Janelle Monáe wrote a new national anthem. Not a “sort of” national anthem, or a “kinda” national anthem — not just a song generally understood to be infused with empowerment and freedom, a song that could fit someone’s American ideal. The finale of Dirty Computer, Monáe’s third studio album, is
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Warning: This post contains one minor spoiler for Avengers: Infinity War.There are many actors who treasure their time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And then there’s Hugo Weaving, whose experience was more … fine. Though his stint as Red Skull, the villain of 2011’s Captain America, came with a multi-picture
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The writer-director Olivier Assayas found his voice in his fifth feature, a high-strung teenage love story called Cold Water that was released in 1994 in France but not, until now, in the United States. You’ll understand why midway through, when the film is suddenly flooded with the kind of classic
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“North of the Border” is something like a tiny road movie: Earn, Al, Darius, and Tracy take a cross-state trip to play a college show in the boonies. The result is as mortifying and surreal as you would expect — and it’s also the last thing Al needs after his
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NBC, which will air the 2018 Emmy Awards, is doubling down on its own talent (see, it’s a pun). Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchors and co-co-head writers Michael Che and Colin Jost will host this year’s TV awards show together, which will be executive-produced by SNL head honcho Lorne
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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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