Kieran Culkin looks as though someone’s stolen a piece of his soul. We’re seated across from one another in the bustling lobby of the Pendry, a tony hotel in Park City, Utah, and the Succession star has just clocked a middle-aged man not-so-surreptitiously snapping several photos of him from across …
Read More »Jaboukie Young-White on Fixing Matt Rife and the Death of Twitter
Twitter recently lost one of its premier chaos agents: Jaboukie Young-White, the ace comic responsible for maybe the best single act of trolling in the hellsite’s history. The Illinois native attracted a large social media following in the 2010s thanks to his Instagram posts and tweets brimming with sardonic wit …
Read More »Alex Winter Talks Becoming a Horrifying Ogre, 'Bill & Ted 4,' and Breaking Up Big Tech
Back in the days of Blockbuster and local video rental stores, there was always that one rack — the one packed with horror flicks with gory-looking covers that scared Eighties and Nineties kids witless. Now, that same vibe has come to Shudder in the form of Josh Forbes’ Destroy All …
Read More »Everything We Know About 'The White Lotus' Season Three
If you watched the Season Two finale of The White Lotus, you know what happened to Jennifer Coolidge’s frazzled, impossibly wealthy Tanya. As she accepted her second Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series on Monday, she gave audiences a reminder of her laugh-out-loud death scene: “He says …
Read More »Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Shot Down by 'Argylle' Director
Have you heard the latest conspiracy theory being peddled by the Swifties? Because it’s a doozy. According to Taylor Swift’s online fandom, the pop superstar somehow found time in between the Eras Tour (and its the subsequent box-office smash of a documentary), rerecording her albums, and traveling across the U.S. …
Read More »Is 'Fallout' the Next 'The Last of Us?' Inside the Dystopian TV Series
“War. War never changes.” It’s a grim warning, which leads the introductory monologue to every mainline game in the Fallout franchise. It’s a real mood-setter, usually accompanied by a summary of the state of society: In an alternate future, the world is living in retro-futurist, atompunk bliss. That is, until …
Read More »He Gave the Most Chilling Performance of the Year as a Nazi
Christian Friedel was overcome with shame. Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor chose to visit Auschwitz for the first time. And since he’d already been given an undercut, Friedel had to tuck his Nazi …
Read More »Anthony Carrigan on the End of 'Barry' and Playing Metamorpho in 'Superman: Legacy'
Anthony Carrigan was supposed to die in the first episode of Barry. And yet, his cheerful Chechen mobster in the crime-comedy series managed to survive for four seasons. “I was really rewarded with the opportunity to have this arc with Hank in which he starts off as this lovable goofball …
Read More »'Mean Girls' Directors Defend TikTok-Heavy Movie: 'Let the Kids Decide'
You might be familiar with Mean Girls on Broadway, most recently toplined by Sabrina Carpenter and Reneé Rapp, and you’ve almost definitely seen the 2004 movie, packed with more quotable moments than one can count. So, in the new movie musical Mean Girls, directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. …
Read More »Lily Gladstone Is Seizing the Moment — and Making History
W hen Lily Gladstone was growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in rural Montana, acting in plays was an escape from bullies, who targeted her for being “verbose and goofy.” The idea came from her father, a Native man of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, whom she describes …
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