Linda Cardellini has lived a hell of a lot of lives. Sure, there’s her real one: a 49-year-old mom who grew up in California and is now raising a 13-year-old daughter with the love of her life while balancing a career that only seems to grow richer as she ages. …
Read More »'Mamus': Inside the Arhuaco Tribe's Fight to Protect Their Home
The Arhuaco tribe has resided in the lush, emerald expanse of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta for hundreds of years. It’s the kind of landscape that looks surreal, surrounded by the cerulean Kutunsama lagoon, the ivory peaks of the coastal mountain’s glaciers, vibrant creatures like the Macaw and a …
Read More »Is 'Dan Da Dan' the Future of Mainstream Anime?
Everyone loves a meet cute; it’s a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl, girl hates boy. But there’s something there, just beneath the surface. Through a series of mishaps and mixed signals, the two eventually grow on each other. Love blossoms. Then a turbo-charged granny demon steals the …
Read More »In the End, 'What We Do in the Shadows' Is an Ode to Friendship
This post contains spoilers for the series finale of What We Do in the Shadows, which is now On Demand from FX and will begin streaming on Hulu tomorrow. “Things end. And it hurts!” This is Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) early in the series finale of What We Do …
Read More »'Arcane: League of Legends' Makes Art Out of Chaos
Much of the tension in the Netflix animated fantasy epic Arcane: League of Legends involves two potential mergers, both of them incredibly volatile. The first is the plan by inventor Jayce (Kevin Alejandro) to use technology to harness the power of his world’s bygone age of magic, in a combination …
Read More »There's No Big Mystery in 'Aaron Rodgers: Enigma'
Aaron Rodgers: Enigma, a new Netflix docuseries about the great and apparently greatly misunderstood NFL quarterback, begins with a tattoo. After the Green Bay Packers trade him in early 2023 to the New York Jets, Rodgers decides to change his jersey number from 12 to 8, which in turn inspires …
Read More »Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie Celebrate Being 'OGs' and 'the Blueprint' for Reality TV
Two decades after lifelong friends Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie starred in the genre-defining reality series The Simple Life, the pair have reunited onscreen in a miniseries anniversary special, Paris & Nicole: The Encore (now streaming on Peacock). The three-part series showcases the besties taking a walk down memory lane: …
Read More »Marielle Heller Has a Dog in This Fight
“So I just… wait, is Ethan Hawke behind me?” Marielle Heller has just lost her train of thought. She’s sitting in the cafe she frequents enough to be on a first-name basis with the owner, and she thinks the Before Sunrise actor just walked in. To be fair, the Brooklyn …
Read More »For Nikki Glaser, Comedy Is Easy. Living Is Hard
N ikki Glaser is turned on. That the comedian is, at full volume, discussing her level of arousal in a restaurant — she is “damp downstairs,” to be precise — is probably not surprising to anyone who has seen her four standup specials. In her most recent, Someday You’ll Die, …
Read More »'The End' Is About Mankind Facing Certain Doom. Its Director Hopes It Inspires You
Joshua Oppenheimer wasn’t planning on making his narrative feature debut about the end of the world — and he certainly didn’t think it would be a musical. And yet, eight years after the idea popped into his head, at last his bold opus has come to the big screen, ready …
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