Done right, the first few shots of a film can pack in a load of information, and the two that open Christina Choe’s Nancy lay much of the groundwork for what follows. In the first, Andrea Riseborough’s childlike 35-year-old title character peers into her phone and texts determinedly, the light
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Shortly after news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died at age 61, his partner Asia Argento posted a statement on Twitter on Friday morning about the tragic loss. Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) June 8, 2018After Argento’s recent Cannes speech, in which she spoke out about the film industry’s enabling of Weinstein’s
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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week
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If you’re a podcast fan who’s among the growing number of Apple Watch owners (Apple was estimated to have sold about 8 million watches last holiday season), you might have been frustrated with the smartwatch’s lack of meaningful support for podcast listening. Sure, the Apple Watch may keep you connected
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Today would’ve been Prince’s 60th birthday, and to celebrate, Variety spoke to several of his collaborators to reminisce about his funniest moments. Prince was, of course, a known expert jokester who incited food fights, had tour mates kidnapped onstage, and prank called all his colleagues. But perhaps his most infamous
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Hereditary opens in theaters this weekend, and writer-director Ari Aster is being heaped with praise for his debut feature film, which chronicles a particularly horrible period in the life of the Graham family. Toni Collette is at her soul-shattering best as Annie, the matriarch; Gabriel Byrne is the only calming
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Can an art exhibition be a frenemy? Something you intermittently sort of grudgingly like but also dislike intensely and need to get away from? Because that’s a perfect description, actually, of “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now),” the intentionally titillating, often stultifying two-floor extravaganza all about the body
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The three poetry editors at the Boston Review, Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, and Stefania Heim, have stepped down after the magazine decided to retain Junot Díaz, who was recently accused of sexual misconduct and verbal abuse. After women spoke out against Díaz, the magazine reviewed their relationship with the author,
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