The Great Escape. Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, opens this week after its controversial Cannes premiere back in May. The film takes place over two weekends in February and August of 1969, and it’s filled with references to the era in film and television, some of which are woven into the plot and some of which clearly inspired Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson in their design of the film.
This guy. The album may be called Her Loss, but really, Drake is making it everyone’s loss. Across his new album’s 16 tracks, Drake takes unnecessary shots at a number of figures — everyone from Megan Thee Stallion to former ex-friend Ye to rumored ex Serena Williams and her husband. Guess the chill vibe from the Honestly, Nevermind club music has worn off? (His collaborator, 21 Savage, has been minding his business and rapping as well as he can.
Girl, get in. We’re vibing. It’s been a long four years, everyone, but now it’s time to chilllllll. We finally got a new Lorde album to soak in like sunbeams. Solar Power isn’t the bombastic Melodrama or the angsty Pure Heroine; it’s straight-up vibes — cucumber bongs and all. It’s an album that Lorde sees as “sexy, playful, feral, and free” and “vibrating at the highest level when summer comes around.
Check out the rest of Vulture’s gift guide picks on our 2021 Advent Calendar! Check out the rest of Vulture’s gift guide picks on our 2021 Advent Calendar! Seth Rogen’s transformation into Weed Daddy is complete, and for that we are grateful. The guy just wants to stay home and make pottery, and since he started showing off his ceramics on social media, fans have been begging to purchase them.
It was only a matter of time. Rain drop, drop top, 2017 coming in hot hot. Truly, is there a better way to ring in the year than with a new entry into the Hot 100’s Top 10 that was lifted by the strength of a meme? Just as 2016 ended with the internet strongly influencing the Billboard charts, 2017 is off to an almost identical start. With Rae Sremmurd’s mannequin-challenge-driven “Black Beatles” back at No.
Like: Is Sam Levinson and the Weeknd’s new HBO show starring Lily-Rose Depp actually “sexual torture porn,” or nah? This article originally published during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. We are republishing it on the occasion of the series’ premiere on HBO.
Before the Monday night premiere of The Idol at Cannes, nobody had actually seen the HBO series, but everyone had formed an opinion on it. The dramatic, yearslong metanarrative surrounding the show — co-created by Abel Tesfaye, a.
We’ll still call you on your cellphone. Sorry, Drake: Billboard didn’t get you that No. 1 you wanted for your birthday. For a sixth week, the Weeknd’s “The Hills” has topped the Hot 100 chart, edging out Drake’s “Hotline Bling” to deny his Canadian compatriot his first solo No. 1 song. (Drake’s only chart topper came as a featured artist on Rihanna’s “What’s My Name?”) Instead, for a third week, Drake will have to settle for the runner-up spot.
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 28: Allen Leech attends The Laurence Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House on April 28, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images) The Imitation Game, a biopic about mathematician Alan Turing, is strong in the Recognizable Brits With Remarkable Names category, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Now Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech is in talks to co-star as a Scottish spy who worked with the Soviets to plot against Turing, who was “responsible for cracking the German ‘Enigma Code’ during World War II that helped the Allies stave off defeat, and who would later be prosecuted by Britain in the early 1950s for being a homosexual.
David Greenspan in On Set With Theda Bara. As exhilarating as solo shows can be, it’s hard not to fret over their current ubiquity. Our theater-making climate is, more and more aggressively, demanding ultra-spare performances. Even in the U.K.—a real place weathering its own political storms, but also, for so long, a comparative ideal of national-arts funding in the eyes of American artists—renowned venues like the Royal Court are seeing their budgets slashed and burned so mercilessly that they’re programming whole seasons of stand-up comedy.
Alyssa Cole. The first two books in Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series were two of the biggest things in romance in 2017. The heroines of both books are free black women in the Civil War, working in the South against the Confederacy. In those books, Cole shined a new light on what we may think of as a well-known period of American history, complicating simple narratives with stories inspired by true events, giving unsung heroines their hard-won happy endings.