Memes come and go, but the really resonant ones have a way of sticking around, even evolving. Twitter users keep finding new uses for the deathless “distracted boyfriend” image, for instance, which has become so instantly recognizable it’s taken on a life of its own. Ditto the phrase “large adult
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The most immediate pleasure of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which dropped Friday on Netflix, is its sartorial ingenuity. The series centers on the plucky Sabrina Spellman (Mad Men alum Kiernan Shipka) as she tries to find her place in this fantastical world — either committing to her witch heritage in
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After years of languishing in development hell, the adaptation of John Green’s debut novel Looking for Alaska has finished looking for its Alaska (and also its Miles). Green announced today that Kristine Froseth (Apostle) will play the mysterious Alaska, while Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete, the kidnapped kid in All
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Perhaps the greatest gift of Maria by Callas that gives it an advantage over so many recent biographical music documentaries is how willing it is to let its subject just perform, uninterrupted. For artists whose time has passed, especially deceased artists, the object of the documentary naturally becomes to convey
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Before the Beastie Boys became one of rap’s most legendary groups, they were just three dudes at a Black Flag show that would unknowingly change their lives. At the time, in 1981, Black Flag were performing their first-ever East Coast show at the Peppermint Lounge in Times Square. In the
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The 1973 masterpiece The Wicker Man has endured a lot of indignities on its path to being a cult classic. A studio sliced 13 minutes of footage from the film’s final cut, and rolled the release out as the B picture, packaged with another horror film. There was a rushed
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Kim Cattrall isn’t your ordinary fairy-tale grandma, she’s a cool fairy-tale grandma, and this is a cool fairy tale. Cattrall is back on American TV in Tell Me a Story, a new CBS All Access show that updates fairy tales into the present day, making them dark and broody and
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Suspiria takes place in Berlin in 1977, and boy, does it ever. Luca Guadagnino’s new film is very self-consciously not just about witches and modern dance; it’s also tied to the events of the “German Autumn” of that year, when the ghosts of the nation’s past erupted in an unrelenting
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