Netflix Thriller is a Thin Exercise in Hitchcockian Style
The Pitch: A man (Jason Segel) breaks into a well-furnished California vacation home; he rifles through the drawers for cash and valuables, eats fruit from...
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BIBI Interview On Coachella Performance & New Music
K-pop soloist BIBI could be described as a free spirit, but that feels a bit too reductive for an artist as ever-evolving as her....
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Jessica Biel Can’t Help Hulu’s Confused True Crime Series
The Pitch: The story of Candy Montgomery is almost too gruesome and eerily-timed to feel true: On Friday, the 13th, one June in 1980, a...
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Andrew Garfield on the “Rough Seas” of Under the Banner of Heaven
When writer Dustin Lance Black first approached adapting the Jon Krakauer book Under the Banner of Heaven, it was as a potential feature film...
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Camp Delights Only Occasionally Bob to the Surface
The Pitch: The first rule in open marriages is that consent and communication are key — but tell that to the Van Allens, a well-to-do...
Marisa Tomei As Mona Lisa Vito Is Still Iconic
After Marisa Tomei’s landmark Oscar win in 1993 for her performance as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny, film critic Rex Reed had...
5 Burning Questions Before the Series Finale
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Ozark, Season 4, Episode 7, “Sanctified.”] The first half of Ozark’s final season ended with a bang...
Evan Rachel Wood on Marilyn Manson’s Abuse
Warning: This review contains mentions of emotional and sexual abuse. In 2005, a teenage actress named Evan Rachel Wood met deliberately provocative shock rocker...
Shining Vale’s Sharon Horgan & Jeff Astrof on Blending Horror & Comedy
The new Starz series Shining Vale opens with some bold decrees: that women are roughly twice as likely as men to suffer from depression,...
Ben Bridwell on ‘Things Are Great’
Ben Bridwell is just waking up from a nap between interviews. Five years after his band’s last album — a span that felt even...
‘Diet Coke’ By Pusha T Is Our Rap Song of The Week
Our new music feature Rap Song of the Week runs down the hip-hop tracks you need to hear every Friday. Check out the full...
A Glitchy Robo-Farce From Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Pitch: It’s the year 2050, and advances in artificial intelligence have led to a bright, bubbly utopia where robotic servants and maids see to...
A Beloved Comedy Gets a Dark Origin Story
The Pitch: He got in one little fight, his mom got scared… When Kansas City filmmaker Morgan Cooper reimagined The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as...