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Killer. Robin Hood. Cannibal gang leader. Revolutionary. These are some of the conflicting labels that have been attached to Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, the former police officer-turned-gang chieftain at the center of Haiti’s spiraling violence. Since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse plunged the country into anarchy, mainstream news …

From the moment it went on the air in 1992 all the way to its final season in 2019, MTV’s groundbreaking reality show The Real World offered young people a simple proposition: We’ll give you 15 minutes of fame if you agree to live in a house with complete strangers …

Steve Urkel was only supposed to appear in a single episode of Family Matters. It was the 12th episode of the new ABC sitcom about a working-class family in Chicago, and the script called for a hopeless nerd with a penchant for swallowing mice to ask eldest daughter Laura (Kellie …

Once upon a time, an intrepid screenwriter tweeted into the void: “Just had the best idea for a Hallmark Christmas movie holy shit holy shit holy shit.” Little did he know, he would go on to save Christmas in this year of our lord, 2024, when Twitter is now X, …

H e’s traveling through the north country today. Eighty miles from Canada, where the winds, it’s been said, hit heavy on the borderline. As his rented Toyota pickup truck reaches a tree-shaded suburban intersection, he kills the engine and bounds out into late-January air. He’s layered a down jacket over …

Karla Sofía Gascón wants to be in the light. It’s a warm late-October day in Los Angeles, and the actress has arrived for a lunch date at the Sunset Marquis in a silky black dress and a bare face. In English, she asks the restaurant waiter for a sunlit table. …

About six years ago, one Alex Cross passed the torch to another. In 2018, Aldis Hodge had the title role in the film Brian Banks, about a real-life star football player who was falsely accused of rape in high school and tried to make it to the NFL after he …

It’s the morning after the presidential election, and Sharon Horgan is here to talk about men who hurt women. “How are you?” she asks before catching herself. “Oh my god, I don’t even know why I’m asking that.” Sitting in bed in a hotel in Rome, where she’s busy filming …

Over the course of its four-season run, HBO‘s My Brilliant Friend has featured gangland killings, sexual assaults, attacks by political revolutionaries, and other forms of violence. Yet time and again, the Italian drama series, based on Elena Ferrante’s quartet of Neapolitan novels, finds itself at its most savage, and powerful, …

Y ou may know Martin Starr as the acerbic engineer Bertram Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley. Or the judgemental screenwriter Roman DeBeers in Party Down. Or maybe you just recognize his face: that dude from the Judd Apatow universe, the one with the rectangular eyeglasses and a deadpan expression. He’s used …