Fast X Feels Like a Head Injury
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
I didn’t hate it! The Fast & Furious franchise has been about many things since it started as a comparatively modest street-racing thriller back in 2001. It’s been about cars, obviously: cars that go fast and drift around corners and, in later movies, prove themselves capable of launching into orbit and tenderly catching people on their hoods as though cradling them in cushioned catcher’s mitts. It’s about family, in both the biological and the found sense, with the latter slowly sucking in so many past antagonists that the movies occasionally take a beat to acknowledge who has previously tried to kill whom.
[Read More]Fifty Shades Darker Isnt Terrible, Just Timid
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades Darker. The makers of Fifty Shades Darker, the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, have worked admirably to ensure that the film doesn’t eroticize violence against women. That makes things a tad tricky in regards to the sexual proclivities of its male protagonist, though. The film’s rare bits of S&M involving bookish hottie Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and muscular billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) look only marginally more naughty than smacking in a kindergarten sandbox.
[Read More]For All Mankind Season-Finale Recap: All My Good Dumplings
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
For All Mankind Stranger In a Strange Land Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For All Mankind Stranger In a Strange Land Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » As another wild season of alternate-history interplanetary hijinks draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve seen and to look forward to next season.
[Read More]For Your Consideration: Alan Tudyk of Death at a Funeral for Best Supporting Actor
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
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It’s quite possible that you never made it to Death at a Funeral this summer. You caught the preview, made a mental note to check it out, and then instead saw Superbad, which opened the same weekend, and forgot all about it. Our fear: What if Academy members did the same? Well, it’d be a shame, because it would mean they missed the worthy performance of Alan Tudyk.
[Read More]Forget Brooding Superheroes the Big Money Is in Kids Comics
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
Excerpt from Drama. Art by Raina Telgemeier. For the vast majority of my 31 years on this Earth, I was the only comics reader in my family. I’ve been picking up funnybooks — most of them, I’m slightly ashamed to say, of the superhero variety — for decades and, with the exception of some parental dabbling in NPR-approved works like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, mine has been a solitary pursuit when it comes to my clan.
[Read More]Former Disney Star Bridgit Mendler Launches Satellite Start-up
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Bridgit Mendler is one step closer to inventing time travel, as she is now building her own Skynet. Or, really, connecting the Skynets of others. The Good Luck Charlie star just announced the formation of Northwood Space, a start-up that is focused on creating a “data highway between Earth and space,” as she told CNBC. “Space is getting easier along so many different dimensions, but still the actual exercise of sending data to and from space is difficult,” Mendler said.
[Read More]Foundation Season-Premiere Recap: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Foundation In Seldon’s Shadow Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Foundation In Seldon’s Shadow Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Welcome, Vulture readers, to the second season of Foundation! While season one was full of striking imagery and some fascinating ideas, those episodes, to quote Yoda in The Last Jedi, “Page-turners they were not.
[Read More]Freaky Friday to Take Us Away a Second Time
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
Okay, do Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen next. AAAHhhhhh! AAAhhhhh! There used to be one movie and now there’s gonna be two! Could you, like, chill for a second? A sequel to the 2003 version of Freaky Friday, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, is in the works and heading to theaters in 2025, according to a June 24 tweet from Disney. Both actresses are ready to get freaky again, and production is officially on.
[Read More]Fresh Off the Boat Recap: The Do-Over
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Fresh Off the Boat The Best of Orlando Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Fresh Off the Boat The Best of Orlando Season 3 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hudson Yang as Eddie, Randall Park as Louis, Ian Chen as Evan.
[Read More]Friends Countdown: The Definitive Ranking of the Friends Parents
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
FRIENDS – “The One After Ross Says Rachel” Episode 1 – Pictured: (l-r) Elliott Gould as Jack Geller, Christina Pickles as Judy Geller, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller – Photo by: J. Delvalle/NBCU Photo Bank The Central Perk Six were there for each other (especially when the rain started to pour), and that’s probably because most of their family members were pretty damn crazy. Their siblings, like Phoebe’s half-brother Frank (Giovanni Ribisi), and Rachel’s sisters Jill (Reese Witherspoon) and Amy (Christina Applegate), had their fair share of drama, but as any therapist will tell you, you have to look at the parents.
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