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What to Know About The Wheel of Time Books Before Watching the Amazon Prime Series
There’s a lot of TV coming our way this holiday season, and one of the most buzzed-about shows out there is Amazon’s new fantasy series The Wheel of Time, developed by Rafe Judkins and starring Rosamund Pike. As the series’ Nov. 19 premiere date approaches—when the first three of eight episodes will be released at…
Everything to Know About the Original Cowboy Bebop Before You Watch the Netflix Adaptation
The Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop, which premiered in 1998, is widely regarded as director Shinichirō Watanabe’s magnum opus. Set in 2071, in a post-apocalyptic world where Earth has become largely uninhabitable, the story follows a ragtag group of bounty hunters, known as cowboys, aboard the spaceship “Bebop.” As they traverse planets and moons in…
If You Like Sex Education, You’ll Love Mindy Kaling’s The Sex Lives of College Girls
Like so many young women in real life but so few in current pop culture, when they get hurt, they get right back up again.
The Quentin Tarantino-Miramax Dispute Isn’t the First Lawsuit Over NFTs—And it Won’t Be the Last
The lawsuit is another example of the sometimes fraught way in which the concept of NFT ownership has collided with existing copyright law.
What King Richard‘s Story of an Uncommon Dad Means for the Rest of Us
In King Richard, the new biopic chronicling the rise of the superstar tennis sisters each now known by one name—Venus and Serena—the protagonist Richard Williams, played with standout moxie by Will Smith, acts on a familiar parental impulse. Who among us hasn’t spouted off about the talents of our dear children to anyone within earshot?…
How Ghostbusters: Afterlife Fits Into the Long-Running Franchise
Got questions about Ghostbusters: Afterlife ahead of its premiere on Nov. 19? We’ve got you covered
Adele’s Enduring Popularity Is About More Than the Music
To paint Adele solely as a savior of some idea of “real music” would be to ignore the ways she aligns perfectly with digital-age celebrity
Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Misunderstands What Made the Original a Classic
'Cowboy Bebop' is a mood.
Britney Spears’ Conservatorship Ends After 13 Years
On Friday, Nov. 12, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ruled in favor of terminating the conservatorship, less than five months after Spears testified that it was abusive
What To Know About the Novel Passing Before Watching the Netflix Movie
From the book's reception in the late 1920s to Nella Larsen's personal history
The True Story Behind The Shrink Next Door
Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell star in the new Apple TV+ series adapted from a podcast
With Belfast, Kenneth Branagh Affectionately Recalls a Childhood in a City Torn by Strife
Kenneth Branagh has clearly poured a great deal of love into this semiautobiographical story of a child growing up in late-1960s Northern Ireland