Every Julia Roberts Performance, Ranked

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  28 minutes  |  5878 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Julia Roberts co-stars in Wonder, which opens this week. But Wonder isn’t really a Julia Roberts Movie, and that’s still a weird concept to grasp for some us. For many who came of age in the 1990s, Julia Roberts was more than a movie star; she was an existential fact. From her star-making turn in Pretty Woman in 1990 through the early 2000s (when she took a step back from her whirlwind career to start a family), she was a dominant cultural force. [Read More]

Every Original Bobs Burgers Song, Ranked

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  88 minutes  |  18648 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Once a viewer reaches a certain benchmark of familiarity, a sitcom starts to have a pleasantly narcotizing effect. On the zillionth rewatch of a Bob’s Burgers, for example, it can be comforting to settle in for the expected punch lines and premises, or just to hang out with a family we feel like we know as well as our own. In other words, even the most devoted viewers can start to take their favorite TV programs for granted and lose sight of the herculean amount of effort that goes into a long-running series. [Read More]

Every Outlander Sex Scene, Ranked

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2879 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Any Outlander fan worth her smelling salts will tell you, rather emphatically, that the Starz drama (and the source material upon which it is based, written by Diana Gabaldon) is most certainly not a bodice-ripper. And, well, they’re not wrong. Outlander blends historical fiction, action, and, yes, romance to tell the story of former World War II combat nurse Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), an Englishwoman who inadvertently travels through time and falls in love with an 18th-century Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). [Read More]

Every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie, Ranked

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1909 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Admit it: You’re already singing the theme song. That’s the power of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, characters who were originally meant to be a parody of various superhero trends before becoming trendsetting superheroes themselves. There’s no way that creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird could have imagined that their 1984 black-and-white indie comic book would launch a decades-spanning media empire, but the Turtles have now served as touchstones for multiple generations, beginning with their mega-popular 1987 cartoon series. [Read More]

Everybody Hurts, Even Bill Berry

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  220 words  |  Aldo Pusey

😎 We’re sending a big, virtual hug to this unibrowed legend. Bill Berry left R.E.M. in 1997, two years after he suffered a brain aneurysm while the band was touring in Europe. Despite a successful surgery, Berry ultimately decided to eschew the music industry and enjoy a quieter life as a farmer — and R.E.M. went on to release five more albums without him as drummer before their permanent breakup. [Read More]

EvilSeason-Premiere Recap: The Weight of Possession

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1832 words  |  Zora Stowers

Evil The Demon of Death Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil The Demon of Death Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Just when you thought you had scrubbed your brain of images like a med student eating flesh cut from a cadaver or a giant winged demon licking Andrea Martin’s face, Evil is back, baby — and it’s only getting freakier with age. [Read More]

Fargos Dave Foley Knows What Danish Graves Was Thinking

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1155 words  |  Zora Stowers

Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Blanket,” episode eight of the fifth season of Fargo. When interviewing an actor with all-timers like The Kids in the Hall and NewsRadio on his résumé, it’s hard not to gush. When I tell Dave Foley this, he laughs. “Oh, gush away!” On this season of the FX crime-anthology series Fargo, Foley has helped create a new character to gush about in Danish Graves, the dapper and mysterious majordomo for ferocious billionaire Lorraine Lyon, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. [Read More]

Feeling Fine With Faye Webster

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1025 words  |  Zora Stowers

Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. In Switched on Pop’s series about Atlanta, we’ve covered the origins of crunk music and the career of Metro Boomin. In our third and final entry in our Atlanta series, we’re staying there with a look at singer-songwriter Faye Webster. Her music defies genre and convention: Over the course of four albums, her sound has come to contain both pedal steel and indie rock as well as soft vocals and R&B sensibilities, all the while embodying the city of Atlanta. [Read More]

Feeling Sufjan Stevenss Illinoise, This Time Through Movement

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1557 words  |  Zora Stowers

From Illinoise, at the Park Avenue Armory. This review was originally published on March 7, 2024, when Illinoise opened at the Park Avenue Armory. At the 77th Tony Awards, Justin Peck won the award for best choreography. The last time I listened to Sufjan Stevens’s 2005 indie opus Illinois straight through, I was biking across the southern tip of that state, crossing the flat, snaking Mississippi floodplain, thinking about Ruth Bader Ginsberg. [Read More]

Forever Meme Naked Bea Arthur Painting Goes for (Just!) $1.9 Million

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  128 words  |  Janel Helmers

Way harsh: An Internet Famous painting of a nude Bea Arthur went for just $1.915 million after auction house Christie’s estimated its value at anywhere between $1.8 and $2.5 million. You’ve already seen it. John Currin’s infamous portrait, titled Bea Arthur Naked, is not necessarily an accurate rendering of the late Arthur’s bosom (the actress never sat for Currin), but has made quite a stir online. With its viral fame already firmly intact, I guess the anonymous buyer didn’t really need to pay extra? [Read More]