Grab a hoagie and your vape and let’s review. By Gabriella Paiella May 30, 2021 John Douglas Thompson as Chief Carter and Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan in Mare of Easttown. Courtesy of Michele K. Short for HBO Ah, what a journey Mare of Easttown has been: from the very first moments, when I realized this
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The thirteen songs released on Rob Alexander’s third studio release Dream Out Loud cover a broad stylistic gamut. Listeners will find pure pop confections with a delicious modern bite, old school R&B tracks with an emphasis on the blues, and boisterous rock anthems with a bright contemporary sheen. He has worked with this cast of characters before;
The helmeted dance music star talks about playing the Champions League final, his next album, and putting feuds to rest. By Michaelangelo Matos May 28, 2021 Marshmello on stage with Joe Jonas at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images).Kevin Mazur The EDM star Marshmello, who headlines festivals wearing a giant, smiley-faced
As HBO’s latest prestige murder mystery approaches its finale, here’s a guide to the complicated plot. By William Goodman May 27, 2021 Evan Peters and Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown, 2021. Courtesy of Michele K. Short for HBO Leave it to HBO to come through with another crackerjack, seemingly prestigious, yet actually enjoyably trashy murder
The HBO Max special isn’t bold or revelatory, but that’s not the point—the still-obvious chemistry between the stars is. By Kelsey Miller May 27, 2021 Friends: The Reunion, 2021.Terence Patrick / Courtesy of HBO Max There’s a magical moment, three minutes into Friends: The Reunion. It’s blink-and-you-miss-it—a wordless glance. But in it lies the answer
After his Verzuz match last year, DMX began work on Exodus, which he managed to finish before he passed in April. By Frazier Tharpe May 27, 2021 Getty Images; Photo Illustration by C.J. Robinson Don’t call Exodus a posthumous album. DMX’s eighth album will be released just over a month after he died in April,
The gems that got overshadowed by direct-to-streaming releases, and where to find them. By Keith Phipps May 26, 2021 Photo Illustration by C.J. Robinson Theaters largely shut down during the early days of the pandemic, but many reopened, if to a fraction of their regular audience, late last summer. The plan was supposed to work
With A Quiet Place II finally set to release, the actor talks about his role in the unusually prescient thriller. By Sam Schube May 26, 2021 Getty Images; Photo Illustration by C.J. Robinson Last spring, Cillian Murphy was in New York to promote a movie. At the time, news of the coronavirus spreading across the
As he prepares to release his final Jackass film, the stuntman takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career. By Sam Schube Photography by Katy Grannan May 25, 2021 The other day, Johnny Knoxville came across a relic from his past buried in a drawer at home. “I found a packet of those things at
The man has balls, but they’ve suffered. A lot. By Danielle Cohen May 25, 2021 Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville, 2002.Theo Wargo / Getty Images Johnny Knoxville is intimately familiar with every body part he has—probably because he’s spent the last two decades fracturing, splitting, concussing, and smashing them thanks to the results of his infamous
The minds behind True Detective, The Sinner, and more tell us what to watch next. By Gabriella Paiella May 25, 2021 A murder. A sad detective. A small town with secrets. A lingering sense of despair permeating absolutely everything. Put them all together and you’ve got the makings of a great binge watch. (Bonus points
The rapper brought Adonis onstage to accept his Billboard Music award for Artist of the Decade. By Danielle Cohen May 24, 2021 Drake accepts Artist of the Decade with son Adonis on stage during the 2021 Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of Christopher Polk/NBC Last night, Drake’s son Adonis made a public appearance
In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing. By David Alm Photography by George Grullon May 21, 2021 The West Side Runners is New York’s most dominant running club. Many of its members have fled the ethnic violence of Ethiopia’s civil
Music devotees are accustomed to doubting prolific bands or artists. Churning out new releases at a furious clip often denotes a lack of quality control for listeners. It suggests an assembly line mentality dominates the songwriting and sifting through the detritus for some sign of creative vitality may be slow-going. It isn’t the case, however,
Barry Jenkins rejected green screen, instead insisting on real-life trains, tunnels and tracks for his Amazon Prime slavery drama. The result is a rich set design that heightens the show’s emotional impact. By Danielle Cohen May 21, 2021 Marcus Gladney Jr. in The Underground Railroad, 2021. Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios Towards the beginning of Colson Whitehead’s The
The widely-panned Netflix thriller is deeply weird, artificial, and excessive—but that’s the point. By Kyle Turner May 21, 2021 Amy Adams as Anna Fox in The Woman in the Window (2021)Courtesy of Melinda Sue Gordon for Netflix Almost everything gets labeled as “campy” nowadays, from Ma to the trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
As the Dear Evan Hansen trailer makes painfully clear, suspension of disbelief only gets you so far. By Danielle Cohen May 20, 2021 Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986.Everett Collection / Courtesy of Paramount This week, the trailer for a movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen was released, to much
Barry Jenkins’s lingering close-ups of his characters gazing direct to camera are powerfully intimate. By Keith Phipps May 20, 2021 Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall in The Underground Railroad, 2021.Courtesy of Kyle Kaplan for Amazon Studios The Underground Railroad opens in confusion. Accompanied by the alarming strings of Nicholas Brittell’s score, the 10-part adaptation of
Ahead of an autobiographical documentary, Moby Doc, and stripped down album of re-recordings, Reprise, the musician discusses his public mishaps, the greatest Connecticut musicians, and David Bowie’s nickname for him. By ROB TANNENBAUM May 20, 2021 Moby at ‘The Art Of Elysium’s 13th Annual Celebration – Heaven’ on January 04, 2020 in Los Angeles.Kurt Krieger
Since being released from Swedish jail in 2019, rap’s foremost fashion darling has been on a journey of self-discovery, musical experimentation, and—alongside a certain megawatt pop-icon girlfriend—love. By Samuel Hine Photography by Inez & Vinoodh May 19, 2021 Shirt, $770, by Celine Homme by Hedi Slimane. Earrings (throughout), his own. Necklace (top), $93,500, by Verdura.