Somewhere, in one of the gajillion strands of the cat’s cradle of multiverses, there is a world in which Michelle Yeoh does not start ballet lessons at the age of four. The Malaysian actor decides not go to England to study dance, with every intention of becoming a prima ballerina …
Read More »'The Afterparty': The Killer Speaks!
This post contains full spoilers for the season finale of Apple TV+’s The Afterparty, particularly the identity of the killer. Sometimes, actors in serialized mystery shows don’t find out they’re the killer until late in the process. With The Afterparty, Ben Schwartz found out right away, in an email pitch …
Read More »All the Campy Cameos in 'Spider-Man: No Way Home,' Ranked
If you want to place blame anywherefor the existence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the current state of cinema — which is engulfedin superhero stories and dominated by Disney-owned IP— you can probably trace it back to San Raimi’s Spider-Man. Superhero films and Marvel films had been made before …
Read More »What the Hell Is 'Donnie Darko' About, Anyway?
Over Zoom, I ask the writer and director Richard Kelly if he’s aware of Phoebe Bridgers. The cover art for her groundbreaking album, Punisher, features the musician wearing a Halloween-esque skeleton costume in the California desert, her neck craned towards the sky. The look is partly a reference to Donnie …
Read More »Zen and the Art of the Tough Guy
A s someone who originated one of the most iconic gangster roles of all time — Goodfellas’ glorious flameout Henry Hill — it’s understandable that Ray Liotta wouldn’t want to pigeonhole himself with another Mob project just a few years later. Which is why, when Sopranos creator David Chase took …
Read More »Interview With the Vampires: Inside the Making of 'What We Do in the Shadows' Season 3
On a dark Toronto night in the middle of a bleak pandemic winter, the cast and crew of What We Do in the Shadows are cracking themselves up with poop jokes. In the scene being filmed, the four lead vampires of the FX mockumentary series — bickering lovers Laszlo (Matt …
Read More »Who Is Courtney Revolution? The 'Villain' of Netflix's 'The Circle' Speaks Out
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season Two of The Circle. Of all of the contestants on Season Two of Netflix‘s The Circle,no one is perhaps as devious as Courtney Revolution. A 28-year-old podcaster who hosts the entertainment podcast Overheard in the Pantry, Courtney entered the game by winning people …
Read More »The Nine Lives of 'Law & Order'
The original Law & Order debuted in the fall of 1990, so long ago that the hot series it was scheduled against was thirtysomething, which nearly got revived last year as a show in which the kids from the original series would now be thirtysomething themselves. (Other new shows from …
Read More »'Allen v. Farrow': Everything We Learned From Harrowing Docuseries
The disintegration of the partnership between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow is the focus of the new four-part docuseries Allen v. Farrow, which aired its first episode on Sunday, February 21st. The final episode aired Sunday, March 14th, on HBO. The docuseries goes caustically in-depth about the sexual abuse allegations …
Read More »Leslie Odom Jr. Finds His Power
W hen Leslie Odom Jr. was about to turn 30, he thought about quitting acting. He had been hustling for a decade in Los Angeles by then, nabbing small TV spots here and there. He loathed the unpredictability, and the thought of another decade of not knowing whether he would …
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