Photo: Brooke Sutton/Getty Images When it comes to performing sold-out stadiums, this isn’t Blue Ivy Carter’s first rodeo. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour — which concludes July 26 with the last of 32 shows — was more like a victory lap for the 13-year-old, who has gone from making a brief cameo during the Renaissance world tour in 2023 …
Photo: Netflix Between the two comedies that established Adam Sandler as a movie star, I was always a Billy Madison partisan. There’s just no resisting its exuberant anarchy — Sandler brutalizing children at dodgeball, Steve Buscemi with his “People to Kill” list and meditative lipstick, and the whole “Everyone in this room is now …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images No one could have predicted the Justin Bieber–Scooter Braun breakup. At one point, it was the most prolific and financially symbiotic client-manager relationship in the music industry. Since discovering the fledging, barely teenage Canadian talent on YouTube in 2007, Braun meticulously molded Bieber’s heartthrob R&B image into an incredibly …
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Photo: Warner Bros. Sabrina Carpenter is in Fortnite. John Wick is in Fortnite. The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet premiered in Fortnite. That there’s a significant crossover between Hollywood and the battle-royale video game is no significant news in and of itself, but a new collaboration is one of the weirdest clashes yet. On …
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Photo: Richard Foreman/A24 Micheal Ward, star of Eddington and Top Boy, was charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault on July 25, per BBC News. Prosecutor Catherine Baccas specified the charges are on “two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, and one count of sexual assault.” …
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Photo: MediaPunch/Shutterstock If you polled the public about Ozzy Osbourne in the 1970s and ’80s, you were likely to hear he was a self-destructive rock-and-roll hedonist, a literal emissary of Satan, or a first-ballot contender for coolest and craziest human alive. Black Sabbath, his coterie of paradigm-shifting Birmingham blues rockers and bar brawlers, cultivated …
Photo: Zach Dilgard/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME Spoilers follow for the first four episodes of Dexter: Resurrection, through “Call Me Red,” which premiered on Paramount+ on July 25. Dexter just won’t die. That’s been true for a while now, both inside the franchise’s canon and outside of it, since Showtime keeps green-lighting new series in this …
Photo: Marvel/Walt Disney Studios/Everett Collection Modular, retro-futuristic production design is The Fantastic Four: First Steps’s greatest asset. Whereas many Marvel films lack a signature style beyond “shot in front of green screen,” the studio’s latest film has all the charm of a children’s drawing of the future: flying cars and cute robots and Technicolor …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures/Everett Collection, Warner Bros. We’re in the midst of a Hot Boy Summer, but the “Hot Boy” is singular and his name is Pedro Pascal: He of silly little cardigans and fun eyeglasses and the sort of effortless charm and banter that makes you understand why talk-show interviews were …
Photo: Apple TV+ When all is said and done, the thing Foundation will be most remembered for is what it’s done with the Genetic Dynasty. It bears repeating that this is the greatest idea David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman came up with, and this is a very good example of why. This week’s …
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