Sigur Rós’s drummer Orri Páll Dýrason has left the Icelandic band after being accused of sexual assault. “In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days, we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dýrason to allow him to deal
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Slice, the surprise horror movie from A24, is pretty damn weird. It’s straight-up midnight-movie fare, about a town inhabited entirely by ghosts and a pizza shop above a portal to hell, and you should probably know that ahead of time. It’s also the feature debut of Chance the Rapper, who
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Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations of comics media, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, ongoing series, and comics-related items in other forms. With any luck, at least one of them will be a match for you.Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories by Ali Fitzgerald
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How deeply, in the Trump era, I have come to feel a sense of resignation as I approach the cold open of a new episode of Saturday Night Live. As the hour nears, I am pre-exhausted. It is almost always political, in the sense that it features comic actors made
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Last night’s SNL premiere finally answered the burning question: What if a character like Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood was alive today, with a son in school, and they had a career day? Would he scream at the children? Teach them the ruthless was of oil baronry? Smash
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The color slowly drains out of the new King Lear as it goes along, as if to formalize its depiction of a nation bled dry by its own awfulness. Adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, this BBC Two and Amazon coproduction is a modernized version of William Shakespeare’s epic about
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The 44th season of Saturday Night Live premiered last night and wasted no time addressing the big, famous, headline-grabbing elephant in the room. No, not musical guest Kanye West (that came later) but cast member Pete Davidson’s whirlwind romance and engagement to Ariana Grande. The show kicked things off during
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Ah, the new season of Saturday Night Live: new writers, new featured players, new opportunities for Leslie Jones to give the camera her death stare! And nowhere in the betting pool for the first host: Adam Driver, who kicks off SNL’s 44th season with his second hosting gig. His first
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