52 Films By Women 23. Advanced Style, directed by Lina Plioplyte

23. Advanced Style, directed by Lina Plioplyte

“Somewhere Between 50 and Death…” in Advanced Style   Look around today and you will be inundated with images of youth and beauty: the fashion industry predicates itself on it, with magazines and campaigns, runways and catalogues all devoted to a demographic of supple skin and taut bodies. Fashion and beauty products are all pushed towards …

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Seasons The Leftovers – Season 3

The Leftovers – Season 3

One of the Most Mystifying Shows Ever Made Ends the Way it Lived, Revealing Nothing While Saying Everything   What happens when we die? This is a rhetorical exercise, obviously, so please don’t send me any pamphlets, but, as far as unanswerable questions go, there aren’t really any higher than that of death. Even if …

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Songs On “I Promise”, Radiohead Hold Up Their End of the Bargain

On “I Promise”, Radiohead Hold Up Their End of the Bargain

Only Radiohead Could Turn the Release of a Twenty-Year-Old Throwaway into a Goddamn Event   Last year, on their magnificent album A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead performed a resurrection. It’s called “True Love Waits“, a gorgeous song that had been a staple of their concerts for twenty years without ever receiving a proper studio release, until …

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Seasons The Americans – Season 5

The Americans – Season 5

In its Penultimate Season, TV’s Revered Spy Drama Leans Heavy on the Latter, Plays Hard to Get With the Former   The Americans can’t end well. That’s basically the only thing I can guarantee about what’s coming in the show’s sixth and final season that’s set to air next year, but beyond that it’s anyone’s …

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Trailers Logan Lucky‘s Trailer is More Fun Than Most Movies

Logan Lucky‘s Trailer is More Fun Than Most Movies

Our First Look at Logan Lucky Suggests a Madcap Heist Comedy with One of the Most Unusual Casts this Year   The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s new movie, Logan Lucky, was released a few days ago. I can’t stop watching it, the same way you might be compelled to gaze endlessly at a kaleidoscopic pattern, or a …

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52 Films By Women 22. What Women Want, directed by Nancy Meyers

22. What Women Want, directed by Nancy Meyers

I’ll Tell You What I Want, What I Really, Really Want: What Women (Actually) Want   Women are mysterious creatures, with the inner workings of a lady often as complicated to herself as those around her. For men then, trying to decode this enigma, or to even more ambitiously step into women’s shoes, is a …

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Songs Kendrick Makes “Mask Off” the Great Song it Deserves to Be

Kendrick Makes “Mask Off” the Great Song it Deserves to Be

Kendrick Lamar Lends a Stellar Verse to Future’s Highest Charting Hit, Making it Worthy of Such Success   “Mask Off” is not the best song Future has put out this year. Hell, it’s not even the best song on FUTURE, the first of two albums that the prolific codeine rapper has released in 2017. Still, its …

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Movies/TV Wonder Woman and the era of Butthurt

Wonder Woman and the era of Butthurt

People Online Are Getting Meaner, Which is Just Making it Easier For Us to Justify Hating One Another   Last week, when the Alamo Drafthouse theatre in Austin, Texas announced a Women Only screening of the upcoming Wonder Woman, Twitter became a microcosm of where we currently are as a human race. A lot of men …

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