Photo: Netflix Havoc takes place in a grimy American metropolis that’s part Chicago, part Detroit, and part Gotham City. This is by design, though I’m also not convinced the production could have aimed for geographic specificity if it wanted to. Havoc may be set in the U.S., but it was shot in Wales, where …
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Photo: Sean Gardner/Getty Images Shannon Sharpe, the former NFL player and current host of the Club Shay Shay podcast, is “temporarily” pausing appearances on ESPN’s football-discussion show First Take. Sharpe, who was accused of sexual assault by a former girlfriend in a lawsuit filed on April 20, confirmed his break in a social-media post …
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Photo: Netflix Even though Joe says he should know better about how affairs can go sideways, given his love of literature, he’s too blissed out to care. I love that these two are writing what you know has got to be the purplest, most insufferable prose and that they believe they’re being even a …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Katy Perry’s working relationship with the controversial producer Dr. Luke is her most fruitful creative partnership. The massively successful industry veteran produced the pop star’s first No. 1 single, “I Kissed a Girl,” and a number of Billboard-topping hits off her second album, Teenage Dream, including the title track, “California …
Photo: Dave Benett/WireImage/Getty Images Pedro Pascal is reading anti-trans author J.K. Rowling for filth. “Awful disgusting SHIT is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior,” the Last of Us star wrote in the comments section of an Instagram video about Rowling’s celebration of an April 16 U.K. Supreme Court decision. (The ruling, which states that trans …
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Photo: Focus Features/Everett Collection No other movie in last year’s Oscar race proved as unintentionally timely as Conclave. In the weeks leading up to the ceremony, the twisty turns and petty politicking of Edward Berger’s film made it a handy metaphor for awards season itself. Now, fate has brought a more literal comparison: The …
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Photo: Netflix Joe can’t stop thinking about having an affair. We know that the surest sign Joe is about to do A Bad Thing is when he promises to himself and us, via voice-over, that he would never do A Bad Thing, so as soon as he swears he won’t “jeopardize” his “good, stable …
Photo: Courtesy of Prime Spoilers follow for the first season of #1 Happy Family USA, all eight episodes of which premiered on Prime Video on April 17. If Ramy Youssef’s other TV shows, Ramy and Mo, were meant to evoke a friendly, self-deprecating Muslim man offering non-brown viewers a pull on the hookah, Youssef’s …
Photo: 20th Century Studios/Youtube What felt so remarkable about Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey, the 2022 Predator prequel, was how it placed the Predator in human history. The film rocketed back in time to show the havoc the creature wreaked on a group of Native Americans in the Great Plains during the 18th century. There was …
Photo: Lorde/Youtube As anybody who has recently seen Sadie Sink in John Proctor Is the Villain on Broadway can attest, Lorde’s “Green Light” is as great as ever. In that play, set in 2018, a group of teenage girls let out a whole lot of very loaded angst while dancing to “Green Light.” These are …
