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  • Every Jennifer Love Hewitt Client List Outfit

    June 2024

    questionable fashion March 11, 2013 11:00 am By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 99 Photos Photo: Lifetime Jennifer Love Hewitt’s sex-worker drama The Client List returned last night for its second season.

  • A Look Back at the Original About Last Night

    June 2024

    Unless you are president of the Rob Lowe fan club, your opinion of the 1986 movie About Last Night is probably either 1) Oh yeahhhh, that was a movie; or 2) Wait, that was a movie?

  • A Trauma Plot That Refuses the Obvious

    June 2024

    Post-Traumatic, Chantal V. Johnson’s debut novel, introduces its heroine as a seemingly capable, self-assured 30-something with a laser-focused sense of justice.

  • Antonio Banderas Reflects on His History with Dirty Movies

    June 2024

    Antonio Banderas calls from a car on his way to the airport, and by the time he has to hang up, he tells me the pilot of his plane is yelling at him to turn off his phone.

  • Are You Watching the Freddie Highmore Doctor Show or the Matt Czuchry Doctor Show?

    June 2024

    This winter, your local broadcast TV network would like you to tune into their show about a young, attractive, white male doctor who goes against tradition and upsets the rules of the hospital in the process.

  • Being Mary Jane - Vulture

    June 2024

    returning favorites Feb. 3, 2015 Rejoice: Being Mary Jane Is BackWhy you should be watching BET’s addictive soap. By Margaret Lyons

  • Boardwalk Empire Recap: Losing Their Religions

    June 2024

    Boardwalk Empire Under God’s Power She Flourishes Season 2 Episode 11 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Boardwalk Empire Under God’s Power She Flourishes Season 2 Episode 11 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh, hello, payoff episode.

  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: Heist Heist Baby

    June 2024

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween IV Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Brooklyn Nine-Nine Halloween IV Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Joe Lo Truglio as Charles, Dirk Blocker as Hitchcock, Andy Samberg as Jake, Joel McKinnon Miller as Scully, Melissa Fumero as Amy.

  • Carey Mulligan on Sexism, Feminism, Pay Gaps, and Jennifer Lawrence

    June 2024

    When Carey Mulligan first heard of the movie Suffragette, she dismissed it. Speaking with Deadline, she said, “I naïvely had this idea it was tea-drinking ladies chatting, but by page three I was so invested and shocked by all the things that these women did.

  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriends Darryl Is TVs Most Darling Bisexual

    June 2024

    Cuteness. Something delightful is happening on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Rebecca’s bumbling, mustachioed boss, Darryl Whitefeather, and White Josh, a member of Josh Chan’s entourage, are dating.

  • Dear TV Networks: Dont Fire Your Secret Twitter-Troll Henchmen

    June 2024

    Man with trauma from war. The most beautiful thing about lawsuits is mostly unrelated to the lawsuit itself: all the stupid stuff that we, the public, get to learn about the private goings-on about those involved.

  • Eddie Van Halen Could Even Turn a Burger Into a Rock God

    June 2024

    Burger or guitar hero? I think we all know the answer. “Everybody Wants Some!!” might not be the best Van Halen song ever recorded, but it is a very Van Halen song.

  • Every Barbra Streisand Movie Performance, Ranked

    June 2024

    The grace, the chutzpah, the voice … the nose. A star was born on April 24, 1942, perhaps the greatest star there ever was.

  • Ezra Koenigs Netflix Anime Series With Jaden Smith Looks Exactly As Bonkers As That Combination o

    June 2024

    Netflix’s Ezra Koenig-produced, Jaden Smith-starring anime series Neo Yokio has accomplished the rare achievement of appearing to be just as bizarre as it sounds.

  • Five More Things J.K. Rowling Should Regret About How Harry Potter Ended

    June 2024

    51883026JS002_harrysix Over the weekend, author J.K. Rowling admitted that she regrets pairing off Hermione and Ron in Harry Potter. No kidding, J.

  • Glasgows Willy Wonka Flop Is Getting the Musical Treatment

    June 2024

    When life gives you meth lab memes, make a musical? It’s been less than a month since Glasgow’s Willy Wonka “immersive” experience went viral for being so underwhelming that children were left in tears and some parents called the police.

  • Hear Tina Fey As a Suburban Mom With Mighty Literary Aspirations

    June 2024

    Rarely are short stories quite as satisfying as when George Saunders smooshes together scathing social commentary with dark humor and an undercurrent of human fragility.

  • How Jai Paul Reshaped Popular Music

    June 2024

    The simplified Jai Paul narrative reads like a moralistic fairy tale: A miraculously talented singer appears out of thin air with songs like nothing anyone has heard before.

  • How the Dishy Documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Got Made

    June 2024

    Scotty Bowers. Regardless of how much you know about classic Hollywood, the new documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood has seemingly set out to upend it.

  • How The Loudest Voices Actors Compare to Their Real-Life Counterparts

    June 2024

    Left, Russell Crowe, Russell Crowe’s facial prosthetics; Right, Roger Ailes. Per its title, Showtime’s The Loudest Voice is far from subtle.

  • Is This What Heterosexuality Is?

    June 2024

    This is my first time watching Love Is Blind. I know, I know, I’m wildly behind and it’s been wildly embarrassing.

  • J.R. Smith Beats Up Man Who Allegedly Smashed His Car Window During L.A. Protest

    June 2024

    In a video obtained by TMZ, former Cleveland Cavalier and current NBA free agent J.R. Smith can be seen repeatedly kicking someone he claims smashed his car window during Sunday’s protest in Los Angeles, punching him once when the man gets to his feet and runs away.

  • Jersey Shore Family Vacation Recap: The Worlds First Gay Guido

    June 2024

    Jersey Shore Family Vacation The Designation Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Jersey Shore Family Vacation The Designation Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » DJ Pauly D.

  • Jimmy Kimmel on His Brooklyn Shows, Jay Lenos Burn, and Beards

    June 2024

    Brooklyn Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back home. Starting Monday night, the ABC late-night host will stage Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • Jurassic World Review: One of the Most Exciting Movies About People Running Away From Stuff Ever

    June 2024

    “These people, they never learn,” says the bearded dinosaur-rights counterculture type in the Jurassic World theme-park control room when a genetically modified and relentlessly evil super-dinosaur gets loose and devours a bunch of paddock supervisors and soldiers and then makes a beeline for the 20-thousand-plus guests in the main sector.

  • Last Man on Earths Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Working With Will Forte and Making a Cable Show

    June 2024

    Phil Lord and Chris Miller The influence of executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Last Man on Earth is instantly apparent, as you realize the name of Will Forte’s character, Phil Miller, is a composite of their names.

  • Loki Recap: Wait, Did We Miss Something?

    June 2024

    Loki Breaking Brad Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Loki Breaking Brad Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a strong-ish premiere, Loki’s second season finds itself in a strange place.

  • Luke Perrys Most Essential Beverly Hills, 90210 Episodes

    June 2024

    Luke Perry. Dylan McKay was never supposed to be a regular character on Beverly Hills, 90210. But take one look at the guy in his first few episodes of the show and you can see why he became an integral part of the series.

  • Mark Ruffalo and Mark Ruffalo Will Play Twin Brothers in HBOs I Know This Much Is True

    June 2024

    One of two Mark Ruffali. Finally, charming, handsome Hollywood heartthrob Mark Ruffalo will share the screen with a scene partner equal to his talents, also Mark Ruffalo.

  • Michael Alan Connelly Author Archive

    June 2024

    2013 tony awards June 10, 2013 Tonys in Review: Broadway Gets KinkyThe ceremony featured its usual mix of wonderful performances and cringe-worthy moments.

  • Movie Review: The Dictator Is a Fantastic Farce

    June 2024

    With the title character in The Dictator’s frequent appearances in a military uniform and a fur-ball beard, Sacha Baron Cohen sets us up for another piece of guerrilla clowning along the lines of Borat and Bruno.

  • Ozark Recap: Finding That Spark Again

    June 2024

    Ozark Book of Ruth Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ozark Book of Ruth Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Things are getting scarier on Ozark.

  • Prince Had a Very Prince Reaction to Being Forced to Share a Bathroom With Justin Timberlake

    June 2024

    Prince. Today would’ve been Prince’s 60th birthday, and to celebrate, Variety spoke to several of his collaborators to reminisce about his funniest moments.

  • RuPauls Drag Race: All Stars Season-Finale Recap: And So It Ends

    June 2024

    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Grand Finale Season 8 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Grand Finale Season 8 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 8 has ended, and what we all expected to happen … happened.

  • S.E. Hinton: No, The Outsiders Didnt Have Any Gay Lovers

    June 2024

    S.E. Hinton and her book. It’s fall, and that means the school library is definitely open, and middle-school students across the country are reading the classic young-adult book The Outsiders by S.

  • Stephen Baldwin Tries to Clear Up That Restore Stephen Baldwin Video

    June 2024

    When Restore Stephen Baldwin — the meme-tastic video and charity that equated Stephen Baldwin to Job and asked us to “restore” the born-again Christian by donating money to him, thus proving the glory of God — started circulating on the Internet, it raised some questions besides, “Is there a person, place, or thing it would be more ludicrous to compare to Stephen Baldwin than Job?

  • Terra Nova - Vulture

    June 2024

    tv guidance June 23, 2011 Fox Announces Its Fall Premiere Dates’Bones’ won’t be here till November, but ‘Glee’ and ‘The X Factor’ start in September.

  • The Grammys Were Just a Lady Gaga Meet and Greet

    June 2024

    Collab? The Grammys should rebrand as what they actually are: Lady Gaga appreciation night. The singer performed a tribute to Tony Bennett, who was absent from the festivities amid his ongoing battle with Alzheimer’s.

  • The Magician Resists the Shallow Gestures of the Hollywood Biopic

    June 2024

    Thomas Mann called his fifth novel Doctor Faustus. Read a certain way, it was a power move — the author’s way of asserting himself as Germany’s greatest living writer, the heir to Goethe.

  • Theater Review: A Christmas Story The Musical Is a True Gift

    June 2024

    A Christmas Story A Christmas Story — first a radio tale, then a book, then a movie, now a Broadway musical — is a plump turducken of holiday nostalgia: memories stuffed in memories stuffed in memories, with each generation adding a new layer.

  • This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Gottfried and Weird Al Deliver a Punch

    June 2024

    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.

  • Tropic Thunder - Vulture

    June 2024

    the industry Nov. 4, 2010 Industry Roundup: Miley, P.I.Plus: Joan Allen will team up with Dustin Hoffman on HBO. By Avi Zenilman

  • Watch Communitys Gillian Jacobs Take the Ultimate Emoji Test

    June 2024

    Gillian Jacobs is an emoji enthusiast. She often accents her tweets with those tiny little graphics, from simple smiley faces to pizza to piles of cartoon dung.

  • Watch Mickey Guyton, BRELAND, and Gladys Knight Perform at the CMT Music Awards

    June 2024

    Gladys Knight graced the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, performing “Friendship Train” with Mickey Guyton and BRELAND. After Guyton and BRELAND performed “Cross Country” as a duet, Ms.

  • Watch Rick Astley Audition to Be the New Morrissey

    June 2024

    They say when an old supreme dies (or gets canceled), a new one rises. Morrissey has made a great argument for the need for a new Morrissey.

  • Were Still Getting Woodstock 99 Wrong

    June 2024

    Woodstock 99 attempts to trace the tributaries drizzling fuel on the festival’s inferno, but it’s more notable for being the rare music documentary that doesn’t really seem to care for much of the music it’s covering.

  • What Is True Detective Trying to Tell Us This Week?

    June 2024

    This week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country leans further into the supernatural elements of Ennis, Alaska, or what Chief Liz Danvers would describe as that “voodoo, E.

  • What We Learned From Cissy Houston on Oprah

    June 2024

    Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, has written a book that comes out this week, tied to the first anniversary of Houston’s death.

  • Why Michael Hobbes Wont Tell You Youre Wrong Anymore

    June 2024

    Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?

  • Will Zadie Smith Ever Feel Free?

    June 2024

    Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith attends dinner parties. A few of them are glimpsed in her new collection of essays and criticism, Feel Free.

  • 7 Marvel Easter Eggs in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    June 2024

    As both a celebration of life and a space through which to explore grief, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever tells a largely self-contained story.

  • A Director Once Interrupted Filming to Tell Debra Messing That Her Nose Was Ruining His Movie

    June 2024

    Debra Messing. Accounts of sexism in Hollywood are as plentiful as they are unsurprising, but the source of Debra Messing’s unease gets extra notice for the sheer impatience of his attack.

  • A Month Into Investigation, Kathy Griffin Was Reportedly Interviewed by Secret Service for More Than

    June 2024

    Kathy Griffin. When Kathy Griffinfirst accused Donald Trump of “trying to ruin [her] life forever” for releasing that notoriously gory photograph, most viewed it as an additional gaffe on the comedian’s part; a poorly conceived attempt to redirect the conversation away from how she’d been near universally condemned for crossing the line.

  • A Most Violent Year Trailer: Spend New Years With Llewyn Davis and Jessica Chastains Bangs

    June 2024

    Do you want to do something different with New Year’s Eve this year? Forget the noisemakers, party hats, and Prosecco (Oh, you actually do Champagne?

  • A Murder at the End of the World Recap: Smart Little Girl

    June 2024

    A Murder at the End of the World Chapter 3: Survivors Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A Murder at the End of the World Chapter 3: Survivors Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » By the end of the first two episodes of A Murder at the End of the World, we understand how the show’s structure will be.

  • Aarp Movies For Grownups Awards

    June 2024

    movies fantasy league Jan. 11, 2024 Good Night, OppyAwards season is officially here, time to start raking in the points By Joe Reid

  • Alexis Bledel on Her Hardest Scene to Shoot for The Handmaids Tale

    June 2024

    Spoilers ahead for The Handmaid’s Tale. Though she’s best known for playing Rory Gilmore, on one of the chattiest shows on TV, Alexis Bledel is almost preternaturally suited for the quieter, more elusive Ofglen, Offred’s fellow handmaid and errand partner on The Handmaid’s Tale.

  • All 41 Broadway Theaters, Ranked

    June 2024

    Imagine a Broadway theater. Imagine sitting in that Broadway theater. Imagine sitting in that Broadway theater before the lights go down, when there is nothing happening onstage yet, nothing to do but thumb through your Playbill and take in your surroundings.

  • American Horror Story - TV Episode Recaps & News

    June 2024

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  • American Horror Story Recap: In the Cards

    June 2024

    American Horror Story Bad Fortune / The Body Season 11 Episodes 5 - 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story Bad Fortune / The Body Season 11 Episodes 5 - 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A question, critique, and compliment that’s been posed-slash-levied-slash-given to this season of American Horror Story: Does this really feel like a season of American Horror Story at all?

  • An Interview With Mac Miller

    June 2024

    Over the course of two days, music critic Craig Jenkins spoke with Mac Miller in New York for a profile.

  • Annabella Sciorra - Vulture

    June 2024

    the industry Mar. 15, 2018 Luke Cage Just Cast Its New Villain for Season TwoShe’s coming all the way downtown to raise hell.

  • Ball Nogues - Vulture

    June 2024

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  • Based on the Search Party Red-Band Trailer, Thomas Middleditch Deserves a Golden Globe for How Much

    June 2024

    It’s true. You can’t wear a man’s cocaine around. Ya boys Adam Pally, T.J. Miller and Thomas Middleditch shot the Hangover-esque Search Party way, way  back in 2013, but Focus World will be releasing the film May 13.

  • Below Deck Mediterranean Recap: Mean Girl

    June 2024

    Below Deck Mediterranean Take It to the Bridge Season 8 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Mediterranean Take It to the Bridge Season 8 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Another week, another episode revolving around Tumi and Natalya’s unnecessary and miserable feud.

  • Best Meme Halloween Costumes 2021: Zola, The White Lotus, E.T. and More Internet Gems

    June 2024

    The internet has spoken, and the results are in: Here are the best meme, internet, and/or pop-culture costumes for the 2021 Halloween season.

  • Bette Midler to Write Childrens Book About the Wind Beneath the Hot Ducks Wings

    June 2024

    The Divine Ms. Midler and the Divine Mr. Mandarin. Well, well, hello, ducky! Bette Midler announced on Thursday she’ll be publishing a children’s picture book with Random House next year about, wait for it, New York’s hot duck.

  • Better Call Saul Recap: Family Matters

    June 2024

    Better Call Saul Pimento Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Better Call Saul Pimento Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Brotherly betrayal.

  • Buffy Sainte-Maries Indigenous Ancestry Called Into Question

    June 2024

    Update, Friday, November 24 at 9:15 p.m.: Buffy Sainte-Marie is again pushing back against an investigation that suggested that she fabricated the Indigenous ancestry she has claimed throughout her career.

  • Chanel West Coast Breaks Out of the Ridiculousness Marathon

    June 2024

    After 30 seasons, Chanel West Coast is stepping down from the red couch and into a viral moment of her own: leaving Rob Dyrdek’s Ridiculousness.

  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Recap: Over Her Dead Body

    June 2024

    Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Burial Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Burial Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nothing good can come from magical meddling in the mortal world, as Sabrina is experiencing firsthand with the Weird Sisters using their powers to cause a mine collapse on the Kinkle boys.

  • Comedy Books - Vulture

    June 2024

    best of 2018 Dec. 12, 2018 The 10 Best Comedy Books of 2018Featuring Chris Gethard, Nell Scovell, The Simpsons, The Kids in the Hall, and an intimate look at Robin Williams.

  • Comedys Toughest Gig: The World of Stand-up Sign-Language Interpreters

    June 2024

    ASL interpreter Denise Herrera works a Leslie Jones performance. Once he noticed an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter parked close to him, Robin Williams, like many other comedians, had a habit of getting crude with them.

  • Conan OBrien Makes a Very Important Announcement About His Hair

    June 2024

    Yesterday, TBS rocked the world of Conan O’Brien fans by announcing some big news: In June 2021, O’Brien’s show Conan will end its run on television, marking the end of the longtime late-night host’s 28-year reign.

  • Cougar Town Recap: Adventureland

    June 2024

    Cougar Town Season 2 Episode 21 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cougar Town Season 2 Episode 21 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Just like we knew it would, the Cul de Sec Crew heads to Hawaii for the season finale, and a very sweet and satisfying one at that.

  • Could Polaroids Beloved Type 55 Film ReturnOnly Better? One Man Wants to Make It Happen

    June 2024

    Shot on Polaroid’s now-discontinued Type 55 film, by Joshua Black Wilkins. In the mid-1950s, Ansel Adams was perhaps the most famous photographer alive, and he had a request.

  • Cracker Barrel Restocks Duck Dynasty Merch

    June 2024

    It has been clear throughout the entire Duck Dynasty scandal that one group in particular deserves an apology. That group, of course, is made up of those Cracker Barrel patrons who, for a short period of time, were unable to purchase Duck Dynasty items at the homestyle restaurant chain this weekend.

  • Crime-Solving Cats And Cozy Mysteries Are A Publishing Juggernaut

    June 2024

    The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY The day after my daughter was born, she was whisked off to the NICU after nurses noticed a funny little wheeze every time she took a breath.

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm - TV Episode Recaps & News

    June 2024

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  • David Blaines Attempt to Shoot Himself in the Mouth Went Awry, Making You Wonder If You Even Unde

    June 2024

    In case you’re wondering why “David Blaine” is currently trending, the answer is, of course, “a horrible reason.” David Blaine’s special Beyond Magic re-aired this past weekend on ABC and, in case you missed it, the magician recounts how his attempt to safely shoot himself in the mouth turned out to be, unbelievably, not very safe at all.

  • Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda Are Starring in Book Club, a Movie About Reading Fifty Shades of Grey

    June 2024

    Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton. Get ready for a matinee date with your favorite grandma. Deadline reports that Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, and Candice Bergen are all set to star in Book Club, a movie about a group of friends who discover that “inspiration can come in the most unlikely of places” after they start reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.

  • DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, and Jeremih Remind You to Be Thankful in New Music Video

    June 2024

    As DJ Khaled’s new album rollout marches on, we have yet another music video from Khaled Khaled, this time featuring Lil Wayne and Jeremih on a sentimental track called “Thankful.

  • Doug Stanhope, His Mom, and Me

    June 2024

    In a bit from his 2004 DVD, Deadbeat Hero, Doug Stanhope describes his mother as a chain-smoking, hateful woman. “She’s like me without jokes,” he says.

  • Emma Roberts Thank U Nexts Evan Peters for Garrett Hedlund

    June 2024

    Emma Roberts and Garrett Hedlund. Thought she’d end up with Evan, but he wasn’t a match! Emma Roberts and Evan Peters have ended their engagement, sources have told Us Weekly.

  • Even Morgan Wallen Fans Hate Morgan Wallen Now

    June 2024

    This guy. Update, April 25: Morgan Wallen’s litigious fans have decided to settle it on the streets. Brandi Burcham’s class-action lawsuit against the country singer for canceling his concert just before going onstage was voluntarily dismissed on April 25, according to documents obtained by Vulture.

  • Every Mr. Show Sketch, Ranked From Worst to Best

    June 2024

    It is unbelievable kismet that, a week after Saturday Night Live aired what many believe to be one of its worst episodes in years, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are returning tomorrow with Netflix’s With Bob and David, four more episodes of sketch comedy in the vein of their beloved 1990s HBO program Mr.

  • Every Pop-Culture Reference Kanye West Has Ever Made

    June 2024

    It’s early June 2013, and Kanye West is anxious. He’s in Switzerland, of all places — not where most expectant fathers are when their nine-months-pregnant fiancées are home in Los Angeles, at least one layover away.

  • Falling Down the Five Nights at Freddys Rabbit Hole

    June 2024

    A deeply complex lore is waiting — if you can get past the jump scares. Photo: Scott Cawthon At first glance, you will likely not mistake Five Nights at Freddy’s to be the work of an arthouse auteur.

  • Fat Ham Aims to Put the Ha in Hamlet

    June 2024

    Helen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019.

  • Fwends Forever: How Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne Became BFFs: A Timeline

    June 2024

    In January of last year, Miley Cyrus tweeted a birthday message to Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne. “happy birthday to one of my favorite artists OF alllllll time @waynecoyne,” it read, followed by a string of celebratory emoji.

  • Good Omens Neil Gaiman Knows How Much You Ship Aziraphale and Crowley

    June 2024

    Good Omens creator Neil Gaiman doesn’t read fan fiction— for legal reasons, okay! But he is aware of how much the fans love Aziraphale and Crowley, so much so that they were ranked twice (No.

  • Good One Podcast: How Natasha Leggero Found Her Muse at Burning Man

    June 2024

    Burning Man is not only for VCs and Rosario Dawson. It also attracts people who spend the year looking forward to doing drugs while covered in dirt.

  • Gossip Girl Recap: The Debarted

    June 2024

    Gossip Girl The Debarted Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Gossip Girl The Debarted Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » In ancient cultures, the wolf stands for many things: hostility, aggression, and ferocity, to be sure.

  • Here Are the Full Lyrics to A Star Is Borns Shallow

    June 2024

    A Star Is Born. On the afternoon of Thursday, September 27, 2018, you may have felt a great disturbance, when millions of voices suddenly cried out in jubilation that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” had finally been released.

  • How Coffee Inspired Chelsea Peretti to Make an Instant-Classic Comedy Concept Album

    June 2024

    Coffee queen Chelsea Peretti. No one likes coffee more than Chelsea Peretti. David Lynch comes close, but only Peretti could have written the ridiculous banger “Coffee Crankin’ Thru My Sys” from her podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti.

  • How Game of Thrones Is Not Like a Porn Set, According to a Porn Star Who Was on Game of Thrones

    June 2024

    Samantha of House Bentley. As part of its series of as-told-to interviews with adult actresses, Cosmo has an essay by Samantha Bentley, who, besides her award-winning work for Harmony Films, Brazers, and Pure XXX, has also played a prostitute in two episodes of Game of Thrones.

  • If Youre Going to Do Nicholas Sparks Melodrama, The Best of Me, at Least Do It Right

    June 2024

    As presented in the opening scenes of the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Best of Me, Dawson Cole, the film’s male protagonist, is the Nicholas Sparks–iest character you could imagine.

  • In Praise of Dougie Jones, the Biggest Tease in the New Twin Peaks

    June 2024

    Damn fine coffee. Twin Peaks is primarily associated with two people, one real and one fictional: co-creator David Lynch and FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), the series’ noble, eccentric protagonist.

  • Its No Wonder That Cannes Fell for Anora

    June 2024

    There are wild moments in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner that feel like real life letting itself in through the door and upending the narrative décor.

  • Janelle Mone on The Electric Lady, Working With Prince, and Performing at Skywalker Ranch

    June 2024

    Janelle Monae. The Electric Lady, the title of Janelle Monáe’s second album, at once captures the X factor of the Atlanta singer: her charismatic presence, her inimitable style, her wild talent.

  • Jennifer Beals onThe L Word: Generation Q,Jennys Death, and Her Own Sexuality

    June 2024

    Bette Porter in her power suit and cuff links. If you’re incredibly straight or haven’t watched TV in 15 years, the name “Jennifer Beals” probably makes you think ofFlashdance, her star-making role as a steel-mill-dwelling dancer with a perennially ripped sweatshirt.

  • Jeopardy! Isnt a Team Sport, Right?

    June 2024

    From left, Larissa Kelly, David Madden, Brad Rutter, and Alex Trebek. For a certain kind of game-show nerd, high-level Jeopardy!

  • Joan Jett Loved Working With Michael J. Fox

    June 2024

    Rock legend Joan Jett stopped by the Sundance Vulture Spot with her longtime collaborator Kenny Laguna to chat about their documentary Bad Reputation, which chronicles her incredible 40-year music career.

  • Job Pays Off and Clocks Out

    June 2024

    Sydney Lemmon and Peter Friedman in Job. In a 1926 essay called “How Should One Read a Book?

  • Julia Roberts Is Starring in a Biopic About a Mom Framed for Drug Crimes, So You Can Add That to You

    June 2024

    If you’re a true-crime buff or otherwise obsessed with the most horrifying stories the internet has to offer, you’ve probably already read Christopher Goffard’s six-part Los Angeles Times series on the strange case of Kelli Peters, a mother of an elementary-aged daughter who was framed for drug possession by the parents of another student.

  • Late Night Finally Tackles President Bidens Debate Disaster

    June 2024

    Following June 27’s presidential debate, Jon Stewart hosted a live episode of The Daily Show, reacting in real time to President Biden’s incompetent debate performance and its implications for American democracy.

  • Lessons in Chemistry Recap: Rising to the Occasion

    June 2024

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  • Lessons in Chemistry Series-Finale Recap: Chain Reaction

    June 2024

    Lessons in Chemistry Introduction to Chemistry Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Lessons in Chemistry Introduction to Chemistry Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Lessons in Chemistry has very much been a show about people asking questions.

  • Lets Talk About the Boldly Fatalistic Ending of A Quiet Place: Day One

    June 2024

    The most daring thing about the film might be the fact that it follows a character whose fate is effectively sealed from the start.

  • Lets Talk About the End of Love

    June 2024

    Gus (Paul Rust) and Mickey (Gillian Jacobs): So happy together? Love is a series about two untrustworthy people attempting to build a trusting relationship with each other.

  • Madeline Zima Didnt Know She Was Auditioning for the Twin Peaks Revival

    June 2024

    Spoilers ahead for the Twin Peaks premiere. Minutes into Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival, we’re given a key mystery that’s based less in surrealism and more in high technology: We’re introduced to a young man (Ben Rosenfield) being paid to do nothing but watch a glass box in a New York City warehouse 24/7 and report if anything appears in it, and an infatuated young woman (Madeline Zima) who manages to sneak into the top-secret project when a guard disappears from his post.

  • Maggie Gyllenhaals The Kindergarten Teacher Is an Electrifying, Empathetic Cringefest

    June 2024

    At first glance, Lisa and her husband aren’t quite as irretrievably screwed as so many other stagnating Sundance couples before them — they still make eye contact on occasion, nobody’s cheating or drinking too much.

  • Michael Fassbender Is Embarrassed About His Magneto Performance, and Really Wanted Out of Steve Jobs

    June 2024

    The best part of attending an actor’s career retrospective is getting to see a famous person forced to rewatch his own work in front of an audience, in real time.

  • Movie Review: Lily Collinss Eyebrows Steal Mirror, Mirror

    June 2024

    Cursed with an excruciatingly boisterous trailer that screams “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter,” the Snow White comedy Mirror, Mirror turns out to be not that terrible — or maybe it’s that the terrible first half hour wears you down so much that the rest seems relatively pleasant.

  • Netflix Got Beyoncs Homecoming by Paying So Much Money

    June 2024

    The streaming wars come to concert docs. Among the big questions raised by Beyoncé’s Homecoming — aside from, you know, how does she do it all?

  • Never Have I Ever Season-Finale Recap: Should I Stay or Should I Go

    June 2024

    Never Have I Ever …lived the dream Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Never Have I Ever …lived the dream Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We’re finally here — the last day of Devi’s junior year.

  • Patti LaBelle Rushed Off Milwaukee Stage Due to Bomb Threat

    June 2024

    First the cue cards, now this: Patti LaBelle just can’t catch a break around Christmastime, can she? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Miss LaBelle was rushed off stage due to a bomb threat at a Saturday concert in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

  • Paula Abdul Is Suing Nigel Lythgoe for Sexual Assault

    June 2024

    Paula Abdul and Nigel Lythgoe. Update, January 3: Nigel Lythgoe is now facing another lawsuit by two former contestants on the 2003 show All American Girl.

  • Paula Poundstone Is an Embarassing Mom, Does Air Spanking to Rap Music

    June 2024

    And Paula Poundstone’s son is all, “Mooooom, stoooooop!” Paula Poundstone Does ‘Air Spanking’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dhZnyxrdSlmGaon6q7pb%2FTqKWeZZSksrR5wKKpZquglrustc2gZaGsnaE%3D

  • Read a Leaked CIA Document (That Is Actually Part of a Viral Campaign for The Dark Knight Rise

    June 2024

    “The document is a transcript between a CIA official and a militia unit, concerning possible asylum for the Doctor, who apparently fears for his life.

  • Rihannas New Te Amo Video Basically Lost Footage for I Kissed a Girl Video

    June 2024

    Earlier this week, Rihanna taught us how to rock in the “Rock Star 101” video. Today, Rihanna teaches us how to almost make out with models!

  • Rosala Gives Travis Scott a Spanish Lesson for New Song TKN

    June 2024

    The world is changing all around us, but some things remain constant, among them Rosalía’s ability to release a total club banger every few months.

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    June 2024

    the industry Aug. 1, 2008 Nicolas Cage to Get in an Actual CagePlus: NBC buys a detective show from Dick Wolf, but it’s not ‘Law & Order: Anything.

  • RuPauls Drag Race Season-Finale Recap: Long May She Reign

    June 2024

    RuPaul’s Drag Race Grand Finale Season 12 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race Grand Finale Season 12 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Four months ago, if you told me that one of my favorite seasons of Drag Race would take place in quarantine with a contestant disqualified for sexual misconduct, I would have said: “Aw, thank you!

  • S Cellor Collection - Vulture

    June 2024

    S Cellor Collection - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Nov. 4, 2015 Through the Lens of Persol x Wim WendersTo celebrate its legendary Cellor frame, eyewear label Persol enlisted award-winning director Wim Wenders to make a short film at the iconic Teatro No5 at Cinecittà studios in Rome.

  • Saddam Hussein Was Apparently Quite the Mary J. Blige Fan

    June 2024

    No hateration or holleration here. According to the new book The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid — written by former Army infantry officer Will Bardenwerper, who interviewed numerous members of the squad tasked with guarding and protecting Hussein — one of Hussein’s greatest pleasures in the weeks leading up his execution was listening to the catchy, soulful tunes of R&B goddess Mary J.

  • Salma Hayek Tells Oprah She Felt Ashamed for Waiting to Tell Her Weinstein Story

    June 2024

    Salma Hayek. Salma Hayek revealed the story behind her New York Times op-ed “Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too” during a live taping of Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations on Wednesday.

  • Seitz: Stop Whining, Emily Owens M.D.!

    June 2024

    Emily Owens M.D. (CW, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.) is the latest in a seemingly endless parade of TV shows and movies convinced that high school is the most developmentally important part of anyone’s life and that high school itself is a useful metaphor for understanding the world.

  • Seth Meyers, Melanie Lynskey, and More Support WGA Amid Strike-Authorization Vote

    June 2024

    Melanie Lynskey and Seth Meyers. As members of the Writers Guild of America are preparing to strike beginning on May 2, many TV makers are advocating for writers’ demands.

  • Slow Horses Recap: Checkmate

    June 2024

    Slow Horses Cleaning Up Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Slow Horses Cleaning Up Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If Slow Horses weren’t such a briskly entertaining piece of escapism, then it read as an almost unfathomably bleak assessment of the spy game.

  • SnowfallRecap: Dreams and Nightmares

    June 2024

    Snowfall The Iliad: Part I Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Snowfall The Iliad: Part I Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In The Iliad, war is a game marked by fate and fury.

  • SnowfallRecap: Two Weeks Notice

    June 2024

    Snowfall Departures Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Snowfall Departures Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Breakups are never easy.

  • Star Trek Discovery Recap: Have You Tried the Fear Ganglia?

    June 2024

    Star Trek: Discovery Vaulting Ambition Season 1 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Discovery Vaulting Ambition Season 1 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It should be said at the outset that I have never been any good at puzzles or riddles, that I have failed to guess the murderer in every single mystery novel I have ever read, including The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and the number of times I have written “MAN, I GUESS” in my recap notes has doubled every week over the past three weeks, so tonight’s episode, which is just chockablock with twists and the promise of more twists to come as we enter the home stretch of the season, was not designed for me.

  • Sylvester Stallone - Vulture

    June 2024

    the industry Mar. 31, 2021 The King of the Geezer TeasersInside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many of Hollywood’s most bankable stars have found lucrative early retirement.

  • Tekashi 6ix9ine Posts Homophobic Joke, Lil Nas X Responds with the DMs

    June 2024

    Let him move his bang so he can read that again. How could anyone forget Lil Nas X’s very clear warning: “Can’t nobody tell me nothing” from “Old Town Road”?

  • The Collected Wisdom of Duck Dynastys Uncle Si

    June 2024

    Phil, Jase, Willie & Si Robertson of the A&E series DUCK DYNASTY Photo Art Streiber/A&E ©2013 A&E Networks A&E’s hit series Duck Dynasty heads into season three as the most watched reality show on cable, solidifying America’s recent obsession with redneck culture (see Honey Boo Boo, Buck Wild, Moonshiners, Myrtle Manor, Swamp People, Swamp Pawn, etc.

  • The Decagon House Murders and 8 Other Reads I Cant Get Out of My Head

    June 2024

    To commemorate the one-year anniversary of lockdown, this month’s theme is “insomnia.” I’m not a doctor (uh, obviously) but I’ve discovered a few tips and tricks over the past year of nonstop anxiety.

  • The Founders Director Wants You to Disagree About How Much of a Jerk Ray Kroc Is

    June 2024

    The primary image in the advertising for The Founder has been that of Michael Keaton, as Ray Kroc, standing in front of a symbol that nearly every American can recognize: the Golden Arches, a crowning bit of ‘50s iconography that functions as a shorthand for McDonald’s.

  • The Golden Bachelor Series-Premiere Recap: Gerrypilled

    June 2024

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  • The Golden Wedding Recap: True Love, Brought to You by Amazon

    June 2024

    The Golden Bachelor The Golden Wedding Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Golden Bachelor The Golden Wedding Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Like every little girl, I’ve long dreamed of the perfect wedding — not my own, to be clear, but that of a 72-year-old man from Indiana.

  • The Longform Episodes We Wont Forget

    June 2024

    Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: Table Talk

    June 2024

    The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Partings Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Partings Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s war!

  • The New Trailer for Seth MacFarlanes A Million Ways to Die in the West Has a Bunch of New J

    June 2024

    Here’s the brand new red band trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s new movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West. The trailer features a bit of the same footage from the last one  but with a bunch of new jokes and scenes, plus more hot air balloons and horse shit.

  • The Office Recap: Trivia

    June 2024

    “I can’t…not touch it…” It’s been five weeks since the last new episode of The Office, and it looks like the break was just what the show needed to get out of its mid-season rut.

  • The Rachel Weisz Gay Index

    June 2024

    Like all good things, the cinematic oeuvre of Rachel Weisz has only gotten gayer over time. Her magnificent face, visceral intelligence, and fierce self-possession meant that in her early films, Weisz often played the unattainable object of some undeserving straight man’s yearning: Think of Hugh Grant pretending to have an entire son just to seduce her in About a Boy, ex-con Alessandro Nivola stalking her in I Want You, Paul Rudd donating himself to her as an experiment in heterosexuality in The Shape of Things.

  • The Reviewers Are In

    June 2024

    Our two new drama critics share and compare their enthusiasms. Don’t miss any theater news or reviews this fall: Sign up for Stage Whisperer, our theater newsletter relaunching in October.

  • The Smiles A Light for Attracting Attention Peers Into an Ugly Future

    June 2024

    I used to think Thom Yorke was singing about some far away but perfectly plausible future, mapping out the logical conclusions our worst tendencies can carry us to, wielding loaded allegories like a warning the way a dystopian-fiction writer does.

  • The Twin Ballads of Earl Sweatshirt and Saba

    June 2024

    Earl and Saba. “If all of this can go bad, then what’s the point of tryin’?” Saba wrote the song “Soldier” during a trip back home to Chicago in November 2020, reconnecting with the compatriots the rhymer and vocalist came up with over the preceding decade, where collectives like his Pivot Gang, Savemoney (Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa), Only the Family (Lil Durk, King Von), and Glo Gang (Chief Keef, Fredo Santana) proved to the rest of the country, once again, what Windy City hip-hop was capable of.

  • The Walking DeadRecap: Walking in The Spiderwebs

    June 2024

    The Walking Dead On the Inside Season 11 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead On the Inside Season 11 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The spider’s web in the opening scene serves as a fitting metaphor for an episode about captivity — Connie trapped in a house of horrors, and Daryl all tangled up in the schemes of the Reapers.

  • The Wheel of Time Series-Premiere Recap: The Chosen Ones

    June 2024

    The Wheel of Time Leavetaking Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Wheel of Time Leavetaking Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » There’s a Monty Python bit from Holy Grail — and forgive my presumptuousness, but there once was a time where if you were a person familiar with The Wheel of Time, the chances were good that you knew your Monty Python — where a sparkling-clean King Arthur trots past the heavily soiled peasantry.

  • Theres Still Only One Great Indiana Jones Movie

    June 2024

    Maybe Hollywood can’t quit Indiana Jones because the magic of his first adventure still hasn’t been recaptured. Not by a long shot.

  • TheSci-FiAuthor Reimagining Native History

    June 2024

    As Rebecca Roanhorse’s work has been praised in the literary world, it’s drawn criticism in some circles. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photo courtesy of Rebecca Roanhorse Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photo courtesy of Rebecca Roanhorse This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.

  • Theyre Finally Ready to Graduate

    June 2024

    Riverdale began as a dark spin on Archie Comics. It’s ending as one of the weirdest teen soaps ever made.

  • This is a Gay Test: How Online Were You in March?

    June 2024

    Score yourself on a scale from “Representative Richard Hudson’s home Wi-Fi network” to “JasperTok.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Videos: amour.jordynn, jasper.the.doll, octopusslover8, Romy Mars How deep on Reddit did you get trying to figure out who octopusslover8 is?

  • This Startling Clip From Elle Proves Why Isabelle Huppert Is an Oscar Contender

    June 2024

    This year’s potential Best Actress lineup is already bustling, but after watching Isabelle Huppert’s astonishing work in Elle, it’ll be hard not to root for the never-nominated French icon to make it into the final five.

  • Tracy Letts on The Lovers, Sobriety, and His Marriage to Carrie Coon

    June 2024

    Tracy Letts is living out the ambitions of both of his parents. His mother, Billie, and his father, Dennis, were both English professors.

  • Trainwreck - Vulture

    June 2024

    vulture lists June 15, 2020 Judd Apatow’s Best and Worst Movies, RankedFrom Year One to this week’s The King of Staten Island.

  • Truckers Michelle Monaghan on Getting Her License

    June 2024

    Michelle Monaghan has acted — often as the Girl — opposite some of the biggest actors of our time (Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 3, Matt Damon in The Bourne Supremacy, Richard Gere in Unfaithful, Robert Downey Jr.

  • True Blood Recap: The Least Believable Whorehouse in San Francisco

    June 2024

    True Blood Whatever I Am, You Made Me Season 5 Episode 3 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » True Blood Whatever I Am, You Made Me Season 5 Episode 3 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the not-at-all-patented “True Blood Bonkers Index.

  • True Detective Recap: The Great Escape

    June 2024

    True Detective Church in Ruins Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » True Detective Church in Ruins Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Frank says a lot of silly things, but he speaks the truth when telling his fallen comrade Stan’s son Mikey that “Sometimes a thing happens, splits your life.

  • TV Episode Recaps & News

    June 2024

    Episode 22 You Can’t Take Command Episode 21 A Few Good Women Episode 20 First Lady Sings the Blues Episode 19 I’m Just A Bill Episode 18 Honor Thy Father Episode 17 Put a Ring on It Episode 16 It’s Good to Be Kink Episode 15 The Testimony of Diego Muñoz Episode 14 The Lawn Chair Episode 13 No More Blood Episode 12 Full Circle Episode 11 Where’s the Black Lady?

  • Vanderpump Rules Reunion Recap: Let Sleeping Worms Lie

    June 2024

    Vanderpump Rules Reunion Part 1 Season 10 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules Reunion Part 1 Season 10 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There has been nothing ordinary about this season of Vanderpump Rules, which, for my money, has been one of the best seasons of reality television of all time.

  • Vultures 2024 Summer Pop-Culture Gift Guide

    June 2024

    Sun’s out, gifts out. That’s the motto at Vulture dot-com, even if it doesn’t rhyme. Between dads, grads, poolwarmings (like a housewarming but wetter), Leo birthdays, and summertime self-care, there are any number of reasons for a thoughtful prezzie.

  • Watch a Long-Lost Threes Company Pilot With a Hilariously Different Theme Song

    June 2024

    You’ve heard of Garfield minus Garfield, but what would Three’s Company have been like without Chrissy and Janet? Or with M*A*S*H legend Larry Gelbart at the helm?

  • William Friedkins Final Film Makes You Question Everything

    June 2024

    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial sends you out interrogating your beliefs — about war, about service, about madness, even about right and wrong.

  • You Hurt My Feelings Makes a Big Deal Out of Very Little

    June 2024

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn’t quite mesh as an author upset that her husband doesn’t like her work. You Hurt My Feelings is about middle-aged adults who stumble their way into a surprisingly immature argument.

  • Zack Snyders Rebel Moon Is a Visionary Slog

    June 2024

    Michiel Huisman and Doona Bae in Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire. Crumbling under the weight of its own visionary grandiosity, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is a series of amazing-looking sets and costumes and effects looking for a story, characters, emotion — really, anything that might raise the pulse.

  • 10 Indie-Sleaze Movies to Revisit This Valentines Day

    June 2024

    Gwyneth Paltrow Indie sleaze is back from the dead. Resurrected by COVID disillusionment and nostalgia for a pre-Trump era, indie sleaze is a fuzzy term illustrated through a collection of products and notable figures, including “It” girls Sky Ferreira and Alexa Chung.

  • 9 Songs That Wouldnt Exist Without SOPHIE

    June 2024

    SOPHIE’s influence was quite literally all over the place. SOPHIE’s sudden death at 34 this past weekend shed light on the producer’s wide catalogue, with even longtime fans finding new credits by the pioneering pop artist.

  • A Case About Andy Warhols Prince Artwork Is Headed to the Supreme Court

    June 2024

    In the words of Prince, why should they wait any longer? Per the New York Times, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a copyright case about Andy Warhol’s Prince artwork.

  • A New Cable Channel Wants to Make Christmas Movies Safe Again

    June 2024

    GAC’s Much Ado About Christmas. The holidays are (almost) here — and so is the ever more competitive war for Christmas movie viewers.

  • Aaaaand Honey Boo Boo is Now a Comic Book Character

    June 2024

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  • Alexandra Molotkow Author Archive

    June 2024

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  • All the References to the Coen Brothers Fargo in Fargos Second Season

    June 2024

    Mike Bradecich, left, William H. Macy, right. Although this season of Fargo is set eight years before the film that inspired it, there are still plenty of references, allusions, and homages to the 1996 film.

  • All the Solar Power Lyrics Thatll Make You Go Oh, Lord(e)

    June 2024

    Girl, get in. We’re vibing. It’s been a long four years, everyone, but now it’s time to chilllllll.

  • American Crimes Lili Taylor on Diversity on TV, Beyonc, and Why She Believes in the Youth

    June 2024

    The 2016 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 27.

  • An Oral History of MADtv, the Sketch Show That Never Quite Changed Comedy

    June 2024

    Last month, the CW turned heads with an announcement that they were resurrecting MADtv, the saucy sketch comedy series that ran on Fox for an astonishing 14 seasons before it was canceled, in 2009.

  • Barry Jenkins and Issa Lpez Are Teaming Up 4 True Detective Season 4

    June 2024

    After three long years, a new case is officially on the way. Per Variety, a fourth season of True Detective from Barry Jenkins and Issa López is in development at HBO.

  • Be Kind Rewind Might Just Be a Film Critic

    June 2024

    Cloris Leachman. Be Kind Rewind feels like an anachronism. A YouTube channel focused on classic Hollywood films, it features video essays that are smart, well scripted, and modern in tone, all while keeping both of its eyes trained on the past.

  • Big Love Recap: Loose Ends and Stray Bullets

    June 2024

    Big Love Exorcism Season 5 Episode 9 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Big Love Exorcism Season 5 Episode 9 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before a story resolves, it must climax.

  • Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson Ride a Unicorn Into Friendship: A Timeline

    June 2024

    Brie Larson’s directorial debut Unicorn Store — a magical-realist tale about one girl’s journey to buy a real live unicorn — has arrived on Netflix.

  • Chance the Rappers Coloring Book Is a Mixtape About His Hometown, So I Listened to It in Mine

    June 2024

    On Moreland Avenue, in Atlanta. On Monday morning, I woke up at my mother’s house, in my late-teen bed, in Atlanta.

  • Che Diaz to Depart Cult-Hit Podcast X, Y, and Me

    June 2024

    Breaking news from podcast land: Che Diaz, founding co-host of the cult-hit sex-and-relationships podcast X, Y, and Me, is stepping away from the show to dedicate more time to their television career.

  • Comedy Central to Release Mitch Hedberg: The Complete Vinyl Collection in November

    June 2024

    Mitch Hedberg’s entire discography is getting a special vinyl release this fall. Comedy Central announced today that the limited edition box set Mitch Hedberg: The Complete Vinyl Collection will be available on Friday, November 4th.

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm Recap: The Punning Shucker

    June 2024

    Curb Your Enthusiasm The Shucker Season 9 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Curb Your Enthusiasm The Shucker Season 9 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Larry has generally been able to rely on Leon as both muscle and wingman, whether it’s recovering a Joe Pepitone jersey, jolting Michael Richards out of a funk, or creating a distraction with little more than two hands and a pickle jar.

  • Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawkes First Film Together Since Training Day Will Be a Western

    June 2024

    They’re back! It’s been nearly 15 years since Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke played cops with conflicting ideas about how to lay down the law in 2001’s Training Day.

  • Did Frank Ocean Even Want to Be at Coachella?

    June 2024

    Frank Ocean, not at Coachella. Frank Ocean appeared to arrive at Coachella on Sunday without a plan. Three years after his 2020 headlining appearance was canceled owing to COVID — and six years after his last official performance — Ocean put on the kind of show where it felt as if he wanted to be anywhere else.

  • Eastbound & Down Recap: How Not to Have a Creative Collaboration

    June 2024

    Eastbound & Down Season 2 Episode 4 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, that got ugly fast.

  • Ebiri: There Are Two Movies in Metallica: Through the Never, and One Is Fantastic

    June 2024

    To quote the friend I saw it with, Metallica: Through the Never is “metal as fuck.” A 3-D concert movie that’s presumably hoping to wash the residues of the One Direction 3-D concert movie off of America’s IMAX screens, it’s loud, it’s dark, it’s full of elaborate, creepy imagery, and it’s hard to take seriously.

  • Every Bobs Burgers Thanksgiving Episode, Ranked

    June 2024

    There’s no denying that Bob’s Burgers does holiday episodes especially well. Whether it’s a gingerbread-house massacre or a genuinely spooky haunted house, the Fox animated series has consistently churned out memorable holiday episodes year after year.

  • Every Will Ferrell Movie, Ranked

    June 2024

    This post was originally published in 2015. We have updated it to include Ferrell’s recent work, including this week’s Strays, as well as two earlier voice-only roles that had previously been omitted.

  • Extremely Wicked Director on How Ted Bundy Seduced His Victims

    June 2024

    The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.

  • Gaspard Ulliel, Csar Winner and Moon Knight Actor, Dead at 37

    June 2024

    Gaspard Ulliel, the French actor who plays Anton Mogart (alias Midnight Man) in the upcoming Marvel series Moon Knight, has died at the age of 37.

  • Has George Clooney Really Been Cutting His Hair With a Vacuum Cleaner for a Quarter Century?

    June 2024

    On Sunday, George Clooney opened up to CBS Sunday Morning about his career, his personal life, and his (alleged) preferred method of cutting his hair himself: with the ’80s vacuum haircut attachment Flowbee, perhaps best known via Wayne’s World’s parody of the iconic informercial product.

  • Heidi Klum Comes Back From the Dead for Her Annual Halloween Video

    June 2024

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Heidi Klum (@heidiklum) Halloween has come early this year, and it’s because Heidi Klum said so.

  • Here Are All the References in Ready Player One

    June 2024

    Spoilers below for Ready Player One. Ready Player One is the apotheosis of a rising trend in film that we might refer to as “recognition cinema” — the phenomenon of trying to please an audience by including brief references to other pieces of fiction.

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    June 2024

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  • How Elementarys Joan Watson Became the Most Stylish Detective on TV

    June 2024

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  • How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Changed the Animation Game

    June 2024

    Spider-Man, Spider-Man, he does whatever a spider can — but with the web-slinger’s latest feature outing, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, an elite creative team set out to redefine just what a spider could do.

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    June 2024

    Streamliner Presented by Streamliner Presented by The promise of streaming is that, with a decent internet connection and enough cash to pay for a monthly subscription fee, you can essentially watch whatever you want, whenever you want it.

  • Hugh Jackman Gave Amanda Seyfried a Lap Dance

    June 2024

    Amanda Seyfried and Hugh Jackman. “Tonight is a special night, and I am going to sing one song,” Hugh Jackman said last night at Porter House, following an early screening of Les Miserables attended by Academy members and the Hollywood Foreign Press.

  • Jenna Fischers First Paid Acting Job Was In a Sex-Ed Video

    June 2024

    For many actors, their origin story is one of years spent toiling as an anonymous extra or background player or someone smiling at the camera in a cereal commercial.

  • Jennifer Coolidge Wants to Fight Mia Farrow

    June 2024

    Twins. Gay people have so much to be thankful for in the annals of pop-culture history. We’ve got Bette Davis and Joan Crawford facing off both on- and off-screen in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

  • Jenny Slate Will Get Over Her Stage Fright in a Netflix Comedy Special

    June 2024

    Jenny Slate Comedian, Big Mouth star, consistently hilarious late-night guest, and newly engaged person Jenny Slate has a new accomplishment lined up at Netflix: her very first comedy special.

  • Jerrod Carmichael Is Adapting Dapper Dans Upcoming Memoir for the Big Screen

    June 2024

    Dapper Dan. Influential hip-hop fashion icon Dapper Dan is getting the biopic treatment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, comedian and producer Jerrod Carmichael has signed on to adapt the tailor’s upcoming memoir, which is scheduled to be released in 2019.

  • Jersey Shore Family Vacation Recap: Cruising for a Bruising

    June 2024

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  • John Oliver Breaks Down How Alex Jones Markets Himself As an Alt-Right Witch Doctor

    June 2024

    When Alex Jones isn’t selling his Bill Clinton rape whistle (“Let Bill know that you’re in the crowd and that you know the truth”) or a “9/11 Was an Inside Job” bumper sticker, he’s pushing pills.

  • Johnny Knoxville Is Still Processing Reboots Demise

    June 2024

    “An actor’s show getting canceled isn’t the end of the world. But that said, we did love it and were hopeful it was going to go on.

  • JT Gets DWI

    June 2024

    Justin Timberlake. What’s Justin Timberlake bringing back this time? Stars from the aughts with DWIs. The category of “those other boys who don’t know how to act” now includes him.

  • Lets Revisit the 41 Other Barbie Movies

    June 2024

    Barbie is everything. If the marketing for a certain summer blockbuster hasn’t made that clear enough, the bright-blonde, slender-framed, blue-eyed doll is, and she has been able to do anything she (well, Mattel execs) puts her plastic mind to.

  • Lets Talk About T.I.s Apology Video and Its Horrible Production Quality

    June 2024

    Iggy Azalea’s friend T.I. It’s quite a landmark year for black cinema, from the box-office juggernaut of Straight Outta Compton, to Screen Gems’ continued success with African-American-led thrillers like The Perfect Guy, to Ryan Coogler’s upcoming Creed.

  • Look at Me Like a Human Boy!

    June 2024

    An oral history of Clifford, the 1994 cult comedy about a deranged little boy played by Martin Short. Martin Short in Clifford.

  • Mary Cosbys Live TV Madness Won Late Night This Week

    June 2024

    The focus of late-night TV was split in two this week. On the one hand, it was a news-heavy week between the horror of violence in Gaza and the chaos of (ex-)Speaker McCarthy’s ousting.

  • Megan Thee Stallion Calls the Shots in Captain Hook Music Video

    June 2024

    Megan Thee Stallion dropped the music video for her new single, “Captain Hook,” and delivered a clear message to those who have attempted to get in the way of her craft.

  • More Layoffs and Restructuring Hit Cartoon Network and Warner Bros.

    June 2024

    We’ll take it all back if you announce a 200-episode order for more Apple & Onion. Cartoon Network Studios, the animation house that created such classics as The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Adventure Time, and Over the Garden Wall, is getting squeezed, along with the rest of Warner Bros.

  • Morgan Wallen Arrested on Felony Charges for Allegedly Throwing Chair From Rooftop

    June 2024

    Morgan Wallen. Update, Friday, April 19 at 9:15 p.m.: Morgan Wallen has finally addressed his Nashville arrest on social media.

  • Movie Review: 21 and Over, a.k.a. Dudes and Their Butts: The Motion Picture

    June 2024

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    June 2024

    Nate Bargatze in The Greatest Average Comedian. The joke Nate Bargatze comes back to throughout his new Netflix special, The Greatest Average American, is that he, Nate Bargatze, isn’t that bright.

  • Neil Gaiman Is Adapting His First Novel, Good Omens, Co-Written by Terry Pratchett, for TV

    June 2024

    Though Neil Gaiman had previously said he would not adapt his debut novel, Good Omens, without his late co-author Terry Pratchett, a posthumously found letter from the beloved writer, who died last year after battling Alzheimer’s, urged Gaiman to go on with the project.

  • No One Enjoyed the Cubs World Series Win More Than Bill Murray

    June 2024

    At long last, Bill Murray can say he’s truly seen it all. The Cubs are World Series champions for the first time in 108 years!

  • On the Basis of Sex Plays Like a Rocky Movie, But It Works

    June 2024

    Felicity Jones. The defense concedes that the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex hits its marks with the subtlety of a legal brief.

  • One Viral Moment: 9 Drama Commentary YouTubers on Their Breakout Videos

    June 2024

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  • Pan Am Recap: The Twilight Zone

    June 2024

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  • Patrick From SpongeBob, a Born Star, Gets Late-Night Show

    June 2024

    Who lives under a rock under the sea and is getting his own late-night show? That’d be Patrick Star, SpongeBob’s dummy of a best friend and neighbor from Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants.

  • Paul Thomas Anderson Wants to Adapt Thomas Pynchons Inherent Vice

    June 2024

    Vulture has learned that Paul Thomas Anderson wants to adapt Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice — about Larry “Doc” Sportello, a pothead private eye wandering through the Summer (and winter) of Love in 1969 Los Angeles — into his sixth feature film.

  • Presumed Innocent Series-Premiere Recap: You Cant Handle the Truth

    June 2024

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  • Ramona Singers No-Good, Very Bad Week

    June 2024

    Ramona Singer. ’Twas the week before Bravocon, and all through the house(wives), not a woman was stirring more controversy than Ramona Singer, not even a Shah.

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    very bad guys Jan. 11, 2022 Every Movie Villain Is a Tech BroThe long-gestating archetype gets at a dull, persistent itch in our psyches that we can’t scratch away.

  • RuPauls Drag Race Recap: Get Plasmatic

    June 2024

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  • Russell Crowes Road-Rage Thriller Unhinged Isnt Worth Getting COVID-19 For

    June 2024

    Russell Crowe in Unhinged. In 1993, Michael Douglas was an angry white man on a rampage across Los Angeles in Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down.

  • Saint Jhns Roses Got a Miraculous Chart Boost From TikTok

    June 2024

    James Charles’s TikTok with “Roses” has over 30 million views. The fun thing about TikTok music discovery is that even when it feels like you’re hearing something new, you can guarantee that about a million other people have already heard it.

  • Scarlett Johansson Finds Just Cause to Lead a TV Show

    June 2024

    Scarlett Johansson is going back to her roots — and no, we’re not suggesting she’ll be returning to her natural brunette.

  • Scarlett Johansson Sang a Song While in Ohio

    June 2024

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  • Stop Saving the Rom-com

    June 2024

    As an empty vessel of a genre, the romantic comedy is not worth resuscitating, though what it once contained probably is.

  • Swarm Finale Recap: Everything Is Love

    June 2024

    Swarm Only God Makes Happy Endings Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Swarm Only God Makes Happy Endings Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » For a show that has created so much commotion, the finale ended not with a bang but in a whisper.

  • Sweetbitter Star Ella Purnell on Tabloid Rumors and Being Typecast

    June 2024

    Ella Purnell. Tess — the quick, quietly confident central character of Starz’s new Sunday-night show Sweetbitter — isn’t the kind of role Ella Purnell usually gets in her in-box.

  • That Viral Dress Is Now Connected to an Alleged Murder Attempt

    June 2024

    That black-and-blue (or white-and-gold) dress from 2015 is once again making headlines, but for a much different reason this time.

  • The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

    June 2024

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  • The 13 Best Horror Movies of 2016

    June 2024

    Here’s a bright spot for 2016: This was a fantastic year for horror films. At home and abroad, on the festival circuit and in multiplexes, audiences had a bounty of high-quality horror films available to them.

  • The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

    June 2024

    Haunted Mansion; This Fool. Let’s be real: The biggest things to watch this weekend are the same things they were last weekend.

  • The Avengers to Close Out Tribeca Film Fest

    June 2024

    They don’t come much bigger than the movie that’s going to be closing out this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: Marvel’s superhero mash-up The Avengers.

  • The Best and Weirdest of Phish, According to Trey Anastasio

    June 2024

    Superlatives 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 Comedy Podcasts of 2022

    June 2024

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  • The Business of Too Much TV

    June 2024

    In Hollywood, the tweets and email alerts from industry trades trumpeting the announcements of superstar actors and showrunners attached to flashy TV projects roll out with almost numbing regularity now: Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange team up for FX, Amy Adams heads to HBO, Drew Barrymore joins Timothy Olyphant for a Netflix comedy.

  • The Cheetah Girls Are Back and Claws Are Out

    June 2024

    TFW the tea is better than you expected. What happened to “Cheetah girls, cheetah sisters?” “Amigas, cheetahs, friends for life?

  • The Crowns Olivia Williams Brought Monty Python Energy to Her Tampon Phone-Sex Scene

    June 2024

    God save the … menstrual product? Viewers of The Crown got a long-teased moment in season-five episode “The Way Ahead,” which features a reenactment of Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams) and Prince Charles’s (Dominic West) amusingly gynecological phone-sex that was published by the tabloids in 1993.

  • The Desert Trip Festival Will Not Return in 2017

    June 2024

    The ultra-lucrative Desert Trip festival will not be reprised for 2017. Festival organizer Paul Tollett told Billboard today, “We loved 2016 Desert Trip — that was a special moment in time.

  • The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: Ghosted

    June 2024

    The Haunting of Bly Manor The Two Faces, Part Two Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Haunting of Bly Manor The Two Faces, Part Two Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A few episodes ago, Bly Manor showed us the star-crossed love affair of Peter Quint and Rebecca Jessel, which ended — as far as we knew — when Quint snuck off with 200,000 pounds and the heartbroken Jessel died by suicide.

  • The Haunting of Hill House Finale Recap: Ghosts in the Machine

    June 2024

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  • The New Beauty and the Beast Is a Lifeless Re-creation of the Original

    June 2024

    Beauty and the Beast. Imagine it’s the late 1980s, and you work as an animator at Walt Disney Studios. You’ve been assigned to Beauty and the Beast, a film populated by talking teapots, candlesticks, and wardrobes that’s being pitched as a Broadway-worthy musical extravaganza.

  • The Portrait of Kim Gordon

    June 2024

    Why Eric McNatt sued Richard Prince. Photo: Eric Mcnatt/Eric McNatt A decade ago, Eric McNatt made a portrait of Kim Gordon for Paper magazine.

  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: By the Throat

    June 2024

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  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillss Kyle Richards: Many Times I Wish That I Hadnt Gone on

    June 2024

    Tonight, Bravo will wring the last drops of drama out of the epic first season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with a director’s cut of the infamous dinner party.

  • The Selling Sunset Season 7 Power Rankings

    June 2024

    On the latest season of Selling Sunset, we see the Oppenheim Group finally shutter their infamous office on Sunset Boulevard in favor of a larger, more lavish space … right next door.

  • The Slow, Dumb Pixels Showcases Adam Sandler at His Weariest

    June 2024

    Pixels. “Am I high right now?” I scribbled in my notes during the second half of the new Adam Sandler gamesploitation flick Pixels.

  • The Strange, Complicated, Feminist History of Wonder Womans Origin Story

    June 2024

    Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Circling the mug I drink from every day are versions of Wonder Woman’s iconic costumes from her 76-year history.

  • The Thoroughly Goofy, Undeniably Seductive, All-in-One Charm of Shah Rukh Khan

    June 2024

    Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in Om Shanti Om. My favorite sequence in the 2007 Bollywood movie Om Shanti Om, a minor postmodern masterpiece from director Farah Khan, comes early in its nearly three-hour run time.

  • The Toughest Scene I Wrote: William Nicholson on Les Misrables

    June 2024

    Over the next few weeks, Vulture is talking to the screenwriters behind 2012’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack.

  • There Is No Villain in Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story

    June 2024

    “To this day, I believe that Betty believes it was either her or them.” Amanda Peet as Betty Broderick. Photo: Isabella Vosmikova/USA Network Amanda Peet as Betty Broderick.

  • This One Gag in Jerry Seinfelds Pop-Tart Movie Is Like an Intrusive Thought

    June 2024

    What’s the deal with that January 6 bit? The damnedest thing about Jerry Seinfeld’s directorial debut isn’t that Jon Hamm and John Slattery inexplicably show up in character from Mad Men.

  • This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Spooky, Scary, and Silly

    June 2024

    Comedy Bang Bang. 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.

  • This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Murder Ballads

    June 2024

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  • Three Things Other Than Twilight That Red Riding Hood Can Be Unfavorably Compared To

    June 2024

    As Logan Hill pointed out in his review, Red Riding Hood is a lot like Twilight (and not in a good way).

  • TikToks Aspiring Wes Anderson Just Happened to Have All Those Twee Props Laying Around

    June 2024

    Who needs The French Dispatch? (Me. I would like it very much.) What have you done to keep yourself entertained while staying at home?

  • TikToks Wipe It Down Challenge Didnt Start With the Song Wipe It Down

    June 2024

    TikTok’s favorite uncle, Will Smith. Finally, something has y’all cleaning your mirrors. You’ve probably already been mesmerized by the people trapped inside of mirrors in TikTok’s latest viral challenge.

  • Todd and Julie Chrisley Sentenced to Federal Prison for Tax Evasion

    June 2024

    Todd and Julie Chrisley, who star in the USA Network reality series Chrisley Knows Best, have been sentenced to federal-prison terms months after they were found guilty of tax evasion, WSV-TV Atlanta reports.

  • True Crimes ACAB Playbook Is Falling Into Place

    June 2024

    From Netflix’s American Nightmare to HBO’s Last Call, a new crop of true-crime docuseries turns the typical explanation for law-enforcement failure on its head.

  • Vanderpump Rules Recap: The San Francisco Treat

    June 2024

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  • Watch a Drunken Winona Ryder Accost Natalie Portman in Black Swan

    June 2024

    In Black Swan, poor Natalie Portman gets it on all fronts: from her demanding ballet director (Vincent Cassel), her even more demanding mother (Barbara Hershey), and, in the film’s most delicious bit of casting, from the over-the-hill prima ballerina whom she’s essentially replaced (Winona Ryder).

  • What Jesse Knows and What We Still Dont Know About the Ricin on Breaking Bad

    June 2024

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  • What to Watch While Coming Down From Elvis

    June 2024

    Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a bit of a bait and switch. Despite being named after the King, this nearly three-hour musical is primarily told not from the perspective of the titular character (played by Austin Butler) but that of his manager: the oddly accented, smugly delusional Colonel Tom Parker (a very prosthetics-adorned Tom Hanks).

  • Whos Blair? Whos Nate? Is Anybody Dan?

    June 2024

    The new cast of Gossip Girl isn’t a warmed-over version of the last one. But the two share a lot of character traits.

  • Whos Who in Bridgerton: A Books-to-Series Character Guide

    June 2024

    The second season of Netflix’s Bridgerton aligns with the second book in the series, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and follows the story of eldest Bridgerton son Anthony and Kate Sharma.

  • Why David Letterman Is Hilarious: A Video Refresher Course

    June 2024

    NEW YORK, NY - 1982: Comedian and late night television host, David Letterman, warms up his NBC studio audience prior to the taping of his popular 1982 New York, NY, television show at Rockefeller Center.

  • Why Yes, Its Been Agatha All Along

    June 2024

    Marvel’s marketing team got the last laugh. We’ve known for a while now that a show about WandaVision’s nosiest neighbor, Agatha Harkness, was in the works.

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    June 2024

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  • With Ted Lasso, Hannah Waddingham Trades Shame Nun for Iron Queen

    June 2024

    With Schitt’s Creek’s brass-filled departure from television complete, Vulture would like to officially nominate Ted Lasso as its spiritual successor for warm and fuzzy programming.

  • Wrexhams Next Goal

    June 2024

    Incorporating a bigger arc about Wrexham AFC Women next season would be a natural next step after the team’s standout season-two appearances.

  • Your Burning Floor Is Lava Questions, Answered

    June 2024

    Nooooooo! (Don’t worry, the lava is safe to drink.) Netflix’s surprise hit game show Floor Is Lava has been sitting comfortably atop the service’s “Top 10” row since its premiere, and it’s easy enough to see why.

  • 10 Promising Independent Horror Films to Watch Out For This Year

    May 2024

    Behold, The Witch. The blockbuster business these days is all about spandex and sequels and reboots. It’s never been a better time to be a superhero, but if you know where to look, it’s also never been a better time to be a horror buff.

  • 17 of the Most Disturbing Moments in The Emoji Movie

    May 2024

    Spoilers ahead for The Emoji Movie. As an attempt to turn the available intellectual property of text-message glyphs into a coherent narrative, The Emoji Movie is a failure.

  • 30 Rock Recap: Knob Kardashian

    May 2024

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  • 7 Best New Songs of the Week

    May 2024

    Every week Vulture highlights the best new music. If the song is worthy of your ears and attention, you will find it here.

  • 9 Things We Learned About Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylors Obsessive Friendship From New Joi

    May 2024

    A dual biography and examination of the unusual relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop — A Love Story, arrived in bookstores just a day after what would have been Jackson’s 58th birthday.

  • A Breakdown of Armie Hammer Allegations, Controversies, and Time-share Drama

    May 2024

    A year and a half after Armie Hammer was first accused of sexual misconduct (and possible cannibalism), the disgraced actor is once again making headlines for reportedly losing his wealthy family’s financial support, switching career paths, and taking on a job selling time-shares at a Cayman Islands resort.

  • A Brief History of Movies Based on Musicals Based on Movies (That Are Sometimes Based on Books)

    May 2024

    It seems a little ridiculous for a movie to be successful enough to warrant adapting as a stage musical and for that stage musical to then be successful enough to warrant adapting into a musical movie.

  • A Pair of Recent Collaborative Mixtapes Showcase Atlanta Raps Continued Vitality

    May 2024

    Even in the most improbable year, Halloween remains a time for the unexpected. So when Without Warning, the collaboration album between 21 Savage and the Migos’ Offset, dropped at midnight on the day of tricks and treats, its surprise factor was more or less in line with established tradition.

  • About the Blowjob Scene in Blonde

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  • After My Favorite Shapes, You Will Never Look at a Happy Meal Toy the Same Way Again

    May 2024

    Julio Torres on My Favorite Shapes. So often, comedy is about defamiliarization. It’s the gambit that gets loved (and lovingly mocked) in a Seinfeld-esque opening that begins, “So what is the deal with brunch?

  • All the Hair in The French Dispatch (and Timothe Chalamets Mustache), in GIFs

    May 2024

    Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, lands all of your favorite actors in a fictional French town and gives them hair to spare.

  • An Exhaustive Timeline of All the Avatar Sequel Announcements

    May 2024

    Filming has begun on the four sequels to Avatar, James Cameron’s 2009 3-D CGI adventure about a paraplegic marine who lands on the planet Pandora to mine unobtainium.

  • And the Love Actually Debate Rages On: Is It a Classic or Terrible?

    May 2024

    If all you wanted for Christmas this year was a bunch of people arguing about the film Love Actually, then you’re in luck.

  • Atlantas Zan Is the Perfect Send-up of the Social-Media Star

    May 2024

    “Fan engagement.” Through its first three episodes, FX’s Atlanta established a world that mirrors reality, where nearly every arc is representative of some small chess piece in the rap game.

  • Batman: The Animated Series Creator Will Return With More Animated Batman

    May 2024

    See ya, Batffleck. So long, RBattz. There’s a new Batman on the prowl, and he’s a cartoon. Today, Warner Bros.

  • Below Deck Down Under Recap: Its Complicated

    May 2024

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  • Better Call Saul Series-Premiere Recap: A Busted Suzuki Esteem and Other Humble Beginnings

    May 2024

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  • Bird Box Barcelona Doesnt Have the Guts to Tell This Story

    May 2024

    It’s an exercise in sadism, but not the good kind. At least it’s something, right? In the opening scenes of Netflix’s new apocalyptic sequel Bird Box Barcelona, our hero, Sebastián (Mario Casas), and his young daughter Anna (Alejandra Howard), wander blindly through a blasted cityscape in the titular Spanish town and find themselves with a ragtag group hiding inside an abandoned, fortified bus shelter.

  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Doesnt Have the Answers

    May 2024

    How can any one film manage the expectations put on Ryan Coogler’s sequel and make space for grief?

  • Bobs Burgers Recap: Black Garlic

    May 2024

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  • Catastrophe Season-Premiere Recap: Baby, One More Time

    May 2024

    Catastrophe Episode One Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Catastrophe Episode One Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Sarah Niles as Melissa, Marta Barrio as Mallandra, Daniel Lapaine as Dave, Rob Delaney as Rob, Sharon Horgan as Sharon, Gary Lilburn as Des, Frances Tomelty as Carol.

  • Chernobyl Was the Easiest Thing Craig Mazin Has Ever Written

    May 2024

    Emmy Insider The Emmy race is here! Vulture is taking a close look at the nominees until voting closes on August 29.

  • City Primeval TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Colin Mochrie Reflects on Over 30 Years of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    May 2024

    Colin Mochrie with Ryan Stiles on Whose Line. Colin Mochrie was doing improv before it was cool — or maybe, more accurately, before a lot of people even knew what it was.

  • Comedy Centrals Colossal Clusterfest Adds Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Hasan Minhaj, T.J. Miller,

    May 2024

    Comedy Central’s first-ever music/comedy festival, Colossal Clusterfest, just added some more comedians to its lineup. The festival takes place in San Francisco from Friday, June 2nd through Sunday the 4th, and in addition to previously announced performances from Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Hart, Tig Notaro, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, and more, today the festival revealed that it’s added this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner host Hasan Minhaj, The Gorburger Show’s T.

  • Conan OBrien and Nick Offerman Are Two BFFs Who Write Nerdy Love Letters to Each Other

    May 2024

    Tall Sir and the Insufferable Bastard. Sometimes there are garbage emails, and sometimes there are emails from “somebody good.” Brimming with vim, adoration, and a dash of pomp, Nick Offerman highlights Conan O’Brien in an excerpt at GQ from his latest book, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers, whom he addresses as “Dear Tall Sir” to ask him if he’ll participate in the book, which looks at 21 of Offerman’s heroes:

  • Daisy Jones & the Six Recap: The Making of Let Me Down Easy

    May 2024

    Daisy Jones and The Six Fire Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daisy Jones and The Six Fire Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Now that Daisy is officially in the Six, which should perhaps make the band the Seven, Daisy Jones & the Six the series is evolving into a two-hander, the sinner and the saint competing for screen time.

  • Devil Wears Prada - Vulture

    May 2024

    hideous skirt convention Feb. 24, 2024 Meryl Streep Needed Her Assistants’ Help to Present at the SAG AwardsRunway Magazine alums Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt joined their former boss onstage.

  • Did You Catch These 14 Hidden Kroll Show Jokes?

    May 2024

    Nick Kroll as Logan, star of “Dead Girl Town.” Kroll Show may have come to an end, but don’t despair: Few comedies in TV history have rewarded re-watchings as much as Nick Kroll’s three-season opus.

  • Digital Sweeties - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • Dua Lipa and the Middlebrow Pop Intellectual Podcast

    May 2024

    Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?

  • Ed Sheeran Dragged Jay Z and Beyonc to Midtown and Covered Empire State of Mind for Them

    May 2024

    Bey and Ed on stage. Ed Sheeran is, like, really famous, you guys. And this is just how famous he is: He told Jimmy Fallon that he hung out with Jay Z and Beyoncé on Sunday night, after they attended his show at Barclays Center.

  • Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill to Explore Their Differences or Something in New Kenya Barris Come

    May 2024

    Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, and Kenya Barris are making a movie together, and apparently, that’s all we need to know. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced the meeting of comedic minds for an untitled comedy feature.

  • Elton Johns Rivalry With Rod Stewart Is the Most Iconic Friendship

    May 2024

    What are frenemies for. A good friend is able to take a joke at their expense; a great one will try to one-up it instead.

  • Eugene Mirman Knows the Best Way to Deal With Parking Tickets

    May 2024

    Eugene Mirman. Trusted fart connoisseur, serial open-letter author, and Bob’s Burgers comedian Eugene Mirman had to get creative when he was slammed with injustice on a recent trip to New Hampshire.

  • Every John Carpenter Movie, Ranked

    May 2024

    John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween ends in a frenetic struggle to survive against a knife-wielding maniac, but it takes its time getting there.

  • Everyone in Hollywood Is Envious. Mike White Is Willing to Talk About It.

    May 2024

    “Lately, I’ve just been like, There’s gotta be a better place than this,” says Mike White. We are in the back room of the Hollywood bar Molly Malone’s, comparing standstill-traffic horror stories like true Angelenos.

  • For All MankindRecap: You Just Keep Me Hangin On

    May 2024

    For All Mankind Don’t Be Cruel Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind Don’t Be Cruel Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Welcome to the retrospective recaps of For All Mankind season two.

  • For Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, Oh, Hello Is Just the Beginning

    May 2024

    Broadway on the small screen is generally limited to a Billy Crystal one-man show on HBO or those videos your high school English teacher would put on when they just couldn’t deal anymore.

  • Foundational Cool Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal Dead at 92

    May 2024

    Ahmad Jamal, who helped create the “cool jazz” genre, has died. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his wife, Laura Hess Hay, in the Washington Post.

  • Game of Thrones Battle of Winterfell Nearly Broke Andy Daly

    May 2024

    The final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones has arrived along with an avalanche of recaps, reviews, and other coverage on the internet, so Vulture’s comedy section decided we’d join in too.

  • Game of Thrones Season 7 Finale Recap: The Sense of an Ending

    May 2024

    Game of Thrones The Dragon and the Wolf Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Game of Thrones The Dragon and the Wolf Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Someone once told me that the way you could tell you were reading a children’s story — as opposed to a story for adults — was if, at the end of it all, “home” was where the protagonist was supposed to be all along.

  • God Fucking Dammit, MCA Is Dead

    May 2024

    I know this is a comedy site, not a music site, and basically everyone on the internet knows about and is talking about the death at 48 of Adam Yauch, otherwise known as the Beastie Boys’ MCA.

  • Gossip Girl Recap: Threes a Crowd

    May 2024

    Gossip Girl One Flew Over the Cuck’s Nest Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gossip Girl One Flew Over the Cuck’s Nest Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Of course that girl Grace is a brotherfucker!

  • Harvey Weinsteins Accusers React to His Overturned Rape Conviction

    May 2024

    Ashley Judd is among multiple Harvey Weinstein accusers who are expressing disappointment with the overturning of the movie mogul’s 2020 rape conviction.

  • HeelsSeason-Finale Recap: Sometimes Youre a Heel, Sometimes Youre a Face

    May 2024

    Heels Double Turn Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Heels Double Turn Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If the eight episodes of Heels’ first season are all we’ll ever get, it was a satisfying dose of storytelling with a mostly joyful ending.

  • Hell on Wheels - TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Here Is a GIF of That Shocking Thing That Happened on House of Cards Season 2 Premiere

    May 2024

    Hear us now: If you have not watched the first episode of House of Cards’ second season, then you must not open this post.

  • Heres Empires Great Gatsby-ish Music Video for Jussie Smollett and Pitbulls No Doubt Abo

    May 2024

    This earworm-y party song was penned by none other than Mr. 305 and Ne-Yo, and comes from tonight’s (semi-confusing) episode of Empire.

  • Heres Your Guide to the Very Complicated Mythology of the Transformers Universe

    May 2024

    Transformers: The Last Knight. Transformers: The Last Knight is the fifth installment in Michael Bay’s multibillion-dollar franchise, and it’s being marketed as a movie of answers.

  • How David Letterman Became a Gen-X Icon

    May 2024

    In May 1985, Esquire magazine published an essay by a twenty-three-year-old Yale graduate named David Leavitt, who set out to do nothing less than explain his generation.

  • How Frank Miller Was Inspired to Build This Amazing Dark Knight Returns Page

    May 2024

    Outside of the Bible, it’s hard to think of an origin story retold more often than that of Batman.

  • I Once Watched Two and a Half Men for Two and a Half Days Straight. The Finale Was One of the Most B

    May 2024

    “Of Course He’s Dead – Part One and Part Two” Have you ever left hell and then gone back? I have.

  • Im Obsessed With That Song About Butts From A Star Is Born

    May 2024

    It’s not this song, but this one was good, too. I once took a class on light and color, where I learned about the receptors in the retina that let us see.

  • Jasper and Me

    May 2024

    The artist who invented contemporary art also changed my life. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.

  • Jennifer Hudson - Vulture

    May 2024

    movie review Aug. 12, 2021 Respect Dulls the Inherent Glow of Aretha FranklinThis movie may satisfy those who want to bask in Franklin’s music.

  • Jonah Hill Refuses to Compare 21 Jump Street to Never Been Kissed

    May 2024

    Wait a second. Jonah Hill describes the central conceit of 21 Jump Street as “getting to relive the most important part of your youth, high school — and thinking you have all the answers, but realizing you have none of the answers,” but he DOESN’T think the movie is comparable to Drew Barrymore’s 1999 classic Never Been Kissed?

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the Present Tense: How the Actress Made Her Transformational Turn on Veep

    May 2024

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus, photographed by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine. Styling by Cristina Ehrlich at Margaret Maldonado Agency; Hair by Matthew Monzon at Tracey Mattingly; Makeup by Tina Turnbow using Chanel at Crosby Carter Management; Manicure by Aggie Zaro at Bryan Bantry Agency using Essie; Dress by Yigal Azrouel; Earrings and ring by Carbon and Hyde It is a Saturday night in November, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and I are sitting in the lobby bar of The Four Seasons Hotel on East 57th Street, perched high inside the towering … atrium?

  • Justified: City Primeval Recap: Flip the Switch

    May 2024

    Justified: City Primeval Kokomo Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Justified: City Primeval Kokomo Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Walking dead man” is what Skender calls Clement before the man he thought was his betrothed’s overprotective older brother crushes Skender’s leg in the door to his own safety room, but midway through Justified: City Primeval, Clement looks untouchable, doesn’t he?

  • Krista Schlueter Author Archive

    May 2024

    vulture festival 2016 May 23, 2016 Look at All the Stars Who Visited the Vulture Festival Photo StudioKrysten Ritter, the cast of Happy Endings, Justin Theroux, Shonda Rhimes, and more.

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    May 2024

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  • Loki Recap: Which One of Us Are You?

    May 2024

    Loki Journey Into Mystery Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Loki Journey Into Mystery Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, readers!

  • Lucy Punch Breaks Woody Allen Rule #1

    May 2024

    Nicole Kidman, if you’re reading this, Lucy Punch has a message for you: “I’ve never met her, but if I do, I’ll fall at her feet and say, ‘Thank you so much!

  • Maybe Netflixs Fear Street Should Have Just Been a TV Show

    May 2024

    The delightfully nasty Fear Street exists in this strange space between movies and television, serving neither format well.

  • Michelle Buteau Is Not Sassy

    May 2024

    Don’t ask Michelle Buteau how she would describe her comedy. “The worst question people can ask me is, ‘How would I describe my brand of comedy?

  • Nick Valensi Is Ready to Join the All-Starr Band

    May 2024

    “They had some conversations about influence and what direction the EP was going to go in. My band, the Strokes, was one of the things that got listed.

  • Now, Whats on the Wish List for Beyoncs Act III?

    May 2024

    Beyoncé said shake it in the club. Beyoncé said shake it at the rodeo. Where in the world will Beyoncé say to shake it next?

  • Our 5 Biggest Questions After Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode 8

    May 2024

    David Lynch and Mark Frost’s revival of Twin Peaks has defied all expectations, daring viewers to rethink the way they discuss television.

  • Pawnee The Greatest Town In America

    May 2024

    Pawnee The Greatest Town In America - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Sept. 30, 2011 Henry David Thoreau Gets Told In Ron Swanson’s Nature DiaryThe Parks And Rec book Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America comes out next Tuesday, and in celebration of America’s Paris, EW has posted Ron […] By Halle Kiefer

  • Pleasure Cant Get Out of Its Own Head

    May 2024

    There are detailed, varied sex scenes throughout Pleasure, Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut set in the Los Angeles porn scene, though none of them — the amateur shoot, the bondage and submission scene, the abusive threesome, the interracial video, the girl-on-girl setup — is shot in a way that would ever be described as sexy.

  • Positions Is Ariana Grandes Most Theatrically Horny Album Yet

    May 2024

    It’s Judy Garland by way of Red Tube, or what might have happened had Julie Andrews loved to 69.

  • Power Book IV: ForceRecap:Bad for Business

    May 2024

    Power Book IV: Force This is Who We Are Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Power Book IV: Force This is Who We Are Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Now that Mai is dead, Claudia calls on Tommy to help her bury the body.

  • R. Kellys Ex-Girlfriend Says He Trained a 14-Year-Old Girl to Be His Sex Slave

    May 2024

    Singer R. Kelly. In an upcoming BBC documentary, R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriend accuses the R&B singer and alleged sexual predator of “training” a 14-year-old girl to be a sex slave, the Guardian reports.

  • Rachel Lindsay Has No Roses Left to Burn

    May 2024

    I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token. Photo: Munachi Osegbu for New York Magazine Photo: Munachi Osegbu for New York Magazine I knew my relationship with The Bachelor was over in February 2021, when Chris Harrison, the host and face of the franchise, showed his true self on national television.

  • Rihannas Halftime Show Was More Than Enough

    May 2024

    The last time most people saw Rihanna perform on television or anywhere else was at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony, where she was named Video Vanguard.

  • Riverdale Is Your Next Teen-Soap Addiction

    May 2024

    L-R: Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones and KJ Apa as Archie Andrews. Riverdale is, technically, a reimagined take on the Archie comics.

  • Rob Lowe Promotes His Comedy Central Roast With a Sex Tape of Sorts

    May 2024

    Rob Lowe has lived through so many scandals in his career and come out even more handsome and successful on the other end he should teach a class on surviving Hollywood.

  • Rob Zombies 31 Trailer: In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn

    May 2024

    Rob Zombie, formerly of heavy-metal music and currently of directing-movies-with-metal-torture-devices, has released the trailer for his latest horror movie, 31. In what must be a first for the genre, six traveling carnival workers are the potential victims, not the psychopathic murderers, trying to stay alive against all violent, bizarrely sexual odds.

  • RuPauls Drag Race All Stars Recap: Drag Race Gives Back

    May 2024

    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars The Fame Games Variety Extravaganza Season 8 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars The Fame Games Variety Extravaganza Season 8 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » That was … positive!

  • RuPauls Drag Race All Stars Recap: Lets Get This Roast Cookin!

    May 2024

    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Carson Kressley, This Is Your Gay Life Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Carson Kressley, This Is Your Gay Life Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s never a good sign when they have to call in backup.

  • Sherlocks Mark Gatiss on Writing for Doctor Who and This Seasons Robin Hood Episode

    May 2024

    Mark Gatiss writes and acts, and we could have an intense debate over which he does better. You’ve seen him onscreen in Game of Thrones as Tycho Nestoris, of the Iron Bank of Braavos, a role he’ll be reprising next year.

  • Steven Tyler Sued for Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Minor

    May 2024

    Update April 5: In April, Tyler filed a response to the suit which claims their relationship was consensual.

  • Styling The Baby-Sitters Club for a New Generation

    May 2024

    Entire fandoms have been built around taking inventory of Claudia Kishi’s closet. Cynthia Ann Summers is a Claudia. Obviously. Would you really expect anything else from the costume designer of the latest iteration of The Baby-Sitters Club?

  • Survivors Remorse Recap: Saint Misbehavin

    May 2024

    Survivor’s Remorse The Ritual Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Survivor’s Remorse The Ritual Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jesse T.

  • Talking to Ike Barinholtz About The Mindy Project, MADtv, and His Game of Thrones

    May 2024

    From Twitter buddy to staff writer to breakout series regular, Ike Barinholtz earned a well-deserved meteoric rise during the first season of The Mindy Project.

  • Taylor Swifts Most Notable Midnights Lyrics

    May 2024

    Babe, wake up. Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated tenth album, Midnights, has finally arrived and encapsulated all of our late-night thoughts.

  • Ted Lassos Toheeb Jimoh on Sams Big Moves in Season Two

    May 2024

    If you’ve watched episode eight of Ted Lasso season two — and you definitely should before you read this because it contains spoilers galore — then you know what a big moment it is for Sam Obisanya.

  • The 30 Best TV Shows on Peacock

    May 2024

    The Thick of It. Best TV Shows on Peacock by Genre Drama Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Comedy Reality TV This post is updated frequently as TV shows leave and enter Peacock.

  • The B-52s Were Too Weird to Mess With

    May 2024

    Song Roulette A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles. Song Roulette A Vulture series in which artists share the stories and strategy behind their lead singles.

  • The Big Bang Theory Recap: Hocus Focus

    May 2024

    The Big Bang Theory The Focus Attenuation Season 8 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Focus Attenuation Season 8 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Why do I get the feeling that The Big Bang Theory writers are itching to have a movie marathon?

  • The Crown Recap: Queen of Denial

    May 2024

    The Crown 48:1 Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown 48:1 Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At the end of “48:1,” an epilogue notes that “the Palace continues to insist that the Queen has never expressed an opinion or passed judgment on any of her prime ministers.

  • The Crown Season-Finale Recap: Iced Out

    May 2024

    The Crown War Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown War Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s the end of another era, Crown fans.

  • The Dawn of Barbenheimer

    May 2024

    This July, two titans will meet at the cineplex. We don’t know much about the Barbie movie. We know it involves multiple dolls (Lawyer Barbie, Diplomat Barbie, Dua Lipa Barbie).

  • The Ending of the New Transformers Really Goes for the Joe

    May 2024

    This article was originally published in June. We are recirculating it now timed to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ digital release.

  • The Followings James Purefoy on Kissing Kevin Bacon and Violence on TV

    May 2024

    James Purefoy. In the Fox thriller The Following, James Purefoy plays Edgar Allen Poe literalist and serial killer Joe Carroll, a man who in the series’ first episode removed the eyeballs of his victim and strung up her corpse like a side of beef.

  • The Fundamental Flaw in And Just Like That

    May 2024

    And Just Like That …, the HBO Max series that catches up with three of the principal figures from Sex and the City more than 15 years later, could and should have been a fun, thoughtful celebration of being a woman in the throes of her 50s.

  • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: The Funniest No-Fun Video Game Ever

    May 2024

    As hard as it is to admit, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has lost a lot of star power in recent years.

  • The Last Summer Trailer: A Teenage K.J. Apa Has One Last Shot at Happiness for the Rest of His Life

    May 2024

    You know what they say about high school: If you don’t have your love life and professional life in order by the time your final summer before college ends, it is completely over for you.

  • The Lyrics to Always Be My Maybes I Punched Keanu Reeves Rap, Annotated by Randall Park

    May 2024

    In Always Be My Maybe, Randall Park, who was in a band in the ’90s called Ill Again, goes back to his hip-hop roots as Marcus, who moonlights with his own musical group, Hello Peril.

  • The Met Comes Alight Again With Fire Shut Up in My Bones

    May 2024

    Angel Blue, Walter Russell III, Latonia Moore, and Will Liverman in the Metropolitan Opera’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

  • The Mindy Project Brings TVs First Awesome Arranged Marriage

    May 2024

    Sonu (left) and Tarun Lahiri. Mindy Lahiri beat the odds and came back into our lives for a fourth season (thanks, Hulu), and with her, arrived two new Lahiris to love: her parents.

  • The Office Recap: The Holly Hint

    May 2024

    The Office Whistleblower Season 6 Episode 25 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As the sixth season of The Office wraps up, it’s worth mentioning that the show really only came alive this year when Kathy Bates was onscreen as Jon Bennett.

  • The Real Housewives of MiamiRecap: In a Pickle

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Miami Le Fin? Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Le Fin?

  • The SAG-AFTRA Video-Game Strike Authorization, Explained

    May 2024

    Scenes from the picket line at the 2016 strike. While WGA members drew their negotiations to a close last month, a possible strike looms over another sector of actors within the entertainment industry, and they worry their jobs might disappear entirely.

  • The Song of the Summer Is a Color

    May 2024

    Everywhere you look, a pop star has claimed a shade for whatever era they’re in. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Surveying the pop landscape right now is like flipping through swatches in a paint store — nearly every release has its own bespoke color palette.

  • The Umbrella Academy Is Adding Some New Faces to Its Final Timeline

    May 2024

    Familia. What’s a superhero without their superpowers? We’ll find out in the fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy, which is apparently almost done tinkering with its timeline.

  • The Untold Tale of the Comics Story That Redefined Wonder Woman

    May 2024

    Excerpt from Wonder Woman. As 1986 dawned, the most famous woman in superhero fiction was in trouble, and not the fun kind.

  • This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Standoff, Cults, and More

    May 2024

    The 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.

  • Thomas Jane: Im a Fan of the Gay Community

    May 2024

    Thomas Jane raised a few eyebrows this past weekend when he chatted with Vulture about his series Hung, saying, “I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show.

  • Under the Banner of Heaven Recap: Hidden Truths

    May 2024

    Under the Banner of Heaven Rightful Place Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Under the Banner of Heaven Rightful Place Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Heading into the second episode of Under the Banner of Heaven, I’m feeling equal parts intrigued and, admittedly, a little underwhelmed — if only because of the overly efficient pacing and overall look and feel of the show.

  • Watch Conner OMalley Take a Trip to the Exxxotica Expo in New Jersey

    May 2024

    The last time Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Conner O’Malley released a video he definitively proved that McDonald’s is better than Burger King, and today he’s back with a brand new video that covers another hot event: his recent (and very NSFW) visit to the Exxxotica Expo in New Jersey.

  • What Does Camila Cabellos Familia Tell Us About Her Breakup With Shawn Mendes?

    May 2024

    “Blink and the fairytale falls apart.” Camila Cabello named her third album Familia, both to honor her Cuban and Mexican heritage (the record features a mariachi band and Spanish vocals) and the family and friends who support her in life.

  • What We Do in the Shadows Recap: A Weekend in the Country

    May 2024

    What We Do in the Shadows A Weekend at Morrigan Manor Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What We Do in the Shadows A Weekend at Morrigan Manor Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A quartet of vampires are encased in silver cages in the basement of an upstate New York (actually Ontario) manor home I swear I’ve seen in a movie.

  • Whittling - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • Why PBS Probably Will Never Air Downton Abbey at the Same Time As the U.K.

    May 2024

    Downton Abbey Season 3 - Sundays, January 6 - February 17, 2013 on MASTERPIECE on PBS - Part 7 It wasn’t easy for Downton Abbey addicts to avoid spoilers this season (and for addicts tardy to Sunday’s season finale, there are spoilers in this post).

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    May 2024

    like mother like daughter Feb. 12, 2021 Pink’s New Song With Her Daughter Is the Wholesome Content You NeedWillow Sage Hart previously sang “Cover Me in Sunshine” on her mom’s TikTok.

  • Yes, Beowulf Is a Technological MarvelBut How Does Angelina Jolie Look Naked?

    May 2024

    Like this, pretty much.Courtesy of Paramount The best-reviewed new film in theaters this weekend is Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis’s visually astonishing adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem showcasing some groundbreaking new 3-D and motion-capture technologies.

  • 16 Essential I Love Lucy Episodes

    May 2024

    I Love Lucy was like nothing else on television when it first premiered in 1951. The sitcom, starring real-life married couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, followed the day-to-day life of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in their cozy New York apartment.

  • 18-Year-Old Confesses to Pop Smokes Killing

    May 2024

    The late Pop Smoke. More than three years after the ascendant New York drill rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed, a now-18-year-old has confessed to the killing.

  • 28 Days Later Is Getting Another Sequel 17 Years Later

    May 2024

    7,502 days after the original movie was released, there might be a second sequel to 28 Days Later, possibly even more.

  • 6 Spooky Podcasts to Listen to Right Now

    May 2024

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  • A Guide to Watchmens Stealth Easter Eggs

    May 2024

    Hmm, now who does Angela (Regina King) look like here? Who? Who? HBO’s Watchmen doesn’t just adapt Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s wildly influential DC comic — it tells a whole new story set in its rich universe, 34 years after the action of the source material.

  • A Taxonomy of Semi-autobiographical Comedian Sitcoms

    May 2024

    Comedians have been building shows around their personae since before television. The Burns and Allen Show was a radio program in the ’30s and ’40s about real-life married couple George Burns and Gracie Allen.

  • Adam DeVine Is Butt Hurt, and the Nation Weeps

    May 2024

    Adam DeVine should be having a good day. Peacock has renewed his streaming series, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, for a second season.

  • adrienne maree brown on Why All Organizing Is Science Fiction

    May 2024

    The writer and social-justice facilitator adrienne maree brown thinks we can use organizing like time travel — as a way to transport ourselves into a more communal and sustainable future.

  • Angelica Jade Bastin Author Archive

    May 2024

    performance review Oct. 24, 2022 What Was Brangelina?The couple were always known for their image-making savvy. Now, as their divorce reenters the press cycle, we’re reminded of who’s better at it.

  • At Soho Rep, a Revolutionary Idea: Put the Creative People on Salary

    May 2024

    Sarah Benson, one of the co-directors of the Off–Off Broadway theater Soho Rep, remembers just when she hit her panic point this summer.

  • Baby Reindeer Series-Premiere Recap: Someone to Hang My Curtains

    May 2024

    Baby Reindeer Episode 1 Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Baby Reindeer Episode 1 Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Starting a crime-drama show that is based on a true story can be tricky.

  • Barry Keoghan Wants to Creep You Out in The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    May 2024

    “I’ve said, I made you shed tears for me in Dunkirk, and now I’m going to fuck you up,” says Barry Keoghan.

  • Battlestar Galactica: Cylons Flip Their Wigs!

    May 2024

    This script is good, but there’s not enough drama in it.Photo courtesy of Sci Fi We love just about everything Edward James Olmos does on Battlestar: his stirring speeches, his cool authority in a crisis, his gentlemanly courting of Laura Roslin.

  • Ben Savage on Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World, and the Meaning of Life

    May 2024

    There’s something powerful about an actor like Ben Savage, who ages with his fan base: We watched him play a middle-school and high-school student on Boy Meets World while we were middle-school and high-school students, and now we watch him as a 30-something on Girl Meets World when we are 30-somethings.

  • Bradley Cooper Is Your 2011 Sexiest Man Alive

    May 2024

    Bradley Cooper in Esquire The very handsome Hangover star gets the official stamp of approval from People in this week’s issue, joining the ranks of former SMAs George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, and Johnny Depp (twice, we just learned from extensive research.

  • Bryson Tiller Has Three New Songs, and Theyre Really Good

    May 2024

    Bryson Tiller. Louisville, Kentucky, artist Bryson Tiller debuted in 2015 with TRAPSOUL, an album whose title left little doubt which genres he intended to combine within it.

  • Call Me by Your Names Timothe Chalamet Is a Superfan Who Made It Big

    May 2024

    It was July 3, 2010, and Amar’e Stoudemire was the most-wanted man in New York City. The star basketball player had just opted out of his contract with the Phoenix Suns, and rumors were flying that he was about to sign an insanely lucrative five-year contract with the New York Knicks worth almost $100 million.

  • Checking In on This Years New Network Dramas

    May 2024

    Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a 10 hour movie.

  • Christopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza to Take a Dip in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

    May 2024

    Danny and Roberta. C’mon, jump in! The water’s fine. It’s just the deep blue sea! Christopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza will be taking the dive into Danny and the Deep Blue Sea later this year Off Broadway.

  • Clea DuVall Will Play Alexis Bledels Wife in The Handmaids Tale, Where Gay Marriage Is Definit

    May 2024

    DuVall. Clea DuVall, who has been doing recent television stints on Veep and Better Call Saul, is moving to Gilead as she joins the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale for its second season, per THR.

  • Community Recap: Collect Your Tokens

    May 2024

    Community VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Community VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing Season 5 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It can be easy to look too deeply into any given episode of Community, because the show has so often invited us, via its meta-textuality, to look behind the curtain and not just step through what would be our side of the fourth wall, but through what I suppose would be the show’s second wall, as well.

  • Dakota Johnson Is Actually Great in Daddio

    May 2024

    Those of us who remember the days when Sean Penn was widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation will be pleased with his entertaining turn as a gruff motormouthed cabbie in writer-director Christy Hall’s Daddio, a film set within the confines of a taxi over the course of one New York night.

  • Daredevil Recap: The Origin of Benjamin Poindexter

    May 2024

    Daredevil The Perfect Game Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daredevil The Perfect Game Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » From the start, Daredevil’s third season set out to be a return to form, and it’s kind of amazing how literal it is in its pursuit of that goal.

  • Derry Girls Recap: Teenage Kicks

    May 2024

    Derry Girls The Reunion Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Derry Girls The Reunion Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A quick content warning for this episode: There’s a lot of food-and-eating talk, including extreme dieting, food restriction, and binge-eating; most of it takes place in the first ten minutes.

  • Detroiters and Joe Pera Talks With You Will Make You Feel Better About America

    May 2024

    The Roseanne revival was bit of a Trojan horse. It came in acting like its goal was to tell stories about the people Hollywood forgets — those struggling to get by; those outside of New York, Los Angeles, and increasingly Chicago — when in reality, its motivations were political.

  • Dirty Dancing: Apparently You Cant Have the Time of Your Life Again

    May 2024

    Colt Prattes and Abigail Breslin. Dirty Dancing — the 1987 sleeper hit that convinced a generation that true love involves practicing the lift in a lake and sexy lip-synching to Mickey & Sylvia — is, technically, not a great movie.

  • Drake and J. Cole Battle to Be the GOAT at Ping-Pong, Chess, and Basketball

    May 2024

    Who’s your GOAT, Drake or J. Cole? Wait, no, we’re not talking about rap — we’re talking ping-pong, chess, and basketball.

  • Dylan OBrien Is Ready to Talk About That Accident

    May 2024

    Dylan O’Brien knows you want to know what happened to him. Some people search his face for scars. Others ask the 26-year-old actor questions about the accident in 2016 that nearly cut short his career and could have ended his life.

  • Edelstein on Silver Linings Playbook: Jennifer Lawrence Will Knock You Sideways

    May 2024

    In the psycho-comedy Silver Linings Playbook, bipolar Pat (Bradley Cooper) is newly sprung from a mental hospital and given to smashing things when reminded of his estranged wife, with whom he’s delusionally convinced he’ll be reunited.

  • Edelstein: Frances Ha Is Sour, With Glimpses of Sublimity

    May 2024

    Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha After a series of hate letters to humankind, Noah Baumbach has fashioned an ode to his girlfriend Greta Gerwig’s galumphing adorableness (they co-wrote the script).

  • Edge of Tomorrows Bill Paxton on Trading Quotes With Tom Cruise and Attending James Cameron and K

    May 2024

    Bill Paxton, as fans love to point out, is one of the few actors who has been killed by a Terminator, an alien, and a Predator.

  • Elisabeth Moss Always Gets Final Cut on Her Nude Scenes

    May 2024

    Elisabeth Moss at Cannes. When it comes to onscreen nudity, Elisabeth Moss is not against it — she just wants her say.

  • Emily in Paris Recap: Libert, galit, Nudit

    May 2024

    Emily in Paris Sexy or Sexist Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily in Paris Sexy or Sexist Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We begin with Emily getting a FaceTime from Madeline, who doesn’t even go through the motions of being sorry for Emily for getting dumped by the Human Plot Device (“Doug”).

  • Empire Recap: Happy Birthday, Cookie

    May 2024

    Empire The Tameness of a Wolf Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Empire The Tameness of a Wolf Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Taraji P.

  • Every VeggieTales Silly Song, Ranked

    May 2024

    Larry the Cucumber in various Silly Songs. In 1990, animators Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki had the idea to create a children’s show, using brand-new 3-D computer-animation technology, that would convey Christian themes and teach biblical values and lessons.

  • Evil Recap: Wedding Planning With the Devil

    May 2024

    Evil A Is For Avenging Angel Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil A Is For Avenging Angel Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Leave it to Evil to make angels as terrifying as demons.

  • Fear the Walking Dead - TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Florence Welch to Be Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

    May 2024

    The SparkNotes generation is so well fed. Those 1920s/Great Gatsby–themed parties that all your straight friends have been throwing are creeping their way onto the stage.

  • Game of Thrones Recap: Show Them How it Feels to Lose What They Love

    May 2024

    Game of Thrones The Rains of Castamere Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Game of Thrones The Rains of Castamere Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Weddings manage a neat trick of being both communal experiences and highly personal ones.

  • Gut-Renovating A Dolls House With Jessica Chastain

    May 2024

    The cast in rehearsal. Jamie Lloyd’s production of A Doll’s House peaks before the play itself begins. As members of the audience file into the Hudson Theatre, Jessica Chastain sits motionless in a wooden chair, circling the bare stage on a slow revolve.

  • Hannibal Buress Has Phone Sex with a British Lady on Chris Gethard Shows Phone Sex Episode

    May 2024

    Comedian Chris Gethard’s self-titled public access/web show The Chris Gethard Show had an all-phone sex episode this week, with viewers calling in to have phone sex with Gethard and his panel in a violation of the show’s public access station MNN’s rules.

  • Harmony Korine Is Leaving the Limited Experience of Movie Theaters Behind

    May 2024

    The Aggro Dr1ft director’s new company wants to brand itself the next Supreme, with high-end merch, live performances, and film “experiences.

  • Hayley Kiyoko and Kehlanis What I Need Video Is Exactly What #20GayTeen Needs

    May 2024

    You know how Thelma & Louise was always a film about how men are vile and women should just be with each other, but Hollywood wouldn’t let them be great until their dying breaths?

  • How Far Can We Push This Character?

    May 2024

    Sarah Goldberg bids farewell to Barry and Sally Reed after four “elastic” seasons. “We went as far as we could go.

  • How Marvel Lured Sylvester Stallone (and Those Secret Stars) to Join Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    May 2024

    Sly Stallone. (This article contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.) Marvel movies can take years to make, and that leaves plenty of time for rumors to circulate and scoops to leak.

  • I Thought Oppenheimer Was Mediocre

    May 2024

    What I saw, overheard, and swallowed behind the scenes at the 2024 Oscars. Yvonne McGuinness (right of Cillian Murphy), my new friend.

  • Ice Cube Puts Eric Trump on Thin Ice Over Fake Trump-Hat Photo With 50 Cent

    May 2024

    For the record, that hat says “L.A.” These past few days have been decidedly not good ones for fans of hip-hop giants like Ice Cube, who admitted to working with the Trump administration, and now 50 Cent, who recently endorsed President Trump.

  • IF Looked Like a Surefire Bomb. Now Its on Track to Win Opening Weekend.

    May 2024

    In April, at Las Vegas’ Cinemacon, the trailer for writer-director John Krasinski’s IF debuted to what studio execs euphemistically called a “muted” reaction, but one that might more accurately be described as a resounding who-gives-a-shit?

  • InsecureRecap: The Road Less Traveled

    May 2024

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  • It Tastes Different Playing Armand

    May 2024

    Assad Zaman, the star of Interview With the Vampire’s audacious second season, guesses where his shape-shifting character can go next.

  • J. Cole Explains Losing His Virginity in the Cutest Way Possible: With Puppies!

    May 2024

    You can’t listen to J. Cole’s latest confessional, “Wet Dreamz,” and not do a double-take. Is this man really telling us the embarrassing story of his first time having sex?

  • James Cameron Sent a Long, Rambling Email to Get Linda Hamilton Back for Terminator: Dark Fate

    May 2024

    In the kickoff panel for Terminator: Dark Fate at San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H Thursday, James Cameron, the writer-director of the first two Terminator movies and producer of Dark Fate, beamed in via livestream.

  • Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson Forever

    May 2024

    One of the great pleasures of Asteroid City is reflecting on how this duo’s collaboration has changed over the decades.

  • Jill Soloways I Love Dick Has a Mesmerizing Energy

    May 2024

    Kathryn Hahn in I Love Dick. I didn’t read I Love Dick, but I’ve gathered from reviews that the Amazon series based on Chris Kraus’s memoir-fiction hybrid doesn’t capture the mysterious, self-critical, and cathartic qualities of the book, about how a writer’s obsession with a sociologist and media theorist draws her into a self-destructive spiral.

  • Jimmy Dore - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • Julian Schnabels New Plate Special

    May 2024

    Julian Schnabel, Rose Painting (Near Van Gogh’s Grave) X, 2016. A few weeks back, Julian Schnabel caressed my ear, which is why I’m writing this piece, which partly is about meeting him and not being sure what there might be to write.

  • Keke Palmers Boyfriend Doesnt Know His Place

    May 2024

    Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson. Is this how a second gentleman should be acting? After a video surfaced of Usher serenading Keke Palmer at his Las Vegas show on July 5, her boyfriend Darius Jackson decided to share his opinion on the family matriarch’s dress.

  • Kirstie Alley Remembered by Cheers Cast and More Celebrities

    May 2024

    Former co-stars and friends of Kirstie Alley are mourning the actor after her death was announced December 5.

  • Logan Roy Wouldnt Look Back

    May 2024

    On the rapacious life of Waystar Royco’s patriarch. “I fuckin’ love news”: Logan Roy in Quebec, 1971. Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images “I fuckin’ love news”: Logan Roy in Quebec, 1971.

  • Lukas Haas - Vulture

    May 2024

    the industry Sept. 12, 2007 Edward Norton and Brad Pitt Are Back in the ClubPlus industry news on Roman Polanski, George Romero, and Boaz Yakin.

  • Masters of the Air Recap: The Dirty Bakers Dozen

    May 2024

    Masters of the Air Part 5 Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of the Air Part 5 Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Is there a dramaturg in the house?

  • Matt Goldich on His Work-Life Balance and Debut Standup Album

    May 2024

    “This is the happiest I’ve ever been for sure” is not something I hear a lot of comics say with confidence.

  • Mike White Accepts the Criticism

    May 2024

    The White Lotus creator understands if you feel conflicted about that ending. So does he. Photo: TODD MIDLER/The New York Times/Redux Photo: TODD MIDLER/The New York Times/Redux The White Lotus is a show born out of necessity, an HBO series that creator Mike White could produce quickly and then shoot almost entirely at one location — the Maui Four Seasons — in the fall and winter of 2020.

  • MJ Exists in a Hyperbaric Chamber of Denial

    May 2024

    Do a dance, on the floor, in the round. A show isn’t a deposition; a musical isn’t a witness statement.

  • Movie Review: A Righteous, Belabored Conviction

    May 2024

    Swank and Rockwell in Conviction. With the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck has thoroughly atoned for helping spring O.

  • OutlanderRecap: A House Divided

    May 2024

    Outlander Give Me Liberty Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Outlander Give Me Liberty Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Listen, we will get to the Revolutionary War of it all, but first, we need to talk about Fraser’s Ridge — there are shenanigans afoot!

  • PinkPantheress Is Remastering the Y2K Aesthetic

    May 2024

    The resurgence of turn-of-the-millennium aesthetics in mainstream music — as seen in the 2000s rap fixations of Doja Cat’s Scarlet, the late-’90s R&B samples infiltrating New York drill, and the delightfully crunchy Spiritbox remix of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cobra” — sees the present judging the past’s predictions for itself.

  • Rachel Lindsays Rx Proves Comics Are Perfect for Tackling Mental Illness

    May 2024

    Excerpt from Rx. “You won’t know the shape of your own unraveling until it happens.” So speaks the inked avatar of Rachel Lindsay a few pages into her debut graphic memoir, Rx.

  • Radical Optimism - Vulture

    May 2024

    the vacanza queen May 2, 2024 Guess What Dua Lipa’s Favorite Vaction Spot IsNot Epcot … try again. By Justin Curto

  • Relive the Glory of Rush and Neil Peart With This Rare, Resurfaced Colbert Report Interview

    May 2024

    Back in 2008, Rush delighted one of their all-time biggest fanboys, Stephen Colbert, by stopping by The Colbert Report for their first American television interview in decades.

  • Rosebud Baker Just Wants a Karaoke Date With Justin Bieber

    May 2024

    ​​This 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.

  • Ryan Murphy on Glees Final Season: New Location and Smaller Cast

    May 2024

    After Cory Monteith’s unexpected passing last summer, Ryan Murphy knew he had to change directions with Glee. Suddenly, it felt wrong to be hanging around the high school.

  • Samantha Pitchel Author Archive

    May 2024

    comics to watch Nov. 14, 2017 20 Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2017From Julio Torres to Joel Kim Booster to Sam Jay: Here are the next big things in comedy.

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar Cant Fully Rewatch Buffy

    May 2024

    Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Following allegations that Buffy the Vampire Slayer showrunner Joss Whedon fostered a toxic and misogynistic on-set culture while filming the worshiped supernatural show, Sarah Michelle Gellar immediately stood by her co-stars and their claims.

  • See the First Guardians of the Galaxy Photo

    May 2024

    Marvel released the above first image from next summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy and boy, that’s a ragtag group.

  • Seeing Double: 16 Essential Identical-Twin Movies

    May 2024

    The mysterious nature of twins — particularly identical twins — has been a devious source of curiosity and fascination in Hollywood for time immemorial.

  • Seth Rogen Confronted the Executive Who Canceled Freaks and Geeks for You

    May 2024

    A lot of people were rightfully pissed when Freaks and Geeks was canceled nearly 15 years ago. Maybe the most pissed were members of the cast.

  • Sex Education Recap: Weird Day

    May 2024

    Sex Education Episode 6 Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sex Education Episode 6 Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oftentimes, the best episodes of Sex Education take a top-down approach, beginning with an event (usually school centric) that justifies everyone sharing the same space, then peppering in individual character arcs where they fit.

  • Silicon Valley Recap: Two and a Half Erlichs

    May 2024

    Silicon Valley Bad Money Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Silicon Valley Bad Money Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Twenty-five years ago, my computer science degree manifested itself as a blood-spattered piece of paper scrawled entirely in Latin.

  • Sleepy Hollow Recap: The Whole Tooth

    May 2024

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  • Sorry, You Cant Steal Taylor Swifts Speak Now (Taylors Version) Twice

    May 2024

    Have people learned nothing from listening to “Better Than Revenge”? A temporary employee who reportedly stole ten copies of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) from a warehouse in France was arrested and sentenced to eight months in prison, reports Charts in France.

  • Stephen Colbert Getting Emotional Won Late Night This Week

    May 2024

    Tell us how you feel, Stephen. Can you feel the brand-new day? Can You. Feel the. Brand-new Day? We have reached the end of Election Week 2020, and our national nightmare begins to draw to a close.

  • Super Furry Animals Not So Furry Anymore

    May 2024

    Rhys at an earlier show, imploring the crowd to help him remove this freakin’ helmet.Photo: WireImage We’re sorry to report that the whimsical Welsh band Super Furry Animals seems to have abandoned its full-on Yeti outfits and shiny space suits.

  • Television Without Pity - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • The 12 Best Tennis Scenes in Movies

    May 2024

    Hollywood is short on good tennis movies, but that doesn’t mean tennis isn’t a good movie sport. This article was last updated in 2022 but, with the US Open upon us, we’re giving it another swing.

  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe Is the Most Tasteful Movie Ever Made About Cutting Up a Womans Corpse

    May 2024

    Over the Christmas holiday, moviegoers had a fabulous charcuterie board of big-budget cineplex staples and toned-down, poignant character studies to choose from.

  • The Best Memoirs of 2022

    May 2024

    Personal history meets a careful analysis of the cultural forces that inform it in these standout books. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics.

  • The Big Bang Theory Recap: Relax, Dont Do It

    May 2024

    The Big Bang Theory The Relaxation Integration Season 11 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Big Bang Theory The Relaxation Integration Season 11 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This may be the best proof yet that Sheldon Cooper has become a more self-aware dude: He has decided to grant full control of the planning of his upcoming nuptials to his bride-to-be, Amy Farrah Fowler.

  • The Creator of Doctor Strange Will Not See You Now

    May 2024

    For a recluse, Steve Ditko is surprisingly easy to locate. You won’t see him in public: Despite being one of the most important figures in comics history, the most recent published photograph of the 89-year-old was taken about 50 years ago.

  • The Curious Case Of The Watson Intelligence

    May 2024

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  • The Good Wife Recap: The Law Is a Strange, Sex-Addled Thing

    May 2024

    The Good Wife Long Way Home Season 3 Episode 17 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife Long Way Home Season 3 Episode 17 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Forget Colin Sweeney and his lovechild with Brody’s wife from Homeland (Morena Baccarin, who seems to be reprising her role as the crazy-eyed girl from the coffee shop Marshall dates in his brief hiatus from Lily on How I Met Your Mother, circa 2006.

  • The Greatest Godfather Ending of Them All

    May 2024

    Damnation. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think of the Godfather saga. All these films are about people who’ve been damned, whether they know it or not.

  • The Last of Us Spawns a Second Season (of Pedro Pascal)

    May 2024

    The Last of Us. “I am your cool, slutty daddy,” The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal famously said on the red carpet for HBO’s latest blockbuster series, based on the postapocalyptic video game.

  • The Midnight Club Recap: The Universe Is Stubborn

    May 2024

    The Midnight Club Witch Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Midnight Club Witch Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Witch” is the first episode of The Midnight Club since the premiere to feature two narrated stories, surpassing even the last episode in terms of screen time devoted to storytelling.

  • The Monster Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Most Endearing and Psychedelic of the Bangles, According to Susanna Hoffs

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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 Prom Isnt the Gift to Queer Teens It Thinks It Is

    May 2024

    The Netflix version is a straight person’s imagining of a gay love story for a straight audience … made by a gay person?

  • The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Taylor Swift and Matty Healys Relationship

    May 2024

    Not even Taylor Swift herself could have masterminded this one. Eight years after they were first linked in the press, Swift and the 1975 singer Matty Healy were finally, actually dating — and have now broken up just as quickly, per a new TMZ report.

  • The Tide Brings Becca Kufrin to Bachelor in Paradise

    May 2024

    We all know that the true VIP of Bachelor in Paradise has been, and will always be, Tahzjuan Hawkins, whose use of oil blotters, passion for poolside spaghetti, and past dalliances with contestants’ uncles are destined for their own franchise spinoff at this point.

  • The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Perks of Being a Wallflower Writer-Director Stephen Chbosky

    May 2024

    Over the last few weeks, Vulture has spoken to the screenwriters of 2012’s most notable movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack.

  • The Trick-or-Treat Puzzle

    May 2024

    New crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • The Walking Dead Recap: The Masks They Wear

    May 2024

    The Walking Dead Silence the Whisperers Season 10 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead Silence the Whisperers Season 10 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » TWD has been especially Halloween-y these past two weeks — first with Carol’s spooky visions, and now this episode and its theme of masks.

  • The Watcher Recap: The Unusual Suspects

    May 2024

    The Watcher Occam’s Razor Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Watcher Occam’s Razor Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nora is combing through the phone records, presumably because she thinks one of them will say “Pigtail Ghost Girl,” but instead she discovers the call.

  • Theres No Better Place to Be a Sociopath

    May 2024

    Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve dares you to make it in New York. Reasons to Love New York New York celebrates the city’s timeless, peerless connection to movies.

  • This Is Us Recap: Pieces of Jack

    May 2024

    This Is Us Katie Girls Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us Katie Girls Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hold the phone, people.

  • Watch Sh*t Gay Guys Say to Their Cats

    May 2024

    It’s funny because it’s true. [FourFour] Watch ‘Sh*t Gay Guys Say to Their Cats’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgZny0tMitZKCZqWK0tsXSZqqasV2pvG7Ax56gq2WTlsG0esetpKU%3D

  • Wednesday Recap: I Didnt Just Come Here to Dance

    May 2024

    Wednesday Woe What a Night Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wednesday Woe What a Night Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As is required by teen TV law, there’s a big dance coming up, and everyone except for Wednesday is in a real tizzy about it.

  • Welcome Back, John Mulaney

    May 2024

    A little more than a year ago, comedian John Mulaney was in a very different place. He was still the new comedy boom’s Comic Most Likely to Succeed, a title reinforced by his acclaimed 2012 Comedy Central stand-up special New in Town — which was enjoying a phenomenal second life after its release on Netflix — and his unusually publicized stint as a writer at Saturday Night Live (it helps when you co-create Stefon).

  • What It Was Like Filming Atlantas Teddy Perkins While Donald Glover Stayed in Terrifying Ch

    May 2024

    Benny Hope, folks. Spoilers for Atlanta’s “Teddy Perkins” ahead. “Teddy Perkins” will likely go down as one of the wildest episodes of Atlanta – and television, in general – to ever air, leaving viewers with several unanswered questions.

  • What Jeff Dunham Does Right

    May 2024

    In 2010, Forbes ran a story about the ten highest paid comedians in the country and at the top of that list was ventriloquist Jeff Dunham.

  • What We Lost by Not Having Carrie Fisher in The Rise of Skywalker

    May 2024

    This was supposed to be Princess Leia’s movie. The fact that it couldn’t be is heartbreaking. Since seeing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the final chapter in a trilogy that passed the lightsabers from the original Star Wars heroes to a new generation, I’ve been haunted by one question: How much better would this movie have been if Carrie Fisher were still alive?

  • Which Movie Pimps and Madams Make Good Bosses?

    May 2024

    In Love Ranch, out in theaters today, Helen Mirren plays a madam who, along with husband Joe Pesci, runs the first legalized brothel in Nevada.

  • Which Ryan Murphy Show Is This Hot White Guy In?

    May 2024

    It’s no secret that Ryan Murphy has a rotating troupe of actors he often employs — he’s basically paid for Sarah Paulson’s agent’s house several times over.

  • Who Are All These Spider-People?

    May 2024

    Spider-Man swung back into theaters, and he’s brought web-slingers old and new along with him. Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is one of the most ambitious animated films to ever hit screens, involving a multiversal adventure that mines nearly every aspect of the character’s 60-year history in the form of a Spider Society.

  • Why Jennifer Lawrence Kissed Amy Adams, and 6 Other Things You Need to Know About American Hustle

    May 2024

    I’ll be honest with you, dear reader: There were times during the making of American Hustle that I wondered if it was all just an elaborate front for a Sony-sponsored slumber party thrown by director David O.

  • Yellowjackets Recap: The Darkness

    May 2024

    Yellowjackets Two Truths and a Lie Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowjackets Two Truths and a Lie Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Two Truths and a Lie” is available to stream now via Showtime Anytime; it will make its Showtime network premiere on Sunday, April 23 at 9 p.

  • You Call It Handicapped. I Call Myself Handicapable.

    May 2024

    David Holmes, Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter stunt double, suffered a life-altering injury on set. But that’s far from the most remarkable thing about him.

  • May 2024

    Bill Durgin’s Cyc-15 (2008). Hailed variously as the heir to the Kurt Vonnegut legacy, a Joseph Heller for the 21st century, and a Thomas Pynchon for the post-nuclear era, Nick Harkaway has garnered enough accolades since his recent authorial debut to turn a creative-writing MFA grad green with envy (if they weren’t already, thanks to his legacy: He’s the son of author John Le Carre).

  • 12 Essential Episodes of Letterkenny

    May 2024

    These are strange words to write: Letterkenny is ending. Though it’s only been eight years since the debut of the fan-favorite Canadian sitcom created by and starring Jared Keeso, the series feels like the kind of thing that’s been on forever, or at least the kind of thing that could be on forever.

  • 21 Things You Didnt Know About Twin Peaks

    May 2024

    Before the owls swoop down on Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival this Sunday, it’s no surprise that a lot of people are rewatching the show.

  • 4 Dating-Show Stars on How Reality TV Messed With Their Love Lives

    May 2024

    All week long, Vulture explores what happens to reality TV contestants after the show ends — and the future of the genre itself.

  • 5 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)

    May 2024

    Upward of 150 stand-up specials were released in 2023. That’s a lot — much more than a generation ago, when it was hardly guaranteed that a comedian would ever film one if they weren’t one of the top names in the business.

  • 5 Things We Learned Talking to Wet Hot American Summers Burp King

    May 2024

    There are about 30 major comedic actors in Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, but the biggest breakout performance by far is by Thomas “the Burp King of Westchester” Barbusca.

  • A Few Suggestions for Shgun Season Two

    May 2024

    When Shōgun was airing and prompting questions about whether the hit miniseries, which tells the complete story of the novel upon which it’s based, would continue for more seasons, I was adamantly against the notion despite my adoration of the show.

  • Alan Arkin on Argo, Ben Affleck, and Bad Movies

    May 2024

    As it should be, Alan Arkin gets off the best line in the Argo trailer: “If I’m gonna make a fake movie, I’m gonna make a fake hit!

  • Ali Siddiqs Elaborate Stool-and-Chair Show

    May 2024

    Ali Siddiq in The Domino Effect Part 2: Loss. When the stage lights turn on at the beginning of Ali Siddiq’s new YouTube special The Domino Effect Part 2: Loss, the comedian has already made himself comfortable.

  • An A-Z of Words That Defined the Internet in the 2010s

    May 2024

    Where did “sksksk” come from and why can’t we stop saying it? The why is surprisingly simple: “Humans interact with each other and they’re social and when they find something funny, they repeat it,” says Gretchen McCulloch, internet linguist and author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.

  • An Oral History of Lilo & Stitch

    May 2024

    The beloved Disney movie made in a “secret hangar” that almost brought hand-drawn animation back. “Let’s make the Dumbo for our generation.

  • And Just Like That Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattralls Catfight Wages On

    May 2024

    Now–mortal enemies share a laugh. And just like that, there is apparently no feud between Sarah Jessica Parker and her Sex and the City castmate Kim Cattrall.

  • Ant-Man Is a Different Kind of Marvel Movie

    May 2024

    Marvel’s Ant-Man. The best thing about Marvel’s Ant-Man is that despite a computer-effects team larger than the population of Scandinavia, it plays like a charmingly tacky jet-suit robot picture for kids, the kind Japan used to churn out every week for a couple of thousand yen.

  • Author Jenny Zhang on China, Family, Class, and Her Short-Story Collection Sour Heart

    May 2024

    Jenny Zhang. Though Jenny Zhang first made a name for herself as a poet and online essayist, her true passion has always been writing fiction.

  • Barry Recap: F k the Algorithm

    May 2024

    Barry Crazytimesh*tshow Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Barry Crazytimesh*tshow Season 3 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As we enter the second half of season three, it’s becoming clear that the central focus, in many of its stories, is addressing the past.

  • Breaking Bad Recap: Dirty, Damp, and Deep

    May 2024

    Breaking Bad Green Light Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Breaking Bad Green Light Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Innocence, meet experience.

  • Broad City Recap: Your Precious Asshole

    May 2024

    Broad City Knockoffs Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Broad City Knockoffs Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bobbie just really, really loves bags, Officer.

  • Brooklyn Nine-Nines Stephanie Beatriz Joins the In The Heights Film Adaptation

    May 2024

    Stephanie Beatriz. Vulture has learned from a source with knowledge of the deal that Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz will join the much-anticipated screen adaptation of In the Heights, and she will be playing the role of Carla.

  • Bruno Mars Hits No. 1

    May 2024

    Musician Bruno Mars performs onstage at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.

  • Can We Talk About Sandra Bullocks Back Tattoo in The Proposal for a Second?

    May 2024

    At least it’s not a tramp stamp! While The Proposal isn’t quite being positioned as Sandra Bullock’s big comeback film in the way Duplicity was for Julia Roberts, there’s no doubt that it represents a pivotal point in her career.

  • Chris Evans, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nate Parker, Rami Malek, More Celebrate Prince Day With Interpreti

    May 2024

    June 7 is Prince Day, or what would have been Prince’s 58th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, W magazine got a bunch of celebrities to perform some classic Prince songs, since everybody knows better than to try to match Prince at the real deal.

  • Comics Star Scott Snyder, the Creator of Wytches, Uses Horror As an Antidepressant

    May 2024

    Scott Snyder has had one of the faster rises to fame in recent comics history, and he shows no sign of slowing down.

  • Darius Rucker on the Best of Hootie and the Hits That Shouldve Been

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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.

  • Death, Dogs, and Eloise Made the Plaza Hotel What It Is Today

    May 2024

    Truman Capote and Katharine Graham attending the Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in 1966. The Plaza Hotel has been a symbol of New York elegance since its opening in 1907.

  • Did You Know That Tom Cruise Used to Look Like This?

    May 2024

    Tom Cruise (Photo by Barry King/WireImage) The new Tom Cruise film Oblivion takes place far into the future, but on this hashtagged holiday we call Throwback Thursday, let’s venture into Cruise’s past.

  • Disability - Vulture

    May 2024

    a long talk Apr. 11, 2022 How Chloé Cooper Jones Changed Her MindIn her memoir Easy Beauty, the writer confronts a subject she’d long avoided: her own experience of disability.

  • Doja Cats New Scarlet Cover Isnt Even Scarlet

    May 2024

    Update, August 31: Doja Cat debuted a new cover for her album Scarlet, just over a day after releasing the first one, which was nearly the same as a cover for the band Chaver.

  • Drakes Latest Starring Role: The Rich Flex Memes

    May 2024

    The great philosopher Abel Tesfaye once said, “My girl, she’s a movie star.” From musicians becoming movie stars to movie stars becoming musicians (or musicians and movie stars coming together for the ultimate collab: making babies), the rhythmically gifted have always been infatuated with the silver screen.

  • Drew Barrymore Refuses to Kink-Shame Megan Fox and MGK

    May 2024

    You could do worse than getting your news only from the “Drew’s News” segment of The Drew Barrymore Show.

  • Every Drag Race RuMix, Ranked

    May 2024

    Being a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race is living in a state of perpetual anticipation: anticipation for the next season, since the show refuses to let any of us breathe before hitting us with another installment; anticipation for the lewks and fashuns in the upcoming season; anticipation for how the show’s staple challenges will be integrated into the season to come.

  • Every Episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Ranked

    May 2024

    This article was originally published on Splitsider in 2017 and has been updated to reflect the show’s most recent episodes.

  • Every Gushing Thing Shia LaBeouf Had to Say About John McEnroe

    May 2024

    Shia LeBeouf in Borg/McEnroe. John McEnroe may not be too thrilled about Shia LaBeouf playing him in Borg/McEnroe, the psychological thriller about the greatest tennis rivalry of all time that’s opening the Toronto International Film Festival today.

  • Fast X Feels Like a Head Injury

    May 2024

    I didn’t hate it! The Fast & Furious franchise has been about many things since it started as a comparatively modest street-racing thriller back in 2001.

  • Floribama Shore - TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Game of Thrones Kit Harington on His Jon Snow Theories, Favorite Fan Site, and Season-Two Sex

    May 2024

    Kit Harington as Jon Snow. Last season on Game of Thrones (which returns to HBO on April 1), the men of the Night’s Watch were riding off to investigate whatever it is that lies beyond the other side of the Wall, while the people of Westeros braced for war.

  • Gayles abcdefu and 10 More Extremely Cursed Radio Edits

    May 2024

    Radio edits are, for the most part, a necessary evil. In an industry bound by the FCC, there are some things that simply can’t be broadcast over the public airwaves without getting bleeped, censored, or dubbed, and certain radio formats offer varying degrees of resistance to anything that deviates too much from conventional song lengths or structures.

  • George Lucas Is Being Cranky at Cannes

    May 2024

    And, no, he will not re-releasing his original versions of the first Star Wars trilogy anytime soon, thank you.

  • Get Up We Got That New NewJeans

    May 2024

    Sugar, spice, and a New Jersey type of beat. These are the ingredients chosen to create a perfect NewJeans single.

  • Girls Season 3 Finale Recap: One of Those Artist Couples

    May 2024

    Girls Two Plane Rides Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Girls Two Plane Rides Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After Adam walks out of the stage door in his beautiful suit; after he tells Hannah, “I’m sick of trying to work it out.

  • Good Omens Season-Finale Recap: Somethings Getting Closer

    May 2024

    Good Omens Every Day Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Good Omens Every Day Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » I knew it!

  • Hey, Its Time to Download Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet, and the Social Experiments Surf P

    May 2024

    Chance the Rapper. Chance the Rapper’s Surf has finally arrived, in all its beautifully diverse-sounding and free-of-cost glory. As Chance told Billboard last year, the record is not so much his.

  • How Car Seat Headrest Wrote His Fraught, Least-Favorite New Song, Not What I Needed

    May 2024

    Will Toledo, performing a song he wrote When Vulture recently highlighted the entertainment world’s “busiest creators,” one musician who sprung to mind was Will Toledo, the young architect of indie outfit Car Seat Headrest.

  • How Last Night in Soho Re-created the Swinging 60s in London

    May 2024

    “It became a war of attrition to keep the modern world at bay, the only way being to push them all out with tons of period extras and cars.

  • I May Destroy You, Ill Be Gone in the Dark, and the Therapeutic Power of Narrative

    May 2024

    This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.

  • In Conversation: Michael Mann

    May 2024

    The director on his inspiration rooms, clubbing with cocaine importers, and the obsessive research he did for Ferrari. Photo: Amanda Demme Photo: Amanda Demme This article was originally published on October 10.

  • Influencers Biggest Collab? The SAG-AFTRA Strike

    May 2024

    Hollywood red-carpet premieres justaren’t looking the same these days since SAG-AFTRA joined the WGA in a strike against the AMPTP.

  • Janet Planet Will Grow on You

    May 2024

    Annie Baker’s coming-of-age film features a career-best performance from Julianne Nicholson as a crunchy single mom living in Western Massachusetts.

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt Answers Every Question We Have About Heartbreakers

    May 2024

    Before Anna Delvey, there were Page and Max Conners, a mother-daughter duo of man-eating, money-stealing gold diggers with thotty style.

  • Jhen Aiko Gives You NSFW Aaliyah With New P*$$Y FAIRY (OTW) Music Video

    May 2024

    Aaliyah didn’t invent dancing in a midriff top in front of an industrial fan inside a warehouse, but between her “One in a Million” and “Be My Somebody” music videos, it basically feels like she did.

  • Jim Jefferies Talks With Anthony Jeselnik About Being the Gun Guy, How to Remain Offensive, an

    May 2024

    Though comedians Jim Jefferies and Anthony Jeselnik have very different writing styles, personas, and deliveries, their jokes share one very important quality: They offend people.

  • Joss Whedons Ex-Wife Writes Essay Accusing Him of Feminist Hypocrisy: He Is Not Who He P

    May 2024

    Writer-director Joss Whedon has a long, somewhat complicated history with the depiction of women in film, taking heat for female story lines in his own movies including Avengers: Age of Ultron, while simultaneously critiquing what he perceives as sexism in films like Jurassic World.

  • Kid Rock Is Using Foreign-Made BBQ Grills As Target Practice

    May 2024

    Kid Rock has recently decided that shooting at foreign-made grills is the best way to promote his own line. The grills are catapulted into the air, and the rest is history.

  • Late-Night Hosts Have a Lot to Catch Up On

    May 2024

    It’s been a long five months for the suits and ties of late night. Less than one week after the WGA writers strike ended, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jimmy Fallon stepped into their respective studios and welcomed a live audience for the first time since May.

  • Lets Talk About the Ending of 1917

    May 2024

    Ahead of the 2020 Academy Awards, Vulture is revisiting the endings of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Ahead of the 2020 Academy Awards, Vulture is revisiting the endings of this year’s Best Picture nominees.

  • Like Abbott Elementarys Melissa, Lisa Ann Walter Has a Guy for Everything

    May 2024

    Without its perfect ensemble, Abbott Elementary wouldn’t be such a runaway smash. One of those standout players is Lisa Ann Walter.

  • Linda Cardellini Breaks Down Judys Emotional Dead to Me Roller Coaster

    May 2024

    Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.

  • Lisa Barlow Sings You a Christmas Carol

    May 2024

    Day 25: Let It Barlow Twenty-five moments, one per day in the walkup to Christmas, that brought definition to reality TV’s ever-blurring lines in 2023.

  • Love & Hip Hop Deserves More Respect for How It Portrays Queer Sexuality

    May 2024

    L-R: Nikki Mudarris and Rosa Acosta On the latest season of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, which airs its third-season finale tonight, one of its stars, Nikki Mudarris, is in a love triangle involving a man, Safaree (a.

  • Make Your Own Stranger Things Christmas Light Messages

    May 2024

    One of the best parts of Stranger Things is the way that characters in the show are able to communicate.

  • Masters of Sex Recap: Nonmetaphorical Gorilla

    May 2024

    Masters of Sex Monkey Business Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of Sex Monkey Business Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Annaleigh Ashford as Betty and Sarah Silverman as Helen.

  • MGMT, Parquet Courts, and the End of the World

    May 2024

    MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage. At the beginning of the 2010s, indie was still struggling to get out of bed.

  • Michael Weatherly Is Leaving NCIS Because Nothing Lasts Forever

    May 2024

    Michael Weatherly. Where’s the Gibbs-slap when you need it? THR reports that NCIS veteran Michael Weatherly (a.k.a. Tony DiNozzo, to fans) will leave the series at the end of the current season.

  • Movies About Life Are Also Movies About Death. Just Ask the Director of The Land Before Time.

    May 2024

    The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation Presented by The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation Presented by Same, Littlefoot.

  • Murderville Is So Silly, and Doesnt That Sound Nice Right Now?

    May 2024

    Will Arnett and Conan O’Brien in Murderville. When you’re stuck in the miserable February doldrums, nothing hits as well as extremely silly television.

  • Nope, Were Still Not Sick of Umbrella

    May 2024

    Photo: Getty Images 1. Rihanna, “Umbrella (Total Bummer mix)” DJ Marcos Efe turns in a jackbooted bummer of a remix on 2007’s de facto jam of the year.

  • Not the Man They Think He Is at Home

    May 2024

    He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades. But do we really know Elton John? Photo: Jack Robinson/Condé Nast via Getty Images There’s an incident from early on in Elton John’s career that reminds us how peculiar it has been.

  • Pack Up and Fly Away From The Bachelors Big Boy Pilot

    May 2024

    Pilot Hunk, the artist formerly known as Peter Weber, is having a pretty fun time waning down his 30 sobbing Hannahs on The Bachelor.

  • Prophets of Rage Break Up Ahead of Rage Against the Machine Reunion Shows

    May 2024

    On Friday, Billboard confirmed that Rage Against the Machine will reunite to headline next year’s Coachella Festival. The band’s verified Instagram account has since posted several other spring shows at the end of March in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, which you can see below, but the long and the short of it is this: Now that the Machine is back in working order, Prophets of Rage is headed to the recycling bin.

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    May 2024

    the industry Sept. 17, 2010 Industry Roundup: Murphy, Gordon, FullerPlus: Jennifer Love Hewitt to headline “female ‘Big Bang Theory.’” By Josh Duboff

  • Ray Romano Shot His First Explicit Sex Scene for Vinyl and Will Now Explain How You Really Love Raym

    May 2024

    On the Tonight Show last night, Ray Romano claimed that he shot his first-ever sex scene for HBO’s Vinyl.

  • Remembering Denis Johnson

    May 2024

    It’s difficult to write about being fucked-up on drugs because the point for the user is the experience of the derangement not the telling of it.

  • Remembering What the Hell Happened on Manifest

    May 2024

    Ah, Manifest, the show that really makes a case for never taking an airline voucher in exchange for getting bumped to a later flight.

  • Rose Byrnes Gigantic Spy Hair Was Supposed to Get Its Own Credit

    May 2024

    Rose Byrne has been doing scene-stealing work in a host of comedies over the past few years, so it’s no surprise that she waltzes away with this week’s Melissa McCarthy espionage comedy Spy, where she plays a snooty Bulgarian arms dealer.

  • Ryan Murphy Reveals the Supernatural Sex Shenanigans of American Horror Story

    May 2024

    All of a sudden, cable dramas have gotten sucked into a prestige trap: If they needlessly elongate and stretch their plotlines, then somehow that slowness can be worn as a badge of honor.

  • Sacha Baron Cohen Stoops to Blow-Job Jokes With Joe Arpaio on Who Is America?

    May 2024

    Last month Joe Arpaio — the Arizona sheriff best known for presiding over a jail he proudly called a “concentration camp” and receiving a pardon from Trump — revealed that he was one of the conservative figures pranked for Sacha Baron Cohen’s show.

  • Saltz: As Auction Houses Win, Art Lovers Lose

    May 2024

    Christopher Wool’s “Apocalypse Now” Tonight, sometime after 7 p.m., Christopher Wool’s signature 1988 work, Apocalypse Now, will be auctioned at Christie’s, and estimates for the selling price are in the $10 to 15 million range; the last week or so has seen similarly record-high contemporary art purchases.

  • Shopping for Books With The Goldfinchs Aneurin Barnard

    May 2024

    Before meeting Aneurin Barnard, it occurs to me that I have no idea what his actual voice sounds like.

  • Should You Watch Netflixs New Horror Movie The Platform?

    May 2024

    Even when there’s not a global pandemic sending movies straight past theaters and onto streaming platforms, there always seems to be a new horror movie available to watch from home, serving some form of blunt-force commentary on society’s more acute woes.

  • SNL Recap: Alec Baldwin Fires Back at Donald Trump

    May 2024

    Saturday Night Live Charles Barkley Season 43 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Charles Barkley Season 43 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Though Charles Barkley has hosted three previous times, it’s worth remembering the sheer duration of and details related to his affiliation with SNL.

  • Strike Force Five Heralds Podcastings First True Supergroup

    May 2024

    Jimmy, Seth, John, Stephen, Jimmy. On August 29, Spotify surprise-announced the launch of Strike Force Five, a new podcast collaboration between the late-night hosts Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and the Jimmies (Kimmel and Fallon).

  • Taylor Swift and Bon Iver Find Perfect Harmony on exile

    May 2024

    It’s one of the songs superfans will find hardest to “crack” on the album. If you were picking the most National-esque Taylor Swift song, pre-folklore (a task that would’ve felt like a fool’s errand before yesterday), you could make a strong case for “The Last Time.

  • The 30 Best Characters of Tim and Erics Awesome Show Universe

    May 2024

    From left: John C. Reilly, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Paul Rudd. For your health. Guesting on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

  • The 8 Worst Lines on R. Kellys 19-Minute New Song I Admit

    May 2024

    Kelly. If you were hoping to start your week on a good note, exit this post. Nothing but pain and suffering lie ahead.

  • The Birthday Boys Tim Kalpakis Has 10 Dads

    May 2024

    Here’s a sketch from this Friday’s episode of IFC’s The Birthday Boys, in which Birthday Boy Tim Kalpakis explains the evolving concept of what makes a family… and introduces you to his 10 dads.

  • The Crown Recap: Dracula Royal Family

    May 2024

    The Crown Hope Street Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown Hope Street Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s no question that a lot happened in the royal family in 2002.

  • The Eight Manliest Collaborations of All-Time

    May 2024

    HBO’s David Milch–Michael Mann horse-racing drama Luck sneakily premiered last December after the Boardwalk Empire finale. This Sunday night Luck begins its nine-episode run with an encore of the premiere (read our review here), officially firing the starting gun on a season of weathered scowls, profanity-filled Milch-ian dialogue, and troughs full of testosterone.

  • The Enemy of Net Neutrality Is a Guy Who Wont Stop Tweeting Big Lebowski Quotes

    May 2024

    FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a bureaucrat who revels in his nerd status. He sips coffee from an oversized Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup mug, and also is out to slash net neutrality at its root, according to John Oliver.

  • The Fashion Secrets of Grace and Frankie

    May 2024

    Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.

  • The Flash Mob, and Other Pop-Culture References That Need an Early Retirement

    May 2024

    Among its many current and not-as-current pop-cultural references (how’ve you been, John Mayer?), Friends With Benefits, the romantic comedy co-starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis that came out last weekend, includes two over-the-top New York City flash mobs.

  • The Flight AttendantRecap: On the Rocks

    May 2024

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  • The Good Wifes Christine Baranski: From Skinny Funny Girl to Ten-Time Emmy Nominee

    May 2024

    11 Feb 2011 — Christine Baranski — Image by © F. Scott Schafer/Corbis Outline Christine Baranski just keeps getting discovered.

  • The Haunting of Hill House Premiere Recap: Darkness Within

    May 2024

    The Haunting of Hill House Steven Sees A Ghost Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Haunting of Hill House Steven Sees A Ghost Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » First, a confession: I’ve never gone into a TV show with more trepidation.

  • The Last of Uss Most Interesting Game Departures Explained

    May 2024

    The season-one finale opens with Ellie’s birth and the death of Ellie’s mother, Anna (Ashley Johnson), a story hinted at but never fully told until now.

  • The Public Theater - Vulture

    May 2024

    theater review Jan. 13, 2023 When Online Drama Begets Stage DramaSeven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Your Sexts Are Shit will have you wondering, yet again, about being extremely online.

  • The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Brynn Is Giving

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of New York City The Most Brynnteresting Girl in the Room Season 14 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City The Most Brynnteresting Girl in the Room Season 14 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have the reputation of being a picky eater, but there are only three things that I don’t eat, but they are major ones.

  • The Real Housewives of Salt Lake CityRecap: I Just Blessed It, Its Blessed

    May 2024

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  • The Tim, Jeremy, and Rajat Experience

    May 2024

    Just three galaxy brains. While half-checking your phone on Thanksgiving, you may have noticed that Tim Heidecker’s podcast Office Hours Live was on the air, but this was not an ordinary week for the talk show.

  • The Unerring Power of This Womans Work

    May 2024

    Elisabeth Moss in the Kate Bush–backed Handmaid’s Tale scene. Spoilers below for The Handmaid’s Tale season two.

  • The Vampire Diaries Recap: I Promise

    May 2024

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  • Theater Review: Trying to Breathe Life Into Little Me

    May 2024

    Rachel York and Christian Borle in Little Me. Almost since the series began in 1994, Encores! has sparked arguments about what kinds of old musicals it should be reviving.

  • These Weeknd Lyrics About Dating Someones Ex Are Absolutely Not a Shot at Justin Bieber

    May 2024

    In a move that is totally unrelated to his current relationship with Selena Gomez, the Weeknd has made a case for why he’s a good rebound for a woman who dumped a loser.

  • Timing is Everything: The Comedy of Bob Hope

    May 2024

    For over half a century, Bob Hope was arguably the most famous and beloved comedian in America. Like most comics from his era, he started as a song and dance man in Vaudeville and slowly made his way up the ranks through radio, stage, and ultimately into the movies, where his brand of acerbic humor won him accolades as well as fame.

  • Tony Awards Bleep Out (Reclaimed!) Gay Slur

    May 2024

    He even yells with vibrato. Pull out the poppers rainbow flags, blend out your contour lines, and throw on a foreign film with explicit gay scenes, because tonight is a night for the —.

  • Travis Scott Says Amanda Lepore Was Upstaging His Album Cover

    May 2024

    Travis Scott. Travis Scott released his newest album Astroworld on Thursday night, but by Saturday he was releasing statements asserting his respect for the LGBTQ community.

  • Two Filmmakers Rented Out a Theater and Got the No. 1 Movie in America

    May 2024

    Eric Tabach and Christian Nilsson. Despite the nationwide upheaval caused by the coronavirus, the great American love of exploiting loopholes remains undimmed.

  • Watch Adam Driver Eavesdrop on Method Man Rapping in this Clip From Paterson

    May 2024

    In Jim Jarmusch movies, the world tends to be alive with possibility — including the possibility of running into Method Man in a Paterson, New Jersey, laundromat.

  • Watch Cline Dions Concert Tribute to Her Late Husband Ren Anglil [Updated]

    May 2024

    Céline Dion returned to her residency at Las Vegas’s the Colosseum Tuesday night, following the death of her husband, René Angélil, in January.

  • Watch Shangela Explain Cis Women Drag Queens to Andy Cohen on WWHL

    May 2024

    Andy Cohen does not understand the drag culture of 2021, nor does he pretend to. On Tuesday night’s WWHL, Cohen asked Shangela how a cis woman could be considered a drag queen.

  • Watch the Lonely Islands New Video for Spring Break Anthem

    May 2024

    Hey, fans of Internet things, the Internet has mashed up a few of your favorite things into one handy four-minute video.

  • Welcome to Crappie Lake TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • What to Know About HBOs The Vow and the NXIVM Sex Cult

    May 2024

    NXIVM members as seen in HBO’s The Vow. Like recent docuseries about Scientology and R. Kelly, among others, HBO’s The Vow explores the many ways a charismatic man can groom a flock of willing participants and impressionable victims.

  • Whats at Venice Film Festival? Fast Cars, Fake Noses, and (Some) Movie Stars.

    May 2024

    Michael Mann’s Ferrari, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro are among the films at this year’s mid-strike fest. It’s been well over 100 days, and Hollywood is still on strike.

  • Which Streaming Service Do You Actually Want?

    May 2024

    Helping you navigate the many, many, many, many, many, many, many options out there. There are dozens of streaming services these days, and some of them are even pretty good.

  • Why Women Kills Consideration of Womens Anger Is Fun, But Hollow

    May 2024

    Ginnifer Goodwin’s performance as Beth Ann in the 1963 segments of Why Women Kill is the series’s secret weapon.

  • Yes, Succession Fans, Napoleons Severed Penis Is Actually a Collectors Item

    May 2024

    Connor Roy, on to something for once. Amid the many weird, ultrarich hobbies that consume the Roy family on Succession, none are as strange as the hobbies that consume Connor Roy.

  • Your Favorite Childhood Movie Is Not Very Good

    May 2024

    Before I begin, let me put a disclaimer here: I love the 90’s. In my fantasies, I would have been able to scrap up some level of fame prior to the airing of VH1’s I Love The 90’s, so that I could be a talking head next to Michael Ian Black, and tell the world how strongly I felt about the decade.

  • Zadie Smiths Intimations Makes a Joyful Case for Inconsistency

    May 2024

    Time has been doing wild things over the past few months, but in some ways it’s easier to mark the passage of it since the pandemic began.

  • Great Moments in Blonde Hair, Dark Eyebrows

    May 2024

    hair December 8, 2014 5:20 pm By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 16 Photos Today, Justin Bieber shocked the world by revealing his new blond hair.

  • 7 Ways Six Feet Under Influenced Transparent

    May 2024

    I loved Transparent, Amazon’s dreamy dramedy starring Jeffrey Tambor. The ten-episode series explores family and gender and sexuality and how hard it is to be who we are, especially if we don’t want to think about who we were.

  • A Fact-checked Guide to I, Tonya

    May 2024

    The upcoming biopicI, Tonya is a darkly comedic rendering of the life of figure skater Tonya Harding — from her early days at the ice rink in Portland, Oregon’s Lloyd Center mall to the Nancy Kerrigan incident and her subsequent flameout at the Lillehammer Olympic Games in 1994.

  • A Guide to The Dark Tower Seriess Weirdest Words and Phrases

    May 2024

    The Dark Tower. The Dark Tower series probably wasn’t meant to have an encyclopedia. Stephen King is about as improvisatory as a writer of fiction can be, almost never outlining or plotting in advance, or overly questioning his decisions and inventions.

  • A Little of The Suicide Squad Goes a Long Way

    May 2024

    Margot Robbie in The Suicide Squad. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad — equal parts sequel and reboot to 2016’s much-reviled but ultimately profitable Suicide Squad — offers so much rapid-fire irreverence that it’s sometimes hard to figure out if it’s even supposed to be a movie.

  • A News Anchor Says Beyonc Asked to Use Her Anti-Beyonc Super Bowl Rant for the Formation Tour, a

    May 2024

    It doesn’t matter if you’re playing the Devil herself in cities all over the globe. This is Beyoncé we’re talking about.

  • A Spoofy Podcast Builds Upon Its Poopy First Season

    May 2024

    The turd became a story, and the story became a podcast. In 2018, two Brits named Karen Whitehouse and Helen McLaughlin were holding their wedding reception on a boat in Amsterdam when the unthinkable happened: A sizable turd was discovered on the floor of the women’s bathroom, its origins mysterious.

  • Alan Arkin, Oscar and Tony Winner, Dead at 89

    May 2024

    Alan Arkin, an American treasure known for his dry delivery and understated pathos, has died. He was 89. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” his sons Adam, Matthew, and Anthony told People.

  • Alexandra Daddario Joins Cast of Baywatch Movie; Has Begun Professional Training for Slow-Motion Run

    May 2024

    The Rock and Daddario. Get ready for muscles, boobs, and sharks! According to the Rock’s Instagram, he’s damn good at lip-syncing “All I Want For Christmas Is You” while driving.

  • All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Driving Lessons

    May 2024

    All Creatures Great and Small Papers Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Papers Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We knew it was coming.

  • Amber Heard Addresses Johnny Depp Stans and Social Media in New Testimony

    May 2024

    On Thursday, Amber Heard took the stand for the last time in the much-memed and -dissected Heard-Depp defamation trial.

  • AMC Is Sucking the Rights From Anne Rices Vampire Novels

    May 2024

    After several years of patiently waiting to be invited into a network’s garlic-free home, the original queen of sexy vampire literature, Anne Rice, is finally coming to the small screen.

  • American Crime Recap: In the System

    May 2024

    American Crime Episode Two Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Crime Episode Two Season 3 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sandra Oh as Abby Tanaka.

  • And Just Like That Cant Stop Failing Its New Characters

    May 2024

    I couldn’t help but wonder, Why is this show patently unable to render Lisa, Seema, Nya, and Che in unembarrassing ways?

  • Answering Your Biggest Shape of Water Question: Does She F*ck the Fish-Man?

    May 2024

    The Shape of Water. As you might be able to tell from the headline, this post spoils one particular aspect of The Shape of Water.

  • Aspiring Screenwriter Robert Joe Halderman Insists That He Just Wanted to Sell David Letterman

    May 2024

    Well, isn’t this rich? As expected, Robert “Joe” Halderman showed up in a Manhattan courtroom this morning with his press-hungry attorney Gerald Shargel and asked the judge to dismiss the extortion charges that were filed against him.

  • Bad Bunny and Drake Are Making Offers Their Fans Cant Refuse

    May 2024

    Rappers love gangster stories. They see themselves in the struggle between power and paranoia, in wondering whether the people eyeing them in public spaces are only coveting their wealth or scheming to make off with a piece of it.

  • Bad Bunny Isnt Worried About Losing Fans Over Dating Rumors

    May 2024

    Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny is gonna do Bad Bunny, even if fans don’t like it. In an interview with Time, the Grammy-winning artist declined to comment on rumors that he’s dating Kendall Jenner and the ensuing backlash from folks who felt betrayed by his choice of partner (he’s long said he prefers Latin women and culture.

  • Black Panthers Costume Designer on 8 of the Films Iconic Looks

    May 2024

    Black Panther. When you think of Wakanda, the futuristic African country that is the setting of Ryan Coogler’s smash-hit superhero movie Black Panther, you can’t help but picture its fabulously dressed citizens.

  • BTS Dance Barefoot to Black Swan on The Late Late Show

    May 2024

    There’s no better place for BTS’ new era to kick off than The Late Late Show With James Corden. First of all, boy bands historically create some iconic content on The Late Late Show (looking at you, “Tattoo Roulette w/ One Direction“).

  • Comedy Undercard: Full House vs. Saved by the Bell

    May 2024

    Vulture is in the midst of 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.

  • Community Recap: Regional Holiday Music

    May 2024

    “Me so Christmas, me so merry.” “Regional Holiday Music” wasn’t the last episode of Community, but a part wouldn’t be too sad — more sad?

  • Cousin Greg? More Like Creepy Greg.

    May 2024

    Nothing screams psychological thriller like being locked in a closet with your bad date. Which is exactly what goes down in an exclusive first-look clip from the October 6 film Cat Person, directed by Susanna Fogel from a screenplay written by Michelle Ashford.

  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Recap: Encores

    May 2024

    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend I’m Finding My Bliss Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Crazy Ex-Girlfriend I’m Finding My Bliss Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is back from hiatus and ready to unleash its final four episodes.

  • Crosswords - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • David Fincher No Longer Attached to Angelina Jolies Cleopatra

    May 2024

    Talks have broken off between Sony and director David Fincher for a planned remake of Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie. The studio is now seeking other candidates (including, but not limited to, Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee – though negotiations have not commenced with Lee, nor has an offer been made).

  • David Leitch Continues the Campaign for a Best Stunts Oscar

    May 2024

    “Yeah, boy! Stunts!” Two characters yell this while high-fiving each other in the trailer for David Leitch’s upcoming film The Fall Guy, and that’s sort of how it feels to watch one of Leitch’s movies, which include the first John Wick (co-directed with Chad Stahelski), Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, and last year’s Bullet Train.

  • Dead to Me Season Premiere Recap: 2 Broken Girls

    May 2024

    Dead to Me Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Dead to Me Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Grief, friendship, and forgiveness swirl into a fascinating character study in Netflix’s excellent new Dead to Me, a dark comedy with the twists and turns of a true-crime docuseries.

  • Dear Seth Meyers, We Are Begging You to Not Cut Your Hair

    May 2024

    Haircut? We vote NO. Look at that screenshot of Seth Meyers. Look at that hair! As the only major network late-night host to not return to the studio yet (not counting Jimmy Kimmel, who is still on hiatus and having guest hosts fill in for him), Meyers has had more time than anyone to settle in with quarantine life, and that includes the slow but steady transition into a hairstyle that is dangerously close to the point where Seth could pull it back into a tiny ponytail.

  • Derry Girls Season Two Will Be More Emotional, But Still Extremely Irish

    May 2024

    Watching Derry Girls is a little like reliving your teenage years, if your teenage years involved accidentally setting an apartment on fire or witnessing an elderly nun die of heart failure in detention.

  • Don Yelton - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • Ebiri on R.I.P.D.: So Blah We Cant Even Be Bothered to Come Up With a Jokey Headline

    May 2024

    R.I.P.D. God, where do I start? R.I.P.D. seems like a bad idea from the get-go, but there are glimmers along the way of the film it could have been.

  • For All Mankind Recap: Way Down in the HAB

    May 2024

    For All Mankind The Sands of Ares Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind The Sands of Ares Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Throughout “The Sands of Ares,” I kept heaving little sighs, thinking, What if this were normal?

  • Full Circle Recap: Flailing

    May 2024

    Full Circle Loyalty Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Full Circle Loyalty Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Many of the best crime thrillers and heist movies are sustained by characters screwing up.

  • G.I. Joe Photos Confirm Sienna Millers Promise: Guns, Tits, Ass, No Acting

    May 2024

    From left, Rachel Nichols as Scarlett; Channing Tatum as Duke.Courtesy of Paramount Paramount’s publicity department has been busy the past two days populating the Internet with photos from its upcoming G.

  • Give Jennifer Lawrences Bangs an Oscar for their Red Sparrow Performance

    May 2024

    The more you think about Red Sparrow, the better it gets. There’s so much to be transfixed by: It’s more bonkers than Mother!

  • Harrison Ford Was High as Shit on Conan Last Night

    May 2024

    Before Reggie Watts killed it on Conan last night, Harrison Ford showed up in a state that can only be described as being fucked out of his mind.

  • Hilary Duff Goes Full Cinderella Story, Marries Matthew Koma

    May 2024

    Hilary Duff has officially tied the knot with singer-songwriter Matthew Koma, in a backyard ceremony that included their children, Luca and Banks.

  • House of Villains Recap: New York State of Mind

    May 2024

    House of Villains Dance With the Devil Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of Villains Dance With the Devil Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Another week, another iconic villain was ejected from the competition and flung through the wall, leaving us down a second top-notch TV personality and sadly depriving us of weeks of holy grail one-liners and reads that will leave even those of us untargeted shaking in their boots.

  • How Buster Scruggs, Godless, and Westworld Pulled Off Those Gun Stunts

    May 2024

    If you watch the end credits of the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs carefully, one credit pops out: “Gunslinger — Joey Rocketshoes Dillon.

  • How Sara Gruen Lost Her Life

    May 2024

    The Water for Elephants author’s six-year fight to free an incarcerated man left her absolutely broke and critically ill. Letters exchanged between Sara Gruen and Charles Murdoch over the years.

  • I Owe My Entire Life to Laurie Strode

    May 2024

    Jamie Lee Curtis traces her every success —from Trading Places to Knives Out — straight back to Halloween. Photo: JJ Geiger For a horror-movie fan, there are few thrills greater than interviewing Jamie Lee Curtis.

  • Ike Barinholtz Owes His Big Jeopardy! Victory to Eyes Wide Shut

    May 2024

    “I think celebrities are always a little afraid of looking dumb. You know what I mean?” About 20 years ago, Ike Barinholtz played Alex Trebek in one of his early sketches on MADtv.

  • Im an On-Set COVID Person, Whatever That Means

    May 2024

    As production resumes amid the pandemic, a new role is causing confusion and consternation. Anonymous in Hollywood Vulture’s Anonymous in Hollywood asks people to share their most unbelievable, tragic, common, hilarious reflections on the industry, no names attached.

  • Is Tails in the New Sonic the Hedgehog Movie?

    May 2024

    Sonic and Tails, best buds. Warning: This post contains spoilers about the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie and its post-credits scenes.

  • James Spader on The Blacklist, Shaving His Head, and His Stint on The Office

    May 2024

    James Spader. James Spader claims to know very little about his latest character, Raymond Red Reddington, the enigmatic center of NBC’s new thriller, The Blacklist, which premieres tonight.

  • Jason Momoas SNL Monologue Goes Swimmingly

    May 2024

    Jason Momoa’s Saturday Night Live monologue, clocking in at just under three minutes, was so quick that you’d think he played The Flash instead of Aquaman.

  • Jenna Fischer - Vulture

    May 2024

    the industry Nov. 4, 2008 Charlize Theron, Tom Cruise, Caught in ‘Tourist’ TrapPlus: Ron Livingston returns to TV! Jane Fonda returns to Broadway!

  • Jenny Holzers Word Salad

    May 2024

    Jenny Holzer’s Light Line at the Guggenheim Museum. Jenny Holzer’s work talks a lot but says very little. An OG post-conceptualist, Holzer, 73, follows a generation of talkative artists like Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, and Robert Barry.

  • Jeremy Allen White Had Some Questions About The Bears Finale

    May 2024

    Thirst Twitter’s current obsession analyzes Carmy’s tics and all that tomato sauce. Photo: Matt Dinerstein/FX Spoilers for the first season of FX on Hulu’s The Bear below.

  • Jihyos New Zone: Stardom on Her Terms

    May 2024

    Jihyo’s fans refer to her as “God Jihyo.” Well, she’s got a new blessing for them today. Almost two decades after she first started training to become an idol, the 26-year-old leader of Twice is following fellow member Nayeon’s footsteps by debuting as a solo artist.

  • Joe Alwyn Is Still Taylor SwiftAdjacent

    May 2024

    Joe Alwyn at the New York premiere of Kinds of Kindness. The Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn era might be over, but vestiges of it remain.

  • John Wick: Chapter 2 Is a Beautiful Descent Into Hell

    May 2024

    Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 2. After a campy opening action sequence that must have been ordered up by a studio boob looking for something more “lite,” Chad Stahelski’s shoot-’em-up, hack-’em-up John Wick: Chapter 2 settles into one of the bleakest bloodbaths you’ll see outside an actual war movie.

  • Josh Duhamel Does Not Want to Use His Body to Sell Movies

    May 2024

    By now, even if you haven’t seen the actual movie, which came out last night, you’ve probably passed an ad for Life As We Know It, and noted Josh Duhamel’s tan, toned body.

  • Judd Apatow, Vanessa Bayer, John Early, and More Join Bonnaroos 2016 Comedy Lineup

    May 2024

    Today the Bonnaroo Music Festival announced its comedy lineup for 2016, which will take place in Manchester, Tennessee from Thursday, June 9th through Sunday the 12th.

  • Justice Smith Almost Lost Himself in The Get Down

    May 2024

    New York Magazine | Justice Smith Photo by Bryan Derballa Justice Smith Almost Lost Himself in The Get Down The 21-year-old actor on the challenges of method acting, his short-lived experience on Nickelodeon, and why it’s hard to book roles as a biracial actor.

  • Justified: City Primeval Finale Recap: Good-bye, Marshal

    May 2024

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  • Justin Timberlake Grammy GIFs: Collect Em All!

    May 2024

    Justin Timberlake continued his 20/20 Experience full-court press at the Grammys tonight (and even during the commercial breaks). Here, his four most GIF-friendly moves, only one in sepia.

  • Ke$ha on Cannibal and Her Haters

    May 2024

    After making her album debut with January’s Animal — which featured chart-toppers like “Tik Tok” and “Your Love Is My Drug” — Ke$ha is back on November 22 with a new expanded version of the record, Cannibal.

  • Lady Gaga Wears Meat

    May 2024

    The Gaga-in-drag cover of Vogue Hommes Japan was not Gaga’s only Vogue Hommes Japan cover — indeed, here’s an alternate, in which she appears dressed not in drag but in meat.

  • Leap Day William, Lizzing, Mind Grapes, and Beyond: A 30 Rock Glossary

    May 2024

    Do you speak 30 Rock? We don’t mean, can you talk about whether Kenneth was funny in last week’s episode; we mean, can you use “thoughtsicles” in a sentence?

  • Lets Play with the Arrested Development LEGO Set This Weekend

    May 2024

    Matt De Lanoy created a custom LEGO set that recreates the entire Arrested Development universe, so if you ever wanted to build a model home model, now you can.

  • Lets Talk About the Black Madwoman in Swarm

    May 2024

    The show is at once frustrating and fascinating in how it fails to disrupt the conventions of a potent pop culture archetype.

  • Lorde Has a Heartbreaking New Rihanna-Inspired Ballad for You

    May 2024

    Grab a tissue. Say a silent prayer for the person who belittled Lorde and lived to tell the tale.

  • Love It Or Hate It, Jennifer Aniston Sure Has One Morbid Christmas Ornament

    May 2024

    If you noticed Jennifer Aniston trending briefly on Saturday, it wasn’t just the nation sinking into a nice, relaxing, 36-hour post-Christmas Friends binge.

  • Maze Runner: The Death Cure Is a Thrilling Series Ender With Too Many Climaxes

    May 2024

    Maze Runner: The Death Cure was my first Maze Runner, and I think I did a pretty good job watching it, all things considered.

  • Michelle Branch Files to Divorce the Black Keys Patrick Carney

    May 2024

    Update Wednesday, August 22: Almost two weeks after being arrested for misdemeanor domestic assault, Billboard is reporting that the case has been dismissed “at the request of the state.

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    May 2024

    the industry Sept. 26, 2008 Hi-Yo, George Clooney, Away!Is ‘Beverly Hills Ninja 2’ next year’s ‘Snakes on a Plane’? Yes.

  • Nicole Byer Demands You Laugh at Her Fat Jokes

    May 2024

    Nicole Byer. It’s normal for a comedian to come out and address their appearance. It has been proven to be the quickest way to get the audience on the same page as you.

  • Norman Lear Announces Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Remake on His 99th Birthday

    May 2024

    Norman Lear sits in his Vermont vacation home on his 99th birthday, surrounded by friends and family. It’s been a good birthday, as far as 99 goes, not that he’s had any other 99th birthdays to compare it to.

  • Our Flag Means Death Recap: Mercy Beaucoup

    May 2024

    Our Flag Means Death Calypso’s Birthday / Man on Fire Season 2 Episodes 6 - 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Our Flag Means Death Calypso’s Birthday / Man on Fire Season 2 Episodes 6 - 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “I’ve killed mediocre men, and I’ve killed extraordinary men.

  • Outlander Season Premiere Recap: The Time Travelers Husband(s)

    May 2024

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  • Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Cant Stop Kissing in Public

    May 2024

    Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande. Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande are soooo in love. And they aren’t going to let anyone forget it.

  • Revisiting Nathan for Yous Best and Worst Business Ideas

    May 2024

    Nathan Fielder. Nathan for You, Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder’s bygone quasi-reality show–cum–absurdist comedy on Comedy Central, was truly a one-of-a-kind television program.

  • River Phoenix: A Life in Pictures

    May 2024

    River Phoenix passed away in the wee hours of October 31, 1993, at the age of 23. On this somber anniversary, Vulture reflects on the loss of the gifted but troubled young actor, and also presents this slideshow filled with photos and videos of a star we’d watched grow up on-camera.

  • Robert Downey Sr., Acclaimed Filmmaker and Actor, Dead at 85

    May 2024

    Robert Downey Sr. and Jr. Robert Downey Sr., the acclaimed actor and filmmaker, died Wednesday morning in his sleep at home in New York City, his wife told the Daily News.

  • Rolling Loud to Return to New York With Travis Scott, J. Cole, and 50 Cent Headlining

    May 2024

    Rolling Loud New York headliners Travis Scott and J. Cole. Rolling Loud is set to roll back through New York City for a second year.

  • RuPauls Drag Race Down Under Series-Premiere Recap: Hey, Koala Girl!

    May 2024

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    May 2024

    saturday night live Sept. 22, 2014 Kenan Thompson May Not Be Leaving Saturday Night Live“The season hasn’t even started.” By Jesse David Fox

  • See Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood for More Than Just the Dirt (of Which There Is Plenty

    May 2024

    The dirt is likely what you come for in Matt Tyrnauer’s Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, a documentary profile of the “pimp to the stars” Scotty Bowers.

  • Suicide Squad Should Have Been Kept Locked Away

    May 2024

    How early will the fanboys who flock to see Suicide Squad — smug in the knowledge that they’ve won the day, that Hollywood is now desperate to cater to their tastes above all others’ — admit that they’re watching the year’s most muddled piece of storytelling?

  • Survivor Recap: Jump for My Love

    May 2024

    Survivor Don’t Touch the Oven Season 46 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Survivor Don’t Touch the Oven Season 46 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have seen far too many bad American Idol auditions using Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” to ever say the word aloud, but that is just what I was shouting at my television as Bhanu finally met his end after four long episodes.

  • The 30 Best TV Shows on Max

    May 2024

    Harley Quinn. best tv shows on max by genre Drama Comedy Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Documentary This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter Max.

  • The Best Villain of the Year

    May 2024

    Eating victims. Feeding lovers to zombies. Being Walter White. All of these depraved acts resulted in some highly entertaining villains during the 2012–13 TV season.

  • The ConnersRecap: Too PC or Not Too PC?

    May 2024

    The Conners There Won’t Be Blood Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Conners There Won’t Be Blood Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The spirit of Roseanne continues to haunt the Conner household, which is appropriate since it’s Halloween, the favorite holiday of the late Conner mama.

  • The Crown Steps Into the Revenge-Dress Era

    May 2024

    Her eyes tell. The Crown season six may have stopped production in order to pay respects to the death of Queen Elizabeth II (spoiler).

  • The Greats Phoebe Fox Loves Marial and Catherines Love Story

    May 2024

    In the beginning, there was Queen Catherine and Maid Marial. T’was a love story for the ages: an out-of-place debutante, optimism sketched across her dewy face, and a hardened local with cynicism beating out of her chest.

  • The Innocents Series-Premiere Recap: My Super Sweet Shape-shifting 16

    May 2024

    The Innocents The Start of Us Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Innocents The Start of Us Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » June McDaniel is learning that it’s tough being a teenager.

  • The Most Scathing One-Liners From Phantom Thread

    May 2024

    While Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is mostly a showcase for Daniel Day-Lewis’s world-class acting, the film also serves as a veritable treasure chest of shade, overflowing with masterful one-liners.

  • The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Sacrifice Flies

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of New Jersey All Bats Are Off Season 13 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey All Bats Are Off Season 13 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s the most blunderful time of the year!

  • The Snowman Director Cant Stop Talking About How Terrible His Movie Is

    May 2024

    Michael Fassbender. Most directors are effusive when discussing their movies on a press our, but the director of The Snowman has been a little … icy.

  • The Street Fighter Movie Is Good, Actually

    May 2024

    Raul Julia in Street Fighter. Apparently it’s the Street Fighter movie’s 25th anniversary this year. It’s hard to imagine it’s been 25 entire years (a quarter century!

  • The Three Stooges Bring Their Slapstick Into the 21st Century, For Better or Worse

    May 2024

    Remakes and reboots are the acme of corporate entertainment. Perhaps it was always so. Repetition usually makes money, a consumerist morphine drip.

  • The Tree of Life Debuts at Cannes to Boos and Swoons

    May 2024

    At 8:30 a.m. this morning, seemingly every person in Cannes was ready to punch every other person in Cannes (seriously, we heard a lady scream, “I’m getting punched!

  • The True Blood Porn Parody Looks More Believable Than the Show

    May 2024

    In Tru: A XXX Parody, “the simple life is shaken when death comes to the small, quiet Louisiana town of Bon Temps — where civilians, vampires, shape-shifters, and mind readers clash in an orgy of sex & mystery.

  • The Zipline Scene, Is That Alright, And More: Everything in the Star Is Born Encore

    May 2024

    Thank you Bradley Cooper for giving us the zipline scene that we wanted and deserved! If you have seen A Star Is Born and accepted it as your lord and savior, you are Born-ed.

  • Thelma Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a Lifetime

    May 2024

    This review was originally published on January 22, 2024 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to Thelma’s theatrical debut.

  • Ticketmaster Mexico Fined Over Canceled Bad Bunny Tickets

    May 2024

    After the Taylor Swift Eras tour fiasco last month, one would assume that Ticketmaster would be on top of its game not to upset another fandom.

  • Transparents Amy Landecker Had to Reschedule a Sex Scene Because of Poop

    May 2024

    Amy Landecker. Amy Landecker, the actor who plays Sarah Pfefferman on Transparent, was feeling relaxed and silly at the end of a long press junket for the Amazon show’s fourth season.

  • Truth Be Told Tells an Underwhelming Crime Tale

    May 2024

    Octavia Spencer, podcasting for justice in Truth Be Told. Truth Be Told is a logline show, meaning that when described in brief — on paper, the Internet, or in quick conversation — it sounds excellent.

  • Tupac Shakurs Complicated Legacy, Explained

    May 2024

    In September of 1992, Vice-President Dan Quayle called on Interscope to pull a record called 2Pacalypse Now off of retail shelves.

  • Vince Vaughn Is Hitting Us With a Dodgeball Sequel

    May 2024

    If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. But apparently in Hollywood, no matter how long you wait, you can’t dodge a sequel — according to Deadline, Vince Vaughn is set to star in a follow-up to the 2004 sports comedy Dodgeball.

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    the quote quiz Mar. 20, 2014 Take Our Emoji Movie Quote QuizWe’ll give you emoji; You guess the film quote.

  • We Figured Out Why the Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Trailer Is So Off-Putting

    May 2024

    Originally scheduled to come out in March 2012, the hilariously titled Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is now set to be released in January 2013 under the assumption that it will benefit from the higher profile of Avengers–Bourne Legacy star Jeremy Renner.

  • What Luca Guadagnino Is Reading, Watching and Thinking About in Lockdown

    May 2024

    The View From Home As coronavirus continues to spread, Vulture is speaking to filmmakers across the globe about how they are coping in a socially distanced world.

  • What Wouldve Happened If The Last Man on Earth Got Another Season

    May 2024

    Will Forte The ending of the fourth season of The Last Man on Earth looked like it was going to be a happy one.

  • Where Did the Kanye West and Jeffree Star Dating Rumors Come From?

    May 2024

    Jeffrye. Yesterday, Jeffree Star posted a scandalous selfie, feeding rumors about his alleged affair with Kanye West, around the same time that violent Trump supporters were storming the Capitol.

  • Which Pop Girl Is Girl, So Confusing About?

    May 2024

    Besties? In the year of the musical feud, an almost-diss track is rare. But that’s exactly what Charli XCX did on her new album Brat, out June 7, and doubly when she worked it out on the remix.

  • Which YA Novels Have the Silliest Character Names?

    May 2024

    Young Adult novels can get away with a lot on the page, but now that Hollywood is buying up every hit YA franchise to adapt for the big screen, something is becoming very clear: These characters all have hilarious names, and when you say them out loud, it’s an altogether different experience than it is to simply read them.

  • White House Plumbers Recap: Fifth Times a Disaster

    May 2024

    White House Plumbers Don’t Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » White House Plumbers Don’t Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Operation Opal failed the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.

  • Why Do We Like Having Sex With Artists?

    May 2024

    Sculptor Liz Moore in bed with her bust of Beatle Paul McCartney, 1966. Credit: John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images. Art is having a strange moment right now.

  • Will NBC Finally Do Justice to the SNL Library?

    May 2024

    Jimmy Fallon on SNL. Update, July 17: Peacock, NBC’s new streaming platform, launched this week, and so far, its selection of SNL episodes has been disappointing.

  • X-Factor New Zealand Judges Fired for Being Super-Weird, Narcissistic Bullies

    May 2024

    Well, this is weird. On The X-Factor New Zealand (it’s everywhere!), two judges, married performers Natalia Kills and Willy Moon, have been accused of bullying a contestant on live TV and were swiftly fired from the show.

  • Yasiin Bey, the Former Mos Def, Poetry-Slams the Barclays Center, Hopes for Jay-Z Summit

    May 2024

    Yasiin Bey. The day that Barclays Center opened, late last September, Yasiin Bey (the former Mos Def) was in his adopted home of New Orleans, fielding a stream of calls.

  • YellowstoneRecap: You Cant Wash Lonely Off

    May 2024

    Yellowstone Under a Blanket of Red Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone Under a Blanket of Red Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week, I wrote about Yellowstone’s tendency to cram half a dozen stories into one episode.

  • Z: The Beginning of Everythings Christina Ricci on Adapting a Southern Accent and Why Zelda Fitzg

    May 2024

    Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s time is now. The writer, socialite, and wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is having a resurgence in contemporary culture, with Jennifer Lawrence set to play her in a biopic, and Scarlett Johansson as a thinly veiled version of her in an adaptation of The Beautiful and the Damned.

  • 17 Agains Thomas Lennon on Kissing Paul Rudd, Admiring Zac Efron, and Picking Wedgies

    May 2024

    Though most teenage girls will hardly notice, Thomas Lennon stars as the deeply weird friend of Zac Efron and Matthew Perry in 17 Again — and critics are taking notice this morning.

  • 5 Extremely 80s Albums That Influenced Wild Nothings Indigo

    May 2024

    Since indie stylist Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing project broke big onto the scene with its 2010 debut Gemini, Tatum has made exploring the sounds of the 1980s into its own pure virtue by capturing the era’s eerie, shimmering glow through a lo-fi lens.

  • A Glittery Guide to Euphorias Over-the-Top Eye Makeup

    May 2024

    Zendaya as Rue. The primary function of Euphoria — HBO’s new drama starring Zendaya as a drug addict with incredible skin — seems to be to make adults pause and ask, “Wait … are the teens … okay?

  • A Tribute to Good King Conan

    May 2024

    Twelve comedians reflect on O’Brien’s incredibly influential late-night legacy. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.

  • A Vintage Satire That Still Has Sting: Purlie Victorious Returns

    May 2024

    From Purlie Victorious at the Music Box Theatre. This article was originally published on April 27, 2023.  At the 77th Tony Awards, Kara Young won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.

  • All the Music I Didnt Get to Write About This Year (Until Now)

    May 2024

    I spent most of 2023 writing about major albums and stand-up specials and video games and cultural boondoggles, sorting through heaps of lyrics, archival interviews, debates, and essays, trying to chisel out a big-picture understanding of whatever hopefully prickly subject I’d chosen that week and maybe grasp at contextualizing the person or people behind it.

  • Alyssa Cole on Why Her Romance Novels Are Always Political

    May 2024

    Alyssa Cole. The first two books in Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series were two of the biggest things in romance in 2017.

  • American Gigolo Season-Finale Recap: Maybe It Fades

    May 2024

    American Gigolo East of Eden Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » American Gigolo East of Eden Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Well, why do people have sex?

  • American Horror Stories Recap: Blood and Pus

    May 2024

    American Horror Stories Milkmaids Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Stories Milkmaids Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Maybe I’m going soft.

  • American Ninja Warrior Season Premiere Recap: Meet the Ninjas

    May 2024

    American Ninja Warrior Los Angeles Qualifier Season 8 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » American Ninja Warrior Los Angeles Qualifier Season 8 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Jennifer Bowman.

  • An Excerpt from Hey, U Up? (For a Serious Relationship): How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Em

    May 2024

    How to Pick the Perfect Blood Diamond for Your Engagement Ring So, the two of you are ready to make a lifelong commitment, and you’ve decided to forgo a blood oath ritual in favor of an engagement ring.

  • Ana de Armas Wages War Against Paparazzi, One Glamorous Cardboard Cutout At a Time

    May 2024

    Ah, to have a disposable arts and crafts budget while in quarantine. As alerted to us by the celebrity stan account that has been blocked by the actress herself, Ana de Armas has seemingly commissioned a cardboard cutout of herself to put in front of her Los Angeles home to … troll the paparazzi?

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    May 2024

    comedy central roast Aug. 28, 2016 Ann Coulter Is Roasted at Roast of Rob Lowe“What is it like to be a real life super-villain,” asked comedian Nikki Glaser.

  • Anthony Ramos on Shes Gotta Have It Season Two, Puerto Rico, and In the Heights

    May 2024

    The last time we saw Mars Blackmon on She’s Gotta Have It, he and his gigantic gold name chain were serenaded out of his former lover Nola Darling’s apartment to the beat of Prince’s “Raspberry Beret.

  • B. J. Novaks One More Thing Book Trailer Is Exquisitely French

    May 2024

    These two. B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling are at their black-and-white best in the new trailer for Novak’s short-story book “One More Thing.

  • Below Deck Recap: Barbie Land

    May 2024

    Below Deck Love Me Tender Season 11 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Love Me Tender Season 11 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s a beautiful new morning on the St.

  • Bill Murray, Steve Martin, and Bugs Bunny: The Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special

    May 2024

    In the 1970s and 1980s, Warner Bros. did not take great care with its animation legacy. The studio spit out a new, clumsily assembled “special” for every remotely notable occasion, with a lack of care and inventiveness that would have shamed Bob Hope.

  • Bob Weir Might Be the Best WWHL Guest Ever?

    May 2024

    Sporting one giant mustache, Bob Weir showed up to Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday, October 4 to prove that he just might be the best guest Andy Cohen’s late-night show has ever witnessed during the segment “Have You Met Them!

  • Breaking Down Every Song on Drakes New Album, Views

    May 2024

    Drake, Drakeing. Well would you look at that: An album, in 2016, actually landed on semi-schedule. Drake’s Views (f.

  • Bun B on His Hip-Hop Coloring Book and Activity Guide

    May 2024

    Bun B. On a day when he could be relishing his Houston Texans’ win over a late lunch at Freebirds, Bun B is doing press for one of his more unlikely projects: a hip-hop coloring book and activity guide filled with the faces of 40-ish of his friends and co-workers.

  • Cannes: Al Gore Will Dance to Prince If He Wants To

    May 2024

    Al Gore and Liz Keadle. “This Prince song! I love it!” Al Gore cried out as the Purple One’s “Kiss” came on at Vanity Fair’s annual Cannes soiree at the Hotel du Cap-Eden Rock, spinning his girlfriend of over five years, California doctor and environmental activist Liz Keadle, around on the dance floor.

  • Chessy Brought Meredith Blake to the SAG Awards

    May 2024

    Spotted: Jilted society-bride-to-be Meredith Blake has been stepping out with the help. Her former fiancé, Nick Parker, might have rekindled a relationship with the mother of his (secret twin) children, but Blake has moved on …to Chessy, the nanny?

  • Critics Agree: Zach and Miri Money Shot Is Gross!

    May 2024

    Zhang Peng’s Mermaid (2008) When the MPAA slapped Zack and Miri Make a Porno with an NC-17, it was largely due to one scene, which Kevin Smith affectionately refers to as “The Offensive Bodily Fluids Shot.

  • Cuba Gooding Jr. Pleads Guilty to Forcible Touching, Wont Get Jail

    May 2024

    When Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty on April 13 to a single misdemeanor count of forcible touching, one condition of his no-jail plea deal was that his three accusers in this case could speak in Manhattan court.

  • Ed Helms to Make Iowa Cool Again

    May 2024

    Iowa Calling: Ed Helms is attached to top-line Cedar Rapids, an Alexander Payne–produced, Miguel Arteta-directed road-trip comedy about a rural-Wisconsinite insurance salesmen who takes a business trip to the titular Iowan metropolis and has his mind blown by the big-city experience.

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    May 2024

    Emily Axford - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Feb. 14, 2018 An Excerpt from ‘Hey, U Up? (For a Serious Relationship): How to Turn Your […]How to Pick the Perfect Blood Diamond for Your Engagement Ring So, the two of you are ready to make a lifelong commitment, and you’ve […] By Brian Boone

  • Every Philip Seymour Hoffman Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best

    May 2024

    The culture-wide sense of sadness engendered by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death of an overdose at 46 in February 2014 has never gone away, or even dissipated.

  • Everything We Know About Moira Roses Showbiz Career on Schitts Creek

    May 2024

    TV’s Moira Rose. Schitt’s Creek is full of gifts that keep on giving for the show’s writers, from Alexis’s history of international incidents to David’s cedar chest of textured knits.

  • F1: Drive to Survive Is Actually Just a Secret Real Housewives Franchise

    May 2024

    I love that people love sporting events, but they’re not for me. I’m only capable of following the game as a story, and even then I don’t particularly excel.

  • Fargo Claimed to Be a True Story, But the Coen Brothers Own Inventions Made It Great

    May 2024

    William H. Macy in 1996’s Fargo. My favorite review of Fargo is by an Amazon customer who goes by Duke Wellington.

  • Fifty Shades Darker Isnt Terrible, Just Timid

    May 2024

    Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades Darker. The makers of Fifty Shades Darker, the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, have worked admirably to ensure that the film doesn’t eroticize violence against women.

  • First Photos From Aladdin: How Do We Unsee Will Smiths Beard?

    May 2024

    Aladdin is the latest Disney classic to get the live-action treatment, and on Wednesday Entertainment Weekly had the exclusive first photos of the cast in character.

  • Fuller House Recap: Holy Cow!

    May 2024

    Fuller House Partnerships in the Night Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fuller House Partnerships in the Night Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Andrea Barber as Kimmy Gibbler, Jodie Sweetin as Stephanie, Candace Cameron Bure as D.

  • Heidi Klums Halloween Was Cirque du So Plume

    May 2024

    Let her squawk. Before we celebrate Mariah Carey defrosting this November, we must pay attention to the Queen of Halloween — a woman obsessed with putting on unwearable costumes in the largest way possible, someone who may not be thought of in the category of “German weirdos” but who, on Halloween, is basically Werner Herzog.

  • House of the Dragon Recap: You Win or You Die

    May 2024

    House of the Dragon The Red Dragon and the Gold Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » House of the Dragon The Red Dragon and the Gold Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Want to watch House of the Dragon with us?

  • How Grief Led Diane Kruger to the Bravest Performance of Her Career

    May 2024

    “I felt like I was drowning,” Diane Kruger tells me, again and again. The German-born actress, who splits her time between New York and Paris, had the kind of year that would force most of us into a permanent fetal position: In the space of eight months, she lost her grandmother and her stepfather, plus ended her ten-year relationship with Joshua Jackson, all while going into deep immersion in the toughest role of her career — as a woman whose Turkish husband and son are killed in a neo-Nazi terrorist attack in the German-language thriller In the Fade.

  • How I Met Your Mother Recap: Childs Play

    May 2024

    How I Met Your Mother Nannies Season 8 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How I Met Your Mother Nannies Season 8 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Did everyone else groan when Marshall said, “Lily’s dad showed up unannounced”?

  • How Sofia Coppola Reclaimed The Beguiled for Women (and Gay Men)

    May 2024

    Underestimate the power of women at your own peril. That’s one of the lessons to be drawn from The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola’s new remake of a 1971 Clint Eastwood film, where a wounded Civil War soldier (Colin Farrell) stumbles into a half-abandoned all-girls boarding school to recuperate.

  • I Rocket-Launched Myself Into Ariana Grandes Outer Space

    May 2024

    Me. Ariana Grande’s new makeup line, r.e.m. beauty, is based on nothing less than the very concept of space.

  • Is There Anything La Cant Seydoux?

    May 2024

    In her latest film at Venice, The Beast, Seydoux stars in three different genres at once. I’m writing this blog from jail, where my bail has been set at $5 million for writing the above headline, but this crime against language was worth it to write about Léa Seydoux in The Beast, her latest film that premiered at the Venice Film Festival this weekend.

  • J.J. Abramss Bad Robot Orbiting God Particle at Paramount

    May 2024

    We hear that Paramount Pictures has picked up a script called God Particle for J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot to produce from Oren Uziel — the same screenwriter who penned the macabre zombies, vampires, and humans-versus-invading-aliens action-comedy The Kitchen Sink for Sony Pictures.

  • Jen Kirkman Clarifies That Louis C.K. Didnt Harass Her

    May 2024

    Jen Kirkman. In the second season of Tig Notaro’s Amazon show One Mississippi, there’s a scene about sexual harassment in the workplace: a young female employee has to stand alone with her male boss in his office as he begins touching himself under his desk.

  • Just How Dirty Is Nymphomaniac: Volume I?

    May 2024

    There was a lot more buzz surrounding Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I (now out on VOD; in theaters March 21) than you’d normally see from an indie foreign film co-starring Stellan Skarsgård, but that’s what happens when advance press includes phrases like “unsimulated sex scenes” and “digitally imposed body doubles” — and the title is Nymphomaniac.

  • Kelly Clarkson Gets a Lil Vampy

    May 2024

    Much like Edward Cullen, Kelly Clarkson sparkles in the day(time television timeslot). Today, she fully transforms into a vampy queen as she belts out Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” as a special Halloween treat.

  • Kim Kardashians The Fifth Wheel Parks at Netflix

    May 2024

    Kim Kardashian is the third wheel on her latest project, the female-driven comedy The Fifth Wheel. The comedy, produced by and starring Kardashian, is being written by the married Paula Pell (who is also producing) and Janine Brito.

  • LaToya Ruby Fraziers Harrowing Photography Is Like Goya Turning His Eye Toward the Struggles and

    May 2024

    In the searingly honest, empathetic documentary images of self-described “artist, curator, educator, and photographer” LaToya Ruby Frazier, I see the rotten social malignancy that perpetuates entrenched racial discrimination that is deeply inscribed into law, lending, and health-care policies.

  • Lena Headeys Nurse Picked a Very Interesting Moment to Quote Game of Thrones to Her

    May 2024

    If you’re going to quote Game of Thrones to one of the show’s stars, you’d best come correct.

  • Lets Talk About the Ending of Annette

    May 2024

    “Now you have nothing to love.” Even people who don’t much care for Leos Carax’s Annette generally admit that it ends well.

  • Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Is the Gentlest of Gut Punches

    May 2024

    Bilge 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.

  • Martha Stewart and Snoop Doggs Unexpectedly Adorable Friendship: A Timeline

    May 2024

    In this dumpster fire of a year we call 2016, there is at least one shining light at the end of the tunnel: Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg are hosting an eccentric new cooking show on VH1 called Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, set to debut on November 7.

  • Maya Thompson Got Her Baby Back When Taylor Swift Put Ronan on Red (Taylors Version)

    May 2024

    Maya Thompson with her late son, Ronan, in the lyric video for “Ronan.” “I’m a hysterical mess, so you called me at probably the worst time,” Maya Thompson warns me when we get on the phone hours before Red (Taylor’s Version)’s release.

  • Memes - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • Michael Shannon Knows He Looks Like That

    May 2024

    The difference between a good actor and a great one is that the latter understands how they play onscreen to an audience and utilizes that self-awareness in their performances.

  • MoNique and Netflix Have Settled Racial and Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

    May 2024

    Netflix and Mo’Nique have settled their legal battle. Mo’Nique filed a gender and racial discrimination lawsuit against the streamer in 2019, after Netflix made an offer for a stand-up special that she found “biased, discriminatory” in 2017.

  • More Somewhere in Highland Park, Please

    May 2024

    Fresh off Channel 101’s April 29th showcase comes the pilot of Jason Gudasz’s Somewhere in Highland Park. A near perfect feat of low-budget camera tricks and razor sharp dialogue, Gudasz and DP Christian Klein set this baby up for Aaron Kee and Brodie Reed to spike it right back down.

  • My Single Is Dropping - Vulture

    May 2024

    my single is dropping July 7, 2023 Get Up — We Got That New NewJeansThe K-pop quintet dropped two singles back-to-back ahead of their upcoming EP.

  • Natasha Leggero - Vulture

    May 2024

    comics talk to comics Aug. 21, 2015 Chelsea Peretti Talks to Natasha LeggeroWith Leggero’s new stand-up-comedy special out Saturday night. By Jesse David Foxand Chelsea Peretti ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGeelsGiv8eaZKWdl5yys7uO

  • Nell Zinks Brilliant Mislaid Is a Parody of a Satire of Race

    May 2024

    Nell Zink’s new novel, Mislaid. Authors can’t be tried for killing off their own characters, but there’s something nonchalant about the way Nell Zink bumps hers off.

  • Oscars Staying in Newly Named Dolby Theater

    May 2024

    The Kodak Theatre in the new Hollywood & Highland complex March 6, 2002 in Hollywood, CA will be the new home of the 74th Academy Awards presentations March 24, 2002.

  • Paris Hilton Got Engaged and Announced It on Her Birthday

    May 2024

    Paris Hilton and Carter Reum. Paris Hilton got one of her birthday gifts a few days early. The socialite-entrepreneur-model-musician is engaged to boyfriend Carter Reum, which she announced on Instagram on February 17.

  • Patton Oswalt Paints Hilarious Portraits of Weirdness

    May 2024

    Patton Oswalt in I Love Everything. Patton Oswalt loves a weirdo. He loves other things, too — the title of his new Netflix special is I Love Everything, and in his hour-long performance, the list of what he loves includes but is not limited to the chain restaurant Denny’s, his daughter, his wife, the concept of consent, and the bread company Ezekiel 4:9.

  • PEN15Recap: Alas, Poor Daddy

    May 2024

    PEN15 Runaway Season 2 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » PEN15 Runaway Season 2 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, wow, a funny one!

  • Promised Land Trailer: Matt Damon Earns Goodwill, Goes Fracking

    May 2024

    Awards pundits raised their attenae recently when Focus gently placed Promised Land, a new Gus Van Sant drama, at the tail end of Oscar season in December.

  • Quiz: How Well Do You Know This Seasons Mad Men Offices?

    May 2024

    The first half of Mad Men’s final season, which came to a close Sunday night, was fraught with change. Sure, some other big things happened (for spoilers, head here), but we’re mostly talking offices.

  • Rapper Young Dolph Reportedly Killed in Memphis Shooting

    May 2024

    Update, November 17, at 6:05 p.m.: The Memphis Police Department confirmed on Twitter that “preliminary information indicates” that rapper Young Dolph, born Adolph Robert Thornton Jr.

  • Richelle Meiss (@reeshmeese) on How Nothing Is Too Private for Twitter

    May 2024

    Richelle Meiss is an actor, comic, and writer in Los Angeles. You might have seen her in commercials for Heineken, Kohl’s, eBay, and more.

  • Ridley Scott Cares Diddly Squat About Frances Feelings

    May 2024

    Today, November 22, Ridley Scott releases his 28th feature film since he started making movies at age 40, the two-and-a-half-hour epic, Napoleon.

  • Rihanna, Part Two: Chris Brown Had No Soul in His Eyes

    May 2024

    Thanks to the wily journalistic cunning of Diane Sawyer, ABC was able to prevail over the likes of Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira to score the exclusive first interview with Rihanna.

  • RuPauls Drag Race U.K. Recap: Performance Anxiety

    May 2024

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  • Saltz: I Made Genital Contact at the Marina Abramovic Show

    May 2024

    I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure that a naked dangling penis brushed lightly against me Tuesday night.

  • ShaCarri Richardson Is Accepting of Team USAs Relay-Race Exclusion

    May 2024

    A day after USA Track and Field confirmed that sprint sensation Sha’Carri Richardson would not be on the roster for the women’s 4x100-meter relay at the Olympics as a result of her positive marijuana test, the athlete has spoken out about the decision.

  • Shania Twain to Reclaim Her Crown With Queen of Me

    May 2024

    Let’s GO, gurls. You know her best as the queen of country pop, but let her reintroduce herself: She’s just the Queen of Me.

  • Shaq Asks for Free Animation Work, Gets Dunked On

    May 2024

    Shaqtoons. Earlier this year, Adult Swim was roasted on Twitter after it asked for free television-show ideas on the platform, and it looks like that approach has expanded to another Turner-owned network.

  • Shawn Mendes Sends a Smoke Signal on What the Hell Are We Dying For?

    May 2024

    Singing through the smoke. A Shawn Mendes has emerged from the smoke. The singer-songwriter dropped the smoldering surprise single “What the Hell Are We Dying For?

  • Six Feet Under - Vulture

    May 2024

    death becomes her Oct. 28, 2021 A Date With the GraveVisiting the unlikely star of Mountain View Cemetery, a fake gravesite reserved exclusively for Hollywood’s funeral scenes.

  • Sound of Freedom Earns $40 Million at the Box Office

    May 2024

    An independent dramatic thriller film is competing against big-studio blockbusters this summer. Sound of Freedom has already earned more than double its budget since its release on Tuesday.

  • Spike Lee Finally Gets His Oscar

    May 2024

    At the Academy’s annual Governors Awards in Hollywood on Saturday night, filmmaker Spike Lee, actress and philanthropist Debbie Reynolds, and actress Gena Rowlands all received Honorary Oscars for their contributions to cinema.

  • Standard Hotel Elevator Now Making All Local Stops to Hell

    May 2024

    The Standard Hotel New York has paid artist (and Demolition Man director) Marco Brambilla and Canadian studio Crush an undisclosed sum of money to make an incredible video installation for its elevator, which gives the effect of either ascending to heaven or descending to hell, depending on which floor you’re headed to.

  • Star Trek: Discovery Season Premiere Recap: Wheres My Damned Red Thing?

    May 2024

    Star Trek: Discovery Brother Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Star Trek: Discovery Brother Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The first season finale of Star Trek: Discovery ended on the ideal type of cliffhanger: the “hmm, that seems like a terrible idea I’d like to block out for a year and circle back” kind.

  • Steve Harvey on the Oscars Best Picture Flub: I Was Free! Thank You, God!

    May 2024

    Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey, the Reynolds Woodcock of our time, was the only person letting out a sigh of relief one year ago today, when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway wrongly declared La La Land Best Picture.

  • Surviving Bryan Cranstons Nightmarish Vacation Knock-Off, National Lampoons Holiday R

    May 2024

    I have long been perversely fascinated by a direct-to-video atrocity known alternately as National Lampoon’s Holiday Reunion or National Lampoon’s Thanksgiving Reunion.

  • Talking to Bill Burr About His New Special, His Alt-Room Statements, False Outrage, and More

    May 2024

    Bill Burr would like to remind you that he is a comedian. It’s not that many, many people don’t know that — he’s the host of the very popular Monday Morning Podcast, and last year he received the Comedian of the Year Award from the Boston Comedy Festival.

  • TDE President Punch: I Understand the Backlash

    May 2024

    You either respect Terrence “Punch” Henderson, or you hate him, depending on which stage of development your favorite Top Dawg Entertainment artist’s upcoming album is in at the moment.

  • The 13 Best Christmas Action Movies, Ranked

    May 2024

    It’s Christmas-movie season, which means lots of films filled with cheer, mistletoe, happy endings, and, for some, the occasional explosion and bursts of submachine-gun fire.

  • The 20 Most Annoying Characters in Pretty Little Liars, Ranked

    May 2024

    Pretty Little Liars has packed in a copious amount of recurring characters throughout its seven-season run — many of whom we haven’t seen in awhile — with some of them, for lack of a better word, completely sucking in their own special ways.

  • The 8 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

    May 2024

    Clockwise from top: Blue Beetle, Strays, Killing It, and The Monkey King. Walking out of my screening of Blue Beetle, I overheard a woman say, “So, he’s like the Mexican Iron Man?

  • The Baby-Sitters Club Premiere Recap: Say Hello to Your Friends

    May 2024

    The Baby-Sitters Club Kristy’s Great Idea Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Baby-Sitters Club Kristy’s Great Idea Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Welcome to the first official meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club (TV series recaps).

  • The Garden State Puzzle

    May 2024

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  • The Invisible Man Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Is Tortured by Her Abusive, Invisible Ex

    May 2024

    Universal scrapped its expensive yet ill-conceived Dark Universe plans after Tom Cruise’s The Mummy failed to make a dent, but the studio’s legacy monsters are still very much alive.

  • The Lowest Form of Conversation

    May 2024

    David Chase remembers Tony Sirico. Photo: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo Tony Sirico’s authenticity was not an act. His performance as the pontificating, hot-tempered Paulie Walnuts on David Chase’s The Sopranos stood out amid one of the most formidable casts in television, and while some of the performers were mob-adjacent or claimed to be, Sirico was the only principal cast member who came straight out of the world depicted on the show and had the record to prove it.

  • The Magicians - TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • The Most Lana Del Rey Lyrics on Ocean Blvd, Ranked

    May 2024

    From the opening track, “The Grants,” named for Lana Del Rey’s family, it was clear that Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd was a personal project.

  • The Persian Version and the Art of Doing Too Much

    May 2024

    Leila is too much. She’s too impulsive and defensive, pushing away her Iranian family as much as she complains they don’t accept her.

  • The Profit Season Finale Recap: Reefer Madness

    May 2024

    The Profit Marijuana Millions Season 4 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Profit Marijuana Millions Season 4 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » This very special episode of The Profit won’t see Marcus Lemonis investing his own money to rehabilitate a small business, as is his custom, but doing something else entirely.

  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season-7 Finale Recap: Diamonds Are for Never

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Diamonds Under Pressure Season 7 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Diamonds Under Pressure Season 7 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, it only took us 18 long episodes, but finally the golden goose of drama alit on the wonderful ladies of Beverly Hills and, as Lisa Rinna so deftly pointed out, it took a big golden shit on Dorit’s head as it circled above.

  • The Real Housewives of Orange CountyRecap: Stack Attack

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Orange County Runaway Husband Season 16 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Orange County Runaway Husband Season 16 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I initially thought that Dr.

  • The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Paving a New Road

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Potomac Hard Conversations Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Hard Conversations Season 8 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » It took three major holidays, a multiple-week hiatus, and a whole new year, but we have finally freed ourselves from the shackles of chickenshit bingo and returned our ladies of Potomac back to where they belong.

  • The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter

    May 2024

    The Black Witch, a debut young-adult fantasy novel by Laurie Forest, was still seven weeks from its May 1 publication date, but positive buzz was already building, with early reviews calling it “an intoxicating tale of rebellion and star-crossed romance,” “a massive page-turner that leaves readers longing for more,” and “an uncompromising condemnation of prejudice and injustice.

  • The Twilight Zone Recap: Gunshy

    May 2024

    The Twilight Zone The Blue Scorpion Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Twilight Zone The Blue Scorpion Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In Anton Chekhov’s much-quoted principle that a gun introduced in the first act should be fired in the second, the choice of a gun could be seen as arbitrary.

  • The Wheel of Time Recap: Splitting Heirs

    May 2024

    The Wheel of Time A Place of Safety Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Wheel of Time A Place of Safety Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Wheel of Time will be compared to Game of Thrones for as long as it lasts, and for good reason: It wouldn’t exist without HBO’s blockbuster serving as a sort of proof of concept for Jeff Bezos’s bottomless pockets.

  • The Wine Bar Puzzle

    May 2024

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  • Theater Review: Permission Tries to Get Away With Something

    May 2024

    After attending a preview of Robert Askins’s new play Permission the other night, I can report that the cast’s padded undergarments, which got their own feature in the Times last week, are indeed worthy of notice.

  • Theophilus London Found After Being Missing Since October

    May 2024

    Update, Thursday, January 5: Theophilus London was found “safe and well,” according to his cousin, Mikhail Noel. Noel shared the news on Instagram on January 4, after London had been reported missing in Los Angeles since October.

  • This Trailer Is Skinamarink for Gays

    May 2024

    Twitter user @JeromeM94Movies described Shudder’s latest horror extravaganza, Skinamarink, as “like if your sleep paralysis demon said ‘I’m going to make a film!

  • Thomas Middleditch Accused of Misconduct as Allegations Emerge About Now-Closed L.A. Goth Club

    May 2024

    On Sunday, the L.A. Times published a report about Hollywood’s goth nightclub Cloak & Dagger, which some former clubgoers allege fostered an environment of sexual misconduct and abuse before its closure earlier this year.

  • Titanique - Vulture

    May 2024

    last night on late night Nov. 23, 2022 Marla Mindelle Hijacks Seth Meyers on Her Quest for World DominationThe Off Broadway cast of Titanique gave TV viewers a taste of its live-theater magic.

  • TJ Mack Can Never Play F, Marry, Kill

    May 2024

    Brian Jordan Alvarez “working with” TJ Mack. Pop stardom hasn’t changed TJ Mack. Sure, he’s playing huge stadiums like Sphere in Vegas, or SoFi, and “so many places where they play football,” as his collaborator Brian Jordan Alvarez explained.

  • Vanderpump Rules Recap: Its In His Kiss

    May 2024

    Vanderpump Rules It’s All Happening…Again Season 10 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vanderpump Rules It’s All Happening…Again Season 10 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Holy jeekers, what do we do with this whole episode?

  • What Age of Ultron Could Learn From Ex Machina

    May 2024

    Ava (Alicia Vikander) in Ex Machina and Ultron (James Spader) in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Warning: This post contains spoilers for both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ex Machina.

  • What Is Katy Perry Doing?

    May 2024

    The only time Katy Perry made me cry was during her 2012 documentary, Katy Perry: Part of Me. Worn down from the stress and exhaustion of her California Dreams Tour and returning home to be with her then-husband Russell Brand between tour dates, Perry broke down in tears before she had to perform.

  • What Will Jen Shahs Life Be Like in Prison?

    May 2024

    On February 17, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah must report to federal prison to serve a six-and-a-half-year sentence for her role in a multimillion-dollartelemarketing scam.

  • When Did Billy Eichner Become a Total Hunk?

    May 2024

    One day, everything seems normal. The next, the ice caps started to melt, we’ve elected a reality star to the presidency, and celebrities you had not considered to be sex symbols are appearing on billboards wrapped in a mic cord that is tight in all the right places.

  • Who Is Meghan Trainor and What Is All About That Bass Even About?

    May 2024

    Now that the Song of Summer has officially been declared, we can focus on the songs that are about to dethrone it.

  • Who Needs the New York Times Audio App?

    May 2024

    Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?

  • Yes, Someone Is Actually Making a Movie Called Barbenheimer

    May 2024

    The original Barbenheimer. Barbenheimer blew up the box office, and this is the fallout. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Barbie and Oppenheimer double-feature phenomenon has inspired an upcoming comedy about a doll scientist who builds an atomic bomb to take out humanity.

  • YFN Lucci Wanted for Murder in Atlanta Shooting

    May 2024

    YFN Lucci, real name Rayshawn Bennett. Atlanta rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police for a shooting on December 10, 2020 that killed one victim and left another injured, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

  • You Owe It to Yourself to Watch Divorce Season Two

    May 2024

    Sarah Jessica Parker, once again alone on a front stoop, in Divorce. The much improved second season of Divorce came to a close last night, on a Sunday when it was most certainly overshadowed by the Academy Awards.

  • 12 Unforgettable Movie Heists, Graded and Ranked

    May 2024

    The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY Heist movies are a dime a dozen, but a truly good movie heist is something you don’t forget.

  • 6 Shows That Arent Getting Valentines This Year

    May 2024

    Same, Hannah. Same. Valentine’s Day can be rough, especially if you don’t have that special someone or streaming service to share it with (and especially with the looming password-sharing shutdown.

  • 66 Oscar Monologues and Opening Numbers Ranked, From Worst to Best

    May 2024

    “Writers. Directors. Actors.” Steve Martin looked out at the crowd at the Kodak Theatre. The joke that followed could only work at the Oscars: “If we’re stuck here tonight and run out of food, that’s the order in which we eat them.

  • A Belated Tribute to Meshach Taylor and His Groundbreaking Designing Women Character

    May 2024

    TCDDEWO EC018 Because he wore women’s clothes, because he did great impersonations, because he had a high, nervous laugh that made playing it cool all but impossible, and because he was a man who wasn’t fettered by any great concern over his masculinity, Anthony Bouvier, the role played by the late Meshach Taylor on Designing Women, was one of the great enduring pleasures of my childhood.

  • A Match Made in Noir Heaven: Clive Owen, Frank Miller, Raymond Chandler

    May 2024

    Clive Owen, Frank MillerPhoto: Getty Images Owen, Miller Go Noir: Sin City’s Clive Owen will go noir again, starring as private eye Phillip Marlowe in Frank Miller’s adaptation of Trouble Is My Business, novella by Raymond Chandler.

  • A Tour of the Tolkien Lore in the Rings of Power Score

    May 2024

    Crank those horns! In the sixth episode of The Rings of Power, a succession of story lines intersect in a fight scene between various factions of humans and elves and orcs.

  • Alec Baldwin Is Officially Charged in Rust Shooting. Now What?

    May 2024

    Alec Baldwin was officially charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for an on-set shooting incident that left Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead.

  • All the Godzilla: King of the Monsters Easter Eggs, Explained Including That Post-Credits Scene

    May 2024

    By the time Charles Dance walks back into frame in Godzilla: King of the Monsters’s post-credits scene, kaiju fans will no doubt have picked up on the plethora of Easter eggs and other nods to the longstanding lizard franchise sprinkled throughout the movie.

  • All the Ways Netflixs The End of the F***ing World Is Different From the Comic

    May 2024

    Ever since it debuted earlier this decade, readers of cartoonist Charles Forsman’s violent coming-of-age graphic novel, The End of the Fucking World, have been haunted both by its brutality and its poignancy.

  • American Oxygen - Vulture

    May 2024

    march madness Mar. 5, 2015 Rihanna Teases ‘American Oxygen’ for March MadnessIt’s her upcoming single off her new album. By Sean Fitz-Gerald

  • Anatomy of a Hit: Why Sleepy Hollow Became Fall TVs Breakout Success

    May 2024

    The 2013–14 broadcast TV season is still young, but it already appears to have yielded three new drama successes: NBC’s The Blacklist, ABC’s Agents of S.

  • Archive of Our Own Returns After 48-Hour DDoS Attack

    May 2024

    It was 27 hours — more than a full day — with no fan fiction. No Alternative Universes featuring favorite ships.

  • Ash and Pikachu Retiring From Pokmon After 25 Years

    May 2024

    They became the very best, like no one ever was — and now it’s time for them to go.

  • Assembling Okern

    May 2024

    Reservation Dogs’ fictional hometown mirrors the memories of its most important audience: its cast and crew. “The set-decoration and the art department worked miracles transforming the space.

  • Bates Motel Season Premiere Recap: Harming a Fly

    May 2024

    Bates Motel A Danger to Himself and Others Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Bates Motel A Danger to Himself and Others Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Vera Farmiga as Norma, Freddie Highmore as Norman.

  • Bob Barker, The Price Is Right Legend, Dead at 99

    May 2024

    Bob Barker, legendary The Price Is Right host, has died at the age of 99, his publicist Roger Neal confirmed to Vulture.

  • Breaking Down Eminems Recovery Lyrics

    May 2024

    First, a disclaimer: The only reason pointing out the lackluster lyrical punch on Eminem’s new album Recovery feels like a worthwhile endeavor is because for over a decade, Eminem’s lyrical punch was taken for granted.

  • Chappell Roan Is a Drag Songbird

    May 2024

    You know how songs are super-short now for streaming, and it makes it so they don’t have time for a bridge?

  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Recap: Passion Play

    May 2024

    Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Passion of Sabrina Spellman Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Passion of Sabrina Spellman Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You might expect hell to be something of a scattershot, make-it-up-as-you-go operation — like a never-ending improv show, a personal hell for me and probably for many of you!

  • Cma Awards - Vulture

    May 2024

    dolly parton Oct. 5, 2016 Dolly Parton’s Career to Be Honored at CMAsCountry music will always love you, Dolly. By Tolly Wright

  • Coachella Does Have a Curfew, and Frank Ocean Did Break It

    May 2024

    You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay onstage. It’s not exactly the most exciting conclusion to a years-in-the-making festival set to hear, “Guys, I’m being told it’s curfew, so that’s the end of the show.

  • Comedy Central Announces Standup Specials from Lewis Black, Kurt Braunohler, Roy Wood Jr., and More

    May 2024

    Comedy Central just announced a new batch of standup specials, including Lewis Black’s Black to the Future airing next month and hourlong specials from Kurt Braunohler, Roy Wood Jr.

  • Comic-Con: Lucy Lawless Went to the Deathbed of a Fan Once, Which, Yep, That Seems Right

    May 2024

    At Saturday’s Women Who Kick Ass panel, a group of veritable ass-kickers — including Connie Nielsen, Ming-Na Wen, Morena Baccarin, Melissa Benoist, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Tatiana Maslany — discussed many of the challenges facing female actors today.

  • Corey Stoll on His Wig Journey and The Strains Gross Filming Conditions

    May 2024

    Corey Stoll. You should know Corey Stoll had concerns about his awful wig on The Strain, too. It’s not the first time the actor has worn a piece (he played a very memorable, very hairy Ernest Hemingway in Midnight in Paris), but on FX’s super icky eye-worms-and-vampires drama, he’s been made over to look like Billy Zane minus the eyeliner.

  • Daisy Jones & the Sixs Josh Whitehouse Was Surprised to See His Sex Scene Cut

    May 2024

    John Lydon ditched the Sex Pistols at the close of their U.S. tour. For the Smiths, it was Johnny Marr who hung up his guitar.

  • David Tennants 10 Best Episodes As the Doctor

    May 2024

    It’s unclear exactly how David Tennant became the poster boy for the revamped era of Doctor Who, but like so many of the adventures of the centuries-old alien, it may be a matter of timing.

  • Diane Lane on Cinema Verite and What She Really Thinks of Reality TV

    May 2024

    In 1973, PBS aired the first reality-television series, An American Family, which pitilessly showed seven months in the life of a Santa Barbara couple, Pat and Bill Loud, and their five children.

  • Eddie Izzard on the Scene-Stealing Ensemble of Galaxy Quest

    May 2024

    Galaxy Quest. Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians?

  • Elijah Wood on Wilfred, Post-Rings Depression, and The Hobbit

    May 2024

    It’s been a very good year for Elijah Wood. His quirky new comedy Wilfred — where he plays the suicidal straight man to an Australian comedian in a dog suit — was an out-of-the-gate hit for FX in its series debut last week.

  • Emily in Paris Recap: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate

    May 2024

    Emily In Paris Jules and Em Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily In Paris Jules and Em Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily is practicing her (unwelcome and far too soon) apology and explanation with Mindy, who wisely tells her that “the more you say, the worse it sounds.

  • Emo - Vulture

    May 2024

    a long talk Feb. 25, 2022 Fefe Dobson’s RevivalThe 2000s pop-punk star got buried by the industry and growing up.

  • Every Steven Spielberg Movie, Ranked

    May 2024

    This article was originally published in October of 2015. We’ve updated it to include The Fabelmans. Because of his enduring mainstream popularity (not to mention the amount of blockbuster filmmakers whose careers he’s inspired), Steven Spielberg doesn’t always receive his due, dismissed in some quarters as merely a “commercial” moviemaker who lacks the soul of a true artist.

  • Evil Recap: A Gathering of Women

    May 2024

    Evil How to Dance in Three Easy Steps Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil How to Dance in Three Easy Steps Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil’s never been shy about pointing out a lot of the patriarchal bullshit the Catholic Church spins, but in “How to Dance in Three Easy Steps,” it confronts the issue much more head-on.

  • Finn Jones Shares His Game of Thrones Theories, and What He Wants for Loras Tyrell

    May 2024

    Spoilers ahead from the last episode of Game of Thrones. Poor Loras Tyrell — right now, he’s a pawn in Cersei’s game against the Tyrells, part of a larger plot to isolate Margaery.

  • Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, Rage Against the Machine to Headline Coachella 2020

    May 2024

    It’s a new year, which means there’s a new Coachella lineup to obsess over. The massive music festival is back the weekends of April 10 and 17 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, and the lineup, once again, does not disappoint.

  • French Comedian Gad Elmalehs North American Tour Starts in August

    May 2024

    French comedian Gad Elmaleh wants to get to know America, and he’s doing it with a multi-city tour later this year.

  • Gabby Noone (@twelveoclocke) Talks About Twitter and Aggressively Glamorous Humor

    May 2024

    Gabby Noone is a writer and student based in New York City. She’s a staff writer at Rookie Mag and has contributed to sites such as Buzzfeed, The Hairpin, and The Cut.

  • Game of Thrones, Broken Down Into Chart Form

    May 2024

    HBO’s dense Game of Thrones series can be hard to keep track of. The first season started with some hefty exposition, followed by less-hefty sexposition, and then dozens of deaths.

  • Greys Anatomy Season-Premiere Recap: New Kids on the Block

    May 2024

    Grey’s Anatomy Everything Has Changed Season 19 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Everything Has Changed Season 19 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s a new dawn, it’s a new Grey’s, it’s a beautiful day to save lives for me, and I’m feeling … surprisingly fine about it?

  • Have You Seen J-Kwon?

    May 2024

    J-Kwon, the man behind the still-great 2004 hit “Tipsy,” has reportedly been missing for a month, and his Indiana-based record label Grace Productions has now set up a Twitter page at @WhereIsJkwon to which people can send sightings or information on his whereabouts.

  • HBO Max Struts Into the Streaming Thunderdome

    May 2024

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  • He Always Has a Song in His Head

    May 2024

    Jeff Hiller on Somebody Somewhere’s road to “Gloria” Photo: Sandy Morris/HBO Photo: Sandy Morris/HBO Last Sunday, Somebody Somewhere aired its second season finale, following Succession and Barry’s final bows.

  • How Stranger Things 2 Transformed Hawkins Into the Upside Down

    May 2024

    Get all of your Stranger Things 2 questions answered at the show’s Vulture Festival L.A. panel on November 18! Tickets are available here.

  • How to Dress Like Rembrandt

    May 2024

    As Jerry Saltz has well pointed out, the selfie did not originate with the advent of the iPhone. Look, for example, at Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, who painted over 100 self-portraits in his lifetime — more images than almost anyone else pre-photography — and together, the portraits are more than just an act of vanity when you consider Rembrandt was discovered young, got rich and famous, then blew all his money and went bankrupt.

  • I Made Drakes Nasty Birthday Macaroni and Cheese

    May 2024

    Yes, chef! You cannot tell me that the macaroni and cheese description on Drake’s cursed birthday-party menu was either accurate or intentional.

  • In Conversation: Eminem

    May 2024

    On a snowy day in Detroit, Eminem, bearded and dressed in a white T-shirt and gray hoodie, stands in the lounge of his cavernous studio complex, nodding at a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet.

  • Infernos Most Surprising Twist Is Its Love Story

    May 2024

    Warning: This article discusses key plot points of Inferno. If you haven’t seen the film yet, stop reading. In a Dan Brown novel, the twists are just part of the formula: Da Vinci was actually … part of a centuries-old conspiracy!

  • It Really Sounds Like Ana de Armas Was Haunted by Marilyn Monroe

    May 2024

    Ana de Armas and Marilyn Monroe Lady Gaga perfected the art of the press tour while promoting House of Gucci, and Ana de Armas was clearly taking notes for Blonde.

  • Jane Birkin, Actor, Singer, and Fashion Icon, Dead at 76

    May 2024

    Jane Birkin, the British actor and singer who became a French fashion icon in the late 1960s, has died.

  • Jenna Fischer Battles Asses, Boobs in Walk Hard

    May 2024

    Photo: WireImage In Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the new Judd Apatow–produced spoof on rock-star biopics, The Office’s Jenna Fischer plays a winsome backup singer and love interest to John C.

  • Jerry Saltz on Thomas Krens: Our Long Cultural Nightmare Will Soon Be Over

    May 2024

    Thomas KrensPhoto: AFP/Getty Images While many Americans carry Bush Countdown Clocks – today ticking at 326 days – last night at a big art-world bash more than a few disbelieving yet ecstatic art-worlders were burbling about creating “Thomas Krens Countdown Clocks.

  • Jersey Shore Recap: All Guido Things Must End

    May 2024

    Jersey Shore We Are Family Season 5 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jersey Shore We Are Family Season 5 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh, man, Jersey Shore.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Names the Biggest Dick of Oscars Night

    May 2024

    John Cena presented the Oscar for Best Costume Design buck naked with only a strategically placed, extra-large envelope covering his front, leading many to imagine just what lurks behind the card.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Says Donald Trumps Sleep Farting Was for Naught

    May 2024

    Jimmy Kimmel feels bad that Donald Trump’s hard work during the hush-money trial went to waste. “Poor Donald Trump, seven weeks of sleep farting all down the drain, all for nothing,” the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • Judge Denies Amber Heards Request to Toss Johnny Depp Trial Verdict Over Juror

    May 2024

    Update, Wednesday, July 13, 2022: A Virginia judge rejected Amber Heard’s request for a probe into the alleged fake juror on Wednesday, Deadline reports.

  • Julia Roberts Was Festooned in Cloon at the Kennedy Center Honors

    May 2024

    jeremy scott you are wanted for your crimes If Julia Roberts has any trendsetting powers, prints are in this year.

  • Keep Mario Weird

    May 2024

    We take for granted that Mario is weird. No, look past the obvious dorm-room observation that those are magic mushrooms, man.

  • Legends of Tomorrow Recap: Fire and Ice

    May 2024

    Legends of Tomorrow Marooned Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Legends of Tomorrow Marooned Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wentworth Miller as Leonard, Caity Lotz as Sara.

  • Let Draymond Green Podcast

    May 2024

    This 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.

  • Lets Decode Frank Oceans Calvin Klein Ad

    May 2024

    What does it mean???? Where in the world is Frank Ocean, you ask? As of Tuesday night, he resides in a little box on your computer screen selling you Calvin Klien underwear as part of the brand’s star-studded fall campaign featuring all the “It” people.

  • Lindsay Lohans Son Has Fairly Random Godparents

    May 2024

    LiLo and Steph. Lindsay Lohan’s son has some fairly random godparents. While promoting her upcoming rom-com Irish Wish, the actor explains how she became BFFs with Steph and Ayesha Curry of all people, to the point where they agreed to be godparents to Lohan’s 7-month-old, Luai.

  • Lucy and Endgame Venture Into Extreme Caretaking

    May 2024

    Lucy opens with an interview between a mother-to-be and her nanny-that-could-be, both of whom are posturing. Mary (Brooke Bloom) is a tightly wound radiologist who goes around fluffing up the pillows on her couch before the interview in a futile effort to seem composed.

  • Max Lakin Author Archive

    May 2024

    day-glo dystopian Dec. 7, 2018 Peter Halley’s Anxious, Day-Glo Dystopian Paintings“Everybody thinks the ’80s was a party, but it wasn’t.

  • Meg Stalter Thinks the Villain From The Mask Is Hot

    May 2024

    Meg Stalter Meg Stalter (@megstalter) is a comedian originally from Ohio, but now a resident of New York City by way of Chicago.

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  • Mena Suvari in Cornrows Apparently Just As Marketable As Actual Black Actresses

    May 2024

    Courtesy of THINKFilm Jezebel smartly points out the ridiculousness of Mena Suvari being cast in Stuck, an independent film coming out tomorrow.

  • Nashville Recap: Dead Show Walking

    May 2024

    Nashville It’s Sure Gonna Hurt Season 4 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nashville It’s Sure Gonna Hurt Season 4 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Black-ish will returns with new episodes next season!

  • Nate Bargatze Talks Living in the Future in SNL Monologue

    May 2024

    “I’m as shocked as you are that I’m here,” Nate Bargatze said at the top of his Saturday Night Live monologue, before introducing himself to the audience.

  • Netflix Is Going Hard for the Holidays With Live-Action and Animated Elf on the Shelf

    May 2024

    The Elf on the Shelf might be missing his appearance at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this November, but the rest of his year is booked solid.

  • Nicolas Cages Miserable Times at Ridgemont High

    May 2024

    Looking back, one of Cage’s Fast Times costars hopes he “didn’t cause him too much pain.” Photo: Universal Pictures Photo: Universal Pictures If you’re going to make your film debut in a high-school sex comedy, you could do a lot worse than Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  • Nicole Kidman Is Dusting Off Her Big Little Lies Wig for Season 3

    May 2024

    Nicole Kidman in 2019. The only thing about Big Little Lies in the rearview mirror is the opening credit sequence, apparently.

  • No Future Predictions, Plenty of South Park Shade in Newest Simpsons Couch Gag

    May 2024

    The semi-annual tradition of another animator taking on The Simpsons’ infamous opening “couch gag” has had some rather interesting entries over the years: Banksy’s elegy to the Korean animation assembly lines slash sweatshops that create the Simpsons’ show and merch, for example; the Family Guy one; and Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt’s inspired, and bonkers time-traveling take (“Still love you, Homar”).

  • Olivia Colmans Zany Best Actress Oscars Speech Is One for the History Books

    May 2024

    The Gold Rush Brought to you by Olivia Colman, who’s already a national treasure across the pond in Britain, just won Best Actress for The Favourite at this years Oscars, beating out presumed front-runner Glenn Close for a surprise, albeit very deserved, win.

  • Pharrell Criticizes Virginia Beach Over Cousins Police Killing, Pulls Festival

    May 2024

    Pharrell is criticizing the city of Virginia Beach for what he calls its “toxic energy,” which has led the musician to pull his Something in the Water Festival from his hometown.

  • Please Tell Us If You Bought Pottery Barns $1,100 Friends Apothecary Table

    May 2024

    The original. The power of nostalgia has compelled Pottery Barn to curate a kitschy collection of Friends items for your home, which, besides eternally celebrating our beloved sextet, was created to ring in the show’s 25th (!

  • Prosecutors Introduce Photo of Alec Baldwin Minutes Before Rust Shooting to Trial

    May 2024

    Keeping up with Alec Baldwin. There’s new evidence incoming in the trial of reality star and house seller Alec Baldwin.

  • Ranking the New Succession Posters by How Much They Have Ruined My Day

    May 2024

    The promotional materials for the upcoming third season of Succession want you to know that the HBO drama is going to be all about taking sides this year.

  • Rolling Loud Rolls Into Miami This July With Last Years Would-Be Headliners in Tow

    May 2024

    Travis Scott performs at 2019’s Rolling Loud music festival at Citi Field in Queens. The fate of indoor concerts remains a mystery, but the organizers behind the nation’s biggest outdoor musical festivals are hoping you’re ready to get loud in close proximity to a ton of your fellow fans sometime this summer.

  • Sanditon Recap: All About Clara

    May 2024

    Sanditon Episode 3 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sanditon Episode 3 Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When I said Sanditon is like an Austenian Game of Thrones, I was MOSTLY joking, but it turns out that’s exactly what it is.

  • Scandals Guillermo Daz on Hucks Big Reveal, Set Pranks, and Britney Spears

    May 2024

    Guillermo Diaz as Huck. [Spoilers ahead.] After almost two full seasons, Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes finally let us in on Huck’s backstory.

  • See a Rad Poster for Snow White and the Huntsman

    May 2024

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  • Sex Educations Emma Mackey Doesnt Mind Those Weird Margot Robbie Jokes

    May 2024

    Emma Mackey. Netflix’s raunchy teen dramedy Sex Education kicks off with an enterprising outsider — the hard-edged, down-on-her-luck Maeve Wiley — who spots an opportunity to make a little cash.

  • Susan Sarandon on Death Row Stories, Ariana Grande, and Doing TV for the First Time

    May 2024

    While the promos for CNN’s compelling documentary series Death Row Stories sometimes make it look like just another cheesy true-crime TV show, it’s actually a bit deeper than that.

  • Talking With Josh Radnor About How I Met Your Mothers Finale and Keeping the Blue French Horn

    May 2024

    Josh Radnor, actor who used to play Ted Mosby. Last night, on the divisive series finale of How I Met Your Mother, after nine seasons and 200-plus episodes, Ted finally met the mother.

  • TCM Will Air a 24-Hour Debbie Reynolds Movie Marathon in January, So Go Ahead and Call Off Work Now

    May 2024

    You have all that unused vacation time. Why not put it toward the memory of one Ms. Debbie Reynolds? Turner Classic Movies is joining networks like Logo and ABC in celebrating the career highlights of the late, great musical star, and has announced that a full 24 hours of Debbie Reynolds movies will be aired on Friday, January 27.

  • The 30 Best Movies on Peacock Right Now

    May 2024

    The Holdovers. Don't have Peacock yet? Sign up here This article is updated frequently as movies leave and enter Peacock.

  • The Beatles Were the Greatest Boy-Band Ever, Actually

    May 2024

    The Beatles pose for a portrait circa 1962. Today Rolling Stone published a list of the 50 greatest songs by boy bands.

  • The Choupette Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Close to You Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Crown Recap: Ta-Da!

    May 2024

    The Crown Aftermath Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown Aftermath Season 6 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For this episode, the biggest challenge for writer/creator Peter Morgan was always going to be avoiding a direct rehash of The Queen.

  • The Encores! Titanic Gives Its Level Best

    May 2024

    What happens when you stage a spectacle without the spectacle? Encores! has revived Peter Stone and Maury Yeston’s musical Titanic, a grand late-1990s epic that earned most of its initial notoriety from its immense budget ($10 million, big at the time) and Stewart Laing’s not always functional set.

  • The Father Is a Devastating Close-up of a Mind Thats Beginning to Fray

    May 2024

    The Gold Rush Presented by The Gold Rush Presented by Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins. Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) has come unstuck in time.

  • The Girlfriend Experience Recap: Meeting Annabelle

    May 2024

    The Girlfriend Experience Boundaries Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Girlfriend Experience Boundaries Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Paul Sparks as David.

  • The Golden Bachelor Recap: The Many Loves of Gerry Turner

    May 2024

    The Golden Bachelor Episode 6 Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Golden Bachelor Episode 6 Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I run to my window and call out to a boy on the street below.

  • The L Word Has a Bun in the Oven

    May 2024

    Long-term strategy on The L Word? There is none. Characters wholly change personalities one season to the next, defining characteristics totally disappear (where are Helena’s kids, anyway?

  • The Lady Chablis, the Star of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Dead at 59

    May 2024

    Legendary trans performer the Lady Chablis, who rose to celebrity through the book and film Midnight of the Garden of Good and Evil, has died at the age of 59 at a hospital in Savannah, Georgia.

  • The Mindy Project Recap: Dannys Boy

    May 2024

    The Mindy Project Danny’s Friend Season 1 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Danny’s Friend Season 1 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Knowing that we’re heading to a season two with this thing, I could totally get into this otherwise pretty standard episode.

  • The Nine Lives of Michael B. Jordan

    May 2024

    (Photo: Pej Behdarvand. Styling by Jeff K. Kim for Margaret Maldonado. Sweater by John Varvatos.) Where’s Wallace at? It’s hard not to think of that famous line from HBO’s The Wire on this rainy afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival while waiting, and waiting, for Michael B.

  • The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Christmas Grouse

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of New Jersey There Arose Such a Clatter Season 3 Episode 10 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey There Arose Such a Clatter Season 3 Episode 10 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You know all the times you were convinced your mom was the most embarrassing mom in the world?

  • The Restaurant Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Simple Genius of Charlie Watts, As Told Through 6 Classic Rolling Stones Songs

    May 2024

    His most memorable moments with the Stones aren’t five-minute drum solos, but rather small, precise elements that could only have been created by Charlie Watts.

  • The Strain Is So Close Yet So Far From Being a Great Horror Show

    May 2024

    Left to right: Mia Maestro as Nora Martinez, Corey Stoll as Ephraim Goodweather. The Strain, which returns for a second round of blood-feasting this Sunday, is a silly show with grandiose and sublime passages.

  • The Strain Recap: Die Diane My Darling

    May 2024

    The Strain Loved Ones Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Strain Loved Ones Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There was a great bit of expressive acting in “Loved Ones,” courtesy of Natalie Brown.

  • The Today Show Reportedly Didnt Cater 2 Kelly Rowland

    May 2024

    Update, February 20: Following Kelly Rowland’s sudden departure from her guest-host gig at Today With Hoda and Jenna over a dressing-room snafu, host Hoda Kotb said she will always leave the door open for the star.

  • The Vengeance Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Vulture Transcript: William H. Macy Dissects the Second Season of Shameless

    May 2024

    William H. Macy. William H. Macy — or Bill, as he calls himself — plays the head of the Gallagher family on Showtime’s Shameless.

  • Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Make Their Glorious Return to the States

    May 2024

    Hopefully Chet Hanks is somewhere heaving a huge sigh of relief, now that he doesn’t have to lug the heavy Hanks-Wilson mantle around in his parents’ absence.

  • Trevor Noah Has Some Ideas to Sexy Up the January 6 Hearings

    May 2024

    The January 6 hearings will air on primetime starting Thursday morning (except on Fox News, duh), but The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah isn’t sure the time slot is enough to nab the American public’s attention.

  • Watch Fat Joe Be Down With Gays (NSFW)

    May 2024

    Fat Joe’s got some choice words for those who take issue with the gays: “In 2011, you’ve got to hide that you’re gay?

  • Watch James Corden Salute Princes Unique Artistry

    May 2024

    Although The Late Late Show’s Thursday edition had finished taping by the time Prince’s death was confirmed, James Corden still made sure to film a tribute.

  • We Asked a Gynecologist About That Ice-Cream Scene in Fifty Shades Freed

    May 2024

    In the newest — and,tragically, final — installment of the Fifty Shades franchise, Fifty Shades Freed, there’s a darkly memorable scene wherein human pommel horse Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) appears to be seconds away from feeding an entire spoonful of Ben and Jerry’s into Anastasia Steele’s (Dakota Johnson) vagina.

  • What Jharrel Jerome Learned While Staring Down a 13-Foot Version of Himself

    May 2024

    Facing off against a giant doll on the set of Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo was absolutely mortifying, weird, and undeniably impressive.

  • What We Do in the Shadows Writer Stefani Robinson Talks Jackie Daytona, Ghost Sperm

    May 2024

    “‘Jackie Daytona’ just had a ring to it, it was one of those moments where it was probably divine inspiration.

  • When Wet Leg Met Wet Leg Superfan David Byrne

    May 2024

    The ladies in Wet Leg are a shy pair — Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers often speak in hushed tones and regularly giggle at each other’s words, almost as if only the two of them are in on the gag.

  • White Bird in a Blizzard, Starring Shailene Woodley, Is an Evocative, Occasionally Maddening Film

    May 2024

    “I was 17 when my mother disappeared,” Kat Connor (Shailene Woodley) tells us in the opening narration of White Bird in a Blizzard.

  • Will Mel Gibson Tank Daddys Home 2?

    May 2024

    Mel Gibson (left) and Will Ferrell in Daddy’s Home 2 In Daddy’s Home 2, the sequel to 2015’s $250 million–grossing hit that’s in theaters Friday, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell play “co-dads” — the biological father and stepdad to a pair of Boston-area kids — who put aside their differences to maintain progressive domestic bliss.

  • Youre Having a Peaceful Day, Then Boom! Lenny Kravitz Naked.

    May 2024

    Does Lenny Kravitz want me to get caught saying nasty things in 4K? The thirst trap music video for his new single, “TK421,” off his upcoming album, Blue Electric Light, is a Prince-coded funk-rock number.

  • See Gossip Girls Version of Runaway Bride

    May 2024

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  • David O. Russell Blown Away by Soap Actors Because They Just Do Their Damn Jobs

    May 2024

    David and his diva. Virginia Madsen plays Jennifer Lawrence’s soap-opera-obsessed mother in David O. Russell’s latest film, Joy. But rather than include clips from a pre-existing daytime soap, Russell shot original scenes with soap veterans Susan Lucci (Erica Kane on All My Children), Maurice Bernard (Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital), Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos on General Hospital), and Donna Mills (Abby Ewing on Knots Landing).

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  • 10 Icy Nordic Thrillers to Get You Through the Winter

    May 2024

    While the snow has finally melted here in New York City, we’ve still got some frigid forecasts ahead of us.

  • 18 Essential Episodes of Gilmore Girls

    May 2024

    Millennials and Gen Zers may have different takes on fashion trends, emojis, and the use of the word “slay,” but one thing we can all agree on is Gilmore Girls.

  • 61 Essential Queer Horror Films

    May 2024

    This article was originally published on June 25, 2018. It has been updated with additional films. From 1934 until 1967, Hollywood movies were shaped by the Production Code, otherwise known as the Hays Code.

  • A Guide to Jean-Michel Basquiats New York

    May 2024

    As its title implies, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat takes a circumscribed time frame: Basquiat’s emergence as a charismatic kid going to shows in the close-knit post-punk Lower East Side of the late 1970s, selling his first painting in the early 1980s, and launching himself into the stratosphere.

  • A Look at the Long Forgotten Woody Allen Special, with Guest Star Rev. Billy Graham

    May 2024

    The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history.

  • A Very Funny Joke About a Very Dead Horse

    May 2024

    It’s bad to beat a dead horse, but to tell a joke about one!? Well, that’s a different story.

  • Ali Wong and Steven Yeun Have Beef

    May 2024

    How do you like your beef? Perhaps as a … T-bone? That’s how Ali Wong and Steven Yeun get theirs in the upcoming, appropriately titled Netflix series.

  • Alicia Keyss If I Aint Got You Orchestral Version Plucks Heartstrings

    May 2024

    It’s not Bridgerton if there is no orchestral version of a pop song. Shonda Rhimes’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the latest entry in the sprawling Netflix costume-drama universe, one-ups its own formula by giving fans a live music video for Alicia Keys’s “If I Ain’t Got You” orchestral arrangement.

  • All 47 Pairs of Scrubs Merritt Wever Has Worn on Nurse Jackie

    May 2024

    Nurse Jackie’s lovably eccentric Zoey Barkow, played by Merritt Wever, stands out at All Saints Hospital. That’s not a comment about the character’s indomitable spirit, although that certainly helped win over her cranky boss, veteran trauma nurse and recovering drug addict Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco).

  • All HailDickinson, a TV Show Made Specifically for Literary Weirdos

    May 2024

    “This Shakespeare club has too much drama.” Jackson McHenry: We’re here because we’ve had to organize an emergency discussion. There was simply no other way around it.

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  • Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Are Turning Their Libcast Into Liblit

    May 2024

    At least now you know what to get the boomers in your life this holiday season. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen announced the book adaptation of their podcast Renegades: Born in the USA, coming out October 26.

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    May 2024

    quote machine June 4, 2008 Al Green Single-handedly Responsible for OverpopulationPlus: Neil Young becomes Ed Begley Jr., and Ben Gibbard picks a fight with Bob Seger!

  • Big Thief Goes Even Bigger, Announces 20-Song Double Album

    May 2024

    Big Thief has been on a particularly prolific streak over the past few years. The band released two great albums, U.

  • Black Bird Series-Premiere Recap: Scared Crooked

    May 2024

    Black Bird Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Black Bird Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » I mean this as a compliment: Black Bird is not a tasteful show.

  • Brad Pitt Is Zoomin Through the F1 Trailer

    May 2024

    F1 star Lewis Hamilton lends F1 authenticity and hella connections. According to Variety, the film shot during actual F1 events like British Grand Prix, the Rolex 24 at Daytona, and more.

  • Caleb Hearon Knows the Secret to Good Brownies

    May 2024

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vulture (@vulture) Thanks to the coronavirus, comedians are now trapped at home like the rest of us, so we decided that while we’re all self-quarantining, we’d do something a little different from our usual “Follow Friday” column.

  • Comedy Undercard: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch vs. Clarissa Explains It All

    May 2024

    Vulture is in the midst of 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.

  • Did Jason Aldean Ever Care About Small Towns?

    May 2024

    On Jason Aldean’s 2010 album, My Kinda Party, the country star perfected his image as a champion for small-town America.

  • Did You Know That Shawn Mendes Is a Harry Potter Stan?

    May 2024

    Shawn Mendes — the pop star who is not light of our lives Charlie Puth — rode with James Corden last night for a round of Carpool Karaoke.

  • Doja Cat - Vulture

    May 2024

    best of 2021 Dec. 14, 2021 The Best Songs of 2021From Jazmine Sullivan’s years-in-the-making comeback to electrifying rock anthems to Doja Cat’s NSFW tongue twister and more.

  • Donald Glovers Son Is Part of the Bey Hive

    May 2024

    You don’t choose to be a Beyoncé fan. It’s your birthright. Before you’re born, your heart beats in time to “Love On Top” and first steps are just an attempt to do the “Single Ladies” choreography.

  • Drakes Memphis Show Canceled for Being Logistically Impossible

    May 2024

    This guy. Maybe this one wasn’t God’s plan. Drake’s Memphis show is officially canceled, a little more than a month after he first postponed it.

  • Emma Roberts Isnt Into Nepo-Baby Discourse, Unsurprisingly

    May 2024

    Nepo niece is actually a rare slay. Frightening doll collector Emma Roberts, who starred in the film Aquamarine at age 15, isn’t into nepo-baby discourse.

  • Encores!s Into the Woods Will Have an Encore on Broadway

    May 2024

    Brb crudely pasting BDJ’s face over NPH’s in photoshop. Those who wish to go to the fest-i-val may have that wish fulfilled once again.

  • ERSs Ulysses Is a Little Stately, a Little Plump

    May 2024

    From Gatz, at the Fisher Center at Bard. We’re drowning in Gatsby adaptations, but it’s hard to match the splendor of Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz.

  • Every Celebritys a Writer Now

    May 2024

    How to navigate this year’s glut of memoirs. Photo: Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, Dominik Bindl/Getty Images, Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Photo: Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, Dominik Bindl/Getty Images, Emma McIntyre/Getty Images It’s never been a better time to ship a voice-memo series of playful or traumatic anecdotes to a ghostwriter and let ’er rip.

  • Floribama Shore Recap: Bewitched

    May 2024

    Floribama Shore Home Sweet Home to Me Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Floribama Shore Home Sweet Home to Me Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** What if you took Jersey Shore, switched up the accents, transported the whole production to the Gulf Coast, and made everything and everyone just a little bit sadder, but just as wasted?

  • Frank Ocean Wont Win Any Grammys in 2017, Because He Reportedly Intentionally Missed the Submissi

    May 2024

    Anyone who’s waited years for Frank Ocean’s follow-up to Channel Orange knows the man does not like to be bound by arbitrary deadlines imposed on his creativity.

  • George R.R. Martin Says His Books Ending Will Be Similar and Different From Game of Thrones

    May 2024

    Is this canon? After Game of Thrones came to its grand, Bran ending on Sunday night, George R.

  • Girls Recap: A Blast From Marnies Past

    May 2024

    Girls The Panic in Central Park Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Girls The Panic in Central Park Season 5 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “The Panic in Central Park” is reminiscent of season two’s “One Man’s Trash,” in that it follows one character throughout the day without checking in on the other girls.

  • Guns N Roses Is Suing a Texas Arms Dealer For Using Their Name

    May 2024

    Guns N’ Roses is suing a Texas arms dealer for selling lethal weapons under the name “Texas Guns and Roses” because, well, firearms aren’t necessarily the sort of heavy metal that the band wants to be associated with.

  • Haim Takes Hard Rock Extremely Literally on New Croods Track

    May 2024

    We can see any of the members of Haim either dating that Crood boy or wearing that necklace.

  • Heres to Them. Whos Like Them? Damn Few.

    May 2024

    Editor’s note, June 16, 2024: This review was published on October 10, 2023. At the 77th Tony Awards, Merrily We Roll Along won four awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.

  • How I Met Your Mother Recap: Lobster Crawl

    May 2024

    Ah yes, the art of seduction. Since the beginning of time, countless magazines have attempted to tell you in different ways to have self-esteem, shower and not be a creep.

  • How Lenox Hill Filmed a Special Coronavirus Episode Inside an NYC Hospital

    May 2024

    Dr. Mirtha Macri in Lenox Hill. A special episode of Netflix’s gripping docuseries Lenox Hill opens during the week in early March when many Americans began their coronavirus quarantine.

  • How What We Do in the Shadows Flipped Itself Into a Home-Renovation Show

    May 2024

    What We Do in the Shadows is a true anomaly, a thing that, by all logic of television, shouldn’t work.

  • Idris Elbas Daughter Gave Him the Silent Treatment After Not Landing Beast Role

    May 2024

    Although there are many TikToks from members of Gen Z who find out their favorite actor has famous parents, it can still come as a shock when a familiar last name in a casting announcement isn’t just a coincidence.

  • If You Loved The Haunting of Hill House, Watch These 6 Horror Films From Mike Flanagan

    May 2024

    So you watched The Haunting of Hill House and couldn’t get enough of the domestic discord, hidden ghosts, or special time with your friends Elizabeth Reaser and Kate Siegel.

  • It Was GIFs of Kathryn Hahn in WandaVision All Along

    May 2024

    What is WandaVision about? Grief? Franchise building? Experiments in TV production design? An excuse to write a bunch of theme songs around the same musical intervals?

  • James Bond Is a Game Show Now

    May 2024

    For those of you who watched James Bond rev a motorcycle from the cobblestoned steps of Matera to the top of a building in No Time to Die and thought, Yeah, I could do that, Prime Video is casting for its new James Bond–inspired game show.

  • Jennifer Aniston Is Poring Over Texts From Matthew Perry

    May 2024

    Jennifer Aniston is remembering the laughs she had with Matthew Perry. The actor paid tribute to her late Friends co-star in an Instagram gallery posted on November 14, sharing footage from an episode of their iconic series and a screenshot of a text-message exchange.

  • Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt Fight Censorship

    May 2024

    Hamm-Westfeldt Sandwich: Jon Hamm and his lady friend Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) have set up production company Points West Pictures.

  • Just Drop the Album, Morgan Freeman

    May 2024

    He narrates Savage Mode II. How about go solo for Savage Mode III? We’ve seen a slew of event releases in the rap landscape over the past month, from Big Sean’s stacked Detroit 2, to Griselda Records’ unrelenting September run, to Public Enemy’s perfectly timed What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?

  • Justified Recap: Problem Child

    May 2024

    Justified The Toll Season 5 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Justified The Toll Season 5 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Things continue to fall apart on “The Toll.

  • Justin Bieber Talks About His Penis and Maybe Getting Back Together With Selena Gomez

    May 2024

    Justin Bieber Week kicks off on Ellen today, and Ellen asks the requisite questions: What about that dick pic? (“It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

  • Kimberly J. Brown Answers Every Question We Have About Halloweentown

    May 2024

    On riding brooms with Debbie Reynolds, dating her Disney movie co-star, and how the writers changed the ending at the last second.

  • Lana Del Rey Not Touring Anytime Soon [UPDATE]

    May 2024

    Lana Del Rey has postponed her tour, “Page Six” says, in the hopes of creating some distance between herself and her instantly infamous SNL warble debacle from a few weeks ago.

  • Last Night on Late Night: Mindy Kaling Politely Schooled David Letterman

    May 2024

    Last night on The Late Show, Mindy Kaling found herself in the hot seat, made just too hot, awkward, and uncomfortable by David Letterman that she had to rectify the situation.

  • Led Zeppelin - Vulture

    May 2024

    tube junkie Dec. 11, 2007 The Led Zeppelin Reunion Show: More of What You MissedDespite months of begging and whining, our mean bosses refused to pay the highly reasonable £83,000 (plus airfare, food, and hotel) for Vulture’s editors to attend last night’s Led Zeppelin reunion show in London.

  • Lets Talk About Noahs Crazy Giant Rock Monsters

    May 2024

    You wouldn’t hire a director like Darren Aronofsky if you wanted Noah to be a straightforward, conventional Bible story, but even audiences who go to the movie expecting a dash of weirdness may be startled when Aronofsky reveals the film’s fallen angels.

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jennifer Lopez Drop Love Make the World Go Round in Honor of Orlando Vi

    May 2024

    They teased us with a sample earlier this week, and now Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jennifer Lopez’s “Love Make the World Go Round” is here, honoring those lost during the mass shooting that occurred at an Orlando gay club’s Latin night.

  • Lisa Frankenstein Is Strictly a Mall-Goth Affair

    May 2024

    Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse star in a disappointingly flimsy horror comedy about a teen loner and her undead companion.

  • Listen to Grammy Best New Artist Nominee Tank and the Bangas If Youre Interested in Joy

    May 2024

    If you’re the person who says, “I don’t know — I like a bit of everything,” when asked what your favorite kind of music is, you might love Tank and the Bangas.

  • Literary Biographies - Vulture

    May 2024

    book review Nov. 30, 2022 Kathy Acker Wanted EverythingEat Your Mind, a new biography of the writer and punk feminist icon, is both maddening and compulsively readable.

  • Lizzo Is Hedging Her Bets

    May 2024

    Craig Jenkins is a critic who writes about music and television and comedy and video games, and he wishes there were more than 24 hours in a day.

  • Marisa Abelas Day (to Play Amy Winehouse) Has Come

    May 2024

    Marisa Abela and Amy Winehouse. Back to Black has found its Amy. The upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic will star Industry breakout Marisa Abela, Deadline reported on January 12, 2023.

  • Maybe Wheel of Time Doesnt Need to Look So Realistic

    May 2024

    Too often, Wheel of Time’s characters feel like figurines being placed in various beautiful dioramas. Several episodes into The Wheel of Time, Amazon Prime Video’s enormous adaptation of the similarly enormous Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson fantasy series, I cannot stop thinking about how good it looks.

  • Mindy Kaling Addresses the Comings and Goings on The Mindy Project

    May 2024

    Right before the Thanksgiving holiday, a number of changes were made to The Mindy Project. Anna Camp, who plays Mindy’s best friend Gwen, was reduced to a recurring presence, and Amanda Setton, who played the receptionist Shauna, was out.

  • Morgan Wallen Made His Triumphant Return at Kid Rocks Bar

    May 2024

    Morgan Wallen promised fans in April that they’d “be seeing me sooner than later,” in an update note after he was caught saying the N-word in a video published at the beginning of February.

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    May 2024

    quote machine July 11, 2008 Nas Embraces the LeakPlus: Shamefully, ‘Meet Dave’ director Brian Robbins has never seen ‘Small Wonder.

  • Much Like ALF Himself, the ALF Reboot Is Probably Dead

    May 2024

    The original ALF television series ended in 1990 with wise-cracking, cat-eating alien, Gordon Shumway, being captured by the U.S. Air Force’s Alien Task Force and taken to God-knows-where for the military to do God-knows-what.

  • New Girls Rachael Harris Heading to Suits

    May 2024

    Rachael Harris, recently gracing us with a guest arc on New Girl and a starring role in the indie film Natural Selection (plus, not so recently, her turns in The Hangover, The Daily Show, and Fat Actress) has selected USA’s Suits as her next move.

  • NewJeans Is Sweet Like Bubble Gum

    May 2024

    NewJeans know a thing or two about seasonal bops. Last year, they gave us song of the winter (“Ditto”) and song of the summer (“Super Shy”).

  • Nia Vardalos Has Been Cast in The Catch in a Role Probably Not at All Big, Fat, or Greek

    May 2024

    Nia Vardalos. You caught her in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and now you can catch her in ABC’s The Catch.

  • Nick Jonas to Cheat on Adrienne Warren on Broadway

    May 2024

    Jamie’s got new dreams. Nick Jonas, a man so Christian he once wore a purity ring with his brothers, is going to sing an ode to dating a Shiksa as a Jewish man on Broadway.

  • No, I Dont See a Better Future for Late Night

    May 2024

    Amber Ruffin, Los Espookys and The Woman King stan. Ratings for late-night talk shows are tanking, the hosts are overrepresented by white men, networks and streamers are making budget cuts (good-bye, library titles and your favorite show) … and Amber Ruffin is right in the eye of storm.

  • Nothing Entertains Claudia ODoherty Like a Really Bad Liar

    May 2024

    Claudia O’Doherty. There’s a doe-eyed innocence required to believe in the American dream. It demands faith that people are fundamentally good, trust that systems are fundamentally just, and conviction that America, in spite of so much conflicting evidence, functions as a meritocracy.

  • Oh, Phylicia Rashad Wants Us to Forget She Celebrated Bill Cosbys Release

    May 2024

    Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad, believing that we all have the memory span of a goldfish, is attempting to walk back comments she made about Bill Cosby’s overturned sexual-assault verdict.

  • One Direction to Taylor Swift: Hashtag Get Over It

    May 2024

    One Direction. When Taylor Swift accepted the award for Best Female Video for “I Knew You Were Trouble” at the VMAs on Sunday, she threw some major shade at her ex Harry Styles: “I also want to thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because now I got one of these,” she said.

  • Poker Faces Best Guest Stars, Ranked

    May 2024

    There are many reasons to enjoy a good TV procedural, but one of the biggest pleasures comes from watching marquee actors take on the roles of suspects, victims, and whomever else is connected to the dead body of the week.

  • Pole Dancers in Space! (The Theme of Diplos New Music Video for Set It Off)

    May 2024

    Oh, and did you miss the video for “Get Free“? Sources Bullett Diplo’s New Music Video for ‘Set It Off’ ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgbXyltc%2Blpmarlal6qsCMqJ2fZpipuq0%3D

  • Preachers Noah Taylor Doesnt Want Anybody Rooting for Hitler

    May 2024

    It not uncommon for actors to play the same part twice, but reprising the role of Adolf Hitler is the kind of detail that’ll make anyone stop and take note.

  • Quinta Brunson Gives a Master Class in Checking In on Friends

    May 2024

    *Clap clap clap clap.* Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson didn’t hesitate to demonstrate kindness and empathy when Jennifer Aniston started crying during their conversation for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series.

  • Rare Photos of Paul Simon From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    May 2024

    On October 30, Paul Simon: Words & Music opens at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Commemorating the singer-songwriter’s 50 years in the music business, the exhibit gathers important artifacts from throughout the his career.

  • Read Donald Glovers Handwritten Notes About Leaving Community

    May 2024

    Back in July, when we reported that Donald Glover was going to spend less time on Community, it appeared that his music career was the main reason.

  • Rebecca Ferguson Drops Her Own Blind Item

    May 2024

    Who hurt her? Deuxmoi is so 2023. What’s chic now is celebrities dropping their own blind items for fans to comb through and find someone to accuse online.

  • Record-Setting Daredevil Robbie Knievel Dead at 60

    May 2024

    Renowned daredevil Robbie Knievel, the son of Evel Knievel, has died at age 60. His brother told the Associated Press that he died at a Reno hospice early on Friday morning with his three daughters at his side.

  • Reese Witherspoon to Produce Gone Girl Adaptation

    May 2024

    WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 28: Actress Reese Witherspoon attends the 98th Annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 28, 2012 in Washington, DC.

  • Rick and Michonnes Best Episodes of The Walking Dead

    May 2024

    This spring, fans of The Walking Dead get to see the franchise’s favorite power couple come back to the spotlight with The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

  • RuPauls Drag Race UK Recap: Cat Men Do

    May 2024

    RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Catty Man Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race U.

  • Sarah Paulson to Play Big-Haired Cult Leader Gwen Shamblin in HBO Max Project

    May 2024

    Sarah Paulson and Gwen Shamblin. One thing Sarah Paulson’s gonna do is dress up as real-life people. But this time, she’s leaving behind the Ryan Murphy–produced crime anthologies for the HBO Max scripted adaptation of The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.

  • Security Guard Shot Outside Drakes Toronto Home

    May 2024

    A security guard was shot outside Drake’s home in Toronto early this morning, amid the rapper’s ongoing beef with Kendrick Lamar.

  • Serenas Journey Has Become the Heart of The Handmaids Tale

    May 2024

    Vulture and New York TV critic Jen Chaney previously worked for the Washington Post and has bylines at the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

  • Slow Build, Fast Rise

    May 2024

    Oh, 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.

  • Star Wars Poster Artist Drew Struzan May Return for New Episodes

    May 2024

    Drew Struzan, the genius behind all those glorious Star Wars posters (and Indiana Jones posters, and Back to the Future posters, and just all the posters), has been contacted by Disney about returning for the new episodes.

  • SuccessionRecap: Sgt. Pepper of Broken Corporate America

    May 2024

    Succession Lion in the Meadow Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Succession Lion in the Meadow Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As the perfectly named Tom Wambsgans contemplates the minutiae of prison time — like maybe he can go to FCI Otisville, the “Jewish jail” upstate with the kosher vending machines — he gets a dispiriting visit from Shiv, who asks him, at Logan’s behest, to direct ATN’s prime-time fascist Mark Ravenhead to adopt a more critical tone about the president in a bid to pressure him into supporting her father.

  • Sundance: (Very) Early Oscar Buzz for Jason Segels Portrayal of David Foster Wallace

    May 2024

    Sundance is always good for some infuriatingly early — as in 12 months early — awards predictions (though the hive mind wasn’t wrong about Whiplash’s J.

  • The 59 Best Movies to Watch With Your Parents During Quarantine

    May 2024

    Amy Adams in Julie and Julia. *This post was originally published in March. It has been updated with more films my parents and I have enjoyed during quarantine.

  • The Afterparty Recap: More Horse

    May 2024

    The Afterparty Travis Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Afterparty Travis Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Things are really cookin’ this week on The Afterparty, and I’m not just saying that because of Travis’s “you know what they say about hot stoves …” line.

  • The Best New Jokes in the Mean Girls Musical

    May 2024

    The team behind the Tony-nominated Mean Girls (creator Tina Fey, musician Jeff Richmond, and lyricist Nell Benjamin) faced a difficult challenge when they decided to adapt a much-beloved film for the stage.

  • The Carb Artist Who Makes Work Out of Fake Food and Real Aspirations

    May 2024

    Chloe Wise is so hot right now. Lit-er-al-ly, she would say, in that accent that has somehow transcended its Southern California roots to become the voice of an entire socioeconomic class.

  • The Creators of American Vandal Think Its Pretty Obvious Who Drew the Dicks

    May 2024

    Obvious spoilers ahead. When the first trailer for the Netflix series American Vandal came out, it posed one central question: Who drew the dicks?

  • The Deep Hidden Meaning of Nile Rodgers

    May 2024

    “After I got sick, I decided that I’m a musician, and I’m going to go on a tear doing what I do best.

  • The Emotional Significance of One Parting Line in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    May 2024

    A loving farewell from an unexpected source, told with some fun sleight of hand by director James Gunn. When you think of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s style of dialogue, you tend to think of quippy, overwrought comic relief.

  • The Gilded Age Recap: Never Propose in Public

    May 2024

    The Gilded Age Warning Shots Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Gilded Age Warning Shots Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » You may have noticed I’ve been skipping the servants’ storylines.

  • The Great British Baking Show Recap: Whats in the Box?

    May 2024

    The Great British Baking Show Biscuits Season 6 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great British Baking Show Biscuits Season 6 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The bakers.

  • The Magicians Recap: Is Anyone Watching?

    May 2024

    The Magicians Impractical Applications Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Magicians Impractical Applications Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Arjun Gupta as Penny, Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice, Jason Ralph as Quentin, Hale Appleman as Eliot.

  • The Metropolitan Opera Is Furloughing Its Orchestra, Chorus, and Trades

    May 2024

    Nobody’s there. The dismantling of America’s cultural infrastructure has begun. The Metropolitan Opera will furlough all its union employees—musicians, chorus members, stagehands, carpenters, and other trades—starting April 1.

  • The New Game of Thrones Photos Are So Metal

    May 2024

    Entertainment Weekly released new images of Game of Thrones season seven this morning, and they can best be described in one word: metal.

  • The Paul Hollywood Handshake Is the Absolute Worst

    May 2024

    When The Great British Bake Off (sorry, Pillsbury) judge Paul Hollywood tasted Michael Chakraverty’s Keralan star-bread tear-and-share in the third episode of the current tenth season, he first described the bake’s finer attributes and then stuck out his beefy man-paw to shake Michael’s hand.

  • The Retributionists Margarita Levieva on Jewish Revenge and Being Lisa P.

    May 2024

    Since Margarita Levieva made our list of Most Beautiful New Yorkers in 2006, the Russian-born gymnast turned actress has been proving she’s more than just a pretty face.

  • The Rom-Com Puzzle

    May 2024

    New crosswords dropped daily. Find all our games here. Vulture 10x10 Crossword Puzzle A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • The Superficial Pleasures of Smartless

    May 2024

    Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts?

  • Theater Review: The Charms, Discreet and Otherwise, of the Roundabouts She Loves Me Revival

    May 2024

    Benanti and Levi in She Loves Me. Unless you’re a fanatic with money to burn, you’ve most likely heard your favorite musicals more than you’ve seen them.

  • Tim Dillon Just Wants the Truth

    May 2024

    Tim Dillon doesn’t really fall into any particular comedic niche. He is simultaneously a boisterous, conservative-leaning Long Island native and a thoughtful, homosexual foodie with a soft spot for frozen yogurt.

  • What We Do in the Shadows Recap: Call Me by Your Name

    May 2024

    What We Do in the Shadows Freddie Season 4 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What We Do in the Shadows Freddie Season 4 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “It’s always darkest before the dawn” is bad advice to give to a vampire.

  • What Will Be the Sundance-iest Movie at Sundance Next Year?

    May 2024

    The indie circuit is full of varied offerings, but you can’t deny that the Sundance Film Festival prefers a certain kind of movie: humanist dramadies about emotionally unavailable people.

  • Which Movie Is the Most Thankful at the Box Office?

    May 2024

    A short dictator, a wishful dreamer, and a singing tribute walk into a movie theater on Thanksgiving weekend… And they immediately get into a battle for the top spot at the box office.

  • Why Everyone on Insecure Has Better Clothes This Season

    May 2024

    Issa lewk. A lot has changed in Insecure’s second season: Everyone’s single, employed, and doing them. There’s a certain glow about Issa, Lawrence, and Molly and it’s not just all that melanin popping through your TV screens.

  • Wonka Is Pretty Good?

    May 2024

    Look, I’m as surprised as you are. This review was originally published on December 14, 2023. Wonka is now available to stream on Max.

  • Woody Harrelson - Vulture

    May 2024

    venom: let there be carnage Oct. 1, 2021 Who Is Carnage?A Hannibal Lecter homage? An answer to Joker? A gooey relic of ’90s comics culture?

  • Yellowjacketss Sophie Thatcher Unpacks the Guilt Consuming Natalie in Season Two

    May 2024

    Spoilers ahead for “Old Wounds,”the fourth episode of Yellowjackets season two. While Juliette Lewis’s present-day Natalie is off getting kidnapped by Lottie and stabbing cult members with forks, her equally angsty (but far more pragmatic) teenage Yellowjackets self, played by 22-year-old Sophie Thatcher, is trying to fend off her teammates’ starvation.

  • See 16 Years of Scarlett Johanssons Red-Carpet Looks

    May 2024

    red carpet looks September 26, 2013 4:15 pm By Margaret Lyons Share Share Tweet Pin It 60 Photos Photo: AFP/Getty Scarlett Johansson starred in The Horse Whisperer in 1998, and since then she’s been a fixture on the red carpet, with blockbusters (The Avengers), indies (Lost in Translation), a pile of Woody Allen movies, a BAFTA, four Golden Globe nominations, and a Tony to her name.

  • 10 Character Types Youll Come Across on Every Ryan Murphy Show

    May 2024

    There’s a reason why Ryan Murphy is one of the most popular creators on all of television — the man has a formula for success.

  • 10 Outsider Cliques as Seen in Movies and TV

    May 2024

    Glee returns tonight (read our recap here), and hopefully one of its key strengths will still be in force: Its depiction of the high-school outsider, whose passions — singing, in this case — trump the desire to blend in with the popular crowd.

  • 13 TV Moms Who Thrived Professionally

    May 2024

    While this week’s Mindy Project premiere didn’t exactly give us a glimpse into Mindy’s specific parenting style, it’s only a matter of time before two become three, and we get what’s sure to be a no-holds-barred look into the life of Dr.

  • 9 Valentines Day Horror Movies to Watch When Youre Horrified by Valentines Day

    May 2024

    This list was originally published in 2021. February can be the coldest month — especially when it’s the February following a particularly hellish year and you didn’t get around to cuffing someone for the season.

  • A Beginners Guide to Skam, Your New Teen-Drama Obsession

    May 2024

    The best thing about Skam? Everyone is good at kissing. In recent weeks, a small but growing portion of the internet has become obsessed with a Norwegian teen drama called Skam.

  • A Gore-Soaked Spectacle of Depravity and Pain

    May 2024

    You can practically smell the Black Flies director chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity.

  • A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series Is Headed to Hulu

    May 2024

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is heading to American television thanks to Hulu.

  • A Powerful Nepo Couple Has Entered the Ring

    May 2024

    Arthur Donald and Phoebe Gates. The children of two separate dynasties have come together to maximize their joint nepo.

  • And Just Like That Recap: A Little Space Between Friends

    May 2024

    And Just Like That A Hundred Years Ago Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » And Just Like That A Hundred Years Ago Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, well, well, look who’s in a new relationship bliss bubble!

  • Andrea Savage and Kaitlin Olson Wrote a Porno for Themselves

    May 2024

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vulture (@vulture) Look, we’ve all been inside awhile and let’s be honest: None of us is working on any new skills.

  • Are Hot Wings Enough to Burn Out Austin Butlers Elvis Voice?

    May 2024

    Austin Butler recently announced that he is retiring the southern twang that he put on for his titular role in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

  • Barbra Streisand Says No, No, No, No, No, No to a Bohemian RhapsodyStyle Biopic

    May 2024

    We’ve found it, the one thing we have in common with actress, chanteuse, and dog-cloning pioneer Barbra Streisand: We both said “No, no, no, no, no, no” to Bohemian Rhapsody.

  • Benedict Cumberbatch Humbly Recalls Saving a Cyclist From a Robbery

    May 2024

    If you were getting mugged on the streets of London on a chilly winter night, which Avenger would you want to save you?

  • Billy Crudup - Vulture

    May 2024

    best of 2018 Dec. 19, 2018 The Best Audiobooks of 2018Deborah Eisenberg did her brilliant stories justice and the Beastie Boys invited over a famous cast of dozens.

  • Brian Bahe Wants the Nepo Babies to Pay It Forward

    May 2024

    This week, we’re highlighting 25 talented writers and performers for Vulture’s annual list “The Comedians You Should and Will Know.

  • Chad Michael Murray Cast in ABC Pilot Scruples

    May 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 12: Actor Chad Michael Murray attends the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s “A Time For Heroes Event” at Wadsworth Theater on the Veterans Administration Lawn on June 12, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

  • Chris Carter Thought the FBI Was Going to Shut Down The X-Files, Like Life Imitating Art

    May 2024

    In Chris Carter’s monumentally popular show The X-Files, Fox Mulder tries to uncover the nefarious secrets of the government, and for his efforts is routinely chastised, demoted, and, eventually, excommunicated.

  • Chris Pine May Star in Welcome to People

    May 2024

    Pine’s People: Chris Pine is in “preliminary discussions” to star in Dreamworks’ drama Welcome to People, the directorial debut of Star Trek and Transformers co-screenwriter Alex Kurtzman, who co-wrote the script.

  • Christine Quinns Ex Christian Dumontet Charged With Three Misdemeanors

    May 2024

    The LA City Attorney has brought charges against Christine Quinn’s husband, Christain Dumontet. He has filed for divorce since the events of March.

  • Colin Kaepernick - Vulture

    May 2024

    the sports section Dec. 18, 2017 Diddy Wants to Be the New Owner of the Carolina PanthersHe threw his hat into the ring after current owner Jerry Richardson announced plans to sell the team following allegations of workplace misconduct.

  • Cops Are Always the Main Characters

    May 2024

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  • Cruel Summer Recap: Hot-Girl Summer

    May 2024

    Cruel Summer The Plunge Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cruel Summer The Plunge Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, now I’m really confused.

  • Dave Recap: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

    May 2024

    Dave Dream Girl Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dave Dream Girl Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Dave is over, what will the shape of our protagonist’s journey look like?

  • David Byrnes New Broadway Show Might Not Be Autobiographical, But Its a Lot of Fun

    May 2024

    If you didn’t get your act together and see David Byrne’s stage show American Utopia when it toured the country last year, the music gods (or rather, Byrne) have blessed you with a solution: It’s Broadway bound!

  • Denzel May Have Lost His Speech and Glasses at the Globes, But He Was Still As Charming As Ever

    May 2024

    Denzel Washington was presented with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award by Tom Hanks during this evening’s Golden Globes — and with a little help from his wife and children (and the ever-chivalrous Jamie Foxx?

  • Dickinson Recap: Ill Make a Man Out of You

    May 2024

    Dickinson I Have Never Seen ‘Volcanoes’ Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dickinson I Have Never Seen ‘Volcanoes’ Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In this era of Peak TV™, any new entry has to prove that it’s giving us something that we just can’t get from any other show, and this is extra true for any Apple TV+ offering, which has to inspire viewers who’ve already shelled out precious cash for several other streaming services to add one more to the pile.

  • Donald Trump Is a Gift, and a Quandary, for Late-Night Hosts

    May 2024

    Johnny Carson opposed the Vietnam War. In his private life, he was something of a social liberal as well as a civil-rights advocate who had Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Everything We Learned About Arie Luyendyk Jr. by Watching Him Lose on The Bachelorette

    May 2024

    On Monday night, a man who is not named Peter Kraus made his debut as the Bachelor. But 36-year-old Arie Luyendyk Jr.

  • Faye Dunaway Feels Very Guilty About That Best Picture Mistake at the Oscars

    May 2024

    In Faye Dunaway’s storied Hollywood career, her involvement in the Best Picture mixup at this year’s Oscars will surely go down as one of her most memorable moments.

  • Gabrielle Union Criticized the Culture at Americas Got Talent. Now Shes No Longer There.

    May 2024

    Gabrielle Union was a judge on America’s Got Talent before she was let go last Friday. Gabrielle Union, the actress and producer, was just two months into her tenure as a judge on the NBC talent competition America’s Got Talent when she found herself seated in a tense meeting with Simon Cowell, the music mogul and reality-show star.

  • Garbage Has a New Song

    May 2024

    Hey, Garbage is back! The nineties darlings are releasing a new record, Not Your Kind of People, in May, and the newly leaked “Blood for Poppies” is the first full track from the record.

  • Gilmore Girls Season-Finale Recap: Full Circle

    May 2024

    Gilmore Girls Fall Season 8 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Gilmore Girls Fall Season 8 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Milo Ventimiglia as Jess, Scott Patterson as Luke.

  • Gossip Girl TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

    What, you thought just because Blake Lively and Penn Badgley that meant the end of dramatic wealthy Manhattan teens and the voyeurs who detail every last bit of juice gossip?

  • Green Day Shaded Trump (Again) on New Years Eve

    May 2024

    No surprises here: Green Day still isn’t a fan of the red hats. During the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest broadcast last night, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong took the opportunity to ring in 2024 by taking a dig at former president Donald Trump.

  • Hacks Isnt a Good Comedy

    May 2024

    But it could be a great drama. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.

  • Heres Who Rosario Dawsons Playing in Daredevil

    May 2024

    Coming soon: Rosario Dawson is … Night Nurse! But also Claire Temple! Exciting, but confusing. Back in June, we found out Dawson had been cast in the upcoming Netflix original series Daredevil, and speculation abounded about what Marvel Comics character she’d be playing.

  • Hot Bowl-Cut Summer Is Not Over Yet, My Friends

    May 2024

    Despite how controversial a bowl cut can be, it’s proving to be a resilient hairstyle, particularly in the year of our Lord 2019.

  • How Coming to America Flipped the Script on Eddie Murphys Career

    May 2024

    Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming to America. This story originally ran on June 25, 2018. We’ve republished it alongside our coverage of the newly-released Coming 2 America.

  • How It Happened and 4 More Podcasts Worth Trying

    May 2024

    This 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.

  • How On My Block Avoided Turning Season 2 Into an After-school Special

    May 2024

    Spoilers below for On My Block seasons one and two. You know how Ruby on On My Block is L.

  • How The Great Comet Went From Cabaret to Broadway Theater

    May 2024

    Many musicals take a wandering path to Broadway, butNatasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 took a more wandering path than most — the show started at Ars Nova, an 87-seat Hell’s Kitchen cabaret theater, before making a detour to a makeshift tent in the Meatpacking District.

  • Introducing Soon-Yi Previn

    May 2024

    As controversies tumbled around her, the daughter of Mia Farrow and wife of Woody Allen stayed silent for decades. No more.

  • Invincible Season 2 Kinda Sorta Gets a Release Date

    May 2024

    Makin’ cartoons, it’s a labor-intensive process! The teaser for Prime Video’s Invincible season 2 gave us a peek behind-the-scenes at all the work that goes into making a piece of animation.

  • Issa Rae and Larry Wilmores Insecure Lands a Pilot Order at HBO

    May 2024

    After a year in a half of development, Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore’s HBO show has finally landed a season order, Deadline reports.

  • Ive Had Enough of Hollywoods Farcical Representation of California Geography

    May 2024

    As you may have recently read, I loved the new Transformers movie, Bumblebee. Granted, it’s not rare for me to love a Transformers movie, but I can’t say I’ve ever walked out of one and thought, What a pure and sweet delight!

  • Jennifer Lawrence Addresses Leaked Pole-Dancing Video, Mostly to Defend Her Dancing Abilities

    May 2024

    Jennifer Lawrence. Being an internationally recognized celebrity sounds fun but ends up locking you in a panopticon-like prison that destroys your privacy.

  • Jessica Williams Brought Her Own Spice, and Scrunchies, to Shrinking

    May 2024

    The title and logline for Apple TV+’s Shrinking suggested the show, created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, and Brett Goldstein, would center on a therapist (Segel’s Jimmy) dealing with grief as he upends the way he approaches his practice.

  • Jokes Seth Cant Tell Is the Best New Segment in Late Night

    May 2024

    Late night talk shows are meant to raise awareness. It’s their function and their goal: promotion for a guest’s new movie, emphasizing today’s trending topics, or proving the host is conscious of the pop culture you’re already enjoying.

  • Jonathan Amess Punch-out!

    May 2024

    Jonathan “the Herring” Ames (left) vs. Craig “the Crippler” Davidson.Photo: Alexander Birdsall Since his New Jersey childhood, author and man-about-town Jonathan Ames has enjoyed a turbulent and well-documented side career as a boxer.

  • Killing Them Not Softly: Talking to a Gun Expert About Sawed-Off Shotguns

    May 2024

    If you’ve seen enough movies, you’ve heard people talk about sawed-off shotguns (or sawn-off shotguns). And given the way that characters usually talk about them, it’s clear that it’s a type of shotgun that is somehow more intimidating than a regular shotgun.

  • Lets Talk About the Ending of First Reformed

    May 2024

    This is a story about the ending of First Reformed: spoilers to follow, obviously. The ending of First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s remarkable new film, is a puzzle worthy of the great struggle that comes before it.

  • Loki Recap: Not With a Bang But a Whimper

    May 2024

    Loki Heart of the TVA Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Loki Heart of the TVA Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Heart of the TVA” ends with a bang that feels like a whimper.

  • Loot Season-Finale Recap: Doubling Down

    May 2024

    Loot We Shouldn’t Exist Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Loot We Shouldn’t Exist Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » For a billionaire with access to seemingly everything she could ever want, Molly is just now learning that there are two problems money can’t fix — other billionaires and matters of the heart.

  • Married To Medicine - Vulture

    May 2024

    white coats off Nov. 10, 2023 The Married to Medicine Sisterhood on a Decade of ‘Healthy’ Reality-TV Drama“We got a hit show, and after all these years, people are watching it.

  • Marvels Jessica Jones - TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Mary Shelley Makes a Polite Period Drama Out of One of Historys Wildest Teens

    May 2024

    At what point did the artist biopic settle into its current, cemented form? Watching Mary Shelley, the latest unsuccessful attempt to immortalize the teenage girl who created Frankenstein, it boggles the mind that anyone would try to make something mannered from her wild, sad, huge life, and yet that’s what director Haifaa al-Mansour and screenwriter Emma Jensen have given us — a dismal book report that the author herself would have declared fusty.

  • Mel Brooks: Hamilton Is the Best Musical Ever, You Know, Other Than The Producers

    May 2024

    Everyone from President Obama to Beyoncé has stopped backstage after seeing Hamilton, but the show’s director, Thomas Kail, says he usually leaves it to the cast to schmooze with the big names.

  • Merediths Endless Tragedies on Greys Anatomy, Ranked

    May 2024

    Grey’s Anatomy has seen many shake-ups over its 19 seasons but none as big as the one that’s due on February 23, when star Ellen Pompeo will make (what’s being billed as) her final appearance as Meredith Grey.

  • Michael Stahl Author Archive

    May 2024

    off-broadway Jan. 22, 2019 Colin Quinn Thinks It’s Time for the United States to Break UpTalking with the comedian about his new Off Broadway show and the political divide.

  • Migos Drop Million-Dollar Malpractice Lawsuit Against Longtime Attorney

    May 2024

    Update, February 4, 12:00 a.m.: Per Variety, Migos has dropped the lawsuit they filed in July 2020 against their former attorney, Damien Granderson.

  • Nine Perfect StrangersRecap: The Key

    May 2024

    Nine Perfect Strangers Sweet Surrender Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Nine Perfect Strangers Sweet Surrender Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, well!

  • Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy Star In New Thoroughbreds Clip

    May 2024

    The upcoming movie Thoroughbreds is a story of friendship. Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) come back into each other’s lives after a period of estrangement at a time when they both need a sympathetic ear.

  • On the 30th Anniversary of Hoosiers, the Movies Director Recalls What a Pain Gene Hackman Was

    May 2024

    Gene Hackman in “Hoosiers” The success and long afterlife of Hoosiers — released almost exactly 30 years ago and new on Hulu this month — may not be quite as improbable as the events depicted in the movie, but it’s in the same long-shot realm as Hickory High’s run to the Indiana state basketball title.

  • Paw Patrol Is Contemptible Trash

    May 2024

    What Should Your Kids Be Watching? A guide to the complicated world of children’s movies and television. What Should Your Kids Be Watching?

  • Peacock - Vulture

    May 2024

    gen z punks Apr. 18, 2024 Malala! Is! Punk!Guest starring on season two of We Are Lady Parts, out May 30.

  • Pride and Prejudice and Fire Island

    May 2024

    Joel Kim Booster’s debut film is a deliciously bawdy modernization of Austen for the gay party scene. Photo: Daniel Jack Lyons.

  • Rectal Realism Artist Neke Carson on the Long-Lost Portrait of Warhol He Painted With His Butt

    May 2024

    Carson and Warhol back in the day.Photo: Anton Percih, courtesy of Neke Carson “Page Six” readers may have scratched their heads when they read Monday’s short item announcing that artist Neke Carson’s “Portrait of Andy Warhol” was being shown at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh starting this Friday.

  • Red Band Society Recap: Mother, May I Sleep With Cancer?

    May 2024

    Red Band Society What I Did for Love Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Red Band Society What I Did for Love Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The quality of a given episode of Red Band Society inevitably rests with the amount of Dash we get onscreen.

  • Remembering Lashonda Lester, the Funniest Person in Austin

    May 2024

    A wave of shock and grief swept through the Austin comedy scene yesterday as news spread that 2016’s Funniest Person in Austinwinner Lashonda Lester passed away unexpectedly.

  • Reservation Dogs Recap: Hoka, Bae!

    May 2024

    Reservation Dogs Wahoo! Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Reservation Dogs Wahoo!

  • RuPauls Drag Race All Stars

    May 2024

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  • Sally Fields Five Stages of Grief in One Steel Magnolias Scene

    May 2024

    Weep Week No, you’re crying. Weep Week No, you’re crying. “We had this dazzling cast who were so loving and so supportive, and we had become so incredibly close.

  • Schoolboy Q - Vulture

    May 2024

    best of 2024 July 2, 2024 The Best Albums of 2024 (So Far)This year’s most notable releases are investigating deep questions and framing art as a balm for multiplying worries.

  • See Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Topless on the Cover of EW

    May 2024

    On three different covers, actually. Which do you prefer: Sultry Topless, Pensive Topless, or Happy Topless? [PopWatch/EW] See Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Topless on the Cover of EW ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdhZny0scSYoZqjlZS0urjLnqWhmZGhrKK6w5iYp6aVlLWgfY2hq6ak

  • Sorry But Nicki Minaj Wasnt Finished, Releases New Track With Nas

    May 2024

    Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj’s long awaited-and-delayed-and-it-almost-got-released-but-didn’t-and-then-it-did fourth studio albumfinally dropped on Friday, but it wasn’t all she had in store for fans.

  • Talking Elections and Erections With Daniel Radcliffe

    May 2024

    Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel Radcliffe knows that most people refer to his new movie, Swiss Army Man, as “the farting boner corpse movie” — starring Harry Potter.

  • Talking to Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel About their Violent New Hockey Comedy Goon

    May 2024

    The title of this piece should really be “Watching Other People Talk to Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel.” Let me explain.

  • The 10 Best Horror Movies on Starz

    May 2024

    Nope. Horror movies sell. They always have and they always will, and that makes them an essential part of any streaming service or cable-company library.

  • The 50 Most Terrifying TV Episodes to Watch This Halloween

    May 2024

    This post was originally published in 2017 and has been updated to include even more terrifying television. With Halloween right around the corner, it’s the perfect time for a marathon of television frights.

  • The Bachelorette Season-Finale Recap: Treasure Island

    May 2024

    The Bachelorette Finale / After the Final Rose Season 20 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Bachelorette Finale / After the Final Rose Season 20 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » If you will recall, last week I ranted about how much I hate the Men Tell All episodes for lots of reasons that were very smart … and also very funny.

  • The Beauty and Brilliance of Forevers Stand-alone Episode

    May 2024

    Spoilers below for Forever. You’ve been warned! There’s a lovely stand-alone story embedded in the new Amazon series Forever.

  • The Best and Worst of Hall & Oates, According to Daryl Hall

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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 British TV Romantic Comedies to Stream Right Now

    May 2024

    When it comes to British romantic comedies, the first images that pop into people’s minds are visions of a dashing Hugh Grant or Colin Firth gracing the big screen in their glory years.

  • The Bill Hader Dancing To Meme Is Back, Baby

    May 2024

    Bill Hader, the dancing king. If you’ve spent any time endlessly scrolling and rotting away on TikTok over the past week, chances are you’ve seen a lot of clips of Bill Hader dancing.

  • The Chainsmokers Compare Penis Sizes and Other Cringe-y Quotes From Todays Best Hate-Read

    May 2024

    The Chainsmokers. Some dorm rooms birth music legends. But whatever dorm room the Chainsmokers crawled out of likely still has the remnants of vomit, tequila, semen, and all that a good starter kit for debauchery requires.

  • The Clone Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Cure for the Winter Blues? Being Fully Naked in New York City

    May 2024

    It’s that time of year when the days are getting shorter and colder, and on this week’s Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang and Emma Stone sang a somber tune about how that affects their moods.

  • The Dogtooth Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Good Fight Season-Premiere Recap: Turn the Page

    May 2024

    The Good Fight Previously On… Season 5 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Fight Previously On… Season 5 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Heading into its fifth season, The Good Fight had a bunch of messes to mop up — some related to a COVID-shortened fourth season, and some to the abrupt departure of two major characters.

  • The Lone Ranger Team Says Critics Are Mean Jerks Who Jerkishly Told People Not to See Their Movie

    May 2024

    Ever since the film’s embarrassing, sub-$30 million opening, the people behind The Lone Ranger have been complaining about critics.

  • The Lucas Brothers to Star in a Hopefully Less Problematic Revenge of the Nerds Remake

    May 2024

    Of all the now-morally-questionable teen-sex comedies of the 1980s, Revenge of the Nerds is one of the most toxic on account of the whole, you know, sexual assault by one of the protagonists thing.

  • The Mindy Projects Ed Weeks on Throwing a Condom at His Audition and Channeling Bradley Cooper

    May 2024

    Ed Weeks. On The Mindy Project, British actor Ed Weeks works his Hugh Grant charm as Dr. Jeremy Reed, the caddish-but-likable gynecologist in Mindy Lahiri’s hip OB/GYN practice.

  • The Real Jazz Age Stars and Scandals That Inspired Damien Chazelles Babylon

    May 2024

    The image of Hollywood as a new Babylon, a place populated by perverts, hop heads, and loose women whose depravity is communicable through the movie screen, goes all the way back to the silent era.

  • The Real Serial Killers and FBI Agents Who Inspired Netflixs Mindhunter

    May 2024

    Charles Manson, left, is played by Damon Herriman. If you’re watching Mindhunter, the Netflix drama based on the true story of the man who pioneered the science of profiling serial killers, you’re probably wondering just how much of it is true.

  • The Story of Hands Across America, the Failed Fundraiser Featured in Jordan Peeles Us

    May 2024

    The nightmare begins. Jordan Peele’s Us opens with a sequence that seems deliberately designed to confuse viewers, or, at least, younger ones.

  • The Survivor Theme Song Is Back to Heal an Aching Nation

    May 2024

    After years lost at sea, one of the world’s most famous castaways — the full Survivor theme song — has washed up again on CBS’s shores.

  • The Unknowable MF DOOM

    May 2024

    Unmasking the late rap supervillain with the people whom Daniel Dumile gave a slightly less obstructed view. Photo: Michael Schmelling Photo: Michael Schmelling This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.

  • The Weird Al Yankovics of Other Musical Genres, More or Less

    May 2024

    Funny or “novelty” music is nothing new — Spike Jonze, Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer were doing their funny musical shtick way back in the ’50s.

  • The You Got Older Cast Is Getting Back Together

    May 2024

    You Got Older by Clare Barron may be older than when it premiered in 2014, but, much like Anne Hathaway, it’s looking better than ever.

  • Theater Review: David Mamets The Anarchist

    May 2024

    Patti LuPone and Debra Winger in Mamet’s The Anarchist. David Mamet’s austerity program isn’t working. Despite a career-long crusade to streamline theater by sandblasting away its airy effeminacies (like acting and emoting), his latest, The Anarchist, still feels strangely gassy, even at a Spanxed 80 minutes.

  • Theater Reviews: On the Shore of the Wide World and Fucking A

    May 2024

    From On the Shore of the Wide World, at the Atlantic. Simon Stephens’s On the Shore of the Wide World, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company, takes its name from a sonnet by Keats.

  • This Week in Comedy Podcasts: How Did Hobbs & Shaw Get Made?

    May 2024

    Hobbs & Shaw. 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.

  • To Play Jo Calderone, Lady Gaga Wore a Prosthetic Penis

    May 2024

    We knew that at the VMAs, Lady Gaga was so committed to playing her male alter ego Jo Calderone that she never broke character, even when facing the press backstage.

  • Twilight Hand Model Wants in on the Phenomenon

    May 2024

    Hickey re-creates her moment in the spotlight. Every single day. The iconic cover of the Twilight books features a woman holding an apple, and that woman wants you to know who she is: Kimbra Hickey, a Greenwich Village–based 40-year-old model and massage therapist.

  • Want to Try Bad With Money? Start Here.

    May 2024

    Gaby Dunn. Are 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 to your next auditory obsession.

  • Watch an Android Inflatable Mascot Break It Down

    May 2024

    Your updated ranking of the World’s Coolest Robots: No. 1. This Taiwanese dancing balloon robot. No. 2. Watson. [Gizmodo] Watch an Android Inflatable Mascot Break It Down ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdgaHyiusOrpqKcj6e8o7vTmJmrnZGgsaK6wqKloGaYqbqt

  • Watch Earl Sweatshirts Favorite Loiter Squad Sketch

    May 2024

    Beloved-ass Adult Swim show Loiter Squad may be gone, but its impact remains strong. On Vine, in TikTok sounds, and every time someone brings a birthday gift on a birthday to a birthday party on a birthday with a birthday gift, the presence is felt.

  • Weeds: Dead Mom Walking

    May 2024

    Weeds Machetes Up Top Season 5 Episode 2 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “You were an interesting person to know, Nancy Botwin,” yells Guillermo from behind the prison glass, his face sallow and bruised.

  • Weinstein Juror Says #MeToo Had No Bearing on Their Decision

    May 2024

    On February 24, a Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape and criminal sexual act in the first degree for attacks on two women, former actress Jessica Mann and onetime Project Runway production assistant Mimi Haleyi.

  • Which Constellation Universe Is Which?

    May 2024

    It’s okay, we’re confused too. Have you been keeping up with Apple TV+’s trippy astronaut-gone-wild drama Constellation? Have you been constantly asking yourself, What is happening?

  • Who Said It: Vanessa Lachey or Queen Charlotte?

    May 2024

    Netflix royalty has baby fever. Elaborate weddings in rainy climates, overbearing mothers, anonymous sources leaking information … Love Is Blind and Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story are just two shows about Netflix royalty attempting to discern who’s making babies.

  • Why the New Schneider on One Day at a Time Is So Much Better Than the Old One

    May 2024

    L-R: old Schneider, new Schneider. Ask any child of the ‘70s or ‘80s what they remember about the original One Day at a Time, and they will most likely mention the following: its catchy theme song, the crush they had on co-star Valerie Bertinelli, and Schneider.

  • Why You Cant Get That Terrible The Idol Song Out of Your Head

    May 2024

    Sing along, you know you can. Has anybody else caught that thing that’s going around? You’ll just be sitting there, then something snaps in one of your synapses: “I’m just a freak (yeah) / and you know I want it bad.

  • Words With Friends Addicts, Meet Your New Favorite Magician

    May 2024

    During a late-May performance at Soho House, magician David Kwong, 32, held up a deck of cards and asked a woman in the audience to pick one and keep the suit and number to herself.

  • Wrestling With the Geopolitical Ramifications of Vin Diesels Fathers Day IG Post

    May 2024

    Vin Diesel celebrated every facet of his fatherhood this Father’s Day. What does that mean? Glad you asked!

  • YouTube to Rent You Movies

    May 2024

    The latest thing that will surely either kill or save Hollywood: Starting Friday, YouTube will offer movie rentals on a trial basis.

  • 15 Irrefutable Reasons Why We Might Be Living in a Simulation

    May 2024

    We Are Living in the Matrix A weeklong series about how a 1999 movie predicted kind-of-everything about life 20 years later.

  • A Simple Quiz: Has This Actor Ever Appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

    May 2024

    These people aren’t in the quiz. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often described as a “juggernaut” or even a “steamroller,” but I prefer to think of it as a vacuum, one that is likely to suck up every actor in Hollywood sooner or later.

  • A Timeline of 50 Cents Tumultuous Relationship With Starz

    May 2024

    50 Cent. 50 Cent and Starz’s lovers-to-enemies storyline started in 2018 when he signed on to a lucrative multi-series deal to executive produce the Power universe.

  • Abbott Elementarys Chris Perfetti Would Kick Jacobs Ass at Poker

    May 2024

    Comedy comes naturally to sitcom newcomer Chris Perfetti, who plays the lovable and slightly neurotic Mr. Jacob Hill on Abbott Elementary.

  • All the Festivals We Lost This Year

    May 2024

    R.I.P. Labor Day weekend officially put another summer music festival season in the books. (Global Citizen, we see you over there at the end of September, but, sorry, according to our charts, you count as autumnal.

  • All the Videos for Jimmy Fallons New Album Blow Your Pants Off

    May 2024

    Jimmy Fallon debuted as the host of Late Night on March 2, 2009. At first, people were apprehensive, to say the least; however, slowly but surely the ever winning Fallon won over everyone.

  • Behold the Final Two Pages of Breaking Bads Finale Script

    May 2024

    Just in case you’re still thinking about the finale of Breaking Bad — some of us are, right? — a helpful Redditor has posted photos of the final two pages of the “Felina” script.

  • Better Things Recap: Holy Trinity

    May 2024

    Better Things Duke’s Chorus Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Better Things Duke’s Chorus Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Pamela Adlon as Sam, Sarah Baker as Trinity.

  • Beyonces All Grown Up, and Other Observations From 4s Reviews

    May 2024

    After much hand-wringing over 4’s commercial appeal — and what it would mean for her career — all seems to be more or less right with Beyoncé.

  • Big Love Recap: Mommie Dearest

    May 2024

    Big Love The Noose Tightens Season 5 Episode 8 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bill Henrickson began as Big Love’s anchor, but writers long ago ceded the show to his wives.

  • Bill Burrs Exhausting, Frustrating, Fascinating Battle With Himself

    May 2024

    Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a 10 hour movie.

  • Bill Wyman Author Archive

    May 2024

    remembering bowie Jan. 11, 2016 10 Thoughts on David BowieI think in the end, Bowie’s greatest legacy will have been an extension of this: expanding the rock world — its music, its vocabulary, its worldview.

  • Bryson Is the Perfect Reintroduction to NLE Choppa, Raps New Gwyneth Paltrow

    May 2024

    A wellness prince in waiting. Ascending Memphis teen rap star NLE Choppa’s August debut album, Top Shotta, was supposed to have the hits.

  • Cameron Diaz Is All Good As a Bad Teacher

    May 2024

    Can someone explain to me the many sniffy reviews of Bad Teacher, written atop so many high horses that you’d think the critics were running for Congress?

  • Cats Flopped and Then Things Got Interesting

    May 2024

    In special movie-theater screenings across the country, a film that is considered a financial disaster thrives. At a recent, sold-out “Meowdy” screening at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Los Angeles, a crowd of Cats lovers lapped up milk-based cocktails with names like Purr and Hiss out of specialized saucers.

  • Childish Gambino Drops Surprise Album Atavista

    May 2024

    Pop girlie spring is over, apparently. It’s surprise hip-hop summer. Childish Gambino just released Atavista, a new album featuring verses from Ariana Grande, 21 Savage, Summer Walker, and more.

  • Denzel Washington Has Some Thoughts About That Little Uncle Denzel Meme You Like So Much

    May 2024

    Dank as they may be, Denzel Washington is not here for your memes. After an admittedly amazing photo of the actor was captured at last year’s Mayweather vs.

  • Disney Reveals Lion King Soundtrack, Featuring a Mysterious Track 14

    May 2024

    We are only weeks away from a huge Disney release. No, not the Avengers: Endgamererelease or the Spider-Man sequel or Toy Story 4.

  • Doctor Who Had His Gayest Kiss Ever

    May 2024

    Ncuti Gatwa. Doctor Who featured maybe its gayest kiss between the Doctor (currently played by Ncuti Gatwa) and a bounty hunter named Rogue (Jonathan Groff) in an episode set in the British Regency period.

  • Dont Play With Love Is Blinds Laura Dadisman

    May 2024

    I’m not gon’ hold y’all: The first few appearances of Laura Dadisman in this season of Love Is Blind initially turned me off.

  • Drakeo the Rulers Life Was Stolen Too Many Times

    May 2024

    There is a level on which the rapper’s story works as a metaphor for a variety of systemic horrors. Photo: Wyatt Winfrey Around 8:40 p.

  • Eric Bana Removes Pants for Time-Travel Expert

    May 2024

    “We had a time-travelling expert on the set who said that for a fact if Henry were to time-travel, he would be naked.

  • Every George Clooney Movie Performance, Ranked

    May 2024

    In a fantastic New Yorker profile of George Clooney from way back in 2008, he talks about the best advice he ever got as an actor.

  • Every Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Movie, Ranked by Surreality

    May 2024

    These days, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are mostly famous for smoking while leaning against the brick wall outside the office of their shared fashion line, The Row.

  • For Kathleen Madigan, Comedy Is a Job First and Art Second

    May 2024

    When I talked Kathleen Madigan she was at Dollywood celebrating the release of her new Netflix special, Bothering Jesus, with the director and some of the key people who worked on the show.

  • Gossip Girl Recap: We Should Make This a Drinking Game

    May 2024

    Gossip Girl Damian Darko Season 4 Episode 13 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In its fourth season, Gossip Girl has developed an almost Shakespearean rhythm.

  • Greta Gerwigs Little Women Reaches for Something More

    May 2024

    In her buoyant adaptation of Little Women, Greta Gerwig demonstrates her love for Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel in every scene, as well as something more enlivening: a drive to add her own, modern sensibility — to tease things out of the story of Jo March and her three bright-eyed sisters that no one has before.

  • Gwyneth Paltrow Is Really Getting Only $1 From Her Ski Trial

    May 2024

    One dollar richer. Send your well-wishes to Gwyneth Paltrow, who will actually have to pay her own attorneys’ fees after winning her ski trial in March.

  • Harry Connick Jr. to Fill in for Billy Bush on Today, As NBC Works Through Americas Reserves of S

    May 2024

    Luck is what happens when opportunity meets Harry Connick Jr. Having already enlisted Al Roker and Carson Daly to fill Billy Bush’s empty Today anchor spot, NBC is now betting on Harry Connick Jr.

  • Heres What Happened to the Iron Throne

    May 2024

    For eight seasons, we’ve been wondering who’s going to end up on Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne, assuming the seat itself would still be around.

  • Holy Noldor, a Brand-New J.R.R. Tolkien Book Is Getting Released This Year

    May 2024

    Good guy J.R.R. Tolkien, still delighting us with his words at the ripe age of … crunches the numbers … 126.

  • How Atlanta Created a Gang Stereotype of Its Hip-Hop Community

    May 2024

    As 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 Go Set a Watchman Solves the Mystery of Harper Lee

    May 2024

    Harper Lee Tourists come to Monroeville, Alabama, for one reason: to visit the real-life model of To Kill a Mockingbird’s Maycomb and the birthplace and current residence of its author, Harper Lee.

  • How Mrs. Maisel Put Together Its Marvelous 1950s Soundtrack

    May 2024

    With all of the TV shows withstandout soundtracks this year, it was a particularly welcome surprise to end 2017 on a sonic note that harkened back to the 1950s.

  • How P-Valley Pulls Off Its Gravity-Defying Pole-Dance Performances

    May 2024

    The double surfboard in action. In “Higher Ground,” the third episode of P-Valley, Starz’s new drama set in and around a strip club in the Mississippi Delta, the queen bee of the club, Mercedes, leads two of the other women in an absurdly gravity-defying stunt that involves them balancing on top of each other to form a three-part, heels-on-body-on-heels pyramid, or as some behind the scenes called it, a “double surfboard.

  • How Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Revived the Monsters of Your Childhood

    May 2024

    “I wanted it to be like a relentless machine coming toward you,” André Øvredal says of the Pale Lady, “and confusing to the character.

  • I Think Were Alone Now Has an Intriguing Start, But a Bewilderingly Bad Ending

    May 2024

    This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival. The post-apocalyptic drama I Think We’re Alone Now (which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival) features Peter Dinklage as the last man on Earth until Elle Fanning shows up.

  • In Conversation: Peter Dinklage

    May 2024

    The actor on his Hervé Villechaize movie, the weirdness of fame, and the fate of Tyrion Lannister. Photo: Bobby Doherty In a hotel room high above midtown Manhattan, Peter Dinklage is discussing, among other things, his present — that’d be HBO’s My Dinner With Hervé, in which he plays the late Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize.

  • In Ferrari, Adam Driver Is a Force of Steel, Asphalt, and Death

    May 2024

    Michael Mann’s long-gestating movie is elegant and restless, with a sense throughout that something horrific is lurking around each corner.

  • Interview With the Vampire Season-Finale Recap: Paris Is Burning

    May 2024

    Interview With the Vampire And That’s the End of It. There’s Nothing Else. Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Interview With the Vampire And That’s the End of It.

  • Is Bridgerton Still Sexy in Season Two?

    May 2024

    … Hot? Occasionally, it is necessary to convene a conversation between Vulture writers to discuss an important and timely issue in culture.

  • Jersey Shore Recap: Angelina and the Case of the Bathroom Accident

    May 2024

    Jersey Shore Dirty Pad Season 2 Episode 9 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week the house went back to basics, refocusing on clubbing, beaching, and GTL’ing.

  • Jimmy Eat World - Vulture

    May 2024

    the festival circuit Oct. 27, 2022 ‘The Crowd Was Very Emo’On the ground at the nostalgia-fueled pop-punk When We Were Young festival.

  • Joel Souza - Vulture

    May 2024

    coming soon Apr. 28, 2023 Alec Baldwin Is Resuming Filming Rust in MontanaWith Jake Busey and without the use of working weapons.

  • JWOWW Penning Advice Book for Young Ladies

    May 2024

    Reputable guidette Jenni Farley’s The Rules According to JWOWW, from William Morrow, is due in February, offering “secrets on landing a mint guy, staying fresh to death, and kicking the competition to the curb.

  • Keanu Reeves Remembers Patrick Swayze, Defiant Skydiver

    May 2024

    “There was some skydiving sequences in this film we did together, and as filming was going on, it came to be that Patrick was jumping out of airplanes all the time.

  • Ken Burns Is Adding Another Episode to His Baseball Doc to Cover the Cubs World Series Win

    May 2024

    Ken Burns, not playing baseball. Since the Chicago Cubs’$2 2016 World Series win, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told Variety that he feels “sort of obligated” to do a new episode of his 1994 series Baseball.

  • Kendrick Lamar Finally Beats Drake for the Years Biggest Debut With DAMN.

    May 2024

    Drake’s not the only one making rap and doing numbers like it’s pop. The debate over whether or not Kendrick Lamar is better than Drake will likely outlast us all, but the question of can he be more commercially successful than Drake has finally been answered with a resounding well, damn, yeah.

  • Kevin Hart to Win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

    May 2024

    Kevin Hart has yet another accomplishment to be able to “say with his chest.” On November 15, the John F.

  • Kids Movies Are Saving the Summer Box Office

    May 2024

    After a slow start to the season, Despicable Me 4 looks set to capitalize on the If-Garfield-Inside Out 2 family-film momentum.

  • Lauryn Hill on Late Atlanta Concert: We Are Figuring Out a Plan to Make It Up

    May 2024

    Hill. Two days after angering fans in Atlanta with a tardy, truncated appearance, Lauryn Hill penned a Facebook post with promises to make things right.

  • Lets Talk About the Ending of Jordan Peeles Us

    May 2024

    Adelaide escaping yet another run-in with the Shadows. Jordan Peele has a real gift for parting shots. Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris surviving at the end of Get Out, the flashing lights of law enforcement serving as his salvation instead of his death sentence, is layered with enough subtext to suck the air out of a room — if it hadn’t pushed audiences to triumphant ovations instead.

  • Lets Talk About the Ending of Marriage Story

    May 2024

    Ahead of the 2020 Academy Awards, Vulture is revisiting the endings of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Ahead of the 2020 Academy Awards, Vulture is revisiting the endings of this year’s Best Picture nominees.

  • Looks Like Gina Rodriguez Got Engaged to Joe LoCicero, a.k.a. Jane the Virgins Don Quixote Stripp

    May 2024

    Surprise! Being on Jane the Virgin, Gina Rodriguez knows a thing or two about surprise twists, so here’s a nice one: She’s engaged.

  • Matty Healy, Reformed Asshole (Sort Of)

    May 2024

    The 1975’s front man wants a clean slate. Photo: Louie Banks Photo: Louie Banks As the planet reels in anxiety and grief, Matty Healy sounds surprisingly calm, almost as if he’d expected this, or certainly hadn’t been entirely surprised by it.

  • Meek Mill - Vulture

    May 2024

    philadelphia freedom Apr. 24, 2018 Meek Mill Released From Prison, Heads Straight to the Philadelphia 76ers GameThe co-owner of the basketball team picked Mill up to bring him to the playoff game.

  • Mekhi Phifer Answers Every Question We Have About 8 Mile

    May 2024

    Role 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.

  • Movie Review: Identity Thief Should Have Stolen More Laughs

    May 2024

    Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy in Identity Theft Identity Thief is funny enough, but it needed to be darker, raunchier, and crazier to live up to the promise of its casting.

  • New Zuckerberg IMs Shed Light on The Social Network

    May 2024

    This is not a good time to be Mark Zuckerberg. Well, it is always a pretty good time — the future billions, the millions of users, the hoodie that won’t quit.

  • Nick Nolte on His Regrets, Avatar, and More

    May 2024

    The documentary Nick Nolte: No Exit, which premiered on the Sundance channel’s on-demand service on December 30, is a short, bizarre movie.

  • Olivia Rodrigo Healed My Tummy Ache

    May 2024

    Fresh off her sophomore album, GUTS, pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo has announced a smoothie partnership with America’s cultiest grocer, and to no one’s surprise, the price is nothing short of exorbitant.

  • One Piece Recap: By the Book

    May 2024

    One Piece (Live Action) The Girl with the Sawfish Tattoo Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » One Piece (Live Action) The Girl with the Sawfish Tattoo Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Up until now, One Piece has been a shockingly pleasant surprise of a live-action adaptation.

  • P-Valley Season-Finale Recap: Sink or Swim

    May 2024

    P-Valley Sink or Swim Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » P-Valley Sink or Swim Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » We’ve come to the end of the road for season two of P-Valley.

  • Panda Bear and Ducktails Team Up for the Indie Jam of the Week

    May 2024

    Is Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Animal Collective’s Panda Bear) becoming the Gucci Mane of the quiet, fuzzy, indie-rock MP3 circuit? Everyone knows a Gucci guest appearance portends great things for your hopeful hip-hop banger, and if Lennox keeps up his current hot streak — kicked off a while ago with a spot on Atlas Sound’s excellent “Walkabout” and continued just this morning with the alternate version of Ducktails’ “Killin’ the Vibe” — a Panda Bear feature might yet become the most coveted “get” in the game.

  • Patricia Arquette Lining Up Her Next Golden Globe With Apples Sci-Fi Thriller Severance

    May 2024

    After winning two consecutive Golden Globes for Escape at Dannemora and The Act, Patricia Arquette seems primed for a third win in a row, her fourth overall.

  • Psychedelic Comics Hotshot Ales Kot Talks Winter Soldier, Diversity, Ghosts

    May 2024

    All it took was two years for Ales Kot to become omnipresent. The 27-year-old occult-loving, Czech-born writer has experienced a swift rise to prominence since his first published comic in 2012, making a mark at every major company.

  • Ranking The Walking Dead Characters by Whom We Want to Die Quickest

    May 2024

    Before the beginning of the third season of AMC’s The Walking Dead, we went through the cast and decided whom we wanted to live and die.

  • Schulz on Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    May 2024

    In a 1973 essay called “Approaches to What?,” the French writer Georges Perec coined an excellent word: endotic. The opposite of exotic, it refers to anything so familiar that we fail to register it—paper towels, say, or the kinds of beds we sleep in, or the fact that, unto others, we have accents.

  • Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Season-Finale Recap: Its Just Like Sonic The Hedgehog 3

    May 2024

    Scott Pilgrim Takes Off The World Vs. Scott Pilgrim Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Scott Pilgrim Takes Off The World Vs.

  • Sierra Ferrell - Vulture

    May 2024

    famous friends Aug. 28, 2023 Everybody Wants to Be Zach Bryan’s FriendJason Isbell, Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves, the Lumineers, and especially Brianna Chickenfry.

  • Sinbads Lost Shazaam Movie Found Just in Time for April Fools Day

    May 2024

    Here’s to the ones who dream, April foolish as they may seem: “Lost” footage from Shazaam has finally been found, just in time for April Fools’ Day.

  • Sleepy Hollow Recap: Knife Goes On

    May 2024

    Sleepy Hollow Blood and Fear Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sleepy Hollow Blood and Fear Season 3 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison).

  • So, Uh, What Is House of the Dragon, Anyway?

    May 2024

    Is something missing in your life, and is that thing preternaturally blonde actors riding CGI dragons? Then you’re in luck: Three years after Game of Thrones went off the air in infamy, HBO returns us to the world of Westeros with the premiere of spinoff House of the Dragon.

  • Steely Dans Walter Becker: A Perfectionist Who Always Sounded Human

    May 2024

    Walter Becker at Coachella in 2015. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the principals of Steely Dan, had an unusual songwriting relationship.

  • Strays Is Crude, Rude, and Very Funny

    May 2024

    In flagrante delicto with a garden gnome. I can’t immediately recall the exact moment that Strays randomly cut away to a shot of three squirrels fucking, but I knew then that the movie had won my heart.

  • Take Vultures Matt Damon Hair Quiz and Guess What Movie Each Do Is From

    May 2024

    Sure, Matt Damon looks cool in Elysium with his big gun and bald head, but if you’re like us, you’re probably missing that gorgeous hair of his.

  • Tegan and Sara on Their Best and Most Pedestrian Music

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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 10 Essential Fiction Podcasts That Shaped the Genre

    May 2024

    Far from being a mere revival of radio dramas from days of yore, contemporary fiction podcasts have become vibrant sites of experimentation.

  • The 15 Most Unforgettable Scenes in American Horror Story History

    May 2024

    Twisty the Clown. Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story is back for its 12th installment, subtitled “Delicate.” What craziness does the man who turned Lady Gaga into an immortal and Jessica Lange into a witch have up his sleeve?

  • The Art Gallerist From Who Is America? Thinks Sacha Baron Cohen Is Absolutely an Artist

    May 2024

    While the most damning appearances in the premiere episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? go to gun-rights advocates Philip Van Cleave and Larry Pratt — pledging full support to a “Kinder-Guardians” gun program does that — by far the most delightful impression wasn’t made by a prominent figure at all.

  • The Beauty and the Horror of Insane Clown Posses Gathering of the Juggalos

    May 2024

    Oh, 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.

  • The Boys Recap: Damage Control

    May 2024

    The Boys Cherry Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Boys Cherry Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The second episode of The Boys gets further away from the source material — the multi-issue arc also called “Cherry” had virtually nothing to do with the plot of this episode — while trying to develop its own voice.

  • The Chi Recap: The Block Party

    May 2024

    The Chi Today Was a Good Day Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Chi Today Was a Good Day Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a weeklong break, The Chi returns with “Today Was a Good Day,” an episode titled in homage to Ice Cube’s sleepy 1992 banger.

  • The End of His Heartthrob Era

    May 2024

    An assessment of Chalamet’s sex appeal as he steps into the role of Willy Wonka. There’s Something About Timothée Six years ago, he became the most in-demand young actor in Hollywood.

  • The Ever-Elusive DAngelo Is Working On His Next Album

    May 2024

    D’Angelo Mysterious R&B singer D’Angelo’s documentary Devil’s Pie premiered on April 27 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Per Billboard, at a Q&A, the director of the film, Carine Bijlsma, dropped the news that the singer is currently working on his fourth album, the follow-up to 2014’s critically acclaimed and surprise-dropped Black Messiah.

  • The Fug Girls Track the Fashion Evolution of Ryan Gosling

    May 2024

    Ryan Gosling’s latest role (in Crazy, Stupid, Love, which opens on Friday) seems to focus heavily on what’s under his shirt — per the previews, a rock-hard six-pack that we would be happy to let chill in our fridges — but in real life, the former Mouseketeer has turned himself into something of a fashion plate.

  • The Heartbreaking Immigration Stories Behind Living Undocumented

    May 2024

    Over the last six months, scripted TV has had its share of heartbreaking stories about undocumented immigrants. We’ve watched ahandcuffed Maritza walked to a plane heading back to Colombia on Orange Is the New Black.

  • The Last Podcast on the Left Hosts Break Down the Art of True-Crime Comedy

    May 2024

    Before Serial and Criminal and other more serious, journalistic true-crime podcasts came to dominate the conversation, there was The Last Podcast on the Left.

  • The Lord Of The Rings The Rings Of Power

    May 2024

    best of 2022 Dec. 20, 2022 The Standout TV Performances of 2022Individually and collectively, these 14 performers embody what made this year’s television interesting and special.

  • The Non-Parents Guide to Bluey

    May 2024

    This article first appeared in Dinner Party, a daily newsletter chronicling the latest in culture and chaos. Sign up to here to receive it every weeknight.

  • The Occult Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Rudy Giuliani Moment Going Viral Is Good for Borat 2 Not

    May 2024

    I’ve never been a spoiler baby. The first scene of The Sopranos I’ve ever seen was the last one and I believe it’s the ideal way to consume the series.

  • The SNL Movies That Never Happened

    May 2024

    Ever since the first Wayne’s World movie became a surprise hit, making $183 million from of a scant $20 million budget, releasing a sea of catchphrases into the public consciousness and turning Mike Myers and Dana Carvey into actors in high demand, Lorne Michaels and his producing partners have been searching for the next big SNL movie.

  • The Strain Recap: Coco, Beware

    May 2024

    The Strain The Assassin Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Strain The Assassin Season 2 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Left to right: Ruta Gedmintas as Dutch Velders, Corey Stoll as Ephraim Goodweather.

  • There Are Two Different Versions of Quentin Tarantinos Hateful Eight

    May 2024

    Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight debuts Christmas Day to kick off a two-week road show, but the version that will initially be available will play a little differently than the more mainstream one that opens nationwide January 8.

  • Theres a Better Call Saul Superhero Comic, and You Can Read It Now

    May 2024

    Cover of the Better Call Saul superhero comic. Courtesy of AMC. In the first season of Better Call Saul, we saw Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill before he assumed his alter ego as sleazy superlawyer Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, who antiheroically pursues half-truths, shady justice, and the tax-dodging American way.

  • This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Killer Clowns, Cult Prophets, and More

    May 2024

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  • Todays the Day When Today Goes Hard

    May 2024

    “If she’s got blue eyes, I will surmise that you’ll probably date her.” Today is not a show that’s known for half-assing it.

  • Tom Green on His Vegas Residency, Getting Fired on The Apprentice, and His Plausible Freddy Got Fing

    May 2024

    “I’ll be straight with you,” says comedian Tom Green. “It’ not easy to sell tickets in Vegas. I’m up against Céline Dion and Britney Spears.

  • Twenty Years Later, Janet Jacksons If Is Still the Ultimate Song of Summer

    May 2024

    With its provocative cover of a topless Janet Jackson having her breasts cupped by an otherwise-unseen man, janet. (pronounced “Janet Period,” by the way) signaled a significant career shift when the album arrived in the spring of 1993.

  • Two Thanksgiving Treats: Selfsgiving and a Porn Stars Speech

    May 2024

    Jackie Jennings. In many ways, this week’s column is a typed-up microcosm of the Thanksgiving meals so many of us will enjoy this week — a good-hearted mix of excitement, reflection, and graphic retellings of award-winning pornographic films.

  • Tyler Perry Crosses Over As Boo! A Madea Halloween Wins the Box Office

    May 2024

    Tyler Perry in Boo! A Madea Halloween. The Main Story Tyler Perry owes Chris Rock a beer: Boo!

  • Understanding Eric Church

    May 2024

    Last November, Eric Church became the first country artist to pull off a surprise album drop, blazing through hush-hush recording sessions and then shipping limited-edition vinyl copies of his new record, Mr.

  • Unpacking the Deep Pasta Lore in Romy Marss TikTok

    May 2024

    By now we’ve all seen the TikTok of Romy Mars, daughter of Sofia Coppola and Phoenix’s Thomas Mars, beginning the process of making pasta with vodka sauce.

  • Vanessa Bayer and Melissa McCarthy Make Polish Jokes and Polish Jokes in These SNL Promos

    May 2024

    Melissa McCarthy returns to SNL this weekend for her fourth hosting stint, and NBC just released the first round of promos.

  • Was Michael Oher Blind to His Blind Side Conservatorship?

    May 2024

    While promoting his latest book, When Your Back’s Against the Wall, former NFL star Michael Oher leveled some shocking news about the fairy-tale life depicted in the Academy Award–winning movie The Blind Side.

  • Waves Is Gorgeous and Frustrating Great Soundtrack, Though

    May 2024

    Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Sterling K. Brown in Waves. One of the threads that can be traced through this season of serious cinema is driving.

  • We Regret to Inform You That Jeffrey Toobin Has Returned to CNN

    May 2024

    —@AlisynCamerota: “You were caught masturbating on camera … to quote Jay Leno, ‘What the hell were you thinking?

  • We Werent Supposed to Hear Bo Burnham Like This

    May 2024

    Bo Burnham in Inside. In the final 15 minutes of Make Happy, the 2016 special from stand-up and singer-songwriter Bo Burnham, the Massachusetts native appears to figure his whole thing out: “I try to make my show about other things, but it always ends up being about performing.

  • Weezers Rivers Cuomo on Flubbing Weezys Lyrics

    May 2024

    Dropping November 3 is Raditude, the seventh album from Weezer, which promises more sing-along choruses, Cheap Trick guitars, and ironic self-deprecation.

  • Whats New on Showtime: June 2017

    May 2024

    Each month, Showtime adds new movies to its library. Below, you’ll find our June 2017 recommendations along with a full list of new titles.

  • Where Twin Peaks Left Off: A Complete Guide to the Shows Returning Characters

    May 2024

    Brenda E. Mathers as Caroline, and Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper. For all of the eccentric characters that David Lynch and Mark Frost created during Twin Peaks’ original two-season run, it’s understandable if you’ve forgotten a detail or two about the robust cast that occupies the quirky Northwestern town.

  • Why Emma Is Still Jane Austens Most Pleasurable Heroine

    May 2024

    Go ahead. Judge the hell out of her. That’s the point. Emma Woodhouse. Handsome, clever, and rich. That’s how Austen introduces her.

  • Why Hasnt Matt Berry Hosted a Celebrity Cruise Yet?

    May 2024

    Hello, dealer? Yes, please, put it all on Berry. These are hard times, and when things get really dark, we at Vulture like to double down on the things that are still capable of bringing us happiness.

  • Will NBC Cut Conan Loose Today?

    May 2024

    NBC is finally tired of all this crappy PR and they’d like to resolve their Conan problem by today’s end, reports Nikki Finke.

  • You Can Rent Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Extended Version) on Her Birthday

    May 2024

    A pathological people pleaser is giving us a gift on their birthday? In other news, a fork was found in the kitchen.

  • Youngers Molly Bernard Had a Noble Duty to Fill Dianas Shoes This Season

    May 2024

    Oh hello, Baby Diva. With Younger premiering the first four episodes of its final season this week, we get to see a new Empirical empress strutting around the hallways with a penchant for statement brooches and power suits: It’s none other than Lauren (Molly Bernard), head of publicity, who’s serving lewks as this season’s de facto Diana.

  • A Brief History of Justin Timberlakes Suit-and-Tie Sh*t

    May 2024

    power suits January 15, 2013 1:30 pm By Amanda Dobbins Share Share Tweet Pin It 20 Photos Late Sunday night, Justin Timberlake’s very confusing countdown clock expired, and a new song — his first single in six excruciating years — was unleashed upon the world.

  • 2017, the Year Movies and TV Came On Your Screen

    May 2024

    Surprise! With each passing year, television and film edge closer to portraying the reality of sex, whether it’s through the female gaze, hand jobs, or the strap-on.

  • A Tempest in the Park Thats (Mostly) No Thoughts, Just Vibes

    May 2024

    Renée Elise Goldsberry (center) as Prospero. This is not a review of The Tempest. Well, no, it is.

  • Actress Kristian Alfonso to Leave Days of Our Lives After 37 Years

    May 2024

    Days of Our Lives is currently planning to return to production on September 1, coronavirus quarantine guidelines–willing, but at least one cast member won’t be.

  • Anna Kendrick on ParaNorman, Finally Playing a Hot Blonde, and Her Geek Cred

    May 2024

    Anna Kendrick. Anna Kendrick — well, her voice — inhabits a blonde cheerleader in a pink track suit in ParaNorman, the latest stop-motion animated delight from Oregon’s LAIKA studio (which gave us Coraline).

  • Archer Recap: Quadruple Ass

    May 2024

    Archer Sitting Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Archer Sitting Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A hate-crime-filled poker night for the team.

  • Are the Harry Potter Movies on HBO Max or Peacock Right Now?

    May 2024

    Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. This article will be updated occasionally as the franchise relocates, or whenever we get word of an upcoming switcheroo.

  • Book Excerpt: Elvis Costello Shares the Inspiration Behind Alison

    May 2024

    Elvis Costello headlines onstage at Kew the Music at Kew Gardens on July 16, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. Elvis Costello’s Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink was about as close to being a can’t-miss prospect as has come down the increasingly crowded rock-star memoir pipe in some time.

  • Boomer Rock Icons Are Back, and Their Albums Arent Bad

    May 2024

    Paul McCartney recording for Skype’s Love Mojis earlier this year. The beginning of 2016 saw new albums from the biggest pop stars of the current era, including Kanye West, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Drake.

  • Catherine OHara and Eugene Levy Answer Every Question We Have About Best in Show

    May 2024

    Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t.

  • Challenger: The Final Flight Unpacks a Moment of American Hope and Heartbreak

    May 2024

    The crew of the space shuttle Challenger. The 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, which was nationally televised as much of the country bore witness, is one of the starkest examples in American history of hope instantly transforming into grief.

  • Check Out Paul Scheers Adult Swim Infomercial for The Frank Pierre Resort & Casino

    May 2024

    From the mind of Paul Scheer, here’s the latest infomercial to air at Adult Swim at 4:00am, this time for the luxurious destination known as “The Frank Pierre Resort & Casino.

  • Christopher Wools Punk-Rock Art Show in a Fidi Tower

    May 2024

    The blue-chip artist is over museums, galleries — and pretty much everything else. Photo: Hugo Yu When I arrive at the 1907 Beaux Arts office building a few blocks south of the World Trade Center, a guard in the slickly renovated lobby of 101 Greenwich swipes me through the security turnstiles to an elevator that takes me to the 19th floor.

  • Dave Grohl and P!nk Got the Hanukkah Party Started

    May 2024

    P!nk, as it turns out, has a lot in common with a dreidel: Both are Jewish, both are beloved cultural mainstays, and both absolutely love spinning around like crazy.

  • Dear Edward Finale Recap: Ten Weeks Later

    May 2024

    Dear Edward Shelter Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Dear Edward Shelter Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » I’ll never know why episodes of Dear Edward were not 80 percent grief-group scenes and 20 percent whatever else.

  • Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week Two

    May 2024

    Editor’s note: Last week, I started a festival diary to chronicle my magical mystery tour through January’s abundance of new and experimental theater.

  • Did You Catch Jordan Peeles Us Cameo?

    May 2024

    Jordan Peele. If you’re trying to recover from the terror of Us by combing through all the film’s Easter eggs and references to calm you down, put the scissors away and allow us to give you 40 more soothing seconds of trivia.

  • Did You See Amazing Spider-Man 2? Read About the Weirdest Debate in Spider-Man History

    May 2024

    Emma Stone stars in Columbia Pictures’ “The Amazing Spider-Man,” also starring Andrew Garfield. Feel that buzzing in the back of your head?

  • Disney Gives Johnny Depp Another Free Trip to the Caribbean

    May 2024

    Kids Go Crazy for Depp: Yesterday, Johnny Depp dressed up in costume and took to the stage during a Disney showcase to tout some upcoming projects, revealing he’s nothing if not busy.

  • Doctor Who Recap: Here Comes the Fun

    May 2024

    Doctor Who The Devil’s Chord Season 14 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Doctor Who The Devil’s Chord Season 14 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Generally, for a double premiere, I’d recap both episodes in a single post.

  • Dont Be Afraid of Caleb Landry Jones (At Least Not His Music)

    May 2024

    When I speak with Caleb Landry Jones about his debut album, The Mother Stone, he’s talking on his flip phone from his family home in Texas.

  • Emma DArcy Is Thrilled With Queen Rhaenyras New Trousers

    May 2024

    In the first season of HBO’s House of the Dragon, Queen Rhaenyra’s life is full of color: Her gowns are green or light blue or deep red, her ears and neck adorned with shimmering gems.

  • Enola Holmes Is Millie Bobby Browns Show, and She Owns It

    May 2024

    Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes. It will come as no surprise to anyone to learn that Sherlock Holmes’s headstrong teenage sister, Enola Holmes, doesn’t show up anywhere in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories or novels; the character was created by novelist Nancy Springer in 2006.

  • Erika Jaynes Secret to a Successful Las Vegas Residency

    May 2024

    Las Vegas has been home to some iconic concerts, in 2023 alone. Stops on both the Eras and Renaissance Tours.

  • Esther Zuckerman Author Archive

    May 2024

    i saw the tv glow May 3, 2024 Jane Schoenbrun Saw the TV GlowThe We’re All Going to the World’s Fair director is back at Sundance with a haunting new film about the thin line between fiction and reality.

  • Every M. Night Shyamalan Movie, Ranked

    May 2024

    This previously published article has been updated to include Knock at the Cabin. Yes, he is probably never going to live down (or up to) that 2002 Newsweek cover proclaiming him “The Next Spielberg.

  • Foundation Recap: To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

    May 2024

    Foundation Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Foundation Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Foundation is an interesting adaptation because of how it runs almost polar opposite to the experience of reading its source material.

  • Fuller House Creator Admits Defeat in Years-Long Quest to Get the Olsen Twins on the Show

    May 2024

    You (don’t) got it, dude. After three seasons of trying to entice Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to reprise their role, however briefly, as Michelle Tanner on Netflix’s Fuller House, the sitcom’s creator has finally come to terms with the fact that it’ll simply never happen.

  • Gillian Anderson - Vulture

    May 2024

    last night on late night May 22, 2013 Bateman: Arnett Delayed Arrested DevelopmentPlus: Aziz Ansari and Jason Bateman quibbled over their manhood in the company of Gillian Anderson, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.

  • Hey, Student! Its a Beginners Guide to the Fall

    May 2024

    Mark E. Smith. There’s been much talk in recent years about how the advent of streaming services — and the limitless listening possibilities they present — has induced a paralysis of choice.

  • How Are Movie Theaters Handling Barbenheimer?

    May 2024

    Trying to find an available screening. With impressive box-office earnings predictions, Barbie and Oppenheimer are more than just a meme phenomenon; people are heading back into the movies.

  • How Much Time Has Passed on Ozark?

    May 2024

    Marty and Wendy Byrde, pondering the nature of time. Ozark is a series that raises a lot of questions.

  • How The Truman Show Predicted the Future

    May 2024

    It may have been Descartes who first asked how we can trust that the world actually exists and that we’re not just being deceived by some evil genius.

  • I Hate Movies - Vulture

    May 2024

    I Hate Movies - Vulture Displaying all articles tagged: Feb. 3, 2012 The Ten Most-Hated Rotten Tomatoes 0% ComediesThere’s something special about having a 0% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

  • Industrys Ken Leung Thinks Anything Is Possible for Eric After That Finale

    May 2024

    Talk to Ken Leung about the debut season of HBO’s soapy finance drama, Industry, and you realize there aren’t always easy answers when it comes to volatile managing director Eric Tao.

  • J Balvin Is Dancing With Himself in the Video to Dientes

    May 2024

    Take that, interpolate it back. J Balvin (and DJ Khaled, and Usher) got the beat that make your booty go [clap].

  • Jane the Virgin Recap: Cumpleaos Feliz

    May 2024

    Jane the Virgin Chapter Forty-Three Season 2 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Jane the Virgin Chapter Forty-Three Season 2 Episode 21 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gina Rodriguez as Jane, Yael Grobglas as Petra, Justin Baldoni as Rafael.

  • January Jones Crash Possibly Involved Alcohol, Definitely Involved Bobby Flay

    May 2024

    An owner of one of the three cars smashed by Mad Men’s January Jones last night tells TMZ that after the accident, Jones called celebrity chef Bobby Flay (?

  • Jason Segel Is a Car Guy in Real Life and in Shrinking

    May 2024

    Sweet wheels, bro. Car people recognize car people, and Jason Segel is a car person. His newest show, Shrinking — which he co-created and stars in alongside Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, and Luke Tennie — follows Segel as Jimmy, a therapist trying a more hands-on approach to his profession after his wife suddenly dies in a car accident.

  • John Early on Theatre School, His Female Comedy Heroes, and Gay Minstrelsy

    May 2024

    I first saw John live at Night Train, an evening of comedy in Brooklyn created by Wyatt Cenac but on this occasion hosted by David Cross in all his bitter mustachioed glory.

  • Kate Mulgrew Calls Faye Dunaway Broadway Firing a Sadness All the Way Around

    May 2024

    Kate Mulgrew. There’s no drama quite like Broadway drama. Faye Dunaway’s journey in the lead role of Katharine Hepburn in the play Tea at Five came to a halt a few days after the show’s run in Boston, when she was fired from the production.

  • Kristen Stewart and Chlo Sevigny Cant Save the Forgettable Lizzie Borden Biopic Lizzie

    May 2024

    This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival. Lizzie Borden might have had her reasons for giving her mother 40 whacks and her father 41, but it’s only now, in the austere arthouse treatment of her life premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, that we discover the story’s hitherto-unknown vein of female empowerment and the Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name.

  • Kylie Jenner to Start Making Hand Sanitizer

    May 2024

    Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner and her mom(ager), Kris Jenner, announced Tuesday that they would make a mass hand sanitizer donation to hospitals in southern California.

  • Lauren Snchez Isnt Restaurateur Keith McNallys Taste

    May 2024

    Keith McNally isn’t using any filters on Instagram — in his captions, at least. On Monday, the New York restaurateur insulted former news anchor and current Jeff Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez on Instagram, calling her “ABSOLUTELY REVOLTING.

  • Lil Wayne Is Already Back to Giving Fiery Performances While Shirtless

    May 2024

    Vulture previously directed your attention to Lil Wayne’s surprise appearance at Drake’s Las Vegas show Saturday night — his first post-jail music performance — and now here is the video.

  • Lloyd, With Lil Wayne, Further Besmirches Kurt Cobains Legacy

    May 2024

    “‘Drain You’ is aight, but ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ is the bomb … “ Just in case you, like us, have a hard time telling one young, oversexed contemporary male R&B singer with a forgettable name (Mario, Trey Songz, J.

  • Mario Batalis Apology for Sexual Harassment Contains a Literal Recipe for Disaster

    May 2024

    This week, numerous women have accused celebrity chef Mario Batali of sexual harassment — the most disturbing account perhaps being the alleged presence of a restaurant “rape room” in Manhattan that Batali took advantage of — allegations that Batali said “match up with ways I have acted.

  • Mary Poppins Star Glynis Johns Dead at 100

    May 2024

    Glynis Johns, the British actress who starred as suffragette Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins alongside Julie Andrews, died at 100 in an assisted living facility in Los Angeles on Thursday, her manager, Mitch Clem, confirmed to the New York Times.

  • MTVs Downtown Is a Hyperspecific Time Capsule

    May 2024

    I found Downtown — an animated, cinéma-vérité-style series about New York in 1999 that aired on MTV — when I chanced upon a Spotify playlist of hazy, hypnotic, electronic sounds.

  • Mumford & Sons Play Blink-182 the People, Not the Music in Brohemian Rhapsody Video

    May 2024

    As goes the first act of every teen comedy in all of time, the best way to sell yourself is always by being somebody else.

  • Nelly Furtado Is Back to Her Man-Eating Ways

    May 2024

    Seventeen years ago, Nelly Furtado declared she was a maneater — the kind who makes you work hard, makes you sweat hard, and makes you want all of her love.

  • Newsman John Beard Will Be Back for Arrested Development Season 4

    May 2024

    We’ve already learned that beloved Arrested Development characters like Barry Zuckerkorn, Lucille 2, and Ann Veal are returning for the new season in the spring, but what about some of the show’s minor characters?

  • Nicole Byer Is Loosely Exactly Nicole

    May 2024

    Nicole Byer, of MTV’s Girl Code fame, has appeared on Netflix’s Lady Dynamite, NBC’s 30 Rock and Fox’s Party Over Here.

  • Nip Slips, Donald Duck, and Destitute Summers: Britt Daniel Remembers the Best and Worst of Spoon

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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.

  • Nurse Jackies Merritt Wever on Her Sexiest Season Yet

    May 2024

    As Zoey, Nurse Jackie’s incredibly eager nurse-in-training, Merritt Wever steals every scene she’s in. And not because she’s decked out in bunny-patterned scrubs; she’s just got that kooky, squeaky-wheel thing down.

  • One Simple Trick Can Fix House of the Dragons Lighting Problem

    May 2024

    It probably looked worse than this on your TV. This article originally appeared in Dinner Party, an evening newsletter about everything that just happened.

  • Pee-wee Herman Returns to TV for Comedy Bang! Bang!s Halloween Episode Tonight

    May 2024

    Paul Reubens hasn’t played Pee-wee Herman on TV since his Pee-wee Herman Broadway show premiered on HBO two years ago, but tonight, Pee-wee’s back as the guest on Comedy Bang!

  • Peter Pan Syndrome: A Timeline of All Things Neverland

    May 2024

    Tonight, Allison Williams will don the green tunic to star in NBC’s Peter Pan Live! Since appearing in 1904, J.

  • Physicals Dierdre Friel Is Totally Willing to Shave Her Head

    May 2024

    Dierdre Friel has swapped New York City for sunny California, both in real life (just for now, she insists) and on TV.

  • Presumed Innocent Recap: Its Tommy Time

    May 2024

    Presumed Innocent Pregame Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Presumed Innocent Pregame Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A little more than halfway through the season, it’s here: Presumed Innocent’s supporting-character episode.

  • Raven, the Acid Bath Princess of the Darkness, Emerges from the Depths of Hell (the Internet)

    May 2024

    The emo girls who started it all. It’s January 2, 2009. Two teenage girls, eyes ringed in black, stare deadpan to the camera.

  • Reality TV Finally Crashed Into Reality

    May 2024

    There is life before Scandoval, and there’s everything that followed. Day 1: Anatomy of a Scandoval Twenty-five moments, one per day in the walkup to Christmas, that brought definition to reality TV’s ever-blurring lines in 2023.

  • Regrettably, the New Jack Harlow Song Is Good

    May 2024

    The audacity of Jack Harlow. The sheer gall of this man to debut his new mullet in a music video where the first words out of his mouth are “I’m vanilla, baby,” while rapping over a beat that sounds like vintage Too $hort, and yet somehow I’m not mad at it.

  • Rooster McConaughey Does Not Want Your Bud Light

    May 2024

    Rooster McConaughey, in the role. Rooster McConaughey is not, of course, the most famous member of the McConaughey family (that would be his younger brother Matthew), nor is he even the most famous celebrity sibling nicknamed Rooster (that would be David Sedaris’s oft-written-about brother Paul).

  • Ross Butler on His Big 13 Reasons Why Twist, Why He Left Riverdale, and Auditioning for Crazy Rich A

    May 2024

    Major spoilers for 13 Reasons Why season two ahead. It’s always the quiet ones. As the goofy, sensitive jock on 13 Reasons Why, Zach Dempsey (Ross Butler) spent much of season one in the background, an outlier in Hannah Baker’s (Katherine Langford) life whose minor role in the events that led her to suicide was still enough to warrant a full tape in his name.

  • Rumors About Lady Gagas Privates Finally Debunked?

    May 2024

    If all the evidence mounting against Lady Gaga having a penis (this picture, her video for “Telephone,” etc.) still hasn’t convinced you, the Times of London has a story for you.

  • RuPauls Drag Race All Stars Recap: Starstruck

    May 2024

    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Drag Race Gives Back Variety Extravaganza Season 7 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Drag Race Gives Back Variety Extravaganza Season 7 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Drag Race is no stranger to a twist.

  • Sanditons Creators Know Youre Devastated About That Ending

    May 2024

    Could these two still get the Austenian ending they (and we) deserve? Only if there’s a season two.

  • Search Partys Elliott Is the Limit Case of the Gay BFF

    May 2024

    He’s sassy and vapid and a hoot to be around. He has a clear sense of style and a near-encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture.

  • Sex Educations Ncuti Gatwa Doesnt Want to Play the Gay Best Friend

    May 2024

    Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa. Spoilers ahead for Sex Education, season one. Netflix’s newest gift to teens is Sex Education, a show seemingly set within a fever dream of suburban England, where one student, Otis, (Asa Butterfield) becomes the underground sex whisperer to his entire high school, solving his classmates’ confusion over everything from masturbation to scissoring.

  • Start Making Your Reservations for The White Lotus Season 3

    May 2024

    The Lizzie McGuire Movie. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that HBO has renewed The White Lotus for season three.

  • The 25 Greatest Time-Travel Movies Ever Made

    May 2024

    It must say something, surely, about humans, how often time-travel movies are about returning to the past rather than jumping to the future.

  • The Best, Worst, and Weirdest of Gorillaz, According to Damon Albarn

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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 Changeling TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • The Comedy Perfection of Richard Pryors Heart Attacks

    May 2024

    Pryor in Live in Concert. I once did a bar show with comedian Dana Gould. Another comic, after redeeming several drink tickets, asked him, “Is stand-up art?

  • The Horniest Decade: A Taxonomy

    May 2024

    Why did the early aughts have such weird sexual energy? Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Warner Bros, Kevin Kane/WireImage, K Wright/New Line/Kobal/Shutterstock, Moviestore/Shutterstock and Summit Entertainment During the 2000s, pop culture’s depictions of sex tended toward goofy, as if Hollywood had been run by teenage boys with cartoon eyes popping out of their skulls and mile-long tongues hanging out of their mouths.

  • The Life and Death of Mobb Deeps Prodigy

    May 2024

    Ayo, the hood broke my heart into pieces / Dunn, the streets took my dreams and shattered them and turned me into a preacher

  • The Nirvana Babys Nevermind Lawsuit Is Born Again

    May 2024

    Nirvana. A lawsuit over the iconic photo of a naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind has been revived, over a year after it was previously dismissed.

  • The Owner of Taylor Swifts Real-Life Cornelia Street Apartment Had No Idea Who She Was

    May 2024

    Taylor Swift writing “King of My Heart” in her Cornelia Street rental. In the first verse of “Cornelia Street,” a song from her new album, Lover, Taylor Swift sings, “‘I rentaplace on CorneliaStreet,’ I say casually in the car.

  • The Poland Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Puppy Bowl Adds Keyboard Cat Halftime Show

    May 2024

    PUPPY BOWL/KITTY HALF-TIME 9 While the original Keyboard Cat has long since retired his T-shirt, another cat will take up his mantle and perform during Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl X kitten halftime show February 2, leaving us to theorize that “Keyboard Cat” is a code name that can be passed on from kitty to kitty.

  • The Reader Director Stephen Daldry on Sex Scenes, Rudin vs. Weinstein, and Kavalier & Clay

    May 2024

    Stephen Daldry has made only two feature films, but he’s overseen four Oscar-nominated performances and netted himself two Academy Award nominations for Best Director to boot.

  • The Real Housewives of Dubai Recap: Dazed and Confused

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Dubai Friendship on the Rocks Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Dubai Friendship on the Rocks Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At its best, Real Housewives shines when a bunch of egotistical women with narcissistic tendencies make a huge to-do about relatively inconsequential events, and this season of Dubai is delivering the frivolity on all counts.

  • The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Mafia Mama

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Bermuda Birthday Blues Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Bermuda Birthday Blues Season 4 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After last week’s debacle over Meredith getting the worst, tubless room, this week’s episode brilliantly kicks off with B-roll highlighting the gorgeous seaside views from everybody’s room.

  • The Spine Collector

    May 2024

    For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?

  • The Story Behind True Detectives Cover of The Rose

    May 2024

    Conway Twitty. Given True Detective’s penchant for teasing out legendary tales, it’s fitting that a king (or, rather, the shadow of one) hovers over the second season’s third episode.

  • The Underground Railroad Recap: Grace Note

    May 2024

    The Underground Railroad Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Underground Railroad Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Our stories will always be right here.

  • The View Is ProSex Scene in the Case of Bridgerton

    May 2024

    Although we find ourselves in film’s most sexless and puritanical era since Y2K, Bridgerton, but a mere Regency soap opera, is bravely keeping sex scenes on life support, much to the delight of (most) hosts of The View.

  • The Winners and Losers of Prince Harrys Spare

    May 2024

    Harry’s high thoughts? Winning stuff. Prince Harry’s new memoir, Spare, is the literary equivalent of the tea going cold and the crumpets being a bit too stale.

  • Theater Review: A Transitory Journey to the Recent Past in Hillary and Clinton

    May 2024

    Laurie Metcalf as the candidate herself. When you were in high school, were you taught, as I was, to write essays using the general-specific-general template?

  • Theater Review: An Economically Robust Comedy of Errors

    May 2024

    Emily Bergl, Brian T. Lawton, Heidi Schreck, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rachel McMullin, and Hamish Linklater in The Comedy of Errors.

  • Theater Review: Let Me Spare You Lisa Krons Claustrophobic In the Wake

    May 2024

    Ireland and Chernus give strong performances in an annoying play. “The best thing about me,” says Ellen (Marin Ireland), “is I understand what’s irritating about me.

  • Theater Review: The Downs and Ups of Ride the Cyclone

    May 2024

    From MCC’s Ride the Cyclone, at the Lortel. It’s not impossible to find the right tone for a musical comedy about a gruesome subject: Look at Little Shop of Horrors, which both satirizes and honors the implications of its bloodthirsty-houseplant plot.

  • Theater Review: The Glittery Pleasures of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

    May 2024

    Hot stuff. “It was a great party,” reminisces one of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’s three avatars for its central singer, near the end of its speedy 100 minutes.

  • There Was No Better Letterman Guest Than Amy Sedaris

    May 2024

    Amy Sedaris and David Letterman Last month, David Letterman celebrated the 40th anniversary of the premiere of NBC’s Late Night — and thus the start of his late-night television career — by launching a new YouTube channel featuring classic clips from throughout his 33-year run.

  • This One Line From Magnolia Plays on a Loop in My Head

    May 2024

    In 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.

  • Tolkien Acknowledged That Black People Exist in Arda, So Why Cant Everyone Else?

    May 2024

    Into It with Sam Sanders Get the latest episodes Thursdays. Subscribe to the podcast here. Into It with Sam Sanders Get the latest episodes Thursdays.

  • Tony Robbinss Documentary I Am Not Your Guru to Heal You on Netflix July 15

    May 2024

    In between episodes of 30 Rock you’ve seen a thousand times and Paranormal Activity knockoffs from 2012 that literally no human has ever watched, you can now get a behind-the-scenes look at Tony Robbins’s motivational seminars in the upcoming documentary I Am Not Your Guru.

  • Travis Scott Privately Settles First Astroworld Lawsuit With Victims Family

    May 2024

    Travis Scott, real name Jacques Webster. Travis Scott has settled his first lawsuit stemming from the November 5, 2021, Astroworld Festival in Houston that saw an alleged 5,000 people injured and ten dead.

  • Trey Songz Accused of Sexual Assault Yet Again

    May 2024

    Tremaine Neverson. Trey Songz is facing another sexual-assault claim. This time, two women are suing Songz, born Tremaine Neverson, for a 2015 incident.

  • Ugly Bettys Mark Indelicato on Justins First Kiss

    May 2024

    Mark Indelicato has spent almost a third of his life playing Justin Suarez on Ugly Betty. “Our last day of shooting was yesterday and I cried for about seven hours straight,” the 15-year-old told us at the canceled sitcom’s wrap party last night.

  • Under the Skin, Only Lovers Left Alive, and a Brief History of the Art-Horror Film

    May 2024

    Under the Skin, starring Scarlet Johansson as an alien come to Earth in human form, is being billed as a science-fiction film, and it is, on some level.

  • Unfriended: Dark Web Drops the Revenge Ghosts in Favor of the Pure Terror of Being Online

    May 2024

    I tend to imagine Unfriended: Dark Web being a little hard to parse for viewers 10 or 20 years from now, but maybe that’s too optimistic.

  • Vikings Most Memorable Deaths, As Chosen by Its Creator

    May 2024

    Vikings was known for its epic battles and bloody encounters, so it wasn’t surprising that by the time the credits rolled on the series finale, there were less than a handful of original characters left breathing.

  • Vulture Investigates: Is Toni Basils Mickey Really AboutWell, You Know?

    May 2024

    This is the second entry in Vulture’s occasional series: Pop Culture Mysteries. See our previous piece, about the Red Hot Chili Peppers song “Under the Bridge,” here.

  • Watch Broadway Stars Suffer Through Their Law & Order Roles at the Tonys

    May 2024

    Look, it’s hard to put food on the table when you’re a struggling actor in New York. Sure, you dream of being a marquee name on the Great White Way, but if you need to pay your rent, you take what you can get — and sometimes what you can get is a bit part on Law & Order.

  • Watch Zooey Deschanel and Ben Schwartz Sing a Sweet Duet

    May 2024

    The 500 Days of Summer actress and the actor who plays Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Rec take on “Tonight You Belong to Me.

  • Wendy Williams Spills the Tea About Hooking Up With Method Man

    May 2024

    One messy queen. Wendy Williams is out here spilling her own tea ahead of her Lifetime biopic, Wendy Williams: The Movie, and documentary, Wendy Williams: What a Mess.

  • What Will It Take for Celebrities to Throw Out the Legacy PR Playbook?

    May 2024

    Into 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.

  • What Would Every Succession Character Sing at Karaoke?

    May 2024

    On this week’s episode of Succession, Willa manages to leave Connor in such a state that even Kendall, Shiv, and Roman don’t have the power to deny him his right to choose where they go.

  • When Steph Curry Met Peter Nicks He Fumbled a Quesadilla

    May 2024

    It’s hard holding a quesadilla while wearing four championship rings. The Sundance documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated follows Curry during the 2021 NBA season playing for the Golden State Warriors while looking back at intimate moments of his life, including his start playing for Davidson College.

  • Who, Exactly, Is Taylor Swift Telling to Calm Down? An Investigation.

    May 2024

    I used to think there was nothing more bone-chilling than a man who uses the word riddle. Riddles and puzzles are creepy when men present them.

  • Your Guide to TVs Current Tattoo Obsession

    May 2024

    BEST INK – “Fight Club” Episode 303 – Pictured: Darnell Waine – (Photo by: Ben Cohen/Oxygen Media/NBCU Photo Bank) Keep your pawn shows, your swamp shows, your home-décor shows.

  • Zo Kravitz Says a Director Sexually Harassed Her When She Was 19

    May 2024

    Zoë Kravitz. In Zoë Kravitz’s new Rolling Stone cover (which recreates her mother Lisa Bonet’s iconic shoot for the same magazine), the actress recalls being sexually harassed by a director, whom she won’t name, at the start of her career.

  • Saltz: The Mets Regarding Warhol Has Nothing to Say

    May 2024

    jerry saltz September 16, 2012 9:05 pm By Jerry Saltz Share Share Tweet Pin It 8 Photos Photo: Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York and The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work.

  • 10 Top Star Wars Collectors on the Rare Toys They Covet the Most This Holiday

    May 2024

    The first 12 Star Wars action figures released by Kenner in 1978. You may have heard that the Force awoken on December 18.

  • 15 Crews That Defined New York Rap

    May 2024

    Where It Started At: The NY Rap Story Presented by Where It Started At: The NY Rap Story Presented by Here are 15 of the most important crews and collectives whose (often brief) histories you should know, dating back to the genesis of rap culture.

  • 32 Concerts We Cant Wait to See This Summer

    May 2024

    After the live-music industry inched back to normal in 2021 and 2022, the pendulum has fully swung the other way, with 2023 shaping up to be one of the biggest touring years in recent memory.

  • 7 Theories of What The Wizard of Oz Is Really About

    May 2024

    We’ll have to wait and see if Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful manages to become as iconic and enduring a part of our collective pop-cultural subconscious as the original 1939 Wizard of Oz movie and L.

  • A Long Hike in the Woods: The Refuge Plays

    May 2024

    From The Refuge Plays, at the Laura Pels. We often talk about an epic drama in terms of its demands on an audience — time, focus, even the physical strain of shifting around in a cramped chair.

  • A Timeline of the Nate Parker Rape Scandal, and the Damage Control That Has Followed

    May 2024

    Nate Parker. Fifteen years after it was litigated in a courtroom, the case of Nate Parker is being relitigated in public.

  • A Visit With the Missoula Motel-Keeper Who Sheltered a Hemingway

    May 2024

    Someone tells me I ought to go talk to Thelma over at the Thunderbird Motel, so I stop by and introduce myself, and this is what she says:

  • A Wake for Lynn Shelton

    May 2024

    The late indie director’s closest friends and collaborators mourn the loss of a beloved experimental artist. Photo: IFC Films “No one’s got anything bad to say about Lynn Shelton,” Marc Maron said in the heartbreaking introduction to his Monday WTF episode honoring his creative collaborator and romantic partner, Lynn Shelton.

  • Adios, I Just Want My Pants Back

    May 2024

    MTV has canceled its strange hipster sex comedy I Just Want My Pants Back, which is a strange hipster sex comedy bummer.

  • Alice in Borderland Recap: Never Bet Against a Band

    May 2024

    Alice in Borderland Episode 2 Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alice in Borderland Episode 2 Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Arisu decided to lead his friends into a game with the King of Clubs, he understandably expected they would have an edge against any random group of players unwillingly thrown together by the forces of the game world.

  • All 57 Elvis Presley Albums Ranked, From Worst to Best

    May 2024

    Despite some recent hiccups in Las Vegas, 39 years after his death, Elvis Presley’s career is still going strong — his estate earned $55 million in 2015.

  • All Creatures Great and Small Premiere Recap: Hygge in the Hills

    May 2024

    All Creatures Great and Small You’ve Got to Dream Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small You’ve Got to Dream Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Hello and welcome to the balm of 2021, a show about pastoral scenes, sweater vests, and men getting kicked in the face by horses.

  • All the Spider-Man and Venom References You Might Have Missed in Morbius

    May 2024

    Morbius bites into Marvel lore and carves out its own territory in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. The Jared Leto–starring vampire flick is a standalone origin story devoid of a certain wall-crawler and hiding fewer Easter eggs than some might expect.

  • An Ode to Drive to Survives Saddest Man

    May 2024

    Guenther Steiner–centric episodes are exercises in Sisyphean struggle, and season four’s Haas story line is no exception. The fundamental pleasures of watching Formula One are pretty straightforward.

  • Azealia Banks Shares Both an Apology to Nicki Minaj and Nickis Noncommittal Response

    May 2024

    Banks. Azealia Banks has opinions about everything, but she has especially strong opinions about other female rappers. This week, after Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” rose to No.

  • Babyoncs First Single: If I Were a Boy (the Remix)

    May 2024

    Where were you when you learned that Beyoncé was pregnant? Have you managed to calm down since? If not, you are in good company: The Babyoncé announcement broke Twitter records, charmed the surly Justin Vernon (“That is awesome as shit, culturally speaking”), and even inspired the usually very private Jay-Z to smile, and then salute his wife, in public.

  • Bad Bunnys Endless Summer

    May 2024

    If Pusha T is cocaine rap’s Dr. Seuss, then let’s call Bad Bunny reggaeton’s Doctor Who. The Puerto Rican superstar arrived as if from another world, immediately bringing a sense of magic and outré artistry to a sound that had begun to get too comfortable and conservative for its own good.

  • Beginners Mlanie Laurent on Heeding Quentin Tarantinos Advice and Loving Cats

    May 2024

    This weekend, Mélanie Laurent, the 28-year-old French actress known to American audiences for playing the fierce Shoshana in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, co-stars in her second American film, Mike Mills’s Beginners.

  • Beyonc Leads the 2021 Grammys Awards With 4 Wins

    May 2024

    “Houston, we love you.” It was Beyoncé’s Grammys, and we just lived it: Leading the pack with the most Grammy wins at four, the singer also became the female artist with the most Grammys ever, with her 28th win (plus one for daughter Blue Ivy Carter).

  • Big Love: Utah Gets Kinky

    May 2024

    Big Love Kingdom Come Season 2 Episode 8 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Courtesy of HBO “I know she says she doesn’t want it.

  • Billions Recap: Xanadu

    May 2024

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  • Bloodline Recap: Black Sheep

    May 2024

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  • Bravo Superfan Jennifer Lawrence Will Be a Real(-ish) Housewife

    May 2024

    We’re betting that Jennifer Lawrence would have found it difficult to have no hard feelings if she didn’t get this role.

  • Breaking Bads Aaron Paul on Jesses Tattoos, Meeting Meth Heads, and Romance in Paris

    May 2024

    Aaron Paul. Earlier this year, New York’s Carl Swanson went to New Mexico to watch Aaron Paul (a.k.a. Jesse Pinkman) shoot an episode of Breaking Bad.

  • Comics, Assemble

    May 2024

    Comics creators have had enough. A collection of comic and cartoon professionals are sharing personal accounts to expose their industry for its appalling working conditions, which include inhuman hours, meager pay, and rampant job insecurity.

  • Craig Bierko on Taking a Bath With John Malkovich

    May 2024

    Photo: Getty Images Some may know strapping actor Craig Bierko from the 2000 Broadway production of The Music Man, flicks like Scary Movie 4 and Cinderella Man, or the newish Fox sitcom Unhitched, on which he was apparently sodomized by an ape.

  • Daily coverage of Art by Vulture

    May 2024

    Switched on Pop A podcast about the making and meaning of popular music Listen Now ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wKuraA%3D%3D

  • Disenchanted Cant Conjure the Magic of the Original

    May 2024

    At first, it might seem strange that the sequel to Enchanted, one of the more charming, critically embraced live-action Disney films of the modern era, isn’t getting a theatrical release.

  • Ed Helms and Tracy Morgan Will Star in Comedy TAG

    May 2024

    Ed Helms and Tracy Morganwill both be starring in the film TAG, reports Variety. Broad City’s Jeff Tomsic will direct the film, which is based on the true story of a group of friends who play cross-country tag for 30 years.

  • FKA Twigss Sexual-Battery Trial Against Shia LaBeouf Delayed to 2024

    May 2024

    FKA Twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett. FKA Twigs’s abuse lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf has been postponed to 2024.

  • Freaks and Geeks Most Devastating Moment Arrives on Halloween

    May 2024

    Freaks and Geeks Tricks and Treats Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Freaks and Geeks Tricks and Treats Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 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.

  • Gangs of London Recap: Rules About Killing

    May 2024

    Gangs of London Episode 7 Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gangs of London Episode 7 Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In Andrew Dominik’s 2012 masterpiece Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt’s assassin character Jackie Cogan gets the film’s final lines with a monologue about the history of the United States, the cynicism of capitalism, and his own derision toward the idea that anything could ever get better.

  • Getting Intimate with Diana Kolsky and Murf Meyer of the Mnage Trois Radio Podcast

    May 2024

    Pour yourself a glass of wine, turn on your favorite sensual music, light some candles, and prepare yourself for the sexiest interview you’ll ever read.

  • Glee Recap: Just Say No

    May 2024

    Glee Blame It on The Alcohol Season 2 Episode 14 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » National alcohol awareness month doesn’t come till April, so we’re a bit confused by this week’s blatant PSA of a theme.

  • Grading Taylor Swifts Karma With a Buddhist-Studies Professor

    May 2024

    Few songs on Taylor Swift’s tenth album, Midnights, were met with more anticipation than “Karma.” After years of speculation that Swift had shelved an album of the same name, she finally threw fans a bone, releasing what some thought to be its saved title track.

  • House of the Dragon Loves Lamp

    May 2024

    HOTD’s version of a lightbulb moment. Things are changing in the world of House of the Dragon. The conflict between the Greens and the Blacks (Reds and Golds) is really heating up this season.

  • How Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting

    May 2024

    Three revolutionary works still speak to us of doubt, inspiration, and grace. Michelangelo Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600).

  • How Wes Anderson Made The Royal Tenenbaums

    May 2024

    Vulture is taking you to film school this week, and we’ve got a great faculty. In our new series How to Make a Movie, some of film’s most accomplished artists from a wide array of fields will be explaining their techniques.

  • I Think I Saw The Hitmans Bodyguard, But I Cant Be Sure

    May 2024

    The Hitman’s Bodyguard? A couple weeks ago, while reviewing the sub-B, Halle Berry–starring throwaway Kidnap, I marveled almost admiringly at the fact that anyone even made movies like this anymore.

  • Inside the Almost 100% Successful 1985 Late Night with David Letterman Book

    May 2024

    Everyone knows that Merrill Markoe just wrote a book called Cool, Calm & Contentious. But did you know she also did a first book?

  • J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Are Overseeing a 4K Restoration of Phantasm

    May 2024

    J.J. Abrams. Aside from doing Star Wars–related things and freaking out (or both), J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company are also restoring 1979’s cult horror flick Phantasm.

  • Jared Leto Gave Margot Robbie a Live Rat As a Present

    May 2024

    Jared Leto. The line between reality and surreality has blurred for Jared Leto, as it seems the actor is getting really into his Suicide Squad role.

  • Jimmy Kimmels Matt Damon Episode Beats Leno and Letterman and Earns a Primetime Encore

    May 2024

    Last night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, which brought a longstanding joke feud between between Kimmel and Matt Damon to a head by having Damon hijack the show and host it himself, scored Kimmel’s best audience in its new 11:35 timeslot yet.

  • Jody Rosens Thom Yorke Intelligibility Watch: Honey Pot

    May 2024

    This is the first post in a series, which may collectively stretch to book length, chronicling the lyrical maunderings and vocal murmurings of Thom Yorke — Radiohead front man, singer-songwriter, misanthrope, redhead, and music’s most venerated bore.

  • John Mayer, Instagrams Most Prolific Commenter, Releases a New Single

    May 2024

    Instagram’s most prolific commenter has a side hustle: making music. Somehow in between commenting on all of your favorite celebrities’ Instagram posts, John Mayer found the time to write and release a new song, “Carry Me Away.

  • JoJo Spent Nearly a Decade Fighting Her Label and Won. Heres What She Learned, in Her Own Words.

    May 2024

    “I’d be lying if I said, Oh, no, that doesn’t affect me at all.” In 2014, pop star JoJo broke free from her contract with Blackground Records, ending a Behind the Music–worthy, nearly-decade-long legal battle with the label that signed her when she was just 12.

  • Jussie Smollett Made Zero Rumblings About His Empire Pay: Sources

    May 2024

    Jussie Smollett’s mugshot. Jussie Smollett’s motivation for allegedly paying two brothers to stage a racist, homophobic attack on him was displeasure over his Empire salary, Chicago police said Thursday.

  • Kids Only Have to Drag Parents to Living Room for Billie Eilish Concert Now

    May 2024

    Billie Eilish has had quite the roller coaster of a year. The pop prodigy was riding high off her record-setting Grammys haul when she started her Where Do We Go?

  • Klaus Mkel Brings Back the Wild Streak in Stravinsky

    May 2024

    Klaus Mäkelä at Carnegie Hall. If conductors were rare earths, Finland would control the global economy. How a country of 5 million manages to keep the world’s podiums supplied with baton-wielding talent is an abiding mystery, particularly since it keeps happening over multiple generations.

  • Krysten Ritter Almost Bit Through Her Own Tongue While Filming Jessica Jones Season Two

    May 2024

    Krysten Ritter How does Krysten Ritter find the time? In addition to working on Netflix’s Marvel outings Jessica Jones and The Defenders for 12 months straight, she’s also managed to juggle careers as a novelist (her debut, Bonfire, came out last year); a producer (her company, Silent Machine, just landed a pilot order); and — perhaps most important — a professional knitter (peep this infinity scarf).

  • Latest Leaks Indicate Axl Rose Is Really Making Progress on Chinese Democracy

    May 2024

    Photo: Getty Images Taking the Internet by surprise last night, Website Antiquiet began streaming nine tracks purportedly from a completed version of Guns N’ Roses’ oft-delayed opus Chinese Democracy.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio Must Have a Lot of Feelings About Rihannas Aviator-Themed Photoshoot

    May 2024

    So many layers to unpack here. For a brief moment in time, Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio had, by definition, a thing.

  • Leslie Mann Sets the Record Straight

    May 2024

    “I know you’re trying to act cool in front of all your internet friends, but I think that if I showed up on your doorstep you would do me.

  • Looking for Alaska Finale Recap: My Milkshake Brings All the Pranks to the Yard

    May 2024

    Looking For Alaska It’s Very Beautiful Over There Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Looking For Alaska It’s Very Beautiful Over There Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Remember “We Are All Going,” when we just sobbed our eyes out for a full hour over Alaska’s death?

  • Love Is Blind Recap: Waving the White Dress

    May 2024

    Love Is Blind Week 3 (Episodes 9-11) Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Love Is Blind Week 3 (Episodes 9-11) Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The weddings are drawing ever closer — Nick and Vanessa just made one of their three obligatory appearances to “help” the contestants shop for their wedding outfits — and yet, the couples seem to be inventing more problems every day.

  • Maestro Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just That

    May 2024

    This review was originally published on September 2, 2023. On January 23, 2024, Maestro was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture.

  • Marisa Tomei Does Not Get Naked As Often As You Might Think

    May 2024

    “I happened to get offered The Wrestler after I did that movie. It’s another twist of fate. It’s not like I’m in my nude phase now.

  • Martin Scorsese Still Cant Get Over Vinyls Tragic Failure

    May 2024

    In a rare misstep for Martin Scorsese, that Italian septuagenarian dreamboat signed on to executive produce HBO’s Vinyl, a 1970s music-and-cocaine romp that got the ax after one season.

  • My Momma Told Me You Should Listen to This Podcast

    May 2024

    Are 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.

  • New on Peacock: January 2024

    May 2024

    Each month, several films and TV shows are added to Peacock’s library; we recommend the titles worth watching. For more streaming guides and Peacock, head to Vulture’s What to Stream hub.

  • P-Valleys J. Alphonse Nicholson on Showing Lil Murdas Tender Side

    May 2024

    Down in the fictional Mississippi Delta town of Chucalissa, in the rich world surrounding a strip club and the people connected to it, there’s always something brewing.

  • Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks to Perform With Spinal Tap

    May 2024

    Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks each have a bit of experience with fictional musicians (see: Sgt.

  • Paulina Porizkova Drives Home With Her Ric Ocasek Settlement

    May 2024

    More than two years after her husband, Ric Ocasek, died at the age of 75, setting off a postmortem chain of petty and vindictive estate changes, Paulina Porizkova has finally received a monetary settlement.

  • Plaza Suite Contains the Bleakest Comedy Ive Seen in Years

    May 2024

    When you go thumbing through Broadway listings of the yonder years, one thing jumps out. Infidelity and wonky-marriage plots were once reliable moneymakers among the non-musicals.

  • Ranking Every Netflix Original Movie: 2015-2020

    May 2024

    Five years, 515 films. Which Netflix original movies are worth streaming? Illustration: Gluekit Which Netflix original movies are worth streaming?

  • Reacher Recap: Cop Killer

    May 2024

    Reacher The Man Goes Through Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Reacher The Man Goes Through Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Reacher, the one-named protagonist of Reacher, just can’t stay out of the lion’s den.

  • Real Housewives Reunion Part 2 Recap: Ramona Singer Finally Shuts Up

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion — Part 2 Season 6 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion — Part 2 Season 6 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ramona Singer is an awful hypocrite and she must be stopped.

  • Return of the Musical Rumble: The Outsiders

    May 2024

    This review was originally published on April 11, 2024. At the 77th Tony Awards, The Outsiders won four awards, including Best Musical.

  • Roy Wood Jr.s Best Jokes at the 2023 White House Correspondents Dinner

    May 2024

    The Daily Show correspondent takes the stage at the 2023 WHCD. If Comedy Central wasn’t convinced comedian Roy Wood Jr.

  • Ruth Negga Thinks Being Naked Onstage Is Easier Than One Minute of Being Interviewed on Fallon

    May 2024

    Ruth Negga gets how you feel about late night. The Oscar hopeful — currently doing a merry-go-round of press for Loving —  told Vogue exactly how exhausting it is to spend a minute on camera making small talk and being funny.

  • Ryan Gosling Drops Sad Himbo Anthem

    May 2024

    Himbos have feelings, too. In “Just Ken,” the latest drop from the Barbie soundtrack, Ryan Gosling proves that men with hot, washboard abs and bleach-blond hair are more than mere eye candy, more than a simple accessory — like Barbie’s pink corvette and archival Chanel tweed — that she totes around her dream house.

  • Sarah Braman - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • See EWs Magic Mike Striptease Cover

    May 2024

    First Channing Tatum’s got his shirt on. Then peel back the cover flaps and… Well, he’s still got his shirt on, but at least he’s got the whole stripper crew with him.

  • Selling Sunset Season-Premiere Recap: Malibu Barbies

    May 2024

    Selling Sunset Very High Heels to Fill Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Selling Sunset Very High Heels to Fill Season 4 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Roll up and let me in

  • Shguns Moeka Hoshi Knows the Power of Good Communication

    May 2024

    It’s important to Moeka Hoshi that she’s translated correctly — this is her first U.S. interview, after all, and translation happens to be a central theme of her breakout project.

  • Snakes on a Plane Director Fighting to Call His Next Film Untitled 3D Shark Thriller

    May 2024

    When David Ellis’s campy 2006 action-horror film Snakes on a Plane wound up being released under its working title, many lamented it as a sad metaphor for the movie business: Could things get any more reductive?

  • SNLs Cut-for-Time Sketch Presents an Extreme English Tea for Extreme English People

    May 2024

    Saturday Night Live must have been inspired by last week’s news that a new company is planning to sell water in cans called Liquid Death, because in the latest “Cut for Time” sketch from Emma Thompson’s episode, a similar beverage gets the EXTREME!

  • Somebody Somewhere TV Episode Recaps & News

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    Somebody Somewhere, which premieres this Sunday, is a patently personal project for Everett, who also grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, but went on to become a fixture of the New York comedy-and-music scene.

  • Soundtracking a Coming of Age

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    Early in Reservation Dogs’ first season, music supervisor Tiffany Anders knew her partnership with series co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo would be fruitful when he made a single request: “All of the music had to have a DIY quality to it,” she remembers.

  • Starstruck Conjures the Magic of Everyday Romance

    May 2024

    Starstruck is a series full of fantastic, seemingly counterintuitive choices. “Seemingly” because they’re often blindingly obvious once you look at them, and yet they fly in the face of many accepted norms in contemporary romantic comedies.

  • T-Pain and Lil Wayne Have Finally Answered Our Prayers and Released T-Wayne

    May 2024

    Lil Wayne and T-Pain. It finally happened. After doodling hearts around their names in our notebooks, T-Pain and Lil Wayne have released the joint album T-Wayne, their oft-teased mixtape of unreleased tracks.

  • Talking Dead People Suck with Laurie Kilmartin

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    When faced with the loss of her father, comedian Laurie Kilmartin was confronted with an additional challenge: how to make a topic as well-tread as death funny and original.

  • Taylor Swifts Dream About Her Killer Daughter-in-Law Comes to Life in Anti-Hero

    May 2024

    As Taylor Swift told us on “Anti-Hero,” she has this pretty specific dream about her daughter-in-law killing her for the money, even though Swift didn’t even leave her any in the will.

  • The 18 Uncanniest Comics to Read After Watching X-Men 97

    May 2024

    It’s easy to be skeptical of a project like X-Men ’97, a show that blatantly taps into nostalgia for pop-cultural ephemera from millennial childhoods.

  • The Afterparty TV Episode Recaps & News

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  • The Americans Recap: Sex for Secrets

    May 2024

    The Americans COMINT Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Americans COMINT Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Comint” is about trading sex for secrets, and how secrecy is a part of sex and love.

  • The Below Deck Sailing Yacht Cast Is Wildly Horny, Two Episodes In

    May 2024

    Can you imagine kissing a relative stranger right now — say, someone you’ve known for less than four days?

  • The Best Living and (Un)dead Movie Romances

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    Getting ghosted can really hurt. But what happens when they’ve really left this world? Movie romances with racing pulses and a rising temperature might get the most airtime on Valentine’s Day.

  • The Coen Brothers Are Working on Another Musical Film

    May 2024

    Ethan and Joel Coen. For their new folk-music dramedy Inside Llewyn Davis, directors Joel and Ethan Coen reteamed with T-Bone Burnett, who produced the hit soundtrack for their 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  • The Golden Bachelor: Its an Hour!

    May 2024

    Sure, Gerry’s a sweetie. But he’s not the key to this spinoff’s success. In my capacity as Professional Bachelor Liker, I’ve had to justify my devotion to the tortuous franchise among my friends and loved ones.

  • The Morning ShowRecap: Oh, Brother

    May 2024

    The Morning Show A Private Person Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Morning Show A Private Person Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alex Levy is missing, and that’s a big problem.

  • The Real Killer in The Staircase Might Be an Owl?

    May 2024

    Who killed Kathleen Peterson? As documented by the true-crime series The Staircase — a 13-part investigation that follows the murder trial of her husband, Michael Peterson — neither the prosecution nor the defense told a story that seemed to make perfect sense.

  • The Story Behind the Whos Iconic A Quick One Performance, Now Available in Glorious HD

    May 2024

    “A Quick One” in progress. The gossipy spiral of the Who’s press tour for their new album, WHO, likely prevented you from checking out something truly magical transpiring on the band’s YouTube page: Over the past few weeks, a bunch of beautifully restored videos have been uploaded from their glory years, ranging from a “You Better You Bet” promo in 1981 to the sublime The Kids Are Alright sessions in 1978.

  • The Story of the Woman Who Accused Brand News Jesse Lacey of Soliciting Child Pornography

    May 2024

    Lacey. Last week, Brian Diaz, a former guitar tech for Long Island emo legends Brand New, sparked a conversation on Facebook.

  • The Watcher Recap: Everything Is Legal in New Jersey

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  • Theater Review: Something Rotten! Feels Fresh

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    Whatever their nominal subjects, musical comedies today are usually about musical comedies. Consider three of the funniest of the last ten years: Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Book of Mormon.

  • This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Good Vibes Only

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  • Time for a Sugar Rush

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    The best part of Sugar is the moment when all the things that seem wrong about it suddenly snap into place.

  • Titane Is the French Body-Horror Film That Has Cannes in Stitches

    May 2024

    It kicks off with a woman having sex with her car, and only gets more bonkers from there.

  • True Story Author Michael Finkel on His Relationship With the Murderer Who Inspired the James Franco

    May 2024

    In the upcoming film True Story, Jonah Hill stars as real-life journalist Michael Finkel, who was fired from The New York Times Magazine in 2001 for falsifying details in a story about child slavery in Africa.

  • truTVs Comedy Knockout Premieres on April 21st

    May 2024

    truTV just announced the premiere date for its comedy competition series hosted by Damien Lemon. Comedy Knockout will make its series premiere on Thursday, April 21st at 10:30pm.

  • Ultraman: Rising Is What We Call a Parents Movie

    May 2024

    Ultraman: Rising’s canniest trick is the way it sustains narrative momentum while staying true to the realities of new parenthood.

  • Vanderpump Rules Recap: Beach Blanket Blotto

    May 2024

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  • Vulture Asks: Whats Your Worst, Most Awkward Family-Viewing Experience?

    May 2024

    Sharon Stone Basic Instinct 1992 At some point this weekend, odds are you’ll be loafing around with your family, trying to decide what to watch on TV, or maybe trying to pick a movie to all schlep to.

  • Vulture Critics Poll: The Complete Worst Movie of 2011 Ballots

    May 2024

    So you’ve read the slideshow of our 2011 Worst Movie’s Critics Poll, but you demand even more venom over the awfulness of the past year?

  • Watch Bill Murray Give a Surprise Concert in Washington Square Park

    May 2024

    A grim portent of the twee revival: Bill Murray is being spontaneously cheeky again. Murray was spotted by fans, video creator Nicolas Heller, and “Page Six” in Washington Square Park on Wednesday afternoon.

  • Watch Tom Hardy and McG Play Naked, NSFW Paintball

    May 2024

    The action rom-com This Means War has been struggling to attract attention over the past few months … so much so that a naked Tom Hardy paintball video was leaked to YouTube back in October, and we had no idea until a commenter brought it to our attention today!

  • Welcome to the New Quiet Place, Same As the Old Quiet Place

    May 2024

    Silence is not just golden but rather rare at the multiplex. It can get noisy there, onscreen and off: If it’s possible to tune out an increasingly chatty moviegoing public, that’s only because the movies themselves are often downright deafening in their Dolby cacophony.

  • Were the Avengers Family Feud Teams Last Night a Preview of the Civil War Sides?

    May 2024

    After this summer, the next big Marvel film will be Captain America: Civil War, which will pit Captain American against Iron Man as opposing sides of the fight to have all superhumans register with the government.

  • What Daredevils Depiction of the Punisher Gets Right About War Vets

    May 2024

    Marvel’s Daredevil Before my five years in the Army, 28 months of which was spent deployed in Iraq, I attended basic training and infantry school at Ft.

  • Whats Fact and Whats Fiction in Blonde?

    May 2024

    Spoilers ahead for the plot of Blonde. There are biopics that aim to present a mostly factual version of a person’s life (think Walk the Line).

  • Where to Watch Every Fast & Furious Thing Right Now

    May 2024

    Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. El primero, el original, The Fast and the Furious. What pairs nicely with a family gathering and an ice-cold, lime-wedged Corona?

  • Where You Going With That Mask I Found? Celebrating Scott Weilands Quest for Front-man Reinventio

    May 2024

    Scott Weiland was a great shape-shifter, a reminder that theater and fashion contribute to the whole of rock music as much as anything purely musical does.

  • Why Aviators Make Every Character More Badass

    May 2024

    Stationed in a covert base overseas, Jessica Chastain plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures’ electrifying new thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, ZERO DARK THIRTY.

  • With the Return of Inside Amy Schumer, at Least We Still Have Farts

    May 2024

    Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a 10 hour movie.

  • Woman Yelling at Cat Joins Real Housewives of Orange County Season-17 Cast

    May 2024

    Taylor Armstrong and her greatest co-star yet. It’s O.C.-fficial. On Monday, August 1, People exclusively revealed that Taylor Armstrong would be returning to the Real Housewives franchise — but this time grasping an orange.

  • Boyz II Mens 40 Matchiest Outfits

    May 2024

    match game November 4, 2014 10:45 am By Jesse David Fox, Marcus Jones Share Share Tweet Pin It 40 Photos Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd/Getty Images Over their nearly 30-year history, Boyz II Men have become known for many things: killer harmonies, hits that stayed on top of the charts for a very long time, and songs about doing it with a person you love dearly.

  • [Redacted Dead Greys Anatomy Character] Returns to Make You Teary

    May 2024

    Who here feels like they have no idea what they’re doing? George O’Malley in the pilot of Grey’s Anatomy and also me screaming at the writers of last night’s episode when George O’Malley made his return in Thursday night’s episode.

  • 10 Artists Weigh in on the Art Selfie

    May 2024

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  • 10 Best One Crazy Summer Movies of All Time

    May 2024

    Adventureland, out this week, is but the latest entry in the “One Crazy Summer” movie genre — films taking place over a single, wild, warm-weather season.

  • 12 Years A Slave - Vulture

    May 2024

    what were the 2010s? Dec. 26, 2019 What Should a Slavery Epic Do?If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

  • 25 Essential Stephen King Short Stories

    May 2024

    Stephen King writes big books. Tomes, you could say. The Stand and It both top out at well over a thousand pages each, and he has dozens of other titles that aren’t far behind.

  • 27 Straight-to-VOD Bruce Willis Movies, Ranked

    May 2024

    This article originally ran in 2020 and has been updated to include Bruce Willis’ latest straight-to-VOD titles. Anyone hoping that American Siege, Bruce Willis’ newest straight to VOD release, would usher in a long-awaited Bruce-aissance, will have to keep waiting.

  • A Guide to Every Celebrity Cameo in Fight for Your Right Revisited

    May 2024

    Adam Yauch’s Sundance short, Fight for Your Right Revisited, asks the question, “What happened after the Beastie Boys left the iconic shindig from the ’(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!

  • A Word About My Wonder Woman Review

    May 2024

    Last Thursday, my review of Wonder Woman was received with both outrage and ridicule, and reading those reactions, I felt sick.

  • Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranstons Big Secret Project Is Just Tequila?

    May 2024

    Where were you when you saw Aaron Paul’s Instagram post from a week ago that was just a picture of him in a river with Bryan Cranston and the word “Soon” written in the caption?

  • Abbott Elementary Recap: Abbotts Glowing Up

    May 2024

    Abbott Elementary Panel Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Abbott Elementary Panel Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Although Janine’s transformation from the timid-but-always-passionate rookie at Abbott to the confident and exuberant fellow at the district has been the most apparent display of character evolution, the rest of her co-workers are steadily growing and changing alongside her.

  • Adam DeVine on Pitch Perfect, Workaholics, and His Arrested Development Cameo

    May 2024

    Adam DeVine. Adam DeVine, co-creator and co-star of the Comedy Central show Workaholics, is not just a troublemaker, he’s a Treblemaker.

  • Alec and Hilaria Against the World

    May 2024

    The actor is back on the Rust set. Since the death of Halyna Hutchins, his marriage has taken on a starring role.

  • All 165 Pink Floyd Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best

    May 2024

    Pink Floyd may be the only rock band that can credibly be compared to both the Beatles and Spinal Tap.

  • All Your Hotline Bling Memes Couldnt Get Drake His First Solo No. 1

    May 2024

    We’ll still call you on your cellphone. Sorry, Drake: Billboard didn’t get you that No. 1 you wanted for your birthday.

  • Andrew Ahn Did Want to Show Dick on Fire Island

    May 2024

    Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster on the set of the film FIRE ISLAND. Andrew Ahn has a talent for allowing a feeling to linger onscreen like an afterglow on the water.

  • Arrow Recap: Plan Bee

    May 2024

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  • Bachelor in Paradise Season-Finale Recap: The Boring Ultimatum

    May 2024

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  • Banu Cennetolu Uploaded 12 Years of Her Digital Life into a 128-Hour-Long Film

    May 2024

    Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen.

  • Before You Watch Behind the Candelabra: A Liberace Primer

    May 2024

    NEW YORK - JANUARY 01: Liberace performs at Radio City Music Hall in 1985 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/WireImage) This weekend, in HBO’s latest biopic, the Steven Soderbergh–directed Behind the Candelabra, we are introduced to Liberace during his 1976 Vegas residence.

  • Below Deck Recap: Captain Lee Saves the Day, Krystal Ruins It

    May 2024

    Below Deck Shame Cocoon Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Below Deck Shame Cocoon Season 6 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bravo bookends this episode with two sets of totally horrible guests and I am so happy.

  • Berlinale: Can Harvey Weinstein Help Ryan Reynolds With His McConaissance?

    May 2024

    Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds attend the Woman in Gold photo call during the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 9, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.

  • Breaking Bad Recap: RV Life Isnt Always Relaxing

    May 2024

    Breaking Bad Sunset Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Breaking Bad Sunset Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “I am the man that I am, son.

  • Brian Regan Announces 2017 Tour Dates and Two Netflix Standup Specials

    May 2024

    Brian Regan is having a very busy 2017. Today Regan announced a pile of standup tour dates, which run from early June through December and include stops in San Antonio, Denver, Wilmington, Orlando, San Diego, Madison, and more.

  • Bridgerton Recap: Mr. Duplicity

    May 2024

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  • Catfish Recap: Toying With His Purple Heart

    May 2024

    Catfish Anthony & Marq Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Catfish Anthony & Marq Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If the first two episodes of season two are any indication, Catfish is no longer the curious little show that made people who hadn’t watched MTV in actual years pay attention.

  • Chris Rock Jokes About Dr. Dre, Kevin Hart, and Donald Sterling at the BET Awards

    May 2024

    Chris Rock hosted the 2014 BET Awards last night (or as he called it, “the Black World Cup”), and he opened the ceremony with the above solid opening monologue full of jokes at the expense of Dr.

  • Christina Ricci Speed-Races Into Lana Wachowskis Matrix 4 Sequel

    May 2024

    Hook up one more of those goo-filled pods: Yet another human being is getting plugged into the Matrix. According to Deadline, Christina Ricci is now listed in an updated press kit about director Lana Wachowski’s upcoming Matrix 4, alongside returning franchise stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Jada Pinkett Smith.

  • Colin Farrell Is Officially In for Season 2 of True Detective

    May 2024

    It looks likethe rumors were true: Colin Farrell has confirmed that he’ll star in the second season of True Detective.

  • Conan OBrien Says He Hasnt Dry Cleaned his Hot Ones Jacket Yet

    May 2024

    There’s capsule wardrobes and then there’s whatever Conan’s got going on. At the premiere of his new show, Conan O’Brien Must Go, the talkshow host-turned-traveloguer wore the same jean jacket he’d worn to Hot Ones.

  • Cowboy Carter - Vulture

    May 2024

    beyonce hold ‘em Mar. 29, 2024 Meet Cowboy CarterDolly Parton, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone and more are special guests at the rodeo.

  • Daniel Kaluuya Must Get Rid of Toxic in Beanie Babies Community on SNL

    May 2024

    In 2019, Harry Styles accidentally flooded the Sara Lee Instagram account with comments like “need a real king who can handle” and “wreck me daddy” after playing a lonely, threesome-obsessed social-media manager at the bakery company in a Saturday Night Live sketch.

  • Dick Clark 1929-2012: Americas Rockin Host

    May 2024

    Dick Clark died this morning after 82 years of life and about 60 years in show business. The last 30 were marked by affectionate jokes that he looked fantastic for his age and would probably live forever.

  • Dr. Dre Receiving Piano Lessons From Burt Bacharach

    May 2024

    California rapper-producer DJ Quik was in the studio with Dr. Dre recently, and he’s got lots of Detox-related news to spread: “I’m gonna snitch … [Dre’s] reinterpreting Chopin symphony stuff.

  • Edelstein: Dont Miss the Mind-Boggling Doc Better This World on PBS Tonight

    May 2024

    The mind-boggling documentary Better This World, showing tonight on PBS’s POV with way too little fanfare, could be the foundation of an outlandish black comedy centering on a grandiose narcissist nutcase who becomes a left-wing social activist and then, when he doesn’t rise high enough in the organization, decides to rat out his allies to the government while simultaneously egging them on to ever more violent acts of civil disobedience.

  • Elizabeth Hurley Answers Every Question We Have About Bedazzled

    May 2024

    Role 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.

  • Everything We Know About Magic Mikes Last Dance

    May 2024

    You can only appreciate these images on the silver screen. Magic Mike got hot in more ways than one.

  • Everything You Need to Know Before Seeing Into the Woods

    May 2024

    Into the Woods is a musical that many people care about. A lot. But perhaps you are not one of those people!

  • Fall Movies Fantasy League Week 13: Why You Gotta Be So Crood?

    May 2024

    The Croods: A New Age just had the second-best opening of the fall. In Vulture’s Fall Movies Fantasy League, contestants stake their pride, and the respect of their peers, on their ability to predict the tumultuous next few months of cinematic releases.

  • Flavor Flav Embarks on Noble Side Quest to Save Red Lobster

    May 2024

    Fight the power! Flavor Flav is singlehandedly trying to save Red Lobster from bankruptcy. He previously ordered the whole menu in attempt to “save the cheddar bay biscuits,” and the restaurant has now rewarded him with his own signature off-the-menu meal.

  • Frances Bean Cobain Doesnt Like Nirvana Because Shes Such a Rock-Star Kid

    May 2024

    Rebel child. Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, doesn’t give many interviews — and this is probably why.

  • Grinch Girl, You Will Always Be Famous

    May 2024

    Taylor Momsen. The mean kids in Gossip Girl have nothing on these little kids Taylor Momsen grew up with.

  • Harry Potter Fans Are Probably Killing Seals in Dobbys Name

    May 2024

    Bad Dobby! Bad! No polluting the oceans! I’ll deal with you later! A Welsh national trust tasked with finding a sustainable future for the Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire has issued a statement politely begging Harry Potter fans to stop leaving trash on the beach for Dobby.

  • Hedwig Creators Break Down How They Changed the Script for Broadway

    May 2024

    For Hedwig and the Angry Inch to make the leap from the relative obscurity of downtown theater to the bright lights of Broadway, the show needed a few touch-ups and strategic nips and tucks.

  • Here Are Some of the Songs Channing Tatum Will Strip To

    May 2024

    Dark Shadows The trailers for Magic Mike have mostly made use of Rihanna’s “We Found Love”; a dance-friendly jam, for sure, but not exactly the sultry song that plays in your head when you imagine … Channing Tatum, stripping.

  • Heres Video of the Exact Moment Jennifer Garner Fell in Love With Ben Affleck

    May 2024

    DV1424883 This post originally ran in October 2014. We are rerunning it because, as things end, it’s good to remember where they started.

  • House of the Dragon Soars to New Heights

    May 2024

    Oh, we’re dancing now. Want to watch House of the Dragon with us? Sign up for our new subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessively chronicling season two.

  • How Bluey Became the Best Kids Show of Our Time

    May 2024

    No other series gets the strange, hilarious magic of play. Bluey season two will be available to stream on Disney+ May 28.

  • How Game of Thrones Turned TVs Most Complicated Drama Into Viral Posters

    May 2024

    Game of Thrones executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are known for their meticulous attention to detail. It should come as no surprise, then, that they’re very involved in the creation of the posters — or key art, in Hollywood parlance — that promote each season of their show.

  • How Not to Make a Tom and Jerry Movie

    May 2024

    Tom and Jerry. You know you’re in for trouble right at the start, when the pigeons begin rapping.

  • I Didnt Give a Sh*t About Marvel Movies Till I Saw Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok

    May 2024

    I have a hit-and-miss record with Marvel movies, meaning that they are all hits, and I have somehow missed seeing most of them.

  • Katy Perry Wears the Silliest Costume to Sing the Most Gut-Wrenching Disney Song

    May 2024

    Chances are Katy Perry already had a Mrs. Jumbo and coordinating dog-sized Dumbo costume in her closet ahead of Sunday’s Disney Family Singalong: Volume II, since that is her thing, but it also might be a kind gesture to distract you from the most tear-jerking song in the Disney canon, “Baby Mine,” which is devastating enough, even if you don’t remember the song plays over a sobbing Dumbo visiting his mother in elephant jail while the rest of the circus mothers put their babies to bed.

  • Kim Kardashian Channels Her Inner Tiger Queen for Halloween

    May 2024

    Kim Kardashian has been working overtime to spook us this Halloween. From the uncanny valley of that hologram of her late father to the horrifying lack of self-awareness that was her Instagram birthday post, Kardashian has delivered more than her share of frights.

  • Knock at the Cabin Is M. Night Shyamalans Best Film Since The Village

    May 2024

    Ben Aldridge, Kristen Cui, and Jonathan Groff in Knock at the Cabin. An enormous hulk of a man offering a flower to a young girl in the woods.

  • Lady Gaga and Mick Jagger Had a Heavenly Screaming Match

    May 2024

    They say heaven is a place on Earth, and on October 19, it was at the New York City club Racket.

  • Last Chance Us New Season Takes an Unexpected, Sad Detour

    May 2024

    Laney College wide receiver RJ Stern’s unusual living situation is the focus of ‘Greyhaven.’ From the beginning, the Netflix docuseries Last Chance U has been many things: beautifully made, occasionally uplifting, often tragic, and thoughtful about race, poverty, masculinity, mentorship, and opportunity.

  • Let Josh OConnor Be Extremely Filthy in Everything

    May 2024

    If cleanliness is godliness, the Challengers star’s dirtiness is perfectly profane. Midway through Challengers, a movie about how not having a threesome could ruin your entire life, it dawned on me: This was at least the third movie I’d seen in the last several years in which Josh O’Connor is absolutely filthy.

  • Live Nation Signs Idiotic Deal With 38-Year-Old Rap Star

    May 2024

    Photo: WireImage The New York Times reports this morning that Jay-Z is close to a deal with Live Nation that would cover his albums, tours, publishing, licensing, endorsements, and some business ventures, give Hova his own record label and talent agency — and cost the concert promoter $150 million over the next decade.

  • Look Away From Never Look Away

    May 2024

    It’s objectively unfair to be harder on a clunky film that has been nominated for an Oscar than on one that few people will see, but objectivity is overvalued and I’m going to give Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Best Foreign Language Film nominee Never Look Away the Middlebrow Beanbag Award of 2019.

  • Loot Season-Premiere Recap: The Cher Horowitz of Billionaires

    May 2024

    Loot Space For Everyone / Clueless Season 2 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Loot Space For Everyone / Clueless Season 2 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Sweet Looters, rise up!

  • Lost - Vulture

    May 2024

    close reads Feb. 10, 2017 When Did TV Get So Meta?Self-aware, fourth-wall-busting television is still everywhere. But what makes meta good versus bad?

  • Macklemore, the Lone Rapper With Some Sense Right Now

    May 2024

    Macklemore. Say what you will about Macklemore, but he will rage against the machine. In the middle of the nastiest, and perhaps most unserious, rap beef of the decade, the Seattle MC directed his animus toward Israel’s “apartheid system” against Palestine.

  • Maggie Pierce Is Leaving Grey Sloan Memorial, Too

    May 2024

    Grey’s Anatomy is apparently really hoping you like the interns at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, because yet another major character is leaving.

  • Mariah Careys Kids (and Mop) Help Her Usher in the Holiday Season

    May 2024

    Mariah Carey, mopping extraordinaire. It’s time…to mop the floor. Mariah Carey rang in the holiday season during the second show of her “Merry Christmas One and All!

  • Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa Are Your Cherry Bombs in Prisoner Video

    May 2024

    Earlier this year, Dua Lipa released her shimmering disco-inspired album Future Nostalgia, one in a string of new disco releases this year.

  • Nicki Minajs Father Reportedly Killed In Hit-and-Run Accident on Long Island

    May 2024

    Robert Maraj, the 64-year-old father of Nicki Minaj, died Saturday after being struck in a hit-and-run incident in Mineola, New York Friday night.

  • Oprah Winfrey Is Phenomenal in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    May 2024

    Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks. Oprah Winfrey is a very good actress. This is not news. We have known this since she earned an Academy Award nomination for playing the strong-willed Sophia in The Color Purple and have been reminded again over the years via her turns in Beloved, Selma, The Butler, and the OWN series Greenleaf.

  • Pablo Schreiber Defends His Characters Character on Lights Out

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    Aptly enough, Pablo Schreiber, 32, half-brother of Liev, finds himself starring in a couple of projects centered on competitive relationships involving body blows: as Johnny Leary in the FX drama Lights Out, the younger brother and manager of Patrick “Lights” Leary, and a hilariously self-destructive suitor in Rajiv Joseph’s tragicomic two-hander Gruesome Playground Injuries at Second Stage Theatre.

  • Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Robert Plant Remember Guitarist Jeff Beck

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    Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck, the guitar hero who died at 78, collaborated so widely that nearly every musician remembering him has a clip or tour story to go with.

  • Paul Mescal Is Big and Strong in Gladiator II

    May 2024

    Paul Mescal at this year’s BAFTAs. Paul Mescal thinks we’re looking at his nose in Gladiator II, but I can promise that no one is thinking about the shape of his nozzle after seeing the first look of director Ridley Scott’s upcoming tale.

  • Peppermint is Bad, Old-Fashioned Action Schlock and a Female Lead Doesnt Change That

    May 2024

    If we needed any proof that the methodology of Hollywood’s “Extreme Makeover: Gender Edition” is broken, Peppermint might be just the thing.

  • Power Book III: Raising Kanan Recap: Dont Fumble the Bag

    May 2024

    Power Book III: Raising Kanan It’s a Business, Man Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Power Book III: Raising Kanan It’s a Business, Man Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Kanan gets a new job as the brown-bag guy — and in true Kanan fashion, he fumbles the bag, literally and figuratively, on his first day.

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    DCI Luther. The system can’t hold Idris Elba’s Luther back. So, he executes a prison break in the upcoming Netflix film Luther: The Fallen Sun.

  • Red White And Royal Blue

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    emergency discussion Aug. 11, 2023 The Brain-Breaking Dissonance of Red, White & Royal BlueUma Thurman’s accent. Surprise Truvada sponcon. The tonal equivalent of a Disney Channel original gay porn.

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  • Riddle of the Sphinx Is the Best Episode of Westworld Yet

    May 2024

    Jeffrey Wright. At last: a really great episode of Westworld in season two! “The Riddle of the Sphinx” has loads of confidence, a really thoroughly conceived and beautiful new set,some fun Lost echoes, and a strong story that builds and builds and then goes pop!

  • Ripley Finale Recap: The Last Duel

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  • Sabrina the Teenage Witchs Melissa Joan Hart Didnt Like Salem the Cat

    May 2024

    Melissa Joan Hart and Caroline Rhea. Photo by Dean Neville/BFA. In a scandal guaranteed to shake the fictional witching world to its core, turns out that Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Salem the cat weren’t actually BFFs in real life.

  • Sacha Baron Cohen Wasnt Allowed to Do Ali G at the Oscars, So Isla Fisher Helped Him Slip Into th

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    That explains it. Sacha Baron Cohen probably isn’t allowed to do a lot of things, but when has that ever stopped any of his alter egos?

  • Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who Reinventor Steven Moffat on the Doctors Sex Life

    May 2024

    When the British sci-fi series Doctor Who was revamped in 2005, Steven Moffat quickly emerged as the long-running show’s finest writer, surprising British TV fans who knew him primarily as the creator of the naughty BBC sitcom Coupling.

  • Slayer Talks Killing, Godlessness, Retirement

    May 2024

    If Black Sabbath is the bride of Satan, Slayer is his trusty whore — they do it faster and more consistently.

  • SNL Angers Transgender Advocates

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    Sometimes Saturday Night Live is epically unfunny, but is it ever trans-phobic? This past weekend’s episode, with guest host Jesse Eisenberg, featured a spoof commercial for a product called Estro-Maxx, an estrogen drug for male-to-female transgender people.

  • SNL Recap: Chance the Rapper Woos Obama Back to the White House

    May 2024

    Saturday Night Live Chance the Rapper Season 43 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Chance the Rapper Season 43 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Until now, Chance the Rapper has been known to SNL audiences for his two appearances as a musical guest, and for appearing with Kanye West to perform Ye’s “Ultralight Beam.

  • Snoop Dogg Is the Manager of Menswear Heaven in Bad Bunnys Hoy Cobr Video

    May 2024

    Bad Bunny’s incredible 2020 journey has taken him many places, often on the back of a truck, and in his new video for Hoy Cobré, he finally arrives at his destination: a mystical menswear shop in the middle of the desert.

  • Summer House Recap: Skating on Thin Ice

    May 2024

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  • Talking About Guys We Fucked with Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher

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    Comedy duo Krystyna Hutchinson & Corinne Fisher have supported each other through both the ups and down of standup comedy – and one very bad breakup that inspired their hit podcast, Guys We Fucked.

  • Taylor Momsen Got Naked, Did Spoken Word

    May 2024

    Nude, she reads a verse from her Pretty Reckless song “Under the Water.” Now, can someone get the lady a sandwich?

  • Taylor Swift Has Sorted Her Music Into 3 Pen-Inspired Vibes

    May 2024

    What, you thought you were the only one who made Taylor Swift playlists? On Friday, one week before the release of her upcoming album Midnights, Miss Blondie continued her 12:00 a.

  • Taylor Swift Wont Let 1989 Go Out of Style

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    And when she goes crashing down (onto streaming services), the Swifties come back every time. On Friday, noted NYC diner Taylor Swift released her 1989 (Taylor’s Version), a re-recording of her 2014 album that features five new From the Vault Tracks.

  • The Carmichael Shows David Alan Grier on How Fast the World Is Changing and Playing the Cowardly

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    People keep asking comedian David Alan Grier for tickets to The Wiz, NBC’s third live musical, airing this December. “The ticket is the flat-screen in your house!

  • The Deals Behind Spielbergs Biggest Year

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    How Michael Ovitz helped get Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List made. From WHO IS MICHAEL OVITZ?, by Michael Ovitz, to be published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

  • The Evolutions of Emma Stone

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    The star of Poor Things is a master at playing characters who are only halfway out of the cocoon. Photo-Illustration: Lola Dupre/LOLA_DUPRE The quintessential Emma Stone acting choice comes near the end of Battle of the Sexes, a solid but unremarkable 2017 tennis bio-drama in which she plays Billie Jean King to Steve Carell’s Bobby Riggs.

  • The Golden Bachelor Cast Is Repping Big Pickleball

    May 2024

    Tag yourself. I’m all of them. Back in July, the world gave a big, collective Awwwww to ABC’s first-ever “Golden Bachelor,” Gerry Turner.

  • The Handmaids Tale Recap: Trapped in a Box

    May 2024

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  • The Little Things Trailer: To Catch a Jared Leto

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    Ah, yes, let’s see what these tortured men in uniform are up to. In the first trailer for psychological drama The Little Things, Denzel Washington portrays a troubled deputy with “the best clearance rate in the department but 15 years without a promotion” who comes to Los Angeles for what he believes will be a quick fact-finding mission to assist a pending case.

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    last night on late night Nov. 1, 2011 Last Night on Late Night: Justin Bieber Got a Speeding TicketPlus: Heidi Klum’s got moves, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.

  • The Real Housewives of Dubai Recap: Girlboss, Gaslight, Gatekeep

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Dubai A New Home and Game of Telephone Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Dubai A New Home and Game of Telephone Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There are many befuddling things about life in the Dubai Housewives universe — the fact that the live-in staff exists in the background of scenes like ambient furniture, the emphasis on procreation, the incoherence in dress codes for group events — but where the franchise truly shines is in portraying bizarre versions of what should be very normal events.

  • The Real Housewives of Miami Recap: All the Rage

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Miami Rage, Release, Repeat Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Miami Rage, Release, Repeat Season 5 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I have a 6-year-old niece who recently “rolled her ankle” getting out of her mother’s minivan.

  • The Red Line Tackles Institutional Racism With a Human Touch

    May 2024

    CBS’ description of The Red Line, an eight-part mini-series about the aftermath of a police shooting in Chicago, makes it sound like an urban layer-cake drama about systemic racism and institutional failure, in the vein of The Wire (or, more accessibly, CBS’ The Good Wife).

  • The Sol Puzzle

    May 2024

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    May 2024

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  • This Company Created the Blackest Black Ever Known and Only One Artist Can Use It

    May 2024

    Vantablack applied to a piece of crumpled tinfoil, rendering the creases invisible. Exclusives have always been part of the art hustle.

  • This Is the Best Meditation Music

    May 2024

    From the outside, meditation seems like the simplest of tasks: sit silently and focus on your breath as it moves in and out of your body so as to be completely in the present.

  • This Is Us Recap: To Build a Home

    May 2024

    This Is Us That’ll Be The Day Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us That’ll Be The Day Season 2 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » From its beginning, This Is Us has been a show about connections.

  • Timothe Chalamet and Timothe Chalamets Goatee Showed Up to Stan Uncut Gems Last Night

    May 2024

    Well, hello! The National Board of Review awards are known for pairing top talent with even more top talent to present their awards.

  • Twin Peaks Recap: Hes Dead

    May 2024

    Twin Peaks Part 11 Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Twin Peaks Part 11 Season 1 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As the credits rolled on this episode, I had a strange thought: I imagined what it would be like to try and explain what was happening on this show to someone who had just casually sat down to watch it, having never seen Twin Peaks before.

  • U2 Made an Album That You Wont Be Able to Get on Your Phone

    May 2024

    You too, Bono? Still trying to figure out how to get that U2 album off your iPhone? Well, that won’t be the case with their next one.

  • Unbelievable Is a Radical, Exceptional Crime Series

    May 2024

    Kaitlyn Dever in Unbelievable. Unbelievable, one of the best crime dramas in recent memory and one of the best shows of 2019, takes an approach that is rare for the genre.

  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: The Geisha Plot

    May 2024

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  • We Can Be Serial Killers Too

    May 2024

    Swarm co-creator Janine Nabers cuts through the buzz to explain the series’ elusive protagonist and bittersweet ending. Into It with Sam Sanders Get new episodes every Tuesday and Friday.

  • Were Still Pretty Bad at Making Video-Game Movies, Huh?

    May 2024

    All the best parts of The Super Mario Bros. Movie evoke gameplay. Too bad that’s just a fraction of the movie.

  • What Is Going on With Aaliyahs Music?

    May 2024

    For years, the music of Aaliyah Haughton has been kept off streaming sites for the most part. The late singer’s estate has long been battling her uncle and former manager, Barry Hankerson, over rights to her catalogue.

  • Yellowcard Sues Juice WRLD Over Lucid Dreams, Begging the Question: Who Owns the Sound of Emo?

    May 2024

    In a new lawsuit, now-defunct band Yellowcard accuses rapper Juice WRLD of ripping off their 2006 song “Holly Wood Died” for his 2018 hit “Lucid Dreams.

  • Yellowstones Kelly Reilly Says Beth Will Be at Her Most Powerful in Season Five

    May 2024

    Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on June 27.

  • You Probably Wont Marry Bill Hader or Kate McKinnon, But in Finding Dory They Will Play Fish Who

    May 2024

    Finding Dory is coming out in less than three months, which means it’s a perfect time to announce all the famous people whose voices you’ll sort of be able to recognize in the film, and then go “Oh, yeah!

  • Your Questions About Bachelor Spinoff Listen to Your Heart, Begrudgingly Answered

    May 2024

    She might need a lot of lovin,’ but she don’t need you! Congrats to the duplicitous Jed Wyatt and his dog-food jingle for single-handedly willing this show into existence.

  • Zendaya Will Play a Married Tennis Coach in Luca Guadagninos Challengers

    May 2024

    Maybe this will encourage her Dune co-star Timothée Chalamet to pursue his “sports star, swish” dreams. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Zendaya has been cast in Challengers, a romantic drama set in the world of professional tennis.

  • 7 Sinful GIFs From Lil Nas Xs Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Music Video

    May 2024

    Lil Nas X We, as a society, watched as Lil Nas X corrupted musical genres as we knew them. Now, let him corrupt your soul.

  • 9 Things 90210s Jason Priestley Remembers in His New Memoir

    May 2024

    Jason Priestley’s new memoir, Jason Priestley: A Memoir, hit bookstores last week and is as charmingly oblivious as the title suggests.

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    May 2024

    best of 2024 July 1, 2024 The Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far)An ode to animals, new tricks from podcast veterans, and a brand-new season of Serial.

  • A24 Is Selling Raccacoonie to the Highest Bidder

    May 2024

    Ya wanna buy a raccoon? A24 is doing what it can to not get on the movie-studio edition of Hoarders, and today that means selling some of the props associated with everybody’s favorite weird little film turned Oscar darling, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

  • A24 Will Teach You How to Cook and Eat Unspeakable Things

    May 2024

    Weirdly, there are no recipes from The Whale in A24’s new cookbook. Which is a shame, because Charlie’s mayo pizza and hot-chip-and-jelly sandwich would be right at home in the pages of Scrounging, a collection of 54 “last-ditch recipes from the movies.

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    May 2024

    movie review Nov. 24, 2020 Hillbilly Elegy Is Not the Fun Kind of BadThe Amy Adams and Glenn Close–led adaptation of J.

  • An Art-World Scandal (and 6 More Podcasts Worth Checking Out)

    May 2024

    Nicholas Quah. Podcast Critic, Vulture. Writes the 1.5x Speed newsletter. Creator, Hot Pod. Contributor, Fresh Air. Member, Peabody Awards Board of Jurors.

  • Angie Harmon on Rizzoli & Isles

    May 2024

    Angie Harmon specializes in playing tough (yet vulnerable!) detectives; she’s known for her stints on Law & Order (both regular and SVU) and Women’s Murder Club.

  • Arcade Fires WE Is a Smart Reset

    May 2024

    For years, Arcade Fire has tussled with what it means to be a big deal. Since cementing their reputation as one of the finest rock groups of the aughts, the Montreal collective has run far and fast from the sound of their classics — that bleeding-heart big-band racket that makes every live performance of Funeral’s “Wake Up” or The Suburbs’ “Ready to Start” crackle with the fervor and electricity of a tent revival and made Neon Bible’s bubbly “No Cars Go” feel like the emotional climax of a Pixar film.

  • Bachelor in Paradise Recap: Bonfire of the Vanities

    May 2024

    Bachelor In Paradise Week 2 Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bachelor In Paradise Week 2 Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » They’re here!

  • Beyonc Is the Girl to Make Ronald Isley & the Isley Brothers Say It Again

    May 2024

    On Renaissance, Beyoncé reached back to the birth of disco in the 1970s to craft a well-studied homage to dance music.

  • Brad Garrett Says Mistreatment by Ellen DeGeneres Is Common Knowledge

    May 2024

    Brad Garrett Things are looking worse and worse for Ellen DeGeneres. The talk-show host recently responded to allegations of racism and mistreatment by current and former employees of her daytime talk show by issuing an apology to her staff who had been “treated unfairly, not equal — or worse — disregarded.

  • Brian May Hurls a Fruitcake At Anti-Vaxxer Eric Clapton

    May 2024

    Two months ago, Eric Clapton lamented how his friends were ghosting him because of his anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown rhetoric.

  • Can Jesus Save Steve Carell?

    May 2024

    Steve Carell needs a miracle.Photo: Courtesy of Universal. Judging by the bad buzz and dire tracking numbers on Evan Almighty, Steve Carrel’s overnight star-power will be tested when his $200-million-plus family comedy opens this Friday.

  • Citadel Series-Premiere Recap: International Men and Women of Mystery

    May 2024

    Citadel The Human Enigma/Spies Appear In Night Time Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Citadel The Human Enigma/Spies Appear In Night Time Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Welcome to Citadel, a show that makes no bones about its spy-thriller lineage or its intent to launch a new lore-rich televisual universe.

  • Clarence Gilyard, Walker, Texas Ranger and Die Hard Star, Dead at 66

    May 2024

    Clarence Gilyard. Clarence Gilyard, an actor known for starring in TV shows like Walker, Texas Ranger and Matlock and the movies Top Gun and Die Hard, is dead at age 66.

  • Cobra Kai Season 5 Trailer: The Valley Is Still at War

    May 2024

    When you get bored of rewatching My Cousin Vinny, a new Ralph Macchio project is on the way.

  • Cybill Shepherd Says Her CBS Show Was Canceled After Rebuffing a Les Moonves Advance

    May 2024

    Cybill Shepherd. Les Moonves is out as CEO of CBS, and it’s unknown whether or not he will receive the massive compensation package he was once entitled to upon leaving the company.

  • David Byrnes American Utopia Is on the Road to HBO

    May 2024

    Incredible news for all of the Broadway stragglers out there: No need to worry about if the coronavirus will affect David Byrne’s American Utopia, because it has been filmed and will live on for eternity.

  • Diablo Cody Knows Why Her Barbie Movie Didnt Work

    May 2024

    It’s no secret that the road to Barbie land has been a long one. After many different Barbies and Barbie-makers (otherwise known as writers), we are almost at the finish line to watch Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.

  • Dmitri The Lover - Vulture

    May 2024

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  • Does Christopher Walken Know Hes in a Dune Movie?

    May 2024

    “I’m Walken here!” If you’re going to act in a Denis Villeneuve Dune movie, there are generally two ways to go about it.

  • Dr. Seusss Ads Were the Best Ads Ever

    May 2024

    Before writing the best children’s books, Mr. Theodor Seuss Geisel was an ad man for 17 years. It all started when an ad executive’s wife noticed his cartoons in Judge magazine.

  • Edelstein on Lawless: A Standard Revenge Film Played at Half-Speed

    May 2024

    Although it’s shot in lovely, dusty shades of brown with splashes of Coca-Cola red, John Hillcoat’s Lawless is dead weight: listlessly classical and then bludgeoning.

  • Edgar Barreras Genre-Bending Vision for Regional Mexican Music

    May 2024

    Clockwise, from top left: Shakira and Fuerza Regida, Peso Pluma, Grupo Frontera and Bad Bunny, and Karol G.

  • Every Jodie Foster Movie Performance, Ranked

    May 2024

    It’s remarkable how long Jodie Foster has been part of our lives and, yet, not part of them. In an interview with the New York Times a few years back, she was predictably cautious about revealing too much of herself, but she did hit on the fundamental paradox of her occupation.

  • Every Language Everywhere All at Once

    May 2024

    Audiences love foreign TV and film. So do streamers. There’s just one little challenge. Watch Your Language The process — and perils — of translating foreign content for global audiences.

  • Everything SZA References on SOS (Including Herself)

    May 2024

    She’s gone, girl. If you peel back all the layers of SZA, you’ll find a lyricist at the core.

  • Feuds Russell Tovey on What It Takes to Play a Baddie

    May 2024

    How sustainable can transactional relationships ever truly be? That’s the question at the heart of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.

  • Friends of the People: A New Sketch Show Finds Its Voice

    May 2024

    Since truTV greenlighted Friends of the People, their new sketch comedy show set to anchor the network’s crossover into original comedic programming, the storyline that’s occasionally popped up is that the series’ inception came to fruition after the In Living Color reboot ultimately did not reboot.

  • Getting Deep With Jenny Slate at Sundance

    May 2024

    Sundance 2019 Brought to you by Sundance 2019 Brought to you by Jenny Slate. Approximately four minutes after I walk into Jenny Slate’s Park City hotel suite, we are both weeping.

  • Give Keira Knightley an Oscar Nomination for Her Deranged Sugar Plum Fairy

    May 2024

    Every once in a while, you get to watch a film performance so strange and fascinating that you wish the movie that contained it would never end, even if the movie in question is hot nonsense.

  • Heres What You Missed Last Time on Dune

    May 2024

    Ahead of Dune: Part Two’s release, let’s jog your memory on the big plot points of the first movie.

  • Holy [Blank]: The Long-Lost Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Returns to TV After 35-Year Absence

    May 2024

    Throughout much of the 1970s, Match Game and The Hollywood Squares were among the most successful game shows on TV (as well as a steady source of employment for a slew of C-list celebrities).

  • How J.K. Rowling Accidentally Made Room For a Black Hermione

    May 2024

    A Tale of Two Hermiones. J.K. Rowling is more devoted to her fans than most authors: She can regularly be found on Twitter answering questions and weighing in on all things Potter.

  • How to Survive Mission: Impossible 7 in a Movie Theater

    May 2024

    Five screens and 14 wonderful hours later, I’ll tell you the best way to see Dead Reckoning. Mostly wonderful. Photo: Paramount Pictures.

  • HowJulias Sarah Lancashire Found the Essence of Julia Child

    May 2024

    Before the release of the Meryl Streep–starring film Julie & Julia in 2009, Sarah Lancashire had never heard of Julia Child.

  • Iggy Azalea Addresses Letter of Support for Tory Lanez

    May 2024

    As a judge prepares to sentence Tory Lanez for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, a number of people who know Lanez have testified on his behalf, include 76 letters of support.

  • In a Post-Girls World, What Do We Want From Stories of Youth Culture Like White Girl and American Ho

    May 2024

    Regardless of your opinions about the television show Girls — and God knows you, an internet-reading person, certainly have some — there’s one thing we can all agree on: Lena Dunham’s HBO half-hour, airing its sixth and final season next year, has changed the cultural benchmark for what registers as “shocking” with regard to depictions of young, professional, middle-to-upper class women (and men).

  • In Conversation: Joel Schumacher

    May 2024

    After five decades in Hollywood, the director has plenty of stories — but don’t expect him to kiss and tell.

  • Inside Raised by TV with Lauren Lapkus and Jon Gabrus

    May 2024

    If you’re a Splitsider reader, I probably don’t have to sell you on the idea of Lauren Lapkus and Jon Gabrus starting their own podcast.

  • Jace Connors - Vulture

    May 2024

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    quote machine July 30, 2009 Leslie Mann Sets the Record StraightPlus: Sienna Miller calls ‘G.I Joe: Rise of the Cobra’ “a film.

  • Jay-Z Is Lost in the Shuffle on I Want You Forever

    May 2024

    The Book of Oh? Jay-Z really meant it when he said he was a “business, man,” huh? After releasing nine albums in the aughts, he put out only four in the 2010s, and none so far this decade.

  • Jessica Williams Is More Than Incredible

    May 2024

    When Jessica Williams slides into the seat across from me at the Vulture offices, the first thing she says is that she’s happy she’s being interviewed by a black woman.

  • Jordan Temple Has Already Won

    May 2024

    This week, we’re highlighting 25 talented writers and performers for Vulture’s annual list “The Comedians You Should and Will Know.

  • Judy Chicago Didnt Stop at The Dinner Party

    May 2024

    “The City of Ladies,” Judy Chicago’s exhibition-within-an-exhibition at the New Museum. She was a leader in feminist art circles, but she’d never mounted anything quite like this before.

  • Kayode Ojos Show Has a Male Chastity System and Balenciaga Jeans

    May 2024

    Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen.

  • Kill Bill Isnt the Simple Revenge Story You Remember

    May 2024

    The Bride’s quest for vengeance is morally gray. But that gray is overshadowed by the bright yellow of her jumpsuit and kick-ass katana fights.

  • Lana Del Reys Favorite Sodas, Ranked

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    From walking out with an orange pop in the “Ride” music video to enjoying and gifting soda in paparazzi pictures, sodas are Lana Del Rey’s greatest sober muse.

  • Last Night on Late Night: Isabella Rossellinis Bizzare Sex Scene with a Bed Bugs Knife Penis

    May 2024

    Last night, The Daily Show devoted an entire segment to the very unfunny bed bug problem that’s sweeping New York.

  • Legends of Tomorrow Recap: Take His Heart

    May 2024

    Legends of Tomorrow Blood Ties Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Legends of Tomorrow Blood Ties Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Arthur Darvill as Rip, Wentworth Miller as Leonard, Dominic Purcell as Mick.

  • Lena Dunham Performed Chandelier With Sia

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    Tonight on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Lena Dunham joined pop songwriter extraordinaire Sia for a performance of “Chandelier.” While the singer lay face down in a bunk bed, a blonde wigged Dunham acted as her lip-syncing proxy, spinning around in circles like a maniac, smashing stuff, and playing with toilet paper before eventually crawling into bed for a spooning session.

  • Lessons in Chemistry TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Lets Talk About the Antebellum Twist

    May 2024

    This movie cares little for its characters, who are brutalized in the filmmakers’ pursuit of one thing: tricking the audience.

  • Lindsay Lohan Has Finally Covered Jingle Bell Rock Again

    May 2024

    Oh come on, it’s Lindsay Lohan in a Christmas movie. Of course she’s gonna sing “Jingle Bell Rock.

  • Losts Daniel Dae Kim on the Cave Names and Which Jin He Likes Better

    May 2024

    In last week’s episode of this final season of Lost, we visited a mysterious cave whose ceiling bore a numbered list of possible candidates to replace Jacob as the Island’s protector.

  • Mel Gibson Crashes Car

    May 2024

    Arson-threatening blow-job-demander Mel Gibson lost control of his 2008 Maserati in Malibu last night and crashed into a rocky hillside, totaling the car.

  • Midnight Mass - Vulture

    May 2024

    in development Sept. 20, 2012 NBC Options Supernatural Comic Midnight, Mass.About a husband-and-wife team of ghoul-slayers. By Zach Dionne

  • Modern Family Recap: Drunken Clowns

    May 2024

    Modern Family Send Out the Clowns Season 3 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Modern Family Send Out the Clowns Season 3 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When Phil Dunphy asks the always-crafty Luke what his trick is to summon fake tears, Luke solemnly replies, “The Three Stooges are all dead.

  • Musics Most Heartwarming Marriage Is Over

    May 2024

    A guitarist and a fiddler. In the end, they weren’t vampires. Americana singer-songwriters Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires are divorcing, People reported, an end to one of the most heartwarming marriages in music.

  • Norm MacDonalds Audience Problem

    May 2024

    When Norm MacDonald was hosting SNL’s Weekend Update, his relationship with the studio audience was a serious chunk of his charm.

  • Now Why Would John Mellencamp Punch This Handsome Man?

    May 2024

    Drama. John Mellencamp enjoys a good dustup, so much so that the man formerly known as Cougar once did an entire press circuit proudly sporting a black eye on late-night television.

  • Onstage, Its Almost Almost Famous

    May 2024

    Band-Aid and friend. The show starts by acknowledging “it’s over,” as Lester Bangs (played by Rob Colletti) shouts across the stage.

  • Patrick Stewart on Revisiting Two Lifelong Roles, in A Christmas Carol and Star Trek: Picard

    May 2024

    Patrick Stewart. In 1988, as he was playing Jean-Luc Picard in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sir Patrick Stewart started working on a one-man stage version of A Christmas Carol in order to keep in touch with the theater.

  • Pharrell Likes to Start All His Songs the Same Way

    May 2024

    Musician Pharrell Williams accepts the iHeartRadio Innovator Award onstage during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on May 1, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.

  • Play Heart and Neil Young Extra Loud Today

    May 2024

    Initiate the prayer circle. It’s been a grim week for our rock heroes on the road: Heart and Neil Young have both canceled their 2024 tours due to illnesses.

  • Presumed Innocent Recap: Reasonable Doubt

    May 2024

    Presumed Innocent People vs. Rozat Sabich Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Presumed Innocent People vs.

  • Read Amy Schumers Powerful Speech About Confidence

    May 2024

    Gabourey Sidibe wasn’t the only person giving an intense, inspirational speech last night at the Gloria Awards and Gala, hosted by the Ms.

  • Revisiting Eminems White America, 15 Years Later

    May 2024

    Eminem performs at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, August 29, 2002.

  • Revisiting Picket Fences, David E. Kelleys Forgotten Comedy

    May 2024

    The pilot of Picket Fences, created of David E. Kelley, opens on a small town community production of The Wizard of Oz.

  • Rob Lowe Grindr Profiles Through the Years

    May 2024

    The ageless Rob Lowe returns to television Tuesday night for the series premiere of Fox’s energetic and winking new show The Grinder, where he plays an actor who wants to become a lawyer because he’s played one on TV.

  • Roy Wood Jr. Doesnt Know Either

    May 2024

    The Daily Show veteran’s career has brought him to this moment. If only there were the perfect job opening. Roy Wood Jr.

  • Saturday Night Live Does Love Actually in This Cut Sketch

    May 2024

    This “cut for time” sketch from this weekend’s Saturday Night Live is a pretty cute parody of the Christmas classic Love Actually. Fun fact: The guy who originally held the “To me, you are perfect” cards is Rick from The Walking Dead.

  • Saved by the Bell Star Dustin Diamond Dead at 44

    May 2024

    Dustin Diamond, best known for playing the endearingly geeky high-school student Samuel “Screech” Powers in the original Saved by the Bell television series, has died at the age of 44.

  • Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Recap: Back 2 the Future

    May 2024

    Scott Pilgrim Takes Off 2 Scott 2 Pilgrim Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Scott Pilgrim Takes Off 2 Scott 2 Pilgrim Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Are Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers actually a good couple, or do they end up together because he beat up a bunch of people to win her heart?

  • See a Collection of Dancing Liberty Tax Mascot Videos

    May 2024

    Even though your taxes are not technically due until Monday (hooray!), today is the traditionally recognized Day of IRS Panic, so let’s celebrate with these videos of people in Liberty Tax costumes dancing on the side of the road.

  • South Park Is Back to Being Progressive Again This Time With Whole Foods and Gentrification

    May 2024

    Welp, that was fast. Mr. Garrison’s savage presidential antics from last week have the residents of South Park trying to create a progressive town (again).

  • South Park Returns to Comedy Central This Week With a School-Shooting Episode

    May 2024

    If you’ve been wondering why Comedy Central landed on the “#CancelSouthPark” approach to promoting the 22nd season of South Park, perhaps this new teaser will illuminate things a little bit.

  • Steely Dan - Vulture

    May 2024

    respect the classics Oct. 11, 2023 Prayer Circle for Steely DanDonald Fagen is recovering after a hospitalization forced him off the road.

  • Stranger Things - TV Episode Recaps & News

    May 2024

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  • Ted Lassos Phil Dunster on Remaking Jamie Tartt

    May 2024

    As Ted Lasso’s resident bad boy, Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) has, perhaps, the most to gain from Ted’s particular brand of coaching.

  • The 7 True Blood-iest Sex Scenes in True Blood History

    May 2024

    Jason Stackhouse and Sarah Newlin in the church. Lafayette and James in the parking lot. Jason and Jessica in the back of a pick-up truck.

  • The Age-Gap Puzzle

    May 2024

    New 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 Game of Thrones Recaps: The Watchers on the Wall

    May 2024

    The ninth episode of a Game of Thrones season is always a biggie, and this was no exception. As Vulture recapper Nina Shen Rastogi writes, “Like ‘Blackwater,’ the second-to-last episode of season two, “The Watchers on the Wall” features two clashing armies, one defending a structure and the other battering it with all its might.

  • The Comedy Curators Christmas Cuts

    May 2024

    While I am not usually a fan of these kinds of lists, I do miss my annual tradition of sending holiday mix tapes, and later mix CDs, to friends and family.

  • The Dark, Angry Father of Alvin and the Chipmunks

    May 2024

    David Seville never really existed at all, and yet there have been at least three of him in the last 60 years.

  • The Emmys in the Age of Gourmet Cheeseburgers

    May 2024

    The Bear and Baby Reindeer. After being subjected to weeks of omnipresent “for your consideration” ads and countless invites to screening events and cocktail mixers, members of the TV Academy have finally arrived at the time for choosing: Voting opens today on nominations for the 76th annual Emmy Awards.

  • The Fosters Recap: The Truth About Gabe

    May 2024

    The Fosters Minor Offenses Season 3 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Fosters Minor Offenses Season 3 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Maia Mitchell as Callie, Rosie O’Donnell as Rita.

  • The Greatest and Yacht-iest of the Doobie Brothers, According to Michael McDonald

    May 2024

    Superlatives 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 Home Stereo System From Sharp Objects Can Be Yours for More Than $112,000

    May 2024

    Put on some creepy tunes. Aside from great actresses, overwhelming humidity, and pervasive dread, one of the most noteworthy aspects of Sharp Objects is its music.

  • The Idea of You Is a Brutal Watch, Actually

    May 2024

    Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine live life on the edge (of tears). Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine make a perfect pair in The Idea of You: They are attractive, likable actors; the former is a beloved titan of the industry and the latter is an undeniable up-and-comer; they share a musical-theater-quality earnestness that allows their screen presence to feel true and big all at once; and, most importantly, these are two of the most watery-eyed performers working today and they spend at least half this movie on the verge of crying.

  • The Legend of Vox Machina Recap: Actually, Split the Party

    May 2024

    The Legend of Vox Machina Week 3 (The Fey Realm / Echo Tree / A Test of Pride) Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Legend of Vox Machina Week 3 (The Fey Realm / Echo Tree / A Test of Pride) Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Don’t split the party” is one of the biggest unwritten rules of Dungeons & Dragons.

  • The New York Film Festival 2023 Lineup Trickles In

    May 2024

    May December. Slowly but surely, we’re getting word of the New York Film Festival’s 2023 lineup. This year’s Currents lineup includes a broad smattering from the contemporary cinema landscape, including new works from documentary auteur Wang Bing, the late Jean-Luc Godard, and Joanna Arnow’s provocative Cannes feature debut, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.

  • The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Failure to Relaunch

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Behind Frenemy Lines Season 14 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Real Housewives of New Jersey Behind Frenemy Lines Season 14 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » There are so many stories, so many events, so many people that I just don’t care about on this here season of The Real Cash Payers of the Home Goods Parking Lot.

  • The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Crabs in a Barrel

    May 2024

    The Real Housewives of Potomac Boiling Point Season 8 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Real Housewives of Potomac Boiling Point Season 8 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Of all the weeks for the women to step up to the plate and deliver, it’s a shame Potomac had to compete with the Academy Awards because, 16 weeks in, we are finally getting episodes with some meat on them.

  • The Serpent Queen Recap: Everyones Related

    May 2024

    The Serpent Queen An Attack on the King Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Serpent Queen An Attack on the King Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I was not expecting this show to be as weird as it is, and I’m just a big fan of every bananas decision it makes.

  • The Sex Lives of College Girls Recap: Secret Seat

    May 2024

    The Sex Lives of College Girls Will You Be My Girlfriend Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Sex Lives of College Girls Will You Be My Girlfriend Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Of course, the holiday episode of The Sex Lives of College Girls ends with a “Kissmas” party at which every student gleefully yells that they’d been naughty, not nice, to a shirtless Santa.

  • The Uncomfortable Dissonance of Swarms Faux Documentary

    May 2024

    Loretta Greene (Heather Simms) is a fantastic character — there’s enough there for an entirely new show — but “Fallin’ Through the Cracks” is heavy on gap-filling exposition.

  • Theater Review: Moscow Moscow Is All Like, LOL, Whatevs, Chekhov

    May 2024

    OMG, Anton! Exactly how you feel about Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow will probably depend on a couple of things: 1) Your familiarity with and/or affection for a dead Russian playwright called Anton Chekhov.

  • TMZ Says Lohans Playboy Issue Selling Like Hotcakes, Fox News Disagrees

    May 2024

    Gossip website TMZ.com says Playboy has been rushing to fill re-orders of the much ballyhooed Lindsay Lohan cover issue, including to “cities that usually never order more issues”.

  • Tobin Bell Will Kill Another Day As John Kramer in Saw

    May 2024

    Saw: Return of Saw. If you thought you saw the last of Tobin Bell in Saw, you were wrong.

  • Twitter Swarmed

    May 2024

    Swarm, the Amazon Prime Video series created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, is doing exactly what it intended to do: take over the internet.

  • Veep, Silicon Valley, and The People v. O.J. Simpson Lead the Directors Guild of America TV Nominati

    May 2024

    The nominations are in for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in TV, Commercials, and Documentary Films for the 69th annual Directors Guild of America Awards.

  • Vulture Breaks Down Justin Vernons Cryptic Lyrics on Bon Iver, Bon Iver

    May 2024

    Here’s Justin Vernon, explaining the mysterious lyrics on his critically adored, absolutely terrific new album Bon Iver, Bon Iver: “Every song sort of drifted towards that theme, [of] tying themselves to places and trying to explain what places are and what places aren’t.

  • What Amazons Lord of the Rings Maps Reveal About Its Middle-earth Prequel Series

    May 2024

    Sorry, Aragorn. You’re probably not getting an Amazon show. “I wisely started with a map,” J.R.R. Tolkien once said of his fictional world, and now so has Amazon Prime Video, which paid a reported $250 million for the rights to produce a Lord of the Rings TV series.

  • What Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Needed Was a Kiss

    May 2024

    Spoilers follow for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever shows its seams. It’s partially a movie about mourning Chadwick Boseman, whose August 2020 death from colon cancer came as a shock to his collaborators and castmates.

  • What Is Every Song on Taylor Swifts Lover Actually About?

    May 2024

    It is time. Ladies, gentlemen, and nonbinary people that Taylor Swift is now publicly an ally to: It is time.

  • What Is It About Haruki Murakami That Mesmerizes People?

    May 2024

    Haruki Murakami. When it comes to Haruki Murakami, there’s a peculiar symmetry to the views of his admirers and his skeptics.

  • Whats Toms Deal in This Weeks Succession?

    May 2024

    In “Wambsgans Watch,” we weigh in on the state of Tom Wambsgans’s relationships in each of the remaining episodes of Succession.

  • Which NXIVM Docuseries Is Right for You?

    May 2024

    So you’ve decided you want to learn more about NXIVM… Keith Raniere, the founder of misogynistic pyramid scheme/nightmarish sex cult/baffling late-night volleyball club NXIVM, was sentenced this week to a whopping 120 years in prison.

  • Whos Who inOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Character Guide

    May 2024

    Your handy Hollywood Hills map to the real-life stars in Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film. Warning: spoilers ahead.

  • Whos Winning the 2024 Rap-Beef Showdown?

    May 2024

    Katt Williams warned us: 2024 is a year of exposing scallywags and succubi for their skeevy ways. In hip-hop, that energy has so far manifested in multiple chains of interlocking beefs — some hinging on the serious allegations against P.

  • Willy Wonka Director Mel Stuart Dead at 83

    May 2024

    Filmmaker Mel Stuart, best known for directing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, died last night in Beverly Hills, his daughter announced today.

  • You Can Spend an Evening With Olivia Rodrigo on YouTube

    May 2024

    Were you one of the many people who received the gut-wrenching wait-list email from Ticketmaster for Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming world tour?

  • Your New Tonight Show Host: Jack Paar!

    May 2024

    The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history.