One of the coolest and rarest things a movie can do is make you forget that it is three hours and fifteen minutes long. Titanic is excellent at this, a case study in oh, I’ll just watch the beginning and then you watch the whole damn thing. Titanic is so
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Phyllis Kind was an art-dealer extraordinaire, lover and supporter of all things visionary, discoverer of whole new phosphorescent continents of taste, channeler of gigantic bursts of energy, identifier of numerous great artists — many from my hometown, Chicago — and possessor of one of the sharpest bullshit detectors I’ve ever
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There’s an inspirational vibe surrounding the scary new Halloween sequel (called, unhelpfully, Halloween), which is especially weird when you consider that John Carpenter’s 1978 original had the nasty working title The Babysitter Murders. But for Jamie Lee Curtis, the star of both films, talking about her character, Laurie Strode, means
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Netflix knows you want romance, and boy is it here to provide. In the streaming network’s new film Been So Long, adapted from the stage musical, Chewing Gum’s Michaela Coel stars as Simone, a single mother who falls for a stranger named Raymond (Arinzé Kene) on a night out in
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During last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver dedicated the entire show to the hearings for Supreme Court nominee and “walking crushed beer can” Brett Kavanaugh. “Why? Why this particular asshole? Why is he the hill the conservatives are willing to die on?” Oliver asked, pointing out that while the
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Sigur Rós’s drummer Orri Páll Dýrason has left the Icelandic band after being accused of sexual assault. “In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days, we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dýrason to allow him to deal
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Slice, the surprise horror movie from A24, is pretty damn weird. It’s straight-up midnight-movie fare, about a town inhabited entirely by ghosts and a pizza shop above a portal to hell, and you should probably know that ahead of time. It’s also the feature debut of Chance the Rapper, who
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Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations of comics media, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, ongoing series, and comics-related items in other forms. With any luck, at least one of them will be a match for you.Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories by Ali Fitzgerald
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