the housing market
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Nicolas Winding Refn Answers Some Questions, Leaves the Rest to His Shrinks The director on returning to his Pusher universe with the Netflix show Copenhagen Cowboy , and what’s to come of Maniac Cop .
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Soon You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Feature-Length Movie With AI Some argue that AI is too derivative. But in Hollywood, shallow riffing on preexisting IP is a lucrative skill.
sbf: the virtue was the con
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What Happened to FTX? It’s possible that you don’t fully understand what Sam Bankman-Fried did or what transpired at his company, FTX. This may help.
How Peter Jackson Broke Up the Beatles And used AI to make Revolver better than ever.
what is elon musk?
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What Is Elon Musk? And how is it possible that he could emerge from his Twitter debacle more culturally dominant than ever?
screen time
Oct. 11, 2022
We’ve Been Thinking About Holograms All Wrong Forget reanimating dead musicians. This technology is for living performers who can’t stand their bandmates.
screen time
July 20, 2022
TVs Are Too Good Now Why does Home Alone look better than the latest Marvel fare on the most advanced displays?
in conversation
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what’s your bag?
Dec. 9, 2021
The New York Skyline Is Our Most Memorable Character Actor If you’ve ever seen a movie that opens with a shot of the New York skyline, you probably know helicopter pilot Al Cerullo’s work.
vulture lists
Apr. 20, 2021
Jonathan Majors on Shooting Da 5 Bloods With a MAGA Hat on Set The Last Black Man in San Francisco co-star plays the son of a Trump voter in Spike Lee’s new Netflix movie.
Spike Lee’s Forever War How the Vietnam War epic Da 5 Bloods became one of the most ambitious films of his career.
coronavirus
Mar. 14, 2020
A Reassuring Conversation With the Writer of Contagion Scott Z. Burns talks about his own pandemic preparedness and why he’s optimistic “we’ll get through this one.”
the future issue
Nov. 13, 2019
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Nov. 12, 2019
There Will Be No Turning Back on Facial Recognition It’s not perfect yet, but it’s already changing the world.
David Robert Mitchell on His Ambitious, Divisive Follow-up to It Follows His new, deliberately overcomplicated surrealist neo-noir Under the Silver Lake appears to have all the makings of a cult classic.
A Long Talk With David Lee Roth Diamond Dave on tattoo skin care and the future of Van Halen.
how to write a song in 2018
Aug. 10, 2018
How to Write a Great Rock Lyric According to Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys.
Noel Gallagher on His New Album and Liam’s New Album “I don’t give a fuck whether he puts his album out the same day as mine. I will thank him for promoting my record, though.”
Liam Gallagher on His New Album and Why He Forgot the Words to ‘Come Together’ “I thought we were doing ‘I Am the Walrus,’ but I got there and it was ‘Come Together.’ And then, yeah, I’d had a lot to drink as well.”
behind the scenes
Sept. 20, 2017
Beck Explains the Creative Process Behind His New Song, ‘Dear Life’ “For this album, I wanted to make something that was uplifting, had a lot of energy, and made you want to sing along.”
oral history
Apr. 25, 2017
Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher on the Making of Gorillaz’s ‘We Got the Power’ “I thought it might be cute, Noel and I singing about the power to love each other. Of course, no one’s asked Liam what he thinks about the song yet.”
Guitar Shopping With Ryan Adams “I feel grateful to know the path I want to be on, so I’m going to blaze it and get blazed on it.”
vulture cover story
May 11, 2016
Uncharted 4: The Greatest Story Ever Played How Naughty Dog — the developer behind the year’s most anticipated video game — makes summer blockbusters interactive.
Uncharted 4: The Greatest Story Ever Played How Naughty Dog — the developer behind the year’s most anticipated video game — makes summer blockbusters interactive.
Gaz Coombes on Matador , David Bowie, and Life After Supergrass “You can’t just go rambling on in first person about your feelings or everyone’s going to get really bored.”
Jon Brion on the Music of Punch-Drunk Love We talked to him about working with Paul Thomas Anderson and his future musical plans.
How Channing Tatum Learned Tap for Hail, Caesar! He’s the star of a technically onerous, relentlessly delightful six-minute sequence during which he sings while dancing around a pub, on stools and tables, among other precarious surfaces.
Tom Jones Made an Unusual Visit to Our Offices We sat down in the third-nicest conference room to talk his new album of covers and his highly entertaining memoir.
fall preview 2015
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tarantino week
Aug. 25, 2015
How Quentin Tarantino Would Fix It Follows “Like, okay, you can shoot the bad guys in the head, but that just works for ten seconds? Well, that doesn’t make any sense.”
fall preview 2015
Aug. 23, 2015
In Conversation With Quentin Tarantino Midway through postproduction on his eighth movie, the Western The Hateful Eight , the director discusses writing scripts by hand, ‘90s nostalgia, and becoming — relatively — mellow with time.
in conversation
Aug. 23, 2015
In Conversation With Quentin Tarantino Midway through his eighth movie, the director discusses writing scripts by hand, ‘90s nostalgia, and becoming — relatively — mellow with time.
vulture lists
June 29, 2015
Watch the Foo Fighters Play Letterman Off For his final show, David Letterman called in his favorite band (Foo Fighters) to play his favorite song (“Everlong”).
So, How About That Mad Men Finale? If you thought Matthew Weiner was going to give us a tidy, satisfying ending in tonight’s Mad Men series finale then you’re probably an idiot. But still, what just happened?
Noel Gallagher on His New Album and Beyoncé “If I were Beck, I’d have handed Kanye the award and a dictionary and said, ‘Have a look at the word artistry and see if it applies to Beyoncé.’”
Is Big Corn Behind All of Our Blockbusters? Hollywood’s really into farming these days.
the interview
Dec. 19, 2014
3 Actors From The Interview on the Movie’s Cancellation “Well, I got my check! Although this will affect my residuals, unfortunately.”
Benji Hughes on His 3 New Albums — Plus, Stream a New Song! “It would be misleading to call it a kids’ album because it would most likely scare a lot of kids.”
vulture on set
Oct. 8, 2014
Scenes From the Birdman Set A movie so odd and challenging that Batman had no choice but to say yes.
vulture lists
Sept. 20, 2014
The 7 Greatest Wrong Lost Theories Ever Plus our guesses on how the show would have ended if they’d actually been right.
video games
Sept. 9, 2014
How Bungie Got Paul McCartney to Write Music for Destiny “There was no check involved, big or otherwise. He’s in it for the creativity.”
fall preview 2014
Aug. 27, 2014
Robert Plant on His New Album and Favorite Supermarket “You know, Whole Foods is more of a dating agency than a shop.”
Mad Men : Hear Bert Cooper’s Greatest HitsIf that performance of “The Best Things in Life Are Free” left you craving more vocal stylings from that particular actor, man are you in luck.
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