May 17, 2025

Doctor Who Recap: Face the Music

  Photo: James Pardon/BBC Studios/Disney/Bad Wolf Allow me to co-opt the lyrics of a viral TikTok song, because … what the Hellion? So much is packed into this week’s adventure. “The Interstellar Song Contest” attempts to tackle ideas related to racism (species-ism?), genocide, terrorism, resistance to oppression, revenge, justice, capitalism, colonialism, and propaganda — and …

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Lauren Sánchez’s Next Mission Is the International Bachelorette Trip

  Photo: Stefanie Keenan/WireImage for Vanity Fair After blasting off into space for a few minutes, Lauren Sánchez is conquering the final frontier: the out-of-the-country Bachelorette trip. Which is arguably a lot scarier than seeing Earth from an alien’s eye view. The Blue Origin space cadet assembled her bride tribe for a getaway to Paris, …

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Kristen Stewart on Why The Chronology of Water Is ‘Like a Female Orgasm’

  Photo: Victor Boyko/Getty Images Kristen Stewart threw what she describes as a “temper tantrum” to make her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water. She worked on it for eight years, refusing to let it die even as she gained and lost financing and actors and department heads, threatening not to act again until she …

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Who Is Cassie’s Husband, Alex Fine?

  Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Paramount+ Throughout the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s husband, Alex Fine, has been by her side, supporting her in person in the courtroom. Ventura sued Combs in 2023, where she claimed that during their on-again, off-again relationship, Combs was emotionally, physically, and mentally abusive towards her and …

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The Emmys Can’t Ignore TV’s Spy Obsession Much Longer

  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited, Lucasfilm Ltd., Stefania Rosini/Netflix In all the years of the Emmys, only two shows about espionage have ever won the Outstanding Drama Series award: Mission: Impossible in 1967 and 1968 (it was the 1960s) and Homeland in 2012 (we’d just killed Bin Laden). It’s not …

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Jia Zhangke on the ‘Stargazing’ Mysteries of Caught by the Tides

  Photo: Sideshow and Janus Films For years, Jia Zhangke imagined that the film that would become Caught by the Tides would be his last. He had been capturing and archiving acres of footage since 2001— everything from random fragments to documentary images to loosely scripted fictional scenarios featuring his actors — and figured he’d …

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