Alex Garland’s new “What if all Americans decided to kill each other, but in a sort of unlikely, apolitical way?” thriller Civil War might have been divisive with critics, but it’s continuing to be a lot less ambiguous when it comes to ticket sales. Per Deadline, the A24 flick, now in its second week in theaters, is…
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Pearl Jam isn’t quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an elite group of alt-rock bands who survived the 1990s unscathed. Although they’ve had the inevitable ups and downs that…
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Taylor Swift has once again stolen a record from herself—which must be a nice change of pace, after all that shit that went down with her masters a few years back—with Spotify announcing today that Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has already smashed the record for most streamed albums in a single…
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Devastating the collective political cartoonists of America—forced to crumple up potentially hundreds of hastily scrawled cartoons depicting Bert and Ernie screaming slogans while out on the picket lines—Deadline reports tonight that the Writers Guild Of America has reached a tentative agreement with Sesame Workshop,…
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For the second time in the franchise’s ridiculously successful 23-year history, CBS’s CSI franchise is facing the prospect of a world in which there are no active CSI shows on the air. The network announced tonight that it’s killing off revival series CSI: Vegas after three seasons on the air, tossing it onto our old…
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While it will probably take a few more days for all the reactions, close readings, and fervor over The Tortured Poets Department to really crystallize, one thing that’s immediately clear about the album is its sheer mass. Including its surprise, 16-track sister album, The Anthology, TTPD is a 31-song, two-plus hour…
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We would like to posit that no single film role has done more to damage the psyches of British male actors of a certain age, type, and jawline than James Bond. The moment pretty much any of these poor saps hits, like, 25, the rumors and speculation, the internal questioning, the horrific, endless pressure all start.…
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