The Ten-Minute Lesbian Sex Scene Everyone Is Talking About at Cannes
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
It’s only natural that a good portion of the by-now-exhausted Cannes press corps skipped last night’s debut screening of the two-part, three-hour French lesbian coming-of-age story La Vie D’Adele Chapitres 1 et 2 (English title: Blue Is the Warmest Color). But by morning, word of mouth had made the film, by director Abdellatif Kechiche — and the performance of newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos — the must-see of the festival. “A star is born,” tweeted Variety’s Scott Foundas, calling the film “absolutely astonishing.
[Read More]The Underground Railroad Recap: The Wicked in You
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
The Underground Railroad Chapter 3: North Carolina Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Underground Railroad Chapter 3: North Carolina Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The scale of “Chapter 3: North Carolina” is much smaller than the two installments that preceded it.
[Read More]The Unlikely Rise of Rich Chigga
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Born to an Indonesian-Chinese family in Jakarta prosperous enough to keep him out of the city’s violent public school system, Brian Imanuel spent much of his time in home school wandering online. He learned English by watching YouTube tutorials. Through social media he made friends with Americans who educated him in youth culture by sending him links to memes and rap videos. Imanuel built up a presence on English-language Twitter, Vine, and YouTube as a comedian.
[Read More]The Venture Bros. Threw Chronology to the Wind in an Incredibly Ambitious, Non-Linear Episode
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined.
“That’s it, work it out Thinkenstein…”
The Venture Bros. is sort of the television equivalent to a Dickens novel. It moves to the beat of its own drum, going down weird wormholes that expand the show’s universe while halting the story. The evolution of this world and the characters within it is unlike anything seen in most animated programs.
[Read More]The Week Teeth Took Over Pop Culture
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
How shall we commemorate the post–Labor Day week of 2011? Fashion’s Night Out? The memento mori that was the season premiere of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? The Republican debate? Eh. There was something far more important going on this week. Teeth.
• Jude Law sports quite the distinctive diastema in Contagion, which opens today, proving that Gwyneth Paltrow is not the only person willing to fug it up for Steven Soderbergh.
[Read More]The WGA Strike Enters Double Digits
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
Adam Scott and Nick Kroll adding glamour to the picket line in NYC on Wednesday. We’re at the “lords a-leaping” day of the strike, and it’s time to learn the rules. Should you cancel your streaming services to show solidarity? Is that actor doing press to promote their movie undermining labor’s struggle against the interests of capital? In this, the first writers’ strike of the social-media age, the rules are annoyingly fuzzy.
[Read More]The WGA Strike Just Became an Imagine Dragons Concert
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
The writers’ strike is becoming… radioactive. A new ally has entered the dragon’s den. The band from every baseball game ever, Imagine Dragons, shared their support for the WGA writers’ strike on Tuesday when front man Dan Reynolds joined the picket line performed a concert at the picket line outside of the Netflix HQ in Hollywood. Clips from picketers began circulating online of Reynolds and the band’s guitarist, Daniel Wayne Sermon, standing on a green bench with a microphone, ready to perform for the crowd.
[Read More]The White Lotus Recap: Hawaiian K-Hole
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
The White Lotus A New Day Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The White Lotus A New Day Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When The White Lotus started filming at Maui’s shut-down Four Seasons in the fall of 2020, the series was capturing a tension between visitors and locals that had evaporated when the pandemic hit.
[Read More]The White Lotuss Watery End
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
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From the opening moments of this season of The White Lotus, Mike White has made us wonder: Who’s in the water? Whose body does Daphne bump into in season opener “Ciao,” and who else do the Italian police find? Is it Cam, Harper, or Ethan — members of married couples in various levels of matrimonial distress?
[Read More]The Writers Guild Awards 2024 Winners
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
American Fiction won the Oscar already. Hey, remember awards season? Well, the Oscars already came and went on March 10, and all the other guild awards are out of the way, but the Writers Guild Awards took their time. The 2024 WGAs are being held a month after the Oscars, on April 14. Due to the strike, the ceremony got pushed back a bit this year, out of the typical awards-season bubble and into later spring, when nobody in the Vulture Movie Fantasy League can benefit.
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