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legal battles Aug. 4, 2021

What Is Going on With Aaliyah’s Music?The latest chapter in the battle between the singer’s estate and former manager.

By Bethy Squires

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“Is this the divorce album?” Oprah asks Adele of 30, out today, during their therapy session Adele One Night Only. “I think I’m divorcing myself on it,” Adele replies. In the six years since the release of her Grammy-winning album 25, the singer has broken off from her old self. After experiencing postnatal depression (“There are definitely a few elements of myself that I don’t think I’ll ever get back,” she told The Face), Adele made changes to find happiness — but it has come at a cost. [Read More]

After a season of secret passageways, glitter bombs, and liverwurst-and-marmalade sandwiches, Only Murders in the Building had one final twist for the Arconia gang, and it was some truly psycho-level shit: Turns out Poppy (Adina Verson), beleaguered assistant to podcasting titan Cinda Canning (Tina Fey), “just wanted to make a good podcast” of her own — even if that meant knifing down a sexagenarian for the story. She had the help of her lover, Detective Kreps (Michael Rapaport), whom she met back in Oklahoma when she, twist, disappeared from her ordinary life as Becky Butler — the subject of Cinda’s blockbuster podcast, All Is Not OK in Oklahoma. [Read More]

This interview originally ran during the 2023 Venice Film Festival. We’re recirculating it in advance of Green Border’s theatrical debut. We’ve also asked Holland an additional question, which can be found at the end of the interview. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Green Border since I saw it at its Venice Film Festival premiere this week. The film, about the refugee crisis on the forested border between Poland and Belarus, is a call to arms from director Agnieszka Holland and co-writers Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk — a viscerally disturbing, two-and-a-half-hour warning about the international encroachment of fascism and mass dehumanization, captured even as tragedy continues to unfold. [Read More]

It’s tempting to call him “the inimitable Al Pacino,” although he is the most imitated actor in the world. There are, after all, two categories of imitation: impersonation (“Say hello to my le’el friend!” “Hoo-ah!”) and emulation. Emulating Pacino would mean not just bounding into a field of psychological land mines but identifying each one and purposely jumping on top of it. Some, including Johnny Depp, of all people, think he’s mad. Most see the larger wisdom in his design for living and working — and also think he’s mad. [Read More]

fall preview 2015 Aug. 25, 2015

75 Movies to Watch This FallFrom M. Night Shyamalan’s self-financed comeback to a Cold War drama from Steven Spielberg and the Coen brothers.

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He sold drugs. He went to prison. Then he became stand-up comedy’s most prolific storyteller. “I’m a fucking happy person about achieving what I said that I was going to achieve. I could die and be like, ‘Yo, man, I fucking did it, bro.’” Photo: Allie Leepson + Jesse McClary “I’m a fucking happy person about achieving what I said that I was going to achieve. I could die and be like, ‘Yo, man, I fucking did it, bro. [Read More]

He’s pointing to God. Justin Bieber is going through changes. Or … he already went through them? Something is changing and it’s certainly not his love for cringey lyrics. After a break to work on his health, Justin Bieber’s fifth studio album, Changes, details the same three moods he’s always had: sentimental, horny, and spiritual. The Biebs contains multitudes. While the majority of the album is about how much he loves Hailey Bieber née Baldwin, he can’t help but get a little preachy and in-his-feelings. [Read More]

The Drew Barrymore Show. Places, people! The Hollywood strike is fully over, and it’s time to get back to work. After a writers’ strike triggered by the studios refusing to pay livable wages or improve working conditions, the two parties brokered a tentative deal on September 24, paving the way for the industry to get the shows on the road. The WGA voted to end the strike on September 27, effectively ending the writers’ portion of the walkout. [Read More]

Check out the rest of Vulture’s gift guide picks on our 2021 Advent Calendar! Check out the rest of Vulture’s gift guide picks on our 2021 Advent Calendar! Seth Rogen’s transformation into Weed Daddy is complete, and for that we are grateful. The guy just wants to stay home and make pottery, and since he started showing off his ceramics on social media, fans have been begging to purchase them. [Read More]