spike Lee that of New York in the late ’80s and ’90s — with its Balkanized enclaves and attitudes — then Ira Sachs is gradually becoming the quintessential auteur of today’s New York — the one of class inequality, and of relationships transformed by the changing city around them.
Swarm Recap: Forbidden Fruit
June 2024Swarm Taste/Running Scared Season 1 Episodes 3 - 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Swarm Taste/Running Scared Season 1 Episodes 3 - 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Ni’Jah is a queen.
SZA and LaKeith Stanfield Shoot Up the Shirt Music Video
June 2024Congratulations, SZA fans. “Shirt” has graduated from an unreleased snippet that went viral on TikTok to an official single with a music video.
Tamron Hall Looks Back On Losing the Today Show: They Wanted Something That Wasnt Me
June 2024In the run-up to the premiere of her new day time talk show, Tamron Hall is looking back at her departure from NBC after her Today hour with Al Roker was yanked in lieu of Megyn Kelly’s now-defunct morning show.
That Face, Those Eyes: Omar Sharifs Journey to International Superstardom
June 2024Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, 9th July 1969. (Photo by David Cairns/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the lyrical 1954 melodrama Struggle in the Valley (also called The Blazing Sky), his first starring role, Omar Sharif plays a young, college-educated peasant who finds himself warring with a local Pasha, the father of the woman he loves (played by Faten Hamama, whom the actor married).
The 10 Essential Psych Episodes to Watch on Amazon Prime
June 2024Readers, don’t be the “iiiiit” in “wait for iiiiit” or the one game at Chuck E. Cheese that isn’t broken.
The 14 Best Cooperative Board Games
June 2024If you’ve played a board game at some point in your life, it was probably a competitive one — you played for yourself, against other people, and your goal was to win, possibly with a dash of humiliation involved depending on your opponents.
The 32 Best Pop Albums of 2014
June 2024This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics’ year-end lists. 1. Frankie Cosmos, Zentropy Modern life is a shouting match. This isn’t exactly news, of course, but something about 2014 felt like a breaking point — the year society’s collective caps-lock button got jammed.
The Alligator Lounge Is a Nathan Fielder Bar Now
June 2024The Alligator Lounge replica in The Rehearsal. Brooklyn’s Alligator Lounge isn’t exactly bustling on a Monday night at 7:45.
The Baby-Sitters ClubRecap: The Thing About Life
June 2024The Baby-Sitters Club Claudia and the Sad Goodbye Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Baby-Sitters Club Claudia and the Sad Goodbye Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I … what?
The Best Man Holiday: What Questions Have We Had for the Past Fourteen Years?
June 2024BEST MAN, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, 1999 The Best Man Holiday, the sequel to 1999’s beloved dramedy The Best Man, is out this weekend, and it’s a Big Deal for those of us who have been waiting fourteen years to learn what happened to the film’s wonderful characters.
The Best Video Games of 2024 (So Far)
June 2024This list is updated monthly with new Best of the Year–worthy titles. How does the video-game industry follow up 2023, a year that went down in history as one of the best ever for actual releases and one of the worst ever for its thousands of laid-off workers?
The Best Witchy Comic Youre Not Reading
June 2024In a diner nestled somewhere in Portsmouth, a town in the Pacific Northwest, Detective Rowan Black walks into a trap.
The Eras Tour: A Timeline
June 2024What a year it was to be a Taylor Swift fan. From the releases of Speak Now and 1989 (Taylor’s Versions) with all their vault songs, to the surprise rebirth of 2019’s “Cruel Summer,” to the October debut of the highest-grossing concert film of all time, barely a day went by in 2023 that didn’t send Swifties (and the U.
The First and Last Appearances of Game of Thrones Most Memorable Characters
June 2024All men must die, except for the handful of lucky Game of Thrones characters who made it through to the bitter end.
The Hardest Elena Ferrante Lines Ive Translated
June 2024My Brilliant Friend. Ann Goldstein translates Elena Ferrante’s books from Italian into English, but she has never read the author’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels all the way through.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter Is a Delightfully Nasty Piece of Work
June 2024Thick atmosphere and a gleeful mean streak make up for a premise with a foregone conclusion in The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
The Morning Show Recap: Lets Duet
June 2024The Morning Show No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Morning Show No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Don’t you ever, ever question Alex’s integrity in her own house again.
The Sex Lives of College Girls TV Episode Recaps & News
June 2024Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble go back to school for this acclaimed teen comedy-drama on HBO Max. Kimberly, Bela, Leighton, and Whitney are freshman at the fictional Essex College in Vermont, and together they need to survive four years of school, with all the ups, downs, and drama that entails.
The White Lotus: What Is Ethan Doing on his Computer?
June 2024One episode in, and the vacationing couples in season two of The White Lotus are already clearly delineated.
Theater Review: Sarah Ruhl Gets Into Polyamory, Maaan
June 2024From Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, at Lincoln Center. Typically, Sarah Ruhl’s plays sound like your smartest friend stoned.
Theater Review: The Old-Fashioned Emotional Play of The Winslow Boy
June 2024When Alessandro Nivola flaps onto the scene, beady and batlike in a big black Inverness coat, the temperature of The Winslow Boy immediately rises.
They Came Together Will Make You Love Rom-Coms Again
June 2024It’s not so much that the world needs yet another spoof of romantic comedies. Whether it’s through direct parodies like Date Movie, or through reinventions like The 40 Year-Old Virgin, the genre has had enough holes poked in it over the years.
This Jennifer Lopez and Katy Perry Bathroom Video Is 15 Seconds of Pure Awkwardness
June 2024Katy Perry being a hamburger and Jennifer Lopez walking in on her in the bathroom at the #metgala will forever be iconic pic.
This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Call Chelsea Peretti Returns
June 2024Chelsea Peretti. 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.
Tim Robinsons Furniture Commercial Goes Horribly Wrong at The Second City in 2011
June 2024Welcome to The Second City Archives, in which we post an exclusive clip each week of some of comedy’s biggest superstars performing early in their careers on the legendary Chicago stage.
Ugly Betty: Lights Out
June 2024Ugly Betty Blackout! Season 4 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ugly Betty’s plotlines this season veer from the outrageously cartoonish (Daniel Meade joins a cult; Betty dresses like a giant hot dog) to the grittily real (Justin Suarez battles homophobia at school; Claire Meade tracks down her lost son).
Understanding Miles Davis, in 9 Parts
June 2024When Miles Ahead, directed by and starring Don Cheadle, premieres at the New York Film Festival in October, it’ll mark the first time that the jazz genius Miles Davis has been the subject of a non-documentary film.
We Are Who We Are Recap: Soldier of Love
June 2024We Are Who We Are Right Here Right Now IV Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We Are Who We Are Right Here Right Now IV Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A line like, “Hey guys, where’s my underwear?
Were Taking Sheryl Crow for Granted
June 2024Sheryl Crow, performing in 1997. In the winter of 2019, Sheryl Crow dropped by RCA Studio A in Nashville to record background vocals and bass lines for the debut album of the Highwomen, the feminist country supergroup made up of her friends Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby.
What Has Shark Tank Taught Its Sharks After a Decade of Deal-making?
June 2024ABC’s Shark Tank has been reliably great reality TV ever since its recession-defying debut in 2009. It’s real money and even realer stakes, but most importantly, it’s a reminder that the American dream is alive and thriving — after all, the next Scrub Daddy scion could be you!
What Its Like to Work With Madonna on a Movie Set
June 2024“I just don’t think people are comfortable with me doing well in other areas besides music,” Madonna told Matt Lauer when he asked her about the misadventure of Swept Away.
Why Is Everyone Arguing About the Novel American Dirt?
June 2024American Dirt was released on January 21, 2020. On January 21, Oprah Winfrey announced her latest Oprah’s Book Club pick, the new novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.
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June 2024appreciations Sept. 2, 2021 Watching Tony Leung Gets Us All in the MoodAmerican audiences will soon learn why it’s hard not to fall in love with the Hong Kong superstar.
Join Us on This Photo Tour of Tina Feys Many Hairdos
June 2024haircuts March 21, 2013 11:15 am By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 42 Photos Photo: Hubert Boesl/Corbis Tina Fey has defined contemporary comedy for the last fifteen years, from her time as SNL’s head writer and “Weekend Update” co-anchor on through Mean Girls, 30 Rock, and Bossypants.
9/11 Survivor Schandra Singh on Painting Everyone Who Died That Day
June 2024Fifteen years ago, the artist Schandra Singh was living just south of the World Trade Center. She lost almost everything she owned on September 11 — her apartment was blanketed in drifts of toxic soot — and very nearly her life.
L.A. Law Might Be Getting a 2017 Reboot
June 2024Long before How to Get Away With Murder or even Ally McBeal made practicing law sexy (and even a little dangerous), NBC’s 1980s megahit L.
10 Brutally Honest Anecdotes in Katie Courics Memoir Going There
June 2024Katie Couric was America’s sweetheart for 15 years starring as the co-host of NBC’s Today show, so you know she has the dirt.
9 Great World War II Shows You Can Stream Right Now
June 2024Clockwise from top left: Catch 22, Band of Brothers, World on Fire, Hogan’s Heroes. From the earliest days of World War II, filmmakers from around the globe were churning out entertainment centered around the conflict.
A Party, a Spanking, a Radio Play
June 2024The past came looking for Killers of the Flower Moon in its three most ambitious scenes. Photo: Apple TV+ Photo: Apple TV+ When production designer Jack Fisk was in art school, he spent two summers with no electricity or running water in a friend’s small house in Vermont.
Adam Wingard to Direct Godzilla vs. Kong
June 2024Adam Wingard. Fede Alvarezis reviving the Millennium franchise for Sony. Jordan Peele has signed a development deal with Blumhouse and Universal to develop a broad array of projects.
All the New Protest and Benefit Music Released in Response to Police Brutality
June 2024cupcakKe, Gunna, and Kamasi Washington. Throughout American history, protest has been channeled through music, from the folk of the ’60s to the hip-hop of the ’80s and ’90s.
All the Ways to Watch, Stream, and Listen to Super Bowl 2024
June 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. He’ll be there. If you clicked on this post it probably means you’re looking for one piece of information, and we’re here to provide: The easiest way to watch this weekend’s Super Bowl is probably streaming it on Paramount+ or via a cable broadcast.
Ally Sheedy on Her Experiences With Hollywood Sexism and Why It Will Never Change
June 2024The following essay is entitled “Stasis” and was written by actress Ally Sheedy. It is an excerpt from the new collection Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay.
And Just Like That Casts an O.C. Hunk
June 2024Marshall-Green. And Just Like That … has big discourse shoes to fill in season three. The upcoming season of the Sex and the City follow-up is already revealed to be Che Diaz–less, which means that the show will have to find some new blood that can cause a commotion.
Barry Recap: A Sympathetic Soul
June 2024Barry a nice meal Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Barry a nice meal Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Can people change?
Below Deck Recap: The Florida Project
June 2024Below Deck Smashton Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Smashton Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, it only took seven episodes but Below Deck season seven has finally hit its stride.
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June 2024barclays center Nov. 11, 2012 Jay-Z and Coldplay Will Ring in the New Year in BrooklynAs co-headliners. By Zach Dionne
Can Spotify and AncestryDNA Really Tell You About Yourself Through a Playlist?
June 2024Two weeks ago, AncestryDNA and the popular music-streaming service Spotify unveiled a service that promised to use your very own genetic material to build a personalized playlist.
Can You Tell Which Paul Rudd Is Older? (We Doubt It)
June 2024This quiz originally ran in March 2013. Today, April 6, 2019, Paul Rudd turns 50 years old. 50!
Casey Wilson and Her Adult Diaper Won Late Night This Week
June 2024So … did anyone have a genuinely “good” week? Between the onslaught of all things Super Tuesday and coronavirus threatening to cancel literally every fun thing you maybe wanted to do this spring, we had a rough go of it this week as a nation.
Christopher McDonald Answers Every Question We Have About Happy Gilmore
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.
Comedy Centrals Reno 911! Finally Announces Quibi Release Date
June 2024They’re back! One of Comedy Central’s silliest shows ever is being resurrected … but not on Comedy Central.
Country-Music Legend Charley Pride Is Dead at 86
June 2024Pride at the 2020 CMAs. Pioneering country singer Charley Pride, who paved the way for Black artists in America’s historically exclusionary country-music institutions, is dead at 86 due to complications from the coronavirus.
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June 2024Sept. 4, 2012 My Heroes, Daydreamt, by Daniel MoraffELEANOR ROOSEVELT: It’s midnight at the temporary UN headquarters on Long Island.
Dark Towers Redemption
June 2024How a legendary board-game failure became a thoroughly modern hit. “If I’d given a talk five years ago about what not to do in a game,” says game designer and Restoration Games co-founder Rob Daviau, “Return to Dark Tower checks every box.
Death Comes to the Reunion in The Comeuppance
June 2024From The Comeuppance, at the Signature Centre. Three years of solitary writing time turns out to be productive.
Decoding Those Lingering Jay Z Illuminati Rumors
June 2024In his rollicking, insightful new book Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, author Peter Bebergal delves deep into the weird connections between popular music and the occult, and how the former has so often utilized the mystique of the latter.
Dirty John Recap: Smoothie Operator
June 2024Dirty John Red Flags and Parades Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dirty John Red Flags and Parades Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » While the first episode of Dirty John was enjoyable, its movie-of-the-week sensibility couldn’t be denied.
Disney World Updates Coronavirus Regulations to Ban Eating and Walking
June 2024Like the Blue Fairy told Pinocchio, always let your conscience be your guide. Unless your conscience is telling you to chow down while walking maskless through an amusement park right now, in which case, that voice is maybe not working in your best interest.
Drakes More Life Is His Best Release in Years
June 2024Views was Drake’s Carter IV, a long-simmering passion project that came out as overcooked as you’d expect after a two-year wait; it was a critical toe-stub too commercially successful to be called a flop.
Edward R. Pressman, Indie Producer Behind American Psycho, Dead at 79
June 2024Edward Pressman. Edward R. Pressman, producer of independent films and an architect of new talent, died at 79 on January 17, according to a press release.
Eleven Things We Learned From Jerry Seinfelds New York Times Profile
June 2024What’s the deal with the eight-page New York Times profile of Jerry Seinfeld? Beyond the standard stuff about how Seinfeld still does stand-up very often and like cars a lot, there are plenty of fun facts — eleven to be exact.
Eugene Levy on American Reunion, Getting Pervy With Jennifer Coolidge, and Those Eyebrows
June 2024Eugene Levy. As Jim’s dad in the American Pie movies, Eugene Levy is a hilariously deadpan presence in a series of movies that are, by all accounts, shocking.
Every Episode of The Americans, Ranked
June 2024When The Americans first premiered in 2013, few would have guessed — despite a strong premise, a veteran TV actress, and some hard-to-ignore ’80s tunes — that it would become one of TV’s greatest television dramas, the perfect slow-burn period piece to take the place of Mad Men after that show wrapped up in 2015.
Everything Everywhere Leads Film Nominees for the 2023 Critics Choice Awards
June 2024Ke Huy Quan is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his turn in Everything Everywhere. The critics are almost ready to make their final choices.
F Is for Family: Bill Burrs Love Letter to the 70s
June 2024Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar recommendations than comedians?
Fargo Recap: Whats in a Name?
June 2024Fargo Blanket Season 5 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fargo Blanket Season 5 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » David Foley has quietly delivered one of this season’s most entertaining performances with his understated work as Danish Graves, fixer to the Lyon family.
Fred Armisen and Patton Oswalt to Appear on Modern Family
June 2024The Modern Family cast and crew are filming a vacation episode in Las Vegas prior to their bigger trip to Australia next month, and both Fred Armisen and Patton Oswalt are set to guest star with them in Sin City.
Future Aquaman Jason Momoa on The Red Road, Game of Thrones, and Representing the Justice League Fra
June 2024Jason Momoa is about to be huge, in every meaning of the word. The 35-year-old Iowa native of Hawaiian descent, who now resides with wife Lisa Bonet (yes, that Lisa Bonet) and their two children in California, is in the midst of training for the second of three turns as DC Comics superhero Aquaman in 2017’s The Justice League Part One (next year’s Batman v.
Guy Who Rolled Cross Joint in Pineapple Express Was Also in Other Movies
June 2024“I find it ironic that I did a lot of serious movies that I worked hard on, and now I’m getting the most response to the movie where I roll a cross joint.
Harmony Korine Breaks Down the 4 Most Harmony Korine Scenes in The Beach Bum
June 2024Not pictured: the very small stogie he brought to our interview. In 2012, Harmony Korine, the patron saint of weird film, defied nearly every expectation of him: He wrote and directed a mainstream movie.
Here Comes the Boom Trailer: Kevin James, Weekend Warrior
June 2024It’s rough out there for teachers these days: To judge from last fall’s Warrior and the upcoming Here Comes the Boom, the only way for an earnest teacher to earn an extra buck these days is to moonlight as an MMA fighter on the side.
How Clone High Rose From the Dead
June 2024An oral history of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s vexed animation experiment and its unlikely return 20 years later. “Our original idea was, ‘It’d be so nice to represent a success story, of people being unfrozen and learning to navigate the current times,” says co-creator Phil Lord.
How Drew Tarver Cried on Cue for The Other Two
June 2024Drew Tarver came to the Vulture Emmys lounge to explain his process for re-creating the famous fireplace cry from Call Me by Your Name.
How Mimi Lien Designed a Stage Built for Beheadings
June 2024This article originally appeared in Making It, a newsletter featuring conversations about craft, cash, and compromise. Sign up here. This article originally appeared in Making It, a newsletter featuring conversations about craft, cash, and compromise.
I Grew Up in a Cult. Heres What Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Gets Right.
June 2024For most viewers who stream the new Netflix show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the story line will be an unfamiliar peek into what it’s like to emerge into the world after living in an underground doomsday cult.
In Boxing Opera Champion, Not Every Punch Lands
June 2024Latonia Moore and Ryan Speedo Green in Champion. Terence Blanchard’s Champion is a boxing opera, and his score keeps changing pace, bouncing lightly on the balls of its feet or pummeling a point when the plot demands it.
Inside Moonlighting and How I Met Your Mothers Tributes to Shakespeare
June 2024‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined.
It Sure Feels Good to Have Robert Downey Jr. Onscreen Again
June 2024This article was originally published on July 25, 2023. At the 2024 Oscars, for Robert Downey Jr. won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Oppenheimer.
Jake Johnson on Nick Millers Craziest Moves in GIF Form
June 2024As New Girl’s Nick Miller, Jake Johnson is the master of the awkard movement. Whether moonwalking, finger-gunning, or going in for a wide-eyed kiss, he does something truly hypnotically weird that makes us want to watch it on an endless loop.
John Wick Is a Violent, Violent, Violent Film, But Oh-So Beautiful
June 2024With any other actor in the role, the relentless revenge flick John Wick could have been just another variation on the Neesonian man-with-special-set-of-skills-kills-everybody genre.
Kanye Wests Famous Is on YouTube, So Now Everyone Can Debate Its Naked Merits Again
June 2024Hold off on that Tidal subscription — Kanye West’s infamous “Famous” music video is on YouTube. If you’ve been a living human with an internet connection this past week, there’s basically no chance that you’ve avoided the pictures and the controversy surrounding the video, in which a camera pans over a giant bed filled with wax figures of nude sleeping celebrities.
Kate Beckinsale Answers Every Question We Have About Serendipity
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.
Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins Break Down Private Lifes Perfect Vagina-Vagina Scene
June 2024Kathryn Hahn, Winnie the Poohing in Tamara Jenkins’s film Private Life. Tamara Jenkins’ 2018 dramedy Private Life more than lives up to its title.
Kenny DeForest Was Always Getting Better
June 2024When comedian Kenny DeForest made his late-night debut on Seth Meyers’s show in 2017, he opened his set with a joke about trying to quit smoking.
Lets Head to Provincetown (and 4 Other Podcasts Worth Checking Out)
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.
Lizzos Flute, Sasha Flute, Is the Most Legendary Flute of All Time
June 2024A flute had never achieved any semblance of celebrity until last Wednesday, when a flute named Sasha Flute launched her very own Instagram page and promptly racked up 40,000 followers.
Lorde 101: Who Is This 16-Year-Old New Zealand Singer Everyones Talking About?
June 2024While everyone was distracted by Song of Summer champ “Blurred Lines” and its many hot weather competitors (“Get Lucky,” “We Can’t Stop,” “Cups”), Lorde happened.
Love LifeRecap: Dysfunction
June 2024Love Life Ola Adebayo Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love Life Ola Adebayo Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Marcus had that expensive sushi dinner with Kian back in episode two, he talked briefly about how Emily was the one who held his life together.
Lydia Tr Is Not an Art Monster
June 2024“It’s always the question that involves the listener. It’s never the answer, right?” famed conductor Lydia Tár asks a student at Juilliard in Todd Field’s magisterial new film.
Mad Men Is Streaming Again!
June 2024Don Draper is back on AMC — or, to be more precise, AMC+. After leaving Netflix earlier this summer, all seven seasons of the modern classic are once again streaming without commercials on AMC’s recently supersized streaming service, starting today, October 1.
Made for Love Recap: I Can Show You the World
June 2024Made For Love I Want a New Life Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Made For Love I Want a New Life Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What kind of person would marry a guy she just met and then never leave the tech palace/prison he built for ten years?
Mary Steenburgen on Justified, Hollywoods Portrayal of Southerners, and Constantly Breaking While
June 2024Mary Steenburgen is a sweetheart, and she often plays one — but not on Justified. In the FX drama’s final season, she’s Katherine Hale, a Kentucky crime boss’s vengeful widow who’s literally sleeping with the enemy, pot baron Avery Markham (Sam Elliott).
Miranda Lamberts Vice? Shutting Down Flash Photography
June 2024At least they didn’t throw the phone? She’s like a locomotive. She don’t run out of steam. She’s headed for any concertgoers who are taking disruptive pictures of themselves during her performance, reaming them out.
Naked Bret Michaels Looks Totally Normal on the Cover of Billboard
June 2024Michelangelo, back from the dead. Photo: Billboard [Billboard] Naked Bret Michaels Looks Totally Normal on the Cover of Billboard ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgbnyjvsStlqahk52uprjSmKquqpWUubC7yqyWsJ2Zp7FvtNOmow%3D%3D
Naked Director Photoshopped Out of Love and Other Drugs Poster
June 2024Look closely at the poster for the Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Viagra-and-Parkinson’s comedy Love and Other Drugs. Apparently, director Edward Zwick was actually naked and in the shot with his stars, but got Photoshopped out.
Neruda Trailer: Gael Garca Bernal Goes on a Wild Goose Chase for the Literary Legend
June 2024Pablo Larraín is having quite the year. First, early festival reviews of his haunting Jackie Kennedy Onassis biopic, Jackie, have been sublime, and now, the highly anticipated trailer for his inventive drama Neruda has dropped.
New Glee Promo: Lea Michele Sings Like a Prayer
June 2024OMGlee, etc.! April 13! (Bonus: Sue Sylvester ranting about “Sneaky Gays.”) [Idolator] New Glee Promo: Lea Michele Sings ‘Like a Prayer’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgaHyvsdaYnqWdlZS9s7vMqJalnZGUuqqvx56jnpejnrtvtNOmow%3D%3D
Paleontology! at the Vivian Beaumont
June 2024This story first ran in Stage Whisperer, Vulture’s theater newsletter. Sign up today! A lot of weird things happen over the course of the three hours of The Skin of Our Teeth: an Ice Age, a flood, a war, several radio announcements and dance breaks, fourth-wall-breaking asides to the audience, even a bit of onstage vaping.
Patton Oswalt on His Wifes Tragic Death: You Never Truly Heal, But You Do Evolve
June 2024It’s been a rough 18 months for comedian Patton Oswalt. His wife, crime writer Michelle McNamara, died unexpectedly last April, leaving him as a single father to their 7-year-old daughter, Alice.
Pazz and Jop Crib Notes: The State of Pop
June 2024Albums poll winners Animal Collective. Long before the Internet even existed, the Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop music poll opened its pages to hundreds of critics across the country, tallying their votes, publishing their fragmentary comments, and assigning them extravagantly think-y essays about the state of music.
Quantico Recap: Man Pain
June 2024Quantico Answer Season 1 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Quantico Answer Season 1 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Priyanka Chopra as Alex.
Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige Join NBCs The Wiz
June 2024Mary J. Blige (left) and Queen Latifah. As previous NBC live musicals have proved, it’s often better to cast a musician who can act than an actor who can sing.
Rap Sh!ts Jonica Booth Is Ready for the Celebrity Basketball Tourneys
June 2024When I talk to friends about why Rap Sh!t works, I usually get a mix of “This is just a fun, cute show” and love for the City Girls–inspired friendship between Shawna (Aida Ousman) and Mia (KaMillion) at the center.
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June 2024close reads Apr. 22, 2020 I Read Woody Allen’s Memoir So You Don’t Have ToFirst off, there are two short passages that will forever change the way I think about him.
Roseanne Barr Developing New Sitcom
June 2024It’s official: The Roseanne revival is in full swing. The comedian and nineties sitcom star has had quite a busy summer.
SanditonRecap: The Elephant Not in the Room
June 2024Sanditon Episode 3 Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sanditon Episode 3 Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This season, Charlotte is a bit of a self-insert character, and I don’t hate it.
Sarah Thankam Mathews Wrote Her Hit Novel in Four Months
June 2024This article originally appeared in Making It, a newsletter featuring conversations about craft, cash, and compromise, with Emily Gould.
See Lana Del Reys Bloody Q Magazine Cover
June 2024The controversial crooner looks like a prom queen gone bad. [Idolator] See Lana Del Rey’s Bloody Q Magazine Cover ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdhZ3y0scRmo5qmkWKxpriMq5yyq12XubC7w7JkqmWdlrSixsinnGabn6uys3rHraSl
Sex Education Series-Finale Recap: Forever Changed
June 2024Sex Education Episode 8 Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Sex Education Episode 8 Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » “If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something.
Sketch Anatomy: Jake Fogelnest on The States Taco Man
June 2024Welcome to our column Sketch Anatomy, where we ask some of our favorite comedy writers to choose any sketch — one they personally wrote or one from history they find particularly hilarious, notable, or underappreciated — to learn from a writer’s perspective what separates a successful sketch from the rest.
Somebody Somewhere Season-Premiere Recap: Pound It or Pass
June 2024Somebody Somewhere NNP Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Somebody Somewhere NNP Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » There’s a whole laundry list of things I love about Somebody Somewhere: its specificity of place and character, the way the writing deftly maneuvers between laugh-out-loud funny and quietly tender, the perfectly assembled troupe of actors giving such dialed-in, authentic performances, Bridget Everett, Bridget Everett, and Bridget Everett.
Someone Told Us About the Fate of Blairs Baby on Gossip Girl
June 2024Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf. SPOILER ALERT! As Gossip Girl keeps the over-the-top Blair Waldorf plotlines coming (Blair’s getting married!
Somethings Missing From A Murder at the End of the World
June 2024If you have even a passing familiarity with murder mysteries, then you probably know what’s going to happen in A Murder at the End of the World: A group convenes, someone dies, suspects emerge, and the heat is on the detective to find the killer.
Southern Charm Recap: Taylor Made
June 2024Southern Charm He Said, She Said Season 9 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Charm He Said, She Said Season 9 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What?
Stephen Colberts Late Show Is Not Chasing Virality: Im Waiting for the World to Care Enough
June 2024Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert’s Late Show missed out on the chance to earn an Emmy nomination yesterday, ending Colbert’s years-long streak of nominations for The Colbert Report, but the CBS host isn’t too worried about whether he’s generating buzz at his new digs.
Ted LassoRecap: A Night on the Town
June 2024Ted Lasso Beard After Hours Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ted Lasso Beard After Hours Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As “Man City” drew to a close, it didn’t look like Coach Beard was headed anywhere good.
The Bad Batch Recap: City of Walls and Secrets
June 2024The Bad Batch The Clone Conspiracy / Truth & Consequences Season 2 Episodes 7 - 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch The Clone Conspiracy / Truth & Consequences Season 2 Episodes 7 - 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Clone Wars managed to be many things at once.
The Best Last Line in a Vampire Movie Is in The Lost Boys
June 2024Vampire Veek Hold the garlic. Vampire Veek Hold the garlic. Jason Patric and Corey Haim, letting that last line sink in at the end of The Lost Boys.
The Best Sex Ive Ever Read: An Erotic and Tender Pee Scene
June 2024The Best Sex I Ever Read A Vulture series in which authors and readers dissect the literary sex scenes they’ll never forget.
The Boys Recap: Injustice
June 2024The Boys The Self-Preservation Society Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Boys The Self-Preservation Society Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The penultimate episode of Amazon’s first season of The Boys is a hybrid of an origin story for Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher and a really bad week for Erin Moriarty’s Starlight.
The Buddy 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 Catcher Was a Spy Is Too Discreet for Its Own Good
June 2024Paul Rudd as Moe Berg in The Catcher Was a Spy. The tight-lipped protagonist of The Catcher Was a Spy is Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), a major-league catcher whom Casey Stengel once described as “the strangest man ever to play baseball”— and Stengel, it turns out, didn’t know the half of it.
The Entire Super Mario Bros. Movie Was on Twitter for Hours
June 2024Wahoo! In what must be a nightmare for Nintendo’s copyright lawyers but is deeply funny for the rest of us, the Super Mario Bros.
The I Heart TS Shirt From Taylor Swifts Look What You Made Me Do Video Is Available f
June 2024The close-up shot of her dancers’ “I <3 TS" shirt in Taylor Swift’snew “Look What You Made Me Do” video was not, in fact, just a pointed shout-out to her fans or a clarification of their stance.
The Pink Opaque 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 Profound, Enduring Legacy of The Craft
June 2024L-R: Neve Campbell, Fairuza Balk, Rachel True, Robin Tunney In 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.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Going to Pot
June 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Ring Around the Rumor Season 13 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Ring Around the Rumor Season 13 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week on our favorite television program, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did some things, hunty.
The Story Behind Black-ishs Provocative N-Word Episode
June 2024Dre and Jack. When Black-ish creator Kenya Barris found texts on his 16-year-old daughter’s phone from a few of her white male friends invoking the N-word, he lost it.
The Unprecedented History of the Chicks
June 2024As Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, and Emily Strayer today release Gaslighter, their first album in nearly a decade and a half, it’s an ideal time to revisit pivotal moments along their fraught path.
The Upside to Tim Allens Manly-Man Brand of Comedy
June 2024When I have a tool in my hand, like a screwdriver, let’s say, or a power drill, I become riddled with anxiety and begin to sweat profusely.
The Valuable Lesson Kiersey Clemons Taught Nick Offerman
June 2024While promoting their new film Heart Beats Loud, Kiersey Clemons, Nick Offerman, and director Brett Haley stopped by the Vulture Spot at Sundance to talk father-daughter relationships, toxic masculinity, representation — and how to be, as Offerman put it, “woke.
Theater Review: In the Park, the Warring Wits of Much Ado About Nothing
June 2024Much Ado About Nothing is a slippery play for a director to try to locate in time. Written almost entirely in antic, comparatively relaxed prose and, in its own day, set in the present, the play — especially the “merry war” of wit between its protagonists, Beatrice and Benedick — still feels modern to our ears.
Tim Meadows on SNL Cast Chemistry and Why Kenan Thompson Is So Good
June 2024Tim Meadows. Saturday Night Live alum Tim Meadows knows a thing or two about cast chemistry. During his ten seasons on SNL from 1991 to 2000, he outlasted several cast shakeups.
Tiny Horse Is Giant Horse Now
June 2024It’s impressive that after only one previous hosting stint, Timothée Chalamet had not one but two characters worth reprising.
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You Almost Argues Itself Out of Romance
June 2024In the sequel to Netflix’s hit 2018 teen rom-com, Lana Condor and Noah Centineo explore what comes after the happily ever after.
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June 2024don’t stop beliebing Dec. 4, 2016 Bieber Announces a U.S. Stadium Tour on EllenWhile the Beliebers scream, he sits patiently with his coffee.
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June 2024a long talk Aug. 23, 2022 The Bachelorette Needed Trista Sutter’s Fairy TaleThe contestant behind the franchise’s foundational love story has some advice for its producers.
Twitter Is Living for These Dying-Twitter Memes
June 2024The bird app is still flapping … for now. As of publication time, the bird app is not dead yet, but that hasn’t stopped people from mourning all night.
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Vultures 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
June 2024Nobody puts Baby’s gifts in a corner. The holidays: They’re here! Still looking for the perfect gift for your loved ones, co-workers, or — maybe most important — yourself?
Watch a Terrifying GIF of Channing Tatum Head-Butting a Mirror Over and Over
June 2024The new teaser trailer for Foxcatcher is pretty tremendous — as eerie and unnerving as the movie itself, which picked up a well-deserved Best Director trophy at Cannes and follows Channing Tatum as wrestler Mark Schultz, an unhappy brute who’s living in the shadow of his older brother until he finds a wealthy sponsor, mentor, and friend in the creepy heir John du Pont (Steve Carell).
Watch Katy Perry Throw Birthday Cake on Her Fans
June 2024It was Katy Perry’s birthday, so the Queen of Candyland (or whatever she is) threw her birthday cake into the crowd.
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: On Norman Bates and Psychos Four Sequels
June 2024Last Monday, with the premiere of A&E’s Bates Motel, Norman Bates made his sixth screen appearance. (Not counting Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s original.
Welcome to the First Oscars of the Post-Slap Era
June 2024Wake up. It’s awards season again. Oscar Futures Who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted Oscar nomination.
What Did Critics Think of the Other Versions of A Star Is Born?
June 2024A Star Is Born, 1976 Though the vast majority of the general public has yet to lay eyes on Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut A Star Is Born, one scan of Twitter indicates that thousands of people have already ruled the film an unimpeachable masterpiece.
When Did You Realize You Had a Crush on John Cusacks Voice in Anastasia?
June 2024If you see Dimitri, the charming con artist and love interest of Fox’s animated Anastasia, tell him to call me.
Why Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Made a Holiday Episode
June 2024A witch celebrating Christmas? Satan forbid! No, no, when the winter season rolls around, practitioners of the dark arts like to gather around and find cheer in ritual, but they do it in a way that dates back to way before Christ’s birth.
Yes, Of Course That Was Rape on Last Nights Game of Thrones
June 2024[This post contains spoilers from last night’s GoT.] Game of Thrones has been a rape-heavy show from very early on.
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There are a lot of goofy videos of hot guys in the service lip syncing to songs by VH1-certified “divas,” but this one’s just so damn timely.
10 Tidbits From Corey Feldmans Memoir, From Fun to Sad
June 2024Corey Feldman in April, 1987 Corey Feldman’s new memoir, Coreyography, comes out tomorrow, and while the very idea of a Feldman memoir might fill many with earnest, campy memories of Tiger Beat subscriptions and hopes and dreams for kooky Lost Boys trivia, you’re only half right.
12 Questions I Have After Watching The Idol Episode 2
June 2024This post contains spoilers for The Idol episode two, “Double Fantasy.” A veil of secrecy has been shading The Idol, the new HBO jawn from Sam Levinson.
16 Things You Need to Know About Big Love
June 2024Reasonable people all agree that the third season of polygamy-fest Big Love was awesome. Season four starts Sunday, and as we scan the winter TV landscape, it’s safe to say that the show is the closest thing we have right now to Mad Men — that is, if you don’t watch it, you will seem completely foolish to all your college-educated friends and never be invited to cocktail party again.
21 Frasier Episodes That Defined Its Beloved Original Run
June 2024Frasier at its Frasier-iest. You can’t keep Kelsey Grammer down. His snooty sweetie, Frasier Crane, was one of the more unlikely Cheers characters to helm a spinoff.
7 Sporror Books to Scratch That Scary Fungus Itch After The Last of Us
June 2024The first season of HBO’s The Last of Us is over, and until the second season premieres, likely more than a year from now, we’ll have a mushroom-shaped hole in our hearts.
8 Comics to Read in October
June 2024Many a good comic. Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations of comics, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, and ongoing series.
9 Things to Watch If You Like Netflixs Maniac
June 2024If you’ve worked your way through the three-pill cycle and discovered new neural pathways, I have some terrible news for you.
90 Day Fianc TV Episode Recaps & News
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A Very Familiar Democratic Political Strategist Is Coming to The Good Wife
June 2024Sorry, James Carville: The producers of The Good Wife are looking to add a dose of political reality to an upcoming episode, and they’ve (thankfully) opted against casting the Ragin’ Cajun to play himself (as he’s done many, many times).
Adam Levine, Lead Singer of a Band, Feels Like There Arent Any Bands Anymore
June 2024Adam Levine has been giving Maroon 5 his full attention for the past few years, after moonlighting as a singer during his eight years coaching on The Voice.
Andrew Rannells Is Your New Hedwig
June 2024NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 12: Andrew Rannells attends the 65th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2011 in New York City.
Ariana Grande Shares Photos From Her Home Wedding to Dalton Gomez
June 2024The bride! Ariana Grande has shared photos from her intimate home wedding to Dalton Gomez that could move an angel to tears.
Arrow Recap: Laurel, Lanced
June 2024Arrow Eleven-Fifty-Nine Season 4 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Arrow Eleven-Fifty-Nine Season 4 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Stephen Amell.
Ashtons Nudity Probably Wont Hurt Natalie Portmans Oscar Chances
June 2024So, the new red-band trailer for No Strings Attached does not, like the red-band trailer for Your Highness, display Natalie Portman’s ass.
Blake Sheltons New Revenge Song Definitely Came Here to Forget Miranda Lambert, Sigh
June 2024Revenge ain’t so sweet. Did you think Gwen Stefani was the only one savvy enough to redirect her post-divorce anger into motivation for a new album?
Blink-182 Released a New Song Without Tom DeLonge Called Bored to Death, So Dont Confuse It
June 2024It seems only yesterday when we were bopping up and down in our Vans to Enema of the State, crooning along to “What’s My Age Again?
Book of Mormon Star Andrew Rannells Joins Glee Creators Comedy
June 2024Andrew Rannells, the scripture-totin’ star of The Book of Mormon, is set to star in the surrogacy comedy from Glee’s Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler.
Bryson Tiller Reemerges With Inhale, Announces New Album
June 2024Bryson Tiller was not about to miss a cuffing season in which everyone has to be indoors. The Grammy-nominated R&B singer returns after three years with the slow and sexy new track “Inhale.
Burning Man Has Been Canceled, But You Can Still Visit the Playa Via the Multiverse
June 2024If you really enjoy the spirit, energy, and camaraderie of Burning Man, but don’t love the burning alkali dust, hot winds, Porta-Potties or travel expenses associated with shipping your handmade penny-farthing, 2020 might be your year after all.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Is No Chicken Run, But Really, What Is?
June 2024Playing on Netflix, Aardman’s sequel to its 2000 animated hit might not fully capture the magic of the original, but it’s still fun.
Chris Evans Follows Ana de Armas to London After One Date
June 2024A normal response to getting ghosted after one date would be to take the hint and scram. Chris Evans thinks otherwise.
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June 2024comedy review June 16, 2023 More Like John EnnuiJohn Early’s solo special is a beautifully dumb, exquisitely articulated cover of the millennial mood.
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Diana Ross Pays Tribute to Supremes Sister Mary Wilson
June 2024Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson (left to right). Motown legend Diana Ross mourned her late Supremes bandmate Mary Wilson Tuesday morning.
Do You Remember All of the Other NBC Thursday Comedies?
June 2024Thursday nights on NBC: They defined the second half of the nineties as “Must-See TV.” But beyond the anchors of Friends and Seinfeld, and later Will & Grace, many, many other shows populated the lineup.
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Elvis Costellos Aim Remains True, 32 Albums In
June 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.
Everything Bonkers That Has Happened on Scandal So Far
June 2024Scandal I am going to be recapping the addictive and intense ABC show Scandal starting with tonight’s episode. Many of you may be familiar with it, and the rest of you should be.
Far Cry: New Dawn Is a Sillier, Better Version of Far Cry 5
June 2024When it comes to open-world games, the maxim is usually that “bigger is better.” For developer and publisher Ubisoft, that often means cramming a game’s map with missions, side-quests, and all manner of diversions that would take anyone with any semblance of a life many months to complete.
For All Mankind Season-Finale Recap: All My Good Dumplings
June 2024For All Mankind Stranger In a Strange Land Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind Stranger In a Strange Land Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As another wild season of alternate-history interplanetary hijinks draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve seen and to look forward to next season.
Friends Countdown: Read the Friends Pilot Script
June 2024Behold the pilot script for Friends, where Rachel was “Rachel Robbins,” Phoebe was more into busking, Monica was a little more cynical, Joey was kind of mean, and the show was called Friends Like Us.
Good Star Jason Isaacs on Why Holocaust Movies Are Bad, Except His
June 2024Jason Isaacs as Maurice in Good. Good is the kind of movie that “starts arguments,” says Jason Isaacs, who was reluctant to play the role of Viggo Mortensen’s Jewish best friend in thirties Germany.
Gummer Mother Joins Only Murders in the Building
June 2024Gummer No. 4. No long-running TV series is complete without the presence of one Gummer: Mamie was on The Good Wife, Grace was on Mr.
Harrison Ford Reviews Jason Segels Penis
June 2024In most professions, seeing a co-worker’s penis is something to actively avoid. There are entire industries dedicated to making sure you do not have to see your co-worker’s penis, in fact.
Havent You Always Wanted to Listen to a Surprise New Arcade Fire Song on a Random Barcelona Music
June 2024Well, that’s one way to release a song. Nowadays, there are no laws to releasing new music. When an artist feels like unleashing their latest work onto the world, they will do so however and whenever they please.
HBO Max Is Still Taking Stuff Down Without Warning
June 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Update, Wednesday, December 14: After everything that’s been going on with HBO Max, Warner Bros.
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
June 2024fake musicals Apr. 24, 2014 Hedwig Has a Fake Playbill Full of Easter Eggs“There have been a lot of Hurt Lockers: The Musical lately.
Hello, Breaking Bad: Want Your Own Adorable Hello Kitty Phone Case?
June 2024To stay alive in the world of Breaking Bad, you’re gonna need an adorable phone. It’s true! The Hello Kitty–case-outfitted burner cell has remained unharmed — first as Jesse’s “new identity” phone and then as Hank’s direct line to Walt — this entire time.
Heres Justin Timberlakes Suit and Tie Lyric Video
June 2024The suits and ties are better; the fedora is still there. P.S. Gillette, JT wants an endorsement deal. Here’s JT’s ‘Suit and Tie’ Lyric Video ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdgZnypsdGeqmaipKh6tMHIrWSappRiwaqxjKWwq6GTYsOqsMSoZaGsnaE%3D
How Hocus Pocus Became an Enduring Halloween Hit
June 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.
How Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern Fell for Each Other on the Set of JT Leroy
June 2024It’s the end of a long press day for JT Leroy, and Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern are, as they put it, “going off.
How The Dropouts Actors Compare to Their Real-Life Counterparts
June 2024Two months after Elizabeth Holmes wasconvicted of four out of 11 counts of fraud and conspiracy at her blood-testing company Theranos, Hulu’sThe Dropout has arrived.
How Weird Al Yankovic Removed the Misogyny of Blurred Lines by Adding Grammar Lessons
June 2024Weird Al Yankovic Weird Al Yankovic’s brand of musical parody changed comedy, raising the bar for the level of accuracy expected in parody.
If Your TV Show Doesnt Have a Hot Priest, What Are You Even Doing?
June 2024Priests are staple TV characters in everything from serious religious dramas to goofy sitcoms, but lately, a different type of priest has taken television by storm: the hot priest.
In Conversation: Laurence Fishburne
June 2024With his Broadway return postponed, one of America’s most accomplished actors reflects on his career. Photo: Nigel Parry Photo: Nigel Parry Before the pandemic, Laurence Fishburne was preparing for his Broadway return in American Buffalo, and weeks into lockdown, he was still rehearsing over video calls with his co-star Sam Rockwell.
In Not Normal, Wanda Sykes Does Not Come to Play
June 2024Wanda Sykes in Not Normal. The opening line of Wanda Sykes’s new Netflix special is, “Let me just start by saying: If you voted for Trump, and you came to see me?
In Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange Writes a New Secret History
June 2024Orvil Red Feather, the teenage protagonist of Tommy Orange’s novel Wandering Stars, was just beginning high school when he was shot at a powwow in Oakland, California.
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June 2024the vulture transcript July 22, 2014 Bronson Pinchot Discusses All Things AudiobooksIn an email exchange with New York Times best-selling author Jeff VanderMeer.
Is This What the Barbie Movie Is About Or Am I Crazy?
June 2024It’s summer-movie blockbuster season, which in 2023 means one thing: Barbenheimer is nigh. And with the dawn of the year’s most talked-about double feature imminent, we decided to take a step back and think about what Barbie is really, truly about.
Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji Reflect on 5 Years of Issa and Molly
June 2024A wine down with Insecure’s OTP. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Bobby Doherty Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Bobby Doherty It was always about Issa and Molly.
It Sure Is Jarring When Black Is King Suddenly Uses Billy Eichners Timon Voice
June 2024That’s Disney, baby! Beyoncé’s film Black Is King, out today on Disney+, puts so much on the screen in terms of style and poise and visual references, that it’s often easy to forget that it’s all built out of the 2019 Lion King remake.
Its That Episode: Jon Daly, Bill Cosby, John Daly and Ed Hardy Condoms
June 2024On “It’s That Episode” Craig Rowin (UCB Theatre) invites guests over to watch any episode of any TV show they want.
J.K. Rowling Explains How Corrupt Wizards Participated in the Salem Witch Trials
June 2024This explains why you probably roll your eyes at magic. In the second installment of J.K. Rowling’s North American–wizardry history lesson, now live on Pottermore, she delves into the most well-known tragedy in American witchcraft: Salem.
Jen Beagins Novel About Sex Therapy Sparked a Hollywood Bidding War
June 2024This article originally appeared in Making It, a newsletter featuring conversations about craft, cash, and compromise, with Emily Gould.
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June 202425 days of cats Dec. 23, 2019 Make the Cats Kiss, You CowardsOut of an extensive list of perverse elements, the cat nuzzling in Cats is perhaps the most disturbing.
Justin Roiland Is Being Recast on Rick and Morty
June 2024Update October 15: The seventh season premiere of Rick and Morty has come and gone, and with it, name reveals of the actors who have replaced Justin Roiland.
Ke Huy Quan Continues His Winning Streak at the Independent Spirit Awards
June 2024It’s been a wonderful awards season so far for Ke Huy Quan, who played Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Last Night On Late Night
June 2024last night on late night June 7, 2012 Conan Taunted Vajazzler Jennifer Love Hewitt Plus: Alec Baldwin pretended to be British around Russell Brand during the shooting of Rock of Ages, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.
Looking Back at Bill Murrays Best Appearances on Letterman
June 2024Bill Murray was the first ever guest on Late Night with David Letterman back in 1982, and over the past 31 years, Murray has been one of Dave’s most beloved and unpredictable late night guests.
Love Is Blind TV Episode Recaps & News
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Luke Evans Knows Youre Wondering If Thats His Actual Dick in Ma
June 2024The calm before the dick storm. In the new horror film Ma, Octavia Spencer plays a small-town veterinary assistant who gets revenge on her high-school bullies by plying their willing teenage children with beer, hallucinatory drugs, and wall-to-wall rugs.
Mad Mens John Slattery on the Finale, Roger and Joan, and His Naked LSD Trip
June 2024John Slattery. John Slattery likely won’t live down his final scene in last night’s Mad Men season finale any time soon, but, as he told Vulture today, his glorious, LSD-inspired bare-assed moment was a more symbolic expression of the journey Roger Sterling has made this season.
Matt Bomer on Playing a Stripping Ken Doll and Getting Licked in Magic Mike
June 2024Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper film, won’t arrive in theaters for over six months — which means we have six more months to continue obsessing about it!
My Summer in Joan Riverss Magical Joke Factory
June 2024In the summer of 2008, between my sophomore and junior years of college, I was a production intern for a Broadway musical called Passing Strange.
Networks in a Feeding Frenzy Over New Michael J. Fox Comedy Series
June 2024Michael J. Fox is readying a return to prime-time series television, and the broadcast networks are lining up to welcome him back.
Noah Baumbach, Denzel Washington, Tina Fey Films Among Toronto International Film Festival Premieres
June 2024Every year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) foreshadows many of the big awards-season contenders. This year looks to be no exception, just looking at the first 59 films announced this morning.
Of Course the Cheesecake Factory Responded to Drakes Views Shout-out With a Meme
June 2024Ours is better. You can always count on brands to out-corny even Drake. Naturally, someone at the Cheesecake Factory caught wind that a certain swole rapper prefers to spend his cheat meals at their establishment, as we learned on Views.
Opera Review: Otello Is Back, Without Blackface
June 2024When an un-darkened Moor marched onstage during the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Otello, he seemed confused, as if he had just crashed the wrong Act I.
Paul Simon Is Not Releasing a New Album
June 2024If your discography includes Graceland and Bridge Over Troubled Water, you don’t exactly have to keep churning out new albums.
R2-D2 Was Sold at Auction for $2.76 Million
June 2024A very expensive droid. Today somebody bought a non-functioning robot for nearly $3 million. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a 42-inch R2-D2 was on the auction block with other Star Wars memorabilia, including Luke’s lightsaber (unclear whether it would shoot a green or a blue blade) and Darth Vader’s helmet (James Earl Jones’s voice not included).
Raising Hope Creator Greg Garcia on Balancing Sweet and Crass, and Being Licked by Cloris Leachman
June 2024Much of the media buzz surrounding Fox this fall has focused on Lone Star’s spectacular belly flop and the struggles of Running Wilde.
Rebecca Hall and Michael C. Hall on Their Sundance Suicide Movie Christine
June 2024Christine Chubbuck, the Sarasota, Florida, newscaster who, as my colleague Abe Riesman detailed, achieved a cultish fame for shooting herself on-air in 1974, has, by strange coincidence, become the subject of a pair of Sundance movies this year.
Religulous Trailer: Bill Maher, the Less-Subtle Borat
June 2024Tagline: “From the studio that brought you Fahrenheit 9/11 and the director of Borat…” Translation: Attention flag-burning sodomites! The Verdict: In Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen made ordinary red-state Americans look silly by blundering through driving lessons and bringing poo to dinner parties.
Richard Belzer on His Debut Novel, Hulk Hogan, and Not Being Related to the Fonz
June 2024Florian Bohm’s Broadway/34th Street (2005) Actor and comedian Richard Belzer has played Detective Munch — on Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit and Homicide, among other shows — for so many years that he has become nearly indistinguishable from the character.
Richard Belzer Returning As Munch on SVU, Will Play This Character Until Hell Freezes Over
June 2024Belzer as Munch. It’s been a little more than 23 years since viewers first saw Richard Belzer play Det. John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street.
Riverdale Recap: The Night He Came Home
June 2024Riverdale Halloween Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Riverdale Halloween Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s hard to believe that Riverdale has never had a Halloween episode before, isn’t it?
Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Thomas Eggerer at Petzel Gallery
June 2024Thomas Eggerer’s work at Petzel Gallery. The second I saw Thomas Eggerer’s current large show at Petzel Gallery — the artist’s fourth here since 2004—I thought, This overrated art star is way out of gas, going through the motions.
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Shailene Woodley Wore Beet Lipstick to the Golden Globes
June 2024BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 15: Actress Shailene Woodley arrives at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
Slow Burn Is Getting Back Into Politics With a David Duke Season
June 2024The podcast’s second season focused on the Clinton impeachment trial. Slow Burn is set for a return to politics.
Snoop Dogg Tried to Rent Liechtenstein
June 2024Just when you think a guy is so ubiquitous and shameless he never deserves your attention again, Snoop Dogg goes and tries to rent Liechtenstein — like, all of it — and pulls you right back in.
Stephen King: Its Fascinating People Are More Offended by Its Child Orgy Than Its Child
June 2024Stephen King reads America. Thirty years after Stephen King published his best-selling novel It, one scene continues to stick out to many readers as horrific, even though it wasn’t intended that way: a group sex scene between children.
Stephenie Meyer Explains Her Gender-Flipped Twilight
June 2024Stephenie Meyer. At the Twilight 10th-anniversary panel at New York Comic-Con, Stephenie Meyer spilled the beans on Life and Death, her brand-new gender-flipped rewrite of the YA classic.
Surreal Humor and Medical Metaphor in You Will Get Sick
June 2024From You Will Get Sick, at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre. In a gig economy where you can hire someone to deliver your groceries or mount a TV, why not simply hire people to do the emotional heavy lifting for you?
Take a Break From Throwing Away All Your White Clothes and Listen to John Olivers New Labor Day R
June 2024If your entire identity centers around your signature ivory-and-eggshell outfits, your sexy winks, and your polite conversational lies, then brace yourself for some bad news, Jack White.
The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
June 2024Clockwise from top: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Let It Be, Doctor Who, and Interview With the Vampire.
The 20 Best Family Films on Max
June 2024My Neighbor Totoro. Don't have Max yet? Sign up here This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter Max.
The 30 Best Superhero Cartoons of the Past 30 Years
June 2024This article originally ran in 2022. We’re republishing it now following the death at age 67 of Arleen Sorkin, who originally voiced — and inspired — the original Harley Quinn.
The Bachelor Recap: Oh, Maria, Maria
June 2024The Bachelor Week Two Season 28 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bachelor Week Two Season 28 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’m learning more and more about Joey each week.
The Best Comedy Books of 2023
June 2024From memoirs by beloved performers to exhaustive looks at towering comic phenomena. Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk Along with — and probably because of — an increasingly world-weary world, comedy, and the way that we consume it, has matured.
The Block Still Isnt Safe in Attack The Block 2
June 2024John Boyega in the 2011 film. After being announced a little less than two years ago, we’re finally getting more details on who or what is attacking the block now for the Attack The Block sequel from director John Cornish.
The Challenge of Making a Comedy Store Documentary From the Inside
June 2024Comedy Store director Mike Binder. Two days before his five-part docuseries on the legendary Comedy Store is set to premiere on Showtime, Mike Binder is sitting outside an office park in Santa Monica, taking a break from editing the final episode.
The Changeling Season-Finale Recap: Forever Lost in the Wild
June 2024The Changeling Battle of the Island Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Changeling Battle of the Island Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Call me old-fashioned, but I still mourn the loss of longer TV seasons.
The Game of Thrones Cast As Imagined by Gay of Thrones
June 2024One of my favorite things about watching Game of Thrones is getting to watch “Gay of Thrones” — Funny or Die’s video recaps starring hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness (a real-life stylist at Stile Salon in Brentwood, California) — afterwards.
The Good Place Series-Finale Recap: The Good-bye Place
June 2024The Good Place Whenever You’re Ready Season 4 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Good Place Whenever You’re Ready Season 4 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Humans are, by nature, a storytelling sort, with records of oral and written folklore stretching back thousands of years.
The Least Historically Accurate Music Biopics Ever Made
June 2024It’s not always easy to sort fact from fiction in music biopics, particularly when the facts of musicians’ lives are often so bizarre.
The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Party Time!
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The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Son of a Gun
June 2024The Real Housewives of Miami Sushi Rolls and Wedding Woes Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Sushi Rolls and Wedding Woes Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I think we need to rename this thing The Alexia Echevarria Show because she is carrying this whole damn revival on her shoulders.
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Miseducation of Jenna Lyons
June 2024The Real Housewives of New York City Two Truths and No Shakshuka Season 14 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City Two Truths and No Shakshuka Season 14 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’m just waiting for there to be one episode of the reboot where the women haven’t done something that one of the classic RHONY broads already did but better.
The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Premiere Recap: New House, Who Dis?
June 2024The Real Housewives of Orange County An Unexpected Secret Season 15 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County An Unexpected Secret Season 15 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The best part of this 15th-season premiere is something taken from the show’s original inspiration.
The Rise of Right-Wing Podcasts Is Upon Us
June 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.
The Rise of Skywalker: Who Will Live and Die in the Last Star Wars Film?
June 2024Is the end of Reylo nigh? In 2017’s The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker sternly tells Rey that the true nature of the Force is a combination of “balance” and a “tension.
This Is How James Franco Is Hiding Out From North Korea
June 2024We grabbed this from PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach’s Instagram this morning. Don’t know what’s freaking out Klaus, but James and Courtney are all smiles.
Tracey Emin Is Serious
June 2024The artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.
Trapping Willem Dafoe in a Penthouse Prison Shouldnt Be Boring
June 2024Inside, starring Willem Dafoe, wastes a great premise on dreary execution. It’s common knowledge among New Yorkers that the luxury apartment towers that protrude from the skyline like raised middle fingers are half-empty, vertical ghost towns where oligarchs, investors, and other members of the globe-trotting elite store their money in the form of prime Manhattan real estate that largely goes unoccupied.
Trump Fans Boo Bruce Springsteens Born in the USA Meaning This Election Has Hit Rock Bottom
June 2024You might be holding out hope but sadly, no, they were not saying “The Boo-ss! The Boo-ss!” Huffington Post political reporter S.
Two Bonnaroo Lifers on How the Festival Has (and Hasnt) Changed
June 2024Bonnaroo 2002. Bonnaroo inspires a fervor few other major music festivals can match. The four-day event in south-central Tennessee often gets compared to a neo-Woodstock, not just for the camping and the remote location but for the spirit of the crowd.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Composer Jeff Richmond on Why Kimmy Is a Trumpet and Liz Lemon Is a Clarin
June 2024Jeff Richmond and spouse Tina Fey are one of Hollywood’s most dynamic duos. Richmond, an accomplished composer, has teamed up with Fey to score music on Saturday Night Live, Baby Mama, 30 Rock (for which he won three Emmys), and, most recently, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Vince Staples Is Showing America What It Refuses to See
June 2024The histrionics about the Oscars last month were a poignant reminder that some people see violence as a looming, existential threat on the march from far away, and some people live in the numb inevitability of it.
Watch a Dont Worry, He Wont Get Far on Foot Clip
June 2024The new film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is based on the life of cartoonist John Callahan. Played here by Joaquin Phoenix, Callahan was a lifelong hard drinker living in Los Angeles who, after a terrible car accident, was left paralyzed and in a wheelchair.
Watch Harrison Ford Pierce Jimmy Fallons Ear
June 2024Warning: This video is not for the squeamish. On Friday night, Harrison Ford was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and he pierced Jimmy’s ear.
We Bought a Zoo Trailer: Matt Damons Animal Magnetism
June 2024Cameron Crowe knows how to dramatize the big job flameout: the moment that recurs in some of his movies, like Jerry Maguire and Elizabethtown — and now in the trailer for his new film, We Bought a Zoo — where the protagonist gets fired or quits and then goes out in grand style.
Win a T-Shirt Honoring Communitys Biggest Hero: Magnitude! Pop Pop!
June 2024Community kicks off its third season tonight, and to celebrate, Vulture is giving away ten T-shirts emblazoned with Greendale’s most charismatic and catchphrased student, one-man-party Magnitude (“Pop pop!
Winning Times Michael Chiklis Grew Up With the Gospel of Red Auerbach
June 2024Michael Chiklis has never known a world without Red Auerbach. His father “preached the gospel” of the legendary Boston Celtics head coach, whom the actor plays in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Yes,PodcastListenership Is Still on the Rise
June 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?
Zoe Saldaas Got Some Mess to Clean Up in Special Ops: Lioness
June 2024Movie theaters aren’t the only place Nicole Kidman comes to for magic. As Variety first reported in January, the face of the culture-shifting AMC Theatres ad has joined the cast of a new TV project.
- May 2024
As Sacha Baron Cohen’s longtime writing/producing partner, Dan Mazer is responsible for co-scripting Borat, Brüno, and both the US and UK versions of Da Ali G Show, but now he’s going out on his own with a new comedy that he wrote and directed solo.
24 Photos of Jon Hamm Making Silly Faces in Nice Clothes
May 2024head shots May 16, 2014 1:00 pm By Jesse David Fox Share Share Tweet Pin It 24 Photos Photo: Getty Images Famous people have to pose for a lot of pictures, yet most remain fixed-faced, so they look exactly the same, every time.
All 47 Earmuff Outfits Chanel No. 3 Has Worn on Scream Queens
May 2024fashion du jour September 27, 2016 8:37 am By Devon Ivie Share Share Tweet Pin It 47 Photos Photo: FOX The campy, foul-mouthed world of Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens returned for a second season on Fox last week, with a brand-new look — a hospital run by former university dean Cathy Munsch, two years after the terrorizing events of season one.
40 Essential Lesbian Romance Films
May 2024This past weekend at the box office was particularly gay. Love, Simon was still playing at theaters across America, and it was joined by Disobedience — which tells the story of two women finding love and comfort with each other in an Orthodox Jewish community — and Duck Butter, an indie dramedy about a pair of millennial ladies who endeavor to pack an entire relationship’s worth of experience into a single 24-hour stretch.
A Slightly Depressing Walk Through Forbes List of the Highest-Paid Comedians
May 2024Trawling YouTube is a weekly look at one interesting story or oddity from YouTube. You ever go down a YouTube rabbit hole and suddenly you’ve wasted five hours watching every Madonna video?
A Spooky Guide to All the New Horror Streaming This October
May 2024The Haunting of Bly Manor. Traditionally, October was the best month for horror fans to get to the theater where they could revel in all the the latest genre sequels and franchise revivals.
Adam Pally on Leaving The Mindy Project and What Hosting The Late Late Show Was Really Like
May 2024Adam Pally joined The Mindy Project in its second season as Shulman & Associates’ eye-roll-inducing, resident bro, Dr. Peter Prentice.
Alabama Shakes: Theres No Way to Be Original
May 2024In 2011, when the Alabama Shakes performed what was to become their debut single, “Hold On,” in a small record store for the Live From the Shoals recording series, it was singer and guitar player Brittany Howard’s combustible energy that stood out.
An Imagined Monologue By the Disappointed Editor of Penthouse Forum, by Tim Eberle
May 2024Mr. Carlson, I assume? Please, come in and have a seat. Mr. Carlson, although the dictates of modern propriety obligate me to thank you for coming in today, I must assure you that, of the surfeit of emotions your presence has today initiated, gratitude is certainly not among the foremost.
Andrew Dice Clay Announces Mr. & Mrs. America Comedy Tour With Roseanne Barr
May 2024For richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, Andrew Dice Clay and Roseanne Barr are officially launching a comedy tour together.
Angel Olsen - Vulture
May 2024wild at heart Aug. 9, 2022 A Little Help From Their FriendsBackstage with Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, and Julien Baker on the must-see indie tour of the year.
As ER Turns 25, a Look at How Its Visual Style Changed the TV Game
May 2024The principal cast of ER, in motion. About four minutes into the ER pilot, which aired 25 years ago this week, there is news of a building collapse in downtown Chicago.
ASTROs Rocky Leaves the Group After Ending Contract
May 2024Rocky, who’s a member of the K-pop group ASTRO, announced he is leaving his exclusive contract with the agency Fantagio and leaving the group after seven years.
Aubrey Plaza - Vulture
May 2024last night on late night Aug. 18, 2022 Aubrey Plaza Love LampThe White Lotus cast member tells Nicole Byer about her new favorite hobby.
Author Charlaine Harris on the End of True Blood, Viewer Backlash, and Fabulous Lafayette
May 2024Novelist Charlaine Harris. Warning: Spoilers for the series finale of True Blood ahead, as well as for Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels on which the show was based.
Below Deck Mediterranean Recap: Bri vs. Ellie
May 2024Below Deck Mediterranean Greeking Havoc Season 9 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Greeking Havoc Season 9 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s day two of charter two as Sandy calls Jono up to the bridge to relay Gigi’s feedback: The food is too spicy, and cold eggs are unacceptable.
Beth Ditto Talks the Gossips New Album, Starting the Ikea of Plus-Size Lines, and Her Beef
May 2024“Look at this snack attack in here! I’m feeling this,” says Gossip singer Beth Ditto while raiding her publicist’s desk at Sony headquarters in New York.
Bethy Squires Author Archive
May 2024rap battles June 19, 2024 Verzuz Is Moving to XTimbaland and Swizz Beats announced the migration with a pic of them on either side of Elon Musk.
Bradley Cooper Directed A Star Is Borns Grammy Scene Fake-Drunk
May 2024Bradley Cooper. Well, we can finally add some important context to the scene that spurred some very real, very legit headlines such as “Jackson Maine Was Blitzed Out of His Mind at the Grammys Last Night.
Brennan Murphys Videos Are Comedy Sorcery
May 2024Brennan Murphy. Brennan Murphy is a digital producer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He is currently working on the digital team for Showtime’s Our Cartoon President and creates funny viral videos on the side, which you can check out on YouTube or @brenonade.
Bridgerton Premiere Recap: Scandal Broth Served Hot
May 2024Bridgerton Diamond of the First Water Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Bridgerton Diamond of the First Water Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Minutes into Bridgerton, the eight-episode Netflix series from Shondaland that’s based on Julia Quinn’s Regency historical-romance series about the eight sons and daughters of an English noble family, it’s clear that the history TV game has changed.
Catwoman May Be Bad at Being Good, But Its Very Good at Being Bad
May 2024Every few weeks for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club.
Daniel Radcliffe Explains His Erection (and His Wild New Sundance Movie)
May 2024Sometimes, the official logline for a Sundance movie simply doesn’t do it justice. Take Swiss Army Man, the new film starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival yesterday.
Daryl Dixon Is Stuck in a Walking Dead Feedback Loop
May 2024Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) isn’t the problem in his titular show — the issues are nearly everything else.
DC Comics Announces Its New Superman Is Bisexual
May 2024Just in time for National Coming Out Day, DC Comics has announced that its new Superman, Jon Kent, is bisexual.
Drag Race Alum Valentina Steals In the Heights With Just One Line
May 2024It’s her! Valentina! This week, the 30-year-old entertainer makes her film debut with In the Heights, looking gorgeous as ever decked out in golden hoop earrings, orange diva shades, and thigh-high boots.
Eugenio Derbez to Undergo Complicated Surgery Following Accident
May 2024Eugenio Derbez. Eugenio Derbez, the Mexican television and film actor who starred in the Oscar-winning movie CODA, will undergo a “complicated surgery” after he sustained injuries from an accident.
Every Christian Bale Movie Performance, Ranked
May 2024There’s a no-bullshit quality to Christian Bale’s persona — both onscreen and off — that’s been the hallmark of actor’s actors since Marlon Brando.
Fabolous and Ray J Had Their Own Fight in Vegas This Weekend
May 2024The boxing aficionados among you will know that Floyd Mayweather defeated Victor Ortiz in a highly controversial fight on Saturday.
Feel the Christmas Spirit With Boccamazzo Construction
May 2024“This is the first wall that our father ever built, back in 1962 … It’s pretty simple back then, it’s just cinder block and mortar, you know?
Female Celebrities Still Cant Break Through the Glass Ceiling of Voice-over Work
May 2024In the indie comedy In a World … , Lake Bell plays a vocal coach attempting to break into the lucrative voice-over industry, a field of work so traditionally male-dominated that even her father, a legend in the industry, doesn’t think she can make it.
Full List of 2019 Emmy Winners:Fleabag Cleans Up
May 2024The 2019 Emmys have come and gone, which means only one thing: Hot Girl Summer is over, and Hot Girl Awards Season is well underway.
Gil Birmingham Does Not Recommend Running in Cowboy Boots
May 2024If you’re filming something set in the American West, you call Gil Birmingham. He’s such a staple of the genre — appearing in everything from The Lone Ranger to Wind River — you might not realize the former bodybuilder’s first onscreen appearance was a Diana Ross video (and what a video it is).
Half of Flyana Boss Is Pregnant
May 2024Hello Christ? I’m ‘bout to grin again, because half of Flyana Boss is pregnant. On July 4, the duo that took over TikTok by sprinting down streets to their hit single “You Wish” posted a video teasing a snippet of a new track called “Hot Butter Summertime.
Here Are All the Winners of the 2023 Tribeca Festival
May 2024The 2023 Tribeca Festival has come and gone, leaving us with news of a Robert De Niro convention … and, of course, a bunch of new winners to look forward to.
Home Alone 2 Star Weighs In on George Clooneys Career
May 2024What, are we getting a full review of The Apprentice movie next? Home Alone 2 cast member and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to criticize George Clooney’s acting projects.
How The Twilight Zone Re-created a Timeless Opening Title Sequence for 2019
May 2024While only one episode of Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone revival dares to redo a narrative from Rod Serling’s original series (albeit a much more modernized version), there was a certain strand of creative DNA nobody was going to screw around with: the opening sequence.
How Well Can You Tell Dragon Ball Zs Spiky Haircuts Apart? A Super-Hard Quiz
May 2024Despite an independent release and a budget of only $5 million, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection “F” is on pace to be the sleeper hit of the summer.
Janelle Mone Always Travels With Suitcases Full of Elaborate Costumes
May 2024Janelle Monáe. When Janelle Monáe packs for a long stint on set, she brings only the essentials: clothes, toiletries, and a number of trunks filled with elaborate murder-mystery costumes.
Jason Derulo, Thirst King, Returns to No. 1 After 11-Year Drought With Savage Love
May 2024In a testament to the combined powers of TikTok, BTS, and having an iconic tag as a performer, Jason Derulo is back at No.
Jay Leno Apologizes for History of Jokes About Asians
May 2024After a 15-year campaign by the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, a.k.a. MANAA, Jay Leno has issued an apology for jokes he told at the expense of Asian communities.
Jerry Seinfeld Directs an Extremely High-Concept Movie About How Pop-Tarts Are Kinda Cool
May 2024Jerry and his muse. What’s the deal with movies? Seems like Hollywood will adapt any bankable IP it can get its grubby mitts on these days, be it a book, a TV series, or a highly processed foodstuff.
Jordan Jensen Has Muffins for Brains
May 2024This week, we’re highlighting 25 talented writers and performers for Vulture’s annual list “The Comedians You Should and Will Know.
JuliaRecap: The Great French Bread Experiment
May 2024Julia Bread vs. Sweetbreads Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Julia Bread vs.
Kanye Wests Mysterious Charity Foundation Is No More
May 2024The New York Times reports today that the Kanye West Foundation, a charity founded four years ago to battle high-school dropout rates (get it?
Kate McKinnons 20 Best SNL Moments
May 2024Kate McKinnon joined the cast of Saturday Night Live at a transitional moment in the show’s storied history. With five episodes left in season 37 in 2012, she was brought in just as Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg were on their way out.
Knocked Up - Vulture
May 2024pop culture’s bravest Dec. 18, 2007 Year in Review: Judd Apatow Is the Man2007 was the year that fans who had thought themselves alone in their worship of Judd Apatow watched in bewilderment, then wonder, then outright joy as all of America suddenly and unexpectedly agreed with them.
Lorde Just Explained a Crucial Piece of #Teen Slang
May 2024As you may have heard, Kim Kardashian broke the internet this week with a picture of her butt. One such person who found their internet broken was Lorde, who tweeted the image alongside one word of commentary: mom.
Lori Petty Answers Every Question We Have About A League of Their Own
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.
Love LifeRecap: Bro Code
May 2024Love Life Yogi & Kian Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love Life Yogi & Kian Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Marcus hasn’t had an easy time.
Mad Men Recap: Business As Usual
May 2024Mad Men Indian Summer Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mad Men Indian Summer Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Toward the end of “Indian Summer,” Pete Campbell, playacting a fantasy of triumph by sitting at Don Draper’s desk, notices a package wrapped in brown paper marked Private and takes it home to see if there’s anything in it that he can use.
Mad Men Recap: What Do Women Want?
May 2024Mad Men Babylon Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mad Men Babylon Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » New York is Israel, Israel is Utopia, Utopia is Babylon, and Babylon is New York.
Mike Birbiglia Announces The New One 2017 Tour Dates
May 2024Mike Birbiglia is hitting the road this summer. Birbiglia recently announced that his tour, titled The New One, will make stops in Montreal, Charleston, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and more and runs from late July through mid-December.
New London Has Fallen Trailer: Get Ready for More Gerard Butler and More Explosions
May 2024Remember Olympus Has Fallen? Okay, well, now bad things are happening in London. This is what it’s going to look like: explosions, Gerard Butler, more explosions, more Gerard Butler, maybe a little Morgan Freeman, more explosions, and then a creepy, Avengers-ified version of “London Bridge.
No One Ever Loses a Fight in the Fast and the Furious Franchise
May 2024Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and a box (not shown). In Furious 7, Nathalie Emmanuel’s super-hacker sizes up the entire Fast gang in a single short monologue pegging everyone’s roles.
Only Murders in the Building Recap: All Is Not OK in NYC
May 2024Only Murders in the Building Sparring Partners Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Only Murders in the Building Sparring Partners Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After revealing that Detective Kreps is Glitter Person, Only Murders in the Building, blessedly, wastes little time digging into what that means.
Opening Night at the Whitney Biennial: The Art Crowd Is Not Impressed
May 2024Mika Rottenberg’s Valkyrian milkmaids.Courtesy of the artist and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery; Image courtesy of The Whitney Museum of American Art
Painkiller Series-Premiere Recap: The Quite Literal Opiate of the Masses
May 2024Painkiller The One To Start With, The One To Stay With / Jesus Gave Me Water Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Painkiller The One To Start With, The One To Stay With / Jesus Gave Me Water Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Over the last few years, we have had a bumper crop of shows about When Medicine Goes Bad, a subcategory of white-collar true crime.
Paul Bettany Answers Every Question We Have About A Knights Tale
May 2024For actor Paul Bettany, all roads lead back to the one he trudges down in A Knight’s Tale. The argument holds water when you consider how his American studio-feature-film debut planted the seeds for a robust screen-acting career that has put the BAFTA-nominated performer toe-to-toe with Tom Hanks (The Da Vinci Code) and Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), had him co-leading prestigious small-screen and indie dramas (Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber, Margin Call), and launched him into some of today’s largest entertainment franchises with Solo: A Star Wars Story and, of course, 13 years voicing J.
Please Begin Memorizing This Insane James Franco Monologue From Spring Breakers
May 2024What do you get when you mix together an MTV Cribs episode, a pinch of Jay Gatsby’s shirt-slinging, a soupçon of Alec Baldwin’s tour de force scene from Glengarry Glen Ross, and more than a healthy helping of Riff Raff in East Brazilia?
Primavera Sound Is Sad Girls and Gays Only (Also Disclosure)
May 2024Omar Apollo, pass the vape. The 2024 Primavera Sound lineup was just released, and, if we’re talking moods (or drugs; it is a festival), it’s giving downers instead of uppers.
Ramy Youssef on the First Israel-Palestine Joke He Wrote After 10/7
May 2024More Feelings is out March 23 on HBO. Listen to the full conversation on Vulture’s Good One podcast on April 2.
Real Housewives of New York City Recap: You Dont Have to Be Angela Lansbury to Know Something Sti
May 2024The Real Housewives of New York City Real Heartache Season 3 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There was a time, we are now embarrassed to admit, when we found the sight of this group of skinny, shallow women squabbling with one another funny, or at least entertaining.
Red Riding Hood - Vulture
May 2024the industry July 7, 2010 Industry Roundup: Irons, MadsenPlus: Ryan Seacrest thinks he can (make a show) about dance. By Josh Duboff
Remembering the Other Great Movie Version of Much Ado About Nothing
May 2024As with most Shakespeare plays, there are many adaptations of the O.G. rom-com Much Ado About Nothing. The BBC did two versions, one starring Damien Lewis as Benedick; there’s a Berlioz opera and World war II–era musical (plus an in-the-works rock version by Billie Joe Armstrong); and then there are the films.
Samuel E. Wright, Voice of The Little Mermaids Sebastian, Dead at 74
May 2024Two-time Tony nominee and voice of Sebastian in Disney’s The Little Mermaid Samuel E. Wright died yesterday at his home in Walden, New York, of prostate cancer.
Saturday Night Live Season-Premiere Recap: Pete Davidson Strikes the Right Tone
May 2024Saturday Night Live Pete Davidson Season 49 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Pete Davidson Season 49 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Live from New York, it’s … a horrifying humanitarian crisis.
Scott Foleys Favorite SNL Sketch Starred His Camp Counselor, Chris Farley
May 2024Scott Foley’s favorite SNL sketch also happens to star his former camp counselor, Chris Farley. (The camp was Wisconsin’s Red Arrow Camp.
Seitz: Great Cast, Great Production Design. So Why Is Flowers in the Attic So Unsatisfying?
May 2024Can we assume that an adaptation of a book that sold 40 million copies does not require a spoiler-sensitive review?
Sin Nombre Director Cary Fukunaga on Poverty Porn and Why His Next Film Might Be a Musical
May 2024Just 31, NYU-film-school alum Cary Fukunaga made his feature debut on Friday with the release of Sin Nombre, the harrowing story of a young Honduran woman who falls in with a Mexican gang member as she attempts to cross the American border on a dangerous train.
Sincerely Kelela
May 2024Raven is her first album in nearly six years. The wait was intentional. Photo: Clifford Prince Kelela’s 2013 debut mixtape, Cut 4 Me, is a wondrous recombinant of flesh and tone, metal and concrete — its industrial clanging, furious dance beats, and warbling synths providing the backbone for a voice that is at once soft and ferocious.
Sounds Like A Cult - Vulture
May 2024best of 2022 Dec. 6, 2022 The Best Podcasts of 2022Forget the celebrity brand extensions. The art of podcasting is still as vibrant as ever.
Supergirl Recap: Martian Roulette
May 2024Supergirl Survivors Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Supergirl Survivors Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Melissa Benoist as Supergirl, Chyler Leigh as Alex.
Supernatural Recap: Angel Food for Thought
May 2024Supernatural Meta Fiction Season 9 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Supernatural Meta Fiction Season 9 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Like any TV series that produces 22 episodes a year, Supernatural’s writers grew real tired of the format pretty early on.
Tamara Jenkins on Popping the Big Question in Private Life
May 2024The Gold Rush Brought to you by The Gold Rush Brought to you by Once again, Vulture is speaking to the screenwriters behind the awards season’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack.
The 10 Best Movies of 2017
May 2024number10 Phantom Thread Hushed, creepy, a shade absurd: It’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s portrait of the artist as a man who must orchestrate every aspect of his existence in order to create, and the destabilizing impact of a love relationship in which he’s forced to cede some control.
The 10 Most Ridiculous Portuguese Translations of Judd Apatow Movie Titles
May 2024As a Portuguese fan of comedy, I’ve been plagued by ludicrous translations of American movie titles. Thing do tend to get lost in translation all my life.
The 2024 Grammy Award Winners
May 2024If you’d rather watch Taylor Swift win stuff than watch her watch her boyfriend win stuff, good news: Swift is up for six Grammys this year.
The 2024 Tony Awards Winners
May 2024The 2023-24 theater season is finally coming to a close. It was a year with water features (Days of Wine and Roses and The Notebook) and rain (The Outsiders and Uncle Vanya) and fire (Suffs) and puppets (Water for Elephants) and one floating car (Back to the Future).
The 21 Best Witch Movies of All Time
May 2024This list was originally published in 2017 as part of Vulture’s Witch Week. We’ve added more movies and we’re republishing in honor of Hocus Pocus 2.
The 6 Wildest Stories From Leonardo DiCaprios Long, Party-Filled History
May 2024507231353TH014_7TH_ANNUAL_O Part-time actor, part-time manimal Leonardo DiCaprio continues to stun us ordinary residents of planet Earth with his nonpareil ability to aggressively enjoy life.
The Best Episode for Each Gilmore Girls Character
May 2024TCDGIGI EC001 This post originally ran on September 26, 2014. We are re-running it in advance of the new season of Gilmore Girls.
The Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream When Its Raining on Vacation
May 2024Into every vacation a little rain must fall, but what the heck are you going to do when you’d rather be out surfing, tubing, or terrorizing people with water balloons?
The Big Bang Theory: I Fought the In-Law and the In-Law Won
May 2024The Big Bang Theory The Line Substitution Solution Season 9 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Line Substitution Solution Season 9 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg).
The Good Wife Recap: A Knife in the Back
May 2024The Good Wife Season 2 Episode 17 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife Season 2 Episode 17 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s a certain trope in action and horror movies when a main character fights off her enemies and emerges bloody and triumphant, only to be taken down mid-jubilation by a knife to the back.
The Good Wife Recap: Chopped Balls and Botched Investigations
May 2024The Good Wife Innocents Season 7 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Good Wife Innocents Season 7 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Partway through my viewing of last night’s episode of The Good Wife, I texted a buddy, “I haven’t felt this way in a really long time!
The Haunting of Hill House Recap: Sensitivity Training
May 2024The Haunting of Hill House Touch Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Haunting of Hill House Touch Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When I first heard the premise for this show, I was skeptical.
The Patient Recap: Safe Space
May 2024The Patient Alan Learns to Meditate Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Patient Alan Learns to Meditate Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are oodles of horror stories that turn on a sadistic captor attempting to extract something out of a prisoner.
The Paul Walker Jokes That Were in Biebers TV Roast Are No More
May 2024Justin Bieber onstage during the roast. Although celebrity roasts are never recommended for the politically correct or the faint of heart, The Hollywood Reporter writes that Comedy Central will omit the Paul Walker jokes that were made last weekend at Justin Bieber’s no-holds-barred roast because they were too insensitive.
The Radical Power Reversal of Nadjas What We Do in the Shadows Costumes
May 2024Starting in season three, “there was freedom to go bigger” with Nadja’s What We Do in the Shadows costumes, said designer Laura Montgomery.
The Scarface Reboot Script Is in the Hands of the Coen Brothers Now
May 2024They never punched up a script in their lives that didn’t have it coming to them. According to Variety, Joel and Ethan Coen are currently “polishing” the screenplay to Universal’s Scarface reboot.
The Showrunner Transcript: Breaking Bads Vince Gilligan on Season Four and His Experiences on The
May 2024In this week’s issue, New York magazine surveyed fourteen of the top TV showrunners about their process and craft. All during upfront week, we’ll be running longer transcripts of these conversations: some will include extended answers to our questionnaire, some will break free altogether, but all will provide a revealing and insightful look into the minds of the people who make our appointment television.
The Tonight Show: Watch Lewis Black Go Off on QAnon
May 2024Which do you think Lewis Black is more upset by: QAnon or bean bag chairs? The answer may surprise you.
The Winchesters Series-Premiere Recap: How I Magically Met Your Mother
May 2024The Winchesters Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Winchesters Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » By the time Supernatural ended its 15-season run in 2020, it seemed as if the series had wrung out every possible story line.
Theater Review: A Coriolanus Amid the Wreckage
May 2024From Coriolanus, at the Delacorte in Central Park. Coriolanus is not training-wheels Shakespeare. At almost 4,000 lines, it’s the second-longest play in the canon, beat out only by its far more popular younger brother Hamlet.
Theater Review: Discovery and Rediscovery in By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
May 2024From Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, at the Signature Theatre Company. Lynn Nottage remains the only woman to have won the Pulitzer for Drama twice, first in 2009 for Ruined and again in 2017 for Sweat.
Theater Review: I and You and a Plot Twist, Too
May 2024L-R: Kayla Ferguson and Reggie D. White in I AND YOU, written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Sean Daniels, at 59E59 Theaters.
This Is UsRecap: The Secret Ingredient
May 2024This Is Us Taboo Season 6 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us Taboo Season 6 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Can anyone really say it better than Beth Pearson does here when she is forced to explain why her sweet, kind husband is being a real dummy if he thinks Thanksgiving this year is going to be “rewarding and drama-free?
Tom Brady Says Hes Leaving Boston, on St. Patricks Day of All Days
May 2024Timing is, of course, everything. Which is why we’re sending our thoughts to Boston today, St. Patrick’s Day, after its parade cancellation in the middle of a frickin’ quarantine, because Tom Brady posted a good-bye note to the New England Patriots.
Tom Cruise Confirms His Big Valkyrie Butt Was Real, and It Was Spectacular
May 2024It’s Tom Cruise’s big butt and he cannot lie. In August, an eagle-eyed Valkyrie viewer, amazed by the thickness on display, suggested that the actor was using some sort of movie magic.
Transparent Series Premiere Recap: Are You My Soul Mate?
May 2024Transparent Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Transparent Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » As a queer Jewess living in Los Angeles, I was excited to see that a show about a Jewish family living in Los Angeles with one or more queer members had found a place in the world.
Trap Bunny Is Back, and He Brought Company
May 2024Bad to the Bun. We missed you, Trap Bunny. On October 13, Bad Bunny dropped his new album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana.
Trevor Moore - Vulture
May 2024remembrances Aug. 10, 2021 Remembering Trevor Moore Through Some of His Funniest WorkDive into these clips featuring the late Whitest Kids U’ Know mastermind.
True Detective Season-Premiere Recap: The End of the World
May 2024True Detective Part 1 Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » True Detective Part 1 Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Welcome back to the eerie world of True Detective.
Tupac Shakurs Handwritten Lyrics Are Going Up for Sale
May 2024Tupac Shakur. If you’re looking for a way to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Tupac’s death, you’re in luck: TMZ reports that a memorabilia company is selling off Tupac’s handwritten lyrics for “Catchin’ Feelings,” off his posthumous album Better Dayz.
Twin Peaks: The Return Is Riveting, Horrifying, and Patience-Taxing
May 2024David Lynch as Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks: The Return. The return of Twin Peaks went more or less as I anticipated, given how series co-creator David Lynch has developed as a filmmaker since the original series aired.
Warrants Jani Lane Dead at 47
May 2024Jani Lane, front man for archetypal hair-metal band Warrant, was found dead yesterday in a Los Angeles hotel room. The band has remained active in some form (both with and without Lane) since forming in the early eighties, but had their biggest success in the middle part of that decade, with the hit singles “Heaven,” “Down Boys,” and “Cherry Pie.
Watch Ted Leo and Aimee Mann Play TV Theme Songs
May 2024You truly haven’t heard the theme from M*A*S*H until you’ve heard it harmonized by Ted Leo and Aimee Mann. In addition to being rock stars in their own right, Leo and Mann have recently formed a dynamic duo called the Both, and when we found out they were willing to do an exclusive live session for us, we gave them an odd challenge: create a medley of great TV theme songs.
Wednesday Recap: Burn, Baby, Burn
May 2024Wednesday Friend or Woe Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wednesday Friend or Woe Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wednesday’s kidnappers quickly reveal themselves, and the truth is underwhelming to both Wednesday and me: It’s just a bunch of the other students we’ve already met, dressed up in their Nightshades gear.
Were Here Recap: Silos and Strip Malls
May 2024We’re Here Sussex, New Jersey Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We’re Here Sussex, New Jersey Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Remember a week ago when I said We’re Here deserved acclaim for its casting because that department really knew when to take swings on people and trust that things would work out?
What to Expect from Jim Carreys 70s L.A. Comedy TV Series on Showtime
May 2024This week Vulture is running a series of stories about the comedy produced in, and inspired by, New York and Los Angeles.
What Will I Do Without That Guy?
May 2024As the end of Better Call Saul approaches, Giancarlo Esposito wants more time with Gus Fring. Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Telivision Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Telivision Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun!
Whats New on Netflix: January 2015
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.
Whats the Deal With That Bar Rule in Top Gun: Maverick? An Investigation.
May 2024A lot happens in Top Gun: Maverick that mighttake your breath away. After finally watching the biggest movie of the year, though, I could think of one thing only: the weird rule about phones in that bar.
Will Ferrell Provides Infinitely More Cowbell for Chris Martins Viva la Vida Charity Perfor
May 2024Remember back in 2016 when Coldplay’s Chris Martin couldn’t stop revealing all the huge performers, from Bowie to Beyoncé, that didn’t want to collaborate with Coldplay or play songs they wrote?
You Need to Watch All of Echo
May 2024Marvel is always gonna Marvel, but Echo reflects some level of commitment to shaking up the MCU status quo in 2024.
You Season Two Ends With an Arch, Revelatory Twist
May 2024Love is all he needs. There is a look that settles across Joe Goldberg’s face in the finale of You’s second season that I can’t get out of my head.
10 Terrible TV and Movie Detectives
May 2024Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice hit the big screen last weekend and tells the tale of a particularly crap (and perpetually stoned) gumshoe named Larry “Doc” Sportello who is roped into a missing-person case by his ex-girlfriend.
23 Wonderful Short Books to Read Now
May 2024Enjoyable as it is to immerse yourself in an inches-thick work of fiction, having the time — and focus — to do so is increasingly a luxury.
30 Comedians Give Advice to Their Younger Selves
May 2024When photographer Mindy Tucker first started regularly photographing comedians in New York in 2008, she saw it as a way to hang out with her friends and hone her art skills.
A Complete List of All 196 Surgeries Performed on Nip/Tuck
May 2024TCDNITU EC029 It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since Nip/Tuck premiered on FX and brought both plastic surgery and titular slash marks to the mainstream in a way not seen since the 1997 action flick Face/Off.
A Film Producer Is Tweeting Out Terrible Descriptions of Female Characters in Scripts
May 2024Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. When you’re creating a female character for your film, you’ve got a lot of choices.
Amy Adams Cant Win Her Oscar This Way
May 2024Not like this. Not. Like. This. When I was 12 years old, I remember killing time in my grandmother’s basement watching a DVD for the only R-rated movie I could find, Junebug.
An Appreciation of St. Vincents Guitar Skills
May 2024Classical mythology is malleable. Take the origin of Athena. Was it Prometheus, Ares, or Hephaestus who cleaved open Zeus’s head, thus allowing the patron goddess of Athens and future inventor of the flute to spring forth?
Andrew Garfield Wants to Be a Normie
May 2024Similar to the episode of Spongebob, where he wants to be normal, Andrew Garfield wants to be “ordinary.
Anna Uddenbergs Perverted Performative Sculpture
May 2024Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen.
Atlanta Season-Premiere Recap: For the Culture
May 2024Atlanta The Most Atlanta Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta The Most Atlanta Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In its fourth and final season, Atlanta returns to the Peach State after following Earn, Alfred, Darius, and Van as they journeyed through Europe during Paper Boi’s tour.
Below Deck: Mediterranean Recap: NSFW
May 2024Below Deck Mediterranean In a Bind Season 7 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean In a Bind Season 7 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I know we have some housekeeping to take care of, but I couldn’t write this without diving headfirst into nudity and BDSM.
Ben Schwartz on This Is Where I Leave You and Parks and Recreation Sadness
May 2024Ben Schwartz. Adored by Parks and Recreation devotees as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein, Pawnee’s favorite trust-fund deadbeat, comedian Ben Schwartz makes a foray into drama with a critical role in Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You.
Best Haircut: Robin Wright on House of Cards
May 2024House of Cards is not a flawless show. There are some great moments from Kevin Spacey’s direct-to-camera smarm, but there is also some truly terrible dialogue about how blogs work.
Blur Is Back, With an Album So Good Even Noel Gallagher Likes It
May 2024The Magic Whip is Blur’s first record in 12 years. Nobody’s buying many albums these days, certainly not like they were in the late ’90s and early aughts during Blur’s commercial peak.
Bob Costas Critiques Ryan Lochtes Post-Olympics Image Rehab, Is Mostly Happy Hes No Longer a B
May 2024What will people remember from this summer’s Olympic games? Bob Costas, on last night’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, said that he doesn’t think it will be the now-infamous incident in which Ryan Lochte and his teammates drunkenly vandalized a gas-station bathroom and then claimed they were robbed at gunpoint.
Breaking Bads Jesse Plemons on Psycho Todd, the Shoot-out, and Whats in Store for Jesse
May 2024Jesse Plemons. The last time we spoke to Jesse Plemons about Breaking Bad, his character, Todd, had just shot and killed a child with zero remorse.
Brittany Howards Solo Mission
May 2024After critical acclaim with the Alabama Shakes, the fiery frontwoman goes it alone. Photo: Pari Dukovic for New York Magazine The quest to craft a follow-up to the Alabama Shakes’ 2015 Grammy-winning opus, Sound & Color, was marred by a lengthy bout of writer’s block.
Brockhamptons Final Album, The Family, Is Out, But Anothers on the Way
May 2024Update, November 17: The Family is here — but Brockhampton has one more for the road. Upon the release of their “final” album, the hip-hop collective announces another album, TM, will be out tomorrow, November 18.
But Thankfully The Wind - Vulture
May 2024but thankfully the wind May 26, 2024 The Original Shōgun Miniseries Is Finally StreamingIn his secret heart, Toronaga-sama is pleased.
Chicago Comedian Dan Ronan Passed Away on Friday
May 2024Chicago-based comedian Dan Ronan passed away Friday at the tragically young age of 24. Ronan, who began doing comedy at 15, was a writer/performer for The Late Live Show and a regular at The Lincoln Lodge and other spots around the Chicago comedy scene.
Chris DElia, Ron Funches, and More Are Promoting NBCs Undateable on the Road
May 2024Comedy Central’s Broad City isn’t the only show implementing a live tour into its promotional plans. According to Deadline, the midseason NBC series Undateable – created by Adam Sztykiel and executive produced by Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence – is also taking to the road next month on a multi-city tour.
Chris Pratt Sent Nick Offerman Poop Shaped in the Letter N; Offerman Calls Pratt the Michelangelo
May 2024Fit Pratt. Welcome to the Second Summer of Chris Pratt. Can you feel the heat (err, chill)? GQ has the scoop on everyone’s favorite former dadbod, who reprised many classic Pratt topics: his shiny, blockbuster-friendly body; his penchant for whipping out his junk in public; and the extra-special BMs he saves for his Parks and Recreation castmates.
Climax Trailer: Gaspar No Made a Wild Dance-Horror Movie
May 2024Director Gaspar Noé is used to taking us to cinematic extremes in movies like Irreversible, Enter the Void, and Love, but for his latest salvo, Noé has given us … a dance movie!
Coachellas Gayest Moments, Ranked
May 2024The first week of Coachella 2024 confirmed what lesbian stan armies on X and TikTok already know: Many of mainstream music’s most exciting stars are here, and they are very queer.
Colette Trailer: Keira Knightley Returns to Her True Passion, Old-Timey Scandals
May 2024The very British cast of Colette is here to introduce you to a very French scandal. Keira Knightley and an assemblage of tiny hats play Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, whose husband Willy (a pouty Dominic West) convinces her to write a novel based on her own experiences, which he brands as his own, and which becomes a runaway success.
Come, Little Millennials, the Hocus Pocus 2 Teaser Will Take Thee Away
May 2024“Sam Richardson runs a magic shop” should be a good enough logline to carry a movie. Instead, it’s but one moment in the first teaser trailer for Disney’s long-awaited sequel to Halloween favorite Hocus Pocus that homes in on a new generation of teens dabbling in witchcraft.
Conan OBrien, Chris Rock, Colin Quinn, and More Show Up in the Trailer for Adam Sandlers Sa
May 2024The latest project in Adam Sandler’s four-movie Netflix deal is the ‘90s-set Sandy Wexler, in which Sandler stars as a talent manager who “represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business.
Cozying Up to Coldplay Hits at the Apollo Is Only Half As Surreal As It Sounds
May 2024Chris Martin is the perfect vessel for songs like “Clocks” that pull you in as long as you allow yourself to surrender to the sentimental sincerity of it all.
DaBaby Makes New Apology in Live Return Before Calling Critics Crybabies
May 2024DaBaby returned to the stage on August 22, at Hot 97 Summer Jam, the only major event not to cancel his appearance following anti-AIDS and -LGBTQ comments at Rolling Loud Miami in July.
Daisy Edgar-Jones Is Moving So Far Away From the Carole King Biopic
May 2024Daisy Edgar-Jones was set to weave herself into the tapestry of Carole King’s life, but the actor is no longer involved in the biopic.
David Lettermans Netflix Show Reminds Us of the Value of the Talk-Show Interview
May 2024David Letterman chatting with George Clooney in the second episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Interviews are the foundation in the structure of the late-night talk show.
Director Agnieszka Holland Poured Her Own Bedridden Childhood Into 1993s The Secret Garden
May 2024The 1993 adaptation is one of the best children’s movies ever made. We don’t talk about it, or director Agnieszka Holland, enough.
Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie Join Winnie-the-Pooh Creator Biopic
May 2024Good hair, the both of them. While Disney preps its live-action Winnie-the-Pooh movie, Fox is making a movie about his creator.
Edelstein: The Gorgeous Life of Pi Is Transcendent
May 2024For Life of Pi, the overcontrolled director Ang Lee has gone with his strengths and made a movie that’s passionately overcontrolled.
Elvis Presley - Vulture
May 2024shake rattle and roll June 24, 2022 Onscreen Elvises, RankedIt’s hard not to get lost inside an impression when playing the King.
Erik Bergstrom Went From the Cancer Ward to Comedy Central
May 2024When comedian Erik Bergstrom was diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2015, he had no idea what cancer would do for his career.
Every Good Show Needs a Good Stand-alone Episode
May 2024High Fidelity’s “Simon’s Top Five” and Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet’s “A Dark Quiet Death” take a break from the shows’ main protagonists to tell stories about someone else entirely.
Every Wedding on Greys Anatomy, Ranked
May 2024This article was originally published on May 17, 2018. In honor of the 15th anniversary of our favorite Grey’s Anatomy wedding, we’ve updated the list with additional nuptials.
Everybody Hurts, Even Bill Berry
May 2024😎 We’re sending a big, virtual hug to this unibrowed legend. Bill Berry left R.E.M. in 1997, two years after he suffered a brain aneurysm while the band was touring in Europe.
Everything You Need to Know About Beyoncs New Visual Album, Lemonade
May 2024Ring the alarm: Beyoncé has done it again. As many (namely her BeyHive) expected, Beyoncé’s Lemonade HBO special turned out to also be the premiere of her entire new visual album, which then dropped exclusively on Tidal — though it is now available on iTunes — during the broadcast.
Frank Ocean Wrote a Song for Django Unchained
May 2024LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 06: Recording artist Frank Ocean arrives at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards at Staples Center on September 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Game of Thrones Noah Taylor on Locke, Jaime Lannisters Hand, and Being a TV-Less Luddite
May 2024Noah Taylor, a.k.a. Locke from Game of Thrones. When we were first introduced to Locke on Game of Thrones, he was a stand-in for Vargo Hoat, the lispy mercenary aligned with Roose Bolton who orders Jaime Lannister’s sword hand to be chopped off in George R.
Greys Anatomy Recap: Comings and Goings
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy Tradition Season 17 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Tradition Season 17 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh, Japril shippers, have you come back down from that high you’ve been riding since learning two weeks ago that our, let’s call it improbable, dream of a reunion between Jackson and April as a romantic couple came true?
Hamiltons Online Lottery Had a Horrible Opening Performance
May 2024No one gets seats! New York City recently decided to embrace winter, and to keep crowds of people from shivering outside on 46th Street (and, come on, let’s give Lin-Manuel Miranda a break), Hamilton decided to move its beloved Ham4Ham lottery online today.
Heres How You Can Watch Aretha Franklins Funeral
May 2024The funeral for legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin will take place at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, this Friday, and the general public will be able to watch live.
How the Internet Made (and Almost Broke) Skinamarink
May 2024Kyle Edward Ball’s movie leaked and went viral before becoming a hit in theaters. He wishes it had gone differently.
I Kill Giants Is a Strange, Moving Tale of Childhood Grief and Fantasy
May 2024I Kill Giants feels secret and dangerous, like a VHS tape dug out of a dusty crate at a yard sale; it’s the kind of movie you ended up watching every week as a kid just because of how weird it made you feel.
Iggy Azalea Reveals She Has a Son Who Is Not a Secret, Just Private
May 2024Iggy Azalea has something new to share with the world, and it’s not new music. On Wednesday, June 10, the “Fancy” rapper announced that she has a son via Instagram.
Is It Safe to Go to a Concert Right Now?
May 2024“It’s impossible to avoid this completely.” With New York becoming the latest place to ban large gatherings (of more than 500, in the state’s case) and Live Nation and AEG — the two biggest live entertainment companies — pausing its international and domestic arena tours through at least March, concerts are looking to become significantly rarer in the coming days due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Janeane Garofalo on Botox, Spanx, and Finding Work
May 2024Janeane Garofalo is a woman of contradictions: When we last saw the former Air America talk-show host, she was on 24 — the show that likes to debate torture, but always comes down on the side of testicle-zapping.
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Are Divorcing
May 2024One of the music world’s most high-profile marriages is over. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are divorcing, the couple said today in a joint statement: “We have decided to end our marriage.
Joel Edgerton Circling a Role in the Upcoming Jennifer Lawrence Spy Thriller Red Sparrow
May 2024It looks like Joel Edgerton is punching his ticket to board the Jennifer Lawrence train: He’s currently in talks to co-star with her in the spy thriller Red Sparrow.
John Mulaneys John Mulaney Trap
May 2024John Mulaney in Baby J. Baby J, the latest stand-up from John Mulaney, is a herculean effort, but what exactly that effort aims to achieve is not entirely clear.
Killer Mikes New Merch Line Features a Hacked Hillary Clinton Campaign Email About, Yup, Killer M
May 2024Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike spent the last year supporting Bernie Sanders as the potential Democratic nominee, and as the Podesta hack reveals, the Clinton campaign definitely took notice.
Lets Talk About the Ending of Split
May 2024James McAvoy in Split. This post discusses the ending of Split in detail. Few filmmakers working in Hollywood are more famous for their endings than M.
Maggie Siff on Playing Characters Who Die and Those Billions Sex Scenes
May 2024Maggie Siff is not in Charming, California, anymore. After a six-season run on FX’s Sons of Anarchy as Tara, the doctor-wife of motorcycle gangster Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the actress has landed on Showtime’s new drama Billions as Wendy, psychiatrist wife of U.
Martin Scorsese Praises Leonardo DiCaprios Flirtation Skills
May 2024Leonardo DiCaprio missed out on a Best Actor nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon, but based on what filmmaker Martin Scorsese has said about his improv skills during the film’s production, DiCaprio might be our new king of comedy.
Mayfair Witches Recap: Well That Was Infuriating
May 2024Mayfair Witches Second Line Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mayfair Witches Second Line Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, Mayfair Witches continues its semi-lucid plod along a storyline while I, your dogged tour guide, plod dutifully along with it.
MILF Manor Is the Worst Thing I Watched This Year
May 2024Day 24: How Low Can You Go? Twenty-five moments, one per day in the walkup to Christmas, that brought definition to reality TV’s ever-blurring lines in 2023.
Morgan Freeman Accused of Sexually Harassing 8 Women
May 2024Freeman. A new CNN investigation has uncovered multiple accusations of misconduct against Morgan Freeman. According to the report, eight women allege being sexually harassed by Freeman on set and in interviews, with eight other witnesses corroborating their stories.
NeNe Leakes, Newly Free From Bravo, Calls Andy Cohen Racist on Twitter
May 2024NeNe Leakes. NeNe Leakes is enjoying her time out from under Bravo. The actress and reality-TV star swiftly responded to some mess she saw on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Twitter, calling Andy Cohen “racist” and accusing Williams of being “on cocaine” more than once.
New on Netflix: August 2018
May 2024At the beginning of (and during) each month, Netflix adds new movies and TV shows to its library. Below, you’ll find our August 2018 new-on-Netflix recommendations along with a full list of new titles.
Niecy Nash Is Good at Sex Scenes
May 2024Niecy Nash has one handy tip for doing a convincing sex scene: Just be really good at sex.
OITNBs Yael Stone: Lorna Definitely Climaxed in That Sex Scene With Vinny During Visiting Hours
May 2024Yael Stone. Very few of the inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary are shy about sex on Orange Is the New Black: Getting it on always requires a little creativity and zero shame.
Raha Naddaf Author Archive
May 2024the pains of castamere June 3, 2013 Dread vs. Shock: The Two Red Wedding ReactionsGame of Thrones viewers had very different experiences, depending on whether or not they knew where the episode was going.
Read Broship of the Rings, a Buddy Road-Trip Retelling
May 2024Noelle Stevenson, who has many more delightful LoTR-inspired drawings, notes that her project is not “a hipster Lord of the Rings,” as some have called it, but “just the Broship.
Ringo Starr Will Act Naturally for a Whole Album
May 2024Confirmed: The extra R is for extra talent. Ringo Starr, like many luminaries before him, is pivoting to an era of country music with his forthcoming album.
Riverdale Recap: 6 Inches Forward and 5 Inches Back
May 2024Riverdale Wicked Little Town Season 4 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Riverdale Wicked Little Town Season 4 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hi!
Savior Complex Doubles Down
May 2024Savior Complex is a slyly simplistic title. For most of the three-episode HBO docuseries’ runtime, the term applies in the singular, a descriptor for primary figure Renee Bach.
Scenes From a MarriageRecap: An Ode to Solitude
May 2024Scenes from a Marriage The Vale of Tears Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Scenes from a Marriage The Vale of Tears Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Watching this show grows more taxing by the episode.
Sean Kingston Will Be Extradited to Florida on Fraud Charges
May 2024Sean Kingston. Sean Kingston was arrested in California on Thursday, May 23, hours after police raided his Florida home that same day.
Selena Gomez to Return to Her Musical Roots for Jacques Audiards Upcoming Film
May 2024Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña. Selena Gomez is taking a pause from true-crime podcasts and friend dates with certain a Chainsmokers member to film Jacques Audiard’s new musical, Emilia Perez.
Singer Lisa Marie Presley Dead at 54 After Hospitalization
May 2024Lisa Marie Presley at a Marc Jacobs show in 1999. Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, died on Thursday after a hospitalization earlier that day.
So, What Is The Young Pope Actually About?
May 2024Jude Law, Diane Keaton, grapes. On January 15, The Young Pope will first grace HBO with its presence.
Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
May 2024Anonymous in Hollywood Vulture’s Anonymous in Hollywood asks people to share their most unbelievable, tragic, common, hilarious reflections on the industry, no names attached.
Spiral: From the Book of Saws Director Couldnt Have Seen the Similarities Coming
May 2024There was a time when it didn’t feel like a proper Halloween until a new Saw movie hit theaters, ready to gauge out the eyes of its squeamish, enraptured audiences.
Star Trek: Discovery Midseason-Finale Recap: One Day Away From Retirement
May 2024Star Trek: Discovery Into the Forest I Go Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Discovery Into the Forest I Go Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are few things I love more than a good “one day away from retirement” setup.
Star Wars Han Solo Directors Lord and Miller Were Reportedly Fired for Improvisational Style
May 2024Now that Ron Howard has taken the reins of the untitled Star Wars Han Solo movie, we’re free to speculate on why exactly Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired.
Stephen Furst, Animal Houses Flounder, Dead at 63
May 2024Actor and comedian Stephen Furst, who’s perhaps best known for his role as Kent “Flounder” Dorfman in the seminal 1978 comedy Animal House, has died at the age of 63 due to complications with diabetes, his sons confirmed.
Strap In: Kendrick Lamars DAMN. Is Finally Here
May 2024DAMN., the man. You’ll forgive us for saying so, but Kendrick Lamar has been a bit of a tease lately.
Succession Loves Ancient Greek and Roman Myths, But What Does It All Mean?
May 2024Like a Roman among the Greeks. Succession relishes playing the name game. The regal and imperious air of the Roy family is reflected in their on-the-nose last name, Old French for “king.
Support a Nepo Baby This Holiday Season
May 2024Is the pressure of gift-giving getting you down? This year, support the entrepreneurial spirit of nepo babies who are forging their own path in the world (with, naturally, a little seed capital).
Ted Lasso Recap: Hitting Bottom
May 2024Ted Lasso International Break Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ted Lasso International Break Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » No, you didn’t miss an episode.
That Time Liz Taylor Caught Courtney Love Trying to Steal Her Pills
May 2024Courtney Love gave an absolute gift of an interview to Interview magazine, in which famous friends of hers asked Love questions about other famous friends of hers.
The 11 Best Jokes From Dave Chappelles New Netflix Specials
May 2024“I didn’t come here to be right,” Dave Chappelle says in The Bird Revelation, his fourth Netflix special of 2017.
The Big Bang Theory Recap: Prom Night
May 2024The Big Bang Theory The Prom Equivalency Season 8 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Prom Equivalency Season 8 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s prom night, or, rather, re-prom night, on The Big Bang Theory, and that means giant leaps forward for two couples.
The Complete 20-Year Timeline of the Bennifer Saga
May 2024Bennifer’s back, baby. It’s a Hollywood love story 20 years in the making. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez rekindled Bennifer over a week in Montana this May, now that the stars have realigned and they’re both single at the same time … again.
The Dog Days of Summer House
May 2024This column originally appeared in Brian Moylan’s newsletter, The Housewives Institute Bulletin. Sign up here to be the first to read the next edition.
The NYC Parks Department Is Trolling Us With Drakes Wheelchair Jimmy Meme Now
May 2024Just hold on, we’re going to Fort Greene Park. Brokelyn points out that Drake’s Degrassi character Wheelchair Jimmy has an unexpected cameo in a New York City Parks Department’s “Parks Without Borders” presentation about renovations to the historic Brooklyn park.
The Six Best Jokes From Wednesday Nights Chris Rock Show at MSG
May 2024Photo: Getty Images At the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, Chris Rock brought his A-game, even if we’d already read most of his good lines in recent profiles.
The Stories Behind 13 of Mariah Careys Biggest Hits
May 2024Along with pulling back the curtain on her glamorous, difficult, and extraordinary life, Mariah Carey’s new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, proves she is a rare musical mind — as if you didn’t already know, dahling.
The Ultimatums Roxanne Kaiser Loves Being a Girlboss
May 2024Girlboss has evolved from a term feminists fawned over to an overly memed moniker that’s found a permanent home on Rae Dunn mugs and the shelves of TJ Maxx.
Theater Review: Flashes of Brilliance, Hamstrung by Clich, in the Tupac Musical Holler If Ya Hear
May 2024As opening lines of musicals go, it’s a long road from “There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow” to “They got a nigga / Shedding tears, reminiscing on my past fears / Cause shit was hectic for me last year.
Theater Review: In Duality and Doubt, If/Then Is a Musical of City Life Now
May 2024Idina Menzel (at center) in If/Then. Elizabeth is a walking irony. An independent, die-hard New Yorker, she nevertheless moves to Phoenix to be with a husband none of her friends likes.
There Are Four Movies in Guy Ritchies The Covenant, and Two of Them Are Good
May 2024Guy Ritchie’s Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. The most touching part of Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant is the end credits, which feature snapshots of real-life American soldiers and their interpreters.
This Week in Comedy Podcasts: B.J. Novak Visits Nerdist and Dana Gould Stops By How Was You
May 2024The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable.
This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Hell and Gone, Mile Higher, 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.
Today in New Music: Ke$ha Accepts Her Mortality, Taylor Swift Still Hates Her Ex
May 2024Last night while you were sleeping, all the popular music girls got together and leaked their new songs online. Ke$ha!
Tori Spelling on the 20th Anniversary of 90210s Donna Martin Graduates Episode
May 2024This weekend, the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode that brought you “Donna Martin graduates,” the show’s most iconic line, turns twenty.
Vampire Weekend - Vulture
May 2024best of 2024 July 4, 2024 The Best Songs of 2024 (So Far)“Espresso” finally has some song-of-summer competition — from Sabrina Carpenter herself.
Vanessa Bryant Remembers Husband Kobe on What Would Have Been His 42nd Birthday
May 2024On Sunday, Vanessa Bryant, wife of Kobe Bryant, posted a heart-wrenching emotional tribute to the late NBA star, who died on January 26 alongside their 13-year-old daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, that also claimed seven other lives.
Victoria Monts On My Mama Video Looks Fly, Looks Good
May 2024Where does Victoria Monét get it from? Her mama, of course — and a few others, in her new “On My Mama” video.
Vulture Festival Is Gonna Be Weird This Year
May 2024We’ll be ‘Sitting’ with Weird Al, Henry Winkler, Amber Tamblyn, Cord Jefferson and more! Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo-Illustration: Vulture At Vulture, we do three things extremely well: sit, write, and put on a festival once a year.
Vulture Hosted a Dont Trust the B- Party Last Night
May 2024Dreama Walker, The Beek, and Krysten Ritter. Last night, Vulture hosted a party for ABC’s Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, which premieres its second season tonight at 9:30 ET.
Want to Try Were Having Gay Sex? Start Here.
May 2024Are you new to comedy podcasts, overwhelmed by the array of options, and wondering where to begin? Then welcome to “Start Here,” a recurring guide to the best comedy podcasts available — and our recommendations for which episodes are the best entry points into your next auditory obsession.
War Hero Miles Teller Fights PTSD
May 2024Miles Teller gets to be a model American citizen in his new film, Thank You for Your Service, in which he plays a war hero returning home from Iraq.
Was Kevin James Not the Original Genius Behind Paul Blart: Mall Cop?
May 2024When we first learned of Paul Blart: Mall Cop’s existence, we figured the idea for its premise was something that only Kevin James (and maybe Jody Hill) would ever publicly take credit for.
Wednesday Recap: Let the Games Begin
May 2024Wednesday Woe is the Loneliest Number Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wednesday Woe is the Loneliest Number Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We begin with a twist: Rowan, the boy who you may recall was drawn and quartered and then ripped apart some more by an unidentified monster who, for reasons unclear, spared Wednesday’s life, is … missing!
Westworld Recap: One of Us
May 2024Westworld Virtù e Fortuna Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Westworld Virtù e Fortuna Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Is it me or did Westworld just learn to have some fun?
What Is Drake Doing in Barbados?
May 2024If quarantine has shown us anything, it’s that celebrities are using this time to make some strange life choices, particularly when it comes to love.
What Will TVs Next Four Years Look Like?
May 2024This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry.
Whatll It Be? At FOOD, the End of the World As We Know It.
May 2024Thirteen years ago, in a church in Edinburgh, I saw a show that I still think about. Two nonspeaking office-drone clowns attempted to go about the day at their bleak, dingy corporate workplace.
Why Did Sasha Banks and Naomi Walk Out on WWE?
May 2024Sasha Banks and Naomi. Sasha Banks and Naomi (whose real names are Mercedes Varnado and Trinity Fatu) — two of the WWE’s biggest stars and current women’s tag-team champions — walked out of a Monday Night Raw taping on May 16, refusing to perform in the main event.
Why Is Meghan Markle Using a Fake Name?
May 2024They say that in a crisis, you learn what you’re truly made of. If that’s true, then over the course of our recent crisis of democracy, I’ve learned that I am made of Korean skin-care products and Meghan Markle’s Wikipedia page.
Why Netflixs One Day at a Time Cancellation Feels Like a Betrayal
May 2024When Netflix announced that it was cancelling One Day at a Time on Thursday, it sparked an outpouring on social media that’s long become familiar when a beloved show ends abruptly.
Why You Should Be Reading Romance Novels
May 2024Valentine’s Day is, at its best, an excuse to do what you want. Go on a fancy date, spend all night having sex, buy a bunch of sale chocolate to eat alone in the bath.
Yes, Peter Frampton Also Side-Eyed Past Rock Hall Nominations
May 2024“Listen, I screamed when I found out.” Despite a point in time where everybody in the suburbs was issued one of his albums with a sample of Tide, Peter Frampton didn’t receive his first nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame until this year — alongside contemporaries including Ozzy Osbourne, Cher, Foreigner, and Kool & the Gang on the 2024 ballot.
Tom Fec of Tobacco on Collaborating With Beck
May 2024Fec, in mask. For the last eight years, Tom Fec has made some of the most outlandish, forward-thinking indie rock around with his band Black Moth Super Rainbow and solo project Tobacco.
19 Outrageous Dennis Rodman Stories
May 2024Dennis Rodman and Vivica A. Fox at the 1997 Oscars. After ESPN’s The Last Dance spent its first two installments focusing on the Bulls’ Holy Trinity of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Phil Jackson, Sunday night’s episodes put the team’s trickster demigod Dennis Rodman in his favorite place: the spotlight.
24 Will No Longer Be Offered on Netflix Streaming
May 202424: Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) prepares to embark on a crucial mission Call out sick from work, take your dog to the nearest licensed doggie daycare facility, and strap on an adult diaper: You have until April Fools’ Day to watch any and all episodes of 24 you have yet to see, as Netflix will be removing the Fox show from their streaming queue next week.
37 Is Objectively the Funniest Number
May 2024In his classic book A Theory of Justice, philosopher John Rawls argues for liberalism as a political ideology with a thought experiment.
6 Reasons Why Men Should Give Scandal a Shot
May 2024According to Nielsen, Scandal’s audience is overwhelmingly female. Like, Lifetime-TV female. Last season, just 26 percent of Scandal viewers ages 18 to 49 were men.
A Tale Twice Told: Comparing 12 Years a Slave to 1984s TV Movie Solomon Northups Odyssey
May 2024Watching Steve McQueen’s widely acclaimed 12 Years a Slave, you may find yourself wondering why it took so long for someone to film Solomon Northup’s remarkable life story.
A$AP Rocky, Defense Lawyer for His Penis, Wont Hear Your Sex-Tape Slander
May 2024Tough day for A$AP Rocky. An alleged sex tape of the rapper was leaked, and while he might not mind so much if the reviews were stellar, folks online have been having fun at the expense of Rocky’s perceived, well, “performance.
All the Ways the New Beauty and the Beast Is Different From the Original
May 2024As most reviews have indicated, Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast stays pretty faithful to the original. Even some shots are direct mirrors from the animated classic.
An Afternoon at the Joker Stairs, New Yorks Newest Tourist Attraction
May 2024You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a tourist attraction. When the Location Managers Guild hands out its annual awards next year, they may have a hard time overlooking Joker.
Antoine Fuqua Sells Medical Drama The City to Showtime, Is Determined to Produce Everything on TV
May 2024Antoine Fuqua is continuing to sprint the marathon. Since 2013, he has directed four movies and is attached to four more this year, and now he’s signed a deal with Showtime to produce a medical drama called The City.
Ari Graynor on Her Phone-Sex Movie and Moving Beyond Best-Friend Roles
May 2024A few weeks ago, while vacationing in Paris with friends, Ari Graynor got the letters Y-E-S tattooed on her right wrist.
August 2017 Standup Roundup: Tiffany Haddish, Maz Jobrani, and More
May 2024August was a politically charged, incredibly diverse month for standup specials. By the numbers we had: a special about immigration from an immigrant, a special about border politics from a Latino, a special about finally making it from a formerly homeless woman of color, a special about “the change” from a middle-aged woman, and a special about being a nerdy white guy from a nerdy white guy.
Bad Bunny and J Balvin Are Even More Exciting Together
May 2024On Oasis, two of urbano’s titans lure or outright shove one another into new, interesting corners. Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases and other news.
Black Mirrors New Season Is a Little Light, Until It Gets Darker Than Ever
May 2024It makes sense that a surreal mind-blower of a year would end with new episodes of Black Mirror, the Netflix anthology series that is often surreal and always intent, sometimes to a fault, on blowing minds.
Claire Lampen Author Archive
May 2024oscars 2020 Feb. 11, 2020 Even Eminem Can’t Fully Explain Why He Performed at the Oscars“It was presented to me that way, and I said, ‘Oh, that’s kinda dope to not even announce it.
Clive Davis Comes Out As Bisexual
May 2024Clive Davis. Clive Davis, the 80-year-old recording industry executive and producer behind acts like Whitney Houston, Santana, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson, has come out as bisexual in his new memoir The Soundtrack of My Life.
Cult Cartoon Bee and Puppycat Is Back
May 2024Bee and Puppycat, themselves A little over two years ago, artist Natasha Allegri made history by raising more Kickstarter money for a film project than any other woman had before.
Dark Matter Series-Premiere Recap: Man and Superposition
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Dead to Me Recap: Dashboard Confessional
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Director Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond the Pines, Metallica, and Ryan Gosling
May 2024Derek Cianfrance. Derek Cianfrance is establishing himself as a director who, as he puts it, drops his actors into the “the aquarium of life” to see if they can swim.
Every Major Game of Thrones Character, Ranked From Least to Most Evil
May 2024In an age of superhero movies and TV anti-heroes, fictional villains are more complex than ever before. This week, Vulture examines villainous entertainment in all its forms.
Fever Ray Made a Love Album Without Any Love Songs
May 2024On their first album as Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer was over romance. It was the late aughts, and when Dreijer wasn’t working on their boundary-pushing electropop duo the Knife, they were raising two children in a heterosexual marriage.
Former Bachelor Jason Mesnick to Marry on ABC
May 2024Getting cold feet? America loves a fairy-tale ending, and ABC aims to deliver on March 8, when former Bachelor Jason Mesnick will marry Molly Malaney in a two-hour broadcast that includes the bride’s dress fitting, wedding planning, and the ceremony, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Frank Ocean Couldnt Hear His Keyboard
May 2024LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 10: Singer Frank Ocean accepts Best Urban Contemporary Album award for “Channel Orange” onstage at the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
From Law School to Standup with Guy Branum
May 2024Guy Branum was one of the first comedians I saw live when I moved to Los Angeles. It was clear right away that not only does the audience adore him, but the comedians around him do as well.
Good Trouble 101: What to Know If You Didnt Watch The Fosters
May 2024So you’ve never watched an episode of The Fosters, but you’re interested in watching its new spinoff, Good Trouble? Welcome!
Gucci Mane Releases Festive Music Video for Guwop Home Featuring Young Thug
May 2024The rollout for Gucci Mane’s forthcoming album Everybody Looking continues apace. Every recent week has been an occasion for new morsels to drop from the Atlanta trap icon: We’ve seen collaborations with Kanye (“Champions”), Drake (“Back on Road”), Kodak Black (“Vibin in This Bih”), Migos ("
Guy From Death Cab for Cutie Realizes Hes Married to Zooey Deschanel
May 2024As Spin reports, Death Cab for Cutie’s new album, Codes and Keys — whose first single, “You Are a Tourist,” is here with us now — is a more self-consciously easygoing album than 2008’s bummer Narrow Stairs.
HBO in Talks for a Shutter Island Series
May 2024HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 06: Director Martin Scorsese attends the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Mel Brooks at Dolby Theatre on June 6, 2013 in Hollywood, California.
Heidi Klum and Seal to Divorce
May 2024TMZ reports that Project Runway hostess Heidi Klum and her singer husband Seal will be divorcing. (Did she say “Auf Wiedersehen” to him?
Here Are 5 Nice Things Chris Pratt Says About Anna Faris in Her Books Foreword
May 2024Anna Faris, Chris Pratt. Even though Chris Pratt and Anna Faris have split, beloved nice-guy Pratt still offered an introduction to Faris’s new memoir.
How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays
May 2024All the surprising ways your favorite roles were introduced on the page. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture How do you create a memorable female character?
How Gratuitous Is Michael Fassbenders Nudity in Shame?
May 2024Michael Fassbender in ‘Shame.’ Steve McQueen’s sex addiction drama Shame comes out tomorrow, and much of the prerelease attention has centered on one unlikely but prominent co-star in the NC-17 film: Michael Fassbender’s penis.
How Should Ellen DeGeneres Spend Her Retirement?
May 2024Ellen DeGeneres is getting ready to dance her last dance. Publicly, that is. The comedian and former daytime-TV juggernaut who hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show for 19 years on NBC, is set to step away from the spotlight for good, per comments she made during a recent stand-up tour stop at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, according to Variety.
How to Make a Successful Web Series with Natasha Leggero
May 2024On the spectrum of conceptual talk shows, Natasha Leggero’s Tubbin’ with Tash, which debuted last month on the YouTube channel JASH, is certainly one of the weirder ones, with its hot tub location possibly being the most conventional thing about it.
Inside Scandovals $2 Million Real-Estate Battle
May 2024These two people currently own a house together. They’d rather not. In season seven of Vanderpump Rules, Tom Sandoval twirls Ariana Madix around in his arms in the entrance of their newly purchased $2 million Valley Village home while she clutches a bottle of Champagne.
Introducing Six Degrees of One Kevin Bacon Movie, a New Quarantine Game
May 2024Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn in Mystic River. Maybe it was the fourth Adam Devine Netflix movie you watched in a row, or that season of Bosch you inhaled on Amazon Prime without ever actually paying attention to the story.
Jason Bateman Beat Drugs, But What of His Ketchup Addiction?
May 2024“I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate Booze was what would make me want to stay out all night and do some blow or smoke a joint or whatever, so shutting that off was key.
Joelle Carter on Justifieds Final Season, Avas Next Move, and That Kiss
May 2024On tonight’s episode of Justified, Constable Bob Sweeney (Patton Oswalt) says of Ava Crowder (Joelle Carter): “That girl could make a dog break its chain.
Jon Taffer Is Rescuing Marriages Now
May 2024Unsatisfied with merely rescuing drinking establishments, Bar Rescue’s Jon Taffer has moved on to the human heart. “When I rescue a bar on Bar Rescue, in almost every case I’ve rescued a relationship,” Taffer says in the trailer for his new show, Marriage Rescue.
Joni Mitchell to Headline Her First Show in 20 Years, Brandi Carlile Spills
May 2024The duo we needed. Put Brandi Carlile on Joni Mitchell’s payroll at this point, because she has become the legend’s de facto spokesperson (on top of one of her best champions).
Kelly Marino Author Archive
May 2024favorites! Sept. 10, 2015 Comedians Recall Their Fave Key & Peele SketchesFrom Nick Kroll and Ken Marino to the Lucas Bros.
Kid Cudis Here to Break Up Your Monotony With New Single Leader of the Delinquents
May 2024“Easy does it,” Kid Cudi urges in his new single “Leader of the Delinquents,” and the message couldn’t come at a better time.
Kofi Siriboe on the Road From Queen Sugar to Girls Trip
May 2024Kofi Siriboe. Spoilers ahead for Wednesday night’s mid-season finale of Queen Sugar. There is an unforgettable moment in the comedy Girls Trip involving a naked Kofi Siriboe that has delighted fans and inspired People magazine to nickname the 23-year-old actor KoFINE.
Last Night on Late Night: Ken Jeong, Licensed Doctor, Would Like More Nude Scenes Post-Hangover
May 2024Last night on Conan, before fielding the necessary questions about his camera-loving penis, Ken Jeong explained the difficulty of balancing his full-on, Method portrayal of Mr.
Learn About Post-Structuralism and Other Big Words With Art Thoughtz
May 2024The mission statement for Hennesy Youngman’s instructional YouTube series reads: “I LOVE YOU INTERNET, AND AM JUST TRYING TO ENWISEN YOU TO THESE IMPORTANT CONCEPTS THAT BE SCULPTING THE INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK OF YOUR WORLD.
Linda Cardellini Sets Dead to Me Free
May 2024“Life has bumped and bruised her, so she doesn’t always know where the moral center is. But she does know if she loves somebody and is going to try to do anything in her power to help that person.
Listen to Cartoon Audra McDonald Sing a Song Written by Fiona Apple
May 2024After the critical success of her opus Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple has written new music, and it’s sung by a chinless cartoon in a purple pantsuit.
Looking Back at Weird Al Yankovics Saturday-Morning Experiment
May 2024“Weird Al” Yankovic is tenacious. It took him 32 years to reach the end of the record contract he signed in 1982, but he saw it through with the release of his 14th album, 2014’s Mandatory Fun.
Mad Men Recap: The Electric Circus
May 2024Mad Men To Have and To Hold Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mad Men To Have and To Hold Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Can Don Draper ever find peace?
Make Like a Tree: Renae Simone Jarretts Daphne
May 2024From Daphne, at LCT3. Soon, at Playwrights Horizons, Alexandra Tatarsky will stage her solo performance about “a young Jewish woman who thinks she is a small German boy who thinks he is a tree.
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody on Being Madly in Love for 40 Years
May 2024I’m sitting across from Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody in a tiny student cafeteria at the Upper West Side’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
Matt Weiner Wont Let Mad Men End in a Fart
May 2024Matt Weiner is still taking an Abbey Road approach to the finale of Mad Men, but he has a more specific goal now, too.
Maude Apatow Wrote a Song for This Is 40
May 2024(L to R) Charlotte (IRIS APATOW), Sadie (MAUDE APATOW), Pete (PAUL RUDD) and Debbie (LESLIE MANN) in “This Is 40”, an original comedy from writer/director/producer Judd Apatow.
Misogyny Is Boring As Hell
May 2024Carmen Maria Machado’s critically acclaimed debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, was published just two days before news broke that Harvey Weinstein had been preying on Hollywood starlets for decades and getting away with it.
Movie Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Pretty Much As Good As the First One
May 2024L - R: Celia Imrie as “Madge Hardcastle,” Ronald Pickup as “Norman Cousins,” Diana Hardcastle as “Carol,” Judi Dench as “Evelyn Greenslade,” Maggie Smith as “Muriel Donnely” and Bill Nighy as “Douglas Ainslie” in THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 2.
Mp 3 Blogs - Vulture
May 2024apropos of nothing Nov. 15, 2007 Recording Industry Comes Up With Brilliant New Way to Sell Music—As Long As No One Steals ItRCRD LBL, a new joint venture by Downtown Records and Engadget editor Peter Rojas, launched today, marking the first attempt to run an MP3 blog that pays artists such as Mos Def, Art Brut, and Justice a fee in order to give away their music for free.
N.W.A. Wont Perform Together, Not Even at Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
May 2024Sigh. N.W.A.’s full surviving lineup hasn’t performed together in more than two decades, and if you think one little Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction might change that, think again.
Nancy Drew - Vulture
May 2024nancy drew anew Oct. 9, 2019 Nancy Drew Is Not Who You RememberThe redheaded detective is back in a CW reboot, but the mystery remains: is she more than endlessly recyclable IP?
Natasha Lyonne and Abbi Jacobson Are Ready to Burn Down TV
May 2024The showrunners and friends discuss saying no to mainstream, formulaic comedy onscreen. “I’m not like, ‘Fuck it, who cares?’” says Natasha Lyonne.
Netflixs Criminal Is More Thought Experiment Than Crime Procedural
May 2024David Tennant makes a strong impression in the Criminal: UK portion of the series. Netflix’s Criminal is a thought experiment that’s been turned into a TV show.
Outlanders Lotte Verbeek on Geilliss Reveal, Feminism, and Dancing Naked
May 2024The Fault in Our Stars fans might recognize Lotte Verbeek as Willem Dafoe’s Amsterdam assistant, but for Outlander’s audience, she’s the mysterious Geillis, who, in Saturday night’s episode, declared that she was indeed a witch.
Paper Girls Series-Premiere Recap: Hell Day
May 2024Paper Girls Growing Pains Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Paper Girls Growing Pains Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » It’s hard enough being a 12-year-old girl — you’re getting confusingly close to that “not a girl, not yet a woman” stage in life — but add being thrown into the middle of a centuries-old war over time itself on top of that and you’ve really got yourself a stressful situation.
Please Befriend Lou Diamond Phillips
May 2024If you’re in line to become friends with Lou Diamond Phillips, STAY IN LINE! The actor is looking for new buds, according to his realtor.
Ranking All 16 Michael Crichton Novels
May 2024When Jurassic World finally roars to life on June 12, it’ll mark the latest emergence of the dinos-run-amok scenario created by Michael Crichton in his 1990 novel Jurassic Park.
Reese Witherspoons Southern Accent Comes All the Way Out Talking About Cars With Offset
May 2024This is what you expected from your quarantine Monday, right? Reese Witherspoon on an Instagram live feed with Offset talking about cars?
Rick Famuyiwas Dope Is a Quirky, Heartfelt Romp Through a Pop-Culture Maze
May 2024I first saw Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where its irreverent, twisty-turny, off-the-wall energy landed like a neutron bomb amid the worthy coming-of-age stories and quirky romances and moody ennui.
Sam Smith Deals With an Emotionally Hurtful Lover in New Song Too Good at Goodbyes
May 2024Sam Smith has delivered yet another heart-wrenching breakup song that’s sure to hit you right in the feelings. His newest single “Too Good at Goodbyes” not only deals with how the singer has become calloused from parting with exes, as the title suggests, the song also mentions the emotional walls he’s built up as a result of those relationship splits.
Saturday Night Live Recap: Tiffany Haddish Is the Last Black Unicorn
May 2024Saturday Night Live Tiffany Haddish Season 43 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Tiffany Haddish Season 43 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Even if you haven’t seen Tiffany Haddish’s emphatic, oft-raunchy stand-up, you’ve probably seen one of the projects that arrived as a result of it.
Scarlett Johansson Doesnt Identify As a Hiddlestoner
May 2024Scarlett Johansson. Anthony Hopkins is Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock, about the making of the director’s classic 1960 film Psycho, and Scarlett Johansson is Janet Leigh, the female lead who gets stabbed in the shower so early in the story, it shocked audiences.
See Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley, and Draco Malfoy Backstage at How to Succeed
May 2024Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter co-stars Matt Lewis, Rupert Grint, and Tom Felton supported their pal at a performance of How to Succeed on Saturday, taking this picture backstage.
Sexual Harassment - Vulture
May 2024day of reckoning Aug. 31, 2023 Reality Stars Accuse Bravo of ‘Depraved Mistreatment’“Right now, during this strike, they’re going to be the ones that everybody goes to for cheap labor,” Bethenny Frankel says.
Six Things We Learned From the Arrested Development Documentary Project
May 2024The Arrested Development Documentary Project is a film made by AD “super-fans” Jeff Smith and Neil Lieberman as a tribute to their favorite show.
So, Lana Del Rey and Axl Rose Are Hanging Out Together
May 2024LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Friday April 6, 2012. Singer Lana Del Rey seen leaving the trendy hangout Chateau Marmont with former Guns and Roses frontman Axl Rose.
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May 2024Britt Daniel. When Spoon’s most recent album, Hot Thoughts, was released earlier this year, a common critical talking point was that this was their “dance record.
Stage Dive: How Daniel Radcliffe Succeeds on Broadway
May 2024Daniel Radcliffe has described his take on J. Pierrepont Finch, the cheerily cutthroat corporate climber of Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows’s 1961 musical satire How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, as “kind of a period Mark Zuckerberg” — and for the first few moments of Rob Ashford’s zippy new revival, I was worried that he’d succeeded.
Station ElevenRecap: The Plays the Thing
May 2024Station Eleven Who’s There? Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Station Eleven Who’s There?
Stephen Colbert Runs Through Trumps Latest Additions to His Cabinet of Horrors
May 2024We’re now just 43 days out from Donald Trump’s inauguration, and as Stephen Colbert notes, the celebration of the new president assuming office may happen in the heart of anti-Trump country: Manhattan.
Steve Buscemis Self-Referential 30 Rock Costume Won Halloween
May 2024Pack it in, folks. We have a winner. Spooky Season 2021 officially goes to Steve Buscemi, dressed as his undercover cop meme from 30 Rock.
That Time a Maid Found Jennifer Lawrences Jokey Butt Plugs
May 2024Another day, another great story from Jennifer Lawrence. This time, a hotel maid found a bunch of gag-gift butt plugs under Lawrence’s bed and kindly laid them out.
The 17 Best Robot Movies of All Time
May 2024This post was originally published in 2015 with the release of Chappie. It has been updated (or should we say … upgraded?
The 25 Most Essential Laurel and Hardy Comedy Shorts
May 2024Laurel and Hardy in Battle of the Century. Newfound fans watching the 25 weekday hours of Friends reruns on TBS or who are streaming all ten seasons on HBO Max may have noticed a poster in Joey and Chandler’s apartment of a rotund guy and a skinny guy.
The Breakfast Club Is Bringing the Morning Mess to BET
May 2024Charlamagne Tha God. The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy’s wildly successful morning radio show, will be televised.
The Carrie Diaries Gets Carrie Bradshaws Backstory Wrong
May 2024The Carrie Diaries (premiering Monday on the CW) tells Carrie Bradshaw’s coming-of-age story — a story we got very, very little of from Sex and the City.
The First Great Movie of the Trump Era
May 2024Get Out was shot in just 23 days on a budget of $4.5 million, but when it opened one year ago, it quickly became clear it was not just another low-budget horror movie.
The Flash Recap: The Hero Problem
May 2024The Flash Into the Speed Force Season 3 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Flash Into the Speed Force Season 3 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grant Gustin as Barry, Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart.
The Following Recap: Everyones a Follower
May 2024The Following The Fall Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Following The Fall Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ryan Hardy was just about to rescue Joey last week, all he had to do was go up a set of stairs, when Paul popped up and pointed a gun at his head.
The Honeymooners Return for Christmas
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 2024apropos of nothing Apr. 21, 2008 Artie Lange Update: He’s Back!In a bizarre conclusion to the great mystery that lots of people couldn’t care less about but that a few people care a lot about, Artie Lange returned to “The Howard Stern Show” this morning.
The Julia Writers See Julia Child As a Fable
May 2024At a time when so much TV is adapted from real-life stories, there’s something fascinating about HBO Max’s Julia.
The Link Between James Brown and Migos Bad and Boujee
May 2024Great artists have great themes, and James Brown’s was self-determination. Vigorously and repeatedly, his lyrics stress the importance of having something of one’s own, being in command of oneself, doing what one says one will do, and the music he evolved to accompany these lyrics didn’t reflect these themes so much as it amplified them, made them concrete.
The Miracle of Big Thief
May 2024Contemplating infinity, cross-country trips, and a towering double album with rock’s critical darlings. Max Olearchik, Buck Meek, Adrianne Lenker, and James Krivchenia.
The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen
May 2024Paleolithic cave-painting of a bison and ibex in the ‘Salon Noir’ of the ‘Grotte de Niaux.’ (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images) I have places inside me where there are works of art: internal abysms that feel full, physical, like forces that fuse past and present.
The NFL Is Shipping Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift
May 2024Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce dating rumors are coming from inside the house.
The Old Man Recap: Juggling Chainsaws
May 2024The Old Man V Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Old Man V Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s a shame that The Old Man’s first season is limited to seven episodes, because so much valuable screen time is spent establishing (and then re-establishing) alliances and partnerships.
The Poet Pundit
May 2024How Cathy Park Hong became liberal America’s go-to Asian thinker. Photo: Tess Ayano Here is a sample of the questions Cathy Park Hong has been asked in the past two years.
The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Season-Finale Recap: Tequila the Vibes
May 2024The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Phuket Me Not Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Phuket Me Not Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Y’all!
The Signature Looks of Riverdales Very Fashionable, Very Retro High-Schoolers
May 2024In terms of teen programming, the CW’s Riverdale isn’t that relatable for the modern youths these days: To our knowledge, there isn’t a black-hooded killer roaming around a sleepy suburban town that also doubles as a major heroin mecca.
The True Story of Shoshanna Shapiros Absolutely Perfect Girls Wedding
May 2024Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro. Sunday night’s episode of Girls was sadly Shoshanna’s final episode on the show.
The Wry and Wistful Fremont Speaks Volumes With Just a Stare
May 2024You’ll remember Anaita Wali Zada’s eyes. As Donya, an Afghan refugee in the wry and wistful Fremont, the first-time actor is a steadily building wave, a maelstrom of intention and purpose.
Theater Review: Out at the Far End of America, Lewiston/Clarkston Settles Down at Costco
May 2024From Lewiston/Clarkston, at Rattlestick. “History is different when you’re 6 years old,” says Alice, a character in the first half of Samuel D.
This Is UsRecap: Until Death Do Us Part
May 2024This Is Us Miguel Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us Miguel Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh, Miguel.
Tom Cruise and a Bear Added to Kings Coronation Guest List
May 2024He’s probably a Barb. By command of the king, the earl marshal is directed to invite Madame Nicki Minaj to be present at the Abbey Church of Westminster on the 6th day of May, 2023.
Tyler, the Creator Joined by a Dozen Tylers, the Creator for Grammys Performance
May 2024What’s the plural of Tyler, the Creator? We’re going with Tylers, the Creator, after watching the dozen or so Tyler clones — also in stylish pink suits and blond wigs — show up during the Grammy-nominated IGOR rapper’s performance.
Unseen Michael Jackson Footage Fails to Sell at Auction
May 2024LONDON - NOVEMBER 15: (UK TABLOID NEWSPAPERS OUT) Singer Michael Jackson arrives at the 2006 World Music Awards at Earls Court on November 15, 2006 in London.
Visiting Hell: Inside a Christian Haunted House
May 2024Charles D’Ambrosio’s new collection, Loitering, out November 11, confirms what his devoted readers have known all along: He is among America’s finest essayists.
Was Tom Holland Actually in Euphoria Season Two?
May 2024Ethan was the most prominent floppy-haired twink in Lexi’s elaborate episode-seven play, but fan speculations about a surprise Tom Holland appearance stole the show.
Watch Henry Rollins Politely Berate a Boot-Throwing Heckler
May 2024This video made the rounds over the weekend, but in case you missed it: During a preshow interview with Dinosaur Jr.
What Are We Supposed to Make of This Oddly Catchy Trap-Country Song?
May 2024You have probably never asked yourself what it would be like if Danny McBride’s character from Eastbound and Down made music, but it’s what you will be thinking about when you watch “Turn Up on the Weekend,” a new video from little-known duo Branchez and Big Wet.
What Comedy Pays
May 2024After my last column on getting a book optioned, it has become clear that many readers who want to go into comedy aren’t sure what it pays, other than a lot, if you get famous.
Where the Crawdads Sing Eats Itself into Nothingness
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.
Which Scenes Do All the Star Is Borns Have in Common?
May 2024Many born-ed stars. All four versions of A Star Is Born follow the same beats: megastar meets up-and-comer, he marries her and trains her in the ways of fame, and her talent and appeal eventually eclipses his.
Which Supporting Characters in Oppenheimer Will Die of Radiation Poisoning?
May 2024Boom. It is a truth universally acknowledged that, if you’re going to make a movie about nuclear physicists, one of them must eventually fall victim to a lab accident that causes them to die an excruciating death by radiation poisoning.
Who Did the Best Talking Heads Cover at Last Nights David Byrne Tribute?
May 2024David Byrne. Every year, Knitting Factory/City Winery founder Michael Dorf hosts a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall benefiting music-education programs.
Who Would Win an Actual A24 Civil War?
May 2024Ironically, no film this year has pitted critics against each other like Alex Garland’s Civil War. In one corner, writers who decry the film’s lack of specifics about the titular conflict.
Why You Wasted a Perfectly Good Hour Listening to Car Talk
May 2024The NPR series “Car Talk,” as anyone who listens to it regularly will tell you, was a little about cars and a lot about talk.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Trailer: Jeremy Renner Goes Into the Woods
May 2024It was hard not to feel sorry for Jeremy Renner during The Avengers; his Hawkeye did not exactly get a prime slice of the plot, and he was stuck with a dinky (but trendy) bow and arrow.
15 Years Later, Gavin & Stacey Has Proved Impossible to Remake
May 2024Fifteen years ago, Gavin & Stacey premiered on BBC Three, becoming a massive hit in Britain over the course of its three-series run.
1899 Recap: The Awakening
May 20241899 The Storm Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 1899 The Storm Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We’ve been in a simulation all along!
8 Star Trek Spec Scripts That Never Saw the Light of Day
May 2024Live long and prosper. Almost every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series begins, “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
A Plastic Surgeon Suggests How to Fix Harry Potter and Other Characters Scars
May 2024In real life, a diminutive British kid who knows his way around a broomstick, always carries a wand, and has a lightning bolt carved into his forehead wouldn’t be a cultural icon — he’d be one half of the winning team on Beauty and the Geek.
A Real Ranking of Fake Prep Schools
May 2024Maybe you were Prom King, maybe you were the class clown, maybe you were the kid who spent all their time hiding out in the A/V lab making angsty movies on the computer (nerds are cool now, don’t worry!
Abbott Elementary Recap: Out With the Old, In With the New
May 2024Abbott Elementary Alex Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Abbott Elementary Alex Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Something I lauded Abbott for last season was its ability to close the generational divide; this is one of my favorite parts about well-written sitcoms, as it serves as a great way to bring people together.
Alec Baldwin Not Responsible For Daughters Lil Wayne Cake
May 2024Last week, an amazing photo of a Lil Wayne-shaped cake from Ireland Baldwin’s 14th birthday surfaced, impressing Vulture and the rest of the Internet.
Alice Isnt Dead, Radio Rental, and 2 More Spooky Podcasts Worth Trying
May 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.
All 285 Jay-Z Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best
May 2024If Jay-Z had his way back in 1996, this list would be too brief to warrant compiling. The skinny kid from Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects intended to drop just one album — a musical I was here statement — before partnering with a major label and falling back into a comfy executive role, becoming a vessel to launch hopeful Roc-A-Fella acts like Memphis Bleek and Christión into orbit.
All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Blossom Rides Again
May 2024All Creatures Great and Small Carpe Diem Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » All Creatures Great and Small Carpe Diem Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » All I have to say is: Get outta here, Harbottle!
Amaze Yourself With This Step-by-Step Card Trick From an Off Broadway Magician
May 2024Helder Guimarães is not interested, he says, in magic that’s “just trying to entertain.” Instead, the 33-year-old magician and Portuguese native — whose previous New York show, 2013’s “Nothing to Hide,” was directed by Neil Patrick Harris and won acclaim for its sophisticated approach to legerdemain — wants magic that “transcends whatever subterfuge is being used to achieve the results.
An Evening With Luann de Lesseps, the Countess of Reality TV
May 2024Luann de Lesseps. At Luann de Lesseps’s cabaret show #CountessAndFriends, everyone feels like part of the extended Real Housewives universe.
An Ode to the Varsity Blues I Dont Want Your Life Speech
May 2024In the American pop-culture feedback loop, at the football-movie intersection between sports and cinema and how the two inform and reflect each other, lurks a line delivery that lasts only a couple of seconds.
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May 2024the industry Mar. 26, 2008 Shekhar Kapur to Direct Anthony Minghella’s New York MovieThe morning’s news from the trades, including Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush and Tim Rice as the lyricist for Phantom, Part Two.
Bon Apptit Editor-in-Chief Resigns Over Brownface Photo, Criticism From POC Staff
May 2024Current and former staffers called for editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport to resign. As Refinery 29’s editor-in-chief, Christene Barberich, resigned after staff members spoke out about racism they faced at the company, a similar reckoning is happening at Bon Appétit.
Bruce Dern on Nebraska, the Part Hes Waited 77 Years For
May 2024Bruce Dern, photographed by Tierney Gearon. I hear Bruce Dern before I see him, that unforgettable, surprisingly high voice. He lopes into the bar of the Langham Huntington hotel in Pasadena, pitched slightly forward like Woody Grant, his character in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, for which he picked up the award for Best Actor at Cannes in May.
Can You Hack theJeopardy!Buzzer?
May 2024Different schools of thought have emerged. Photo: Getty Images/Getty Images Photo: Getty Images/Getty Images Jeopardy! is a strange competition: part trivia showdown and, thanks to the show’s complicated buzzer system, part reaction-time test.
Charmed Is a Hollow Celebration of Sisterhood and Female Power
May 2024Melonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, and Sarah Jeffery in Charmed. I wanted to like this new version of Charmed.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Recap: I Scream, You Scream
May 2024Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Drag Me to Hell Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Drag Me to Hell Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, I just have to lead with what I hope is not too unpopular of an opinion here: Sabrina, still not exactly the brightest blonde in the box.
Chris Browns Terribly Long New Album, Explained
May 2024It has 45 songs, but why? Chris Brown is begging you to stream his new album. But at 45 songs, clocking in at over two-and-a-half hours, it’s a big ask.
Chris Matthewss Son Is On the Aaron Sorkin Cable-News Drama
May 2024Thomas Matthews, middle son of the longtime MSNBC anchor, will play a junior producer on the as-yet-untitled HBO series set in a newsroom.
Christopher Spaide Author Archive
May 2024vulture lists Apr. 16, 2018 The 100 Most Influential Pages in Comic Book HistoryFrom Superman to Smile, Mickey to Maus: Tracing the evolution of comic books by looking at the pictures, panels, and text that brought them to life.
Cunk on Earth Is So Perfectly Stupid
May 2024Philomena Cunk, the host of Netflix and BBC Two’s Cunk on Earth, a mockumentary series about the history of human civilization, asks the stupidest questions.
Deadwood Recap: High Fever Blues
May 2024Deadwood Plague Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Deadwood Plague Season 1 Episode 6 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.
Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, and Thats Worrying
May 2024It is, among other things, bad news for movie theaters that depend on repertory screenings to shore up increasingly shaky bottom lines.
Downton Abbey Recap: A Ladys Right To Choose
May 2024Downton Abbey Part Six Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Downton Abbey Part Six Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Was there a PSA for the pro-life movement embedded not-so-secretly in this week’s episode of Downton Abbey?
Every Spider-Man Movie Villain, Ranked
May 2024This list was originally published in 2019. It’s been updated to reflect Spider-Man’s big-screen adventures since then, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Francesco Pacifico - Vulture
May 2024book review June 13, 2017 Review: Francesco Pacifico’s Sharp New Novel Takes on Post-Hipster WilliamsburgThe Italian author’s new book does a lot of things you don’t see American novels do much of these days.
Game of Thrones John Bradley on Death, Regret, and Sam Tarlys Place at the Big Table
May 2024John Bradley. If you find Game of Thrones’ Samwell Tarly thoughtful, kind, and endearing, try talking to the actor who plays him.
Greys Anatomy Recap: Hacked
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy Out of Nowhere Season 14 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Out of Nowhere Season 14 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Still smiling from the wonderful hospital stay down memory lane last week?
Gwen Stefani Married Blake Shelton, Wore Cowboy Boots
May 2024Move over, The Bachelor: There’s another matchmaking reality show in town. After weeks of wedding rumors, former The Voice co-hosts Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton got married at Shelton’s Oklahoma ranch on Saturday.
Hamilton Coronates Taran Killam, Its Newest King George III, With Some Flashy Tear-Away Pants
May 2024There’s a new king in town, and he’s got sex appeal, ya hear? Hamilton is currently experiencing its latest regime change, as “King George III the Fifth” Taran Killam steps in for the current monarch, Rory O’ Malley, who’s heading out on tour.
Heres Your First Photo of Saoirse Ronan As Jo March in Little Women
May 2024It’s too much! Even for me! Gather ‘round little women, regular-sized women, and all other persons: behold the greatest crossover event in cinematic history.
Humans Finale Recap: Trapped Minds, Open Hearts
May 2024Humans Episode 8 Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Humans Episode 8 Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Lucy Carless as Mattie Hawkins, Katherine Parkinson as Laura Hawkins, Tom Goodman Hill as Joe Hawkins, and Theo Stevenson as Toby Hawkins.
I Saw the TV Glows Ending Is Full of Hope, If You Want It to Be
May 2024There’s a way to read the end of Jane Schoenbrun’s masterful new movie as grim, even nihilistic. But you must actively choose to see it that way.
Imagine a Black Woman Just Wanting Something
May 2024In Passing, Ruth Negga plays a character who dares you to disapprove of her choices. Passing is in theaters and on Netflix November 10.
In Funny Girl, Lea Michele Does Exactly What You Thought She Could
May 2024Sitting, not puttering. The audience starts applauding as soon as they hear the opening notes of “Don’t Rain on My Parade.
Industry Recap: Perpetual Present Tense
May 2024Industry Kitchen Season Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Industry Kitchen Season Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Merry Christmas from Industry!
It Took Claire Foy Months to Master Pronouncing This One Boring Pronoun for The Crown
May 2024The gowns! The palace intrigue! The corgis! Everything about The Crown is unbelievably meticulous right down to the ashtrays, but sometimes Claire Foy wishes it wasn’t so bloody detailed — mostly because it was a pain in the bum to train her natural Manchester accent into something far more posh.
Its Peter Rosenbergs Job to Be Polarizing
May 2024The HOT 97 host knows you hate him or hate to love him. He prefers it that way. “I’m there to be a funny, polished radio jock.
Jackie Is the Perfect Fourth of July Movie for Your American Despair
May 2024Do you, like Ariana Grande, feel like licking a donut and proclaiming that you hate America right now?
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May 2024the industry Oct. 22, 2010 Industry: Jack The Giant Killer Gets The Green LightPlus: ‘Total Recall’ remake looks for a leading man.
Jessie Is Dating a Normie, Even, in Starstruck Season 3
May 2024Everybody’s favorite romcom to watch like a horror movie (behind your fingers, through gritted teeth) is coming back to the small screen.
Jonathan Van Ness Reveals He Was a Former Sex and Drug Addict
May 2024Days before the release of his new memoir, Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness opened up to the New York Times about a particularly difficult passage he outlines for his readers: a previous addiction to drugs and sex, which persisted until his mid-20s.
Jupiter Ascending Is Inane From First Frame to Last
May 2024Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis in Jupiter Ascending. The Wachowski siblings’ sci-fi thriller Jupiter Ascending is inane from first frame to last — the dialogue is so clunky, I wondered if George Lucas had been brought in to do the rewrite.
Kathryn Hahn to Play Wild Multiverses Cheryl Strayed
May 2024Cheryl Slayed (not a typo). Attention, little Wild-lings! A new Cheryl Strayed adaptation is coming to the small screen, and this one stars Kathryn Hahn in the role previously made famous by Reese Witherspoon: a fictionalized version of Cheryl Strayed.
Lena Headey on Playing a Queen in Game of Thrones and 300: Rise of an Empire, and Whats Next for
May 2024Lena Headey. Lena Headey is fast becoming the reigning queen of genre stories. She’s played Queen Cersei in Game of Thrones and Queen Gorgo in 300 and its follow-up, 300: Rise of an Empire (out today).
Lessons from Filming Nick Caves Journey Through Grief
May 2024“The constant concern was just, is it grief porn? Is it exploitative? Where’s the line?” About halfway through Andrew Dominik’s new film about Nick Cave, This Much I Know to Be True, something remarkable happens: Nick Cave laughs.
Looking Back at Bad Men: Dark Noon and Pre-Existing Condition
May 2024Lillian Tshabalala-Malulyck in Dark Noon, at St. Ann’s Warehouse. A little more than five years ago, audiences at St.
Mad Men Star Jon Hamm on Smoking Clove Cigarettes
May 2024Marilyn Perry’s Sea Foam (2007). Getting an interview with Mad Men star Jon Hamm last evening at the Best Life magazine party at Michael’s was akin to getting an audience with the Pope, as his flacks fussed and hovered, and nearly ruined our “We met Don Draper!
Mariah Carey Watched Beau Is Afraids Always Be My Baby Sex Scene on Her Phone
May 2024Carey personally approved Beau Is Afraid’s use of “Always Be My Baby” after Ari Aster wrote a letter to her, according to producer Lars Knudsen.
Max Wolf Friedlichs Tech-Bro Friendly Theater for the Boys
May 2024The playwright of Job isn’t trying to “change hearts and minds.” Photo: Hugo Yu Max Wolf Friedlich is 29 and so grew up seeing, and sometimes seeking out, all sorts of crazy shit online.
Method Man Talks Stepping Into an Attorneys Shoes for Power Book II: Ghost
May 2024This interview contains spoilers for Power and Power Book II: Ghost. In the Power universe, law is a terrible profession.
MI6 Is Looking for a New Bond. Ive Got Some Suggestions.
May 2024It’s been a little over a year since Daniel Craig — the husband of the beautiful, talented, Academy Award–winning actress Rachel Weisz — decided to hang up his cuff links as the reckless, womanizing, unreliable rogue agent James Bond.
Michael Che Talks to Dan Soder About How Stand-up Specials Are Like Weddings and Why Its Easy for
May 2024Even though comedian Dan Soder could boast about any number of credits on his rapidly expanding resume — providing comic relief as a regular on Showtime drama Billions, co-hosting the biweekly Sirius show The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson, or starring in the Comedy Central digital series Used People alongside new Daily Show correspondent Michelle Wolf — when he talked with SNL Weekend Update co-host Michael Che, they talked stand-up.
Movie Review: Total Recall Is Chase, Jump, Repeat
May 2024Jessica Biel and Colin Farrell in Total Recall. It has been 24 hours since I saw the remake of Total Recall and I can’t recall a bloody thing apart from Kate Beckinsale staring malevolently through her hair at Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel sensibly leaping off a 500-foot-high ledge and landing on a moving elevator.
My Brilliant Friend TV Episode Recaps & News
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Mythic Quest Season-Finale Recap: The Kids All Grown Up
May 2024Mythic Quest TBD Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mythic Quest TBD Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Back in “#YumYum,” the third episode of this season, Mythic Quest likened the dissolution of Ian and Poppy’s creative partnership to a divorce.
On the Verge: Drew Michael
May 2024Welcome to our series On the Verge, where our contributors highlight comedians they feel are ready for their next big break. Whether they’re already working in television or still waiting to land their breakout gig, these are just some of the comedians we’d like to see more of over the coming years – ideally with a show, film, or other comedy project of their very own.
One Thing Sofia Coppola Will Do Is Explore Girlhood
May 2024Cailee Spaeny Sofia Coppola takes girlhood seriously. Her movies play with young women’s fantasies of whirlwind romances and transient indulgences, only to find a reality of loneliness and rot in the visually lush, warm-tinted frames.
Perry Mason Recap: Todays Newspaper Wraps Tomorrows Fish
May 2024Perry Mason Chapter Fifteen Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Perry Mason Chapter Fifteen Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wowwww folks, we finally got some big reveals in the penultimate chapter of our little Perry Mason mystery here.
Peso P and Cardi B Got Big Connections in Put Em in the Fridge
May 2024Hiding in the fridge isn’t just for evading nuclear war. It’s a threat coming from Peso Pluma and Cardi B in their collab “Put ‘Em in the Fridge” on Pluma’s new album Éxodo.
Quantico Recap: A Fresh Start
May 2024Quantico Epicshelter Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Quantico Epicshelter Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Marcia Cross as Claire Haas, Johanna Braddy as Shelby Wyatt.
Railing Collapse Leaves Dozens Injured at Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Concert
May 2024At least 42 Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa fans were injured — with one in critical condition — following a railing collapse during the duo’s concert at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, last night.
Rap Battles - Vulture
May 2024rap battles June 19, 2024 Verzuz Is Moving to XTimbaland and Swizz Beats announced the migration with a pic of them on either side of Elon Musk.
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Rene Rapp Kisses a Doppelgnger in the Pretty Girls Video
May 2024Well, Renée Rapp might be graduating from her Sex Lives of College Girls role, but that doesn’t mean the spirit of Leighton Murray has to die.
Ringo Starr and Joe Walshs BFF Ascension: A Timeline
May 2024Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh. There are a lot of friendships out there in the Hollywood “community” that are definitely worth talking about.
Robin Williams Literally Changed the Way Sitcoms Are Shot and Other Things We Learned in HBOs New
May 2024Robin Williams has been gone for four years now, bringing to an end not just a spectacular life but a remarkable career as an electric comic performer, sitcom star, and Oscar-winning actor.
Romance Novels - Vulture
May 2024no respect week May 29, 2014 Novelist Eloisa James on Anti-Romance Bias“The women buying romance don’t give a damn what is said in The New Republic.
Sam Asghari Looking Forward to Normal, Amazing Future With Girlfriend Britney Spears
May 2024Following the recent release of the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, which revisits the public gauntlet of sexism and public shaming the singer faced during her meteoric rise as a teenager and personal struggles as a young adult, viewers are livid about how Spears was treated.
Samantha Bee and the Full Frontal Team Reflect on Their Wild Ride Since the Election
May 2024Emmy Insider The 2018 Emmy race is here, and Vulture will take a close look at the nominated contenders until voting closes on August 27.
See an Uncanny Comparison Between the Casts of The Big Bang Theory and Dexters Laboratory
May 2024Got it. You see this, Lorre? [Reddit] See an Uncanny Comparison Between the Casts of The Big Bang Theory and Dexter’s Laboratory ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZ3yjtcZmmZqml2LBqbHOq7BmnJWtwaa%2B0majmpqilsGwvthnn62lnA%3D%3D
Sela Ward to CSI: NY
May 2024So as speculated yesterday, Sela Ward will be replacing Melina Kanakaredes on CSI: NY. The actress, she of Sisters, Once and Again, and House, will appear in the season premiere and quickly get down to work solving grisly cases with the most fanciful technology available anywhere.
Seth and Summers Breakups and Makeups, Ranked
May 2024Seth and Summer, on again. Ryan: “If I hadn’t left, then you guys would still be together.” Summer: “That is not true.
Silk Sonic Sexually Declines to Submit Album to Grammys
May 2024Silk Sonic won’t be leaving the door open to more Grammy wins this year. The duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .
Squid Games Wi Ha-jun Is Dying to Find Out What Happened to Hwang Jun-ho
May 2024Spoilers ahead for season one of Squid Game. When Wi Ha-jun’s image appears on a video call, a simple black shirt against a white wall, all that’s missing is a red jumpsuit to complete what is sure to be a popular costume choice of the spooky season.
Steve Earle Is Ready to Say Good-bye to the Tribute Album
May 2024“I’m deaf in one ear and can’t hear in the other,” says Steve Earle, laughing while asking me to repeat a question.
The 10 Best Superhero Stories of 2018
May 2024Featuring Black Panther, multiple iterations of Spider-Man, Mister Miracle, the X-Men, and more. Best of 2018 The best entertainment of 2018, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.
The 30 Best Movies on HBO and Max Right Now
May 2024The Breakfast Club. Browse our categories Drama Comedy Action Horror For Kids This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter Max.
The 4 Reasons Big Brother 16 Was One of the Shows Best Seasons in Years
May 2024BIG BROTHER Tonight is the night Big Brother junkies such as myself look forward to annually with a mixture of sadness and relief, but mostly relief: CBS’s summer-long (artificial) reality show signs off for the year with a 90-minute finale.
The Acolyte Series-Premiere Recap: A Long Time Ago
May 2024The Acolyte Lost / Found Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Acolyte Lost / Found Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » No Star Wars movie or TV show ever really begins at the beginning.
The Best and Most Emotional of Kool & the Gang, According to Kool and Funky
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 Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Olympics
May 2024Bing Dwen Dwen and Yuzuru Hanyu. The Olympics have now earned their second pandemic gold medal, against the advice of many protesting the games this year.
The Big Bang Theory Recap: Hey, Baby
May 2024The Big Bang Theory The Birthday Synchronicity Season 10 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Birthday Synchronicity Season 10 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Melissa Rauch as Bernadette, Simon Helberg as Howard.
The Bittersweet Experience of Watching Almost Famous 20 Years On
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 Enduring Appeal of Nine Inch Nails
May 2024I think a lot of ’90s youth angst was cosmetic. All those black-clad teens shuffling around small town malls in Tripp pants and band tees got rides there and back from loving parents.
The Handmaids Tale Recap: Lets Stay Together
May 2024The Handmaid’s Tale Fairytale Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Handmaid’s Tale Fairytale Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What!
The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Action Park, The Worlds Most Dangerous Waterpark
May 2024“[Action Park] one of the first American waterparks. Many of Action Park’s attractions were unique, attracting thrill-seekers from across the New York City metro area.
The Junction Trio Brings a Little Unruliness Back to Carnegie Hall
May 2024The most vibrant music so often takes place at the point where cultures meet, eras overlap, sensibilities intersect, and traditions fork.
The Legend of Korra Is Coming to Netflix, Time for Us to Discuss
May 2024Korra, a total mess to inspire us all. To adopt the voice of the old-timey radio announcer who does the “previously on” segments for The Legend of Korra, there’s big news in Republic City.
The Little Hours Is the Best 14th-Century Sex Farce Youll See This Year
May 2024Dave Franco and Aubrey Plaza in The Little Hours. Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours is a loose adaptation of two stories from Boccaccio’s The Decameron about sexual hijinks in a medieval Tuscan monastery and castle.
The Most Terrifying Film at Venice Is Spiders All the Way Down
May 2024The first time an army of tiny spider-babies appeared, my body bent into a shape it has never taken before or since.
The OA Recap: Cuba, Libre
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The Perfectionist
May 2024Mac Miller’s goal is “to try to make this shit the most of a reflection of who I am.” Photo: Christaan Felber for Vulture Photo: Christaan Felber for Vulture Mac Miller died on September 7, 2018.
The Showrunner Transcript: 30 Rocks Robert Carlock on Working on Joey and His Dedication to Joke
May 2024In this week’s issue, New York magazine surveyed fourteen of the top TV showrunners about their process and craft. All during upfront week, we’ll be running longer transcripts of these conversations: some will include extended answers to our questionnaire, some will break free altogether, but all will provide a revealing and insightful look into the minds of the people who make our appointment television.
The Story Behind MacGrubers Sex Scene, One of the Funniest Cinematic Moments of the 21st Century
May 2024Vulture Festival L.A. is being held at the Hollywood Roosevelt November 18 and 19. Tickets are available for Good One podcast live with special guest Paul Feig and the Clone High reunion, in which Will Forte is participating.
The Wheel of Time TV Episode Recaps & News
May 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.
The Zone of Interests Final Moments Are a Nazi Workaholics Nightmare
May 2024What if Rudolf Höss isn’t vomiting out of remorse? What if it’s his own irrelevance dawning on him instead? This article was originally published on February 22, 2024.
This Is UsRecap: One Last Ride
May 2024This Is Us The Train Season 6 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us The Train Season 6 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » To honor a show that really loves its football, let’s call it what it is: This final stretch of episodes is undoubtedly This Is Us’s Super Bowl.
This One Line From Gone Baby Gone Plays on a Loop in My Head
May 2024In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain. In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain.
Timothe Chalamets Little Women Outfits Are Anachronistic, Just for His Fans
May 2024For all we know, Timothée Chalamet could have given an Anna Paquin–in–The Irishman–style performance in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women remake (seven words!
TV Review: Black Sails Has Not Found Treasure
May 2024Black Sails 2014 When word got out that Disney was making a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, everyone scoffed. A ride?
Vanderpump Rules Recap: James and the Giant Breach
May 2024Vanderpump Rules Hope and Pride Season 7 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules Hope and Pride Season 7 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we get into what happens this week on the world’s least funny workplace comedy, I really need to tip my hat to the invisible forces behind this episode of Vanderpump Rules, because they really went out of their way to make this episode entertaining.
Verzuz Postpones the Ashanti and Keyshia Cole Battle (Again)
May 2024Keyshia Cole and Ashanti. As the OG coronavirus and the new coronavirus variant battle to take out the globe, Verzuz has officially postponed this Saturday’s showdown between Ashanti and Keyshia Cole, citing the emotional events of the week and rising COVID-19 rates.
Vince Vegas Stolen Chevy Malibu Has Finally Been Found
May 202422 May 2007, Cannes, France — U.S. director Quentin Tarantino at the photo call of “Death Proof” during the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
Watch William Shatner Lay Down Vocals for His Black Sabbath Cover
May 2024The man who thinks Star Wars is too “derivative” records his version of “Iron Man” for his mediumly anticipated space-themed metal album, Seeking Major Tom.
What If I Told You the Song of Summer 2021 Is This Strippers Delight From Summer 2020?
May 2024Lil Nas X remix when. Here’s a totally reasonable proposal for song of summer 2021: a single that dropped more than a full year ago, in April 2020, to essentially no fanfare, by a 21-year-old singer-songwriter who hasn’t even cracked 4,000 followers on Twitter.
What the Hell Is a Kaiju? 5 Movies That Can Help Explain Pacific Rim
May 2024In Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, humanity creates giant fighting robots (dubbed “Jaegers”) to combat an invasion of gargantuan monsters (known as “Kaiju”) that come from under the sea — a larger-than-life war the Pan’s Labyrinth director constructs from the disparate parts of myriad genre predecessors.
What You Need to Remember for Dead to Me Season Two
May 2024Judy (Linda Cardellini) and Jen (Christina Applegate), in (relatively) happier times. Jen Harding (Christina Applegate) and Judy Hale (Linda Cardellini) return this Friday with season two of the Netflix hit Dead to Me, a show about friendship, forgiveness, and cover-ups.
Whats Going On With Carol on The Walking Dead?
May 2024For a while there, Carol looked like The Walking Dead’s ultimate poster child: She was the battered housewife turned ruthless killer, the post-apocalyptic equivalent of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.
Which Red-Hot Amish Romance Novel Should We Read First?
May 2024Which wacky abstinent subculture will soon topple vampires as the preferred literary protagonists among randy American teenagers? The Wall Street Journal reports today that it will definitely be the Amish: “Bonnet books,” or Amish-starring romance novels, are doing swift business at dry-goods stores all over the country.
Why Euphoria Feels So Real, Even When It Isnt Realistic
May 2024Filmmaker Sam Levinson never does things the easy way, and that’s what made the debut season of his HBO series Euphoria so distinctive.
Yall Better Not Turn Dolly Parton Into a Hologram
May 2024The real, living Dolly Parton. Don’t expect Dolly Parton, the woman who gave us “9 to 5,” to keep workin’ after hours once she’s gone.
Yellowstone Recap: The End of Us
May 2024Yellowstone The Dream Is Not Me Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone The Dream Is Not Me Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For the entirety of tonight’s episode of Yellowstone, I was under the impression that I was watching the mid-season finale; it was originally reported that season five would be split into two parts of seven episodes each, so I was primed for a climax of sorts.
You Know Holden Caulfield Isnt Real, Right?
May 2024Last week, a debate erupted on Twitter over J. D. Salinger’s 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye. A person posted a video on Twitter calling Holden Caulfield a first-generation incel and proto–school shooter; defenders of Caulfield claimed he was a grieving abuse victim — a teenager!
10 Male Comedy Orgasms from Movies and TV
May 2024The marketing team behind She’s Out of My League — a raunchy romantic comedy out this Friday about the impossible love between a person and another, more attractive person — released a scene from the movie last month in which Jay Baruchel’s character, Kirk, becomes so aroused during a dynamic make-out session with Alice Eve’s Molly that he how shall we put this wraps things up early.
10 Times Aretha Franklin Improved Other Peoples Songs
May 2024When Aretha Franklin sang, everyone who listened felt the purest version of heartbreak, love, or joy. Whichever way she wanted to bend your heart, she could.
11 Leonard Cohen Songs That Eerily Anticipated Todays World
May 2024After this week’s passing of Leonard Cohen, at 82, some people joked about the singer, songwriter, and poet’s opportunism. “Leonard Cohen has died and his timing, as ever, is perfect,” wrote The New Statesman.
7 Great Books on Female Friendship Not Written By Elena Ferrante
May 2024In her volcanically successful tetralogy, the Neapolitan Novels, about two young girls growing up in post–World War II Naples, Elena Ferrante writes, “We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other.
A Brief Guide to Joan Jonas, the U.S. Venice Biennale Representative
May 2024The artist. The American art world still gets jealous. But it’s not of Nick Jonas, singer of that catchy lyric.
A Brief History of Ariana Grandes Obsession With Driving Metaphors
May 2024Skrt, skrt. Ariana Grande simply loves to drive. This was most recently evidenced in her Netflix tour documentary,excuse me, i love you, in which she calmly drove herself to her own headlining concert at the Staples Center — an unusual sight for someone of her level of celebrity and also her height.
A Brief History of Butts in Art
May 2024Antonio Canova, Reclining Naiad, 1819–24. (c) Metropolitan Museum of Art/Licensed by Art Resource, NY. News flash: Kim Kardashian didn’t invent the butt.
A Calm Charlie Sheen on His New Sitcom, His Old Sitcom, and Poop Jokes
May 2024If one of your 2012 New Year’s resolutions was “not spend any more time following the antics of Charlie Sheen,” we have good news and bad news.
Abbott Elementary Recap: Janines Choice
May 2024Abbott Elementary Ava 2 Fest Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Abbott Elementary Ava 2 Fest Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nothing is worse than constructing what felt like a perfect outfit in your head only to put it on and realize nothing about it looks right.
Alexandra Peers Author Archive
May 2024vulture lists Dec. 8, 2009 10 Worst Excesses of Art Basel 2009Revelers licking an ice sculpture that looked suspiciously like a giant phallus, and much more!
All the Hottest Gossip From Virgin River
May 2024This recap has been updated to include season five’s two new holiday episodes. As every character on Virgin River will remind you, Virgin River is a small town, okay?
Amazing Race Recap: Oscar Roadblock!
May 2024Our dedication to this show is deep and strong, but when faced with the real-life Detour, “Amazing Race, or Oscar Race?
And Just Like That Here Comes Season 3
May 2024The girls. Oh, New York is so back, baby. Just two days shy of the And Just Like That … season finale, Max has announced that its deliciously goofy Sex and the City spinoff series will return to the streaming service for a third season.
Anthony Head Is Proud to Be Ted Lassos One True Villain
May 2024Rupert Mannion comes up as “The Devil” in his ex-wife’s phone. Really, can you blame her? The guy dumped her, claimed he didn’t want children, and then married another woman with the same name … and then had a daughter.
Below Deck Mediterranean Season Finale Recap: The Mysteries of Hannah
May 2024Below Deck Mediterranean Definitely Not Prague Season 3 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Definitely Not Prague Season 3 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean closes another season with its mothership the Talisman Maiton remarkably intact.
Black Mirror Creators Reveal the Scene That Was So Bleak, Even They Knew They Had to Cut It
May 2024An Apple Watch that forced your hand to punch people in the butt? Headphones that strangle you if you don’t pay for your downloads?
Body Slamming, Booty Popping, and Taylor Swifts Tongue: This Years Billboard Music Awards
May 2024If you missed the three-hour-long televised concert known as the Billboard Music Awards, don’t worry. Not only are the awards decided by “the numbers” (meaning: there’s really no surprise element!
Brian dArcy James, Jonathan Groff, and Andrew Rannells on Playing Hamilton Fan Favorite King Geor
May 2024January 11 is Alexander Hamilton’s birthday. In lieu of a 261-candled cake, we’re celebrating with a weeklong series that explores the production and significance of the Founding Father’s eponymous Broadway musical.
Cher Has Always Been a Rock Star
May 2024Cher first became eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, 25 years after her solo debut, All I Really Want to Do.
Cinematrix Clarifications & Corrections, Vol. 1
May 2024A chronicle of pedantry, delusion, and bliss from the game’s first 100 grids. Graphic: Vulture; Illustration Mike Haddad It’s a milestone moment: we just published the 100th Cinematrix.
Cobra Kai Recap: The Big Cheat
May 2024Cobra Kai Taikai Season 5 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cobra Kai Taikai Season 5 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cobra Kai really knows how to escalate a season, doesn’t it?
Comedy Central Picks Up Hannibal Buress Show [Updated]
May 2024Hannibal Buress Unemployable is a reality comedy series that will follow Buress as he tries a new job — goat farmer, diner, fortune teller, you name it — each week.
Community Recap: Evil Abed Returneth
May 2024Community Contemporary Impressionists Season 3 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Community Contemporary Impressionists Season 3 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As soon as “Contemporary Impressionists” started, I wondered why Community decided to switch this episode and last week’s “Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts,” since this week’s episode so obviously referenced the break they had all just come back from.
Countess LuAnn Answers Your Questions
May 2024The Real Housewives of New York City’s Countess LuAnn (yes, she still goes by Countess, even after divorcing her husband the Count) feels like she’s gotten a bad rap.
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May 2024the industry Dec. 30, 2009 James McAvoy Is Fleming, Ian FlemingPlus: Is Sam Worthington the new Flash Gordon? By Adam K.
Dion DiMucci of the Belmonts on the Doo-Wop ABCs
May 2024As told to Rebecca Milzoff There was no rock and roll when I was growing up. Late at night, I would find stations from Wheeling, West Virginia, or this country station coming out of Newark.
Dont Get It Twisted: The Ultimate Guide to the Jokers Origin Stories
May 2024“If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!” “Fool you once, shame on you, fool you twice, joker’s trick … ” Such are the immortal words of the parody account @jokers_trick, which tweets utterly fake, chaotic evil Joker-isms with the unhinged zeal of a freshman Dark Knight fan.
Downton Abbeys Matthew Goode to Continue Making Aristocratic Ladies Swoon by Joining The Crown
May 2024Swoooooon. Seemingly unsatisfied by romancing Lady Mary and strolling through the lush Italian countryside in search of the perfect grape, noted period-drama dreamboat Matthew Goode has joined the upcoming second season of Netlifx’s The Crown in an equally tantalizing role.
Eminem and Snoop Dogg, Bored Ape NFT Evangelists, Drop a Stoner Song
May 2024Not since that one guy kidnapped a Bored Ape NFT named Fred have I been so perplexed and thoroughly fascinated by the possibilities of the crypto frontier.
Every Deadwood Episode, Ranked
May 2024Thirteen years later, HBO is returning to Deadwood. David Milch’s hall-of-fame-worthy Western was unceremoniously canceled in 2006, three seasons into its exploration of greed, power, capitalism, and community.
Everybody Loves Gossip (and 4 More Podcasts Worth Trying This Week)
May 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.
Everything You Need to Know About the Heiress Who Inspired a Taylor Swift Song
May 2024Oil heiress Rebekah Harkness’s life inspired a stranger-than-fiction track on Taylor Swift’s new album, folklore. Taylor Swift’s eighth album, folklore, is out of the woods and into our ears.
Freaks and Geeks Tests Its Grown-Ups
May 2024Freaks and Geeks The Diary Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Freaks and Geeks The Diary Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In honor of Freaks and Geeks’ long-awaited return to streaming on Hulu, Vulture is revisiting every episode, one at a time, to see what made this one-of-a-kind high-school series tick.
From Katy Perrys Hillary Clinton to Lena Dunhams Grabbed Pussy, See How Celebrities Dressed fo
May 2024Celebrities, they’re just like us! They, too, relish the social-media-friendly joy that Halloween inevitably brings, and they also spend their hard-earned cash on some spooktacular costumes.
George & Tammy Recap: Hes Just a Man
May 2024George and Tammy Stand by Your Man Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » George and Tammy Stand by Your Man Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If there’s one thing George & Tammy wants viewers to take away, it’s that Tammy Wynette really lived her music.
Gifties for Swifties
May 2024It’s finally time to yearn for the past while listening to “’tis the damn season.” What better way to cope with the hometown fantasy of meeting up with an old flame during the holiday break than to online shop?
Gwyneth Paltrow Poses Nude, Is Possibly a Wood Nymph
May 2024Gwyneth Paltrow, clothed but in obvious wood-nymph attire. We now know Gwyneth Paltrow’s secret to looking so amazing and serene, and it’s not that her company keeps an orgasm guru on retainer.
Hasan Minhajs Homecoming King Is an American Story, Whether You Get the References or Not
May 2024When I first stumbled across Hasan Minhaj’s YouTube videos back in 2012, I was at a strange point in my evolution as a comedy consumer, where my identity as a budding comedy nerd and my identity as an Indian-Canadian were somewhat at odds.
Heres the Trailer for 21 Bridges, the Russo Brothers First Post-Avengers Movie
May 2024How do you follow up the year’s biggest box-office blockbuster — the second highest-grossing movie of all time — Avengers: Endgame?
House of the Dragon Is Built on a Shaky Foundation
May 2024House Targaryen’s words are “fire and blood,” and they should be what House of the Dragon delivers in this Game of Thrones prequel about the silvery-haired royals who ruled Westeros for centuries, emerged victorious from myriad wars, and quite often married one another.
House of the Dragons Phia Saban on Playing Helaenas Worst-Case Scenario
May 2024“She’s still very much in the beginning of processing her own grief, and suddenly she’s just an object for the people’s grief to be projected onto.
How I Met Your Mother Recap: Super Bowls and Magic Phones
May 2024How I Met Your Mother Rabbit or Duck Season 5 Episode 15 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We were waiting for one more solid episode in a row from this season before declaring that HIMYM was back, and we didn’t quite get it.
How Weird Stand-up Became a Womans Game
May 2024“Would you say you’re the boldest person in here?” Jo Firestone asks a guy seated in the front row of a Williamsburg bar show.
Idina Menzel Serenades Mark Twain Honoree Adam Sandler As Opera Man
May 2024In keeping with the legacy of the man of the hour, the ceremony held to award Adam Sandler the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on March 19 was a highbrow and lowbrow affair, filled with playful roasts, heartfelt sentiments, and a 100 percent authentic appearance by Kevin James.
Is Kevin Spacey Doing a Movie in Hungary Because He Thought We Wouldnt Notice?
May 2024craggy. News of Kevin Spacey’s sexual misconduct must not have made it over to Central Europe, because Hungarian director Peter Soos seems to have had no problem casting him in his upcoming historical drama, 1242 — Gateway to the West.
Jay-Zs Decoded Made Michiko Kakutani Realize That Even Rhymes About Guns and Girls Have Hidden
May 2024Michiko Kakutani. The Times’ notoriously tough book critic gives Hova’s book a rave in today’s paper: “Decoded is a compelling puzzlelike collage … that places rap in a social and political context … and underscores how the pressures of Jay-Z’s former life as a dealer honed his gifts as a writer, including a survivor’s sense of character, an observer’s eye for detail and a hustler’s penchant for wordplay.
Jeopardy! Winner Victoria Groce Endorses the Rock Band Method
May 2024“If you can master ‘Pretend We’re Dead,’ by L7, you’ll master the buzzer.” “I got recognized for the first time at the coffee shop yesterday,” Victoria Groce says, laughing.
Jimmy Kimmel Breaks the Slap Joke Seal in His Oscars Opening Monologue
May 2024Mr. Kimmel. The 95th annual Academy Awards opened with some real Oscars business as usual: a montage about the magic of moviemaking, complete with behind the scenes footage of foley effects on All Quiet on the Western Front, and what appears to be a clip of Jamie Lee Curtis on the set of Everything Everywhere All at Once doing Zip Zap Zop.
John Wick Will Make Good on His Promise to Kill Them All in 2019 As Chapter Three Gets a Relea
May 2024It looks like John Wick and his dog will try to fend off the legions of international assassins after him in a third installment of the action series.
Kathleen Turner Answers Every Question We Have About Serial Mom
May 2024On defying her agents, hitting Patty Hearst with a pay phone, hating Barry Manilow, and watching Shirley MacLaine eat a staggering number of crabs.
King Lear, But Rent Controlled: Between Riverside and Crazy
May 2024From Between Riverside and Crazy, at the Helen Hayes. Let’s take a moment to appreciate Stephen McKinley Henderson.
Leaked: Usher Wants to Get Divorced in This Club
May 2024Usher, Raymond vs. Raymond Official release date: February 1 The Verdict: Usher Raymond IV didn’t name his new album Raymond vs.
Lindsey Jordans Long, Bumpy Road to Creative Control of Snail Mail
May 2024“I went from being a teenage indie rocker to a young-adult indie rocker, and that’s kind of weird.
Locke & Key Series-Finale Recap: The Final Door
May 2024Locke & Key Farewell Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Locke & Key Farewell Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The series finale of Locke & Key traffics in serious wish fulfillment, but this is the kind of show that had to give its characters a happy ending, right?
Loki Recap: Were All Going to the Worlds Fair
May 2024Loki 1893 Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Loki 1893 Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Like the god of mischief, Loki’s second season has mastered a devious magic trick: the illusion of change.
Los Espookys TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024In this Spanish-language comedy, which boasts Fred Armisen and Lorne Michaels as executive producers, a group of friends decide to turn their mutual love of horror into a very unique business, one that can perhaps be described as a sort of “reverse Scooby-Doo.
Mad Men: The Don Draper Likability Index
May 2024It’s no secret that Don Draper isn’t the man he used to be — and we don’t just mean Dick Whitman.
Mare of Easttown Premiere Recap: Being the Hero
May 2024Mare of Easttown Miss Lady Hawk Hersel Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Mare of Easttown Miss Lady Hawk Hersel Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Is it a prestige cable crime drama if a young woman doesn’t die in the first episode?
Mark Mothersbaugh on Rugrats
May 2024I’m not going to lie. Rugrats is one of the “golden age” Nickelodeon shows that I was never really that into.
Meet Jordan Belfort, the Real Wolf of Wall Street
May 2024(Photo: Lauren Greenfield) The courts at the tennis club in Manhattan Beach are full, and the pool is overflowing with bikinis.
Movie Review: Why Were Audiences So Outraged by Silent House?
May 2024It’s odd that the CinemaScore rating for Silent House, a more than decent gimmicky scare picture that opened last Friday, is an “F” — suggesting that critics like me are more excited by formal inventiveness than most of the film-going public.
Mrs. America Recap: Free to Be You and Me
May 2024Mrs. America Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mrs.
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Netflix Is Horny for Hades
May 2024Hades, coming soon to a Netflix iPhone app near you. Update, March 5: If you’ve been on edge of your seat wondering when Netflix would release Hades, I bring sweet release: The streamer has finally announced that Hades debuts on its gaming platform soon, on March 19.
New Girl Recap: Courtroom Brown
May 2024New Girl Fired Up Season 3 Episode 19 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » New Girl Fired Up Season 3 Episode 19 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are moments in “Fired Up” that make me realize I feel about New Girl much the way my parents feel about me.
Nick Offerman Book Excerpt: My Mustache Manifesto
May 2024Vulture is pleased to present this hilarious excerpt from Paddle Your Own Canoe, a memoir by Nick Offerman. Last week, we interviewed the Parks and Recreation actor about the passage from the book (out today!
Nicolas Cage Will Tackle His Greatest Role: Nicolas Cage
May 2024As an actor, what do you do when your star persona has begun to overshadow your onscreen work?
Nicolas Cages Naked Fudgesicle Nightmare
May 2024Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage’s new film Trespass is about a home invasion. Has he ever experienced a dramatic incident like that?
Nude Photos of Harvey Weinstein Were Shown to Jurors
May 2024Prosecutors on Tuesday showed jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual-assault trial five photos of him, and at least one of showed the disgraced movie producer in full-frontal nudity, courtroom sketches indicate.
One Direction Are Over, Let 5 Seconds of Summer Reign
May 2024One Direction left the pop-music world the same way they entered it: clutching each other on an X Factor U.K. finale, hoping for an encouraging word from career dad Simon Cowell.
Patricia Lockwoods Infinite Scroll
May 2024The Twitter-famous poet’s first novel moves between the body in space and the mind online. No One Is Talking About This is out February 16.
Rachel Sennott Dreams of Her Spaghetti-Covered Playboy Moment
May 2024This week, we’re highlighting 22 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.
Ray Donovan Recap: A Crooked Tree
May 2024Ray Donovan Little Bill Primm’s Green Horseshoe Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ray Donovan Little Bill Primm’s Green Horseshoe Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Devon Bagby as Conor.
Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Tale of Two Vaginas
May 2024The Real Housewives of New York City Always the Bitch, Never the Bride Season 8 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City Always the Bitch, Never the Bride Season 8 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bethenny Frankel.
RuPauls Drag Race All StarsRecap: Fortune Favors the Queen
May 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars The Realness of Fortune Ball Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars The Realness of Fortune Ball Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The winners!
Safy-Hallan Farah Author Archive
May 2024vulture lists Jan. 3, 2023 The Best Books of 2022Yes, this list features more than one book set in a postapocalyptic world, but have you looked around lately?
Selling Sunset Recap: Cassandra Seems Nice
May 2024Selling Sunset Oppenheim Wine/The Enemy of My Enemy Season 7 Episodes 8 - 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Selling Sunset Oppenheim Wine/The Enemy of My Enemy Season 7 Episodes 8 - 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The politics of womanhood are fraught, folks!
Sure, Youd Definitely Only Watch the Pornhub Awards If Kanye West Directs Them
May 2024You probably, definitely have no idea at all, because of course you’ve never visited it, but this Thursday the website Pornhub will be streaming its very first awards show, hosted by Asa Akira, live from the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles.
Talking Heads Burn Down the House, Not Each Other
May 2024Once in a lifetime: Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, and David Byrne at TIFF. The name of this fan is Spike Lee.
Talking With the Kombucha-Sipping Artiste Behind This Summers Best TikTok
May 2024There’s a video sweeping the internet right now that, in just 25 seconds, manages to encapsulate the emotional range of Meryl Streep.
Taylor Swift Is the Greatest Self-Portraitist of Our Time
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The 30 Best Superhero Movies Since Blade
May 2024This list was first published in 2014, and has been updated periodically to reflect new superhero movie releases. In 1998, predicting a fiscally and artistically rich superhero-movie industry would’ve gotten you laughed out of your local comics shop.
The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch Over Labor Day Weekend
May 2024Clockwise from top: The Equalizer 3, Archer, One Piece, Love Is Blind: After the Altar. Summer may be winding down, but at least we have a holiday weekend to help ease the transition.
The Bachelorette Recap: Thats So Brayden
May 2024The Bachelorette Week Four Season 20 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bachelorette Week Four Season 20 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s been a rough few years for us Bachelor Fans.
The Bad Batch Recap: Star Wars Does Pandora
May 2024The Bad Batch Tribe Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bad Batch Tribe Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Animated Star Wars shows always escalate slowly.
The Beaulieu 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 Boys Is a Microcosm of Modern Supersuit Design
May 2024Amazon’s The Boys portrays a world in which superheroes aren’t selfless role models who embody the best of what we could be.
The Deadpool Moment
May 2024This article was originally published in February 2016, in advance of the release of Deadpool. In an entertainment landscape that’s become astoundingly dense with spandex-wearing crusaders and vigilantes, Deadpool stands alone for a number of reasons.
The Existence of Christine Chubbucks Suicide Video Has Been Confirmed
May 2024The late Christine Chubbuck. A few months back, we published an article that centered around a curious and tragic figure in the history of American broadcasting: Christine Chubbuck, an on-air correspondent for a news station in Sarasota, Florida, who in 1974 shot herself on live television.
The Fact and Fiction of Queen Charlottes Royal Romance
May 2024It’s true, it’s all true! Well, sort of. Queen Charlotte opens by telling us, “It is not a history lesson.
The Gentlemen Recap: Having a Ball
May 2024The Gentlemen Where’s My Weed At? / An Unsympathetic Gentleman Season 1 Episodes 3 - 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Gentlemen Where’s My Weed At?
The Joyous Spectacle of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
May 2024Aside from the “to be continued” ending, the new Spider-Verse is spectacular. On January 23, 2024, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was nominated for a Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.
The Many Multiversal Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed in The Flash
May 2024This piece was originally published in June. We are recirculating it now timed to The Flash’s streaming debut on HBO Max.
The Movie-Musical Reality Has Broken for the Better
May 2024What can we learn from the movie musicals that did and didn’t earn awards-season love this year? Back in early December 2021, when West Side Story was struggling at the Omicron-infected box office and Encanto had yet to break out on Disney+, it seemed that a grand year of movie-musical spectacles was going to end with a whimper, not a bang.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: A Greek Tragedy
May 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills It’s Expensive to Be Me Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills It’s Expensive to Be Me Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eileen Davidson.
The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Fall of the House of Hochstein
May 2024The Real Housewives of Miami Date Night Disaster Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Date Night Disaster Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If I were ever to return to school to get my degree in media studies, I always said my dissertation would be about the use of elevators as metaphor in The Good Wife.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion Recap: The Teresa Show
May 2024The Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion Part 1 Season 9 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion Part 1 Season 9 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » With nary an inch of fabric failing to glitter under the hot lights, tonight’s reunion lewks must have triggered a catastrophic shortage in the tristate sequin economy.
The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Hounding for the Bassetts
May 2024The Real Housewives of Potomac Allegation Nation Season 7 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Allegation Nation Season 7 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome back, I hope you all have had weeks that were as restful and restorative as whatever Robyn Dixon did to take care of herself between seasons.
The Royal Family Cannot Harvest Trisha Paytass Power
May 2024Trisha Paytas is basically YouTube royalty, and since the birth of their first daughter, she’s become a fortune teller for the fate of the royal family.
The Sounds of Horror
May 2024An aural history of scary movies, and the Foley art and design that make them great. Photo-Illustration: Mike Essl, Vulture; Photo: Dimension Films Photo-Illustration: Mike Essl, Vulture; Photo: Dimension Films This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
The Walking Dead Series-Finale Recap: Unfinished Business
May 2024The Walking Dead Rest in Peace Season 11 Episode 24 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Walking Dead Rest in Peace Season 11 Episode 24 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » “You deserve a happy ending, too,” Judith says to her Uncle Daryl, in one of the episode’s many poignant moments.
The Winners and Losers of Love Is Blind: After The Altar Season 4
May 2024After a banger of a season full of switch-em-ups, culture clashes (Seattle vs. Portland), and a lot of LeAnn Rimes, Love Is Blind’s fourth outing came back with a limp balloon of an After the Altar special.
This Is Why Game of Thrones Has So Much Nudity
May 2024Game of Thrones has a whole lot to offer — including dramatic battle scenes, a cast of dozens, and plenty of character names that use the letter Y — but it may be best known for its heaping helpings of nudity.
This Week in Late Night: Dont Hide Your Light Under a Bushel
May 2024Seth Meyers on Late Night. The Daily Show pushed late night into its news-commentary lane, and our current highly politicized era has only exacerbated that tendency.
Tinashe Didnt Want to Do the R. Kelly and Chris Brown Collabs Either
May 2024Tinashe. Tinashe was freed from her label RCA back in 2019, bless, but not before it dragged her into collabs with certain deviant figures in the music industry.
Too Funny to Fail Is the Dana Carvey Show Doc the World Needed
May 2024It is a rare From the Archivesarticle that covers something that not only was made in the last fifteen years, but something that was released within this year.
Vanderpump Rules Season-Premiere Recap: Hidden Valley Ranches
May 2024Vanderpump Rules There Goes the Neighborhood Season 8 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules There Goes the Neighborhood Season 8 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Who the hell are all these people?
Veep Series Finale Recap: The. Selina Meyer. Story.
May 2024Veep Veep Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Veep Veep Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Selina Meyer wanted to be President of the United States.
Veeps Matt Walsh on Improv-ing About IVF and Suits As Sleepwear
May 2024Veep’s Matt Walsh. Things are finally looking up for Mike McLintock, the communications guru Matt Walsh plays on Veep: The season opened on his wedding, and he’s now trying to start a family.
Want to Try All Fantasy Everything? Start Here.
May 2024All Fantasy Everything’s Sean Jordan, Ian Karmel, and David Gborie. Are you new to comedy podcasts, overwhelmed by the array of options, and wondering where to begin?
Watch a Monkey Wash Dishes
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Watch a Snowman Explode in Dramatic Fashion
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Watch Jimmy Fallon and Jonah Hill Draw Nudes Together
May 2024When Jonah Hill dropped by The Tonight Show on Tuesday, he was promoting War Dogs, but he might as well have stepped out of a time machine and promoted 2007’s Superbad.
Why Westworlds Throwaway Scene of Black Male Nudity Felt So Dehumanizing
May 2024There is a very brief moment in Westworld’s fifth episode — hardly even noticeable if you’re watching while doing other things — that’s worth considering more fully.
Why Was The Abyss a Flop?
May 2024Critics and audiences rejected James Cameron’s underwater “nightmare” in 1989. But its imperfections only add to its deranged grandeur.
Will Forte on the Stupid Little Cartoons That Changed His Life
May 2024After a beloved run on Saturday Night Live, co-creating the cult comedy MacGruber, a starring role in the Oscar-winning Nebraska, and being The Last Man on Earth, Will Forte’s position in comedy’s upper echelon seems a given, but it wasn’t always.
You Dont Know Her
May 2024Thirty years into an epic career, Mariah Carey is still trying to explain herself. Photo: Dana Scruggs for New York Magazine Photo: Dana Scruggs for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
11.22.63 Is a Sprawling, Intoxicating Show
May 2024James Franco in 11.22.63. 11.22.63, a Hulu production based on Stephen King’s novel, is a sneakily involving mini-series.
25 Defining Moments From Doctor Whos 50-Year History
May 2024Saturday’s anniversary episode of Doctor Who, “The Day of the Doctor,” flipped the action of the series around and gave it a dynamic new mission.
7 New Audiobooks Tailor-made to Help You Survive the Holidays
May 2024The Season is upon us, along with all it entails — cooking, cleaning, hours and hours of travel. But one person’s tedium is another’s opportunity to indulge in audiobooks, those perfect machines for exercising the brain while the body is otherwise engaged.
9 Times Sharon Stone Looked Death in the Eyes
May 2024By the end of Sharon Stone’s new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, you’re almost shocked that she has survived to share her story.
A Darker, Sadder Succession
May 2024Months after his masterpiece finale, Jesse Armstrong ponders the real tragedy of his show’s ending. Photo: HBO/HBO This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
A Keeners Guide to The Kids in the Hall
May 2024So you want to be a Kids in the Hall keener? keener \ ˈkēnər \ (Canadian slang, noun) Individual eager to demonstrate knowledge or participate enthusiastically in school, church, seminars, etc.
A Scaredy-cats Guide toYellowjackets
May 2024Showtime’s Yellowjackets is the talk of the town, or, more accurately, the internet and the two or three people you see these cold, dark days.
A Tribute to Red Oaks, One of TVs Most Underappreciated Shows
May 2024In mid-October, Amazon released the third and final season of Red Oaks, the streaming platform’s most underrated original series. The ’80s-set coming-of-age show follows college student and wannabe filmmaker David Meyers (Craig Roberts) who gets a summer job working at a local country club as he tries to figure out his future.
All 15 Classic Godzilla Movies, Ranked
May 2024This article originally ran in 2019 and is being republished with the release of Godzilla vs. Kong. It might seem that there are only so many types of stories you could tell with a giant lizard, but Godzilla has repeatedly proven otherwise.
All the Rocky Movies, Ranked
May 2024It has been nearly 50 years since Rocky Balboa first graced the big screen — training for the fight of his life by pounding slabs of frozen meat, balling up his courage to ask out pretty-but-shy Adrian — but in some ways, the beloved character seems even further removed from the realities of the modern multiplex.
Allen Leech Joins Cumberbatch, Knightley in The Imitation Game
May 2024LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 28: Allen Leech attends The Laurence Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House on April 28, 2013 in London, England.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Finds the Origin
May 2024Ava DuVernay’s latest socially conscious film could rightfully put Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor back in the Oscar race. Origin, based on the nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitizer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, is a fictionalized drama based on the author’s experience of writing the New York Times bestseller.
Below Deck Down Under Recap: Wrecking Ball
May 2024Below Deck Down Under Kiss Kiss Clang Clang Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Down Under Kiss Kiss Clang Clang Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s safe to say that Tzarina isn’t handling Culver and Jaimee’s makeout session very well.
Below Deck: Mediterranean Recap: Something Fishy
May 2024Below Deck Mediterranean Brace for Impact Season 7 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Brace for Impact Season 7 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mom?
Beyonc Move, Move, Move, Moves Three Renaissance Tour Dates
May 2024Blue Ivy presumably did everything she can. Move, move, move, move — yeah, Beyoncé’s gotta move, move a few dates as her Renaissance world tour comes Stateside.
Beyonc Replaces Ableist Language on Renaissance
May 2024Beyoncé’s ballroom-inspired Most Danceable Album of the Year, Renaissance, is intelligent, multilayered, and fun as hell, but it’s not all tens across the board.
Beyonc Sued Over Lemonade Trailer
May 2024Beyoncé. A new lawsuit alleges that Beyoncé made Lemonade from other peoples’ lemons. Matthew Fulks, an independent filmmaker and creative director at a news station, has filed a lawsuit alleging that the trailer for the pop superstar’s Lemonade copies aspects of his short film Palinoia without his permission.
Biggest Loser Producers Deny Forcing Contestants to Take Weight-Loss Drugs
May 2024The Biggest Loser. The producers of The Biggest Loser are roundly denying charges that the show forced contestants to take weight-loss drugs.
Bridget Everett Brings Out Her Filthy Side in Somebody Somewheres Finale
May 2024Bridget Everett. At the two emotional extremes of the season-one finale of HBO’s Somebody Somewhere are two performances by Bridget Everett’s Sam.
Cazzie David Seems Awfully Chill With Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Dating
May 2024As the old saying goes, if you want to date a famous person, just get a job at SNL.
Chelsea Does Does It Mostly Well
May 2024Chelsea Handler in Chelsea Does. Chelsea Does is indulgent and self-obsessed, but so is stand-up comedy. The kind way to describe that is self-knowledge, and the less-kind way is self-absorption, but either way, good stand-up, more so than other comedy formats, relies heavily on an individual point of view.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Recap: I Believe in Miracles
May 2024Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Miracles of Sabrina Spellman Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Miracles of Sabrina Spellman Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Like Zelda, I know I can be tough on our platinum heroine, whose skills in all relevant departments — magic, friendship, girlfriending and ex-girlfriending, common sense — can be wanting.
Chuck Berry Invented the Idea of Rock and Roll
May 2024Chuck Berry performs onstage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, May 1981. Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on December 20, 2016.
Cillian Murphy on Red Lights, Psychic Powers, and His Rumored Dark Knight Rises Cameo
May 2024Cillian Murphy. Red Lights features two scientists, played by Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver, who make it their business to debunk psychics, mediums, magicians, faith healers, and any other practice that could have a rational versus a paranormal explanation.
Cline Dion Being Iconique: A Timeline
May 2024Céline Dion has a voice rivaled by few others. Soaring and powerful, its extraordinary range has meant the singer can reach stratospheric heights in emotive ballads and descend into sweet, softer keys for love songs.
Cynthia Nixon Talks Controversial Bagels and Climate Change
May 2024Cynthia Nixon joined Vulture Festival L.A. this year for a conversation with New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss, and also for a quick stop in the Vulture Spot video studio.
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May 2024woodstock 50 May 20, 2019 Woodstock 50 Is Back on … MaybeThe festival has a new investor and the court on their side, but they’re not out of the woods yet.
Every Ridley Scott Movie, Ranked
May 2024This list was originally published in 2021 and has been updated to include Ridley Scott’s latest film, Napoleon. For over 45 years, director Ridley Scott has been opening the frame to visions of peerless grandeur, from the historical landscapes of Rome, the Middle Ages, and biblical Egypt to the vast emptiness of outer space and open water to the smog-choked cities of Los Angeles and Osaka, Japan.
Everything We Know Thats Been Changed in the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie
May 2024Fifty Shades of Grey was not a good book, but it was certainly a unique one; it’s safe to say that no other best-seller this decade has ever included ben wa balls in so pivotal a role.
Exclusive: Adam Sandler in Talks to Star Opposite Will Ferrell in Three Mississippi
May 2024We hear that Adam Sandler is in talks to star opposite Will Ferrell in Three Mississippi, a comedy from 30 Rock executive producer Robert Carlock and Friends executive producer Scott Silveri.
Familiar Stories Made Fresh, Just in Time for the Weekend
May 2024Sex Lives of Our Parents (Second Stage; at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre through July 3) Davis McCallum is a director to watch.
Fefe Dobsons Revival
May 2024The 2000s pop-punk star got buried by the industry and growing up. Her return to music looks different — even if she doesn’t.
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Premiere Recap: Welcome to Swan Lake
May 2024Feud Pilot Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Feud Pilot Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Setting the opening scene of Capote vs.
For All Mankind Recap: Disillusionment Go-Go
May 2024For All Mankind Have a Good Sol Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind Have a Good Sol Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Have a Good Sol” focuses with laserlike intensity on the crowd-pleasing theme of disillusionment.
Gossip Girl (Original) TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024Episode 25 The Goodbye Gossip Girl Episode 23 Valley Girls Episode 23 The Wrath of Con Episode 22 Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Episode 21 Seder Anything Episode 20 Remains of the J Episode 19 The Grandfather Episode 18 The Age of Dissonance Episode 17 Carnal Knowledge Episode 16 You’ve Got Yale!
Greys Anatomy Season-Finale Recap: Final Declarations
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy Wedding Bell Blues / Happily Ever After? Season 19 Episodes 19 - 20 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Grey’s Anatomy Wedding Bell Blues / Happily Ever After?
HBO Is Making a Decade-Long Harry Potter Series
May 2024The Boy Who Lived will live again (on our screens). The decade-long Harry Potter series that was announced in 2023 is still happening, though the project will now be branded as an HBO Original instead of a Max Original.
Here Are the Details of Pharrells Dope Soundtrack
May 2024Pharrell. Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope drops in a couple of weeks, and with it will come its notable Pharrell Williams–curated soundtrack.
House of the Dragon Scorecard: Double Trouble
May 2024The House of the Dragon Scorecard is an accounting of the events of this week’s episode in which points are awarded to characters and dragons on a scale of 0 to 10.
How Die Hard Changed the Action Game
May 2024Bruce Willis in Die Hard. “If Willis Gets $5 Million, How Much for Redford?”demanded a headline in the New York Times on February 16, 1988, sounding a note of confusion and panic that greeted news of Bruce Willis’s big payday for Die Hard, a new action picture from 20th Century Fox.
How Food Network Created and Lost Foodies
May 2024The Food Network, which launched twenty years ago this week, was the Starbucks of TV networks. To wit: It has been argued there have been three waves of American coffee consumption: (1) Supermarket brands like Maxwell House and Folgers.
How Top Guns Famous Volleyball Scene Led Kenny Loggins to the Danger Zone
May 2024For all its F-14s and snappy one-liners, Top Gun wouldn’t be remembered as one of the quintessential ’80s blockbusters if it weren’t for the music.
If You Need to Throw Anyone Under the Bus, Let It Be Me
May 2024Kelli Giddish joined SVU in 2011 as Benson’s partner. She departs beloved in her own right. “The audience — I’m theirs,“ says Giddish.
IFC Announces the Cast, Guest Stars, and a May 3rd Premiere for Maron
May 2024Maron, the new sitcom created by and starring stand-up comedian and podcasting pioneer Marc Maron will debut on IFC Friday, May 3rd, the cable network announced today.
In a Standout Final Season Episode, Parks and Rec Became The Johnny Karate Show
May 2024‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined.
Is Christmas Comes to Pac-Land the Worst Christmas Special Ever?
May 2024Christmas Comes to Pac-Land generally finds itself atop lists of weirdest and worst holiday specials. Ignoring most of the tropes associated with seasonal programming, Pac-Land is pretty upfront with its intentions.
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia Recap: Riding Dirty
May 2024It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Gang Gets New Wheels Season 13 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Gang Gets New Wheels Season 13 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Five weeks deep in the new season, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’d already forgotten about Dennis’s rumored departure, the surprise child, the family-man bit, all of it.
Its Probably the Longest Movie Ever Made Without a Plot
May 2024Philip Kaufman on the film fibs, demons, and labia that made The Right Stuff just right. Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.
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May 2024movie review Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review: The SessionsA sexual coming-of-age movie. For a 38-year-old man in an iron lung.
Jon Batiste Leads 2022 Grammy Nominations With 11
May 2024Jon Batiste. The 64th Annual Grammy Nominations are in, and Jon Batiste has swept 11 categories, including Record of the Year and Album of the Year, making him the recognized artist of the awards.
Judd Apatows Best and Worst Movies, Ranked
May 2024From Year One to this week’s The King of Staten Island. Photo-Illustration: Vulture This article has been updated to include Apatow’s recent films, including this week’s The King of Staten Island.
Justin Timberlake Would Like You to Know Hes a Generous Lover
May 2024A satisfied couple. I’ll be honest, at first I didn’t understand what Justin Timberlake’s new video for his song “Supplies” was all about, but now I see it’s about making sure women climax first, no matter what.
Love Is Blind Recap: Everythings Realer in Texas
May 2024Love Is Blind ‘Return to Reality’ / ‘Impress the Parents’ Season 3 Episodes 6 - 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love Is Blind ‘Return to Reality’ / ‘Impress the Parents’ Season 3 Episodes 6 - 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s impossible to start talking about these episodes without mentioning the bomb that Raven drops right away: She and SK are apparently waiting to have sex until after marriage.
Mad Mens Jared Harris on Lanes Sad Fate
May 2024Jared Harris as Lane. There comes a moment when you’re interviewing an actor who’s been killed off a show when you realize that your own grief over the character’s death is nothing compared to the actor’s grief over the loss of an amazing role.
Mean Business On North Ganson Street
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Metallica Vanquish Their Demons
May 2024REPORT: Fuel, fire, desire return. What do we want from Metallica? The question has plagued the California quartet for decades.
Mike Myers: Auteur
May 2024People weren’t quite sure what to make of Mike Myers’ (alleged) hosting gig as Tommy Maitland on the new Gong Show.
Mila Kunis Is One Unlucky Duck in the Luckiest Girl Alive Trailer
May 2024What if the luckiest girl alive … was actually unlucky? That’s the central tension at play in the upcoming thriller Luckiest Girl Alive.
Nathan Fielder Pretended to Play Guitar for Mac DeMarco on Last Nights Conan
May 2024While we’re still waiting for Comedy Central to announce when the new season of Nathan for You premieres, Nathan Fielder is keeping very busy these days.
Obscene and Unheard: The Unmade Films of John Waters
May 2024Divine and filmmaker John Waters on February 14, 1975 in New York City. John Waters, Baltimore’s infamous Pope of Trash and the auteur behind such rude comedies as Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), and Desperate Living (1977), has not released a movie since 2004’s head-injury sex farce A Dirty Shame with Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville.
Oliver Anthony Doesnt Love Republicans Back
May 2024The far right may need a new favorite singer-songwriter. After Oliver Anthony’s song “Rich Men North of Richmond” summited the charts as a conservative hit, Anthony is now distancing himself from the right.
Palm Royale Recap: Blubbering Fools
May 2024Palm Royale Maxine Saves the Whale Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Palm Royale Maxine Saves the Whale Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The tone of this show has, at times, been a struggle to grasp, and I think that’s in part because of our preconceived notion that a “limited series” with a mysterious undercurrent and an all-star cast of actresses must be serious prestige television.
Parks and Recreation Recap: Get a Chard-On
May 2024Parks and Recreation Farmers’ Market Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Farmers’ Market Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » So many of my favorite recurring Parks themes and things made appearances in this episode: Pawnee’s obesity epidemic, Burt Macklin, Craig the doppelgänger, delighted Ron, and Donna as the voice of reason.
Paul Haggis Sure Is One Big Tease
May 2024Paul Haggis. At last night’s Cinema Society screening of Rush, we asked actress Margarita Levieva what she was reading these days.
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May 2024we had questions May 21, 2019 How Gary Does the DicksThere are dozens of performing mechanical phalluses onstage, and they don’t just build themselves, folks.
Quavo Is Making an Animated Kids Show
May 2024Wu-Tang may be for the children, but have they made any cartoons to prove it? Migos’ Quavo has teamed up with Imagine Entertainment co-founder Brian Grazer to create a children’s animated program based in part on the Atlanta music scene.
Queens of the Stone Age Front Man Josh Homme Apologizes After Kicking Photographer in the Face
May 2024Josh Homme. Shutterstock photographer Chelsea Lauren was shooting KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in Morningside Park, California, on Saturday night when Queens of the Stone Age front man Josh Homme suddenly kicked her in the head from the stage.
Questloves How Hip-Hop Failed Black America, Part III: What Happens When Black Loses Its Cool?
May 2024This is the third in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop’s recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future.
Ranking the Half-Ponytails of House of the Dragon
May 2024In the years since Game of Thrones ended on May 19, 2019, a lot has changed. Namely, the world has been totally ruined.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Trippin in Amsterdam
May 2024The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Amster-Damn! Season 5 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Amster-Damn!
Remember the Phil Collins Alamo Artifacts Battle
May 2024Did you know Phil Collins loves Alamo artifacts just as much as Rod Stewart is obsessed with model trains?
Run the Jewelss Killer Mike Penned the Intro for Marvels Hip-Hop Covers Collection; Its As
May 2024Killer Mike. If you were a fan of Marvel’s badass hip-hop initiative, you can now snag a sampler. The comic publisher released its first installment of The Hip-Hop Covers collection on Wednesday, with 14 pieces of the cross-over art, as well as an intro from Killer Mike, whose Run the Jewels duo kicked off the music-inspired collaboration early last year.
Ruth Ozeki, Amplifier
May 2024Her latest novel teems with voices — most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.” The Book of Form and Emptiness is out September 21.
See a Comprehensive Chart of Star Trek Characters
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See Vultures Illustrated Map of New York Hip-Hop
May 2024As part of our examination of the last century of New York pop music, illustrator Sarah King created this map of the city’s hip-hop landmarks, from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx (the site of DJ Kool Herc’s rec-room parties) down to Staten Island’s Stapleton Houses (home base for the Wu-Tang Clan).
Sharon Needles on Winning RuPauls Drag Race, the It Gets Better Generation, and Taking a Br
May 2024Sharon Needles. RuPaul’s Drag Race season four finally has its “winnah.” Monday night, at XL Nightclub, the show crowned shock queen Sharon Needles America’s Next Drag Superstar.
Sharon Van Etten Gets Free
May 2024On Remind Me Tomorrow the artist ditches guitars and finds bold new ways to write about love. Photo: Benedict Evans for Vulture The day before the release of Sharon Van Etten’s new video for “Seventeen,” the third single off her new album, Remind Me Tomorrow, she darts downstairs in jeans and a sweatshirt to open the front door.
Shia LaBeouf Made a Haunting, Naked Sigur Rs Video
May 2024Despite his contributions to the ultraloud fighting-robot genre, Shia LaBeouf has always had a thing for sensitive, soulful music (which will be no surprise to you if you remember the big blowup LaBeouf and Michael Bay had over … Feist).
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Recap: Life During Wartime
May 2024Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Under the Cloak of War Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Under the Cloak of War Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After last week’s lighthearted crossover episode, the Star Trek pendulum swings back with the heaviest episode Strange New Worlds has produced to date (even counting that terrifying Gorn Babies episode that ended in Hemmer’s death).
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May 2024your box office explained July 25, 2011 Captain America Is VictoriousAnd ‘Harry Potter’ falls off 75 percent. By Claude Brodesser-Akner
SZA Dropped Some Details About Her SOS Deluxe
May 2024In case you snoozed and missed the moment, SZA dropped some deluxe news on Friday night. During a surprise album celebration party for SOS in Brooklyn, the singer teased that she’s almost ready to release the long-awaited new version of her sophomore album.
Tana French Is Our Best Living Mystery Writer
May 2024How Mysterious! Brought to you by How Mysterious! Brought to you by I thought I was a Tana French completist until I sat down to write this essay.
Taylor Swift Decides Revenge Is Best Served in the Mail, Via UPS Truck
May 2024Branding partnerships for people already rich enough to live dozens of consecutive lifetimes in luxury are a thing.
That 90s Show Recap: Point Place, 53140
May 2024That ‘90s Show The Birthday Girl Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » That ‘90s Show The Birthday Girl Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Beverly Hills, 90210 is the only thing getting Leia through her breakup.
The 100 Greatest Stools in Stand-up Special History
May 2024Today’s Specials All jokes aside, stand-up is getting artful onscreen. Today’s Specials All jokes aside, stand-up is getting artful onscreen.
The Bear Recap: Meet Sammy Fak
May 2024The Bear Children Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bear Children Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Bear has always made a splash when casting guest stars.
The Best and Worst Moments From the 2018 Made in America Festival
May 2024Nicki Minaj. This year’s Made in America Festival was embroiled in controversy before it even began: Its creator Jay-Z had a public war of words with Philadelphia’s mayor over whether or not the festival could remain at its usual location, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (just beyond the Rocky steps), for another year or get run out of the city altogether.
The Best New York Art Shows of 2022
May 2024Gonzo quilting, Mayan sculpture, and one wild group show made this a great year to hit the galleries. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.
The Best Podcasts of 2023, According to People Who Make Podcasts
May 2024Hundreds of hosts, producers, and executives on what they heard and loved this year. Photo: Audacy Inc, GBH, Jigsaw Productions, Invisible Institute, Knowledge Fight, New York Times, NHPR, NPR, Pineapple Street Studios, Radiotopia, The Ringer, Serial Productions, Spotify, USG Audio, WBEZ, Wondery Photo: Audacy Inc, GBH, Jigsaw Productions, Invisible Institute, Knowledge Fight, New York Times, NHPR, NPR, Pineapple Street Studios, Radiotopia, The Ringer, Serial Productions, Spotify, USG Audio, WBEZ, Wondery Erotic thrillers, phone flirting, a faceless ghost possibly related to Hugh Dancy, seven hours of the Dave Matthews Band, and suspicious sushi tuna that gives you the runs: 2023 might have been the podcast world’s year from hell, but its participants are still pumping out all sorts of wonderful and weird stuff that leave their peers buzzing.
The Best TV Couple of the Past 30 Years, Play-in Round: Buffy and Angel vs. Buffy and Spike vs. Tara
May 2024For the next three weeks, Vulture is holding our annual pop-culture bracket. In 2015, we battled it out for the best high-school TV show; this year, we’re determining the greatest couple on television in the past 30 years.
The Cringe King of TikTok, 7 Weeks Later
May 2024In March 2022, Jake Novak started taking his TikTok output seriously. The singer, actor, and Disneyland performer set a goal for himself to post at least one video every Wednesday.
The Haunting of Hill House Recap: A Fearless Moral Inventory
May 2024The Haunting of Hill House The Twin Thing Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Haunting of Hill House The Twin Thing Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For the first time maybe ever, during this episode I found myself whispering at the screen: “Don’t do it.
The Hellboy Reboot Already Has a Whitewashing Controversy on Its Hands
May 2024Ed Skrein. While we may not be getting a Guillermo del Toro–directed Hellboy III, fans of the franchise have the Hellboy reboot starring Stranger Things’ David Harbour to look forward to.
The Mortal Queen of Faerie Smut
May 2024Sarah J. Maas writes massively popular books that mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma.
The Nigerian Film Stars Behind Some of Twitters Greatest Memes
May 2024Osita Iheme and Chinedu Ikedieze in Intelligent Students. In the good old days of Vine, one of the most popular clips was that of what appears to be a kid holding up a machete.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Ghost of Nene Leakes
May 2024The Real Housewives of Atlanta Peach Passion Season 15 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta Peach Passion Season 15 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The exotic veneer that the Portugese vacation put on this flat-lining season has entirely dissipated now that we’re back in Atlanta and back in Housewives purgatory.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Vicious Vineyard
May 2024The Real Housewives of Atlanta Sour Grapes, Sour Peaches Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta Sour Grapes, Sour Peaches Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This episode was a slow burn to greatness — when these emm-effers fight, they fight WELL.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake CityRecap: Prejudicial, Your Honor
May 2024The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City The Miseducation of Mary Cosby Season 2 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City The Miseducation of Mary Cosby Season 2 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » So this is the New Year, and the women of RHOSLC don’t feel any different.
The Signature Looks of Empire Season Two
May 2024Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon. “It literally gives me chills,” Paolo Nieddu says of his “dream job” as costume designer for Empire.
Tis the Season for Sufjan
May 2024The singer-songwriter reflects on what he’s learned about the holidays after releasing 100 Christmas songs. Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice.
True Bloods Carrie Preston on TV Death, Day Drinking, and Arlene Going Dark
May 2024Carrie Preston In real life, Carrie Preston has some celebrating to do — she recently scored an Emmy nomination for her role on The Good Wife — but on True Blood, she’s all about the grief.
Twilight Is Forever Camp-Cringe Royalty
May 2024Every few weeks for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club.
Vanderpump Rules Recap: The Past Is Prelude
May 2024Vanderpump Rules Nothing Here for Me Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules Nothing Here for Me Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A strange thing has happened during this season of Vanderpump Rules, an infomercial for the Shake Weight that never ends.
Watch the Terrifying Video for Games Martians vs. Goblins, Featuring Lil Wayne and Tyler, t
May 2024Taking N Sync’s “I Drive Myself Crazy” to dizzyingly scary new heights, Game brings in Lil Wayne and Tyler, The Creator to give it that extra-aggressive oomph.
We Went Guitar Shopping With Ryan Adams
May 2024Ryan Adams. Ryan Adams bursts through the door of Rivington Guitars, the tiny East Village instrument shop where he’s asked me to meet him, and immediately launches into a conversation with the owner, Howie, about the red 1983 Les Paul he bought there last November.
Weird Al, a Power-Hungry Monster, Makes Too Hard Crossword Puzzle As Some Sort of Sick Mind Ga
May 2024Weird Al, monster “Weird Al” Yankovic, the master of the dark parodic arts, known for changing words like “Beat” to “Eat” and “It” to, well, that stayed the same, has found a new way to mess with the American psyche — the New York Times crossword puzzle.
Well at Least the Metal Gear Solid Movie Will Get Solid Snakes Butt Right
May 2024Oscar Isaac has been cast as Solid Snake in Sony’s Metal Gear Solid movie, Deadline reports. The long-awaited adaptation of prolific video-game designer Hideo Kojima’s PlayStation game about a special-forces operative tasked with destroying a nuclear-weapons launcher has been stuck in development hell since 2006, with names like Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman floated as potential stars.
Wes Bentley on Teaching Lincoln in The Better Angels, Interstellar, and Malicks Next Film
May 2024Wes Bentley, star of American Beauty and The Hunger Games, is suddenly everywhere. Over the weekend, he appeared in two new movies: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and A.
What Are the Streets (Broadway and 52nd) Saying About Funny Girl?
May 2024Beanie Feldstein playing the titular role in Funny Girl. What happens when you wave the role that made Barbra Streisand a star like a carrot over the heads of fame-hungry musical-theater actors for over half a century?
What Is Barbie Going For, Exactly? An Investigation.
May 2024Baby doll. Barbie showed up and, just like that, the world changed. Are we talking about Barbie or Barbie, you ask?
Who Hates Whom in One Direction?
May 2024Feeling: old. It’s been almost five years since Zayn Malik boldly quit One Direction. Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, and Niall Horan continued without him for a year, then began an “indefinite” “hiatus.
Why Is Everyone Projectile Vomiting on TV?
May 2024We’ve reached Peak Puke TV. In the most recent episode of Big Little Lies, Reese Witherspoon is dining alfresco and having a heated discussion with her ex-husband and his wife when it happens: She vomits.
Winning Time Will Not Shoot for 3
May 2024There won’t be a third quarter for Winning Time: HBO has decided that tonight’sseason-two finale of its Lakers Dynasty drama will actually be the show’s series finale.
Yellowstone Season-Finale Recap: Showdown
May 2024Yellowstone The World Is Purple Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone The World Is Purple Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Earlier this season, I wrote about how Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s plotting style seems to have two modes: nothing much happening, and then suddenly lurching forward.
You Can Tell Everybody These Are All the Songs in Broadways Moulin Rouge
May 2024Moulin Rouge, the sparkling diamond of jukebox musicals and, to quote my colleague New York critic Sara Holdren, “Broadway’s biggest karaoke night,” released its cast album on Friday.
This Weekends Concerts, From Pete Yorn to Bruno Mars
May 2024out on the weekend March 14, 2011 5:00 pm By Amos Barshad Share Share Tweet Pin It 9 Photos Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images/2011 Getty Images Winning the Grammy for Best New Artist quickly turned dark for Esperanza Spalding: Right after the ceremony, Justin Bieber’s army turned on the previously little-known jazz bassist and vocalist with great scorn and resolute anger, and innacurately modified her Wikipedia page.
#Bendergate Is Over: John DiMaggio Returns to Futurama
May 2024Update, Tuesday March 1 at 9:00 p.m.: #Bendergate is over! John DiMaggio has confirmed to Deadline that he will return as the obscene robot Bender in the Futurama revival.
1776s Sara Porkalob Has Some Notes
May 2024The actress behind the musical’s most explosive number on bringing a “dusty, old thing” to Broadway and the mistakes made along the way.
3-Sentence Reviews: Keltie Ferris, for Starters
May 2024Jackie Saccoccio at 11 Rivington. Alicia McCarthy Jack Hanley Gallery 327 Broome St., through Oct. 11
5 Moments That Defined Princess Leia, Sci-Fi Badass
May 2024In the wake of Carrie Fisher’s tragic passing on Tuesday, the memorials have come flooding in from friends, co-stars, ex-husbands, and fans.
5 Things to Hate (and Love) About Streaming Right Now
May 2024Apple TV+ on Tuesday became the latest streamer to hit subscribers with a substantial price increase, a move that sparked the usual flurry of outraged posts on social-media platforms complaining about the inhumanity of it all as well as pushback from folks who argued that Apple’s streamer is still a pretty decent bargain.
A Guide to Locke & Keys Magical Keys
May 2024One of the most essential keys in the narrative of season one, the Head Key, is also one of the most iconic keys in Locke & Key’s comic-book source material.
A Short Conversation About What the Hell Is Going on in Where Hands Touch
May 2024Alexa, play “neegah music.” At the climax of Where Hands Touch, a historical fiction romance that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, two lovers lock eyes.
A Tribute to Tom Pettys Free Fallin: The Guitar Part Everyone Learns How to Play
May 2024“Okay, now just place your pinkie on the bottom string, third fret. Strum. Strum again. Pull off the pinkie and strum again.
All the Silly, Filthy Background Jokes You Might Have Missed in Beau Is Afraid
May 2024Featuring fake K-pop bands like Only1, BF2000, Gottawakka, and Ki55, whose tagline is “we are 55 boys and we love you.
Animator Ralph Bakshi on Why American Pop Ended With a Lame Bob Seger Song
May 2024Courtesy of Ralph Bakshi For more than 40 years, underground animator Ralph Bakshi changed the rules of animation. His 1972 feature debut, Fritz the Cat, was the first animated film to receive an X rating.
Ari and Ethan and a Bowl of Guac
May 2024Bows on opening night, October 30, 2003. This post is the latest edition of Vulture’s Stage Whisperer newsletter, recapping weekly theater news from Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off–Off Broadway.
Atlanta Recap: Spite is a Powerful Thing
May 2024Atlanta The Homeliest Little Horse Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta The Homeliest Little Horse Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When I casually discuss Donald Glover’s work with my friends, especially his old music, the repeated phrase that comes out of my mouth is “He needs to seek therapy.
Blac Chyna Says She Feels Betrayed by Rob Kardashian inGood Morning America Interview
May 2024Blac Chyna. Blac Chyna told Good Morning America she feels “betrayed” by Rob Kardashian, who posted nude photos of her without her consent last week.
Can You Figure Out a Person Based on the Shows They Watch? 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.
Caveman Debuts Its First-Ever Music Video and Talks CoCo Beware, Scotch, and Video Games
May 2024Matthew Iwanusa, Stefan Marolachakis, and Jimmy Carbonetti of Caveman. The term grassroots has taken on glossy connotations in this digital era.
Channing Tatum Is Ruff-n-Ready to Hit the Road in the Dog Trailer
May 2024In Dog we trust. Channing Tatum stars in the trailer for this buddy comedy as a former Army Ranger tasked with taking a dog named Lulu to the funeral of the soldier she once belonged to.
Charlyne Yis Turtle Impression Will Blow Your Mind, Specifically the Part That Thinks About Turtl
May 2024You thought you had seen a turtle before, but my God, how wrong you were. So wrong. So erase any and all turtle memories from your mind this moment and replace them all with Charlyne Yi’s EPIC turtle impression on Conan last night.
Chris Pratt Is Determined to Hit 300 Pounds by Thanksgiving
May 2024That was real pain you saw on Chris Pratt’s face during last night’s episode of Parks and Recreation, in which Andy began training for the police academy.
Clarence Thomas Is Only a Part-Time Prince Fan
May 2024The Supreme Court is back in session for the season, chomping at the bit to take away more rights.
Clipped Recap: Game Day
May 2024Clipped Let the Games Begin Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Clipped Let the Games Begin Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In retrospect, the decision of the Los Angeles Clippers to play game four of their Western Conference playoff series against the Golden State Warriors seems obviously like the wrong one.
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May 2024collaborations June 27, 2019 Justin Bieber Put Drew Barrymore’s Face on a T-ShirtFor his clothing line, Drew House. By Zoe Haylock
Courage the Cowardly Dog Is Still Terrifying
May 2024The Race to Animate In the streaming era, animation is big business. Vulture takes a look at where we are, and how we got here.
Courtney Taylor on PlayingInsecures I Got It Covered Girl
May 2024Seasons four and five of Insecure feature the formation and expansion of Issa’s business, the Blocc, which throws events by and for the local Inglewood community.
Dare Madonna to Go on Her Own Eras Tour?
May 2024Madonna is getting back into the groove — of 40 years of hits. The pop icon will go on her first retrospective tour, the Celebration tour, beginning this summer to honor the 40th anniversary of her self-titled debut.
Eli Roths Thanksgiving Isnt Terrible, and for That We Can Be Thankful
May 2024We don’t watch movies like this wondering what’s going to happen next. We watch because we know what’s going to happen next.
Every James Bond Movie, Ranked
May 2024As the Daniel Craig cycle comes to a close, we take a look back at the franchise’s ups and downs.
Every Time Josh OConnor Has Brought Up Ratatouille
May 2024Linguini and Remy. Challengers-goers are leaving theaters with an affliction: being unable to talk about anything else but Challengers. The Luca Guadagnino film (perhaps better known by its colloquial name, “hot tennis movie”) stars Zendaya, Broadway baby Mike Faist, and Josh “Watch Emma (2020) You Cowards” O’Connor.
Evil Recap: Hello, Dolly!
May 2024Evil D Is For Doll Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil D Is For Doll Season 2 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We have to talk about these dolls.
Gordon Ramsay Teaches Lil Nas X the Art of the Panini
May 2024The panini in Lil Nas X’s recent single “Panini” from his EP 7 is not, actually, a hot, delicious squished sandwich but rather the possessive would-be sweetheart of the show Chowder’s titular star.
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Hanson on the 20th Birthday of MMMBop
May 2024Left to right: Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. Children of the ‘90s, prepare to feel really, really old: Twenty years ago this month, three towheaded, harmonizing brothers from Tulsa released the original version of one of the most inescapable songs of the decade, Hanson’s “MMMBop.
House of the Dragons Second Season Trailer Promises a Bloody, Blonde War
May 2024War is coming. Ain’t got your fix o’ Targaryen content yet? The dragon riders are coming back with a fire in their bellies.
How Bryan Fogel Accidentally Documented the Russian Olympic Doping Scandal
May 2024This piece originally ran in August 2017. We’ve updated it to include context about the Olympics banning Russia from the 2018 Winter Games.
How I Wrote My Novel: Hanya Yanagiharas A Little Life
May 2024Boys in the Band by Geoffrey Chadsey, 2006. I wrote my second novel, A Little Life, in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
I Never Want to See This Movie Again
May 2024Maria Hofstatter in The Devil’s Bath. This review was originally published on June 21, 2024. We are recirculating it now that The Devil’s Bath is available to stream on Shudder.
Iggy Azalea Tweets That Playboi Carti Skipped Sons First Christmas for Album Drop
May 2024Iggy Azalea. Last night, while we were all snug in our sleep-beds dreaming of sugared plums, Santa pulled a new Playboi Carti album out of his Santa bag.
In Beef, Therapy Isnt the Answer
May 2024The female and the male are unwell. Spoilers ahead for the entirety of Beef, including finale “Figures of Light.”
Japanese Breakfast Is Searching for the Next Japanese Breakfast
May 2024Japanese Breakfast. Each day we get closer to a film about someone Crying in H Mart. The adaptation of the Japanese Breakfast memoir is starting to take shape, with the film’s team doing an open casting call to play the role of JBrekkie herself, a.
Johnny Knoxville Brought a Friggin Huge Mousetrap to WrestleMania
May 2024“That’s where the cheese goes!” They say you can’t build a better mousetrap, but that doesn’t mean you can’t build one that’s friggin’ ginormous.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Honored With Comedys Prestigious Mark Twain Prize
May 2024Julia Louis-Dreyfus at the John F. Kennedy Center on Sunday. The C-word came up during Sunday’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F.
Julianne Nicholson on August: Osage County, Masters of Sex, and Meeting Khal Drogo
May 2024Julianne Nicholson. Julianne Nicholson thought at first she wouldn’t be able to score a part in August: Osage County as the sister of Julia Roberts and Juliette Lewis, because of her name.
Justin Long on Playing Teenagers, Dodgeball, and the Dangers of Viral Fame
May 2024Playing younger than he is has never really been an issue for Justin Long. At 22, he played geeky high school student Warren Cheswick in Ed.
Kathryn Hunters Poor Things Tattoos Survived Hot Yoga
May 2024In Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film Poor Things, Kathryn Hunter takes on the role of Swiney, a tattooed madame at the brothel where Emma Stone’s Bella, whom Hunter describes as “completely free and uninhibited,” eventually works.
Ke$has New Single Is Called Sleazy
May 2024Back when “TiK ToK” first hit, the Times singled Ke$ha out as arguably the most successful white female rapper in the short history of the field.
Kevin Connolly Accused of Sexual Assault by Gardener of Eden Costume Designer
May 2024Gracie Cox, a former Hollywood costume designer with credits including Orange Is the New Black and Gossip Girl, is speaking out about an alleged 2005 sexual assault by Kevin Connolly during the wrap party for his directorial debut, The Gardener of Eden.
Lake Bell On In a World and Tattoos
May 2024Photo by Mark Seliger Let’s get it out of the way. The giant rose on Lake Bell’s chest is not real.
Lars Ulrich Unloads a Basquiat
May 2024We hope you’re proud of yourselves, music pirates. Hard times have apparently befallen everyone’s favorite technology-averse hard-rock combo, and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich is selling a Basquiat he purchased back in 1999, long before he’d even heard of P2P or personal computers.
Lee Daniels Says His Show Star Starts From a White Girls Perspective Because The Country Neede
May 2024Lee Daniels started work on his girl-group drama Star far before the election results rolled in this year, but now that they have, he feels the show’s themes have some added resonance, mostly because they finally give us all the chance to relate to a white girl on TV.
Lets Talk About the Ending of The Blackcoats Daughter
May 2024Emma Roberts in The Blackcoat’s Daughter. The Blackcoat’s Daughter is the directorial debut of Osgood Perkins — son of Anthony — and it’s a mind-bendy little number that combines two of horror’s core elements: a girls’ boarding school and demonic possession.
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May 2024There she is: Linda Tarr. This piece was originally published after Tár’s theatrical release in October. We are recirculating it now that the film is available to stream on Peacock.
Logan Paul SBFd Up
May 2024This guy. Don’t give Logan Paul the idea for hydrogen fuel. The douche-Tuber known for filming dead bodies in Japan allegedly made millions of dollars with a nonfunctional nonfungible-token project and, like Miles Bron before him, doesn’t seem to care if his success comes at the expense of others.
Louis C.K. Jokes About Masturbation and Retarded Kids at San Jose Show
May 2024Louis C.K. Since August, Louis C.K.’s return to stand-up has been mostly limited to venues in New York like the Comedy Cellar and Governor’s in Long Island.
Mad Men Recap: Investments
May 2024Mad Men New Amsterdam Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4.5 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mad Men New Amsterdam Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4.
Meet Bernie Mac Sanders, the Result of a Freak VCR Accident
May 2024Bernie Mac Sanders makes his stand-up debut. One of the best New York comedy traditions is ‘Schtick or Treat,’ the annual live show hosted by Mark Normand and Matt Ruby and produced by Luisa Díez.
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May 2024the early-evening news Nov. 29, 2007 Hilarious Doug Morris Interview Now a Hilarious Web ComicPlus: Conan O’Brien the world’s greatest boss?
More Mural Ideas for Parks & Recs Production Designer
May 2024In honor of this article on Parks & Rec’s fantastic production designer Ian Phillips, here are a few Pawnee murals I would like to personally commission:
Morrissey: I Am Not Homosexual
May 2024Morrissey’s long-anticipated memoir was released overseas last week. Despite being filled with many interesting, very-Morrissey tidbits, because we’re all nosy pervs, most people only seemed interested in talking about whether it reveals that he is gay.
New Dune Continues Its Mission to Become the Sexiest Dune Ever, Casts Javier Bardem
May 2024Javier Bardem. Thank goodness the Dune cast is so large, because these updates make for some great daily highlights.
No SNL Host Has Survived Kate McKinnons Paranormal Encounter Sketch Without Breaking
May 2024Last weekend, much to the delight of SNL viewers, Kate McKinnon revived one of her bawdy recurring characters, Ms.
Noah Galvin Has Nothing to Hide
May 2024The 2016 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 27.
On SNL, Homemaking Gets a Manly Makeover
May 2024Now that women are the top earner in 50 peercent of American families, G.E. is giving home appliances a butch new makeover.
One Of Us Is Lying
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Passages Bad Boyfriend Only Leaves You Wanting More
May 2024Despite its love triangle, Passages isn’t about polyamory or sexual awakening—it’s about a man who elides his awfulness under the guise of urban sophistication.
Perry Farrell Picks Off Hair-Metal Guys One by One
May 2024Perry FarrellPhoto: Getty Images “We didn’t associate with the hair-metal guys. We kind of laughed them off. We would drive down Sunset Boulevard at the time when Sunset Boulevard was chockfull of them, and we’d kind of heckle.
Physical TV Episode Recaps & News
May 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.
Physical Recap: Woman on the Edge of a Nervy Breakthrough
May 2024Physical Let’s Get This Party Started Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Physical Let’s Get This Party Started Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If I were Sheila’s shrink, what I would tell her after today’s session — erm, episode — is: Well, that’s all the time we have right now, but you’ve made excellent progress today.
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May 2024vulture quizzes Jan. 28, 2020 How Well Do You Know Cheer From Cheers?Can you distinguish between the addictive Netflix docuseries and the beloved legacy sitcom?
Radioheads Dystopic Lyrics Resonated a Little More Than Usual at MSG Last Night
May 2024NEW YORK, NY - JULY 26: (Editors Note: Image has been converted to black and white) Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs at Madison Square Garden on July 26, 2016 in New York City.
Rauw Alejandro and Daddy Yankee Are Dropping Panties y Brasieres
May 2024Daddy Yankee and Son Yankee. Rauw Alejandro and Alexis Mateo have something in common: they both love Daddy Yankee.
Rene Russo Explains the Perfectionism of Nancy Meyers
May 2024Nancy Meyers Week It’s Nancy Meyers Week at Vulture. Why? Because it’s The Holiday season, and It’s Complicated. Something’s Gotta Give. Nancy Meyers Week It’s Nancy Meyers Week at Vulture.
Revenge of the Twink: How Slimmer Movie Stars Are Seizing the Spotlight
May 2024How muscular does a movie star need to be? For the past few years, leading men have engaged in a literal arms race where bicep size has begun to outstrip believability.
Richies Fork in the Road
May 2024In season two, The Bear’s bad man grows into its savior. For most of his life, Richie Jerimovich has been an asshole.
Scream Queens Recap: Phony Bologna
May 2024Scream Queens Beware Young Girls Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Scream Queens Beware Young Girls Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emma Roberts.
Screenwriter James Ivory Wanted Full-Frontal Nudity in Call Me By Your Name
May 2024James Ivory. Call Me By Your Name may have received three Academy Award nominations, including a Best Picture nod, but the Oscar-winning screenwriter James Ivory still saw a problem with the final product: a lack of frontal male nudity.
See Allegedly Scrapped Concept Art for Jurassic Park 4
May 2024Dinosaurs scary! Sources io9 See Alleged Concept Art for Jurassic Park 4 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dhZXyku82cnKmsXZa%2FtXnFqKlmoqWnrrS%2FyJxkqZmioHp1esetpKU%3D
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May 2024Sheldon Patinkin - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Dec. 31, 2014 The Comedy Legends We Lost in 2014We lost several funny people of note in 2014, but the year was a real doozy for comedy legends in particular, including writer/directors, TV […] By Erica Lies
Slow Horses Recap: Best-Laid Plans
May 2024Slow Horses Uninvited Guests Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Slow Horses Uninvited Guests Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It was a bit of a double take watching the opening of this week’s Slow Horses, because it begins almost exactly as the episode before.
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May 2024injury report Aug. 6, 2009 Fallin’ Off the EdgeAerosmith singer Steven Tyler suffered minor injuries to his head, neck, and shoulder last night when he fell backwards off the stage at a South Dakota concert.
Supernatural Season-Premiere Recap: Angels in America (Well, Canada)
May 2024Supernatural I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here Season 9 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Supernatural I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here Season 9 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » What becomes of a serialized procedural in its ninth season?
Take a Look at This Damn Fine Twin Peaks Map, Drawn by David Lynch
May 2024As a fine gentleman in a lime-green jacket would say: Hellooooooo to this! Ringing in two years since the best show of 2017, Twin Peaks: The Return, premiered and knocked our socks off on Showtime, our very own Dale Cooper (alias, Dougie Jones; other alias, Coopergänger) is giving us a piece of the show’s folklore to hang in our home.
TBS and TNT Scripted-Show Development Killed by Warner Bros. Discovery
May 2024What will happen to Roger? You know what they say about when one massive media company gets gobbled up by another massive media company to form an even massiver engorged media conglomeration: It’s a good thing and it always leads to more creative projects getting made and more jobs …
That Right-Wing Folk Song Is Now a No. 1 Hit
May 2024Oliver Anthony Music. We wish we could wake up and have it not be true, but it is: The viral right-wing hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” debuted at No.
The (Fake) Songs of Summer
May 2024A compendium of the infectious tunes in Will Ferrell’s Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Elizabeth Viggiano/NETFLIX Every year since 1956, usually in May, the nations of Europe have gathered to determine which of them has the most exuberantly kitschy, delightfully overproduced infectious pop song.
The 11 Greatest Stories From The Greatest Night in Pop
May 2024In 1985, dozens of singers pulled an all-nighter in California while recording a charity single for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The 2024 Streaming Power Rankings
May 2024We asked 29 critics, execs, agents, producers, and analysts who’s winning and who’s struggling to survive. Illustration: James Merritt Illustration: James Merritt It’s been (another) brutal year for most of the players in the streaming space.
The 30 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now
May 2024Mystic River. Netflix Movies by Category Drama Comedy Action Horror For Kids This post is updated regularly as movies leave and enter Netflix.
The 32 Greatest Character Actors Working Today
May 2024We asked critics and Hollywood creators: Which supporting players make everything better? Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Shutterstock, HBO, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Netflix, Newmarket Films, A24, New Line Cinema, FX, Sony Pictures Releasing, Paramount Pictures, Gramercy Pictures, Sony Pictures Television and Focus Features Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Shutterstock, HBO, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Netflix, Newmarket Films, A24, New Line Cinema, FX, Sony Pictures Releasing, Paramount Pictures, Gramercy Pictures, Sony Pictures Television and Focus Features As many have noted, a small but significant loss we’ve all faced during quarantine has been the disappearance of the casual acquaintance.
The 5 Stages of a Meme Challenge
May 2024The final nail in the coffin: a Jimmy Fallon segment. The Milk Crate Challenge has been banned from TikTok. Zoomers across the nation are apoplectic.
The Best TV Shows of 2024 (So Far)
May 2024This list is updated monthly with new “best of the year” worthy titles. It’s too soon to say how the 2023 Hollywood strikes will shape the industry in the long term, but here in the short term, it’s clear that television is still in its strike-hangover period.
The Chi Season-Finale Recap: Who Killed Jason?
May 2024The Chi Ease on Down the Road Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Chi Ease on Down the Road Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » With the end of its first season in sight, The Chi races toward closure for its myriad characters.
The Complications of David Crosby
May 2024Crosby circa 1967. David Crosby’s career in music should have ended in 1967. That was the day the other members of the Byrds came over to kick him out of the band.
The Forgotten Years of the Friends Saga
May 2024“Nobody understands wanting things to stay the same like I do. I was happy in New York, okay? And I tried really hard to keep things from changing.
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the Love Is Blind Reunion
May 2024Low: the Houston dating scene. For an unprecedented season of reality TV’s most daring “experiment” — complete with exes meeting in the pods, a single successful marriage, and one man who apparently never saw makeup on a woman’s face before — the reunion for Love Is Blind’s fifth season was a disappointingly muted affair.
The Killers Anti-Climactic (and Dark as Hell) Ending, Explained
May 2024Why doesn’t Michael Fassbender’s nameless assassin pull the trigger at the end of David Fincher’s Netflix film? Everyone’s heard of Chekhov’s gun, the firearm you see in the first act and just know will go off by the third.
The Last of Uss Storm Reid on Riley and Ellies Unconditional and Sacrificial Love
May 2024Spoilers follow for episode seven of The Last of Us, “Left Behind,” which premiered on HBO on February 26.
The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselRecap: Bittersweet Revenge
May 2024The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel How to Chew Quietly and Influence People Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Marvelous Mrs.
The Plague 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 Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club Season-Finale Recap: Mind Your Manors
May 2024The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Leavin’ on a Prayer Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip Leavin’ on a Prayer Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In the immortal words of Boyz II Men, it’s so hard … to say good-bye … to yesterday.
The Sweetness and Bittersweetness of the 2023 Kennedy Center Honors
May 2024When Missy Elliott saluted Queen Latifah at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, she broke it down the way only a fellow hip-hop queen could.
The Unusually Accurate Portrait of Hacking on USAs Mr. Robot
May 2024Rami Malek as Elliot in Mr. Robot. Michael Bazzell was in high school when he built his first computer, an Intel 80386 that he constructed with help from a friend who worked in a computer store.
The Vibes Are Off at Venice
May 2024Before this week, I would never have called the presence of movie stars in any given room “keenly necessary.
Theater Review: The Trip to Bountiful, Without Doilies
May 2024Vanessa Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr. in The Trip to Bountiful. The most brutal show in town right now isn’t Macbeth or Orphans or even Jekyll & Hyde, despite their terrifying ghosts, thugs, and lyrics, respectively.
Theater Review: The Unreal Land of Make Believe
May 2024From Bess Wohl’s Make Believe at Second Stage. Starting with its title, Bess Wohl’s Make Believe implies a promise of subtle magic that it never really delivers on.
Tina Fey, Jack Burditt, and Robert Carlock Developing CBS Multi-Cam Comedy
May 2024The team behind Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt have a new show in the works at CBS. According to Deadline, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Jack Burditt have sold an untitled multi-cam show to CBS that follows “an oddball athlete who drives family, friends and strangers bonkers after he unexpectedly finds himself retired.
Tracy Morgan Announces Picking Up the Pieces Standup Tour
May 2024Fresh off his SNL hosting stint, Tracy Morgan is heading on a nationwide standup tour next year. Titled Picking Up the Pieces, the tour makes stops in Boston, Atlantic City, Washington DC, New York, Hollywood, Atlanta, and more from February through May 2016.
Watch Desus and Mero Roast Celebrity Halloween Costumes
May 2024In a spooky-ooky-ooky Halloween episode of Desus & Mero, the Bodega Boys came for Ciara. The “1-2 Step” singer went as Selena this year, apparently because she is learning Spanish and wants to immerse herself in the culture.
Watch Glenn Howerton and Ben Schwartz in the Trailer for CollegeHumors First Movie Coffee Town
May 2024Here’s the trailer for CollegeHumor’s first-ever feature film. Called Coffee Town, it’s written and directed by Brad Copeland (who wrote for Arrested Development and also wrote Wild Hogs) and comes out July 9th on all digital platform.
Wayne Knight Answers Every Question We Have About Basic Instinct
May 2024Make Hollywood Horny Again A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers. Make Hollywood Horny Again A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers.
We Were Obsessed
May 2024Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda didn’t plan to revisit the band’s 2003 album Meteora — until he found a lost demo.
What Teen Shows Should I Watch? Here Are 101 Suggestions
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.
What the Vision and the Scarlet Witch Comics Can Tell Us About WandaVision
May 2024How did the two MCU characters end up, happily, in trailers for this month’s post-Endgame Disney+ series? Let’s take a look at the source material.
Who Has Murdered Whom on Scandal?
May 2024Last night’s Scandal was a dark and sad one — though they’re all pretty dark and sad at this point. Partially because almost everyone on this show is a murderer.
Who Is Ariana Grande, Really?
May 2024In less than six years, she has become one of the most successful pop artists of all time. Who is she?
Who Was the Real Ruth Handler From Barbie?
May 2024If you’ve just gotten back from seeing Greta Gerwig’s Barbie-approved Barbie, chances are you might have some questions.
Your Next Romance Read, Based on Your Favorite Rom-com
May 2024Well, folks, it’s that time again: Valentine’s Day is approaching and romance recommendations are already flooding the internet. On the surface, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that; romance novels are awesome, and more people should be reading them at every available opportunity.
Yvette Nicole Brown Takes Heat From White House for, Well, Suggesting Melania Was Trumps Mistress
May 2024Yvette Nicole Brown. Community alum Yvette Nicole Brown subbed in for The View’s Joy Behar on Friday, and, boy, she didn’t hesitate to get in the mix.
See All the Red-Carpet Looks From the SAG Awards
May 2024slideshow January 30, 2012 11:15 am By Eric Sundermann Share Share Tweet 60 Photos Photo: ANDREAS BRANCH/PatrickMcMullan.
10 SNL Sketches Cut From the Reruns
May 2024One interesting aspect about reruns of Saturday Night Live is how they’re sometimes very different than what went over the air live during the original airing.
17 Indie Artists on Their Oddest Odd Jobs That Pay the Bills When Music Doesnt
May 2024“When is it gonna be when I have to get a real job? is always in the back of my head.
27-Year-Old CW Star Fakes Dating Jon Lovitz to Promote Her New Single
May 2024The couple in happier times. For the past few days, former 90210 star Jessica Lowndes has been teasing her 700,000 Instagram followers about an exhilarating and intoxicating relationship with a mysterious older man, one whose hands she said were “wise” and told “a thousand stories.
44 New Books to Read This Fall
May 2024SEPTEMBER 9/5 Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History By Kurt Andersen Random House From the counterculture to fake news: how the hell we got here.
A Brief History of the Club Music Youre Hearing Drake Attempt on Honestly, Nevermind
May 2024It’s deeper than all that “oontz oontz” trash talk. It’s tradition: New Drake music means new cause for every corner of the internet — skeptics, fans, casual listeners — to hash out their feelings about all things Aubrey.
A Frustrated Andrew Garfield Goes Off on Celebrity, Society, and Self-Doubt
May 2024“Why the fuck am I doing this?” Andrew Garfield said, agitated. He was sitting in front of me in a nicely appointed Beverly Hills hotel room, recalling the feeling of dread he’d felt that morning as he faced a long day of press to promote his new film 99 Homes.
A Talk With That Cool-Glasses Guy Who Defeated Amy Schneider on Jeopardy!
May 2024“I think it really helped that I let go of winning. I was so Zen-like and happy.” What is … a yellow-hued defeat?
A Whos Who of Sitcom Theme Song Composers
May 2024Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the following Theme Song Composers? (I’m only choosing people who are still alive, because, well, the “Where Are They Now?
American Horror Storys Lily Rabe on the Stevie Nicks Shout-out and Her Own Obsession With the Sin
May 2024Lily Rabe as Misty. After being burned alive in last week’s premiere of American Horror Story, Misty Day returned tonight as the hippie witch with the power to bring back the dead.
Andrea Navedo on Her Tatas and Whether Jane the Virgin Will End With Season Five
May 2024On tonight’s Jane the Virgin, viewers saw a different side of Xiomara as she recovered from mastectomy surgery and struggled to accept being cared for by her mother.
Anna Faris Wouldve Made the When Harry Met Sally Fake Orgasm Scene Terrifying
May 2024Yeah, no one’s telling the waiter “I’ll have what she’s having” when “what she’s having” appears to be some sort of demonic takeover by a coyote spirit.
Aye, T, Its Called Socialist Sopranos Memes
May 2024“Her name’s Chaya Raichik, T. She’s 48 years old, unmarried, and childless. So naturally, she’s an authority on what’s good for children.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht Recap: Distracted Daisy
May 2024Below Deck Sailing Yacht T-Bone With Stakes Season 4 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Sailing Yacht T-Bone With Stakes Season 4 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Parsifal III has been through hell and back this season, and it’s hanging on by a thread at this point.
Bill Murray Says He Doesnt Know What Harvey Weinstein Is Being Accused Of
May 2024Bill Murray. Despite dominating international news headlines since last fall, the full extent of this Harvey Weinstein situation still hasn’t made its way to Bill Murray.
Bret Easton Ellis Is Very Team Franzen
May 2024Bret Easton Ellis, who of late has spent a lot of timesoapboxing for porn stars and settling debates about what is or is not Post Empire, can also still give good quote, as he did recently to the Paris Review.
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May 2024good one podcast May 24, 2022 The Kids in the Hall Fight Because They Care“One of the things that’s ridiculous about being alive, for all of us right now, is that we’re old.
Check Out Some Homemade Hunger GamesInspired Dust Jackets
May 2024For a whole new kind of book snob! [E.M. Bowman] Check Out Some Homemade Hunger Games–Inspired Dust Jackets ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgaHypwc2gnKtll5a6pr%2BMoqWsqJmnsqV5w66qrWWalrCssdOsZaGsnaE%3D
Check Out the Brand-New Birdman Poster
May 2024Michael Keaton in ‘Birdman.’ After a rapturous reception at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, the Oscar-buzzed Birdman flies into New York on October 12, where it will close the New York Film Festival.
Comedians and College Students Are Not Enemies
May 2024Jes Tom. I wonder if Jerry Seinfeld knows that when he famously said colleges are too PC for stand-up comedy, he sparked a wholly unnecessary feud between stand-up comics and college students.
Did We Really See What We Think We Saw During the End Credits of The Hangover?
May 2024So, we saw The Hangover yesterday. The Hangover, in case you haven’t heard, is a movie rated R “for pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material.
Downton Abbey Season 4 Finale Recap: Lifes a Beach
May 2024Downton Abbey Part Eight Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Downton Abbey Part Eight Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The fourth season of Downton Abbey has ended on a note that seemed inconceivable when it started: a happy one.
Drag Race U.K.s Dakota Schiffer Knows She Got the Peoples Princess Edit
May 2024Dakota Schiffer was doing better than expected. The contestant on the current season of RuPaul’s Drag Race U.
Every Dolly Parton Movie Performance, Ranked
May 20242020 has been quite the year for America’s favorite prolific musical genius and quippiest kilowatt blonde, the unsinkable Dolly Parton.
Every Easter Egg in Taylor Swifts You Need to Calm Down Music Video
May 2024*Taylor Swift voice* This is exhausting. Welp, it’s been a chaotic morning in the Taylor Swift extended cinematic universe. Taylor Swift dropped her new music video for “You Need to Calm Down” at exactly 8:15 a.
Every Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia Episode, Ranked
May 2024In a way, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the Little Show That Could, a sitcom whose pilot was shot on the ultracheap (the long-standing rumor has been that it cost $200, which star and writer Charlie Day has since disputed).
Everybody Wants Curbs Susie Essman to Yell at Them
May 2024The final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm — for real this time, according to all parties involved — started airing last month, 24 years after its first season.
Fargo Recap: The Ol Creecharound
May 2024Fargo Buridan’s Ass Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fargo Buridan’s Ass Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are a pair of scenarios in “Buridan’s Ass” (a fairly straightforward reference to this philosophical dilemma) that seem to borrow from both real headlines and post-Fargo-the-movie fiction.
Flamin Hot Has an Unintentionally Grim Message
May 2024This corporate fairy tale, directed by Eva Longoria, is resolutely feel-good in a way that starts to feel bad.
Fleabag Breaks the Fourth Wall and Then Breaks Our Hearts
May 2024The sexiest scene I have ever watched on TV happens in a confessional booth. It’s in the middle of Fleabag’s second season, when Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) finally acts on her attraction to The Priest (Andrew Scott), the Catholic clergyman who will be performing her father’s marriage ceremony.
Freddy Lives: An Oral History of A Nightmare on Elm Street
May 2024With Halloween looming menacingly on the horizon, we’re taking this week on Vulture to celebrate horror in all its gory, terrifying forms.
Ghosts Recap: The Viking and the Hippie
May 2024Ghosts A Date to Remember Season 2 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ghosts A Date to Remember Season 2 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love is in the air at the Woodstone B&B!
Greys Anatomy: The Moment Weve All Been Waiting For
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy Invasion Season 6 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A dream is fulfilled.
Halston, An Unwitting Cautionary Tale
May 2024Around the middle of the third episode of Halston, thanks to a mixture of boredom and fascination, I started counting every time someone said the name “Halston.
Hannah New Needed to Disrupt Bridgertons Widow Status Quo
May 2024“I saw this woman who was in such a good place of understanding herself. I need a bit more of that for myself, too.
HBO Is Telling the Tales of Dunk and Egg
May 2024Have you heard the news, or do you need a good clout in the ear? The next Game of Thrones spinoff is headed to our screens.
Hear the Google Translate Voice Beatbox
May 2024It’s very simple! (1) Go to Google Translate. (2) Set the translator to “German to German.” (3) Copy and paste this into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch.
How St. Vincent Reimagines Her Own Songs
May 2024Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent. In October 2017, St. Vincent released her fifth album, Masseduction, a critically acclaimed collection of art rock with a pop sheen courtesy of producer Jack Antonoff.
I Dont Want to Be Erased
May 2024Frustrated by his failing health, Lou Reed spent his final days intent on making something “really astonishing.” Photo: Mattia Zoppellaro/contrasto/Redux Excerpted from LOU REED: The King of New York.
Is Save the Last Dance Worth Rewatching?
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.
Its Not Like Delayed Gratification Is a New Concept in Frank Oceans Music, So Chill Out Alread
May 2024The Greeks, it’s said, possessed a clear-eyed view of the disasters brought on by desire: The proof was that their myths were filled with catastrophes triggered by the inability of mortals to refrain from striving after more than they could bear.
Jason Aldean, Mariah Carey, and Other Celebrities React to the Las Vegas Shooting
May 2024Jason Aldean Several musicians and celebrities shared their condolences early Monday morning after a gunman in a Las Vegas hotel opened fire on a country-music concert Sunday night.
Jeffree Star Accuser Allegedly Paid to Walk Back Sexual and Physical Assault Claims
May 2024In a report published this October, Insider detailed allegations of sexual and physical assault by beauty guru Jeffree Star, including a claim from a man named Gage Arthur, who accused the YouTube celeb of allegedly shocking him with a taser and performing nonconsensual oral sex on him in 2009, when 19-year-old Arthur was experiencing homelessness.
John Cusack on The Raven, Lazy Comedy, and His Zombie Survival Plan
May 2024John Cusack. Earlier this month, we spent a very enlightening several hours with self-professed maniac John Cusack, pretending to rob the Getty Villa, stealing potato chips, and discussing everything from Greek antiquities to his new Edgar Allan Poe movie, The Raven, from V for Vendetta director James McTeigue.
Judd Apatow Says This is 40 Wont Have Any Knocked Up References
May 2024Judd Apatow gave a nice long interview to Film Comment today in advance of his new movie This is 40, which is being billed as a “sort of sequel” to Knocked Up, following Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters Pete and Debbie.
Katy Perry Sends In the Clown (Memes)
May 2024Womp-womp. Singer and stunt queen Katy Perry loves a good, chaotic album rollout. (It was just three summers ago that she livestreamed her existential malaise for Witness!
Kevin Nealon on His Long Friendship With Garry Shandling: He Was Always There, He Was Always Arou
May 2024Nealon. In a new interview with THR, Kevin Nealon reminisces about his long friendship with Garry Shandling. Nealon, who was close to the late comedy pioneer for nearly four decades, recalls some of the basketball games, hikes, and brainstorm sessions they shared.
Kristen S. H Author Archive
May 2024vulture lists May 23, 2022 Every Lady Gaga Song, RankedHere’s where Love For Sale and “Hold My Hand” land on the all-time list.
Kyle Chandler to Take You for a Ride in Showtimes Uber Series Super Pumped
May 2024Sure, you might not have any strong feelings toward venture capitalist Bill Gurley now, but you’ll probably warm up to him to after watching Kyle Chandler portray the “plainspoken, brilliant Texan” in Showtime’s upcoming anthology drama Super Pumped about the rise of Uber, based on author Mike Isaac’s book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.
Kyle Mcnally - Vulture
May 2024vulture picture palace Mar. 6, 2008 Kyle McNally’s ‘Mourning After’: Picture-in-Picture Finally Goes LegitMcNally’s lyrical and meditative film is equal parts melodrama and art installation.
Lauren Engel - Vulture
May 2024tube junkie July 12, 2007 ‘We’re Not Carpet Monsters!’In this video, created especially by New York for the event, two dynamic bad-art collectors show off their shockingly avant-garde collection.
Learn to Speak Dothraki and Valyrian From the Man Who Invented Them for Game of Thrones
May 2024Bad news, Game of Thrones fans: You are mispronouncing Daenerys’s honorific, Khaleesi. But don’t feel bad. On the HBO show, her smitten man-servant Jorah has been saying it incorrectly as well; the more accurate pronunciation should be “KHAH-lay-see,” not “ka-LEE-see.
Looking for the Realest Part of Reality TV? Try a Rewatch Podcast.
May 2024Revisiting your youth can be hard — especially if it’s a Frankensteined version of a youth that was documented, edited, and produced by a TV network corporation for the pleasure of millions all over the world.
Low Standards, Episode 2: Getting Pervy with Porkys
May 2024Here’s episode two of Splitsider’s new web series, Low Standards with John and Matt. In this episode, our hosts take a look at classic 80’s sex romp Porky’s, which features the best sex scene Kim Cattrall ever filmed in which she got super turned on by the smell of sweaty gym socks.
Lucifers Tom Ellis Is Proud to Do All His Own Nude Scenes
May 2024[Stares into your eyes to hypnotize you with handsome British charm.] What do you desire, truly desire — besides Lucifer getting saved after a brutal Fox cancellation?
Maisie Williams on Shooting a Sex Scene and Being Shunned While Making The Falling
May 2024Maisie Williams’s hypnotic new indie film The Falling takes place at an all-girls school in the 1960s, where friendships border on Heavenly Creatures–style infatuations, unresolved tensions and long-hidden secrets are bubbling to the surface, and something seems to infect a group of girls with fainting spells.
Margot Robbie Says Pirates of the Caribbean Spinoff Walked the Plank
May 2024Margot Robbie. Margot Robbie isn’t getting a chance to start believing in ghost stories after all. According to the Babylon star, Disney axed the upcoming female-driven Pirates of the Caribbean spinoff, which would have featured Robbie in roles both in front of and behind the camera.
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Merce Cunningham Talk Dance Photography
May 2024Photo: Everett Bogue He may not be gracing the stage quite so often these days, but ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov has remained an ever-present artistic force; look around town, and you’ll see his mark on everything from cultural venues (the impressive Baryshnikov Arts Center) to new modern dance (his young Hell’s Kitchen Dance troupe) to theater (in last year’s acclaimed Beckett Shorts) to worshipful artistic homages — his mostly naked body is depicted, Apollo-like, by Robert Wilson, in the lobby of BAM.
Miley Cyrus Recorded a Cover for the Movie Free the Nipple
May 2024Variety reports that Miley Cyrus has recorded a cover of Melanie Safka’s “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma” for Lina Esco’s directorial debut, Free the Nipple.
Mlanie Laurent Joins Jake Gyllenhaal Drama
May 2024Writer/director/actress Melanie Laurent attends the Cinema Society & Dior Beauty screening of “The Adopted” at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on March 28, 2012 in New York City.
Netflix Animation Department Faces Firings and Cancellations
May 2024The Wrap reports that the Netflix animation department is undergoing a reconstruction, specifically the kids and family division.
Nicki Minaj Pays Tribute to Kindred Spirit Juice WRLD in Billboard Speech
May 2024Minaj, accepting the Game Changers Award. Nicki Minaj is one of the latest celebrities to pay tribute to the rapper Juice WRLD, who died Sunday at the age of 21.
No One Had a Messier Mothers Day Than Future and Diplo
May 2024Don’t worry; Father’s Day is only a month away. Mother’s Day has a very simple premise: show some appreciation for the mothers in your life.
Now That Taylor Swift Is Definitely Less Innocent Than She Pretends to Be, Whats Next?
May 2024Both innocence and fame are classically American obsessions, but they can make for strange, even contradictory bedfellows. Desiring to be famous is a clear sign of ambition; but ambition is opposed to humility, and humility is intrinsic to innocence.
Obviously, Theres a Lotta Lavender in the Lavender Haze Video
May 2024It is once again time to meet Taylor Swift at midnight. After nearly three months, the Senate’s new favorite singer has finally dropped the music video for “Lavender Haze,” the first track off her album Midnights.
Parks and Recreation recap: Harvest Festival
May 2024It’s a great week for Parks and Rec fans, as yesterday brought us news that show was picked up for a fourth season and will be debuting extra-long “producer’s cuts” throughout the rest of the season.
Philip K. Dicks Electric Dreams Recap: Safety First
May 2024Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Safe and Sound Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 1 star * Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Philip K.
Pornhub Just Deleted Most of Its Content
May 2024Pornhub is currently in the process of deleting all unverified videos, a massive portion of its content library, before implementing a more thorough verification process in the New Year.
Pour Yourself a Drink: Post Malone Made a Country Song With Blake Shelton
May 2024Austin Post and “Austin” singer Blake Shelton. Post Malone got some more help on his country pivot. The hitmaker teamed with Blake Shelton for “Pour Me a Drink,” a statement that might make you want to pour yourself a round.
Power Book III: Raising Kanan Recap: Rat Problems All Over
May 2024Power Book III: Raising Kanan Mind Your Business Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Power Book III: Raising Kanan Mind Your Business Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “The kid can’t shoot for shit.
Rachel Bloom and the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Creative Team Break Down 5 of the Shows Songs
May 2024When the marketing for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend started rolling out last summer, some in Hollywood were ready to pounce. The billboards, planted all around Los Angeles, featured a pretty young lady with a manic look in her eyes, clutching a broken balloon string, with the caption “Never.
Rian Johnson Wants Poker Face to Break Expectations Without Breaking Form
May 2024“It’s important that we are still our show even when we’re shaking it up.” Photo: Peacock Photo: Peacock Poker Face has been a surprising treat in the world of streaming TV this winter.
Robert Pattinson Joins Timothe Chalamet Movie Because Apparently Netflix Wants to Send Stan Twitte
May 2024In a move clearly orchestrated by (or at least for) stan Twitter, Robert Pattinson has joined in Netflix’s David Michod–directed drama The King.
Rosen: Does Tom Petty Hate Tom Petty Music?
May 2024At a concert at the Beacon Theatre this past May, Tom Petty called contemporary country music “bad rock with a fiddle.
Samphas Circle of Life
May 2024His first album tackled loss and made him a star. On his follow-up, he writes from a happier place: fatherhood.
Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel on Doing Waitress Together, and the Time She Saved Him From a Shark
May 2024Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel. As soon as Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel walk into an interview, you can tell that they’re friends, and not just in the style of amicable co-stars, but of people who’ve been close for years.
See Every Celebrity Look From Met Gala 2021
May 2024Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Frank Ocean, Jennifer Lopez, and more. Jennifer Lopez. Photo: Getty Images Jennifer Lopez. Photo: Getty Images Jennifer Lopez.
Shgun Recap: Family Matters
May 2024Shōgun A Stick of Time Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Shōgun A Stick of Time Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As “A Stick of Time” opens, Shōgun viewers might find themselves wondering if they missed an episode.
Shirley Never Matches the Power of Its Subject
May 2024The Regina King-starring biopic about the first Black woman presidential candidate doesn’t do its subject (or the star who plays her) justice.
Shiv Definitely Hated Conversations With Friends, Right?
May 2024Succession’s season-two finale did not disappoint. Watching the Roy family snipe at each other aboard a luxury yacht so grand it made the ships on Below Deck look like rickety, old boats would have been dramatic enough, but “This Is Not for Tears” ramped up the stakes to become one of the best hours of an already stellar season.
SNL Review: Andy Samberg, with a Little Help From His Friends
May 2024SNL transforms when a former cast member returns to host. The regular format is stretched to make room for a massive SNL reunion, with classic bits and endless cameos by other past stars of the show.
So, Hows the Singing in Bye Bye Birdie?
May 2024Bad, allegedly! The Post’s Michael Riedel reports this morning that the cast of Broadway’s Bye Bye Birdie is having pitch problems with only a week to go before opening night.
Spielbergs Cannes Jury Hands Top Honor to Three-Hour Lesbian Epic
May 2024’Blue is the Warmest Color’ This year’s Cannes jury was unusually stacked with Hollywood insiders — foreman Steven Spielberg presided over a group that included Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee — but today, they handed the Palme d’Or to the very opposite of a studio film, Abdellatif Kechiche’s sex-soaked, three-hour lesbian epic Blue Is the Warmest Color.
Straight Outta Compton Is a Complicated, Essential Underdog Story
May 2024The story of pioneering L.A. gangsta rappers N.W.A. (as dictated and co-produced by the now-bazillionaire N.W.A.’ers themselves), Straight Outta Compton is among the most potent rags-to-riches showbiz movies ever made.
Summer Music Preview: Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, and So Much Kanye
May 2024Every summer, rumors of Big Deal releases from marquee artists run rampant. This summer, the same thing is happening, but there’s one crucial difference: Artists are throwing everything they have into projects with actual concrete release dates.
Taylor Kitsch Is Going to Write, Direct, and Star in a Crime Drama, Presumably Because He Watched Tr
May 2024Good news for Friday Night Lights fans who always thought Tim Riggins was destined for more: After a rocky screen career, Taylor Kitsch is finally ready to be his best self.
Taylor Swift Starts Reputation (Taylors Version) Early
May 2024The foe. Taylor Swift always has time to take a few moments of her day and sub Kim Kardashian.
The 2022 Black List Has A Britney Spears Biopic and Four Seasons Total Landscaping Script
May 2024It’s Britney, Bitch. Franklin Leonard is back to save screenplays from unproduced purgatory. That’s right, folks, the annual Black List — a roundup of the most-liked feature film screenplays compiled from the suggestions of more than 300 film executives — is back for its 2022 edition.
The 70s Werent All Bad
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.
The Adoration of Christopher Plummer
May 2024The actor, a star of The Sound of Music, was a calibrator, a team player. It’s why everyone wanted to work with him.
The Big Bang Theory Recap: Penny Lover
May 2024The Big Bang Theory The Hook-Up Reverberation Season 8 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Hook-Up Reverberation Season 8 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How’s this for being hoisted with one’s own petard: Wver since I hit upon the idea to base the title of this recap on Raj’s new girlfriend’s dislike of Penny, the 1983 slow jam “Penny Lover” has been stuck in my head.
The Boondocks Reboot Is No Longer Happening at HBO Max
May 2024“Maybe there are forces in this universe we don’t understand,” — Huey Freeman. It is a sad, sad day for fans of The Boondocks.
The Hawkline Monster A Gothic Western
May 2024adaptations Dec. 17, 2019 Yorgos Lanthimos Reportedly Steeling Himself to Take On The Hawkline MonsterDirectors Hal Ashby and Tim Burton both previously tried to adapt Richard Brautigan’s 1974 Gothic Western novel.
The Hidden Breaking Bad References in El Caminos Musical Score
May 2024Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Whether you know it or not, Dave Porter is messing with your mind.
The Other Two Recap: Unpleasant-ville
May 2024The Other Two Cary Becomes Somewhat of a Name/Brooke Gets Her Hands Dirty Season 3 Episodes 3 - 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Other Two Cary Becomes Somewhat of a Name/Brooke Gets Her Hands Dirty Season 3 Episodes 3 - 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After Brooke quit her job and Cary decided he needed another part at the end of the last episode, it seemed like they would get everything they wanted.
The Rachel Maddow Show - Vulture
May 2024your tv ratings explained Mar. 16, 2017 Rachel Maddow’s Trump Tax Exclusive Was Her Most-Watched Episode EverEven more impressive: Maddow drew younger viewers to cable news.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Aunties vs. Nieces
May 2024The Real Housewives of Atlanta Beach, Please! Season 13 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Atlanta Beach, Please!
The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: Double Dribble
May 2024The Real Housewives of Miami Slam Dunks and Friendship Flunks Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Slam Dunks and Friendship Flunks Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The best thing about The Real Housewives of Miami is that they love an unserious fight.
The Ruthless New Mean Girls Knows Better Than to Try and Make Fetch Happen
May 2024In the universe of Tina Fey, life in high school is nasty, brutish, and endlessly cyclical. Cliques may rise and fall, but there’s always someone on the upswing and someone else pushed in front of a bus — okay, allegedly pushed in front of a bus.
The South London 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 Stand Finale Recap: Be True
May 2024The Stand The Circle Closes Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Stand The Circle Closes Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » After four decades, Frannie Goldsmith finally gets her showdown.
The Weeknds Wasted Times Does Drake Better Than Drake Can
May 2024How long until the Weeknd replaces Drake entirely? The Weeknd and Drake have something of a shared history. Both young black men raised in the Toronto area, their trajectories crossed when the latter had just become a major-label star and the former, born Abel Tesfaye, remained a shadowy alias pouring out his soul into free mixtapes.
The Wild Invention of Fefu and Her Friends, and the (Latest!) Rewrite of A Bright Room Called Day
May 2024From Fefu. A lot has been written about María Irene Fornés—and not enough. Search her name and you’ll find dozens of articles about how she’s the “playwright’s playwright,” the best dramatist “you don’t know,” and the Cuban-American mother of downtown theater.
The Worst Moment of This Writers Life Became One of the Best Things Youll Read All Year
May 2024Tom Hart’s “Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir” Graphic novelist Tom Hart and his wife, Leela, lived through a horror story.
Theater Review: The Funny, Fierce, Fearsome Competition of School Girls
May 2024From School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play. Earlier this year, I had a conversation with an artist of color who was fed up with being compared, even in the most complimentary fashion, to white artists that seemed to fill a similar niche.
They Really Fell From the Sky: Jan de Bont Defends the Practical Effects in Twister
May 2024The director explains why, after getting scalped by a lion while making Roar, he had uniquely high expectations for his ’90s action movies.
This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: A Series for Greta Fans
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.
TikTok Is No Longer Safe From Your Parents
May 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. It’s like if Pluto TV had random videos like Jason Derulo baking a huge chocolate bowl filled with cookies.
Tom Brady and Michael Strahan to Produce Docu-Series Religion of Sports
May 2024Michael Strahan is competing for the role of busiest man in show business. He recently had a drama series picked up by ABC.
Toni Collette Gets the Worst Inheritance Ever in Hereditary
May 2024Toni Collette in Hereditary. A good horror film might not be conventionally good so much as unconventionally horrible.
Tracy Morgan to Star in an FX Pilot
May 2024Tracy Morgan is following up 30 Rock with a move to basic cable. Deadline reports that Morgan will be playing the lead in Death Pact, a single-camera comedy pilot for FX from creators Rob Long (Sullivan & Son) and Ted “Sexist of the Year” Safran (Doogal).
Video: How to Paint Nude Portraits With Your Toes
May 2024The British art duo of sticking-to-their-guns well-into-their-40s punks, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, have always put on an oddball sort of performance of being a couple.
Watch the Red Band Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
May 2024Leave the kids at home! Sources IGN Red Band Trailer Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dganyzscNmmZqmlGLBs63IpZyrZZGXv6K0wKZkpaGemLytuoyvmKaomaeybrTUp6ueql6dwa64
Watching Christmas at Pee-wees Playhouse Is Like Being in on a Remarkable Prank
May 2024Paul Reubens’s special was full of winking subversion, all framed inside the relative safety of a big sparkly Christmas extravaganza.
What to Know Before Watching the New Evangelion Movie, Thrice Upon a Time
May 2024Few anime shows have had as big a cultural footprint as Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is a thematically dense work of art as exhilarating as it is emotionally challenging, diving deep into themes of anxiety and depression while experimenting with the animation genre in ways not commonly seen on TV.
Who Was John Duka? Looking for the Heart of The Normal Heart
May 2024Three years ago, the playwright and activist Larry Kramer stood outside the Golden Theatre during the Broadway run of his 1985 AIDS play The Normal Heart, which Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy has made into an HBO movie premiering on May 25.
Why Entourage Is Not Very Good: A History
May 2024Entourage, which kicks off its seventh season this weekend, is now (almost) the granddaddy of HBO shows: Having premiered in 2004, it’s run longer than any other current HBO drama or comedy, save for Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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It’s been three years since Death Cab For Cutie released Narrow Stairs, a decidedly dark album, and a lot has changed in the lives of the band members: front man Ben Gibbard married (Zooey Deschanel!
Kalen Hollomon Makes Collages With 12 Famous Works of Art [NSFW]
May 2024art December 18, 2014 5:24 pm By Thessaly La Force Share Share Tweet Pin It 12 Photos We’ve been longtime fans of artist Kalen Hollomon’s work.
A Backward Movie for an Upside-Down World
May 2024Revisiting Tenet in the wake of Oppenheimer shows us how Christopher Nolan has long been fixated on humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.
A Brief History of Beyonc Making Dance Music
May 2024Every Beyoncé song is a dance song in the right circumstances. But the queen also has a rich history of explicitly making Dance Music — that is, songs that draw on the sort of music meant to get people moving in clubs.
A Hip-Hop What If
May 2024James Blake and Lil Yachty are a match made in buddy-comedy heaven. The British singer-songwriter and producer is the go-to white male out-of-genre vocalist selling silken hooks to the likes of Jay-Z, Ye, and Travis Scott, an unlikely outcome for an auteur responsible for the baroque pop and minimal dance music of his 2011 self-titled debut.
A League of Their Own Pulls Off an Awkward Double Play
May 2024Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a ten-hour movie.
A League of Their Own Series-Premiere Recap: Play Ball
May 2024A League of Their Own Batter Up Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » A League of Their Own Batter Up Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Batter up!
A Luchador Sheds His Masks in the Triumphant Cassandro
May 2024Gael García Bernal is exceptional as the exótico who became a wrestling star. The first time that aspiring luchador Saúl Armedáriz steps into his role as the flamboyant, feminine Cassandro, he is met with hatred.
A Mothers Guide to Giving Birth in a Comedy
May 2024In Jennifer Lopez’s frothy comedy The Back-Up Plan (which opens Friday), she’s pregnant by artificial insemination and will inevitably deliver that baby by movie’s end.
A Very Close Reading of the Olsen Twins Ashley Benson Birthday Video
May 2024In 1929, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí collaborated on Un Chien Andalou, a surrealist, free-associative short film in which, among other things, a cow’s eyeball is cut in half.
All Your Favorite Morally Bankrupt Finance Grads Are Back in Industry Season Two
May 2024Age up the cast of your typical teen drama, send them to business school, give ’em salaries they can burn on designer drugs, and you’ve got the world of Industry.
And the Winners of the 2024 Vulture Stunt Awards Are
May 2024More than 200 action pros voted on the year’s wildest, nakedest, and base-jumpiest achievements. The Action Edition Lights, camera, roundhouse kick to the head.
Anna Kendricks Girls Trip Turns Sinister in New Psychological Thriller Alice, Darling
May 2024Anna Kendrick is set to star in an all-new femme thriller, Alice, Darling. In the film, the Oscar-nominated actress will embark on a girls trip that goes wrong when a local girl goes missing and Alice’s volatile boyfriend, played by Charlie Carrick (Reign, Departure) arrives unannounced.
Annie Murphy Cant Help But Bring Her Schitts Creek Vocal Fry Home With Her
May 2024Ew, David! The journey of Alexis Rose has unfolded in fascinating ways over the past four seasons of Schitt’s Creek, with the sassy materialistic heiress not only leaving her billionaire past behind, but downright thriving in her new boondock town.
Azealia Banks Beefs With T.I. Once Again
May 2024Here is a list of people Azealia Banks has fought with: Perez Hilton, Rita Ora, the Stone Roses, Lady Gaga, Iggy Azalea, Angel Haze, Lily Allen, Kreayshawn, Lil Kim, Dominique Young Unique, *deep breath* Nicki Minaj, Jim Jones, Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, Disclosure … And the list likely goes on!
Bad Sisters Recap: Choosing Family
May 2024Bad Sisters Rest in Peace Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bad Sisters Rest in Peace Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This was a hard episode of Bad Sisters to watch because, perhaps for the first time, it truly had me sympathizing with JP.
Big Boi and Andre 3000 Were Hanging Out
May 2024Here is photo proof, courtesy of Big Boi’s Instagram. Are you ready to believe in an Outkast reunion? (Did we just jinx it?
Blumhouse Opens a Window on Its Horror Video-Game Slate
May 2024Jump-scaring us in movie theaters wasn’t enough, huh? Blumhouse, the production company behind M3gan and the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, is making horror video games now.
Charlie Murphy on the Black Jesus Controversy and 10 Years of Hearing About Rick James
May 2024Charlie Murphy. For any Chappelle’s Show fan, the name Charlie Murphy requires some kind of trigger warning, as it immediately calls up the “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories” sketch that brought “I’m Rick James, bitch!
Dave TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024What happens when a deeply insecure yet narcissistic man becomes famous? That’s the main question that Dave is asking at this point. For two seasons, we’ve followed a fictionalized version of rapper Dave Burd, a.
Dave Foley Gets Into the Holiday Special Spirit
May 2024Holiday specials, for the most part, are a family affair. In general, they are (at best) sweet adventures or (at worst) cloying cash-grabs.
Detective Pikachu Cinematographer Shot Movie on 35mm Because He Wanted It to Look Like Blade Runner
May 2024“We wanted to make it look like Blade Runner,” John Mathieson admits, rather immediately. “A bit shamelessly, in fact.”
Dexters Kill Clothes Are Sexy for a Reason, and Other Things We Learned About His Army Green Shir
May 2024Dexter. We know that Dexter was born in blood — but what about that army green shirt he’s been wearing since the pilot?
Edelstein on White House Down: A Movie Worth Yelling at the Screen For
May 2024Despite having just railed against people who make noise in movie theaters, I think it’s not just permissible but essential to scream at the screen during Roland Emmerich’s White House Down.
Every Classic Universal Monster Movie, Ranked
May 2024Carl Laemmle Jr. saw the future in 1931 and the future looked scary. The son of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, the junior Laemmle had served as the studio’s head of production since 1928, helping the studio transition to the talkie era and earning acclaim for efforts like All Quiet on the Western Front and Waterloo Bridge.
Every Jennifer Lawrence Movie Performance, Ranked
May 2024This previously-published list has been updated to include Jennifer Lawrence’s most recent film, No Hard Feelings. In a shockingly short time, Jennifer Lawrence has compiled a formidable résumé that’s as impressive for its range as for its string of successes.
Every Laura Dern Role, Ranked
May 2024From Dr. Ellie Sattler to Amy Jellicoe. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Columbia Pictures, Lucasfilms Ltd, Netflix, HBO, Universal Pictures, International Spectrafilm and The Samuel Goldwyn Company Long before the public knew her name, a 7-year-old Laura Dern ate ice-cream cones in the background of Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore — 19 cones, to be exact, one for every take.
Everything Sucks! Most Definitely Does Not Suck
May 2024Peyton Kennedy and Jahi Di’Allo Winston in Everything Sucks! Like Freaks and Geeks, The Goldbergs, Stranger Things, and a host of others before it, Everything Sucks!
Fire Island Series Premiere Recap: The Boys of Summer
May 2024Fire Island Welcome to Fire Island Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Fire Island Welcome to Fire Island Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The world might be falling apart, but at least we’ve finally got a reality show about a group of gay lunatics living in a rental house on Fire Island.
Fred Armisens Impression of Bill Hader Is As Accurate As It Is Insulting
May 2024A few months ago, Bill Hader was on Conan and did some delightful impressions of his fellow Saturday Night Live cast members.
Gen V Recap: Complete and Total Rebrand
May 2024Gen V #ThinkBrink Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gen V #ThinkBrink Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sometimes when you binge enough teen shows in a short enough span of time, the storytelling rhythms all begin to feel the same.
George Carlin on How He Came Up With Material, Advice to Young Comedians, and His Influence
May 2024I just released an e-book called Conversations with Carlin: An In-Depth Discussion with George Carlin about Life, Sex, Death, Drugs, Comedy, Words, and so much more, a novella-length transcript of a five-hour interview I conducted with comedy legend George Carlin in 2001.
Glenn Close - Vulture
May 2024movie review Nov. 24, 2020 Hillbilly Elegy Is Not the Fun Kind of BadThe Amy Adams and Glenn Close–led adaptation of J.
Glenn Frey Bronze Statue Is Taking It Easy, Standing on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona
May 2024Glenn Frey. Next time you’re driving by Winslow, Arizona, in your flatbed Ford, slow down to take a look at the new bronze statue of Eagles founding member Glenn Frey.
Gloria Estefan on Helping Leslie Knope and Giving Santana Her Edge
May 2024In Tuesday’s season finale of Glee, Latin superstar Gloria Estefan will make her debut as Santana’s supportive mother just in time to watch her get a diploma.
Grace, Frankie, and the Difference Between Hijinks and Jokes
May 2024Grace and Frankie, created by Marta Kaufman of Friends’ fame and Howard J. Morris, is the Nancy Meyers sitcom of my personal dreams.
Gustavo Dudamel Will Take Over the New York Philharmonic
May 2024Gustavo Dudamel, orchestral music’s global icon of Southern California cool, is moving to New York — eventually. In coordinated announcements on opposite coasts just now, Dudamel told the players of the Los Angeles Philharmonic that he would be stepping down as music director.
How Atlanta Created a Gang Stereotype of Its Hip-Hop Community
May 2024As the YSL trial begins, we’re re-running this 2022 feature on the connections law enforcement have made between Atlanta’s gangs and the local hip-hop community.
How Do You Joke About The Zone of Interest?
May 2024This article originally appeared in Gold Rush, a subscriber-only newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race. Sign up here. It’s Oscar weekend!
How Greys Anatomy Created Its Powerful Army of Awesome Hallway Scene
May 2024In March, Shondaland delivered one of the most emotionally charged episodes of Grey’s Anatomy to date. Season 15’s 19th episode “Silent All These Years” tackled consent and rape through the biological discovery of Jo (Camilla Luddington) and the assault of her patient Abby (Khalilah Joi).
How to Turn a Comedy Podcast Into a Comedy Documentary
May 2024Mike Birbiglia with Atsuko Okatsuka during the filming of Good One. Peacock’s Good One: A Show About Jokes is not your average comedy-documentary special.
Is The Tortured Poets Department Really About Matty Healy?
May 2024Two tortured men. Taylor Swift is one of the few people brave enough to admit that a three-month-long situationship will fuck you up more than a six-year-long relationship.
Its a Wonka New Year in the MFL
May 2024This is the latest edition of the Movies Fantasy League newsletter. The drafting window for this season has closed, but you can still sign up to get the newsletter, which provides a weekly recap of box-office performance, awards nominations, and critical chatter on all the buzziest movies.
Its Time for Celebrity Dress-Up Day
May 2024I’m slippin’ under. First, she came for Italy. Then Andrea Bocelli. Now, Kourtney Kardashian Barker is taking one of her sister’s Met Gala looks for Halloween.
J.B. Smoove on Writing a Good Bad Advice Book in the Voice of Curb Your Enthusiasms Leon
May 2024Leon. Curb Your Enthusiasm’s profane freeloader Leon Black has so much to say, he’s put it all into an advice book.
Jason Derulo and Girlfriend Jena Frumes Announce Impending Arrival of Baby Derulo
May 2024Sometimes, after a grueling ordeal, the only way to lift your spirits is with some good ol’-fashioned celebrity baby news.
Jenny Slate Dances As a California Raisin in Landline
May 2024In Jenny Slate’s new movie Landline, Slate plays a young New York woman trying to decide if she wants the life she’s worked for — including her job and her fiancé — or if she’s just going through the motions of it all.
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May 2024the industry Sept. 14, 2010 Industry Roundup: Gandolfini, Ronan, MacyPlus: Christian Slater is looking for ‘Payback.’ By Josh Duboff
Jos Gonzlez on Learning Portuguese and the Likelihood of Hearing Kumbaya at His Concert Th
May 2024Hiroshi Shafer, 2008 Soft-spoken indie minimalist (and proud atheist) José González first won Stateside attention based on the strength of his whispery covers (The Knife’s “Heartbeat,” most famously) before dazzling critics with the intricate originals on his second album, In Our Nature.
Judge Orders Making a Murderer Subject Brendan Dasseys Release From Prison
May 2024Brendan Dassey. After having his murder conviction overturned in August, Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects of Netflix’s Making a Murderer, has been granted a release from prison under supervision.
Juno Temple on Ted Lassos Intimidating and Insane Karaoke Culture
May 2024Trent Crimm from the Independent was unavailable to chat with Juno Temple about her first Emmy nomination for Ted Lasso, so I, a humble Vulture dot com writer, filled in instead.
Justin Bieber Made a New Jersey Suburb Lose Its Mind This Summer
May 2024Bieber on a Montclair street corner in May. One Friday afternoon in May, Ava Otterbein, an 11-year-old aspiring singer-songwriter, was taking a break from a performance in front of the Bluemercury makeup store in Montclair, New Jersey, when she turned around to find a stranger standing at her microphone.
Last Week Tonight Covers March Madness and the Greedy NCAA
May 2024To celebrate the start of March Madness this week, last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the NCAA’s policy of not paying student athletes despite March Madness making over a billion dollars in ad revenue each year.
Leslie Jones Addresses Being Hacked on SNL: If You Want to See Leslie Jones Naked, Just Ask!
May 2024Leslie Jones discussed getting hacked this summer on last night’s Weekend Update, a hilarious moment that was also ironically the most successful her hacker/s will ever be in their miserable, gutless lives.
Lindsay Lohans Guide to Feuding With Celebrities Through Maya Angelou Poems
May 2024Maya’s Angels. Despite her Oscar-winning comeback in The Canyons, Lindsay Lohan is still pretty much a Hollywood punch line; so, presumably, no one thought it was a big deal when Jennifer Lawrence said, “I get Lindsay Lohan–grade exhaustion, but without any drugs or alcohol,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert earlier this week.
Louis C.K. Announces a Record Fourth Show at Madison Square Garden
May 2024In another low-key email sent out to his subscribers Saturday, comic Louis C.K. announced a record-setting fourth show at Madison Square Garden for Tuesday, January 27.
Lupins Murky and Menacing Coda, Microscopically Examined
May 2024The final moments of season three suggest the continued presence of a mastermind equal to, or maybe even better than, Assane.
Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green Make the Western The Salvation Worthwhile
May 2024The Salvation. I don’t know when the term revisionist Western came into widespread use, but it’s time we retired it.
Matthew Goode on the Anti-Snobbery Approach to Filming The Wine Show and Their Current Plans f
May 2024When the trailer for ITV’s The Wine Show unexpectedly dropped earlier this year, America let out a collective swoon — presented by the very dapper Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys, the 13-episode series follows the novice wine enthusiasts as they explore all things vino in the Italian countryside.
Matthew Lillard on His Directorial Debut, Getting Buried in His Shaggy Shirt, and Actor Envy
May 2024Matthew Lillard. Matthew Lillard thought making his directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules the World, would be as easy as getting a fat kid to eat cake.
Meet Redbone, the Native American Rock Band Behind That Guardians of the Galaxy Song
May 2024If you saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend — and from the looks of it, that appears to be most of you — you likely found yourself grooving along with Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill to the song he plays during one of the film’s opening scenes while simultaneously wondering, Who sings this again?
Meet Treys Porn-Star Alter Ego in This Mostly SFW Broad City Clip
May 2024Last night’s episode of Broad City introduced a whole new side of Trey — a much less clothed one, as Ilana discovers, mid-masturbation, when she stumbles upon Trey’s amateur-porn past.
Michael Ches Ode to Bidets Shows Just How Far SNL Has Come
May 2024Fourteen years after Martin Lawrence was banned from SNL for urging women to douche, co-head writer Michael Che got to do an entire desk piece about the joys of washing one’s ass.
Mr. Robot Recap: Paranoid Android
May 2024Mr. Robot eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12 Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mr.
Mumford & Sons on Trading in Their Banjos for Electric Guitars
May 2024Not very long ago, despite platinum sales and a 2013 Album of the Year Grammy for Babel, making fun of the band Mumford & Sons was all too easy.
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May 2024last night on late night Aug. 18, 2022 Aubrey Plaza Love LampThe White Lotus cast member tells Nicole Byer about her new favorite hobby.
Nicole Kidmans Lucille Ball Wig Breaks Its Silence
May 2024You know how Lucy must’ve felt after eating all of those chocolates on the conveyor belt, because she just wanted to do her job well?
No One Is Cool Enough for Frank Oceans New Queer Club Night, PrEP+
May 2024Frank Ocean It sounds like the plot of Gossip Girl 2: Minorities Exist Now. A mysterious but celebrated musician starts an inclusive, exclusive queer club night in New York City, but the Queen Bee of the Moment doesn’t have an invite?
Noel Gallagher Thinks Zayn Is an Idiot for Quitting One Direction
May 2024The eminently quotable Noel Gallagher does not suffer fools. So even though Gallagher has never had the pleasure of meeting Zayn Malik, he had some thoughts about his decision to leave the biggest job of his 22 years of existence.
NYT Crossword Puzzle Has Every Answer Pertain to the Rally to Restore Sanity
May 2024Yesterday’s New York Times crossword had a theme that revealed itself as you completed it. That theme? The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
Om-ing by the Beach With Andrew Keegan, Former Teen Idol Turned Spiritual Guru
May 2024Andrew Keegan, teen idol turned guru. “There’s probably a book here. You want to write a book?” Andrew Keegan, ’90s teen heartthrob, asks, only half-joking, before launching into the story of how he came to be a spiritual torchbearer.
Paranormal Activity 4 Makes a Strong Case for the 45-Minute-Long Feature Film
May 2024Some movies just aren’t made for typical running times. Watching Paranormal Activity 4, I found myself wishing that there was a way to monetize the concept of a 45-minute-long feature.
Pretty Little Liars Recap: School Hard
May 2024Pretty Little Liars Hot for Teacher Season 4 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Pretty Little Liars Hot for Teacher Season 4 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week’s episode was amazing, and next week’s noir-fest looks like it’s going to be fantastic.
Read a Collection of Absurd Vintage Computer Ads
May 2024BuzzFeed has many more, including sexy Bill Gates and a bunch of people cuddling with their computers. Why won’t anyone hug a computer anymore?
Reservation Dogs Closes the Circle of Peak TV
May 2024The end of the Sterlin Harjo dramedy might also be the end of a radical era in post-prestige television. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo Courtesy FX In the first minutes of Reservation Dogs, teenagers Bear, Elora, Willie Jack, and Cheese steal a Flaming Flamers truck, hoping to sell it for enough money to leave Okern, Oklahoma.
Saltz on Bjarne Melgaards Ignorant Transparencies
May 2024Photo: Thomas Mueller/Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise A number of terribly boring, terrifically safe artistic clichés are squeezing the life out of the art world right now, and the most toxic is the bad-boy installation.
Sasha Colby Manifested This
May 2024“I didn’t leave any space to fail.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: World of Wonder Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: World of Wonder The legend of Sasha Colby precedes her, to the extent that when her drag daughter, Kerri Colby, competed in season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the pressure of being Sasha’s daughter was part of her story line.
Shaun White Apologizes to Special Olympics for Tropic Thunder Simple Jack Costume
May 2024Shaun White. In one of those classic scenarios that makes you realize 2008 was one thousand years ago, snowboarder Shaun White apologized Monday to the Special Olympics after being called out for dressing up as Tropic Thunder’s Simple Jack, a mentally disabled character portrayed by Ben Stiller’s Tugg Speedman in a desperate bid for professional legitimacy.
Simon Rich Reimagines a Classic Joke for The New Yorker
May 2024Author, former SNL writer, and creator of the upcoming FXX show Man Seeking Woman Simon Rich wrote a humor piece in The New Yorker called “Guy Walks Into a Bar” that’s a dark yet sweetly hilarious take on the classic 12-inch pianist joke.
Skyzoo Loves Snowfall So Much He Made an Entire Album About It
May 2024There’s fan fiction, and then there’s what Skyzoo has created with Mind of a Saint. The Brooklyn-bred artist has built a career on high-level rap rooted in perspective, conceptual creativity, and wit.
So What Happened to Empires Cookie in Prison?
May 2024Next time, just kill Lucious, Cookie. Last night’s season finale of Empire ended with Lucious Lyon behind bars, staring directly into the camera and purring right to the audience.
Some Patient Soul Recorded All the Music From Frank Oceans Livestream
May 2024But will they be on the album? Watching Frank Ocean saw, weld, drill, and hammer his way back into our hearts has been the ultimate exercise in patience.
Southern Hospitality Recap: Peanut-Butter Emmy Time
May 2024Southern Hospitality Rumor Has It Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Southern Hospitality Rumor Has It Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We are honored and thrilled to open today’s Southern Hospitality recap with our obligatory Joe Bradley mention!
Sting Might Be Onto Something
May 2024Je téléphone á la Police. Please forward this to the digital mailboxes of: Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., the Smiths, Talking Heads, the White Stripes, Oasis, non-hologram ABBA, the Kinks, and, why not, NSYNC.
Talking to Mind MGMT Creator Matt Kindt About Spies and Hard-core Pornography
May 2024There are two ways to read Mind MGMT, the critically beloved, psychedelic comics series that Matt Kindt writes and illustrates.
Tatiana Maslany on Improv, Her Rick Moranis Crush, and Orphan Blacks Many Bare Behinds
May 2024No, she didn’t get an Emmy nomination. But at last weekend’s Comic-Con, and over the past few months in other pockets of niche fandom, Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has been treated like the second coming of Meryl.
The 1975s New Meme-Heavy Video Will Make You Feel 1,000 Years Old
May 2024Matty Healy and the boys from the 1975 have returned with another single from their upcoming album, Notes on a Conditional Form, out on April 24.
The 1989 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 Best Retelling of the Iraq War Story Is a Comic Book
May 2024As an Iraq War veteran, I’m kind of demanding when it comes to war stories. Movies like American Sniper, which was based on the best-selling memoirs of the late SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, might be interesting as psychological portraits of individual — and elite — troops, but audiences don’t really learn anything about the broader war in Iraq.
The Binge Purge
May 2024TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.
The Blanc 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 Dos and Donts of Referencing Leonard Cohen
May 2024Are we living in a golden age of Leonard Cohen references? The great songwriting master has been gone six years, but his spirit seems to be everywhere these days — haunting Lana Del Rey, Lucy Dacus, and even the fictitious nepo baby known as Connor Roy.
The Duffer Brothers Upside-Down Journey to Stranger Things
May 2024Let me tell you the story of a pair of twin brothers who, not long out of college, wrote a screenplay for a horror film that prompted such a bidding war that they were able to persuade its eventual buyer, Warner Bros.
The Dystopian Future of Juice WRLDs Death Race for Love
May 2024Juice WRLD is the kid our parents warned us about. The Midwest rapper/singer grew up in a strict, religious household barred from listening to hip-hop.
The Ed Sheeran Formula Hits a Roadblock
May 2024Sheeran’s Subtract flips between devastating earnestness and saccharine overreach. In February 2022, Ed Sheeran learned that his wife, Cherry Seaborn, was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant with their second child and that his best friend, Jamal Edwards — a savvy West London music fan who founded SBTV, an outlet for new artists that helped break Dave, Stormzy, and Sheeran himself — passed away at 31.
The Gentlemen Season-Finale Recap: I Love It When a Plan Comes Together
May 2024The Gentlemen Not Without Danger / The Gospel According to Bobby Glass Season 1 Episodes 7 - 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Gentlemen Not Without Danger / The Gospel According to Bobby Glass Season 1 Episodes 7 - 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Much like many (but not all) of its main characters, The Gentlemen is, above all things, clever.
The Great British Baking Show Recap: Swede, Swede Victory
May 2024The Great British Baking Show Bread Week Season 13 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Bread Week Season 13 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to Bread Week, or as I like to call it, Paul Hollywood Is Even More Insufferable Than Usual Week.
The Most Vicious Lines From Eminems New Machine Gun Kelly Diss
May 2024Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly are beefing and it’s time to grab the flavorless popcorn. After two weeks at each other’s throats over a beef that can be traced back to at least 2012, Eminem has officially issued the response to MGK’s “Rap Devil” diss.
The Musician 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 National Want Their Taylor Swift Duet The Alcott Played in Context
May 2024Picture going back ten years and telling someone the National and Taylor Swift would make a song together. Even as recently as the band’s last album, 2019’s guest-heavy I Am Easy to Find, the pairing might have come as a shock.
The Newbies Guide to How I Met Your Mother
May 2024I remember what I thought when someone told me I should watch How I Met Your Mother. Firstly, what does that title even mean?
The One Thing New Albums From Kacey Musgraves, Maggie Rogers, and Beyonc Have in Common
May 2024Comb through the credits of the spring’s biggest pop-country albums — Kacey Musgraves’s Deeper Well, Maggie Rogers’s Don’t Forget Me, even Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter — and one name keeps popping up: Ian Fitchuk.
The Podcast That Isnt Afraid of James Dolan
May 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?
The Signature Looks of The Mindy Projects Mindy Lahiri
May 2024Mindy Lahiri may constantly shift through her male suitors and motivations in The Mindy Project like there’s no tomorrow, but there’s one source of stability our leading heroine always falls back on: her unique sense of style.
The Strain Recap: Eunuch Games
May 2024The Strain Gone Smooth Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Strain Gone Smooth Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Eph leans over Captain Redfern’s incubator and assures his team their highest priority is saving the man’s life, he probably didn’t count on bashing the poor guy’s head in with a fire extinguisher minutes later.
The Takeaways From Todays Tony Awards Nominations
May 2024The American Theatre Wing has announced its nominations for the 2022–23 Broadway season before the Tonys ceremony on June 11, and it’s not a Hamilton year in which one show is likely to sweep.
The White Lotus Premiere Recap: Tropical Kabuki
May 2024The White Lotus Arrivals Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The White Lotus Arrivals Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Aloha and welcome to paradise, provided your idea of paradise is a weak mai tai to wash down a diffuse sense of festering despondency.
The Witcher Recap: The Time of Contempt
May 2024The Witcher Turn Your Back Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Witcher Turn Your Back Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Over a season and a half, The Witcher has introduced a sometimes dizzying number of characters, but none have loomed larger than Queen Calanthe.
Theater Review: Ivo van Hoves The Damned Pulls the World Into the Armory
May 2024From Ivo van Hove’s production of The Damned, at the Park Avenue Armory. There’s a word in Russian: obraz.
Theater Review: This Sunset Boulevard Is Facedown in the Pool
May 2024Glenn Close as Norma Desmond. It’s easy to see why Stephen Sondheim and the team of Kander and Ebb each took a stab at musicalizing Sunset Boulevard.
Troye Sivans My My My Is Groundbreaking in a New Way
May 2024Sivan. There have been gay pop stars before, obviously. But obviousness is often in the eye of the beholder. It was entirely possible for a mainstream audience to hear and see the Village People and think that they were nothing more than a bunch of fun-loving men extolling the benefits of naval service and the Young Men’s Christian Association.
Walton Goggins Has a Horrifying Story About Losing His Teeth
May 2024After hearing Walton Goggins’s upsetting, traumatic tooth-loss tale, you are going to wake up every morning and kiss each and every one one of your teeth in gratitude.
Watch Jorma Taccone Dance Around Naked to Born This Way
May 2024And so the “helicopter dick” era continues. [BuzzFeed] Watch Jorma Taccone Dance Around Naked to ‘Born This Way’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdganyru9GmmJiskZiwsLrEmKWao5WZrKO70aeWraCZqHupwMyl
Watch These Anime to Fill the Bloody Castlevania-Shaped Hole in Your Heart
May 2024Blood-C; Castlevania; Hellsing Rare is the video-game adaptation that pleases, well, anyone, let alone stands as a worthwhile work in itself.
What the Hallchen Are We to Make of Jesse Plemonss Jungle Cruise Accent?
May 2024Say hello to Prince Joachim. Jungle Cruise is not a great movie, but you can’t deny the fact that, about 30 minutes into it, Jesse Plemons emerges from a U-boat in the middle of the Amazon river and shouts “Hallöchen” at Emily Blunt and The Rock.
Why Paula Malcomson Came Back to Deadwood
May 2024Paula Malcomson has been all over TV since the cancellation of David Milch’s Western series Deadwood: most recently on Ray Donovan, playing the hero’s wife, Abby, as well as on Fringe, Sons of Anarchy, and the Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica.
Yellowstone Recap: As Good As Gone
May 2024Yellowstone Horses in Heaven Season 5 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone Horses in Heaven Season 5 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » That’s more like it.
168 American ______Titled Films, TV Shows, Books, and Songs
May 2024Imagine if American Hustle were just titled The Big Hustle or Abscammed: Sure, it would have got at the big con at the center of the true-ish Abscam story, but adding the word “American” adds some time-honored significance: This isn’t just a historic tale of cops and crooks teaming up to nab politicians, it also points out something inherently corrupt and greedy about our country.
4 Things We Learned From the New Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Trailer
May 2024We’re just a few months away from the return of the sub-franchise that changed the way viewers perceive the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Guardians of the Galaxy.
A$AP Rocky Sorry for Using a Girls Face As a Ladder
May 2024The climber. Anyone who has watched TV in the past 50 years knows that glasses are just a shortcut to telling us someone is a nerd — and a potentially annoying one at that.
Against Womens Writing
May 2024Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism fully surfaces in her latest novel, Parade. Illustration: Sara Singh Illustration: Sara Singh This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
All in this Together: How to Defend Yourself and The Coast Starlight
May 2024From How to Defend Yourself, at New York Theatre Workshop. When I was in college, we learned about consent by way of frozen yogurt.
All the Easter Eggs and Hidden References in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
May 2024So. Many. Spoilers. Ahead. It turns out The Rise of Skywalker isn’t just a movie. It’s a greatest hits collection of all your favorite Star Wars *stuff*, packaged along with some truly hardcore deep cuts.
Amy Adams Goes Into HGTV Mode in Disenchanted
May 2024After what feels like an eternity of waiting, Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted, is one step closer to happily ever after.
Annabeth Gish on Being Sons of Anarchys Bad Cop
May 2024There’s a new sheriff in town for Sons of Anarchy’s final season: Annabeth Gish’s Althea Jarry, a corrupt Charming, California, cop who’s been sleeping with the would-be enemy, SAMCRO gang-member Chibs (Tommy Flanagan).
Atlanta Wasnt for Everyone
May 2024Stephen Glover on testing the boundaries of television as his (and his brother’s) show signs off. Into It with Sam Sanders Get the latest episodes Thursdays.
AtlantaRecap: Homegoing
May 2024Atlanta Trini 2 De Bone Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta Trini 2 De Bone Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In Tamara R.
Barry Levitt Author Archive
May 2024vulture lists May 10, 2024 Planet of the Apes Movies, RankedWhere does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes stack up in the original sci-fi blockbuster franchise?
Becky Nurse of Salems Dark Brew of Witchery and Dunkin
May 2024According to the experts over at Harvard, Gallows Hill, where they hanged accused witches in Salem, is now the site of a Walgreens.
Bel-Air Is a Frustrating Reminder That Representation Isnt Enough
May 2024Revisiting a Sundance panel with Black filmmakers whose work appeared at the festival in January, I was struck by what Aftershock filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee had to say about the state of Hollywood and its fixation on gangsters and struggle.
BH90210 Recap: Pitch Imperfect
May 2024BH90210 The Pitch Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » BH90210 The Pitch Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s the second episode of the don’t-call-it-a-reboot BH90210, and if the first two episodes are any indication, each chapter will begin with a cold open of a dream sequence turned nightmare.
Bill Nyes 10 Favorite Books
May 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.
Brian Tyree Henry and Sterling K. Brown Really Bring #FriendshipGoals to a Whole New, Wonderful Leve
May 2024I mean, come on. To those not especially up-to-date: Actors Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry are best friends, have known each other for more than a decade, and are both now Emmy-nominated for This Is Us on the heels of a breakout 2016.
Bronx Queens J.Lo and Cardi B Collaborate on New Song Dinero
May 2024J.Lo and Cardi B. They just want the d … inero, okurrrr? Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B — “Two bad bitches that came from the Bronx,” according to Cardi’s rap — have exited the 6 train to deliver a bop.
Critics Are Not Being Kind to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
May 2024After a lengthy and contentious trial (a lot came out during cross-examination), the verdict on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is in.
Critics Didnt Sweat Michelles Prose Style They Were Just Thirsty for No-Drama Obama
May 2024Lit Parade is Vulture’s regular guide to what the book world is writing, talking, and getting exercised about. This week: Michelle Obama’s Becoming.
Curb Your EnthusiasmRecap: The Pickle Gambit
May 2024Curb Your Enthusiasm The Pickle Gambit Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Curb Your Enthusiasm The Pickle Gambit Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Leon meant it when he said black people always prefer brown over white, even when it comes to pickle-gambit aliases inspired by old-timey baseball players.
Daisy Jones & The Six Series-Premiere Recap: The Early Years
May 2024Daisy Jones and The Six Come and Get It Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Daisy Jones and The Six Come and Get It Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » In preparation for recapping the Amazon series, I recently reread Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling 2019 novel, Daisy Jones & The Six, which I now deeply regret.
David Simon On the Drama of Journalism
May 2024David Simon didn’t produce or direct Spotlight, the journalism drama that’s gotten enough good word of mouth to have made it onto your mom’s must-see list and is Vulture’s pick for Best Picture front-runner, but it’s safe to say that the movie in its current form wouldn’t exist without him.
Ed Sheeran Completes His PEMDAS Era With New Album
May 2024Please excuse my dear artist Sheeran as he is not slowing down for his final album in the mathematical era.
Everything Julia Fox Says About The Artist in Her Memoir
May 2024Julia Fox’s memoir takes readers Down the Drain with her through her early work as a dominatrix and her 2019 breakout role in Uncut Gems.
Evil Recap: Head of Misinformation
May 2024Evil The Angel of Warning Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil The Angel of Warning Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’d ask where to begin, but I think we all know what needs to be addressed first, and that is the hairy, horned, five-eyed demon beast sweating it out on the elliptical.
Fiona Apple Has Never Made a Bad Album. But Which Is HerBest?
May 2024Apple’s catalog is a breadcrumb trail leading the intrepid listener to startling revelations about love and self-sufficiency. I should start by saying that in nearly 25 years of listening to Fiona Apple, I’ve never heard a bad album and have scarcely encountered a bad song.
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold Is Resistance Rock, But Is it Good?
May 2024For a long time, it’s been hard to say something new about the Foo Fighters. When a band isn’t all that interested in saying something new itself, it seems the critics can only follow suit.
Fresh Off the Boat Recap: Star-Crossed Lovers
May 2024Fresh Off the Boat The Taming of the Dads Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fresh Off the Boat The Taming of the Dads Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hudson Yang as Eddie, Isabella Alexander as Allison.
Garrett Hedlunds Postcoital Offer to Steve Buscemi Was Rejected
May 2024Garrett Hedlund. At Cannes, we wrote about the refreshingly sexy elements at play in On the Road — including a free-spirited, topless Kristen Stewart — but there was one moment in the adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic that probably deserved a little more ink than we gave it: the scene where a nude Garrett Hedlund vigorously bangs 54-year-old Steve Buscemi.
Godless Finale Recap: The Legend of Roy Goode
May 2024Godless Homecoming Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Godless Homecoming Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** After more than six hours of buildup, we arrive at the climax of Netflix’s limited series Godless: an old-fashioned, high-noon shootout in the center of a New Mexico town.
Grimes: The Complete Timeline (So Far)
May 2024Few artists from this decade have seemed of this decade as Claire Boucher, the Vancouver-hailing electronic-pop wizard who writes, records, performs, and generally exists in this world as Grimes.
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Hailee Steinfeld Keeps Asking If You Ever Feel Like a Plastic Bag, No Matter How Many Times You Say
May 2024Look, maybe there was once a time when one could consume some mindless entertainment and draw absolutely no parallels to any particular current events, none whatsoever, and maybe that time will come again.
Has Hollywood Ever Seen a Redhead Before?
May 2024Haven’t redheads been through enough? Our flame-haired friends already have to deal with being the subject of lazy jokes, and Hollywood seems determined to extend the offense with a recent rash of faux redheads who boast utterly unnatural coloring.
Her Kinda Country
May 2024Hailey Whitters is a voice for a part of America that Nashville often overlooks. Raised is out March 18.
How Annamarie Tendler Won the John Mulaney Episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
May 2024Annamarie Tendler and John Mulaney. The single funniest thing done on this season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee was not done by one of the comedians.
How Bret Hart Wrestled Back Into the Story
May 2024The WWF icon had his legacy buried for years —until he decided to play Vince McMahon’s game. Brothers Bret and Owen Hart grapple in the ring during a 1994 WWF match.
How David Letterman Changed Comedy, According to Comedy Bang! Bang!s Scott Aukerman
May 2024Beyond changing late night, David Letterman shifted what America found funny. With him saying good-bye tonight, Vulture asked Scott Aukerman, host of the Comedy Bang!
How Many Marshmallows Could I Fit in Timothe Chalamets Mouth?
May 2024There’s a game I used to play as a kid at summer camp called Chubby Bunny. It involves a bag of marshmallows and trying not to choke to death.
I Cant Get Enough of a Site Called Eastern European Movies Dot-Com
May 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. I’ve only ever been able to find Czechoslovakia’s When the Cat Comes on this amazing — and more than a little mysterious — streaming site.
In White on White, an Anti-racism Conversation Turns Monstrous
May 2024Helen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019.
Invincible Premiere Recap: Father Knows Best
May 2024Invincible It’s About Time Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Invincible It’s About Time Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Do not be fooled by Invincible’s good vibes.
Janice Burgess, Visionary Backyardigans Creator, Dead at 72
May 2024Janice Burgess. Janice Burgess, the longtime television executive behind some of Nickelodeon’s most adored shows for young children and the creator of The Backyardigans, died in hospice care in Manhattan on March 2.
Jenna Ortega Will Dance, Dance, Dance With the Weeknd
May 2024Wednesday Addams and Uncle Fester. The Weeknd and Wednesday star Jenna Ortega are going to star in a film together, but so far Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are not affiliated.
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May 2024vulture lists June 25, 2023 Every Jennifer Lawrence Movie, RankedIn a shockingly short time, Jennifer Lawrence has compiled a formidable résumé — where does No Hard Feelings fit in her career?
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John Cusack, Blogger, Still Talking About Those Mushrooms He Ate at the Super Bowl
May 2024When we ran a post last week on all the times John Cusack told interviewers about the mushrooms he did at the 1986 Super Bowl, we thought that would be the last we’d hear of it.
Kelly Price Says She Was Recovering from COVID, Not Missing
May 2024Kelly Price is clearing up speculation about her well-being. After the gospel singer was listed as missing in Georgia earlier in September, which TMZ reported on September 24, her attorney said she had been recovering from COVID-19 in private, with Price herself later confirming the report.
Kristen Arnett, Queer Meme Master, Does Not Want to Explain Ravioli to You
May 2024Kristen Arnett. Technically, says Kristen Arnett, a taxidermied animal is a ravioli. This is not something she can spell out for anyone.
Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney Had Sex on a Canvas for V Magazine and Also for Peace
May 2024I want it all, you paint romance. Lady Gaga had sex on a canvas splattered with paint with Taylor Kinney for the cover of V Magazine for peace, which is pretty cool, though honestly how much of an excuse do you need to do any of that?
Lake Bell on Her Scene-Stealing Performance in No Strings Attached
May 2024Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival The romantic comedy No Strings Attached won the box office this past weekend, put a bankability feather in Oscar front-runner Natalie Portman’s cap, and introduced the world to the concept of “the period mix.
Lana Del Rey Finally Transformed Into Jessica Rabbit
May 2024Lana Del Rey is kind of a living, breathing Jessica Rabbit, if you think about it. She’s got the whole smoldering-femme-fatale pout down pat, and she’s worn a similar vampy red gown before.
Last Flag Flying Is Hard to Endure But Worth It
May 2024Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne in Last Flag Flying. This review originally ran during the New York Film Festival.
Lets Talk About the Ending of Snowpiercer
May 2024Have you seen Snowpiercer yet? Do you plan to? You should. Our movie critic David Edelstein called it “a fun dystopian sci-fi epic,” and with its arrival on VOD today and expansion into even more theaters this weekend, it is way too easy for you to watch the Bong Joon-ho film.
Louis C.K.s Saturday Night Live Monologue Was Better Than Anything From His New Netflix Special
May 2024Louis C.K. and… Louis C.K.! A week ago, Louis C.K. released his newest stand-up special, 2017, on Netflix.
Lupita Nyongos 10 Favorite Books
May 2024Lupita Nyong’o. Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and it’s shared the results with Vulture.
Magma Lucidly Captures the Magical Thinking of a Coercive Relationship
May 2024Thora Hjörleifsdóttir’s brilliantly uneasy new novel, Magma, opens with chlamydia. Our narrator, Lilja, 20, is being questioned by her boyfriend about contracting the disease while she was traveling abroad before they were seriously dating.
Martin Scorsese on Boardwalk Empire, Sinatra Biopic
May 2024Arriving at the Film Forum on Friday is a new, impressively restored print of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s classic 1948 film The Red Shoes, about a tenacious ballerina torn between a lover and her art.
Maxwell and Ashanti Throw It Back With 2021 Soul Train Awards Medleys
May 2024Maxwell did a little sumthin’ sumthin’ at the 2021 Soul Train Awards, where he performed a medley of hits after being recognized with the Living Legend Award.
McG Battling Warner Bros. Over Terminator Toplessness
May 2024Despite early footage that gave every indication that the upcoming Terminator Salvation would be a dark, brutal action movie set in a bleak, postapocalyptic future and featuring graphically violent human deaths at the hands of terrifying robots, could Warner Bros.
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May 2024lost classics Nov. 18, 2016 On Gates of Fire, Michael Mann’s Stalled EpicLike the brave, doomed Spartans at Thermopylae who managed to hold off the Persians long enough, the film might have kept Zack Snyder from making 300.
Muna Folked Silk Chiffon Up for Their Tiny Desk Concert
May 2024Muna’s NPR Tiny Desk concert was queer as folk, y’all. The trio — consisting of members Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson — started their harmony-filled set with renditions of “Loose Garment” and “Stayaway” for an extremely enthusiastic audience.
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May 2024somewhere in time July 3, 2014 Dave Holmes on the Hits of July 1983“And here’s Diana Ross wearing a glittering fuchsia catsuit in her 1983 Central Park concert.
Myles von Trapp Derbyshire Has a Story to Sell
May 2024The Sound of Music scion says there will be no singing nuns in Baroness. Photo: Dolly Faibyshev The hills are alive with the sound of schmoozing.
Netflixs One Day at a Time Remake Finds Its Bonnie Franklin in Justina Machado
May 2024Justina Machado. Netflix’s Latino remake of Norman Lear’s iconic family sitcom One Day at a Time has found its leading woman in Justina Machado, an alum of ER and Six Feet Under (she played Vanessa Diaz in the HBO series).
Never Have I Ever Recap: Parents Just Dont Understand
May 2024Never Have I Ever …had an Indian boyfriend Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Never Have I Ever …had an Indian boyfriend Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After the last episode’s cliffhanger, Devi and Des have to face the music.
Of Course Cate Blanchett Is a Triple Taurus
May 2024Whether or not you believe in astrology, everyone can admit that there’s plenty of coincidentally that can only be blamed on the stars, especially during Mercury Retrograde.
Poker Face Recap: Little Miss Galahad
May 2024Poker Face The Night Shift Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Poker Face The Night Shift Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Our girl is on the run now, and it dramatically changes Poker Face’s feel.
Queen Latifah, a Woman With No Equals, Stars in The Equalizer Teaser
May 2024She’s the one you call when you can’t call 911. #TheEqualizer premieres February 7 after the Super Bowl on @CBS and @CBSAllAccess.
Rapper King Von Killed in Atlanta Shooting
May 2024The fast-rising Chicago star was 26. King Von, an up-and-comer in the Chicago drill scene, has died after being involved in a shooting in Atlanta on Friday morning, November 6; he was 26.
Ray Donovan Recap: Cats Cradle
May 2024Ray Donovan Fish and Bird Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ray Donovan Fish and Bird Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan.
Regression Is a Disappointing Genre Exercise From the Great Alejandro Amenabar
May 2024Hey, remember Alejandro Amenabar? For certain viewers, the Spanish director seemed well on his way to becoming one of the great saviors of genre cinema in the late 1990s and early 2000s — the kind of guy who could take otherwise tired horror and science-fiction concepts and give them new life.
Remembering Jonathan Demme, One of Cinemas Most Contagious Enthusiasts
May 2024Jonathan Demme, one of the American cinema’s finest, most insistently humanist directors, has died at the absurdly young age of 73, from complications of throat cancer and heart disease.
Rex Orange County Sexual-Assault Charges Dropped
May 2024Rex Orange County, a pop singer in the U.K., is no longer facing sexual-assault charges in the country.
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RuPauls Drag Race All Stars Recap: Threes a Crowd
May 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars The Letter L Season 8 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars The Letter L Season 8 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, at least we tried something new.
RuPauls Drag Race U.K. Season Finale Recap: Thats All She Sing Sang Song
May 2024RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Season 2 Grand Finale Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race U.
Secrets and Lies
May 2024Trump mentor. Joe McCarthy protégé. AIDS victim. More than three decades after his death, Roy Cohn still haunts American life.
See the Real-Life Version of Patty and Selma From The Simpsons
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Seth Rogen to Produce Movie About an Apocalyptic Meme
May 2024In news that reads like pop-culture Mad Libs, Seth Rogen’s Point Grey production company will be producing a movie called Memetic, a horror-thriller about a “killer meme.
She Had Razors Hidden in Her Hair
May 2024On the glory of blaxploitation icon Pam Grier’s two greatest onscreen catfights. Video: American International Pictures Video: American International Pictures The poster for Jack Hill’s 1973 blaxploitation classic, Coffy, promises “the baddest one-chick hit squad to ever hit town.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Recap: Hurtin for a Yurtin
May 2024She-Hulk: Attorney at Law The Retreat Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » She-Hulk: Attorney at Law The Retreat Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Jennifer Walters ultimately does join the Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s going to be so set.
Sinad OConnor, Renowned Irish Singer, Dead at 56
May 2024Sinéad O’Connor. Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer whose arresting voice, style, and outspokenness carried her to fame in the 1990s, has died at 56.
Sleep No More No More
May 2024Shh! And now, get ready to immerse yourself in sadness. Sleep No More, the immersive-theater production based on Macbeth, will close following its 5,000th performance on January 24 after 13 years.
Sonic the Hedgehog Breaks Box Office Record Set for Video Game Movies
May 2024Boy, when you first heard Sonic the Hedgehog’s release would pushed back to allow director Jeff Fowler and the film’s animators to fix their star’s creepy, human-like teeth, you probably weren’t assuming the film would break any box office records.
Sonny Barger, Hells Angel Turned Sons of Anarchy Guest Star, Dead at 83
May 2024Sonny Barger, a Hells Angel known for his role on Sons of Anarchy, died of cancer on June 29 at age 83.
Supernatural Recap: Double Penetration
May 2024Supernatural Road Trip Season 9 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Supernatural Road Trip Season 9 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s like Mom used to say: Sometimes it takes being double-teamed by two powerful men to really make things interesting.
Superrich Kids Get Trolled
May 2024The next-generation Gossip Girl is more diverse, more self-aware, and far more lavishly produced. Photo: Landon Nordeman Photo: Landon Nordeman This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.
Talking With Scott Bakula About Quantum Leaps 30th Anniversary
May 2024Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell in Quantum Leap. I started watching Quantum Leap last summer, mostly on a whim.
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May 2024happy new year! Jan. 1, 2024 New Year, Same CelebsHere’s how Taylor Swift, John Mayer, Nicki Minaj, and more rang in 2024.
The Art Worlds Mini-Madoff and Me
May 2024Boozy nights and high-stakes art trades with Inigo Philbrick. lnigo Philbrick, left, and the writer, in St. Moritz on New Year’s Eve in 2015.
The Beatles: Get Back Is Too Long, But It Has to Be
May 2024The Beatles: Get Back, the three-part Disney+ docuseries that embeds viewers with the Beatles during their famously contentious recording sessions in January 1969, is long.
The Best Sex Ive Ever Read: The Famously Dick-Centric Henry Miller
May 2024The Best Sex I Ever Read A Vulture series in which authors and readers dissect the literary sex scenes they’ll never forget.
The Biggest Revelations From the Pop Smoke Murder Case Hearings
May 2024Pop Smoke. On February 19, 2020, New York rapper Pop Smoke was killed in his Los Angeles rental house during a home invasion.
The Invention of the Salvator Mundi
May 2024Or, How to Turn a $1,000 Art-Auction Pickup Into a $450 Million Masterpiece. Photo: The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo/Getty Images Photo: The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo/Getty Images In 2005, an unusual painting appeared on the website of the New Orleans Auction Gallery, a small operation headquartered on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Say Yes to the Tour
May 2024The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel All Alone Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Marvelous Mrs.
The Other Woman
May 2024Jennifer Coolidge spins roles as trophy wives and divorcées into comic gold. Now she gets to show what else she can do.
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Lets Have a Tiki
May 2024The Real Housewives of New York City Ain’t No Party Like a Hamptons Party Season 12 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City Ain’t No Party Like a Hamptons Party Season 12 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I am amazed, absolutely amazed, that there was a naked woman running rampage through Ramona Singer’s back garden and it was not Sonja Tremont Morgan of the Reusable Oil Burning Natural Bamboo Tiki Torch Garden Pathway Lighting Morgans.
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Emancipation of Aviva
May 2024The Real Housewives of New York City All How You Spin It Season 5 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City All How You Spin It Season 5 Episode 12 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last night’s episode of RHONYC was, hopefully, the first chapter in what shall be known as The Emancipation of Aviva!
The Women of The Witcher Get Their Due
May 2024Anya Chalotra as Yennefer in The Witcher. Fantasy novels, games, movies, and television shows provide a rich tapestry of the human spirit.
Theater Review: One More LaBute Twist, in The Way We Get By
May 2024Way We Get By, The Second Stage Theatre Cast List: Thomas Sadoski, Amanda Seyfried Production Credits: Neil LaBute (playwright) Leigh Silverman (director) In a Pottery Barned New York apartment, a postcoital couple awakens in the wee hours and stumbles through a discussion about their future.
Theater Reviews: The Piano Lesson and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation
May 2024The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson I don’t think I’ve ever seen the multifarious energies of August Wilson’s playwrighting — his aching, epic ambitions, his colloquial crowd-pleasing instincts, his expressive setpieces and interior poetry — better concerted, conducted, and focused than in Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s joyous revival of The Piano Lesson, the Depression-era entry in Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle.
This One Pirates of the Caribbean Line Plays on a Loop in My Head
May 2024In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain. In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain.
Todd Hayness May December Is a Deeply Uncomfortable Movie
May 2024Watching it in a theater at Cannes, I found myself cackling with delight. Stepping out into the rainy night, however, I felt like I needed to take a shower.
Tom Papas Standup Special Human Mule Premieres on Epix in December
May 2024Tom Papa has a new standup special headed to Epix later this year. The network announced today that it’s ordered a new hourlong standup special from Papa called Human Mule, which will premiere on Friday, December 9th at 8:00pm.
Vincent DOnofrio to Play Kingpin in Netflixs Daredevil
May 2024Two weeks ago, Netflix and Marvel announced that they found their Daredevil, Charlie Cox. So, as these things go, today they have announced his villain.
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May 2024Vulture was founded in 2007 as an entertainment-and-culture outlet of New York providing an authentic, relatable experience for pop-culture fans — which is to say, caring disproportionately about great (and not great) entertainment and the people who create it.
Watch a Cat Reeanct Madonnas 1984 Like a Virgin VMA Performance
May 2024You know, the one when sherolled around on the floor in a wedding dress? One Moon Man for this cat, please.
Watch Weird Al Sing His Original Lyrics for the Conan Theme Song
May 2024Conan finally invites Weird Al on his show; Weird Al responds in kind. [Stereogum] Watch Weird Al Sing His Original Lyrics for the Conan Theme Song ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdga3yku82apZivlZ6%2FpavApZalsaKesLR6x62kpQ%3D%3D
What You Need to Know About Our New Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich
May 2024Not scruffy-looking. When I took Alden Ehrenreich out to lunch a few years ago, he was an up-and-comer whose time had still not come.
Whats New on HBO: December 2016
May 2024Midnight Special. At the beginning of (and during) each month, HBO adds new movies and TV shows to HBO Go and HBO Now.
Where Are They Now? Comparing the Friday Night Lights Characters to Their New Roles
May 2024For those who missed it on DirecTV last winter, the beloved Friday Night Lights finally returns to NBC tonight for its fifth — and last — season.
Yoko Ono in New York
May 2024Accompanying the opening this week of “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show” at MoMA is a feature by Lindsay Zoladz. But New York has been covering Yoko for years.
Your Guide to BTS and Their Musical Universe in 25 Songs
May 2024BTS are first and foremost musicians, and their rise is fundamentally based on their musicality and artistry. With multiple chart-topping albums and a recent appearance on Saturday Night Live, K-Pop royalty BTS have, at this point, solidified their position as global-dominating superstars in a league of their own.
Zach Bryan Takes John Mayer and Bruce Springsteen to the Bars
May 2024Much to celebrate this 4th of July. The 100th birthday of the caesar salad, David and Victoria Beckham’s wedding anniversary.
Zendayas Challengers I Told Ya Shirt Can Be Yours
May 2024You can be the proud owner of this exact shirt! Did you see Loewe’s I Told Ya shirt inspired by Challengers and sigh because you cannot justify paying $330 for a cotton tee?
Zolas Insane Twitter Story Is Showgirls for 2015
May 2024The original Zola. Showgirls is a film that changed lives. Nomi Malone travels to Las Vegas, becomes a chorus girl, and gets mixed up in drugs, stripping, and prostitution — and makes it out unscathed while her black friend, Molly, gets raped and brutalized.
A Visual Time Line of Matt Damons Behind the Candelabra Transformation
May 2024bare butts not included May 28, 2013 4:15 pm By Lindsey Weber Share Share Tweet Pin It 17 Photos Photo: HBO Method-tanning process not included, Matt Damon’s Behind the Candelabra transformation took many impressive turns.
6 New Books You Should Read This April
May 2024Either because of the unruliness of midwestern spring, this being my last semester teaching in my current department, or that my wife is due in exactly two months, nothing really feels … predictable right now.
A Life Coach Advises Beyonc on How to Overcome Her Perfectionism
May 2024Beyoncé. It’s no secret that Beyoncé is a perfectionist. (“I am a perfectionist,” she said just last month.) But, if you go by her words in this weekend’s HBO documentary, Life Is But a Dream — “I don’t have to kill myself and be so hard on myself” — this is also something that she would like to change.
A Million Ways To Die In The West
May 2024seth macfarlane’s world Dec. 3, 2012 Seth MacFarlane May Follow Ted With a WesternHe wrote and is looking to star and direct.
A Timeline of 24 Years of Dirty Dancing Pop-Culture References
May 2024Halfway through the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, cocktail bar Lothario Jacob (Ryan Gosling) reveals his secret no-fail seduction move.
A Visual Guide to Big Little Lies Elvis and Audrey Costumes
May 2024The thrilling finale to HBO’s Big Little Lies brought everything, from a conclusion to the show’s murder mystery, which we won’t spoil here, to a set of very impressive Elvis covers from members of the show’s cast (or, in Adam Scott’s case, whoever was dubbing him).
All the Haunting of Bly Manor Hidden Ghost Sightings You May Have Missed
May 2024Dani, being watched by Bly Manor’s most active ghost. Mike Flanagan is up to his old tricks again in Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Alyson Hannigan Answers All Our Questions About American Pie
May 2024On her Buffy co-stars’ mixed reactions to the movie, frustrations with the casting director, and the shock of hearing Taylor Swift’s “So High School.
An Unconnected Group of Indie-Rock Bands Searches for Meaning in a Difficult World
May 2024Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade. Protest music has long been a vessel for calling out the names of oppressors, speaking truth to power, and releasing that dissent into the air.
Andrew Lincoln Confirms Hes Leaving The Walking Dead: This Will Be My Last Season
May 2024Andrew Lincoln. During a San Diego Comic-Con panel in Hall H Friday, Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln confirmed that he’s exiting the show.
AnnaLynne McCord Has Some (Spoken) Words for Putin
May 2024AnnaLynne McCord auditioning for the role of Putin’s mother. Update: Friday, February 25, at 4 p.m.: After watching AnnaLynne McCord’s impassioned poem about a utopian world where she is Putin’s mom, millions of viewers were left with one question: Why?
Arrested Development Recap: Emotional Baggage
May 2024Arrested Development Emotional Baggage Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Arrested Development Emotional Baggage Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This season of Arrested Development has been a rocky ride, with moments of comedic brilliance wedged between long stretches of pointlessness.
Avatar: The Last Airbenders Best Minor Characters, Ranked
May 2024Nearly two decades after it premiered on Nickelodeon, Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting a new rebirth of attention on Netflix.
Barbra Streisand Sings a Send in the Clowns Trump Parody Like the Dulcet, Melodious Weird Al S
May 2024Barbra Streisand just released a duets album with Melissa McCarthy and Seth MacFarlane. Isn’t a comedy album the next logical step?
Baskets Is Not Quite Like Anything Youve Ever Seen
May 2024Zach Galifianakis in Baskets. Baskets, about the existential crisis of a rodeo clown, is a bizarre show with a great pedigree that won’t be to everyone’s liking.
Ben Affleck Breaks His Silence on Lying About His Back Tattoo
May 2024Twitter was a slightly cleaner cesspool back in 2015, when, instead of our president repurposing absurd Curb Your Enthusiasm clips for a quick ego boost, we would overanalyze Ben Affleck’s sprawling back tattoo of a rising phoenix for hours to determine its veracity.
Billy Porter Has to Sell His House and Its Kind of Bob Igers Fault
May 2024Disney CEO Bob Iger had the lowest possible bar to clear when he returned to the C-suite: just be better than the universally loathed Bob Chapek.
Blackpink: The Game: the Song Is Streaming Now
May 2024The Pinks have come out swinging with their new video-game original soundtrack. Blackpink’s Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa, and Rosé released “The Girls” on August 25, a song first teased on their mobile-phone game The Game way back in May as a 16-second snippet nestled in the login page.
BoJack Horseman, Inside Out, and the Beauty of Difficult Emotions
May 2024After watching (and loving) the first season of BoJack Horseman, I had a hard time recommending it to people. “Well, it has burrowed its own hole in my brain, which, when I’m watching something else, itches, reminding me that I could be watching something truly special and weird and exciting, an itch which can only be sated by hearing the end credits theme, which, parodoxically, makes me crave another episode, which is to say that I loved it and I absolutely think you should watch it, if that’s the right decision for you, but would I tell you to watch it?
Bravo Drags You Kicking and Screaming Back to the Past With Real Housewives of the 1960s
May 2024Real Housewives of Beverly Hills “Reunion.” One might argue that the 1950s (or really, any decade before that) featured a more traditional concept of the American Housewife than the ‘60s, what with all the technology and feminism and counterculture of the decade.
Breaking Bads Tio, Mark Margolis, Joins Aronofskys Noah
May 2024Mark Margolis, last explosively embedded in culture’s memory through his Emmy-nominated turn as Hector “Tio” Salamanca on Breaking Bad, is joining Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Paramount confirmed today.
Casey Wilson on Happy Endings, the Kardashians, and Getting Topless With Whitney Cummings
May 2024Casey Wilson. Even in the strong, six-person ensemble of Happy Endings, Casey Wilson is a standout. Formerly known for her stint on Saturday Night Live, the UCB veteran has found the perfect vehicle in ABC’s sophomore-year comedy, where she plays the aggressively single Penny.
CBS Films Fires COO After Faster Flops
May 2024Tobey. In Hollywood as in baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. We hear that the benighted CBS Films — which has produced nothing but bombs since it launched this year, including Extraordinary Measures, The Back-up Plan, and last weekend’s underperformer Faster — is sacking its chief operating officer, Bruce Tobey.
Cheese: An Annotated History of the Oscar Class Photo
May 2024The group portraits are back this year — and one nominee is noticeably absent. A behind the scenes look at the 57th Academy Awards luncheon class photo.
Chief Keef Hologram Show Shut Down by Police
May 2024Nineteen-year-old rapper Chief Keef was slated to perform, via hologram, at the rap festival Craze Fest, held about 25 miles outside of Chicago.
Dancing With the Stars Recap: The Show Must Go On
May 2024Dancing With the Stars Episode 4 Season 25 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dancing With the Stars Episode 4 Season 25 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Monday was a tough day.
Darling, You Can Stop Worrying Now
May 2024Nicole Kidman’s AMC Theatres commercial finally has a worthy opponent: the cast of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ new Don’t Worry Darling ad.
Datelines Keith Morrison Is Getting Used to Podcast Stardom
May 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.
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May 2024high school tv showdown Oct. 30, 2015 Every Time Jazz Was Thrown Out on Fresh PrinceIf Jazz showed up wearing his telltale brown-patterned shirt with two gold bars across it, there was a good chance he was getting chucked.
Esm Bianco and Marilyn Manson Settle Sexual-Assault Lawsuit Out of Court
May 2024Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco and singer Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) have settled the sexual-assault lawsuit Bianco filed against both Warner and his business, Marilyn Manson Records, Inc.
Ever-Tasteful Sacha Baron Cohen Cuts Brnos Michael Jackson Joke
May 2024The premiere of Brüno in Los Angeles last night may have inconveniently red-carpeted the King of Pop’s star on the Walk of Fame, but in an unprecedented display of good taste, Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles made the easy decision to trim the movie’s Michael Jackson jokes before the screening.
Every Conan Without Borders International Special, Ranked
May 2024Over four years ago, when Conan O’Brien began Conan Without Borders, a spinoff travel segment from his TBS late-night show Conan, it became clear that he was successfully separating himself from the parlor games and politics that occupied so much of late night’s real estate.
Every Day a Little Death: Endlings and Unknown Soldier
May 2024From Endlings, at NYTW. Not to get morbid just when you’re thinking nervously about “large groups” and “social distancing,” but a theater is a great place to consider death.
Ex Machina - Vulture
May 2024a twenty-four Aug. 24, 2022 The Cult of A24Since 2012, the studio has bred superfans, dropped swag, and perfected a singular house style.
Fargo Recap: Under the Rainbow
May 2024Fargo East/West Season 4 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fargo East/West Season 4 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When we last saw Omie Sparkman — former boxer and Loy Cannon loyalist — he was promising his boss that Constant Calamita would soon pay for the crime of killing Doctor Senator (and other offenses).
First Posthumous Michael JacksonMemorabilia Auction Scheduled for Today
May 2024Items up for auction: Handwritten lyrics to “Bad,” a sparkly number from the “Victory” tour, and one of MJ’s drawings.
Frank Ocean - Vulture
May 2024radio vulture Nov. 11, 2019 Drake Will Be FineAll of this comes from a place of generalized disbelief that there could be a crowd somewhere that loves rap but doesn’t unilaterally love Drake.
Gerard Butler Sues Olympus Has Fallen Producers for Profits
May 2024More like Olympics Has Fallen, am I right? Gerard Butler, who has found something of a franchise for himself in the [Insert Word Here] Has Fallen series of action films, is suing producers over profits from the series’s first film, 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is a Reanimated Corpse
May 2024Last month, a photo of a girl sitting in front of a Nintendo 64 went viral on Twitter when someone posted it with the proclamation, “i want to live in this era.
Glee Lands Helen Mirren
May 2024LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 16: Dame Helen Mirren attends the British Comedy Awards at Fountain Studios on December 16, 2011 in London, England.
Greys Anatomy Recap: Breaking the Rules
May 2024Grey’s Anatomy What I Did for Love Season 15 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy What I Did for Love Season 15 Episode 23 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to the big Grey’s Anatomy–Station 19 crossover event!
Harry Styles Enters His 1989 Era One Last Time
May 2024In anticipation of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift has spent the last month actively reliving her “Shake It Off” years.
Here Are the 2022 Latin Grammy Award Winners
May 2024You might still be buzzing over the nominations that the “gringo Grammys” announced earlier this week, but tonight, it’s the Latin Recording Academy’s time to shine.
Heres Who James Charles Is Apologizing to Today: Alicia Keys
May 2024Release the collab. There are three types of people in this internet world: the apologized to, the apologizers, and those who are so constantly doing both that they are sewn into the middle of this tedious Human Centipede of public shame.
High Fashion Is Just The Matrix Cosplay Now
May 2024We Are Living in the Matrix A weeklong series about how a 1999 movie predicted kind-of-everything about life 20 years later.
How I Survived Two and a Half Days of Two and a Half Men
May 2024Yes, it was quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever done. Deciding to watch a sitcom (most likely a terrible one) for over sixty hours in a row without a break?
How Long Can You Keep Doing This?
May 2024For a man who vows over and over that he’ll stop killing, Joe Goldberg sure keeps adding to his body count.
If A24 Made a Video Game, It Would Look a Lot Like Indika
May 2024For a game about the rejection of mystical thinking, Indika is filled with no end of odd, phantasmic details. Take the scene of Holy Communion near its beginning: Indika, a young Russian Orthodox nun and our unconventional heroine, is waiting dutifully to take her sip of wine.
In Conversation: Emma Thompson
May 2024The actress on her new films, the lies women are told, and the two kinds of people in the world.
In Conversation: Mike D
May 2024Whenthe Beastie Boys’ career came to a tragic halt in 2012 after the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the remaining band members, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond (known as Ad-Rock and Mike D respectively), were faced with the difficult task of creating futures for themselves that weren’t mired in the past.
Jared Leto Tried to Give Himself a Nickname on the Suicide Squad Set Like Some Kind of Cool Guy
May 2024Jared Leto. According to Suicide Squad producer Charles Roven, Jared Leto’s process of getting into character as the Joker — which the actor says was “very painful, like giving birth out of my prick hole” — wasn’t limited to method-y stunts like giving Margot Robbie a pet rat.
Jarhead to Hurt Locker: How Iraq Movies Got Good
May 2024With The Hurt Locker’s big night at the Oscars, and Green Zone blasting onto screens this weekend, has Hollywood finally beaten the Iraq Curse — the belief that movies about the war in Iraq (and Afghanistan) are doomed to fail, either critically and/or financially?
Jason Segel Wrote a Song for Russell Brand
May 2024If you’ve been watching the slow death that is this season of How I Met Your Mother, you may have forgotten that Jason Segel — the guy relegated to food jokes and general wackiness — is awesome.
Jeanine Pirro, Youre Doing Amazing, Sweetie
May 2024It’s like every time they come back from commercial, she appears more intoxicated pic.twitter.com/VOVPfJx4yl — Acyn (@Acyn) March 29, 2020 Somewhere, hopefully on a socially distanced beach with zero chairs, Cecily Strong is taking notes while sipping on a sizable margarita pitcher.
Joe Alwyn Got Buff for Conversations With Friends
May 2024If you needed a reminder that Hulu and BBC Three are making a Conversations With Friends series, well, here’s a six-pack.
Joe Gatto Announces Hes Leaving Impractical Jokers
May 2024He’s being serious this time, okay! On New Year’s Eve, Joe Gatto announced on Instagram that he will be “no longer be involved with Impractical Jokers.
Juice WRLDs Final Music Video, Bad Boy With Young Thug, Drops
May 2024The late rapper Juice WRLD lives on in the new music video for “Bad Boy” featuring Young Thug, The video is the last visual the 21-year-old filmed before his unexpected death in December 2019.
Just for Laughs Announces Its 2019 New Faces
May 2024Comedians from 2019’s Just for Laughs New Faces showcases. The 2019 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today the festival gave Vulture the very first look at its annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for its “New Faces” showcase.
Kristen Stewart Looks Back on Her SNL F-Bomb on The Tonight Show
May 2024Kristen Stewart paid a visit to Jimmy Fallon last night in her Halloween costume (she and her girlfriend created a couples costume described as “socially irrelevant heteronormative gender roles … that are dead!
Late-Night Trend Alert: The Boys Are Showing Leg
May 2024Tiny trend alert! Tim Robinson participated in it this week. Bowen Yang has done it. So has Paul Mescal.
Michael B. Jordan Apologizes After Rum-Brand Backlash
May 2024Last weekend, actor Michael B. Jordan announced the launch of his forthcoming line of rums, J’Ouvert. The name was quickly called into question, as it references a Caribbean festival that celebrates emancipation but has origins in 18th-century slavery.
Move Out the Way
May 2024Flyana Boss are running laps around TikTok and the music industry with ‘You Wish.’ They’ve always had a “master plan to be a star.
Movie Review: The Clichd, Great Warrior
May 2024It’s possible that I’ve never been so embarrassed to recount the plot of a movie I’m going to rave to the heavens, but here goes: Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior centers on estranged brothers, one a Marine back from Iraq under mysterious circumstances, the other a warmhearted Philadelphia physics teacher, both of them scarred by an alcoholic father, both nonprofessional fighters who end up defying crazy odds and becoming finalists in a kind of Super Bowl of mixed martial arts in Atlantic City, where they No, it’s too corny to live.
Movie Review: Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Cant Save Get Hards Stale Jokes
May 2024Get Hard. The new Will Ferrell–Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard is designed to provoke you, and maybe even piss you off a little.
Never Call Me Your Drummer Again
May 2024The full story of the time Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, excerpted from Sympathy for the Drummer. Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger take time out during the Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, 1975.
Nicki Minaj Has More Words for Miley on Her Down in the DM Remix
May 2024Stay out of Nicki’s DMs. Will Nicki Minaj ever make good on her promise to drop another mixtape?
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May 2024emerging artists Dec. 17, 2018 Matthew Leifheit and Nicole Wittenberg’s Art-Historical Machines for DesireA homoerotic nod to Velázquez; conjuring Munch’s The Kiss By Jarrett Earnest
Onscreen Elvises, Ranked
May 2024Elvis Presley didn’t invent rock and roll. He never claimed to, telling Jet magazine in 1957, “A lot of people seem to think I started this business.
Playing Monopoly and Talking Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
May 2024John Oliver, photographed by Jason Campbell For the first time since November, it is possible to go outdoors in New York without getting in a bad mood.
Polite Society Depicts Sister Fights As They Are: Brutal, Violent, and Hideous
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.
Queer Eye Recap: Feel the Burn
May 2024queer eye The Handyman Can Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » queer eye The Handyman Can Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » There are a few people who you should never really question about their lifestyle choices unless you want your ear to be monopolized for the remainder of the party/barbecue/ice-cream social that you are attending.
Reality TVs Reckoning Is Coming
May 2024After a firing for misconduct on a recent shocking episode of Below Deck Down Under and with Hollywood’s strike in its fourth month, reality-TV powerhouse NBC Universal has found itself under the microscope with its growing reliance on reality shows.
Red-Carpet Look Book: Anna Kendrick
May 2024Young Anna Kendrick is a vanilla cipher: There’s nothing really wrong with her red-carpet wardrobe, but there’s nothing really right, either.
Review: The Apocalyptic World of Brand News Science Fiction Feels Realer Than Ever
May 2024Rock bands used to be mysterious organizations. Fandom was an exercise in extreme patience. You whiled away the hours in monk-like private study of records, lyrics, and liner notes.
Revisiting Portisheads Harrowing Self-Titled Second Album
May 2024The original trinity of acts gathered in Bristol in the early ’90s and later unwillingly grouped together under the name of “trip-hop” were hardly put together by chance.
Rick Rosss Personal Herd of Buffalo Has Overtaken Georgia Police
May 2024Rodeo Rick. “Oh, give me a home,” you say. “Where the buffalo roam,” you say. Until those buffalo start roaming all over your home, that is.
Rodolfo De Rothschild - Vulture
May 2024Rodolfo De Rothschild - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Nov. 2, 2010 Making Jokes About Peru May Not Be Worth the HassleA couple of weeks ago on Modern Family, Gloria made a little joke about Peru.
Rye Lane Makes Romantic Comedy Look Easy
May 2024Watching these two dorky-hip 20-somethings banter around South London may make you wonder why we’re so worried about the fate of the rom-com.
Skrillex Is Reinventing Himself
May 2024The last time Skrillex released a studio album, it was as an unintentional 26-year-old pop-culture lightning rod, a god in the eyes of revelers at big-tent EDM festivals where the Californian producer born Sonny Moore served maximalist speaker knockers that took cues from the shrieking electro-rock of Daft Punk, the jittery programming of Aphex Twin records, and the unrelenting volume and tempos of U.
Snoop Doggs New Gospel Album, Bible of Love, Is Surprisingly Great
May 2024Like most things with Snoop, it shouldn’t work but it does. Snoop Dogg is having the most absurd rap career of all time.
Spring Breakers Understands Britney Spears Better Than Her New Album Does
May 2024Let’s speak plainly: Britney Jean, the latest, “most personal” album from one Britney Spears, is not good. It has its campy moments (namely, “Work Bitch”), and, yes, I spent the better part of the weekend singing the one-note chorus of “Perfume,” but neither song is destined for the Britney Pantheon.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season-Premiere Recap: Grand-Theft Enterprise
May 2024Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Broken Circle Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Broken Circle Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » “I would like the ship to go,” Spock says after assuming control of the Enterprise for an unscheduled and unauthorized mission.
Steven Wright on His Joke-Writing Process and Being an Influencer
May 2024Steven Wright was one of the first stand-ups to hit it big back in the 1980s, after an acclaimed appearance on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in 1982, and his style of low-energy one-liners is still emulated by scores of comedians.
Suits - Vulture
May 2024keeping up with the ex-royals Aug. 29, 2023 Poppycock!That’s the word the royal family didn’t want Meghan Markle saying on Suits.
Tales From the Tour Bus Creator Mike Judge on Funk, Silicon Valley, and Reviving King of the Hill
May 2024In its new season, Tale From the Tour Bus digs into funk history. Sometimes it’s good to be Mike Judge.
Talib Kweli Is Off Twitter After Harassing One Woman for Weeks
May 2024More than two weeks after he began harassing a 24-year-old woman on the platform, Talib Kweli is no longer on Twitter.
Talking to Neal Brennan About Chappelles Show, Standup, Podcasts and More
May 2024Much in the way that Bill Clinton was considered our first black president, Neal Brennan might be our first black podcast host.
The 10 Best Oral-Sex-Face GIFs of the 201213 Television Season
May 2024As we wind down our weeklong salute to the TV season that was, we’ve explored serious, important superlatives such as best visuals, best episodes, and most valuable guest star, to name but a few.
The Americans Certainly Broke New Ground With Last Nights Sex Scene
May 2024[This post contains spoilers about the season-two premiere of The Americans.] The Americans returned for its second season last night with a real bloodbath of an episode: It started off with a few snappy executions, and toward the end, showed us Phillip and Elizabeth’s friends slaughtered, with their daughter, in a hotel room.
The Bella Twins Are Dead, Long Live the Garcia Twins
May 2024Nikki and Brie Garcia. Nikki and Brie Bella, the WWE superstar twins and Total Divas alums, are no more.
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2023 Grammy Awards
May 2024The biggest Grammys in recent memory was, as these things go, the most polarizing. Beyoncé expectedly broke the record for most Grammy wins of all time but still couldn’t ride that wave to an Album of the Year trophy.
The Last Of Us Fungal Outbreak Is Terrifying, But Is It Realistic?
May 2024Who’s hungry for mushrooms? Spoilers follow for The Last of Us TV show and video games. Thanks to the sprawling IP universe of The Walking Dead, post-apocalyptic narratives about social collapse, hungry hordes, and desperate communities clinging to the last vestiges of civilization are familiar on TV by this point.
The Office - TV Episode Recaps & News
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The Paul Reiser Show: Despite Its Best Efforts, Not Curb Your Enthusiasm
May 2024“Everything you’d think from the commercials and promotional videos about the Paul Reiser Show is true. Curb-lite call it, less taste, less filling.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Push Comes to Shove
May 2024The Real Housewives of New Jersey Trouble in Tulum Season 14 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey Trouble in Tulum Season 14 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are more people on the cast of the Real Housewives of New Jersey than there are residents of the state of New Jersey.
The Secret History of Radioheads OK Computer
May 2024Thom Yorke. In a parallel universe, a band called Radiohead is making music for shiny, happy people. It’s hard to believe, but Radiohead as we know them almost were that band — at least, it’s possible that they might have been right before they recorded their landmark 1997 album, OK Computer.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Recap: Last Nite
May 2024The Summer I Turned Pretty Love Affair Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Summer I Turned Pretty Love Affair Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have to be honest.
The Talk, Jennifer Hudson Show Delay Premieres for WGA Strike
May 2024It’s a little less, well, talk, and a little more action for daytime talk shows supporting the writers’ strike.
The Three Most Surprising Things About This Years Enormous Emmys Ballot
May 2024We read all 35 of the television academy’s PDFs to see what they reveal about next month’s nominations. New York subscribers got exclusive early access to this story in our Gold Rush newsletter.
The Twist Is That M. Night Shyamalans The Visit Actually Works
May 2024Somewhat slowing his slide into irrelevance, “the next Spielberg” (loco citato, Newsweek — emphasis on loco) M. Night Shyamalan has come up with an unoriginal faux-doc horror picture that actually works like a demonic charm.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season-Finale Recap: Beach Day
May 2024The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Coming Home Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Coming Home Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Never in my years of watching The Walking Dead would I have guessed that the fate of an international conflict in the zombie apocalypse would rest on the shoulders of Daryl Dixon.
The Worlds Coming After Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 7
May 2024Your mission — should you choose to accept it: Reveal the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige. Kidding, Tom Cruise.
This Dark Comedy From Germany Has the Best Nude Scene of the Year
May 2024Sandra Hüller in Toni Erdmann. Much of the digital conversation around cinematic nude scenes generally has to do with sex, and how uncomfortable the actors felt to be naked or nearly naked on set.
This Week on The Real House Reps of D.C.
May 2024Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. If they’re gonna try to stop us from scrolling on TikTok, then we guess it’s only fair that Congress provides us with some form of entertainment.
Travel Back to 1996 With Bone Thugs-n-Harmonys New Song, Gangstas Glory
May 2024We have the softest spot for Bone Thugs it’s like a soft… giant hole? Nope, not quite. Anyway, enjoy this track off BTNH’s upcoming album, UNI5: The World’s Enemy, out this March.
UnREALs Michael Rady on Playing Rachels Love Interest and the Stress of Going Shirtless
May 2024Michael Rady has worked on many TV shows over the last decade, including Jane the Virgin, House of Lies, and Grey’s Anatomy.
Watch Nicki Minaj Give Steve Nash a Lap Dance
May 2024Nicki’s lap dances are a tour staple at this point, but last night she recruited a reluctant Steve Nash for the honor.
What This Is Us Gets Right About Being a Black Kid in a White Family
May 2024THIS IS US – “Career Days” Episode 106 – Pictured: (l-r) Lonnie Chavis as Randall, Milo Ventimiglia as Jack – (Photo by: Ron Batzdorff/NBC) There is no shortage of character tropes in NBC’s new series This Is Us: the fat girl with a heart of gold who secretly has Cyndi Lauper pipes; the pretty white boy actor who moves to New York to do theater; the black mother at the pool who tells the white adoptive mother of a black child that she needs to find a barber who knows how to cut black hair.
Whats Toms Deal in This Weeks Succession?
May 2024In “Wambsgans Watch,” we weigh in on the state of Tom Wambsgans’s relationships in each of the remaining episodes of Succession.
Whiskey Cavalier Is Sweet, Silly, and Familiar
May 2024Whiskey Cavalier is an old-school network dramedy, a piece of TV that feels like it was unearthed from an era long since past.
Who Is Big Twitchy, Miley Cyruss Endless Summer Vacation Star?
May 2024Miley Cyrus and Big Twitchy’s creator, Harmony Korine. There are surprising names all over Miley Cyrus’s new album, Endless Summer Vacation.
Whos the Grossest on The Boys This Week?
May 2024Let’s just go ahead and assume The Deep will continue to place high (low?) in these rankings. Every episode of The Boys, Prime Video’s ultraviolent, savagely satirical superhero series, offers an abundance of gross moments.
Why Isnt Law & Order Streaming Anywhere?
May 2024The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY It’s a mystery worthy of Detective Lennie Briscoe: Why isn’t the original Law & Order — the flagship series in what’s arguably the most successful TV brand ever created — currently available on any American streaming platform?
Winston Dukes American Dream
May 2024From Black Panther to Us, everything the 32-year-old actor touches seems to blow up. It’s not a new feeling. Photo: Corey Nickols/Contour by Getty Images Photo: Corey Nickols/Contour by Getty Images When Winston Duke was a teenager in Brighton, New York, the kids at his high school started calling him a “close talker.
Winter Time Is Hilda Time
May 2024Even when Hilda and her friends are braving the grasping arms of trolls, the maws of dragons, and the feet of giants, Hilda radiates warmth.
Wolf Urine - Vulture
May 2024last night on late night Apr. 20, 2012 Last Night on Late Night: Morgan Spurlock Was Escorted Onstage by StormtroopersPlus: Gabrielle Union admitted that what followed her TSA pat-down was even worse than the pat-down itself, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.
Your Box Office Explained: The Green Hornet Stings The Dilemma
May 2024This Weekend’s Winners: Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet debuted strong ($35 million); The King’s Speech more than doubled its presence in theaters, and accordingly, business jumped roughly 40 percent (for an estimated $9.
03 Greedo Released From Prison After More Than 4 Years
May 202403 Greedo was released on Thursday, January 12, after being in prison for the last four and a half years.
11 Great Books About Apes
May 2024Koko, the western lowland gorilla who died this week at age 46, learned to sign 2,000 words, fell in love with kittens, and became a household name and avatar of the human-animal bond.
27 Great Indie Romantic-Comedies From the Last 10 Years
May 2024This post originally ran in November 2014. We are rerunning it with Valentine’s Day coming up. “The romantic comedy is dead” is a narrative we’ve come to accept.
49 Things Well Miss About the Fifty Shades Franchise
May 2024How much do we love the Fifty Shades franchise? Let us count the ways. The ludicrous erotic thriller–cum–love story has done much to liven up the short, dark days of mid-February with its glossy love scenes, off-kilter line readings, and general sense of unreality.
50 Shades Of Grey - Vulture
May 2024inner goddess July 9, 2012 50 Shades of Grey Still Very PopularNo one mention the existence of porn porn. By Margaret Lyons
A Beginners Guide to Conner OMalley
May 2024Conner O’Malley on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Five years ago, a series of Vines introduced the world outside of the New York and Chicago comedy scenes to Conner O’Malley.
A Breakdown of Something Borrowed for Rom-Com Purists
May 2024Something Borrowed, the romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin as best friends in love with the same guy (Colin Egglesfield) while John Krasinski lurks around making jokes, comes out on Friday.
A Map to One Pieces Many Treasures
May 2024Yo ho, me hearties! August 31 will see the debut of Netflix’slive-action adaptation of One Piece, a series that’s spent years in development and even longer as the white whale of a fanbase that awaits this type of project with an equal mix of excitement and trepidation.
AARP Movie Award Nominations Reveal Grownups Love Steven Spielberg and Butt Plug Jokes
May 2024Michelles. AARP has released the 2023 nominations for their Movies for Grownups Awards — that delightfully offbeat awards-season precursor that includes such categories as “Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups,” “Best Intergenerational Movie,” and “Best Time Capsule” — and the selection committee predictably skewed toward Steven Spielberg’s nostalgia trip and the multiverse movie with butt-plug jokes and hot-dog fingers.
Agnieszka Hollands Green Border Is an Urgent Warning
May 2024This interview originally ran during the 2023 Venice Film Festival. We’re recirculating it in advance of Green Border’s theatrical debut.
All Hail The New Drip King: How Online Were You In June?
May 2024Featuring not one, but two different kinds of sub implosions. Video: Vulture; Videos: beyoncegarden, georainbolt, jobscantfindme, whoisjakenovak In between actual breaking-news push alerts — a defection, a blackout, and a literal implosion — TikTok was fighting about bagels, influencers were shilling for Shein, and Colleen Ballinger found a way to get canceled, for the same thing, again.
All of the Dances in the Step Up Franchise, Ranked
May 2024With Step Up: All In — a.k.a. the fifth Step Up movie in the popping-and-locking franchise — in theaters this weekend, we felt that it was time to relive the past four Step Ups.
Americans Actually Did Want to See Civil War
May 2024Nick Offerman in Civil War. Citizens were curious about what a near-future Civil War in America would look like, it turns out.
An Education Director Lone Scherfig on Adapting Nick Hornby and Casting Carey Mulligan
May 2024Lone Scherfig’s An Education opened just two weeks ago, but was generating Oscar buzz as early as January when its young star, Carey Mulligan, made a splash at Sundance.
Arrested Development Recap: A Fresh Fnke
May 2024Arrested Development A New Start Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Arrested Development A New Start Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vulture is doing fifteen immediate recaps for hard-core Arrested Development fans.
Bates Motel Recap: Broken Glass
May 2024Bates Motel Refraction Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bates Motel Refraction Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vera Farmiga as Norma.
Bethany Joy Lenz Opens Up About Her Decade in a Cult
May 2024Bethany Joy Lenz, best known for playing Haley James Scott on One Tree Hill, is in the process of writing a book about the decade she spent in a cult.
Bethenny Frankel Is Still Married to Jason Hoppy?
May 2024Bethenny Frankel may no longer be a cast member of the Real Housewives of New York, but that doesn’t mean she can’t still make iconic TV.
Billie Eilish Snatches Her Own Wig, Confirming Fan Suspicions
May 2024Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish’s signature green hair will never be forgotten … and that’s because girl’s got it safe on a mannequin head at home.
Books Worth Gifting in 2023 (That Arent Celebrity Memoirs)
May 2024A thoughtful book about something the recipient loves is a classic gift for a reason. But it can be tricky to pick out something that you know they’ll appreciate, that they haven’t already read and re-read.
Booze Up and Watch Death Becomes Her With Me This Weekend
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.
Breaking: Barbie Has Entered the Real World
May 2024Barbie girl. Welcome to Barbie’s Dream House. Did we mention it was a fever dream? Making a Barbie movie is one thing, but making a Barbie movie directed by indie darling Greta Gerwig of Lady Bird and Little Women fame is a completely different beast.
Can Mountain Dew Save the Music Industry?
May 2024On July 12, Chicago retro-rap duo the Cool Kids released their debut album, When Fish Ride Bicycles. On its own, that is not a particularly notable fact.
Cannes Film Festival Removed Activist Protesting Sexual Violence in Ukraine
May 2024Cannes Film Festival removed an activist from Friday’s red-carpet premiere of George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing.
Cars 2 Wins, Despite Breaking Critics Hearts
May 2024This Weekend’s Winners: Cars 2 was No. 1 with a bullet the bad kind, a hollow point fired by critics that pierced Pixar’s creative flawlessness.
Cate Blanchett Lent Her Warm and Sensual Voice to Eyes Wide Shut
May 2024The face behind the voice! For its big ole orgy scene, Eyes Wide Shut needed an American accent.
Charlie Sheens Live Show Is Terrible
May 2024Reports are emerging from Charlie Sheen’s first performances of his Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour — and predictably, it does not look good.
Chris Claremont, Writer of The Wolverines Classic Comics, Critiques the New Film
May 20241982’s Wolverine miniseries, by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller If there’s a prime architect responsible for the success of the X-Men franchise, it’s not Hugh Jackman, whose sixth go-round as the character opened last weekend.
Coachella 2024: Rene Rapp Rewrites TiK ToK with Kesha
May 2024Fans poured out of the Outdoor Theatre audience and into other tents for Reneé Rapp’s Coachella set. Rapp was introduced by the stars and creator of her favorite show, The L Word.
Community Recap: The Inception Games
May 2024Community History 101 Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Community History 101 Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » In September 2001, when Jay-Z dropped his sixth album, The Blueprint, fans and critics alike wondered whether or not Jay had lost his edge.
Copped and Screwed: Do Sleigh Bells Have a Case Against Demi Lovato? A Copyright Expert Explains
May 2024On Monday, Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells accused Demi Lovato of sampling two of their songs without clearance on her new song “Stars.
Deadwood Recap: Means to an End
May 2024Deadwood Deep Water Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Deadwood Deep Water Season 1 Episode 2 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.
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May 2024last night on late night Sept. 10, 2010 Last Night on Late Night: Ali Larter Lewdly Announces She’s Having a Baby BoyPlus, Jon Stewart asks Meghan McCain to pass along a love note drenched in Axe body spray that he wrote to her dad, on our regular late-night roundup.
Dont Call It a Comeback
May 2024Because Deadpool isn’t afraid to hurl some little disses at superhero franchises, here’s what DP himself (Ryan Reynolds) grunts during a grisly torture scene: “So dark!
Edelstein: A Tree-Dwelling Matthew McConaughey Steals the Show in Mud
May 2024The third feature by the Arkansas-born director Jeff Nichols is called Mud and it’s his least muddy: Its storytelling is fluid, its emotion transparent.
Emma Stone Has Created One of Cinemas Most Shamelessly Sexual Characters
May 2024Her character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest movie is her best role yet, one that is primed to earn her another Oscar nomination.
Everybodys Getting Off the Scooter
May 2024Scoot scoot! Hey, kids, get outta here! Scoot! Glinda Girl Ariana Grande, the wickedly talented Idina Menzel, and Demi Lovato, who has no relation to the property Wicked, reportedly join the growing list of clients deserting manager and noted nemesis of Taylor Swift Scooter Braun this year, as first reported by Puck’s Matthew Belloni, Billboard, and The Hollywood Reporter, respectively.
Everything We Know About Beyoncs Renaissance Act II, Yall
May 2024Country roads, take us home. Did you know that country music was spread from a Mexican AM radio station, owned by a guy who wanted to sell his plastic Jesus statues?
Foundation Season-Premiere Recap: The Emperor Has No Clothes
May 2024Foundation In Seldon’s Shadow Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Foundation In Seldon’s Shadow Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Welcome, Vulture readers, to the second season of Foundation!
Gangs of London Recap: Rival Interests
May 2024Gangs of London Episode 4 Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gangs of London Episode 4 Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Everyone involved in the Wallace crime organization speaks a common language: money.
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May 2024vulture lists Mar. 9, 2022 Batman Chins, RankedOf all the men who have become Batman, who filled out the chin area the best?
George Lopez on Playing Himself Again, Online Dating, and the Negativity of Social Media
May 2024In the pilot of George Lopez’s new TV Land comedy, Lopez, he is asked: “Do you ever do anything without your name in the title?
Get Your Panem Name With Our Hunger Games Name Generator
May 2024When The Hunger Games movie came out in 2012, it ushered in the Era of Jennifer Lawrence and helped demonstrate how to turn a hugely popular, but often very dark, YA series into a well-received box-office hit.
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney Flirt in Front of CinemaCon
May 2024“I thought he was Miles Teller until the fourth day of shooting,” Sweeney said with an eye roll onstage while promoting the Sony rom-com Anyone But You.
Hayley Williams Makes Paramores Allyship Loud and Clear Following Josh Farros Anti-Gay Comment
May 2024We don’t know anyone better. Hayley Williams is addressing anti-gay comments made by her former Paramore bandmate and longtime headache, Josh Farro, after they started circulating on Twitter on October 28.
Heres How 11 Comedians Acted at the Popes House
May 2024All of Stephen Colbert’s dreams came true as Pope Francis welcomed him — along with 106 other comedians and comic artists from around the world — to the Vatican for an audience on June 14.
How The Bear Injected Personality Into the Standard Kitchen Uniform
May 2024Cristina Spiridakis and Courtney Wheeler knew exactly what the Original Beef of Chicagoland uniform needed to look like: white shirt, black pants, and comfortable shoes.
How Truth or Dare Came From an Actual Dare
May 2024As Vulture reported last year, the forthcoming body-count romp Truth or Dare was pitched to Blumhouse head Jason Blum by Universal’s co-president of worldwide marketing, Michael Moses, as nothing more than a title.
How Unbelievable Tells a True Crime Story Without Rape Porn
May 2024Merritt Wever and Toni Collette in Unbelievable. If all you know about Unbelievable is that it follows a pair of maverick cops as they try to catch a serial rapist, you might assume it’s just another true-crime story depicting violence against women.
If Johnny Carson Could Retire, Why Cant Kathleen Madigan?
May 2024Kathleen Madigan Kathleen Madigan is an exception. Over the past three decades, comedians just haven’t built and sustained the sort of touring-and-specials business she has without some sort of major TV or movie role.
If You Like Dour British Detective Shows, Watch Collateral
May 2024Carey Mulligan in Collateral. For those who enjoy kicking back and relaxing while dour British women in coats unravel elaborate criminal schemes: (1) So do I, we should hang out sometime, and (2) you should watch Collateral, which debuted on Netflix in the U.
Jaboukie Young-White Won Late Night This Week
May 2024For the past few weeks, most of late night has been on summer vacation. On the plus side, people go to see their families and enjoy outdoor activities.
Jack White, the Highwomen Pay Tribute to Loretta Lynn at the Grand Ole Opry
May 2024Jack White The “Queen of Country” received a royal send-off at the Grand Ole Opry when dozens of musicians gathered to honor Loretta Lynn, who died earlier this month at 90.
Jessie Spano Originally Took Speed, Not Caffeine Pills, on Saved by the Bell
May 2024There’s plenty to remember about Saved by the Bell: the Hawaiian vacation, the Snow White play, the wrestling uniforms. But one moment truly stands above the rest, so much so that we chose its episode, “Jessie’s Song,” as No.
Kelly MacFarland Gets Comfortable
May 2024Standup comedian and long-time improviser Kelly MacFarland is finding the funny in her new life as an “older” suburban stepmom. Her new album, You Woke Up Today!
Kidnap Is a Summer-Doldrums Film That Cant Even Convince Itself It Has a Reason to Exist
May 2024Halle Berry and her red Chrysler minivan. I honestly did not know they made films like Kidnap anymore, and I say that with equal parts admiration and bewilderment.
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May 2024behind the scenes Aug. 15, 2023 Behind the Scenes on Riverdale, in PicturesAs the teen series shot its final episodes, we sent the stars disposable cameras and told them to go nuts.
Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson Are Publishing a Photo Book Together
May 2024Lady Gaga, as photographed by “Uncle Terry.” Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson will publish a 350-photo tome in November titled Lady Gaga, with text from Mother Monster and both black-and-white and color photographs from Richardson.
Lena Dunham Calls Kanyes Famous Video One of the More Disturbing Artistic Efforts in Rec
May 2024Lena Dunham. On Friday, Kanye gave his already-controversial song “Famous” an even more disturbing music video, which re-creates Vincent Desiderio’s Sleep by arranging the naked likenesses of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, George W.
Louis C.K., Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen In for SNL
May 2024Louis C.K. will return to host Saturday Night Live again on March 29, NBC announced today. The musical guest will be Sam Smith, who is making his SNL debut.
Love Story and Whats Up, Doc? Star Ryan ONeal Dead at 82
May 2024Ryan O’Neal, a boxer turned actor with a six-decade career on film and television, died today. He was 82.
Mariah Carey Speaks Out on Her Precious Mustache
May 2024For Mariah Carey, the road to transforming herself into Ms.Weiss, an ally of the struggling protagonist in Precious, was hard — and hairy.
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May 2024first person Feb. 15, 2019 On PEN15, Everyone Is (Refreshingly) a BullyThe excellent mid-season episode, “Posh,” plays like a fable about race in American middle schools.
Milana Vayntrub, AT&T Girl, Pleads for Online Sexual Harassment to Stop
May 2024Actress and comedian Milana Vayntrub, who’s perhaps best known to viewers for playing the perky salesperson “Lily Adams” in AT&T commercials, has issued a plea on social media to stop the online sexual harassment she receives on a daily basis.
Minor Characters in Incredibles 2, Ranked
May 2024From left: Krushauer, He-lectrix, Reflux, Elastigirl, and Voyd. The Incredibles universe is one of Pixar’s greatest accomplishments: The 2004 original was full of memorable supporting characters and winning little moments that make the Parr family’s world feel fully fleshed out.
Modern Love Is All Heart, No Soul
May 2024Anne Hathaway stars as Lexi, a bipolar lawyer with little stability in her life, in episode three of the Amazon anthology series.
Movie Review: Turbo Will Make You Believe a Snail Can Race
May 2024Some years ago, Pixar’s delightful, visually dazzling The Incredibles made a brief bit of noise with a message that seemed to go against the hackneyed, politically correct tone of so much modern kids’ entertainment.
NBC Develops a Bachelor-Survivor Reality Hybrid
May 2024After nearly fading away a few years ago, ABC’s The Bachelor has been reinvigorated as a potent reality franchise for the network, becoming an almost year-round player for the network via spinoffs such as The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad.
Nicole Maines on Being Supergirls Transgender Superhero, The Most Logical Next Step
May 2024Nicole Maines. The range of superheroes that are populating the large and small screens is becoming as rich and diverse in race and gender as it is in creative superpowers, and now actress Nicole Maines is adding TV’s first-ever trans superhero to the cast of the CW’s Supergirl.
Okay, Well, I Cant Stop Listening to the Tenet Soundtrack
May 2024It’s great working music — transforming the most innocuous chore into a zero-sum action movie climax. We know a lot of work goes into the scores for Christopher Nolan’s movies.
Orlando Bloom Thinks Hes Too Old to Reprise 3,000-Year-Old Lord of the Rings Elf
May 2024The OG elf prince who singlehandedly inspired the platinum-blond movement is, sadly, removing himself from the Fellowship. Or rather, Amazon Prime’s Fellowship.
Our Worst Fears Are Realized: New We Are the World Features a Rap Verse
May 2024Our initial reactions to the 2010 “We Are the World” reboot were those of confusion and disdain. We had yet to hear a single note of the song, but something about the session just didn’t sit well with us (Vince Vaughn’s inclusion notwithstanding).
Outlander Recap: The Meddler
May 2024Outlander Untimely Resurrections Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Outlander Untimely Resurrections Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sam Heughan as Jamie.
Outlanders Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan on That Time an Actor Nearly Got Mauled on Set
May 2024Wolves are really hard to handle on set and depict onscreen — just ask the diminishing direwolves of Game of Thrones.
Patrick Stewarts Looking Forward to Trying Mumblecore
May 2024Ever since Patrick Stewart’s first acting gig at the age of 12 — he played the role of “Hotcourt Minor” in a school play — the star has been honing his craft, from experiencing Method acting by watching On the Waterfront to learning how to loosen up in his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Posty Gets Cozy for a Relaxing Tiny Desk Concert
May 2024Grab a bouquet of sunflowers, maybe even light a candle, and set the table; it’s time for a relaxing evening with Post Malone.
Rembert Brown Author Archive
May 2024roundtables Aug. 24, 2016 Is It Okay to See Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation?Supporting black art vs. reckoning with rape allegations.
Reminiscing With Ken Jennings About His Intense FirstJeopardy!Episode
May 2024Jennings’s first Final Jeopardy! answer, which caused a brief bit of panic. Before he became the Jeopardy! GOAT, or the highest-earning game-show contestant of all time, or Vulture’s personal draft pick to become Alex Trebek’s replacement (when the time comes in a million years, that is), Ken Jennings was a humble 29-year-old software engineer from Salt Lake City who hoped he wouldn’t embarrass himself on his first Jeopardy!
Report: Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to Make $1 Million Per Episode for Big Little Lies Seaso
May 2024Get yours. There will be further justice for the best schemers in Monterey. According to The Hollywood Reporter, most of the principal actresses on Big Little Lies will see a considerable pay raise for season two.
Revisiting That Infamous Burning-Car Moment From the Crash Oscars
May 2024When she performed her nominated song “In the Deep” at the 2006 Academy Awards, Kathleen “Bird” York never acknowledged the burning car onstage behind her.
Ritual Healing in Letters From Max and Black Odyssey
May 2024Ben Edelman and Zane Pais in Letters From Max. At the center of the stage during Letters From Max is a half-cylinder with vertical slits along the sides, an object that resembles something between the keep of a Gothic castle and a zoetrope through which you might watch an old bit of animation.
Save Me, Rachel Sennott Coming-of-Age Pilot, Save Me
May 2024Girls and Sex and the City walked so Rachel Sennott could run. According to Deadline, HBO has ordered a comedy pilot from the Bottoms star, which she will write, star in, and executive-produce.
Seann William Scott Looks Back on SNLs Classic Patriotic Shorts Sketch
May 2024Seann William Scott was a guest on last night’s Late Night, and since he and Seth Meyers hadn’t seen each other since he hosted SNL in October 2001, the guys decided to take a look back on a sketch from his episode, and one of SNL’s funniest Will Ferrell sketches ever, “Patriotic Shorts.
See a Sesame StreetWillow Smith Mash-Up, Whip My Hair
May 2024Muppet with different hairstyles + song about hair = mash-up no-brainer. [Videogum] See a Sesame Street–Willow Smith Mash-Up, ‘Whip My Hair’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdhZXy0scSYmJirlaiurrG%2BrKurnZWperi1y6WmsJejorZvtNOmow%3D%3D
See Doctor Whos New Doctor in Costume
May 2024Here’s your first look at Peter Capaldi in costume as the new Doctor on Doctor Who. No scarf, no bow tie, no plaid pants, no hat, no trench coat, no technicolor dream coat — but yes, those are Dr.
See The Great Gatsby Poster
May 2024They’re just pulling out all the stops today, aren’t they? Sources ONTD See The Great Gatsby Poster ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dganyovsSaq2afkanAo8WMqaasrJWne6nAzKU%3D
Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywoodand Fix It
May 2024Brie Larson, left, and Shailene Woodley. Photo: Norman Jean Roy. Styling by SaraJane Hoare; Makeup for Larson by Fulvia Farolfi for Chanel; Hair for Larson by Teddy Charles; Makeup for Woodley by Roxy at the Magnet Agency using Rejuva Minerals; Hair for Woodley by Keith Carpenter at The Wall Group; Sweaters by the Row.
So Skibidi: How Online Were You In October?
May 2024Things are not looking very Christian Girl Autumn. Video: Vulture; Video: equanaaa,yoursisbillie, liaseways, weenreads With a world rocked by international conflict and infested with bedbugs, thank God for Caitlin Covington.
Song Exploder: The Secrets of La La Lands Pivotal Final Number
May 2024This fall, Vulture is partnering with the podcast Song Exploder for a series of episodes on the most interesting film scores of the year.
Stella Zawistowski Author Archive
May 2024Stella Zawistowski is a crossword constructor whose puzzles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other venues.
Taylor Swift Bent the Music Industry to Her Will
May 2024In the 2010s, she became its savviest power player. Photo-Illustration: Ari Liloan and Photos by Emma McIntyre/AMA2019/Getty Images Photo-Illustration: Ari Liloan and Photos by Emma McIntyre/AMA2019/Getty Images In late November 2019, Taylor Swift gave a career-spanning performance at the American Music Awards before accepting the statue for Artist of the Decade.
The 25 Greatest Not Dead Yet! Scares in Movie History
May 2024100 Scares All week long, Vulture is exploring the movies that shaped horror (and our nightmares). 100 Scares All week long, Vulture is exploring the movies that shaped horror (and our nightmares).
The 50 Greatest Star Wars Moments, Ranked
May 2024The Force is strong with these ones. This list was originally published in 2015. We have since updated it to include events from Rogue One, The Last Jedi, Solo, and The Rise of Skywalker, all currently streaming on Disney+.
The 50 Most Definitive Family TV Shows, Ranked
May 2024As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens.
The Black Friday Streaming Deals You Should Know About
May 2024Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. The Curse. ’Tis the season to save a little money.
The Blacklist Recap: May I Be Frank Whaley?
May 2024The Blacklist The Good Samaritan Killer Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Blacklist The Good Samaritan Killer Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Remember those episodes of The X-Files, the ones where they pretty much forgot about the mythology arc and instead focused on an individual “monster/murderer-of-the-week” case?
The Complete Guide to Everything: Summer Movies 2013
May 2024Even though it’s Spring, it’s still time for this Summer’s blockbuster movies to premiere and Tim and Tom are here with their preview.
The Haunting of Hill House: All the Hidden Ghosts You Missed
May 2024The Bent-Neck Lady may be the most terrifying creation in Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, but that particular piece of nightmare fuel is only part of the show’s bigger horror aims.
The Mets Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines Modernism
May 2024“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” on view at the Met. The first thing you’re likely to read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance is that it’s a long-overdue atonement for past sins.
The Most Surprising Stories from the Anthony Bourdain Doc Roadrunner
May 2024“[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered,” Anthony Bourdain wrote in Kitchen Confidential, the book that launched the New York City chef’s career as a globetrotting gastronome taking on the world with wry humor and humanity.
The National Are Now a Parody Act
May 2024Once a cure for melancholy, the National now feel like a cause. A minor chorus of sneers and dismissals has stalked the National on their long slog to mass acceptance.
The Pilot Script Checklist
May 2024As a former comedy agent at UTA and WME, Priyanka represented numerous big-name writers and performers before leaving to start a TV production company with Jack Black.
The Ultimatum: Queer Love Premiere Recap: Shes Like Voldemort to Me
May 2024The Ultimatum: Queer Love Week 1 (Episodes 1–4) Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Ultimatum: Queer Love Week 1 (Episodes 1–4) Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » After making it through only part of the original The Ultimatum, I did not have high hopes for its queer spinoff.
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May 2024theater review Apr. 15, 2024 Look, I Made a Woman: LempickaThe musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
Theater Review: Annaleigh Ashford Is Sylvias Search-and-Rescue Dog
May 2024Sylvia Cort Theatre Robert Sella Matthew Broderick Julie White Annaleigh Ashford Production Credits: Daniel Sullivan (director) David Rockwell (scenic design) Ann Roth (costume design) Japhy Weideman (lighting design) Other Credits: Written by: A.
Theres a Lot of Penis Talk in Howard Sterns Rock Hall Induction Speech for Bon Jovi
May 2024Howard Stern. Last year we had Dave. And now, Howard. Bon Jovi were the first of six artists to be inducted into 2018’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night in Cleveland, and Jon Bon Jovi himself managed to wrangle the famously travel-averse Stern into getting to the Midwest to induct the band.
Theres a Wheres Waldo? Movie in the Works
May 2024Where’s Waldo? Where’s Waldo? is set to become Where’s Waldo?: The Movie, which is to the delight of no one in particular but arrives to the general consensus of “Huh, I guess?
TikTok Users Are Taking the New Voice Filter to the Absolute Limit
May 2024While Elon is making Twitter a pay-for-verification hellscape, TikTok is going weird in a different direction. A new voice filter has come to the app, which allows people to sound like a text-to-speech robot is coming out of their mouths.
Watch Megan Hilty Sing About Being a Manic Cartoon Centaur
May 2024Excited to introduce our main cast!! @KimikoGlenn @meganhilty @JoshRadnor @Parvesh Jessie Mueller, Chris Diamantopoulos @netflix @netflixfamily pic.twitter.com/fcaTbqU5sM
Welcome to Chippendales TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024There’s a lot more to Chippendales than meets the eye candy. This Hulu biographical drama, based on a true story, tells the story of Somen “Steven” Banerjee, the Indian immigrant who chases the American dream by founding a now-iconic male-stripping company.
What Is New York Without a Cabaret Revival Running at All Times?
May 2024Don’t tell mama … Willkommen (to another revival of Cabaret), bienvenue (to another revival of Cabaret), welcome (to another revival of Cabaret).
When American Idol Meets Hair, Its All Groovy, Man Groovy and Naked
May 2024While the American Idol judges are asking current contestants to get emotionally naked for national TV, two old Idol favorites are getting naked, literally, on Broadway.
When Carrie Fisher Hung With the SNL Crowd
May 2024Inside the hard-party days that fueled and finished her friendship with John Belushi. “You’re like me. We’re not like them.
When Does Black Widow Take Place in the MCU Timeline?
May 2024The first new Marvel Studios feature film since 2019 has arrived. And if you’re expecting this movie to continue where other recent MCU offerings like Endgame or WandaVision left off, well, sorry!
Will Cartoonist Julie Doucet Finally Get Her Due?
May 2024Excerpt from Dirty Plotte. This article contains explicit illustrations. Julie Doucet was surprised by the number of penises she received.
With Wonder Woman 3 Canceled, the DC Extended Universe Could Be Very Different
May 2024Earlier this week, the news of impending superhero-franchise doom ripped across Movie Twitter faster than a speeding bullet.
Yapping and Yearning: How Online Were You in March?
May 2024Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Videos: coordown, shorttv, Lovefathermotherblessyou, itsjojosiwa If you’ve recently been punched in the face by a man in New York City, then don’t read this article until your symptoms have abated.
First Vulture Festival Kicks Off With Erykah Badu DJ Set
May 2024party lines May 10, 2014 2:25 pm By Jenna Marotta Share Share Tweet Pin It 12 Photos Photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images The first ever Vulture Festival — a weekend of events starring Parks and Recreation’s Adam Scott, Rufus Wainwright, M.
10 Great Horror Books for Wimps
May 2024Pumpkins are appearing on porches, sweaters are coming out of closets, and scary things are appearing in stores. No, not just stale bags of waxy candy corn: horror books!
3 Great British Baking Show Spinoffs to Watch If Youre Craving More
May 2024Netflix, a streaming service clearly after our hearts, opened its incredibly robust wallet this fall to give us two new seasons of The Great British Baking Show.
6 Billy McFarland Stories That Shouldve Tipped Everyone Off About Fyre Fest
May 2024Billy McFarland. Before Fyre Festival went up in flames, festival co-creator Billy McFarland was attempting to light up the urban upper class with the pseudo credit-card Magnises.
7 TV Comedies You Can Safely Recommend to Your Parents
May 2024Streaming: It’s not just for young people! Many baby boomers were early adopters of Netflix and Roku, and more and more older Americans seem to be filling their golden years with content they find through streaming services.
A Brief History of Popular Nickelback Bullying
May 2024Even if you cannot name a single Nickelback song, you are probably familiar with the Canadian pop-rock band as the punchline to almost every musical joke on the Internet.
A Major Case of the Mondays This Labor Day
May 2024As Vulture’s own Anne Victoria Clark said on Twitter, “Jimmy Buffett dying on Labor Day weekend is the most over summer has ever been.
Adele Sells Jeans Thatll Burn Your Butt and Your Front on SNL
May 2024Beauty hurts. Nobody understands this better than the models for “Ass Angel Perfumed Jeans,” played by Adele and Maya Rudolph in Saturday Night Live’s weirdest sketch of the week.
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Beautiful Nugget Hunters
May 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.
All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Choices Are Made
May 2024All Creatures Great and Small Merry Bloody Christmas Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Merry Bloody Christmas Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh no, I’m going to be such a bummer!
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn on the Legacy of My Dinner With Andre
May 2024A meal worthy of the Criterion treatment. When My Dinner With Andre hit cinemas in 1981, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn were already established figures of the New York theater scene.
Artie Lange vs. Political Correctness
May 2024In his own words, Artie Lange feels like he’s “finally back in the mainstream again.” He’s sober, focused, and currently riding a wave of positive fan feedback after many of his classic bits were recently revisited during Howard Stern’s ten-year Sirius anniversary retrospective.
Below Deck Season-Premiere Recap: New Faces, New Places
May 2024Below Deck Love Never Lasts at the Beach Season 10 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Love Never Lasts at the Beach Season 10 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We have set sail in Saint Lucia aboard the 197-foot St.
Blue Is The Warmest Color
May 2024year in culture 2013 Dec. 8, 2013 David Edelstein’s 10 Best Movies of 2013Her, American Hustle, The Act of Killing, and more.
California Wildfires: Miley Cyrus Loses Her Malibu Home, Kim Kardashian Speaks Out
May 2024The Woolsey-Malibu fire is still raging, and ash is starting to rain down on Hollywood, Silent Hill-style. Deadline and Today are reporting that Orlando Bloom, Lady Gaga, Rainn Wilson, Alyssa Milano, and Martin Sheen have all been evacuated.
Comedy Undercard: Blossom vs. Boy Meets World
May 2024Earlier today, Vulture launched 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.
Dave Recap: Actually Kinda Cute
May 2024Dave Rebirthday Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dave Rebirthday Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week’s episode of Dave ended at a potential point of no return: Dave chose to drum up publicity for Lil Dicky by letting the world believe he was dead for a few days.
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May 2024songs of the week Feb. 14, 2017 8 Best New Songs of the WeekBeyoncé takes a victory lap in spite of the Grammys.
Drake Bell Forgives Rider Strong for Past Defense of Brian Peck
May 2024Update April 7: Drake Bell, who came forward as the victim of Brian Peck in the Investigation Discovery documentary Quiet on Set, has publicly forgiven Rider Strong for writing a letter in defense of Peck.
Drummer Hal Blaine, Known for Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel Songs, Dead at 90
May 2024Hal Blaine. According to Rolling Stone, the family of legendary studio drummer Hal Blaine, born Harold Simon Belsky, announced his passing at the age of 90 via Facebook post Monday.
Edelstein on This Is the End: Friends Dont Let Friends Face the Apocalypse Alone
May 2024Co-directors and co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg evidently had a lot of fun sending up their posse’s star personas and the apocalyptic disaster genre as a whole in This Is the End, and some of that fun is infectious.
Every Keanu Reeves Movie Performance, Ranked
May 2024This article was originally published in 2019 and has been updated to reflect the actor’s most recent work. Keanu Reeves has been a movie star for more than 30 years, but it seems like only recently that journalists and critics have come to acknowledge the significance of his onscreen achievements.
Everything Everywhere All at Onces Stephanie Hsu on Singing Barbie Girl With Michelle Yeoh
May 2024Spoilers follow for the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. No one in Everything Everywhere All at Once is only who they seem to be.
For One Night Only at Lincoln Center: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Scream Throat
May 2024Alex Newell, Jessica Vosk, Edin Espinosa, Noah Galvin, and Chuck Cooper in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Way, way back, many centuries ago … on Monday night at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, a truly and delightfully chaotic cast of Broadway singers took the stage for a one-night-only concert of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Former Felicity Hunk Scott Speedman Is Now Too Old for Shirtless Scenes
May 2024Ageism in Hollywood is even worse than we thought. While discussing his new show Animal Kingdom with Stephen Colbert Monday night, 40-year-old Felicity vet Scott Speedman told a distressing story from the set.
Francesco Pacificos Sharp New Novel Class Takes on Post-Hipster Williamsburg
May 2024For all the moaning about Brooklyn novelists over the past two decades, there’ve been very few novels set in Williamsburg.
Frank Is a Surprisingly Earnest Movie About a Giant Mask
May 2024The strangest thing about Frank, a film which Michael Fassbender spends almost exclusively wearing a giant mask over his face, is how un-strange it is.
Game of Thrones Official Photographer on Her 14 Favorite Behind-the-Scenes Shots
May 2024Helen Sloan isn’t as famous a name to Game of Thrones fans as Emilia Clarke or Kit Harington, but the photographer has played as integral a role in the HBO epic as any of its actors.
Ghostbusters Car for Sale on eBay
May 2024Are you all finished with the Ghostbusters video game but finding that your appetite for all things Ghostbusterian hasn’t quite been satiated?
Here Is the First Jurassic World Poster
May 2024The first teaser poster for Jurassic World has arrived, and it looks an awful lot like the original Jurassic Park posters, albeit absent the color red — T-Swift would not approve — and a new tagline: “The Park Is Open.
Home Sweet Home Alone Wont Leave Home Alone Well Enough Alone
May 2024Remember the cute sidekick from Jojo Rabbit? He can stay home alone now. Feel old yet? Disney+ just dropped the trailer for Home Sweet Home Alone, the first new entry into the beloved Home Alone franchise since a TV movie called Home Alone: The Holiday Heist aired on ABC Family back in 2012.
House of the Dragon Season Two Was Maxs Best Streaming Day Ever
May 2024Season two of House of the Dragon is basically Alicent Hightower asking, “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this princess here fell out?
How Batman Helps Me Survive My Mental Illness
May 2024In addition to being an annus horribilis for much of the country and planet, 2016 was unequivocally the worst mental-health year of my life.
How Does Amazons Picnic at Hanging Rock Compare to the Movie and the Book?
May 2024Amazon’s new Picnic at Hanging Rock mini-series will be most recognizable as an adaptation and expansion of the classic 1975 film by director Peter Weir.
How FXs Versace Created Wardrobes Without the Versace Estates Help
May 2024Penélope Cruz as Donatella Versace. For a show dedicated to one of the world’s most-influential fashion designers, people may be surprised to learn that The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story didn’t get any support from the actual Versace family.
Iger to Remain Top Bob at Disney Through 2026
May 2024Plumes of white smoke emanated from the dining hall at Sun Valley, indicating that a CEO for Disney has been named.
Im Just a Girl Who Cant Say No to Schmigadoon!
May 2024Melissa (Cecily Strong) and Josh (Keegan Michael-Key) arrive in Schmigadoon, a town that’s like if The Good Place were Rodgers and Hammerstein-themed.
In Conversation: Penn Jillette
May 2024Talking magic, truth, and Trump’s alleged Apprentice Tapes. Photo: Bobby Doherty The long and successful career of Penn Jillette, the bigger half (physically and personality-wise) of the magic duo Penn & Teller, itself constitutes a kind of trick.
Is This Your King?
May 2024House of the Dragon’s Tom Glynn-Carney is so good at playing pathetic you almost forget you’re supposed to hate him.
Jackie Fuchs Responds to Joan Jett and Cherie Curries Comments About Her Rape
May 2024Jackie Fox. In the wake of Jackie Fuchs’s damning claim to the Huffington Post that the Runaways’ manager, Kim Fowley, drugged and raped her in front of her bandmates at 16, two former Runaways have pushed back.
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May 2024last night on late night Apr. 13, 2010 Late Night: Response to Conan’s TBS DealPlus Jenna Elfman’s creepy make-out session, on our regular late-night roundup.
Jessica Chastain Has No News About Anything, Okay?
May 2024Looks like Jessica Chastain wants to close the chapter on all the casting theories. A fan recently brought a copy of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo to a performance of Chastain’s Broadway play A Doll’s House.
Jessica Jones Recap: Gone Dark
May 2024Marvel’s Jessica Jones AKA Lotta Worms Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Marvel’s Jessica Jones AKA Lotta Worms Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jess is back where she’s been so many times before: As a suspect, awaiting police questioning down at the station.
Just How Awful Is Adam Sandlers Jill Character in Jack and Jill?
May 2024Adam Sandler’s twin drag comedy Jack and Jill opens today, and the reviews are in: It’s pretty terrible! That was clear from the joy-draining trailer, but what wasn’t clear was just how unpleasant Sandler’s Jill character was going to be.
Kevin Turen, Euphoria and The Idol Producer, Dead at 44
May 2024Kevin Turen. Kevin Turen, a producer known for his HBO series Euphoria and The Idol, is dead at 44.
Kid Cudis MOTM3 Knocks Him Back Down to Earth
May 2024Depending on who you ask, Kid Cudi is either a boundary-breaking figure in hip-hop and fashion or an overrated sidekick who made the most of unusually good connections.
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May 2024vulture lists Sept. 30, 2022 Kings, RankedThere are a lot of kings out there these days, and some of them are even good.
Leaked: Best Coast Not Quite Over Her Ex-Boyfriend
May 2024Best Coast, Crazy for You Official release date: July 27, 2010 You can say this for Best Coast: Unlike so many of her peers in the buzz-band community, it’s hard to walk away from her debut album without a strong opinion one way or the other.
Lets Talk About the Russian Doll Ending
May 2024In the final episodes of Netflix’s Russian Doll, the world starts falling apart. Caught in time loops that reset every time they die, Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) realize that people are disappearing from existence, the world is growing less stable, and they have no choice but to finally confront their buried traumas and the fear that they’re fundamentally unlovable.
Loretta Lynn, Country Legend, Dead at 90
May 2024Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn, whose raw and feminist country songs influenced generations of performers, died at the age of 90.
Love Island Taught Me Everything I Know About the U.K.
May 2024When I moved to London in May, I used to joke that it was just like New York but with weird money, but I quickly found out how naïve I was about my new home.
Merry Celeb-mas, Everybody!
May 2024Hope Santa knows how to work Ticketmaster! So this is Christmas. And what have you done? Well, if you’re a celebrity, you just might have done a Christmas party, then posted about it for all your fans to enjoy.
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May 2024Michael Pietsch - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: the take July 31, 2007 Keith Richards’s Memoir Sells to Little, BrownLittle, Brown announced today that they were the winning bidders for Keith Richards’s memoir, shelling out a reported $7.
Monarch TV Episode Recaps & News
May 2024Dottie Roman and Albie Roman are at the top of a country music family dynasty. They’re like royalty — monarchs, if you will.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith Is a Straight Shot of Movie Star Charisma
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.
My Tummy Hurts and I Blame Wiz Khalifas Ghost Kitchen Restaurant
May 2024Objects in the picture do not taste as they appear. I should have known something was a little off about Wiz Khalifa’s delivery-only restaurant HotBox by Wiz when the delivery app said they were located at 120 E.
Myhala Herrold Knows Shes Good
May 2024The Industry star is just as ambitious as her junior-banker character. The big difference? “I don’t act crazy.” Photo: Ashley Peña.
New Girl Recap: Sayonara, Sammy
May 2024New Girl Goosebumps Walkaway Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » New Girl Goosebumps Walkaway Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Max Greenfield as Schmidt, Lamorne Morris as Winston, Jake Johnson as Nick.
New on Amazon Prime Video: January 2024
May 2024Each month, several films and TV shows are added to Amazon’s library; we recommend the titles worth watching. For more streaming guides and Amazon Prime picks, head to Vulture’s What to Stream hub.
No, That Was Not Jon Snows Ass on Game of Thrones
May 2024Thanks to a cover story from this month’s GQ, we’re going to have to make some sort of annotation to our Whose Butt Have We Seen on Game of Thrones?
Oh Good, Were Getting Cat Person Discourse Again
May 2024Cast your mind back to December 2017. Ronan Farrow was releasing new stories about the sexual predators of Hollywood seemingly every few days and also still dating Jon Lovett.
On the Late Bob Elliott, and Remembering the Longest, Deepest Laughter of My Life
May 2024Winner of the Most Beautiful Face Contest. I have never laughed harder than I did on the night of June 2, 1984, and I doubt I ever will.
One Piece Recap: The Next Generation
May 2024One Piece (Live Action) The Chef and the Chore Boy Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One Piece (Live Action) The Chef and the Chore Boy Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Eiichiro Oda was 21 when he wrote the one-shot manga that would later become One Piece, which was published just a year after Oda’s idol and biggest influence, Akira Toriyama, finished his epic manga Dragon Ball.
Original Van Halen Front Man David Lee Roth Is Retiring
May 2024David Lee Roth, the original lead singer of the rock band Van Halen, will conclude his career this January.
Outlander Recap: Desperate Times
May 2024Outlander Perpetual Adoration Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Outlander Perpetual Adoration Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Never count Outlander out.
Paramount Getting to Know You Want a The King and I Remake
May 2024The King and I has always been your favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about cultural dissonance, sexual tension, and a ballet adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Parks and Rec on Vulture: How Well Do You Know Rashida Jones?
May 2024It’s week three of Parks and Recreation making its temporary home at Vulture on Thursday nights while it waits to go back on the air on NBC.
Parks and Recreation Recap: Mona Lisa and Porn Shops
May 2024Parks and Recreation Bailout Season 5 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Bailout Season 5 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week in Pawnee, we see mortal enemies become friends, friends — friends who recently were walking down the aisle, arm-in-arm, like the father and daughter figures they are!
Pat Sajak Will Take a Final Spin on Wheel of Fortune
May 2024Can we buy more time, Pat? Ooowahoorahoorahoorahoh! Sorry, that was just the sound of us crying about Pat Sajak leaving Wheel of Fortune after next season.
Queen Is the Music-Catalogue Sale Champion
May 2024Queen. Time for the accountant to go ga ga: Queen has sold their music catalogue to Sony for $1.
Queer Eyes Jonathan Van Ness on Gay of Thrones, Hair Care, and Self-Love
May 2024“I’m so obsessed with the length of your hair,” Jonathan Van Ness says to me when I meet him for coffee one morning in January.
Rihanna, Sam Smith, Shamir, and More Artists React to the Untimely Death of SOPHIE
May 2024SOPHIE in 2019 At 4 a.m. on January 30 in Athens, Greece, artist, DJ, and experimental pop producer SOPHIE died at the untimely age of 34, following an accident.
Ryan Murphys Hollywood Is a Dreamland, for Better or (Mostly) Worse
May 2024Raymond (Darren Criss) and Jack (David Corenswet) have big Hollywood dreams, but they can’t get their feet in the door until they put different body parts somewhere else.
Steve Little Walks Us Through His Top 5 Eastbound & Down Episodes
May 2024In the book Poking a Dead Frog, Adam McKay talks about the types of characters he and Will Ferrell have been most often drawn to over the last 20 years: “They have no skills whatsoever, yet they’re completely entitled.
Stockard Channing Answers Every Question We Have About Practical Magic
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. Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t.
Superboy and Marian the Librarian Will Take Over Sweeney Todd
May 2024Nips out. Attend the tale of some of our brightest and shiniest Broadway actors dirtying themselves up for a chance to take a crack at a Sondheim classic.
Swarms Heather Simms Thinks Detective Greene Is Still Looking for Dre
May 2024Whether you blazed through all seven episodes of Swarm or caught wind of the spirited online chatter, you surely know one thing: the Prime Video limited series is a rollercoaster ride sure to induce a handful of Gurrrl, what the fuck?
T.I. Knows Way Too Much About His Daughters Hymen
May 2024Someone give this man a sex-ed class. Maybe T.I.’s been getting too many parenting ideas from The Handmaid’s Tale.
Take a Video Tour of Machine, a Steampunk Horror Show
May 2024Time-travel through the cretaceous, Nazi Germany, and Jack the Ripper–era London in “Machine,” a performance piece that, per the creators, is “a steam punk horror show we built and performed in our garage” for the horror magazine Fangoria.
Taylor Kitsch to Break Bad for the Action-Thriller American Assassin
May 2024Taylor Kitsch is coming back, everyone, and this time he’s putting on his villain hat. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kitsch will star opposite Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton in an adaptation of Vince Flynn’s American Assassin novel.
The 25 Most Essential Chicago Movies
May 2024The release of Steve McQueen’s masterful Widows this week got us thinking about the long history of movies that have used Chicago as more than a mere backdrop.
The Backlash Came for Drew Barrymore
May 2024After Drew Barrymore crossed the picket line, the daytime TV host faced a unique wave of scrutiny. Why? As basically every media-interested person and her mother now knows, the talk show The Drew Barrymore Show is now back in production even though both WGA and SAG-AFTRA are still on strike.
The Boys Season Finale Recap: Masters of the Universe
May 2024The Boys You Found Me Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Boys You Found Me Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Showrunner Eric Kripke returns to direct a strong season finale for The Boys, a show already renewed into a second season by Amazon.
The Complete History of Keshas Legal Fight Against Dr. Luke
May 2024The battle dates back to 2014 with no end in sight. One of the biggest stories in pop music in the past ten years could just as easily have occurred at any given time in the history of the music industry: A young female pop star takes her Svengali-like big-name boss to court in a fight for her freedom.
The Menu Gets That Fine Dining Is a Cult
May 2024Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. Occasionally, it is necessary to convene a conversation between Vulture writers to discuss an important and timely issue in culture.
The Midnight Club TV Episode Recaps & News
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The OA: Part II Recap: Maniac Mansion
May 2024The OA The Medium & The Engineer Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The OA The Medium & The Engineer Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You don’t acclimate to The OA’s universe.
The Prescient Celebrity Obsession of Being John Malkovich
May 2024I have been to the dark side and back! I have seen a world that no man should see! —John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Stinky Situation
May 2024The Real Housewives of New York City Remember Your Blue Stone Manners Season 12 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City Remember Your Blue Stone Manners Season 12 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Strap in and get ready for 1,500 words about Ramona Singer pulling a turd out of a toilet with her bare hands and laying it on the toilet seat, because that happened in this episode and it’s all I want to talk about until December 31st when we can finally put this hellscape of a year in its grave where it belongs.
The SNL Library Is Coming to Yahoo in September
May 2024Yahoo! announced today that they’ve obtained rights to the Saturday Night Live archive from 1975 to 2013 and they’ll begin streaming sketches from the show’s 38-year history in September.
The Walking DeadRecap: Gut Up
May 2024The Walking Dead The Rotten Core Season 11 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead The Rotten Core Season 11 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Two in a row.
The Walking Deads Glenn Is the Best Boyfriend in the Zombie Apocalypse
May 2024Glenn! This post was originally published on October 26, 2015. Spoilers ahead for the season-seven premiere of The Walking Dead.
These Are the Drugs Influencing Pop Culture Now
May 2024An updated guide to the culture of intoxicants. Many critics consider Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in 1821, to be the first explicit exploration of the creative process and drugs.
These New American Hustle Posters Are Amazing
May 2024Could we be any more excited for David O. Russell’s American Hustle? Not after seeing these new posters, which have all of the movie’s leads (Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, and Jennifer Lawrence) in disco gear beyond suitable for Halloween costume imitation.
This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: A Show All About Law & Order: SVU
May 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.
Tim Heidecker Wants All Your Terrible Saturday Night Live Puns
May 2024Tim Heidecker on Office Hours. If you’re a fan of Saturday Night Live and excruciating puns, Tim Heidecker has created a new Twitter craze that’s right down your alley.
Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Amy Schumer Casually Give the Middle Finger to
May 2024Inside Amy Schumer returned for a third season last night, and in addition to its smart send-up of Friday Night Lights and rape culture, there is a sketch in which Schumer randomly stumbles upon a picnic attended by the holy trinity of Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Patricia Arquette (as one does).
Todd McFarlane (Still) Answers to No One
May 2024“Why do they let me set foot in this place?” Todd McFarlane asks from behind a small table in a booth at the toy industry’s premier trade show, Toy Fair.
Top Chef Serves Up Chaos Menu
May 2024Would you care for a steep overhead shot of the judges that shows us more of the table than their faces?
Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Whole New Show
May 2024Top Chef The Good Land Season 21 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Top Chef The Good Land Season 21 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Does Top Chef: Wisconsin feel desperate?
Tove Lo Is the Alt Pop Queen (of Having Her Name Mispronounced)
May 2024Tove Lo has joined the illustrious club of celebrities — Rihanna, Chrissy Teigen, Lindsay Lohan, and Ariana Grande among them — who have lowkey given up on getting people to pronounce their names correctly.
Travis Barker Is Feeling Much Better
May 2024Update, Monday, July 4 at 7:56 p.m.: Travis Barker has recovered… enough to return to social media, at least.
Travis Scott Is Raging Into Oblivion
May 2024Travis Scott is a salesman, a purveyor of sought-after T-shirts, Jordans, Chicken McNugget body pillows, albums, and concert tickets.
Ugly Betty: Why Well Be Wearing a Burka Tomorrow
May 2024Ugly Betty East Side Story Season 1 Episode 23 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Betty with Daniel Meade, sporting a shiner courtesy of violent drug thugs.
Under the Dome Recap: Ever Been to a Planetarium?
May 2024Under the Dome The Fourth Hand Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Under the Dome The Fourth Hand Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The day begins with Barbie — one of many people trapped within a town-size, missile-proof dome — grumbling that the idea of a black rhythm shaker egg inside a mini-dome sounds “kinda out-there.
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May 2024the industry Aug. 5, 2008 Jackie Chan Is Moving in Next DoorBasically, um, Jackie Chan is a spy who gets asked to babysit his neighbor’s kids and must fight enemy agents when one of those kids accidentally downloads a secret code.
We Asked a Gyno About WAP
May 2024“Men are constantly bragging about how hard their dicks are and how long they are, but women don’t get to brag about how wet they are.
What Its Like to Be a TV-Comedy Creator in 2023
May 2024Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?
What Naya Riveras Glee Songbird Performance Meant
May 2024I spent my first year of college living in two places at once. The first was the top bunk in a small room with two sets of stacked beds and three other women I’d been randomly assigned as roommates.
Whats Up With Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumperts Messy Divorce?
May 2024The couple that caused widespread bi panic after starring in the Flashdance-themed music video for Kanye West’s 2016 song “Fade” is splitting up for good.
Where Does Great British Baking Shows Noel Fielding Get His Snazzy Shirts?
May 2024Custard pies and meringue cakes are oozing rampant in this season’s Great British Baking Show, but, let’s face it, the real snack has nothing to do with three increasingly difficult challenges faced by the bakers: It’s Noel Fielding’s shirts.
Whoopi Goldberg Returns to The View After Two-Week Suspension
May 2024Whoopi Goldberg Update: Monday, February 14, at 12:30 p.m.: Whoopi Goldberg has returned to The View after a two-week-long suspension over her controversial Holocaust-related comments.
Why Anthony Hopkins Won Best Actor
May 2024Anthony Hopkins in The Father. They thought Chadwick Boseman was going to win. That’s the only explanation for what happened at Sunday night’s already infamous Oscars finale.
Why You Cant Stop Saying Thats That Me, Espresso
May 2024Can’t sleep? Blame espresso. No, not the coffee, Sabrina Carpenter’s breezy new single. Since the pop singer dropped “Espresso” last month, its grammatically incorrect hook — “That’s that me, espresso” — has taken over pop fans’ brains.
Winning Time Recap: Rebuilding
May 2024Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty The Second Coming Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty The Second Coming Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Only one team gets to win the NBA championship each year.
Witch Week In Toto
May 2024In TV, movies, and real life, women have been at the forefront of the year’s biggest stories — so this Halloween season, we looked at pop culture’s most wicked depiction of female power.
You Can Now Watch Emily Blunt Actually Move As Mary Poppins in This New Motion Poster
May 2024Emily Blunt is Mary Poppins in the upcoming sequel, #MaryPoppinsReturns. The brand new film opens in theatres December 2018. #D23Expo pic.