Vampire Veek We don’t live to drain, we drain to live. Vampire Veek We don’t live to drain, we drain to live. Spoilers ahead for the season-three finale of What We Do in the Shadows. In its third season, What We Do in the Shadows decided to explore a creature of its own creation: the energy vampire. Originally formulated as an opportunity for an extra joke, Colin Robinson — played to perfection by Mark Proksch — quickly became a central figure in the dramas and machinations of his blood-sucking roommates and their beleaguered familiar Guillermo.

You can practically smell the Black Flies director chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity. This review originally published on May 19, 2023 out of the Cannes Film Festival (back when the movie was titled Black Flies). We are recirculating it timed to its theatrical release. Starring Tye Sheridan and Sean Penn as a pair of EMTs making their way through an endless gauntlet of violence, cruelty, and blood, Asphalt City is the kind of movie that could fuel a year’s worth of wet dreams for any politicians eager to portray New York as a crime-soaked hellscape.

What started innocently enough as an animated comedy about a mad scientist and his grandson has become the kind of pop-culture phenomenon over which the internet obsesses. Trying to pull apart the logic of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty can turn you into a mumbling Jerry, but that doesn’t stop devoted viewers from untangling the many timelines of a show that posits the existence of infinite universes. As the third season hits its homestretch, we decided to break down the different iterations of the title characters that we’ve seen to illuminate where this complex, daring show might be headed next.

L-R: Nick Offerman, Kristen Bell, Jason Mantzoukas. To say sitcom maestro Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, The Office) has a faithful legion of actors on his side would be an understatement. Here’s a man who knows who he likes! To get a better sense of just how interconnected these shows really are, we’ve catalogued all of the returning players in Schur’s universe from the big to the supporting to the blink-and-you-missed-it cameos.

‘What role does shame play in this dynamic between fan and fallen artist?’ Harry Potter fans rushing to pick up the latest book. Photo: Danie Leal/AFP via Getty Images Harry Potter fans rushing to pick up the latest book. Photo: Danie Leal/AFP via Getty Images Harry Potter fans rushing to pick up the latest book. In my new book, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, I try to write the autobiography of the audience.

Even before this week’s New York Times report, where five women came forward to accuse comedian Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct, his new film I Love You, Daddy had been raising eyebrows in the industry. The movie, which C.K. wrote, directed, and starred in, was filmed in secret and added to the Toronto International Film Festival in September as a surprise entry, and though it premiered weeks before the Harvey Weinstein accusations would prompt a closer look at sexual misbehavior in Hollywood, Toronto audiences were buzzing about how the film seemed to address the rumors about Louis C.

Frieze New York art fair in 2017. As a system, art fairs are like America: They’re broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at the very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growing. Like America, the art world is preoccupied by spectacle — which means nonstop art fairs, biennials, and other blowouts. Yet the place where new art comes from, where it is seen for free and where almost all the risk and innovation takes place — medium and smaller galleries – are ever pressured by rising art fair costs, shrinking attendance and business at the gallery itself, rents, and overhead.

Call her the Sparrow of AI (or maybe the SpAIrrow of Paris?). A new biopic of French singer Edith Piaf will use artificial intelligence to re-create her voice and an animation of her, Variety reports, with an AI Piaf narrating the film. Warner Music Group has been working with production company Seriously Happy on the film and is currently looking for a studio partner. And, somehow, Piaf’s estate is okay with all of it!

Herman Wouk has never been one for half-measures. His two-volume World War II saga, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, ran to nearly 2,000 pages and was adapted into a corresponding pair of TV miniseries. His third novel, The Caine Mutiny, won a Pulitzer, spawned a Broadway play, and gave Humphrey Bogart a defining role of his career. Wouk’s meaty, breezy fiction (on the Navy, the Holocaust, Israel, Nixon, a starry-eyed Jewish girl who called herself Marjorie Morningstar) earned him millions of readers but precious few glowing reviews.

A piece of concept art for Pinocchio found in the Disney Vault. In 1944, Disney rereleased Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into theaters nationwide. The film had been a sensation during its original 1937 release — in addition to being a virtuoso technical achievement as the first feature-length animated film, it was also a critical darling and commercial smash. And while the move to rerelease the film was more of a marketing decision than a creative one (the studio had nearly been crippled, creatively and financially, by America’s involvement in World War II, and none of its subsequent features had captured the Zeitgeist like Snow White had), it set a precedent for the studio, which would soon standardize the practice of both releasing and then withholding its animated classics.