Every 2021 Oscar-Nominated Movie, Ranked

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It has been averylongroadto the 93rd Academy Awards, and we probably dont need to remind you of thereasonswhy. Against all odds, this was a great Oscars year. Now lets start pitting the nominees against each other! These are the big guns:The Incredibles.Shrek.How to Train Your Dragon.Kung Fu Panda. And now …Shaun the Sheep Movie. Only Gong Li as a villainous witch (literally and figuratively) rises above....

April 21, 2021 · 2 min · 271 words · Jason Brennan

How theDemon SlayerMovie Is Breaking the Mold and Shattering Records

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. If thats you, then its worth taking a step back to better understand what the big deal is. On the contrary, it took a few years for the manga to become a big success. Things really picked up whenDemon Slayerbecame an anime. Demon Slayerstands out among other shonen anime for the way it dips into the horror genre....

April 21, 2021 · 1 min · 125 words · Kevin Schmitt

Hugh Jackman Belts Out a Statement About Scott Rudin in All Caps

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Oh, weve got trouble. It takes an enormous amount of courage and strength to stand up and state your truth. This is something that is and has always been very important to me. Related Tags:

April 21, 2021 · 1 min · 50 words · Tracy Flores

Patton Oswalt Lasers Into Our Hearts in the Trailer for Marvel’sM.O.D.O.K.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing is here, and he! Hulu released a trailer for MarvelsM.O.D.O.K., the new Marvel series debuting May 21. Patton Oswalt stars as the big-headed creep himself, whose life is going down the tubes. In the trailer, we can see M.O.D.O.K. squaring up against Iron Man (Jon Hamm) professionally and Wonder Man (Nathan Fillion) personally....

April 21, 2021 · 1 min · 125 words · Alexandra Brown

Philip Roth Biographer Accused of Sexual Assault, Publisher Pulls Book

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. These allegations are serious, the publisher said in a statement. Baileys literary agency, the Story Factory, has also dropped the author. Even those of us hurt by him still loved him on some level, she wrote. He was supposed to be our mentor. In many ways, he was. And then he used our trust in him against us in the cruelest and most intimate way possible....

April 21, 2021 · 1 min · 123 words · Nicole Haynes

Shudder Knows What You’ll Stream This Summer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. There are early signs its working. And as you would imagine, thats helpful on churn. What follows is an edited transcript of the conversation. So Im curious about the origin story for Shudder. What made the company go big on a streaming service for horror fans? Samuel Zimmerman:It is not dissimilar from that. Most big companies are moving toward broad, all-encompassing platforms....

April 21, 2021 · 5 min · 977 words · Jason Park

The Real Housewives of New JerseyRecap: Mom’s the Word

The Real Housewives of New Jersey Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Lets start at the very beginning, as a Nazi-hating former nun with a lesbian haircut once said. I did not know that such a thing even existed. Is this just a New Jersey thing? Can it be found elsewhere? All I know is I want to live there. No, not in the place where you could buy this in the actual bowl itself....

April 21, 2021 · 3 min · 498 words · Melinda Jackson

Top ChefKicks Off Its Eighteenth Season in Portland: What You Missed in Episodes 1-3

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Hands up, utensils down:Top Chefis back! Portland is an amazing city filled with iconic indigenous ingredients and a strong sense of community. This new season also comes as the restaurant industry faces aprolonged period of hardshipdue to the ongoing pandemic. The season was also filmed in the midst ofmonths of city-wide protestsin Portland for racial justice....

April 21, 2021 · 3 min · 504 words · Brittany Perry

Can Listening to Music Ever Really Be Sustainable?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. After half a century of further environmental degradation, artists tend to be more circumspect about the future. Musicians addressing the environment head-on only represents one side of the music industrys engagement with the climate crisis. Theway we listen to music impacts the environment. Streaming music uses a significant amount of energy, even though the technology seems to make sound feel immaterial....

April 20, 2021 · 2 min · 290 words · Sarah Wright

Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: April 2021 Edition

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In retrospect,Thelma & Louisetook the easy way out. Everyone else may find Yunas troubles either overblown or tedious, however sympathetic a protagonist she may be. There are faint traces of gut-caliber humor here, most of them attributable to her skill as a riffer. (That, and Jason Bateman as a nonchalant quasi-villain who happens to have crab arms....

April 20, 2021 · 1 min · 77 words · Bryce Mcneil

Dakota Johnson to Star in a ‘Modern, Witty’ Adaptation of Jane Austen’sPersuasion

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. PerThe Hollywood Reporter, the film is described as a modern, witty approach to a beloved story. Theres also currently aperiod adaptation in the works, starringSuccessions Sarah Snook andGame of ThronesJoel Fry.

April 20, 2021 · 1 min · 46 words · Emily Dickerson

Facebook Bursts Into the Live Audio Scene

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (The New YorkTimesfirst reportedthe existence of this product back in February.) A new social audio format theyre calling Soundbites, described as short-form, creative audio clips. This seems to be a gambit around some sort of TikTok- or Instagram-like experience for audio. That is, of course, if they had a dedicated marketing budget to do so....

April 20, 2021 · 4 min · 691 words · Glenn Townsend

In Conversation: Mads Mikkelsen

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thomas VinterbergsAnother Round,features one of the rare moments in Mikkelsens filmography whenhe straight-up dances. His character, Martin, has the leaden tread of a man stuck in a midlife crisis. Im rarely starstruck, he says, chain-smoking in a green tracksuit from his home in Mallorca. Maybe because what Im doing has never been a dream of mine....

April 20, 2021 · 15 min · 3163 words · Elizabeth Richards