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What’s the Best Song on Red? Three Passionate Taylor Swift Fans Debate
In honor of the release of Taylor's Version
The Complex History Behind Belfast—and Its Echoes in Present-Day Northern Ireland
Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical drama is set against the backdrop of escalating violence in late-1960s Northern Ireland
Here’s Who Could Be Held Legally Liable for the Astroworld Tragedy
Lawyers weigh in on culpability, criminal vs. civil charges, jail time and potential settlements
Eternals Introduces Marvel’s First Deaf Superhero. But Accessibility Issues Still Plague Moviegoers
Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, released on Nov. 5, introduces one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most diverse ensembles. It also brings the franchise’s first deaf superhero. In the new film, Makkari possesses super speed and is one of the titular Eternals—immortal beings with special powers who were sent to Earth to protect humanity from monstrous Deviants.…
Paul Rudd Is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2021
The 'Shrink Next Door' and 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' actor joins a list of names including John Legend, Dwayne Johnson, Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba
Singles Are Starting to Care Less About Looks. Here’s What They Want Instead
Here's what you need to know
Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd’s The Shrink Next Door Is a Major Disappointment
It's rarely a good sign when characters based on real people strain believability
Damon Galgut on Confronting South Africa’s Racist History With Booker-Winning The Promise
The South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country through the story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black domestic employee. In naming Galgut the winner, the Booker judges called The…
Showtime Survival Thriller Yellowjackets Is the Best New Show in Months
“Women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,” Lord of the Flies author William Golding once opined. “They are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can’t do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who…
An Elegy for Dickinson, the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Show on Apple TV+
The anachronisms aren’t an empty gimmick. They recontextualize the poet and her work, scribbling over those stiff black-and-white portraits to reveal a truly colorful character.
How Eternals’ Two Post-Credits Scenes Could Shape the Future of the MCU
A mid-credits and post-credits scene to the new Marvel movie offer up much potential for where the MCU—both the Eternals and the franchise as a whole—can go from here
Paul Newman’s Recently Discovered Memoir Will Be Published in Fall 2022
(NEW YORK) — A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman’s thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate…