Let me begin with Matthew McConaughey. I didn’t particularly enjoy Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s 2014 space epic that pretentiously threaded big ideas about space and time with overwrought family melodrama. (I do, however, enjoy the memes.) But there’s a line uttered early in the movie by McConaughey’s ex-pilot protagonist that has,
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How do the experiences, opinions, and habits of great writers influence what appears on the pages they produce? To find out, we posed ten questions to the five writers involved in this year’s One Book, One New York contest: Jennifer Egan for Manhattan Beach, Hari Kunzru for White Tears, Imbolo
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The small-screen British spy genre is packed with the most tonally divisive marvels under the sun — pick one show, and you’ll bear witness to a lady assassin stabbing a man to death with a needle. (Right in the skull!) Pick another, and a guy is giggling his way through
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Spoilers below for The Handmaid’s Tale season two.“This Woman’s Work,” a ballad originally written by Kate Bush for a 1980s John Hughes movie, has appeared many, many times over the years in film and on television. Unlike other songs that suffer from pop-cultural overuse — like “Hallelujah,” in all its incarnations
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Even in the strange realm of directorial debuts by actors, The Party’s Just Beginning is an odd little movie. It’s written, directed by, and stars Karen Gillan, the Scottish actress who has catapulted from the Whoniverse to comedic roles in big-budget Hollywood fare over the last several years, but its
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With Avengers: Infinity War smashing its way into theaters, Marvel fans everywhere are scrambling to remember what exactly happened in the last 18 Marvel Cinematic Universe films. Worry not, Avenger-heads! We took to the streets of New York to get the ultimate recap of the MCU. You’ll get all the
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Going out late in the city — especially in the East Village — is always a gamble. Gillian Jacobs, star of Netflix series Love, recounts a spontaneous night out in her youth that went slightly awry.
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Yesterday, the police arrested a man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, the infamous serial murderer who is the subject of Michelle McNamara’s book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. McNamara died in 2016, before the book was published, and after her death, her husband, comedian and actor Patton
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