Category: Culture & Humanities
Amandla Stenberg Knew The Hate U Give Was a Success Based on the Number of White People Crying
Stopping by The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Monday night, The Hate U Give star Amandla Stenberg discussed the one clear-cut sign that, to her, meant the recently released film version of Angie Thomas’s YA novel about police brutality …
Every Movie in the Halloween Franchise, Ranked
David Gordon Green’s Halloween lands in theaters this Friday, with a big ask for fans of the franchise: forget the entire franchise. It rescinds the events of literally every sequel, reboot, and reboot-sequel that followed the origina…
Jon Hamm Eats Bull Penis Rather Than Talk About the Size of His Own
Despite Jon Hamm’s many protestations, the internet continues to talk about his penis, and so too does James Corden. Brought onto the torture chamber that is one of Corden’s many games last night, Hamm decided he’d rather eat bull pen…
Times are a-changin’ as Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks spills on to the screen
By dramatising the classic 70s album, Call Me By Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino is taking the movies in a new directionExciting news for cinephiles this week, as Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name, has announced that for his next film he wi…
Sylvester Stallone’s Chaos pen trailer: the most bizarre film he’s ever made
The promo film for Stallone’s majestically ugly pen has resurfaced on social media, revealing such eternal truths as ‘death does not exist without life’By 2013, Sylvester Stallone was out of the late-career Hollywood doldrums. He had resurrected his tw…
Brooklynn Prince, Age 8, Already Knows How to Make People Listen
Brooklynn Prince’s latest collaborators include actors Helen Mirren, Bryan Cranston, and Angelina Jolie (The One and Only Ivan); executive producers Steven Spielberg (The Turning), Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie 2: …
Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote a Poem Just for You
The following is the introduction to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book, Gmorning, Gnight! The work is a collection of his popular inspirational tweets that wish his followers, well, good morning and good night. Miranda, who you may know f…
Why ABC Decided to Do Roseanne Without Roseanne
On May 29, ABC canceled its spectacularly successful revival of Roseanne, mere hours after its titular creator and star sent out her now-infamous racist tweet. But in TV-land what is dead may never die: Roseanne is back Tuesday night,…
To Binky Urban, ‘Power’ Is a Male Word
Amanda “Binky” Urban — the ICM agent who represents, among many others, Michael Pollan, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Walter Isaacson, Mary Karr, Richard Ford, Anthony Doerr, and the estates of E. B. White, Nora Ephron, and E. L. Do…
Kerry Washington Is Stretching
After seven seasons of Scandal, Kerry Washington has shed the trappings of the D.C. power fixer she played on television in favor of a political drama of a different sort. Onstage in Christopher Demos-Brown’s intimate play American So…