Mrs. Peniston and the Hilarious Vulgarity in Edith WhartonsHouse of Mirth

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  805 words  |  Sherie Connelly

When reading respected literature from the Western canon, it can be difficult to process humor found within a thick tome. Sometimes it’s too difficult to understand the comedy because it relies on antiquated references (imagine how well Family Guy might hold up). Oftentimes it’s just too difficult to accept that there even can be humor in a work that’s made it into the all-important canon. While there are exceptions (Mark Twain being the most obvious one), most classic works tend to be very serious, or at least have such a reputation. [Read More]

Mumblecore Muse Greta Gerwig on Nights and Weekends and the Ugly Side of Movie Sex

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  794 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Burgeoning alt-muse Greta Gerwig cut her teeth working on the indie films LOL and Hannah Takes the Stairs, the ones that launched director Joe Swanberg’s career and helped define the ultra-lo-fi, unfortunately named “mumblecore” movement. Now Gerwig and Swanberg are back with an intensely emotional relationship drama that they co-wrote and co-directed — Nights and Weekends, opening at the IFC Center tonight — that may be their strongest, most relatable work to date. [Read More]

Nancy Drew - Vulture

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  36 words  |  Sherie Connelly

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Nancy Drew Is Not Who You RememberThe redheaded detective is back in a CW reboot, but the mystery remains: is she more than endlessly recyclable IP?

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Neil Gaiman Is Adapting His First Novel, Good Omens, Co-Written by Terry Pratchett, for TV

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  376 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Though Neil Gaiman had previously said he would not adapt his debut novel, Good Omens, without his late co-author Terry Pratchett, a posthumously found letter from the beloved writer, who died last year after battling Alzheimer’s, urged Gaiman to go on with the project. Gaiman told a cheering crowd at an event to honor Pratchett at London’s Barbican that he would personally write the television adaptation, at Pratchett’s instigation. It will apparently be a six-part miniseries. [Read More]

Neil Young Thinks You Look Like a Fool With Your Pants on the Ground

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  119 words  |  Sherie Connelly

If you’ve been on the Internet at all today, then you likely know everything there is to know about the incredible General Larry Platt and his anti-sagging rap “Pants on the Ground.” The guy is everywhere! The New York Times has written about him three times, his life story (which is pretty impressive) has been dug up, and the YouTube versions of “Pants on the Ground” are increasing at an exponential rate. [Read More]

Netflix Really Tried to Fool Us With Easy Bake Battle

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  772 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Nary a dangerously hot single lightbulb in sight. There was a not-so-brief moment in the history of Netflix when the streamer seemed to quietly turn itself into the new Food Network. I mean this as a compliment: There’s the beauty and smooth charm of Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; the poignant stories in Chef’s Table; the genial warmth of The Great British Baking Show; and yes, the laugh-out-loud absurdity of Is It Cake? [Read More]

Nicki Minaj Clears the Air on Barbie Tingz and Chun Li

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1178 words  |  Zora Stowers

Nicki Minaj’s months-long media blackout ended in a flash yesterday as the rapper gave an illuminating interview to Beats 1 Radio and released the new songs “Chun Li” and “Barbie Tingz.” On the surface, the new music offers a stimulus package for fans hungering for more after the string of guest features the chief Barb has given us since last year’s release of “No Frauds,” “Changed It,” and “Regret in Your Tears. [Read More]

Nicole Kidman Is Dusting Off Her Big Little Lies Wig for Season 3

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  232 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Nicole Kidman in 2019. The only thing about Big Little Lies in the rearview mirror is the opening credit sequence, apparently. During a Q&A at the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida, of all places, Nicole Kidman revealed that another season of the hit HBO show is in the works. “We will be bringing you a third one, just FYI,” she said of Big Little Lies, which first aired as a limited series in 2017, before returning (with the addition of Meryl Streep and her prosthetic teeth) for a second season in 2019. [Read More]

No Future Predictions, Plenty of South Park Shade in Newest Simpsons Couch Gag

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  249 words  |  Elina Uphoff

The semi-annual tradition of another animator taking on The Simpsons’ infamous opening “couch gag” has had some rather interesting entries over the years: Banksy’s elegy to the Korean animation assembly lines slash sweatshops that create the Simpsons’ show and merch, for example; the Family Guy one; and Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt’s inspired, and bonkers time-traveling take (“Still love you, Homar”). That tradition continues in the new season, with a gag that takes Homar, er … sorry, Homer, off the couch and in search of the family’s missing sailboat painting. [Read More]

No One Ever Loses a Fight in the Fast and the Furious Franchise

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  786 words  |  Janel Helmers

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and a box (not shown). In Furious 7, Nathalie Emmanuel’s super-hacker sizes up the entire Fast gang in a single short monologue pegging everyone’s roles. When Roman is relegated to “joker” status, he corrects “Wrong. Double alpha,” before getting into a snit with Tej about whether or not there’s even such a thing as a “double alpha.” In the world of dogs and lions and other pack animals, the double alpha isn’t real, but it sure is in the world of the Fast and the Furious. [Read More]