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the star market Mar. 9, 2012

The Star Market: How Many Big Chances Will Taylor Kitsch Get? Not too many more.

By Amanda Dobbins and Claude Brodesser-Akner

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Taylor Swift is mourning a fan who died during the Eras Tour’s latest stop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “I can’t believe I’m writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,” Swift wrote in a handwritten statement shared to her Instagram Story. “I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this. There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young. [Read More]

Ted Lasso So Long, Farewell Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Ted Lasso So Long, Farewell Season 3 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » For a moment it looked like Ted Lasso was going to blow its season — and, by all appearances, series — finale before the opening credits even rolled. [Read More]

Why do some of the most expensively made movies in history have trouble depicting a simple flame? Illustration: Erik Carter This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. There’s a scene in the Jennifer Lawrence movie No Hard Feelings where her clothes catch fire. She’s riding on the hood of a car as it speeds across a crowded beach and crashes into a barbecue, sending burning coals flying. [Read More]

Terry Crews has an amazing set of pectorals. They bounce, they nip-synced “Ebony and Ivory” with Jimmy Fallon, and they even did a victory gloat after Crews’s lip-sync battle against Mike Tyson. Brooklyn Nine-Nine put his pecs to good use for the holidays, having Crews, Andy Samberg, and Chelsea Peretti perform “Jingle Bells,” but really it’s all about those pecs. You can’t fit them into your stocking, but boy, can you try. [Read More]

The rom-com game is always on the lookout for fresh sources of conflict, and sex addiction seems as good as any. In Thanks For Sharing, Mark Ruffalo plays a sex addict who starts dating a skeptical Gwyneth Paltrow. Ruffalo also is the mentor to young addict Josh Gad, who in turn is trying to help Pink. The film hits theaters on September 20. It’s just like When Harry Met Sally, if Harry seemingly had sex with anything that moves — wait! [Read More]

Twirling twirling twirling towards oppression. Ever since The Force Awakens hit theaters, the people of the world have been haunted by questions such as, “Who are Rey’s parents?” “What is the meaning of love?” “Who is that awesome stormtrooper who gets to wield a badass stun-baton thing?” The answers to those questions have been, “We have a few clues,” “Oscar Isaac,” and “Who knows?” That is, until now. After the internet gifted the stormtrooper, whose sole purpose in the film is to shout “traitor” at John Boyega’s Finn and generally be a badass, the loving nickname TR-8R, Disney has stepped in to clarify things. [Read More]

Clockwise from top: I Saw the TV Glow, The Strangers: Chapter One, Outer Range, Bridgerton. It’s time to enter the TV glow. After a limited rollout, a new A24 flick is hitting theaters (the big-screen glow?) nationwide, and it’s insanely worth the watch. I can’t shut up about I Saw the TV Glow, as you’ll soon see. But there are other things beaming and streaming through the glow of a screen this week: a thrilling season of our favorite steamy Regency romance, a new Ilana Glazer comedy, an Oscar-winning publishing-world satire, and more. [Read More]

Please, I just want to “shop the looks.” Get Back is a relentlessly fascinating (and yes, relentlessly long) love letter to the Beatles from director Peter Jackson that serves, in a way, as a course correction for the rampant misconceptions of this era about them as a band. It’s January 1969, and Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr have gathered to write and record as many songs as they can for Let It Be as well as perform an unannounced rooftop concert to reacquaint themselves to the groove of live audiences; what ensues is a documentary about a documentary, with Jackson sorting through over 60 hours of film footage to get to the heart of the quartet’s various dynamics. [Read More]

147326806JD027_Hard_Rock_Ca For most consumers of pop culture, fandom is a lower-case concern. They are “fans” in the sense that they may like a particular movie, TV show, band, or personality but don’t think much about it when not experiencing it firsthand. Capital-F Fandom is something else altogether. It goes beyond “like” or even “love” and straight to “devoted.” Their Fandom is all-consuming, a jumping-off point for a deep dive into fan fiction, convention-attending, recap-writing, role-playing, costume-making, language-learning, and more. [Read More]