I can think of several kinds of music that encapsulate present-day Los Angeles aesthetically, but Keegan DeWitt’s score for Aaron Katz’s Gemini makes a compelling case for itself. Over a languorously slow tilt down from a row of palm trees silhouetted in a purply dusk sky, a nervous nu-rave synth
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The Weeknd is dark and moody again! On Thursday night, he released a surprise six-song EP, My Dear Melancholy, overflowing with all the Very Serious melodrama we haven’t heard since his mixtape days. Abel has had his heart shattered and he now requests your shoulder to cry on. Sad boy!
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I don’t have much experience in earnest, unironically encouraging social-media comments from my closest friends. Hayley will let me choose restaurants that adhere to my specific diet of pasta and burgers, and Eliza will approve or veto a dozen outfit options before a party, but my friends drag me on
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Steven Spielberg’s movie of Ernest Cline’s seminal gamer novel, Ready Player One, is a lively and agreeable work of fanboy art — a first-rate film fashioned from secondhand materials. It unfolds in 2045, much of it in a Columbus, Ohio, laid out like a filthy, decaying vertical trailer park. This
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Remember the time when Ben Affleck tried to deflect interest in his cartoonishly large, phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes back tattoo because people kept ridiculing him for it? Ah, fun memories. We were more than happy to investigate the psychology behind Affleck’s ink fib when the tattoo once again made an appearance earlier this
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In the early days of this decade, it was unclear if the DIY webseries that populated YouTube and Vimeo could ever make the jump to TV. Now, the sustained success of shows like Insecure, Broad City, and Drunk History has proven to TV execs that the internet is its own
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If Al Pacino had announced in, say, 1980 that he was retiring — deciding that the strenuous demands of Method acting had become too much for him — he’d have already done enough incredible work to be considered an all-timer. (If anything, leaving the limelight at 40 would have only
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You’re not dreaming: Westworld is coming back (or maybe you are dreaming, but still, Westworld is coming back). As the robots, led by Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, and Jeffrey Wright, reckon with their consciousness, they also start to wage war on the humans — venturing into “Shogun World” along
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