Even Jim Jarmusch Has Trouble Paying His Bills These Days
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Seth Meyers in a Tank Top Won Late Night This Week
Photo: Late Night with Seth Meyers Welcome to the first week of New Normal for late night. Jimmy…
Earth’ Ends Clinging to Childish Things: Review
Wendy ends Alien: Earth by kicking against her father figure and connecting with a xenomorph she’s been told…
Patricia Lockwood’s Book Is a Pleasant Fever Dream
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Riverhead Books One solution for representing the internet-augmented discontinuity of contemporary life is the fragment…
Oscar Winner ‘Apollo 13’ Is Back in Theaters
Photo: Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection There’s a throwaway moment early in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 that I find…
Making the ’60s Weird Again at at the Whitney Museum
Art: Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, New York. © Kiki Kogelnik We’ve been swimming in the 1960s for decades, replaying…
‘Black Rabbit’ Runs on Bateman and Law’s Sublime Brother Act
At Black Rabbit’s core is the relationship between gambling and heroin addict Vince (Jason Bateman) and restaurant owner…
Mark William Lewis Is A24 Music’s Canary in the Coal Mine
When Mark William Lewis thinks about his songs, they summon a particular image in his mind. It’s a…
John Oliver Is Late Night’s Last Hope
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: HBO John Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight, doesn’t lack for acclaim. Its Emmy total…
Bing Liu on the Spiritual Cost of the American Dream
With his feature debut, Preparation for the Next Life, director Bing Liu probes the perils and illusory qualities…
Taylor Frankie Paul Is Perfect for ‘The Bachelorette’
Far from the Hail Mary it seems like, casting Mormon Wives’s Taylor Frankie Paul is the most on-brand…
You Can’t Look Away From Cooper Hoffman
In Poetic License, Hoffman is like a Gen-Z Vince Vaughn, bullshitting sophistication at a mile a minute, but…