Jake Gyllenhaal – one of him, at least – in Enemy. Ever watched the end of a movie and thought, “I have no idea what I just watched?” Vulture is here for you! We’ll be going back and taking a look at some notable endings in film, trying to explain what happened, why, and what it all really means. Previously in this series, we covered the ending of Donnie Darko.
Ryan Reynolds’s first appearance as the “Merc With a Mouth” wasn’t in 2016’sDeadpool. Reynolds actually popped up in the climactic scene at the end of 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine as the merc with no mouth. Literally: He wears a surgically sealed fleshy mess over the lower half of his face. In other words, the singularly distinguishing factor about the iconic character — Deadpool’s ability to sling self-deprecating quips, the fourth-wall-breaking one-liners, the profanity-laced cracks — was a non-consideration for his cinematic debut.
The third episode of Fox’s rebooted The X-Files is a gift for fans of the series, a beautiful stand-alone horror-comedy written and directed by Darin Morgan, the man behind classic episodes like “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and “War of the Coprophages.” In his latest, “Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” Kumail Nanjiani of Silicon Valley and Rhys Darby of Flight of the Conchords co-star in a tongue-in-cheek send-up of Universal monster movies as Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate mysterious sightings and animal attacks in the woods.
“I’m not a responsible person, you know — at all,” says Richard Prince, as if he is trying to remind himself of this as much as anything. “I’m just — I want to make cool shit. I want to be a cool dude, or whatever.”
Today, at 66, Prince is one of the most successful and influential artists of his generation — specifically, the Pictures Generation, an aloof clique of 1980s conceptualists that included Barbara Kruger, David Salle, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy Sherman (whom he used to date), who together reintroduced pictorial imagery to painting, in large part by borrowing it directly from advertising and mass culture.
Florine Stettheimer’s Heat. I love art by men. In fact, let’s start using that as a category; call all the group shows of art by all or mostly men “Men’s Art,” the same way we do when it comes to “Women’s Art,” “Black Art,” “Outsider Art,” and all the rest. Maybe that will help level the playing field — a bit, anyway. Or maybe men could just sit out exhibiting their art for the next 24 months, as we endure this extended political emergency more in need than ever of other voices.
theater review July 16, 2018 Theater Review: Jump Cuts and Auteur Wannabes, in Fire in Dreamland Rinne Groff’s play about not-quite-successful art-making. By Sara Holdren
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“Just like the hearse, you die to get in again.” Thnks fr th Mmrs: The Vans Warped Tour has officially kicked the bucket. Founder Kevin Lyman hasannounced to Billboard that his seminal pop-rock traveling festival, which birthed a generation of disaffected tweens with unfortunate haircuts, will make its final run in 2018 after 24 years on the scene. “Traveling around the country with a tour this size in the landscape that we’re in is … to be honest, I’m just tired,” he says.
Riverdale Outbreak Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Riverdale Outbreak Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 1 stars * «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I’m sorry to say Riverdale has bid us farewell for winter break with one of the dullest episodes in a while. Steel yourself for a lot of people marching into rooms and announcing things while other people (okay, sometimes the same people) learn things that the rest of us have known for a long time, and also, honestly, that I thought they already knew too, but apparently they didn’t?
Rob Zombie, formerly of heavy-metal music and currently of directing-movies-with-metal-torture-devices, has released the trailer for his latest horror movie, 31. In what must be a first for the genre, six traveling carnival workers are the potential victims, not the psychopathic murderers, trying to stay alive against all violent, bizarrely sexual odds. The carnies are kidnapped and placed in a mazelike house where three freaks, dressed in full 17th-century aristocratic regalia, have set up a series of torturous traps that are not faithful to Restoration-era aesthetics or sensibilities, but are in line with circus couture.
During the tribute to Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon at the 2023 Gotham Awards, star Robert De Niro claims that part of his speech was censored, as he could not find a portion of it in the teleprompter. As he was reading the introduction, he took several pauses and leaned into the podium before continuing on with what was there. As the camera returned to De Niro from a clip montage of the film, he addressed the awkward pauses he had made earlier and explained what happened.