Last year, Amazon ordered a comedy series starring Saturday Night Live alums Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph, and today the streaming network dropped the first trailer. Titled Forever, the half-hour series is co-created by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, with Armisen and Rudolph serving as executive producers. Plot details have
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Regardless of how much you know about classic Hollywood, the new documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood has seemingly set out to upend it. Focusing on Scotty Bowers, the gas-station attendant and “pimp to the stars,” the documentary, which opened last week in Los Angeles and will open
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A camera pans slowly over the curves of a woman’s body — and every woman in the audience rolls her eyes. That sensual, ravenous, kinda porn-y perspective? It’s our old friend, the male gaze, a theoretical term coined in 1975 by the film critic Laura Mulvey that’s pretty much exactly
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All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture.Since 2015, a year bookended by the debuts of two widely watched and discussed true crime series, The Jinx and Making a Murderer, the true-crime genre has been booming.Netflix
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Today, on what would’ve been James Baldwin’s 94th birthday, Barry Jenkins has released the first trailer for his Moonlight follow-up, If Beale Street Could Talk. Based on the Baldwin novel of the same name, the movie follows young lovers Fonny (Stephan James) and Tish (Kiki Layne) in 1970s Harlem. Their
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All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture. Alice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession.The “true-crime boom” of the mid- to late 2010s is a strange pop-culture phenomenon, given
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Before you watch this exclusive clip from Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen, I just want to say that the film is a wheels-on-pavement blast where the stakes are never much higher than gaining and retaining the friendship of a group of girls who truly get you. I include that preamble because
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If you feel a sudden need for a solid whodunit: Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by InnocenceThe latest in a new wave of series adapting the works of one of the most famous mystery novelists in history, Ordeal by Innocence begins, of course, with a murder: A wealthy heiress has died, and
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