Photo: Watermelon Pictures In a run-down corner of Athens, two cousins hover in a park square, looking for tourists to steal from. They are refugees and scavengers, part of a community of Palestinian men whose pasts share many of the same hallmarks: childhoods spent in Syrian and Lebanese camps; separations from family while trying …
Photo: Netflix After half a season of 30-minute episodes, “Pink Valentine” gives us an hour-long tour through Jess’s former life with Zev. If “Ignore Sunrise” stretched the getting-to-know-you montage, “Pink Valentine” reverse-engineers it: We get a compressed version of how things fell apart. Shit does hit the fan between Jess and Felix, as predicted, …
Photo: Netflix In the series finale of Squid Game, Seong Gi-hun asserts that humans are not horses and that they should not be made to compete for money and other people’s entertainment. Squid Game: The Challenge is basically Netflix’s way of saying, “Yeah … but we’re gonna do it anyway.” Again. The reality competition …
Photo: Ralph Bavaro/PEACOCK Spoilers follow for the second season of Poker Face through season finale “The End of the Road,” which premiered on Peacock on July 10. In the world of Poker Face, if a petite, raspy-voiced itinerant who reflexively says “bullshit” in response to an untruth tries to befriend you, run. Human lie-detector …
Photo: Ana Blumenkron/Netflix At this point in the season, we’ve seen Jess and Felix in individual contexts — at home, at work, among friends and family — and we’ve seen them alone together, but until now, we hadn’t seen them be a couple in front of other people. An intense, private shared world is a …
Photo: Ralph Bavaro/PEACOCK Spoilers follow for the second season of Poker Face through finale, “The End of the Road,” which premiered on Peacock on July 10. When Patti Harrison first shows up in Poker Face, it’s with what protagonist Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) describes as “kid-sister, golden-retriever energy.” Harrison’s Alex offers Charlie a patently …
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Photo: LAGENCIA PRESS/DJ SERGIO GARRIDO/BACKGRID Tom Brady is used to throwing, but this summer he’s looking for a catch. After attending Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venetian wedding solo, Brady has extended his European summer, fueling dating rumor after dating rumor. The latest involves the recently divorced Sofía Vergara. They’ve been seen together in …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Fleischer Studios This story was originally published July 7, 2024. We’re republishing it as a new Superman movie flies up, up, and away, and Fleischer continues to screen its influential shorts. With its second season in the books, My Adventures With Superman has more than proven itself a memorably dynamic take …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Erik Tanner for Serial Productions and The New York Times In April 2022, Clara Hochhauser, a nurse who works the labor-and-delivery floor at the University of Illinois Hospital, came in to have her own baby when the unthinkable happened. The anesthesiologist on call failed to administer the proper painkillers, and despite …
Photo: Peacock Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially for the cast of Love Island USA. It’s the first thing contestants do after a crazy night of sexy challenges and emotional eliminations (or surprise removals). You can’t pull someone aside for a chat while your stomach is growling. It’s not cute! …
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