The Best Albums of 2018 (So Far)

It’s only a few months into 2018, but there’ve already been a handful of albums worthy of strong praise. Here are the best of the many, many albums that have been released so far this year, according to our music critic Craig Jenkins.This list has been updated to include June

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The Raucous Sorry to Bother You Is the Punk Film 2018 Deserves

This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival.The film industry loves to indulge actors who get the directing bug, for better or worse — you can look at this year’s (or any other) Sundance lineup for proof of that. Sorry to Bother You makes me wish that more musicians

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Jar Jar Binks Actor Says He Contemplated Suicide After Star Wars Prequel Backlash

Anyone alive and old enough to see a PG movie in 1999 undoubtedly remembers the avalanche of fan hatred that surrounded Jar Jar Binks, the goofy (literally, he was based on Disney’s Goofy) alien who served as comic relief in George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels The Phantom Menace, Attack of

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Suzanne Somers Defends ‘Big Flirt’ Morgan Freeman Following Sexual Harassment Allegations

While appearing on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle Tuesday evening, actress Suzanne Somers went to bat for friend Morgan Freeman, defending him as a “big flirt” following accusations of sexual harassment made against him by eight women. “Well, this probably won’t be real popular, but I think that women…I totally understand

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The First Purge Is Predictable, But Shockingly Resonant

How about that horror genre! If nothing else, you can rely on it to bring worst-case scenarios to roaring life, often way before other, more reputable forms (i.e., prestige cable miniseries or Oscar-bait empowerment sagas). Consider: It has been years since Black Lives Matter made its first stand against overweening

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Yvette Nicole Brown Reportedly Takes Over Chris Hardwick’s Walking Dead Comic-Con Panels

As first revealed by Deadline and later confirmed by Variety, actress Yvette Nicole Brown will reportedly be taking over Chris Hardwick’s long-standing moderating duties at San Diego Comic-Con International later this month. Following allegations of sexual and emotional abuse lodged by his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra, AMC had decided in June

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The Best Songs of 2018 (So Far)

By now you’ve probably heard about all the problems with the music industry: It’s not what it was. No one spends meaningful amounts of time with any one song. There’s just too much music. It’s true that there’s a staggering amount of music out there in the world, and it’s

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The Latest Whitney Houston Documentary Is Fixated Far More on Her Death Than Her Life

This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival.Movies often come in pairs, and now the world has two Whitney Houston documentaries, released within a year of each other, and plenty to pore over regarding the late singer’s turbulent life. But the recent release of last year’s Showtime documentary Whitney:

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