Pop Culture

The Eames chair! The view! One woman’s demented investigation into a fictional apartment on a TV show that went off the air over 15 years ago. By Gabriella Paiella March 31, 2021 Everett Collection This winter, with more time indoors and on my hands than usual, I learned a new language, finally landed Crow Pose,

The recently Grammy-nominated MC took inspiration from The Last Dance to peak at an age when most rappers are in decline. By Julian Kimble March 31, 2021 James “JMP” Perreira The turning point in Freddie Gibbs’s career came in 2011, when he first connected with Madlib after his longtime manager Ben “Lambo” Lambert brought him

The visionary director behind Shirkers returns with a beautiful, demented, and deeply funny new novel called Lurkers. By Naomi Huffman March 30, 2021 “I’m never really in the right time, somehow,” novelist and filmmaker Sandi Tan tells me. “No one seems to be.” It’s winter and gloomier than it ought to be in L.A, where

In the wake of Steve Rogers retiring in Endgame, the new Marvel Disney+ series is painting a portrait of five other men who took up the shield at one point or another in the comics. By William Goodman March 30, 2021 Photo Illustration by C.J. Robinson We’re only two episodes into Marvel’s The Falcon and

The country singer reflects on a year of radical change. By Margo Price March 30, 2021 Danielle Holbert “Mama, where is the light at the end of the tunnel? What if there is no other side to the tunnel? What if it’s just dark and it’s always gonna be like this now?” These are big

The Disney+ event series just unveiled the full cast list and there’s a lot to be excited, and cautiously optimistic about. By Kevin Hall March 29, 2021 Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, 1999.Everett Collection / Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. The Mandalorian was a huge hit for

The Snyder Cut, oddly enough, represents the triumph of the director’s cut. Here are 10 more great ones that restore or amplify their creator’s pure vision. By Kyle Turner March 29, 2021 Photo Illustration by C.J. Robinson The idea of the “director’s cut” has become mythologized in cinema culture because it represents the triumph of

But the closest they’ll probably get to a restored Snyderverse is the multiverse in Flashpoint. By William Goodman March 26, 2021 Jared Leto in Suicide Squad, 2016.Everett Collection / Courtesy of Warner Bros We know what happens when you give a mouse a cookie, but what happens when you give the DC fanbase the Snyder

She invented her beloved Arrested Development role virtually single-handedly, and her 60-year career is full of similar transformations. By Keith Phipps March 26, 2021 Jessica Walter on For the People, 1965.CBS / Getty Images Nobody described what made Jessica Walter’s performance as Arrested Development’s Lucille Bluth so rich and wonderful better than Walter herself. Speaking

Duo Armand Hammer and prolific producer The Alchemist discuss how they teamed up to make the new album. By Paul Thompson March 25, 2021 Courtesy of Alexander Richter for Armand Hammer Making Haram was complicated — the juggling of projects like rushing a brood of kids off to school, the record itself assembled from scattered

The old-man action boom has a trickle-down effect: Meet the trainers who get unlikely heroes like Bob Odenkirk and Liam Neeson into ass-kicking shape. By Jake Kring-Schreifels March 25, 2021 Bob Odenkirk training for Nobody, 2021.Courtesy of Allen Fraser for Universal Pictures In the summer of 2018, the director Ilya Naishuller visited 87eleven, the Hollywood

The two monsters share a tangled history of eccentric genius and intellectual property that culminates in this week’s Godzilla vs. Kong blockbuster. By Keith Phipps March 24, 2021 Illustration by Simon Abranowicz “They have an ancient rivalry,” Rebecca Hall’s Dr. Ilene Andrews says gravely in the trailer to Godzilla vs. Kong. Undoubtedly, the movie will

GQ’s Rachel Tashjian sends a letter of adoration to the New York artist who’s turning celebrity fandom on its head.  By Rachel Tashjian Photography by David Brandon Greeting March 24, 2021 Dear Sam, When I was first assigned to write a profile of you for America’s premier men’s magazine, I was already impressed with your

The rapper’s debut album, out Friday, is full of the bouncy, hard-hitting trap he’s known for as well as a few stylistic swerves. By John Norris March 24, 2021 YBN NahmirCourtesy of Atlantic Records What a difference a few months makes. On November 23rd 2020, one of the most charismatic young rappers of recent years

Back in 2005, Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham quietly put out an album called Superwolf and watched it become a cult classic. Now, at long last, they’re releasing the follow-up—and repping old-fashioned virtues like friendship, collaboration, and the reckless pursuit of life-changing art.  March 23, 2021 Click for fashion credits. When the guitarist Matt Sweeney

On the murders in Atlanta and the long history that got us here. By Anthony Christian Ocampo March 23, 2021 Illustration by Simon Abranowicz Dear Randy, Your first Instagram post, dated May 2017, includes a photo of you and your mother, Hyun Jung Grant, at your high school graduation. You’re in your purple graduation gown,

The singer’s excellent new album Deacon embraces mainstream sounds but retains his innovative flair. By Jordan Coley March 23, 2021 Courtesy of Braylen Dion The animating paradox of pop music is that the best things are usually both unlike anything we’ve ever heard and a canny embodiment of time-tested favorites. Think Hendrix’s symphonic electric guitar

Pearce plays hedonistic painter Han van Meegeren in The Last Vermeer, and next will star in HBO’s Mare of Easttown. By Scott Meslow March 22, 2021 A time traveler could throw an interesting dinner party just by rounding up all the historical figures played by Guy Pearce over the course of his career: Andy Warhol;

The director unloads his grand plan for the DC Cinematic Universe, if he’d stayed at the helm. By Frazier Tharpe March 19, 2021 Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Zack Snyder on set for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, 2021.Courtesy of Clay Enos for HBO Max Zack Snyder’s Justice League has finally arrived, and with it, a

The massage parlor shooting in Atlanta will be a test case for Georgia’s new hate crime laws, which are less than a year old. By Colin Groundwater March 19, 2021 A rally against AAPI hate crimes in Bellevue, Washington, March 18, 2021.Jason Redmond / Getty Images This Tuesday, a 21-year-old man killed eight people in