This review contains spoilers for Challengers. I saw Challengers a few weeks ago now, before a Zoom call with Zendaya for her May cover story, and a few things about …
I’ve always loved Passover. Okay, not always; my three-quarters Jewish, mostly atheist family and I didn’t throw seders when I was growing up. But ever since college, I’ve been coming …
Now, she’s the red carpet interviewer du jour. By the time you read this, she’ll have served as the official social media ambassador of the Oscars. “And the red carpet …
I guess it would take Taylor Swift to make it official: 2024 is the year of the diss track. January ended with an all-out blood bath (and, mostly, a horror …
Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, dropped today, and it’s full of the kinds of astute observations about millennial existence that we’ve come to expect from the pop …
People may occasionally call her pop confessionals “cringe,” or wonder if she’s oversharing—but in the tradition of many great poets before her, Swift’s bread and butter is in the gratuitous …
While Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley prepare to embody Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Rooney Mara fights to keep her Audrey Hepburn-centric project alive, Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and …
If I’m known for anything at this point, it’s probably having a lot of thoughts about various cultural ephemera. It should be obvious, then, that I Have Opinions about the …
Great war films—and I’d call Alex Garland’s Civil War a great and totally modern war film—should be discomfiting. That’s the moral calculus: War is hell, and any depiction of it …
Before donning a dark bouffant for Sofia Coppola’s 2023 film Priscilla, about the contentious relationship between Elvis and Priscilla Presley, Cailee Spaeny suited up for a different kind of battle …