Julio Torres, Playing God, Engineered a Blueberry Genetic Freak, ButSNLPut a Stop to It

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Too bad, wed love to watch Gal Gadot dressed as a blueberry announce, Im drunk. Im a bitch, and lie about being on the list for a party. Coulda been her bigEmma Stone as the actressmoment. Related Tags:

September 6, 2019 · 1 min · 53 words · Sherry Mitchell

Like Cannes, TIFF Is Falling Hard forPortrait of a Lady on Fire

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. That movies nothingbutthe female gaze. The reason why verges on Gothic tragedy. But once they start looking at each other, they find it hard to stop. This is a film about women watching women, shot by two women. (The cinematographer is Claire Mathon, who does for bright sunlight what Roger Deakins does for shadows.) Heloises gaze is something else....

September 6, 2019 · 1 min · 88 words · Tina Wade

The DeuceShows Its True Self in Its Final Season

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Why not skip the foreplay i.e., theatrical exhibition and get down to business? (Cut on film, promised an end credit, as if anyone could tell.) You get the sense that ominous, faceless, unstoppable forces are bearing down on all of the characters. Starbucks and Applebees and the Disney Store, mainly. Which leads to the question of whatThe Deuceis ultimately up to....

September 6, 2019 · 1 min · 76 words · Robert Herrera

The Great British Baking ShowRecap: Animal Farm

The Great British Baking Show Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In case you missed it, the Brexit situation in the U.K. has become pretty dire. Now, chocolate work has a very tenuous history in the tent. And Alice, an actual Disney princess come to life, is making honeycomb and peanut bars with marshmallow. The result is a set of perfectly identical biscuits splattered with multiple food colorings and topped with tiny flowers....

September 6, 2019 · 2 min · 405 words · Christina Mccullough

The Real FBI Agent BehindMindhunteron What Actually Happened in Atlanta

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (Hes even developing a podcast based on his originalMindhunterbook.) This season, I felt like I saw more of you in Bill Tench than Holden Ford. What did you think?Youre right! You know when Holden is getting chewed out at the retirement party? Youre going to call me a twerp? No, youre not going to get away with that....

September 6, 2019 · 5 min · 964 words · Kathleen Kemp

There’s Never Been a Country Supergroup Quite Like the Highwomen

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Each story is more crushing than the last. Played by outlaw country elders in a commercial lull, it is a word about resilience. These women just wanted to live, love, and be loved, but the planet couldnt handle that. Hegemony is a business not just of egotism but of the fear of loss of power....

September 6, 2019 · 1 min · 183 words · Lindsey Davis

A Way-Too-Early Guide to the Wild, Abbreviated 2020 Oscar Season

Fall Preview The most anticipated releases of the season ahead. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Last August, the Academys Twitter accountannouncedthree forthcoming changes to the Oscars ceremony. (1) There would be a brand-new category called Best Popular Film. (2) To keep the show from running over, certain categories would be presented during commercial breaks. And (3) the 2020 ceremony would air on February 9, about three weeks earlier than usual....

September 5, 2019 · 3 min · 607 words · Jill Mendoza

Eddie Murphy Is Going on Tour in 2020

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Were going to have to decide what to call this Eddie Murphy resurgence. And Murphy is returning to hostSaturday Night LiveonDecember 21. Sources Related Tags:

September 5, 2019 · 1 min · 40 words · John Williams

Lil Nas X’s ‘Panini’ Music Video Says Goodbye to Yeehaw and Hello to Sexy Robots

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September 5, 2019 · 1 min · 17 words · Gerald Walls

Margaret Atwood’sThe TestamentsJoins the Empowerment Parade

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Who exactly was Offred? What happened to her next? Offred was the heroine of her own story and her own story alone. Like most of us. She is far more than that in the TV adaptation of the genre-spanning 1985 classic. Praise effing be to a point. For me, the sense of relief on encountering an Offred-free sequel was personal....

September 5, 2019 · 1 min · 199 words · Christina Haynes

The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall

From Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, and more. Fall Preview The most anticipated releases of the season ahead. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Youll feel indecent reading it in public. The Booker Prize has already deemed it worthy of its2019 long listandshort list. More From Fall Preview Tags:

September 5, 2019 · 1 min · 59 words · Ethan Barker

The SpyFeels Like a Memorial Plaque Turned Into a Miniseries

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The first is the usual: Is it well made? That is, does it scan, is it compelling, is it built effectively? But the second question is, why doesThe Spyexist? And that is a harder nut to crack. A few times he gets very upset. Once, he hurls things at the wall. (Eventually, hes tortured in other, more gruesomely direct ways....

September 5, 2019 · 1 min · 181 words · Timothy Mullins

Trevor Noah Has a Novel Solution to the Amazon Fires

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The climate-change news cycle has moved away from the Amazon fires and on to Hurricane Dorian. But what if one could be used to solve the other? If Brazils president wont allocate water to fight the Amazon fires, maybe ours can.

September 5, 2019 · 1 min · 56 words · Michael Larson