Helena Howard Is Going to Be a Star

Film critics spend their careers on the lookout for actors like Helena Howard. Discovery is one of the rarest thrills of moviegoing, and in the experimental(-ish) new indie drama Madeline’s Madeline, the now-20-year-old comes out of nowhere with a star-making lead performance on par with Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures.

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Jon Hamm, Drunk on Whiteness, Stars in an Infomercial for Getting Rid of White Thoughts

Terence Nance’s new late-night comedy show Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO last Friday, and in case you missed the premiere episode, here’s a little taste to get you started. In the above clip, Jon Hamm stars in an infomercial for a new product called “White Be Gone,” which

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The Darkest Minds Is a Largely Incoherent Teen Dystopia

Perhaps it seems a little bit simplistic to say so, but judging from the overall tenor of YA blockbusters in the last decade, it really must be quite scary to be a teen these days. Because tweens aren’t going to flock en masse to anything that doesn’t truly capture their

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Aparna Nancherla Resisted Writing About Her Mental Illness Until It Was the Only Thing in Her Joke Book

Appropriately, considering Aparna Nancherla’s status as one of the last few good tweeters, it started with a tweet. With her joke book filled with depressive circular thought, Nancherla decided to send out the only sentiment that resembled comedy: “Sometimes I feel sad for no reason but then I remember: a

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Lodge 49 Is a Very Odd Show

Lodge 49 is your classic dramedy about a fraternal lodge, conspiracy theories, a surfer dude mourning his dad’s death, workplace misunderstandings, extramarital affairs, and the occasional surprise removal of a tapeworm.In other words, this new AMC series is definitely an oddball. Its idiosyncrasies can be frustrating for the same reasons

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Preacher’s Noah Taylor Doesn’t Want Anybody Rooting for Hitler

It not uncommon for actors to play the same part twice, but reprising the role of Adolf Hitler is the kind of detail that’ll make anyone stop and take note. So it goes with Noah Taylor, who first played a young Hitler in 2002’s Max, and stepped back into the

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Margot Robbie Is Wearing Go-Go Boots in This Once Upon a Time in Hollywood First Look

Margot Robbie’s boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do — probably to an awards-season push. Robbie has shared the first still of her in costume as Sharon Tate for Quentin Tarantino’s 1969 drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In a black turtleneck, paired with a

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8 New Books You Should Read This August

Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.

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