It is 10 p.m. on a clement spring night and a scene is playing out in front of an unremarkable building. There is a throng of people waiting outside, eager to enter the Narnia that beckons beyond the impeccably dressed gatekeepers they are negotiating with. Every so often, the unmarked door opens to let in … Read more
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After an awards season that saw Lily Gladstone scoop up a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her astonishing work as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the actor has moved swiftly on to her next project: Hulu’s limited series Under the Bridge, based on the best-selling true-crime book by … Read more
I’ve always loved Passover. Okay, not always; my three-quarters Jewish, mostly atheist family and I didn’t throw seders when I was growing up. But ever since college, I’ve been coming together with friends to read the Haggadah (albeit one with a queer, feminist, decidedly modern bent), break matzah apart, dip parsley in salt water, ask … Read more
Now, she’s the red carpet interviewer du jour. By the time you read this, she’ll have served as the official social media ambassador of the Oscars. “And the red carpet correspondent,” she chimes in, “which I added [to the title]. I’m quite particular.” Today she’s in prep mode, squeezing in a quick club sandwich at … Read more
If you’re feeling a shift in the air today, don’t worry: that’s not another seismic event, but the kinetic energy of millions of Swifties mobilizing around the globe to welcome Taylor Swift’s latest albums, The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, into her oeuvre. Everyone has been buzzing about the drop … Read more
I guess it would take Taylor Swift to make it official: 2024 is the year of the diss track. January ended with an all-out blood bath (and, mostly, a horror show) between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion after years of subtle shots between the two. Then Ice Spice and Latto entered the ring, and … Read more
Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, dropped today, and it’s full of the kinds of astute observations about millennial existence that we’ve come to expect from the pop star. Case in point: in her duet with Florence Welch, “Florida!!!”, she sings: “My friends all smell of weed or little babies.” Can you imagine … Read more
People may occasionally call her pop confessionals “cringe,” or wonder if she’s oversharing—but in the tradition of many great poets before her, Swift’s bread and butter is in the gratuitous myth-making of her personal life. Penned with her trusted associates, Jack Antonoff (of the band Bleachers) and Aaron Dessner (of the band The National), Swift … Read more
Her sartorial transformation is just one of many in the Regency romp’s next chapter: there’s also Colin himself, who returns from his European adventures as a more rugged and worldly suitor, trading his Bridgerton baby blues for earthier shades; Eloise, whose outfits begin to mirror the flamboyance of Cressida’s; and Kate Bridgerton, née Sharma (Simone … Read more
Great war films—and I’d call Alex Garland’s Civil War a great and totally modern war film—should be discomfiting. That’s the moral calculus: War is hell, and any depiction of it should be tinted with the reality of violence and death. It’s how you get something as operatic and brutal as Platoon or the frightful poetry … Read more
