Photo: Hulu We have done it! We collectively survived another 10 episodes of MomTok mess. A finale is always a bit of a tricky beast, as you’re yearning for closure, but not too much closure. Everything must feel both surprising and wildly inevitable. The last scene should be gasp-worthy, but not to an extent …
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Photo: Brian Fluharty/Getty Images Say what you want about Timothée Chalamet, but he is a fanboy. He loves Bob Dylan, he loves Xbox controllers, he loves Luca Guadagnino, and he loves the New York Knicks. As the Knicks have ascended through the Eastern Conference Finals, Chalamet has been there, courtside, standing and shouting and …
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Photo: Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures On Wednesday, May 21, the Wicked movies’ Instagram account started an ominous countdown. “Six months” a title card read over a single foreboding piano chord. Six months? Six months until we see a movie that was filmed before the first movie even came out. Six months until we’ll finally get to …
Photo: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Cheers’s opening theme song said the eponymous bar was where everybody knows your name. But only one of its regulars was beloved enough to have his name shouted in unison every time he walked into the place. Norm, a.k.a. Norman Peterson, a.k.a. Normie, a.k.a. Mr. Peterson (if …
Photo: Focus Features Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, and director Oliver Hermanus have been trying to make The History of Sound since 2020, just after Mescal rose rapidly to fame with Normal People and O’Connor did the same with The Crown. All of the usual suspects (financing, strikes, the pair’s increasingly frenetic schedules) got in …
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Photo: Marcus Ingram/Getty Images It’s time to party like we’re extras in She’s the Man. That’s what the All-American Rejects want us to do, anyway, with their current tour giving the middle finger to big venues that charge a lawsuit-inducing amount of ticket fees. The band is embarking on what they call the House Party …
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Photo: MANDARIN & COMPAGNIE KALLOUCHE CINEMA FRAKAS PRODUCTIONS FRANCE 3 CINEMA That Coco Chanel quote about how you should look in the mirror before leaving the house and take one thing off is probably apocryphal, but it’s nevertheless one I’ve started to wish director Julia Ducournau would apply to her work. Does the character …
Photo: Disney/Maximum Film/Alamy Stock Photo This article originally ran on October 19, 2022. With the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch in theaters this weekend, we’re republishing this oral history of the original’s creation and miraculous hand-drawn animation. When watching Lilo & Stitch — be it for the first time or the 40th time …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: @storytimewithrikkii via TikTok Giving the internet reality checks on reality stars is quickly becoming Rikkii Wise’s full-time job. Although she’s currently an office manager for a home-care company in Los Angeles, when Love Is Blind is airing on Netflix, she usually spends four to 12 hours a day on content for …
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Photo: Reiner Bajo/Disney One of the downsides of Nine Perfect Strangers’s narrative setup — we have the clinic, the guests, and Masha at the helm — is that it inevitably draws its characters into simple “types.” There’s the bitter daughter, the rejected lover, the nice guy with a dark underside. In the first season of …
