Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Artur Debat/Getty Images, Fabio Lovino/HBO/Artur Debat Mike White needs to put on his big boy snowpants and do a ski season of The White Lotus already. After three seasons in various iterations of paradise, fans are getting heatstroke. We need the show to cold plunge into something bracing, thrilling, chilly. There …
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Photo: Spencer Pazer/A24 Tim Robinson is a muse for male friendships. Buddies show up to his sets wearing matching costumes and start social-media accounts dedicated to his comedy. Friendship, out in theaters May 23, follows Robinson as Craig, a husband and father who’s failed to make meaningful connections with his loved ones, meets the charismatic …
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Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Paul Schrader addressed the sexual-assault and harassment allegations detailed in his former assistant’s lawsuit, calling her claims “sensational, misleading, and false.” The 26-year-old woman sued Schrader on April 3 to enforce a settlement that she said the director backed out of, in order to resolve the assault and harassment she …
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Photo: Steve Wilkie/Disney The Handmaid’s Tale debuted on April 26, 2017, the 97th day of Donald Trump’s first presidential term and, coincidentally, First Lady Melania Trump’s 47th birthday. Within weeks, activists around the country donned the long red robes and white, tunnel-vision bonnets worn by the women forced to serve as baby-making machines for …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Leon Neal/Getty Images, Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images More than 20 years ago, Elton John called Madonna out for lip-syncing in her performances. So when Madonna decided to finally squash their beef, she had to do it live. At Saturday Night Live, in fact. The Queen of Pop surprised John backstage over the …
Photo: Joe Maher/Getty Images Cassie Ventura will testify against her ex and alleged abuser Sean “Diddy” Combs at his sex-trafficking trial next month — and she’ll use her name to do so. Prosecutors revealed in an April 4 motion that “Victim-1” in the indictment against Combs “is prepared to testify under her own name.” …
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Photo: Derek White/Bravo The Real Housewives of Atlanta says good-bye to one of its most valuable players. Kenya Moore’s swan song plays as an eerie cautionary tale for all current and future Housewives willing to take on the villain role. Last week, in the epic precursor for Kenya’s final mic-drop moment, we witnessed the …
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Photo: TPS Productions/Focus Features Wes Anderson is playing with his toys, by which we mean his favorite actors, again. Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Roman Coppola, is heading for theaters soon. Surprise: There are also some new faces. And yes, Michael Cera is somehow in that category. …
Photo: Paramount Pictures Red plane, yellow plane, don’t matter. Whatever the color, your boy Ethan Hunt is gonna hang on that sucker for dear life because he’s got things to do and a world to save yet again. Think what you may of Tom Cruise (and you’d be justified), but you gotta admit: The …
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Photo: Sarah Shatz/FX Over four and a half hours, Dying for Sex was always leading to the inevitable. I should have prepared more. I should have at least had tissues on hand when I watched the last two episodes. I hope you did because I sure didn’t. I’m glad my couch is absorbent. Molly’s …
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