November 22, 2024

  Photo: Robin L Marshall/Getty Images Grace Jabbari, Jonathan Majors’s ex-girlfriend, has dropped her lawsuit against him, per NBC News. She was alleging assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious persecution, and defamation due to Majors maintaining his innocence while convicted. The new filing states “all claims against Defendant … are hereby dismissed with …

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Netflix This post is updated regularly as shows leave and enter Netflix. The streaming era might’ve gifted us all with an endless flood of addictive, prestige-y scripted content, but sometimes, all we want is to kick back and relax with some reality TV. At a time when real life can be …

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  Photo: After Midnight via YouTube It’s the week before Thanksgiving break, and everyone is getting kind of rowdy. Brian Stack is dressing like a performance-art phreak on The Late Show; Andy Cohen is spoiling Wicked; and Seth Meyers is day drinking outside the confines of the sketch about day drinking. The only guy fully …

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  Photo: Apple TV+ This review was originally published on October 11, 2024 out of the New York Film Festival. We are recirculating it now that Blitz is streaming on Apple TV+. There’s no such thing as a typical Steve McQueen movie. Ever since he started making features with his 2008 Irish hunger-strike drama Hunger, …

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  Photo: 20th Century Studios This review was originally published on August 16, 2024. We are recirculating timed to Alien: Romulus’s streaming debut on Hulu and Disney+. “You have symphonies in you, brother,” whispered Michael Fassbender’s haughty über-android David to his lowly double Walter in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant (2017), trying to awaken in this …

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  Photo: Walt Disney Studios/Everett Collection This article was originally published on August 15, 2024. We are recirculating it timed to Alien: Romulus’s streaming debut on Hulu and Disney+. Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of the film. Seven movies into the Alien series — nine if you count the Alien vs. Predator movies, …

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  Illustration: Brian Lutz By James Acaster’s calculations, he gets heckled more than the average comedian. In his new HBO special Hecklers Welcome, out November 23, he recalls being heckled so relentlessly during his international stand-up tour in 2019 — often before he could even get to his first punch line onstage — that he was miserable …

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Sarah Stier/Getty Images Last Friday as I was dropping my car off for some brake work, I overheard some of the mechanics talking about whether anyone planned to watch the Mike Tyson–Jake Paul fight on Netflix that evening. “Yeah, might as well,” someone said. “It doesn’t cost anything.” Obviously, Netflix isn’t …

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios This article originally ran on January 11, 2020. It has been updated with additional films, including Steve McQueen’s new World War II-set movie Blitz. Speaking to Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune in 1973, François Truffaut made an observation that’s cast a shadow over war movies ever …

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  Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures Spoilers follow for Gladiator II, released in theaters on November 22.  Gladiator II muffles Paul Mescal and his character, Lucius Verus, in a very heterosexual plot, with every element meant to amp up his obsessed-with-the-Roman-Empire trauma. His wife gets fridged in the opening minutes. His beautiful mother abandoned him as …

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