Iceland! Land of a million slots and crevices in which to bury oneself following an act of eco-sabotage! At the start of Benedikt Erlingsson’s rousingly offbeat Woman at War, the eponymous middle-aged warrior, Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir), strides across one of those vast, empty Icelandic landscapes with a bow and arrow, takes out a power line leading to a huge smelter, and hides from the inevitable helicopter under a mossy overhang.

Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel, the highly anticipated closing-night presentation of the 55th New York Film Festival, opens with Justin Timberlake as a 1950s Coney Island lifeguard named “Mickey Rubin” (Irish? Jewish? Baptist like Timberlake?) addressing the camera, explaining that he wants to be a major American dramatist like Eugene O’Neill and suggesting the story that follows (in which he’s a participant) will be a larger-than-life melodrama with strong characters and metaphors.

Clea Duvall (back row, middle) in a shot from The Intervention. Being a first-time filmmaker with a movie at Sundance is a nerve-racking, exhausting endeavor. Even worse? Also being one of the leads. As Clea Duvall, the writer/director/star of The Intervention, revealed during the Vulture-moderated Women in Film panel and celebration in Park City, “I woke up every day not knowing how we were going to get done what we needed to get done.

On Thursday, we wrote about the latest poem from Yasiin Bey — the former Mos Def. Titled “On center.stadium.status,” it’s a response to the opening of Barclays Center, written last September, on the day of the arena’s opening. Hesitant to have the piece perceived as an attack on Jay-Z, Barclay’s public face, Bey held off on letting it go for a while. Now that it’s out, Bey would like to expound on why.

Yellowjackets Old Wounds Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowjackets Old Wounds Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “Old Wounds” is available to stream now via Showtime Anytime; it will make its Showtime network premiere on Sunday, April 16 at 9 p.

Yellowjackets star Samantha Hanratty is a double threat of ’90s nostalgia. Not only does she play 1996 Misty on the Showtime drama, she’s a living, breathing American Girl doll. Hanratty worked extensively as a child — including starring in An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. The TV movie showed Chrissa overcoming bullying and joining her school’s swim team. Sounds like a more wholesome version of Misty’s life, overcoming (or succumbing to?

Yellowstone The Remembering Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Yellowstone The Remembering Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » When the Taylor Sheridan–penned Sicario sequel Day of the Soldado came out last month, a lot of critics took issue with its depiction of terrorists and drug gangs, which seemed drawn straight from the most incendiary rhetoric of anti-immigration demagogues.

She’s not a saint, she’s not what you think; she’s … probably going to make a few tweaks to a song. On the new version of “Better Than Revenge” on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift sings, “He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches.” This is a more progressive replacement for the controversial lyric, “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress.

The view inside One Grand Books. As if there weren’t enough reasons to escape into the countryside this summer, a new literary festival will provide the chance to do so while listening to celebrities read books. The first inaugural Deep Water Literary Festival, created by One Grand Books founder Aaron Hicklin, is coming to Narrowsburg, New York, from June 15 to 17 this summer, and for its centerpiece event, it’ll feature a marathon reading from Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Odyssey with a cast of readers that includes Mark Ruffalo, Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Marlon James, and even Tilda Swinton, who prerecorded book ten of the epic, which features Circe.

Jane Fonda at a rally with opponents of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines in New York. Oh, sure, you and your pals might be getting really into this whole activist, protesting thing in this new Über-􏰀political era, but we guarantee you can’t hold a candle to Jane Fonda. Yes, that Jane Fonda, who — before she became the exercise video queen and star of Netflix’s charming Grace and Frankie — was an engaged, outspoken political activist, giving talks and joining protests during the Vietnam War and beyond.