Wednesday Recap: And Then He Kissed Me
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 10 minutes
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| Janel Helmers
Wednesday If You Don’t Woe Me By Now Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wednesday If You Don’t Woe Me By Now Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wednesday goes to Mayor Walker’s funeral, and not just because she’s always loved funerals.
[Read More]Welcome to the Who-niverse
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 14 minutes
| 2802 words
| Aldo Pusey
Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger are the co-hosts of a podcast called Who? Weekly, a guide to “everything you need to know about the celebrities you don’t.” Rita Ora. Blac Chyna. Colton Haynes. Zendaya. Bella Thorne. A Wholebrity (or just a “Who”) is the kind of celebrity — or “celebrity” — whose name makes many of us stop and ask: “Who?” The average celebrity-gossip connoisseur might have a difficult time matching a Wholebrity’s name to a face.
[Read More]Westworlds Man in Black Is a Classic Bad Gamer
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1226 words
| Zora Stowers
Ed Harris as the Man in Black. The video-game elements of Westworld are pervasive. They’re embedded in the character-creation stage as guests enter the new world, the repeating cut-scene-like set pieces, the hosts’ death and resurrection, and the larger narrative form. That last feature impacts some of the most interesting and innovative pieces of Westworld more generally: In an RPG-style video game, the illusion of player autonomy creates a sense of realism.
[Read More]What Does Hip-Hops Young Prefix Actually Mean?
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
In a post on its website Friday, Def Jam casually announced: “Its [sic] official, Young Jeezy had officially changed his name from ‘Young Jeezy’ to just ‘Jeezy.’* Text ‘TRAPORDIE2’ To 66937 To Get The ‘Trap or Die 2 Reloaded’ sent right to your mobile phone.” We can’t move on that quickly, though: Up until a few days ago, Jeezy was the most famous current emcee utilizing hip-hop’s second-most-prevalent prefix (after “Lil,” of course).
[Read More]What Happened on Downton Abbey Season 3, and Where We Hope Its Headed
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 935 words
| Zora Stowers
Okay, yes — you probably remember what happened at the very end of season three, when Matthew Crawley crashed into a giant truck and died mere hours after the birth of his first child. It was horrible. We’ve been mourning all year. But can you remember anything else that happened last season? Don’t worry; grief makes us forget all sorts of things. Here is a quick refresher course to get you up to speed before season four (starting Sunday on PBS).
[Read More]What Is Expiring From Netflix on February 1?
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
Having come to the conclusion that it’s genuinely useful to tell its users what movies will soon be expiring from its service, Netflix is now releasing a list of the films that will disappear from its coffers (some presumably only for a short time) at the end of every month. Here is a list of what will expire on February 1. Several James Bond films will disappear from Netflix — since they have many times before, expect to see them return at some point soon.
[Read More]What Jeff Dunham Does Right
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 8 minutes
| 1701 words
| Janel Helmers
In 2010, Forbes ran a story about the ten highest paid comedians in the country and at the top of that list was ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. Through television specials, merchandise, and a rigorous touring schedule, Dunham had reached the top of his profession. Dunham is now a household name and a huge draw that sells out stadiums throughout the world.
That’s right, stadiums. Tickets for an upcoming show at the Tampa Bay Times Forum (the home stadium for the Tampa Bay Lightning) start at $90.
[Read More]What to Know About HBOs The Vow and the NXIVM Sex Cult
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
NXIVM members as seen in HBO’s The Vow. Like recent docuseries about Scientology and R. Kelly, among others, HBO’s The Vow explores the many ways a charismatic man can groom a flock of willing participants and impressionable victims. The nine-part series, directed by The Great Hack filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, focuses on the cult/multilevel-marketing scheme NXIVM, which, underneath its self-help veneer, was mainly a sex-trafficking ring for its leaders.
[Read More]What What the Constitution Means to Me Means to Them
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 15 minutes
| 3142 words
| Aldo Pusey
Tony Kushner has a favorite new play. Heidi Schreck wrote it. They have a lot to talk about. Heidi Schreck and Tony Kushner. Photo: Peter Hapak. Styling by Anatolli Smith; hair by Taichi Saito at MAM-NYC; makeup by Robert Reyes at MAM-NYC. On Schreck, dress by Derek Lam. Heidi Schreck and Tony Kushner. In late 2018, when Heidi Schreck’s play What the Constitution Means to Me was produced at New York Theatre Workshop, New York’s drama critic, Sara Holdren, called it the best thing she’d reviewed all year.
[Read More]What Will Happen to Movie Guns in Post-Rust Hollywood?
Posted on June 10, 2024
| 15 minutes
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| Janel Helmers
Calls for bans on functional firearms have been made, but entertainment-industry consensus regarding the abolition of guns on set remains elusive. The breakthrough came in a hail of gunfire on the 2013 Brad Pitt–starring World War II tank epic Fury. Writer-director David Ayer — whose artillery-heavy filmography includes Suicide Squad, End of Watch, and Netflix’s Bright — had been consumed with properly rendering tracer fire, those luminous bullets that help soldiers visually follow the flight of ammunition in battle, onscreen.
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