Photo: MGM/Everett Collection Never before has there been a better use of the famous Star Wars crawl — except, of course, the opening of Spaceballs. On June 12, comedy legend Mel Brooks posted a clip to X summarizing the last 38 years of blockbuster cinema in the style of the classic sci-fi opening, and it …
Photo: Apple TV+ Sydney Sweeney makes her entrance in Echo Valley like an apparition in a horror movie. The movie’s main character, Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore), is the owner of the verdant Echo Valley Farm, where she boards horses and gives riding lessons to the privileged children of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She’s been making …
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Photo: Walt Disney Co./Everett Collection Robert Eggers built a career on biblically accurate representations of things that would be terrible to live through: getting stalked by a witch (or is it vvitch?) in colonial America, being one of two guys working at a lighthouse with no one but each other and the world’s loudest …
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Photo: Sabrina Carpenter/Rolling Stone via Getty Images The cover of Sabrina Carpenter’s forthcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, features the singer on her knees, pawing for attention at an anonymous man who has his hand gripping her hair. The high-contrast, filmic quality of the image cover calls to mind — aside from the obvious dog-like …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images People magazine knew exactly what they were doing when they pulled out a quote from Olivia Munn’s June 4 cover story about the Über-popular children’s show host Ms. Rachel into a separate post a few days later. “I know kids love [Ms. Rachel], but the thing is, if I …
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Photo: Christian Monterrosa/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images Harvey Weinstein’s criminal retrial in Manhattan ended without a verdict on the disgraced movie mogul’s third-degree rape charge. Following days of juror tensions (including the jury foreperson’s decision not to return to the jury room), Judge Curtis Farber declared a mistrial on the rape charge on June 12. The …
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Playing Rogue One and Andor hero Cassian Andor wasn’t the first time Diego Luna fought droids, dodged gunfire from spaceships, and tried to help poverty-stricken migrants crushed under the boot of authoritarian rule. Years before he joined the Star Wars universe, Luna made his sci-fi debut in director Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 film Elysium as …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content, Michael Ochs Archives) The overwhelming majority of humans alive now aren’t old enough to feel the shellshock from the musical paradigm shifts of the 1960s. We were born in a world that always had the Beatles and Nina Simone and Jimi Hendrix. The …
Photo: Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection This article was originally published on June 26, 2023. While we might not rank The Phoenician Scheme among Wes Anderson’s best movies, the director’s latest does include two stand-out performances that have been added to this list. Wes Anderson creates remarkably intricate worlds and populates them with just as …
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