The Blood Is Everywhere in Pablo Larrans Mesmerizing El Conde

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  948 words  |  Janel Helmers

A dark, caped figure glides through the night skies above Santiago, Chile — a symbol of eternal portent hovering over the modern city. It slips into office buildings, factories, hospitals, and apartments, and brutally feeds on the lonely inhabitants within. This villain, however, is not a fictional one. He is General Augusto Pinochet, the brutal, U.S.-backed military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 and died in 2006 still with the blood of thousands on his hands. [Read More]

The Boys Recap: Lee Harvey Oswald

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1715 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The Boys The Insider Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Boys The Insider Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » If you’ve kept up with the online response to the fourth season of The Boys, you may have noticed a bit of a shift. [Read More]

The Complete History of XXXTentacions Controversial Career

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  17 minutes  |  3483 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The late rapper XXXTentacion (real name Jahseh Onfroy) experienced a tumultuous but relatively rapid rise to success, punctuated by serious legal issues and disturbing acts of violence. He signed a record deal rumored to be worth a whopping $6 million despite a video that surfaced showing XXX hitting a fan in the head with a microphone at the Rolling Loud Festival in Mountain View, California. At the time of his murder in June 2018, he was also awaiting trial for a 2016 domestic-abuse case, in which he was charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness tampering. [Read More]

The Complications of David Crosby

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2196 words  |  Janel Helmers

Crosby circa 1967. David Crosby’s career in music should have ended in 1967. That was the day the other members of the Byrds came over to kick him out of the band. “They drove up,” Crosby said in a 1971 interview unearthed by Barney Hoskyns for his book Hotel California, “and said that I was terrible and crazy and unsociable and a bad writer and a terrible singer and I made horrible records and that they would do much better without me. [Read More]

The Composer Behind the Globes Best Bit Was Already in Bed

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1085 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Jo Koy’s hosting gig may have been an out-of-the-gate failure, but at least the Golden Globes had Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell. The pair presented Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy and tried their best to be serious about it. Then, the music started: a springy horn soon joined by some woodwinds. Wiig looked around puzzled. “Not sure what that was,” Ferrell told the audience. [Read More]

The Copycat Puzzle

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  83 words  |  Zora Stowers

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The Couples of Sanditon, Ranked by Happily Ever After

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2085 words  |  Aldo Pusey

They did it! Swoon. To think it all started with an unfinished Jane Austen manuscript, and here we are, three seasons later, finally getting answers to how the story ends for Charlotte Heywood, Georgiana Lambe, and the rest of the Sanditon crew. And since Sanditon is a romance, the most important question to answer is who gets a “happily ever after.” (Hey, I didn’t write the rules, but I do strictly adhere to them. [Read More]

The Discomforting Legacy of Wendy Torrance

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1426 words  |  Janel Helmers

Shelley Duvall’s performance as Wendy Torrance was just one of the film’s several bold, somewhat perplexing choices. This article was originally published on November 8, 2019. We’re republishing it with the news of Shelley Duvall’s death. It may sound perverse, possibly even stupid, to travel nearly 4,000 miles to watch a movie you’ve already seen dozens of times. But that’s exactly what I did in 2019 when I attended a late-night screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic The Shining, along with about a thousand other people at the Cannes Film Festival in France. [Read More]

The Dream of Jesse Pinkmans Happy Ending

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1080 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Breaking Bad’s finale had the impossible task of living up to the highest expectations any series finale has ever been asked to live up to. One of the big questions going into the episode was the fate of Jesse Pinkman: Would he die? Would it be at Walt’s hand? Would he kill himself? Walt’s fate had essentially been baked into the show’s very premise, but Jesse’s was up in the air until the last moments. [Read More]

The Ending of Late Night With the Devil Flubs the Punch Line

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  990 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Quick, what do horror movies have in common with the monologues of late-night talk-show hosts? Someone tends to get eviscerated in both, via blade, claw, or zinger. But seriously, what links these two forms of after-dark entertainment is the importance of setup and payoff — two elements crucial to landing a joke or a scare. And it’s the second part of that equation, the punch line of sorts, that falls flat in Late Night With the Devil, an otherwise inventive indie chiller that combines the cheap thrills of a midnight movie with the cheap tricks of a midnight ’70s talk show. [Read More]