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‘Revenge of the Sith’ Was Actually Great—And Paved the Way for ‘Andor’
This week, almost everyone likes Star Wars again. With the three-episode debut of Andor Season 2, our galaxy is as close to united as…
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Charli XCX Shouts Out Some Elite Filmmakers At Coachella, Instantly Makes Movies Cool Again
Movies aren’t cool, but Charli XCX is. At the end of her set at Coachella Saturday night, Charli announced the official end of Brat…
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The Kendrick Lamar/Drake Beef, Explained
“UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices,” Drake’s lawyers said in a statement. “It instead launched a campaign to…
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The Cathartic Ecstasy of ‘Gay Guy Music Video Night’
“Heaven is a place on Earth,” Belinda Carlisle famously sang in 1987. And she’s right: Heaven does exist on this planet—but it’s not a…
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These Seven Albums Created Modern Stand-Up Comedy
Early in his career in New York, playing Village basket houses, he was a crossover act, popular with largely white crowds, performing a…
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I Was Halfway Through ‘The Pitt’ When My Father Died. Here's What It Was Like to Finish It
Early in season one of The Pitt, a middle-aged woman is forced to come to terms with her father’s imminent death from natural causes. When…
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The Best Christopher Nolan Movies, Definitively Ranked
Isn’t it kind of nice to have a designated last-place dweller on this list that likely won’t bother anybody? Surely there are some…
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Expo 2025 Osaka offers culture and innovation to visitors to Japan
Japan's Expo 2025 Osaka is open to visitors, offering a swathe of exhibits all about the climate and sustainability from 160 countries…
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The ‘Last of Us’ Season Two Premiere Departed From the Games’ Story In One Major Way
Tonight's season two premiere of The Last of Us made its intentions clear right up front. After a reminder of the lie Joel (Pedro Pascal)…
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‘The Pitt’ Season Finale: TV's New Favorite Doctors (Finally) Get a Break
Season one of The Pitt ends unexpectedly, yet inevitably. While a few cases still linger, the quiet, meditative first-season finale…
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Everything We Know About ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ Spike Lee's Long-Awaited Reunion With Denzel Washington
It’s official: Spike Lee’s new film, Highest 2 Lowest will premiere May 19th at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie—a reinterpretation of…
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‘The Pitt’ Finally Reveals the Pitt Fest Shooter’s Identity—But That’s Not the Twist
Early in this week’s episode, Dr. Whittaker finally gets a moment free of blood, piss, and rats. He enters the peds morgue to retrieve a…
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Why Print Magazines Will Never Die
I've always wanted to ask you this, but how do you divide your time between the different titles? Obviously you're a publisher, and you're…
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How Judy Gemstone of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Became One Of TV's Greatest Comedic Characters
We're calling it now: Judy Gemstone, of The Righteous Gemstones, will go down in history as one of the best comedic characters in TV…
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Nu Metal Will Never Be Cool. That’s Why I Love It
It doesn’t matter what I say to defend a band like Korn. I can—and often do—make the claim that they are the most influential rock group…
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‘The White Lotus’: Screen Legend and Octogenarian Badass Scott Glenn On His Surprise Role and Tonight's Big Showdown With Walton Goggins
Yeah, but then I woke up. I mean, there are a number of times in my life, if I try to clock them I probably could, where I thought, OK,…
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Peggy Gou Strongly Endorses Foam Rollers, Kendrick Lamar, and Her Own Don Julio ‘194Gou’ Tequila
Gou’s set at EDC México last night was also a 194Gou soft launch, insofar as the brand arranged for 40 enormous white beach balls printed…
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Seth Rogen On Directing Martin Scorsese in ‘The Studio’ (& Sympathizing With the Suits)
A funny thing happened when we pitched this show: we pitched it on a Friday, and on Monday, the guy we pitched to was gone. I feel bad for…
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How To Tell If You're Watching a Good Jason Statham Movie or a Bad Jason Statham Movie
Jason Statham is, like the title of his new movie says, a working man. The ex-diver, ex-model, ex-street-seller from Shirebrook, England,…
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'Top Chef' Is Wasting Canada
March is a big month for sports fans. There’s the reliable madness of the NCAA Tournament, of course, before baseball shakes off the…
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RIP, Hooters, Last Vestige of a More Honest Age of Sleaze
When I heard that Hooters—the chain restaurant infamous for serving cleavage and Oksana Bauil-style pantyhose alongside its burgers—was on…
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Ghibli AI Slop Insults Life Itself. Please, Just Watch an Actual Studio Ghibli Movie Instead
For much of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, Disney animation formed the bedrock of countless kids’ movie experiences…
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All the Big Reveals From Marvel's Epic Avengers: Doomsday Casting-Announcement Livestream
The next Avengers will feature several of the OG Fox X-Men along with the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom. It took Marvel five hours to tell…
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Playboi Carti Enters His Pushing-30 Era
I’m almost 30 and I constantly worry about becoming an old hip-hop fan, losing patience with the aggro rap of the new kids, and getting…