Lydia Tr Is Not an Art Monster

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1738 words  |  Sherie Connelly

“It’s always the question that involves the listener. It’s never the answer, right?” famed conductor Lydia Tár asks a student at Juilliard in Todd Field’s magisterial new film. By this standard, Tár itself succeeds: It is lush with questions poised between interpretations like a gymnast balanced on a beam. Critics and commentators disagree not only about its meaning but about the rudiments of its plot. Is Tár, played by a magnificently imperious Cate Blanchett, a sexual predator or a victim of “cancel culture”? [Read More]

Mad Men Is Streaming Again!

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  322 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Don Draper is back on AMC — or, to be more precise, AMC+. After leaving Netflix earlier this summer, all seven seasons of the modern classic are once again streaming without commercials on AMC’s recently supersized streaming service, starting today, October 1. It’s the result of adeal announced last summer between AMC, Amazon’s IMDb TV, and producer Lionsgate under which Mad Men streams with ads on the Amazon service and ad-free on the AMC platform. [Read More]

Mare of Easttown Premiere Recap: Being the Hero

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1827 words  |  Zora Stowers

Mare of Easttown Miss Lady Hawk Hersel Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Mare of Easttown Miss Lady Hawk Hersel Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Is it a prestige cable crime drama if a young woman doesn’t die in the first episode? [Read More]

Mark Mothersbaugh on Rugrats

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2847 words  |  Janel Helmers

I’m not going to lie. Rugrats is one of the “golden age” Nickelodeon shows that I was never really that into. Sure, I would watch episode after episode as would any devoted Nick acolyte (I mean, what else would I do? Go outside and play?). And it did tend to come on between other shows more my style like Ren & Stimpy. So, I definitely gave it a day in court. [Read More]

Matthew Underwood, Kenan Thompson, and More React to Quiet on Set

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1783 words  |  Zora Stowers

Drake & Josh cast members. Nickelodeon stars are reacting to Investigation Discovery’s harrowing docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. In the midst of revelations that a dialogue coach sexually abused Drake Bell and allegations that producer Dan Schneider wrote lewd jokes for child actors to perform, former Nickelodeon stars have shared messages of support to survivors or have apologized (twice now) for mocking survivors’ experiences. [Read More]

Matty Healy, Reformed Asshole (Sort Of)

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2208 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The 1975’s front man wants a clean slate. Photo: Louie Banks Photo: Louie Banks As the planet reels in anxiety and grief, Matty Healy sounds surprisingly calm, almost as if he’d expected this, or certainly hadn’t been entirely surprised by it. “It is a very, very odd time,” he says over the phone from the recording studio in the English countryside where he’s been quarantining with the drummer-producer George Daniel, his bandmate in the 1975 and principal creative collaborator. [Read More]

Maybe Netflixs Fear Street Should Have Just Been a TV Show

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2716 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The delightfully nasty Fear Street exists in this strange space between movies and television, serving neither format well. The first Fear Street premiered on Netflix on July 2. Vulture will be reviewing each installment of the trilogy as they release here. Fear Street: 1994 I’m pathetically in the bag for arthouse horror. I like my dread slow-dripped and my scares born more out of cunning camera angles and disturbing imagery than shock-y jumps. [Read More]

Melissa Bank, Author of The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Dead at 61

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  441 words  |  Zora Stowers

Melissa Bank, the author best known for writing The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is dead at age 61. According to a statement from Viking Penguin, she died August 2, 2022, in East Hampton, New York, after a struggle with lung cancer. Bank’s breakout book, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, debuted in 1999 and was a New York Times best seller for 16 weeks. It is a series of short stories linked by a common main character named Jane Rosenthal. [Read More]

Mental Samurai Is a Game Show With Rob Lowe and a Giant Robot Arm

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  692 words  |  Janel Helmers

Take a moment to imagine Fox’s Mental Samurai, a new game show hosted by Rob Lowe in which contestants are hurtled around in a metal basket attached to a giant robot arm and then forced to answer trivia questions. Whatever you have in your head, I promise you, the reality is sillier than that. The giant robot arm is named Ava, and although host Rob Lowe says things like, “Meet Ava,” as though we’re all being introduced to a giant robotic personality, it’s just a huge robot arm thing with a bucket on the end. [Read More]