South Park has lost the plot
The show has become a shitlib parody of itself
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Thursday
Monday
The boorishness of Ellen DeGeneres
She didn’t flee oppression; she fled embarrassment
Eddington, a Greek tragedy in the Wild West
Ari Aster’s new film gives Covid a mythic air
RIP Tom Lehrer
The musician-comedian spread like herpes, rather than Ebola
Wednesday
Who does Colbert think he’s kidding?
America loves a wiseass, not a smartass
Tuesday
RIP Ozzy Osbourne
There will never be another Ozzy
Sunday
The sad saga of Lena Dunham
If Dunham was, once, the voice of her generation, that that torch has long since passed to other, more interesting talents
Wednesday
What do the Emmy nominations tell us about television?
Hollywood could use a little anarchy
Tuesday
The enduring appeal of Jaws, 50 years on
It’s easy to forget that there was nothing inevitable about the film’s long-lasting success
‘Being a mom sometimes sucks’: an interview with Sarah Hoover
The art historian’s memoir is no feminist treatise
How museums can promote diversity without demonizing tradition
We need art that keeps our collective imagination and sense of tradition alive
Monday
The resistible rise of Pedro Pascal
Why is it so hard to warm to him?
Friday
On holiday with Goya
Spending a few days with the artist famous for his brooding ‘black paintings’ was not something I was sure I’d enjoy
Wednesday
Elio and the decline of Pixar
What explains the studio’s latest flop?
Diddy is finished
He avoided the most-serious charges, but his image will never recover
Tuesday
The wildly misguided My Oxford Year
This looks to be one of the most clueless and misjudged attempts at romantic comedy-drama ever put on screen
Who could be Mount Rushmore’s fifth head?
When the aliens land in thousands of years, or sometime around Christmas of this year, we want them to think: these were their gods
Sabrina Carpenter mainstreams cutesy violence towards women
The singer changed her album cover that suggested ‘I like being roughed up in the bedroom’
Thursday
F1 is forgettable, but a lot of fun
Be prepared to forget virtually everything apart from the sheer sensation of being in an F1 race car traveling very, very fast indeed
Don’t mourn the death of TV
America is better for having largely abandoned television