It’s a wonder we didn’t all go mad. How did we even survive the early days of the pandemic, a seemingly interminable epoch during which many of us spent long hours holed up in our sad little towers, captives in sweatpants gazing longingly at the outside world? Vasilis Katsoupis’ intriguingly odd little psychological thriller Inside isn’t a pandemic parable per se,…
Read moreThe 65th Annual Grammy Awards are set to take place this Sunday, and the nominations are stacked. The musicians up against one another in the major categories have broken numerous records, shifted the culture, and released albums that still have people talking months after their music was released. Beyoncé is back with her momentous album Renaissance, up for nine awards including …
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This year marked the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (“March on Washington” for short) on Aug. 28, 1963. And yet, Bayard Rustin, the maestro behind the planning of the March on Washington, is still not a household name 60 years later. A new movie plans to change that. Rustin, out in select t…
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From The Gilded Age to Gossip Girl, Edith Wharton’s novels of late-19th-century Manhattan high society have loomed large over the TV dramas of the 21st century. So it’s surprising that we don’t see more Wharton adaptations on the small screen. Finally, Apple TV+ has taken on her unfinished final novel, The Buccaneers, and the result, debuting Nov. 8, ow…
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The contrast between the prestigious Oxford University Press (OUP) and its selection of Gen Z slang word “rizz” as its word of the year is nothing short of comedic.
The term—an abbreviation of charisma—is defined as “style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner,” according to OUP’s Monday announcement. It can also be used as a ve…
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A lot has happened since Jordanian director Darin Sallam’s debut feature film Farha had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year: Jordan selected the movie as its 2023 Oscars entry, it secured best youth film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and it reached a much larger audience when it arrived on Netflix last week.
Set in an unnamed Palestini…
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Spoiler alert: This article discusses Only Murders in the Building Season 3, episode 3
The third season of Hulu’s hit mystery series Only Murders in the Building opens with the introduction of a new character. On-screen text situates us at Broadway’s (fictional) Goosebury Theater in 1962, where a little girl in blonde braids becomes…
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There is a neon sign in the Walpole, New Hampshire editing room where filmmaker Ken Burns spends so many of his days. The sign is in cursive, all lower-case, and it simply says: “it’s complicated.”
Those words capture the sentiment of so many of Burns’s films—the Civil War; the Vietnam War; the American Dust Bowl; the Central Park Five; Thomas Jefferson Read more
As the powerful and deadly Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida after causing devastating destruction in the Caribbean, forecasters are warning of another related danger: tornadoes.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center issued tornado warnings for a large swath of east-central and southern Florida late Saturday night, affecting cities including Miami. At least o…
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Your dog may be a good boy—but he’s not as smart as you think, a new research article suggests.
Dogs have a unique set of cognitive abilities, but …
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