After putting in his time for the McConaissance, why shouldn’t Matthew McConaughey kick up his heels and have some highbrow high jinks? Meet Moondog (McConaughey), a drunken poet who just wants to have some fun, man. In Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum, Moondog drinks and smokes and snorts his way
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Ariana Grande’s Sweetener is less than six months old, but Thank U, Next, the announced title of her fifth studio album, is already on the books. Ari is moving into her next era, or eschewing the old-school sensibilities of eras altogether — not unlike other pop juggernauts such as Beyoncé,
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Ad directors turned feature directors seem to always fall into one of two extremely polarized (har har) camps. On the one hand, you have the David Finchers and Jonathan Glazers, directors who have found the right material to bring soul and narrative drive to their hyperspecific visual imaginations. And then
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Hours after the Oscar nominations were read Tuesday morning, Vulture caught Patty Jenkins at the premiere of her new TNT noir series I Am the Night. A half-dozen women directed critically acclaimed movies that could’ve been serious awards-season contenders this year: Debra Granik had Leave No Trace, Chloé Zhao had
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Okay, pop quiz. What happens when a male feminist named Jude who’s sewn his urethra shut in an effort to “understand the female plight” syncs up with his old, involuntarily celibate high-school friend, Hamburger Kennedy, in an effort to find common, pro-feminist ground?Oh, come on! You don’t know this?!Left of
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Alec Baldwin pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment, a violation, in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday in a row over a parking spot the afternoon of November 2.“Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” asked Judge Herbert Moses.“Yes, sir,” Baldwin said somberly during the three-minute-long proceeding.“I accept your plea,” Moses said,
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As Bohemian Rhapsody heads to the Oscars, The Atlantic published an investigation Wednesday morning reporting new sexual abuse and molestation accusations against director Bryan Singer. Four men accuse Singer of abuse, dating back to the 1990s: “Some of the alleged victims say they were seduced by the director while underage;
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Once again, Vulture is speaking to the screenwriters behind the awards season’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. Our first post of the year takes a look at one of the standout sequences of Damien Chazelle’s First Man, in which Janet Armstrong (Claire Foy)
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It’s been a long wait since Conan O’Brien went off the air, but the so-called three-month Conan shutdown finally came to an end last night when the TBS host debuted the new, slimmer version of his late-night show alongside Andy Richter and his first guest Tom Hanks. This time around,
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For our weeklong series on crime fiction, we asked two writers to reflect on the ethics of depicting violent crimes in their novels. Below, Don Winslow, whose Cartel trilogy concludes next month with the publication of The Border, distinguishes between his depictions of brutal border crime and the current administration’s
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For our weeklong series on crime fiction, we asked two writers to reflect on the ethics of depicting violent crimes in their novels. Below, New York contributing editor Adam Sternbergh, most recently the author of The Blinds, considers the topic with the help of other crime novelists. Read Cartel trilogy
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Chris Brown has been arrested in Paris after a woman accused him of rape. The Associated Press reports that Brown, his bodyguard, and another man were detained on Monday after a woman filed an aggravated rape complaint. He is also facing charges of drug infractions. According to the complaint, the
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It may not look so on the surface, but the Sundance Film Festival has been in a state of transition the last few years. It wasn’t long ago that it served as a solid launching pad for some of the year’s more prominent Oscar contenders; talk of future awards glory
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Every TV show has a rhythm. The Americans was a logarithmic acceleration; Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a burst of fizzy bubbles; the rhythm of any cop procedural is a reliable clockwork ticking. When Syfy’s The Magicians premiered three years ago, it felt uneasy, caught too tightly inside the Lev Grossman novels
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Amidst the hustle and bustle of the past news week, did you even know Beyoncé went to Target?? Luckily, Late Night writer Amber Ruffin is here to make sure nothing slipped through the cracks for you in her latest edition of “Amber Says What” on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Much like Glenn Close, Lady Gaga was not following the Oscar nominations with bated breathe this morning. Instead, she was sleeping in. But when the star who was born Stephani Germanotta rose around 8:30 am she called her manager first thing and received the good news. Later in the day
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It’s a rough, complicated time down in Washington D.C. right now, and it’s nice to assume and/or hope that one of the people who might be most affected by this would be President Trump. It’s a wild fantasy that assumes both an ability to feel shame and an awareness of
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What is: a great break from all the stalker romance and unsightly horror Netflix seems full of these days? Why, it’s a casual game of Jeopardy! of course! The streaming service announced via its Twitter on Tuesday that it would be adding more episodes of the popular trivia show, including
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Bravo bookends this episode with two sets of totally horrible guests and I am so happy. We pick up at the cliffhanger involving the two dodos who ignored Ross’s instructions to ride the jet ski wearing the kill switch, before falling off the jet ski, which shoots across the sea
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“What really happened with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards?” we’re asked early in Amy Staats’s Eddie and Dave — both by the play’s narrator, a nostalgic former VJ, and by a spinning projected title in an aggressively ’90s font. The “burning” question winks at us
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