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James Gunn has laid relatively low since Disney—motivated by the baying, bad-faith hounds of the internet far right wing—booted him from his beloved Guardians Of The Galaxy franchise. But while his only real high-profile gig since has been a new Suicide Squad movie he’s writing at Warner Bros., Gunn has quietly …

One of the great things—out of many—about the career/personality/decades-long public outsider art piece of Nicolas Cage is that he clearly has a certain self-awareness about who he is. Or to put it another way: Cage’s magnificent weirdness is clearly thoughtful and intentional; he frequently gives off the vibe of a…

Guided By Voices—and, by extension, Robert Pollard, the band’s foci, engine, and central songwriter—is one of the most prolific outfits in modern music, having blown past the “100th LP” mark some time last year. They don’t seem to be showing any signs of slowing down, either; per Consequence Of Sound, GBV announced a…

Mimicking the natural life path of those high school freshman you always see camped out in the manga section of the bookstore, ducking exhausted Borders employees so that they can get their fill of Fruits Basket or Card Captor Sakura, Netflix has apparently decided that it’s just super into anime right now. Fresh off…

Midge and Susie have always been an unlikely duo and “Someday…” looks at their relationship with tenderness and humor, while also continuing the trend of refusing to probe more deeply into their friendship. At this point, I’m honestly puzzled as to why this is the case, especially when the scenarios in which we are…

“Look, She Made a Hat” commemorates Midge’s one-year anniversary of taking the stage the night her husband left her for his secretary. Though this episode has the most forward-moving action of the entire season so far, it’s also an episode that stubbornly refuses reflection, an odd choice considering that Midge’s…

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Psst—even if you don’t listen to electronic music, every record you’ve ever heard is electronic music. The truth of this sophism is deepening as electronic instruments and idioms overtake every genre. Euro-pop arpeggios twist through country radio. Modular drones whir through folk. Synth rock, once a subgenre, now…

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Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Whether humorist Kathy Griffin is your cup of comedic tea or not, the vindictive overreaction of the U.S. government to that perhaps ill-advised picture she posted in May 2017 is pretty chilling to anyone invested in the concept of free speech. The longtime standup and reality show staple told The Late Show’s Stephen…

There’s a moment in the first 10 minutes of RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular thats reveal exactly what kind of spectacular we’re in for. There are hints before then—“candid” moments that are clearly scripted, a striking lack of nervousness and bravado on the workroom entrances, an energy more obviously…

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has never been shy about acknowledging the fact that it’s a TV show. In fact, peeling back the curtain to acknowledge the artifice has been one of the most reliably entertaining tools in a crowded toolbox. It’s yielded a seemingly endless supply of recurring bits, self-aware title sequences and…

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The rise (and possible success) of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, is going to rely a lot on whether the entertainment deity can get people accustomed to adding yet another video site/app to their regular rotation of watchable stuff. In other words: Whether they can build up some kind of habit, and, hey,…

It’s that time of year again, folks: The annual rise of Mariah Carey’s yuletide dominion, as “All I Want For Christmas Is You” begins its inevitable death march onto the year-end musical charts. This year, Carey had an extra-special victim falling prey to her jingly, jangly sonic steamroller, though: Mariah Carey.

Of all the musician feuds we’ve been subjected to as of late, there are few as decadent as the one between Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Earlier this year, guitarist/founding member Buckingham was unceremoniously booted from the band after a spat regarding the current tour. Now, after filing a…

Capitalizing on the welcome buzz around its upcoming slate of less-oppressively-dour superhero movies—projects like Aquaman and Shazam!, which both dare to acknowledge the existence of this thing you hoo-mans call humor—Warner Bros. has announced that it’s putting a movie about one of DC’s jokier heroes into…

After floating around in a Men In Black-adjacent limbo for the last few years, it sounds like Sony’s pleasantly profane 21 Jump Street franchise might finally be getting back on track: Collider reports that Tiffany Haddish and Awkwafina—who, between Girls Trip and Crazy Rich Asians, had some of the most successful…

Natalie Portman and Raffey Cassidy’s new film, Vox Lux, follows the rise of aspiring entertainer Celeste, from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. With the film in theaters today, we sat down with Portman and Cassidy about the film, and the demands of their performances.