100 days of avatar
June 13, 2023
All of the Avatar Sequel Announcements: A Timeline Delays mean Avatar 5 is now scheduled for 2031, a fake-sounding year.
scene report
May 13, 2023
The Renaissance Started in Sweden The first shows of her tour make it clear: We are living in the Beyoncéverse. Of course, the Hive already knew that.
fall preview
Aug. 31, 2022
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Gets a Life (on Broadway) The actor didn’t know what to do next. Then Topdog/Underdog came along.
Maria Bakalova Never Dreamed of Doing Comedy But upstaging Borat has a way of changing your life.
hunter’s line reading
May 27, 2022
This One Ray Liotta Line Plays on a Loop in My Head The late actor’s performances operate on the edge of ravenous and resigned, but he’s almost pious in his line reading as a shark of a divorce lawyer.
vulture lists
May 12, 2022
23 Unsettlingly Nice Tom Cruise Stories Did you know he sends Dakota Fanning a birthday present every year?
trailer mix
Mar. 29, 2022
spring fashion
Feb. 14, 2022
Julia Fox Is Her Own Muse, Thank You Very Much Black leather ensembles, dinners with Ye, and a lot of waiting around: the fast-forward month in the life of the LES “It” Girl turned TMZ A-lister.
backstories
Dec. 13, 2021
The Succession Cast Processes the Astonishing Season-Three Finale “If Shiv knows, and Tom doesn’t know that Shiv knows — there’s a lot of potential there,” says Sarah Snook, on location in Montalcino.
you ever been to poughkeepsie?
Dec. 9, 2021
12 Directors on Their Favorite New York City Movies “That’s an element of New York: You can look into a window and see a totally different world, and you’re so separated from it.”
fall preview 2021
Aug. 30, 2021
The Roys Summer in Italy On location with the cast of Succession , the most interestingly terrible billionaires on TV.
Saweetie Wants You to See Her Sweat She’s not yet the rapper she aspires to be. It’s all part of her long fame game.
Behind the Scenes on the Glitzy New Gossip Girl The “continuation” is more diverse, more self-aware, and far more lavishly produced.
Who’s Blair? Who’s Nate? Is Anybody Dan? 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.
reckoning with a reckoning
May 25, 2021
White People Are Squirming Eight writers on what happens when the people around you are suddenly forced to confront race.
the art of ending things
Feb. 22, 2021
The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies History Good finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether.
Jazmine’s Tale After another long hiatus, the venerated R&B singer returns with her riskiest album yet.
the quarries
Dec. 7, 2020
The First (And Dear God, It Better Be the Last) Quarries In which we award the most original, absurd, scrappy, and ingenious works that shaped our year in quarantine.
friday night movie club
Nov. 18, 2020
Casino Is the Gaudy Pinky Ring of the Vegas Movie SubgenreI love this movie about a lot of greedy, glamorous people who are always looking for the bigger and better deal.
how everything works
Nov. 17, 2020
How Steve McQueen Pulled Off the Year’s Greatest Movie Scene Lovers Rock shows what happens when white people aren’t looking — the rapture in black joy.
Kindred ’s Tamara Lawrance on the Movie’s Suspense and Acting Opposite Fiona Shaw“I feel like there’s a lot of hope at the start of the film and then all of a sudden, it’s completely flipped.”
send in the clowns
Nov. 4, 2020
Endorsing Trump Got Lil Wayne Dumped Meanwhile, he tweeted, “I am an eternal fire and burning love, either leave with a tan, a 3rd degree burn, or stay and die in love.”
hunter’s line reading
Nov. 3, 2020
This One Line From Birth Plays on a Loop in My Head If I had it my way, we would wake up and talk about Birth and fall asleep still talking about Birth.
Jeremy Strong Brought His ‘Whole Bag of Tricks’ to Chicago 7 “With enough practice, with enough habituation, you can change, almost, the stamp of your own nature.”
music videos
Oct. 7, 2020
Kindred Trailer: In-;aws Are Always Up To Some Creepy ShitA creepy psychological thriller starring Tamara Lawrance, Fiona Shaw, and Jack Lowden.
miley cyrus
Sept. 29, 2020
Miley Cyrus Has Your ‘Heart of Glass’ Cover Ready One thing about Miley, she’s gonna deliver a good cover.
hunter’s line readings
Sept. 29, 2020
friday night movie club
Sept. 23, 2020
The Time to Watch Molly’s Game Is All the Time It’s a story of greed, excess, hubris, and bandage dresses; it’s a story about Hollywood.
hunter’s line readings
Sept. 8, 2020
This One Line from Tenet Plays on a Loop in My Head It’s a moment most pleasing to me in Christopher Nolan’s career.
Just How Tall Is Elizabeth Debicki in Tenet ? There is one specific instance of tallness, a moment where Debicki’s height is deployed so majestically, that I must pay my respects to Chris Nolan.
Erin Brockovich Answers Every Question We Have About Erin Brockovich “People were surprised by how I dressed or that I didn’t have a PhD. But all of it is who I am.”
first looks
Aug. 25, 2020
hunter’s line readings
Aug. 25, 2020
This One Line From Gone Baby Gone Plays on a Loop in My Head Hearing someone say the title of the movie during the movie — ma’am! There are no words for how much it rules.
not time travel
Aug. 21, 2020
What Is Tenet About, Anyway? A few theories about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie, which is definitely not about time travel.
the industry
Aug. 7, 2020
black is king
July 31, 2020
Black Is King Works Best When Beyoncé Can Be BeyoncéThe Disney+ visual makes it clear that Beyoncé is too big for even the biggest IP.
Flo Milli Summer The rising rapper from Mobile, Alabama, spins rhymes that sound like schoolyard taunts.
somewhere in northern italy…
July 30, 2020
hunter’s line readings
July 28, 2020
infinite avatar
July 23, 2020
Avatar Will Remain in Quarantine Until 2021“The pandemic is still preventing us from being allowed to recommence most of our virtual production.”
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