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Paul Verhoeven’s oeuvre continues to pay dividends as the filmmaker enters his 60th year in the business, with even his notorious duds refusing to fade from the public consciousness. Showgirls, for example, just got itself a stellar documentary, and then there’s Starship Troopers, which has seen its…

When I decided to step away from writing to take a brief vacation last week, my thinking was that while the news cycle hasn’t exactly been calm lately, it was unlikely that something would happen that could compel me to return to my laptop. So, of course, it was at that exact moment the universe revealed to me that…

The team behind the Oscar-winning short Hair Love continues to win big. HBO Max has just announced plans to move forward with a new animated series called Young Love, which will expand on the family that was introduced in the beloved short film. Creator Matthew Cherry, who has partnered with Sony Pictures Animation,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch moving from July to October, we’re singling out other ensemble comedies to watch instead.

Well, readers, here we are: After decades of increasingly deregulated capitalist policy, we find ourselves in an administration now straight-up telling us to suck it up, accept a deadly virus as simply a new facet of our lives, and get back to work as kindling for the economic furnaces—all while the rest of the world …

It’s been very strange watching Atom Egoyan—one of world cinema’s finest directors back in the ’80s and ’90s—stumble through the second half of his career, seemingly unable either to find a worthwhile new path or to retrace his steps. Adapting a novel by the guy who wrote “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”; remaking a…

“If you’ve seen one pandemic,” epidemiologists like to joke, “you’ve seen... one pandemic.” Influenza strains and common colds differ year to year. The H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic of 2009 does not perfectly parallel the H2N2 pandemic of a half-century earlier. HIV/AIDS does not correlate with the gonorrhea outbreaks…

Elisabeth Moss could’ve just chased an Oscar after Mad Men turned her into a household name, but instead she’s embraced genre, playing odd, challenging roles in genre films both mainstream (The Invisible Man, Us) and under-the-radar (Her Smell, Shirley), all while keeping Handmaid’s Tale afloat. That doesn’t appear to…

“Let that stage be your stepping stone, not your tombstone.” That’s the number one rule at The Pynk, the gritty yet vibrant strip club that sits at the center of Starz’s newest hour-long drama series, P-Valley. Award-winning playwright Katori Hall’s show centers the erotic dancers of Chucalissa, Mississippi,…

One of today’s must-reads is Vulture’s new interview with Thandie Newton, the veteran actress who’s currently one of the best parts of HBO’s Westworld. The English performer’s enjoyed a number of highs in her long career, but she’s also been forced to reckon with ingrained cultures of racism and sexism from an early…

Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine any TV program drawing in millions of rapt viewers across dozens of countries on a nightly basis for nearly two decades. But that’s precisely the kind of sway that astrologer Walter Mercado held over the Western Hemisphere from 1995 to 2009. At the height of his fame, Mercado’s message…

The man. The myth. The Machete. A character actor for the ages, Danny Trejo shows no signs of slowing down. Whether he’s claiming the title of “the actor with the most onscreen deaths,” or literally saving a child from a car wreck, Trejo is constantly re-certifying his status as a Hollywood icon. In the new…

Yes, some rumors are too good to be true. But sometimes those rumors are so damn good you just really, really, really need them to be true—especially in 2020, a year that basically confirms we are living in a simulation that’s been hijacked by a psychopathic teen boy who is destined to become a serial killer. (Oh,…

We’ve been looking at Lou Bega all wrong. For decades, the “Mambo No. 5" singer has lived in our cultural memory as a figure of fun—a guy who just loves to dance, name women’s names, and wear old-timey clothes. As a virtual escape room ominously named Chamber No.5 makes clear, we were wrong. Bega has, in fact, been…

Netflix’s Robert Stack-less reboot of the Robert Stack-heavy Unsolved Mysteries has barely been out for a week, and apparently it’s wasting no time in helping solve these mysteries. Per a recent USA Today piece, the show’s co-creator and executive producer, Terry Dunn Meurer, claims to have already started receiving …

Fans of Mad Max: Fury Road (so... literally everyone?) experienced a bit of whiplash when filmmaker George Miller revealed that he’s working on a spinoff about beloved badass Furiosa—but it won’t star Charlize Theron. Plans for the spinoff were revealed in an oral history of the making of Fury Road published by the …

John Mulaney and musician Eric Hutchinson are old friends. While the comedian is best known for his stand-up specials (and recent Netflix special John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch), Hutchinson has built a steady discography of soulful pop-rock, ever since his debut record Sounds Like This became the highest-charting…

We all know that the hallmark of excellence is a Guinness World Record. The greatest feats of all time have all been celebrated there, the organization recognizing accomplishments as noteworthy as “having a terrifyingly huge mouth,” “being good at sitting on a toilet,” and “headbutting a shit-ton of walnuts.” It’s…

Gather ‘round, kids: John Mulaney and his ever-precocious Sack Lunch Bunch are reconvening for a few more enlightening specials. Unlike the first mellifluous, super fun romp, the new episodes will not premiere on Netflix. Instead, the specials are heading to Comedy Central, per a report by Variety.

The last time David Schwimmer had a full-time gig in a TV comedy, George W. Bush still had a full-time gig at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Not that Schwimmer hasn’t kept busy over the course of the past 16 years: Since Friends wrapped its 10-season run in May 2004, he’s done films as a leading man (Duane Hopwood), a…

An odd moment occurs near the end of a recent New York Times interview with the acclaimed screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman. The piece’s author, Jon Mooallem, is discussing how the writer of films like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind would like to see his work reviewed.…

The coronavirus pandemic and its attendant shutdown has had a way of warping one’s sense of time—alternately making the days go by in a blink or pass grudgingly slowly. One would be forgiven for forgetting what happened last week, let alone back in February. But even during a different sort of year, it’s easy to miss…

With most of the late-night hosts taking a few weeks off, Conan O’Brien looked to steal all the ratings on Monday, not just by airing a new Conan, but by being the first host to bust out of quarantine. Broadcasting live from legendary (and pandemic-shuttered) L.A. comedy club Largo At The Coronet, Conan came onstage…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, July 7. All times are Eastern.

Halle Berry—apparently having never heard the words Scarlett and Johansson—was recently pursuing a film that would cast her as a transgender man. After getting an earful on social media, that is no longer the case. “Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to discuss my consideration of an upcoming role as a…