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Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Clockwise from top: Longlegs, Sunny, Fly Me to the Moon, and The Bachelorette. We’re about a hundred days from Halloween, give or take, but the only chills in the air are coming from our AC units (our strongest soldiers) and maybe a scary movie if you choose to indulge in the latest Nicolas Cage effort, where he plays the creepily mysterious killer. [Read More]

For decades, horror movies have dreamed up more and more outlandish ways to kill their poor victims. (Remember how Scream finished off Rose McGowan with an automatic garage door?) The stakes are even higher for American Horror Story co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk: Not only do they compete with Hollywood, they also have to find a way to top themselves every year. Each season devises new, ever more creative ways to kill characters off, whether it’s giving birth to a demon baby, having sex with cursed vagina, or being sodomized by a demon with a razor dildo. [Read More]

Sweet Dreams Are Made From Screens Working through our bedtime dependence on devices. Sweet Dreams Are Made From Screens Working through our bedtime dependence on devices. By this point, we’re all familiar with the prevailing conventional wisdom that screens before bed are bad for us; it is one of the great sources of societal guilt, since we nevertheless still all use our devices before bed. However, on further exploration of that notion, we’ve learned that things aren’t so cut-and-dried — there are a variety of perspectives on devices before bed, including the straightforward idea that if using a screen before bed relaxes you, well, that certainly helps with the quality of your sleep. [Read More]

L-R: Shiri Appleby, Donald Glover, Jenny Slate. A fact of life in New York — and therefore, on Girls — is that you never know who you might bump into. Narratively speaking, that means Hannah Horvath and company have spent six seasons enduring random, undesirable run-ins with former classmates, co-workers, friends, and lovers. Casting-wise, the show’s surprise encounters have proven to be a lot more fun. Celebrity cameos have always been a Girls staple; we tallied nearly 90 of them over the series’ 62 episodes, including major recurring characters like Caroline (Gaby Hoffmann), Desi (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), David Pressler-Goings (John Cameron Mitchell), and Hannah’s (sorry — “Banana’s”) parents (Becky Ann Baker and Peter Scolari). [Read More]

The release of Steve McQueen’s masterful Widows this week got us thinking about the long history of movies that have used Chicago as more than a mere backdrop. Filmmakers like John Hughes and Steve James have made the Windy City cinematically famous, but they’re far from alone. The main criterion for this list was that the films really use Chicago. Don’t just have a character mention the city and then film the movie on L. [Read More]

This list was originally published on May 10, 2019. It has been updated to include additional scary movie moms ahead of Mother’s Day. If we’ve learned one thing from horror and horror-adjacent films, it is that mother does not always know best. So, in honor of Mother’s Day, Vulture has pulled together a list of 25 of the absolute worst, most frightening moms ever onscreen. And by worst we mean a combination of incredible and evil. [Read More]

The Jinx Poor Little Rich Boy Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Jinx Poor Little Rich Boy Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Durst and now-thought-dead wife Kathie. This article was originally published on February 16, 2015. [Read More]

A list of playlists? In 2015, the state of music discovery has really come to this. Now that on-demand streaming is no longer a novelty, services from Spotify and Rhapsody to Google Play Music and Tidal are competing to out-curate one another. One of the main ways these companies are working to bring new music to the surface is the playlist — to the point where these simple sets of songs now cry out for a little curating of their own. [Read More]

Terrace House. The Japanese Netflix reality show Terrace House, now in its fourth season, is still mostly a cult concern in the U.S. But its popularity has steadily gained off the back of an increasing backlog of “the nicest reality show you’ll ever see” buzzpieces in most every major pop-culture publication out there. And yes, Terrace House is a very nice reality show. Its relaxed tempo and emphasis on the mundanities of co-living make it both a detox from the lurid forced drama of American reality TV for stateside viewers, as well as a fascinating cultural study. [Read More]

The second season of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology series, titled The Assassination of Gianni Versace, explores the titular designer’s brutal 1997 murder at the hands of serial killer Andrew Cunanan. We’re walking through all nine episodes in an effort to identify what ACS: Versace handles with care versus when it deviates from documented fact and common perception. The intention here is less to debunk an explicitly dramatized version of true events than to help viewers piece together a holistic picture of the circumstances surrounding Versace’s murder. [Read More]