August 27, 2025

Venice’s Opening Film, La Grazia, Finds Beauty in Unknowability

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  Photo: MUBI Despite his current reputation as a creator of aggressively aestheticized films, Paolo Sorrentino was once a director of uncommon subtlety. Understated early works such as One Man Up and the masterful Consequences of Love focus on people struggling with static lives and longing to be elsewhere. Later efforts don’t necessarily abandon these …

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Pedro Pascal Just Might Save Todd Haynes’s Explicit Gay Romance

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Mike Marsland/WireImage, Jeff Spicer/Getty Images Does anyone know if Todd Haynes is willing to add scenes where an actor’s legs get longer? Pedro Pascal is reportedly circling Haynes’s next film, De Noche, per Deadline, replacing Joaquin Phoenix. Pascal would star as a corrupt cop who flees 1930s Los Angeles for Mexico …

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Did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Get Engaged After Recording New Heights?

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  Photo: New Heights/YouTube It wouldn’t be a Taylor Swift update without some sort of accompanying puzzle. After she and fiancé Travis Kelce posted a joint-engagement announcement on Instagram on August 26, fans and Vulture writers wondered when this engagement actually happened. There was no way, knowing Swift’s penchant for media control, that this happened …

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Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney Want Lorne Michaels on Their Podcast

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  Photo: Annie Jeong This year’s SNL50 anniversary special was one of the most star-studded televised events outside of the Oscars, with the likes of Kim Kardashian, Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Cher, and Eddie Murphy all making appearances. But for a certain contingent of comedy fans, the most exciting celebrity sighting was former cast …

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‘So Here’s This Lunatic With a Crew Cut’

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Getty Images With respect to the repertory players, if you watch any Saturday Night Live episode between 1985 and 1995, it’s clear that the person with the most dazzling stage presence is G.E. Smith. The show’s bandleader — Lenny Pickett’s predecessor — presided over anything related to music during that decade, …

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Who Is the New York Ripper on Dexter: Resurrection?

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  Photo: Zach Dilgard/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME Despite being a show steeped in murder, Dexter is almost never a whodunit. That goes for its latest iteration, Dexter: Resurrection, a sequel series to 2021’s Dexter: New Blood and Dexter proper. We know who the murderer is because he’s our protagonist, the titular Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), …

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