With its grand sets, hit songs, and iconic performances, Om Shanti Om became one of Shah Rukh Khan’s most celebrated films With its grand sets, hit songs, and iconic performances, Om Shanti Om became one of Shah Rukh Khan’s most celebrated films
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (20th Century Fox, Disney+/Ludo Studio), Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images, Studio Ghibli, Courtesy of retailers If you’re a parent who’s somehow made it through the last few weeks without hearing about KPop Demon Hunters, you must be some kind of unicorn. An animated Sony production that dropped on Netflix late …
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Photo: CBS/YouTube Stephen Colbert was the only late-night-show host to address the death of Turning Point USA founder and right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk on his September 10 broadcast. The CBS Late Show host opened the episode with a seated aside ahead of the pretaped monologue. He first specifies that the news broke “after the …
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Photo: Disney General Entertainment Con MSNBC fired political pundit and partner of Maria Shriver, Matthew Dowd, following his comments on-air about the murder of Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk on September 10, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When journalist Katy Tur asked Dowd about “the environment in which a shooting like this happens,” Dowd …
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Photo: Jaclyn Martinez/Amazon MGM Studios With his 2018 documentary Minding the Gap, director Bing Liu crafted a tender, reflective story that functioned as a portrait of masculinity, centered on three young men whose friendship is bound to their love of skateboarding. Liu’s ability to coax truth from his subjects — including his own mother, …
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Photo: Netflix Once upon a time, a Charlie Sheen meltdown could control a whole news cycle: He’d freak out, he’d do a tell-all interview even more chaotic than whatever freak-out he’d had, there’d be lawsuits, and his father, Martin Sheen, would quietly try to help his son maintain dignity in the face of endless …
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“Woh kaafi strong hai aur aise situations mein tension ko filter karna jaanti hai,” said Shantanu Maheshwari about his co-star Avneet “Woh kaafi strong hai aur aise situations mein tension ko filter karna jaanti hai,” said Shantanu Maheshwari about his co-star Avneet
Photo-Illustration: Max-o-matic; Photos: Netflix, FX, Apple TV+, Peacock, A24; Independent Film Company, Warner Bros. Pictures, Lee Jeffries TV The Journalist As Underdog There is a partially despairing, partially self-congratulatory vibe running through journalism-focused TV and movies this fall. Is the for-profit model inherently doomed? What service should a community newspaper provide? Is the danger …
Photo: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ For most of the season, it’s felt likely that Marie’s story would not end happily. Now that it’s over, however, calling it an unhappy ending doesn’t seem quite right. The bittersweetness of “New Life and New Civilizations,” Strange New Worlds’s season-three finale, begins with the first scene, in which the Enterprise …
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Photo: Courtesy of Olivia Vilardi-Perez The date — September 11 — will never change. But the way we tell its story already has. It will never get better. Yet as those living and marked by it move through the rest of their lives, the spotlight is shifting. The children whose parents died that day …
