Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk got an early helping hand from a surprising source: Jake Gyllenhaal?! Jenkins told the Los Angeles Times about the process of getting approval from James Baldwin’s (notoriously selective) estate to adapt the novel, and said the actor was “kind of one
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The trailer for Amazon’s Homecoming introduces us to several mysteries, not least of which involves what’s going on with Julia Roberts’s bangs. In the new series, adapted from the podcast led by Catherine Keener, Roberts plays a caseworker at the “Homecoming Transitional Support Center,” helping soldiers transition back to civilian
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Over the course of two days, music critic Craig Jenkins spoke with Mac Miller in New York for a profile. This interview — edited here for length and clarity — was the basis for that profile. It offers a window into Miller’s creative process, his life, and what he’d hoped
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Ahead of the American Horror Story: Apocalypse premiere, FX teased clear connections between the eighth season of the anthology series, which returned Wednesday night, and seasons one (Murder House) and three (Coven). But how exactly is this trio of horror stories tied together? We don’t know quite yet, but the
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2001: A Space Odyssey. Stalker. The Man Who Fell to Earth. Under the Skin. All of the best sci-fi movies have excelled by shrouding the familiar elements of a genre — space travel, alien visitors, alternate dimensions — in ambiguity that challenges the audience’s understanding of these concepts. Add to
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As part of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary cover project, contemporary artist Richard Phillips decided to recreate our 1982 “New Queen of the Art Scene” cover with prolific dealer and gallerist Mary Boone — who, in stunning art-world news, recently pled guilty to tax fraud. Here, Phillips reminisces about the
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Judges, outside of recent current events, are rarely the heroes of our stories. They more often act as the literal or figurative hands of fate, something for louder and far more cinematic lawyers to rail at or against. But there’s plenty of moral agony to be tapped from the plight
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Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph are doing the strangest thing they’ve done thus far in their careers: play normals together. In the limited Amazon series Forever, Rudolph and Armisen portray a longtime married couple who reconsider the value of matrimony in the face of a sudden change in lifestyle. (We’d
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