Tagline: “From the studio that brought you Fahrenheit 9/11 and the director of Borat…” Translation: Attention flag-burning sodomites! The Verdict: In Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen made ordinary red-state Americans look silly by blundering through driving lessons and bringing poo to dinner parties. In Religulous, his upcoming documentary about organized religion, Bill Maher will apparently try for similar results by mocking people directly to their faces. As occasional watchers of his HBO show Real Time, we’ll admit he can be funny — just not typically in his man-on-the-street interviews, in which he usually looks completely uncomfortable; sadly, these appear to make up the bulk of Religulous.

Jonathan Demme, one of the American cinema’s finest, most insistently humanist directors, has died at the absurdly young age of 73, from complications of throat cancer and heart disease. It’s hard to imagine New York or the world or the movies without Demme in the house. How do you eulogize someone whose overriding aspect is aliveness? I guess you start by simply naming some of his wonderful movies, in chronological order: Caged Heat, Handle With Care, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, Married to the Mob, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Beloved, Rachel Getting Married, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, A Master Builder … Those are my favorites, but many of the others are vital, too — Swimming to Cambodia, Cousin Bobby, his Haitian documentaries, his brave and urgent remake of The Manchurian Candidate, his patchy but exuberant Ricki and the Flash …

Nightcrawler, which is slowly creeping into this year’s awards conversation, features two polarizing characters — Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal), a drifter who chances upon a lucrative career shooting grisly crime scenes and selling the footage to a local TV news outlet, and Nina (Rene Russo), that station’s director, who seizes the opportunity to boost her show’s ratings and secure her shaky position. But is Nina a victim, manipulated by Lou as he ups his demands, or is she the one actually in control?

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This Friday, February 12, a new reality show makes its way to Netflix titled Buried by the Bernards, and if last month’s trailer left you wanting more, here are two new sneak peeks from the series. In the above clip, Raegan — the youngest member of the family that runs R Bernard Funeral Services in Memphis, Tennessee — is picked up from school by her uncle Kevin. If this were a typical family, Kevin might pick Raegan up in a normal car and teach her how to drive, but this is a family running a funeral home, so instead of a normal car, it’s a giant black hearse.

How chat podcasts have taken over the medium and dominated the cultural discourse (again). Photo-Illustration: Alicia Tatone; Photos: YouTube Less than a week into 2024, Katt Williams went on a podcast and laid waste to the world. Speaking on Club Shay Shay, the entertainment show hosted by pro-football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe, the comedian aired grievances and let loose on his long career while taking shots at an expansive list of targets, from Kevin Hart (“No one in Hollywood has a memory of a sold-out Kevin Hart show”) to Cedric the Entertainer (whom he accused of stealing jokes) to Harvey Weinstein (the disgraced producer “offered to suck my penis in front of all my people at my agency”).

My area has one of those weird over-the-air channels that plays reruns of third-tier sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere and Dear John. But they also play old episodes of the Johnny Carson-era Tonight Show, although stripped of all branding to tie it to Tonight Show, for what is clearly legal purposes. Anyway, I watch this sometimes because I like to fill in the holes of my comedy education as I am just barely old enough to have missed Carson.

Excerpt from Kingdom Come. DC Comics (or DC Entertainment, as it’s now known) has published a handful of self-evaluations in the past 30 years, all of them oriented toward the sixth year of a given decade. The process began in 1986 with Crisis on Infinite Earths, a legendarily expansive tale in which the whole DC multiverse was evaluated and destroyed. In 2006, a sequel called Infinite Crisis executed a similar set of revisions.

Friends and fellow Kardashiatrixes, welcome to Part 2 of our look back at season one of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. I had so much fun the first time around, I can hardly wait to see what crazy antics those Kardashians will get into over the remaining four episodes. We’ve got, let’s see, *checks notes*, death, drunk driving, unwanted pregnancies, homelessness, and child pornography. So, yay. Let’s do this.