Illustration: Jane Rosenberg/REUTERS For weekly updates on all the most pivotal and dramatic moments from Diddy’s trial, sign up for our newsletter: Court Appearances: United States v. Diddy, and check out the rest of our trial coverage here. Following a grueling New York federal trial that saw multiple witnesses describe Sean “Diddy” Combs as …
Photo: Miramax/Everett Collection Michael Madsen, the imposing and wry actor best known for his collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, is dead at 67. The actor died of natural causes at home on July 3, NBC Los Angeles reported. His death was confirmed by managers Susan Ferris and Ron Smith, as well as his publicist, Liz …
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Bucket or Chuck It? is a series in which staff writer Rebecca Alter reviews the latest promotional popcorn buckets. You can watch her full hands-on demo on TikTok. For a breakdown of her score, read on. There’s a box-office battle brewing this Fourth of July weekend, and it’s not about which movie will come …
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Photo: Netflix/NETFLIX BTS got back from mandatory military service just in time to compete with fictional idols on the charts. The Saja Boys, the villainous soul-snatching quintet from Netflix’s June 20 animated film, Kpop Demon Hunters, are the hottest boy group in the country on Spotify. Their song “Your Idol” hit No. 2 on Spotify’s …
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Photo: Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection The dystopian imagination gets replenished so often nowadays that it can be hard sometimes to distinguish one screen apocalypse from another. At the start of R.T. Thorne’s 40 Acres, for example, we’re told that a fungal pandemic killed almost all animal life 14 years ago. That then led to a …
Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage Nicholas Hoult is not blond in Superman. He’s playing Superman’s archnemesis, Lex Luthor, who is bald, canonically, and not blond. Yet all that’s breaking through from the ongoing Superman press tour — full of little sketches and TikTok trends where Hoult pals around with co-stars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan — …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, Fred Hayes/Disney, Everett Collection Looks as though everyone has taken this holiday break seriously. Not even the streamers could provide a lot of new entertainment for us fools. Other than Jurassic World: Rebirth, we just might have to experience the outdoors this Fourth of July. But …
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While X reactions have been pouring in since morning, there have been several parallel discussions going on as the anticipation builds for the film While X reactions have been pouring in since morning, there have been several parallel discussions going on as the anticipation builds for the film
Photo: Ralph Bavaro/Peacock For those who assumed Poker Face season two would get the same 10 episodes as the first season, the additional two episodes must feel like an unexpected gift. Who could complain about getting to spend more time with Charlie Cale? Alas, I’ve been aware of the episode count from the beginning, …
Photo: K C Bailey/Netflix It’s surprising that Michael Che’s bit “Civil-Rights Update” is from his 2016 Netflix special, Michael Che Matters, and not his current hour. In its relevance, Che could have released it yesterday, and that, of course, is his whole depressing point. Black Americans have faced constant racism and animosity since the …
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