“Old Town Road” is so much more than a hit at this point — it’s like centuries of American music were all building up to these 113 seconds of genius. Lil Nas X’s yeehaw manifesto has been the great national obsession ever since it blew up in March, which feels …
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Early in Hulu’s revival of Veronica Mars, the title character (Kristen Bell) visits one of the many men she put behind bars as a teenager. Realizing that she’s still working as a private investigator, he snipes, “That was your job in high school, right?” Television shows are a product of …
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Twenty years ago in June — just weeks shy of her 30th trip around the sun — Jennifer Lopez released her 1999 debut, On the 6. This summer the superstar not only celebrates her golden 50th, but decades of pop music prowess with her It’s My Party Tour, a 32-night …
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What we have here is an action-comedy about an Uber driver named Stu. Hence the title, Stuber. These are the jokes, folks. Also not funny — besides the title and the script — is the fact that Stuber traps two talented dudes — Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista — in …
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A review of “Kill Me,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I give someone a hug for the length of a nice inhale/exhale… A few episodes back, Madeline broke down at a school assembly as she considered the many ways that parents lie to their …
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Since first crossing paths in 2013, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Nashville’s Tim Montana have bonded over blues-rock, beards, and barbecue. They combine all three in the new song “Good ‘Ol BBQ,” their first release under the name the Whisker Brothers. It’s a feel-good tune, tailor-made for the American summer …
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The bearded sonic guru of Malibu gets his own Zen documentary! The CW raises the curtain on a BBC acquisition and a possible sci-fi tentpole! HBO rolls out yet another morbidly engrossing true-crime doc! IFC gives us a faux-Soul Train mockumentary Plus millennials get another season of their version of …
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Elizabeth Warren has jumped into second place nationally in a poll of the Democratic 2020 field. The Economist/YouGov survey shows her surge has come at the expense of Bernie Sanders, who now sits in third place. No surprise: The poll finds Joe Biden still comfortably in first place. But the …
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Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein just published a new piece called, “Is Bernie Finished?” Citing Iowa poll numbers that show poor Sanders “essentially in a three person race for second” (he actually is in second, but whatever), its premise is that Bernie now rests “at the fringes of plausibility.” Worse, he could …
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Finally — an Ad Astra trailer! We’ve been waiting to catch a glimpse of the James Gray/Brad Pitt sci-fi opus, and the first look at what these gentleman have in store for people who like space and headscratching existentialism more than delivers. Also: extended peeks at Martin Scorsese’s incredible new …
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