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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Ben Symons/Peacock via Getty Images Love Island? More like Friendship Island. After the season seven reunion, we are met with couples who have seemingly sizzled out without a lot of fire. All the lovers’ quarrels must’ve translated into friendship feuds. The greatest tension this season comes from the friends and the …

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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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  Erika Doss/Prime It took eight episodes, but The Summer I Turned Pretty’s third season finally made me cry, which is all I have ever asked of it. Before watching this episode, I was thinking that perhaps the reason this season isn’t working for me is that I can’t make myself hate Jeremiah. I know that …

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  Netflix Friends, I’m so bloody torn. By all accounts, Love Is Blind: UK season two is one of the most successful endings we’ve ever seen. All of the couples except for one are now married, and even the pair who didn’t get married parted on an “it’s not a no — it’s when we’re …

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  FX Good best friends, if you believe what you’re watching onscreen these days, are an endangered species. The big-city rom-com, the natural habitat for the cheery sidekick, doesn’t get made as often anymore. When it does, in projects like Materialists and Too Much, as some have pointed out, the women protagonists tend to hack …

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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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  Photo: Ben Symons/Peacock via Getty Images It looks like the glass slipper broke on its way back from Fiji. Boo! Two days after the reunion aired, our Love Island USA winner, Amaya Espinal, confirmed that she and Bryan Arenales are no longer together. “After leaving the villa, it became very clear that we were on two …

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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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  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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