Everyone has a Pansy Deacon in their life, or has at least encountered someone a lot like her at their job, a get-together, or simply railing against something or someone in a public place. She’s the type of person to find a storm cloud behind every silver lining, to see …
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It’s weird to say that Pamela Anderson — All-Canadian girl next door, Baywatch MVP, animal-rights activist, author, and the No. 1 spokesperson for going makeup–free — is experiencing what folks have dubbed a comeback. Since she first showed up in the pages of Playboy and graced the sitcom Home Improvement, …
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In the modern labor economy, when every worker in every industry is being asked to do more with less, when getting a work text or Slack message at 9 p.m. doesn’t seem improbable, when the capriciousness of the powers that be seems to be growing at the same exponential rate …
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I spent a few hundred hours last year rewatching every episode of ER while on the treadmill. I even rewatched some episodes multiple times, because there are just days when the only way to power through is with the help of the one where Noah Wyle’s John Carter takes command …
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The story behind Squid Game Season Two feels like it should be a story in the South Korean thriller’s long-delayed return. The making of the show’s first season —an ultra-violent satire of late-stage capitalism, where financially desperate people compete in a series of children’s games and the lone surviving player …
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Robbie Williams needs no introduction. Unless you live in America, in which case, let’s bring everyone up to speed: Born in 1974, Stoke-on-Trent’s favorite son was initially the designated bad boy in Take That, Britain’s late ’80s answer to New Kids on the Block. He lived up to his reputation …
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Movies have been absolutely peerless when it comes to giving the world a chance to gaze at desirable females. What the seventh art has been notoriously bad at is exploring the concept of female desire, in all of its complexities and clandestine, dark-corner complications. This is where Babygirl comes in. …
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At the midpoint between Bram Stoker turning a Transylvanian folk tale into a literary touchstone and Bela Lugosi inspiring a million I-vant-to-suck-your-blooood imitations, there was Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent “symphony of horror” about an eccentric Eastern European named Count Orlok with a taste for Type O. The fact that …
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Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner. Reels of some long-lost project from Francis Ford Coppola, or Bernardo Bertolucci, or Michael Cimino circa the mid-1970s reside in these …
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“My vagina is killing people.” As pithy summations for TV series go, that line from the new Peacock comedy Laid is pretty tough to beat. The series, created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, and starring Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet, has a particularly high-concept premise: Ruby (Hsu), who …
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