A Gore-Soaked Spectacle of Depravity and Pain
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 4 minutes
| 833 words
| Janel Helmers
You can practically smell the Black Flies director chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity. This review originally published on May 19, 2023 out of the Cannes Film Festival (back when the movie was titled Black Flies). We are recirculating it timed to its theatrical release.
Starring Tye Sheridan and Sean Penn as a pair of EMTs making their way through an endless gauntlet of violence, cruelty, and blood, Asphalt City is the kind of movie that could fuel a year’s worth of wet dreams for any politicians eager to portray New York as a crime-soaked hellscape.
[Read More]A Guide to Wordle, Twitters Favorite Game
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 4 minutes
| 703 words
| Elina Uphoff
If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you’ve seen the phenomenon that is Wordle. Some have embraced the game by posting their daily scores in emoji-filled tweets, while others have prided themselves on never playing the game. Wordle is a free game where you have six guesses to try to figure out the five-letter word of the day. Its simplicity has taken over the internet like other word games before it, with celebrities like Schitt’s Creek’s Dan Levy and Jimmy Fallon playing and sharing their scores.
[Read More]A Hike Above Hollywood With Marion Cotillards New Leading Man
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1389 words
| Sherie Connelly
Matthias Schoenaerts attends TheWrap’s Awards Season Screening Series Presents “Rust And Bone” on November 14, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. “Oh, wow! Jesus! Wow.” Matthias Schoenaerts stops in his tracks halfway up the mountain, looking down from his vantage point at a wide swath of Los Angeles, the sky above perfectly blue and unsmogged after a weekend of cleansing rain. “I shouldn’t curse, but … wow. Oh, ho, ho. Beautiful.
[Read More]A Hills Mystery: Whither Whitney Port?
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 1019 words
| Sherie Connelly
Whitney Port As the first season of The Hills: New Beginnings winds down, I feel confident that I am caught up on the lives of most of the cast members from the original series. Audrina Patridge is still sort of directionless and sad-eyed, Justin Bobby makes even less sense than he used to, and Heidi and Spencer Pratt are, against all odds, still married and seemingly happy. Watching the revival, I have even learned about the whereabouts of people I forgot existed, like Frankie Delgado.
[Read More]A Living Room Art Gallery in Brooklyn Focuses on the Abject and Alien
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 3 minutes
| 455 words
| Elina Uphoff
Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. 15 Orient is both the name and the address of a gallery inside an inconspicuous Brooklyn home located near the Graham Avenue L train station. Its proprietors, Paul Gondry and Shelby Jackson, first repurposed the living room into an exhibition space to showcase their own work back in 2016 and since they’ve mounted nine more shows, mostly by their artist friends.
[Read More]A Swifties Guide to Seeing the Eras Tour Movie
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1322 words
| Sherie Connelly
The Swift Syllabus Ongoing education about the singer’s many intersecting universes. The Swift Syllabus Ongoing education about the singer’s many intersecting universes. “One, two, three, let’s go bitch!” Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is coming to theaters for a limited run on Friday, October 13, and there’s a lot to catch up on — Travis Kelce rumors not included. This is Taylor Swift’s first worldwide theatrical release — Miss Americana was only shown in select theaters for a limited time before hitting Netflix — and fans have already embraced the concert film almost as much as the sold-out tour itself.
[Read More]A Timeline of Euphoria Obsession and Sam Levinson Hatred
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 14 minutes
| 2811 words
| Zora Stowers
Rules (Hunter Schafer and Zendaya). The teens at Euphoria High have endured their fair share of drama, but even that doesn’t compare to the chaos ensuing off-screen. As the second season of HBO’s first teenage-coming-of-age series has progressed, fans have become increasingly divided on the direction of its story lines, from the love triangle between Rue (Zendaya), Jules (Hunter Schafer), and newcomer Elliot (Dominic Fike) to Kat’s (Barbie Ferreira) nonexistent arc.
[Read More]A Tribe Called Quest and the Art of the Mixtape
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 9 minutes
| 1885 words
| Zora Stowers
A Tribe Called Quest. Hanif Abdurraqib is a visiting writer in the MFA program at Butler University, an acclaimed poet, and cultural critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, MTV News, Vulture, and other outlets. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, he is the author of the highly praised poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us.
[Read More]Adapting Sesame Street for Russian TV What Could Go Wrong?
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 15 minutes
| 3193 words
| Zora Stowers
First day of shooting Ulitsa Sezam in Moscow’s ORT TV studio: the executive producer, Natasha Lance Rogoff, with puppeteers Elena Teschinskaya and Andrei Kuzichev with their Muppets Businka and Kubik in the background. Author’s collection. Almost 30 years ago, not long after the collapse of the Soviet communist empire, Sesame Workshop — the company that produces Sesame Street — hired me to create Ulitsa Sezam, an original Russian adaptation of Sesame Street.
[Read More]Al Roker Returns to Today Show After Health Battle
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 397 words
| Zora Stowers
Al Roker returned to the Today show on January 6 — two months after he was first hospitalized for blood clots. In a new interview, the anchor and Deborah Roberts, his wife and an ABC News correspondent, shared just how serious his “frightening” condition was. “It’s not lost on us that this is a major, major thing for Al to be here,” Roberts said. “He is a living, breathing miracle.
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