What is the point of the DC superhero films?
Compared to the movies Marvel puts out, they’ve tanked
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
February 1, 2023
The Sims adds double mastectomy scars and chest binders to game
Your favorite life simulator game is now trans-inclusive. WooHoo!
January 31, 2023
Women Talking bludgeons itself with its message
It could have been compelling, but politics trumped plot
January 26, 2023
More victims of Russell Hantz’s fantasy football scheme emerge
‘Russell Hantz! Please tell me you’re not going to steal everyone’s money!’
January 25, 2023
The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater
Books and ArtsIt reduces a charged premise to something more mundane
The death of the movie star
Books and ArtsHollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
Playing God with Paramore
Books and ArtsWhat happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
In Claude Monet’s postmodern garden
Books and ArtsI began to find the uncanny experience transporting
The shock and awe-inspiring art of Iraq
Books and ArtsAfter decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene
Azealia Banks loves Ron DeSantis
The eccentric ‘212’ singer is loving life after joining the Florida exodus
January 24, 2023
Pete Davidson is ditching his Ruth Bader Ginsburg tattoo
Ruthkanda for-never
January 22, 2023
Stop trying to make Margot Robbie a movie star
She’s far too talented and interesting for that
January 20, 2023
Shouldn’t the Justin Roiland controversy be bigger?
The Rick and Morty co-creator stands accused of domestic violence, among other things
The unorthodox life and fall of Alec Baldwin
A wild career culminates in a horrible disaster
January 19, 2023
A Survivor villain appears to be scamming fantasy football players
Russell Hantz was a fan favorite on the reality program
January 18, 2023
M3GAN is a biting satire of screen-obsessed parenting
This one deserved better than the January chopping block
Shakira, Miley Cyrus and the unwelcome return of the diss track
Quiet dignity is dead
January 15, 2023
Jeff Beck was that good
The brilliant guitarist rejected the mainstream and never kept still musically
January 13, 2023
Where Jeanne Dielman went wrong
Instead of stabbing her customer, she should have killed herself
The grand return of Pamela Anderson
2023 is to be her year, proving again that she’s no caricature of a dumb blonde
January 10, 2023
M3gan is a tale of millennial mothering
The latest ‘killer doll’ defies genre tropes with a complex moral
January 7, 2023
What’s the latest on the Madonna biopic?
What we know so far about the ‘nightmare’ production
January 6, 2023
The Whale is a story of grace
There is a strange beauty beneath the film’s grease and grime
Lady Chatterley’s Lover in an era of free speech
The new film about the novel that touched off a fury is both uncontroversial and worth seeing
January 4, 2023
Art history is now ‘Islamophobic’
Hamline University’s cowardly nod to equity will make its arts department less equitable
December 31, 2022
The Whale is meant to hurt you
…and that’s a good thing
December 30, 2022
Ebony and ivories
Books and ArtsThe Piano Lesson puts its characters first
Titanic was the original White Lotus
Looking back at James Cameron’s one-dimensional criticism of the rich
Joyce Carol Oates intellectualizes Yellowstone
An interview with one of the show’s most vocal fans