Detective Extraordinaire Jenna Ortega Won Late Night This Week

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. RIP to theLate Nightband. One of the few advantages old-school late night has over your average YouTuber is spectacle. Look at howThe Tonight Showuses the Roots for random sound bites. Look at how the Roots accompanied Ariana Grande onImagine,one of thejuiciest momentsin recent 30 Rock memory. But that would be petty toward the excellent work other shows did duringthe DNC....

August 23, 2024 · 2 min · 263 words · Danielle Whitaker

Jenna Ortega Lets Sabrina Carpenter Slash Her

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Sabrina Carpenter, we see what youre trying to do here. To follow up herbloody,unholyFeather video,theShort n Sweetsingeris back with an even bloodier Taste. And shes got help this time, fromScreamqueen Jenna Ortega. Isnt it obvious now how badly Carpenter wants to be cast in a slasher? We hear you havea five-foot-one(ish) hole to fillin your next film....

August 23, 2024 · 1 min · 74 words · Monica Wright

John Woo’sThe Killer(2024) Is No John Woo’sThe Killer(1989) But It’s Still a Lot of Fun

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Well, he finally did it. One of its poster taglines was One Vicious Hitman. Frankly, that math seemed too conservative. To make the same movie today, youd probably have to reengineer human civilization. Luckily, he hasnt. Its fun, ridiculous, and deliriously violent in its own right. Theres plenty of blood inThe Killer, but Woo also slips in moments of his patented gruesome poetry....

August 23, 2024 · 2 min · 217 words · Richard Gilbert

Lady in the LakeSeries-Finale Recap: Where You Gonna Run To?

Lady in the Lake Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The final chapter of Laura LippmansLady in the Lakeis in Cleos voice. Years after the events in 1960s Baltimore, she still talks to Maddie in her head. Did I tell you everything? I wasnt about to trust you with my secrets, Maddie Schwartz. Who could blame me? You were careless with my life and my death....

August 23, 2024 · 2 min · 398 words · Susan Miller

Make Jersey New Again

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. .Team Teresa Wins . Jenn Fessler being upgraded to full-time could also give us the opportunity to see more ofher musical stylings. (Remember the long-lost sister that never existed?) Cons: Every franchise is about something at its core, and Jerz has always been about family. Without a family dynamic at the center of the show it may lose its way even further....

August 23, 2024 · 2 min · 215 words · Stephanie Smith

Osgood Perkins Unpacks All the Hidden Demon Appearances inLonglegs

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In Osgood PerkinsLonglegs,demonic works are a full-time job. The devil is everywhere and nowhere inescapable but often unseen. Did you notice just how often he shows up? (Warning: spoilers ahead.) Frame after frame, you’re free to see him lingering in the background. As seriously as some folks have takenLonglegs, Perkins emphasizes that its also meant to be playful....

August 23, 2024 · 3 min · 485 words · Shane Franklin DDS

PachinkoHas Mastered the Game

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Winning, losing who cares? Thats an admirable pursuit, and it often makesPachinkofeel achingly open-hearted. But toward whomPachinkoextends that commiseration this season makes the whole thing feel a little unbalanced, too. Like last season,Pachinkosplits its attention between the more-recent and less-recent pasts. Meanwhile, in the flashback story line, seven years have passed. Related Tags:

August 23, 2024 · 1 min · 68 words · Michael Clark

PachinkoSeason-Premiere Recap: Family Ties

Pachinko Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Instead, I think of Minha Kims tortured, freckled face asPachinkos Sunja. Foremost amongst them: What is Solomon thinking, at literally any point? What will be of his involvement with Yoshii? Where and how did Sunja get the pocket watch back from Koh Hansu? What ended up happening to Isak, and to Noa? (This last one worries me the most....

August 23, 2024 · 3 min · 508 words · Donna Frazier

Sabrina Carpenter Has a Knack for Nonsense

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But theyd be remiss if they named Espresso as the song that chartered her course. At first, striking out on her own didnt work either. That changed once Carpenter started touring. Four months after the tour started, the song peaked at No. 56 far more traction than shed managed to achieve withEmailsplanned singles. Like Espresso, Nonsense is packed with lines that dont quite work on the page....

August 23, 2024 · 1 min · 201 words · Dr. Brandy Hernandez

Taylor Swift Is ‘Blown Away’ By Zoë Kravitz’sBlink Twice

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Or at least a reunion with matching t-shirts. Heres what the critics thought of Kravitzs social thriller, including Professor Swifts full review. Going intoBlink Twice previously and more richly titledPussy Island I was curious about star Channing Tatums heel turn. But when I heard shed be directingBlink Twice(co-written by Kravitz and E.T. Angelica Jade Bastien,Vulture...

August 23, 2024 · 1 min · 167 words · Mary Yang

The Secret ABBA Influence on Magdalena Bay’s New Album

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Switched on Popis running Newcomers, a three-part series of interviews with breakout artists. This week, Reanna Cruz interviewed Magdalena Bay. Few groups are making as inventive, catchy pop music as Magdalena Bay. Their sophomore album,Imaginal Disk(out today), is no exception. you’re able to hear the full conversation on the latest episode ofSwitched on Pop. My favorite song on the record is Cry for Me....

August 23, 2024 · 2 min · 309 words · David Jones

The Serpent QueenRecap: The Virgin and the Witch

The Serpent Queen Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Dare I call this the best episode yet of the season? One might saythis seasons Diamond? Catherine finally gathered herself together and is being the Serpent Queen. Thats what were all here for, and instead, shes been amessall season. This is a horrifying statement, but Im … looking … forward … to theSt....

August 23, 2024 · 3 min · 546 words · Amanda Johnson

Abigail Goldman’s American Horror Story

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A third features a machine-gun-toting Queen Elizabeth and her two corgis standing over a dead man. All this exists at a remove from the art world. When I told a close friend I was reviewing Goldmans show, she said, Why? But, of course, there is a long lineage of artists working in wee spaces. Lori Nix creates mad slum scenes, destroyed libraries, and postapocalyptic living rooms....

August 22, 2024 · 1 min · 172 words · Christina Smith