Brooklyn Nine-NineSeries-Finale Recap: The Perfect Good-bye

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It returns to the most beloved structure of this sitcom: the heist! Its an episode that allows its performers to shine with clever, funny, and incredibly fast-paced performances. Every other scene involves a betrayal, a surprise, a flashback, etc. It helps that they have finality to ground it. Its really about two competing agendas to craft the perfect good-bye....

September 17, 2021 · 3 min · 529 words · Justin Gonzalez

Do We Even Need to Tell You How Gay Lil Nas X’s ‘That’s What I Want’ Video Is?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The album has already given the performeranother No. 1 singleanda VMA for Video of the Year and the rest of us so, so much queer joy. Related Tags:

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 43 words · Clarence Gonzalez

Guillermo del Toro’sNightmare AlleyGets Its Final Trippy Trailer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The new trailer forGuillermo del Torospsychological thrillerNightmare Alleyis here. Related Tags:

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 26 words · Gregory Delgado

HBO Max Goes Halfsies, Giving New Subscribers 50 Percent Off

Streamliner At your service. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. No, just me? Well, HBO Max is going halfsies, but in a way we actually like. Related Tags:

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 37 words · Stephanie Barrett MD

Hulu Green-Lights Drama Pilot Starring Mandy Patinkin & Violett Beane

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The pilot was written byStumptownalums Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams and will be directed by Marc Webb. Especially when sailing the Mediterranean on an ocean liner filled with the wealthy and powerful. Everyone onboard is hiding something … but is one of them a killer? Related Tags:

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 63 words · Christie Williams

InSun & Sea,Econihilism Goes to the Beach

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Watching someone elses vacation has gone, in the past two years, from difficult to excruciating. Thirteen are vocalists; the rest are supernumeraries ready to mill around and kick sand. A couple discusses whether its time to go in the water. Children chatter and play. A dog is taken (dragged) for a walk. And as the people laze on their pastel towels, they also sometimes sing....

September 17, 2021 · 2 min · 218 words · Gregory Johnson

It’s an Album! Lil Nas X’s Debut,Montero, Is Here

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Congratulations toLil Nas Xon the birth of his album!Monteroarrived right on schedule, at 12 a.m. (But I guess the producers who worked on it are like the dads too, he added. Or maybe uncles.) The 22-year-old is now parent to a happy, healthy album! It follows Lil Nass debut EP7, released in June 2019 off his smash hit Old Town Road....

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 150 words · Michael Hudson

Joyce Manor Covering ‘Helena’ at Riot Fest Is Emo Perfection

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. That was the end of our set, this ones just for fun, singer-guitarist Barry Johnson said. So it doesnt really count, bassist Matt Ebert added. But it shouldve, because it ripped. Other bands, take note: This is how you say so long and good night. pic.twitter.com/NMiHwtKs85 Related Tags:

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 63 words · Mark Smith

Kate Beckinsale Guilty of, Well, Wreaking Havoc in theGuilty PartyTrailer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Whos the real guilty party here in theGuilty Partytrailer? (Plimptons stellar defense: Why would I cut his dick off if I was gonna kill him? Things only get wilder from there, when the guns, chain saws, and even foot-licking come out. Related Tags:

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 58 words · Adam Taylor

Katie Kitamura, Lauren Groff on National Book Award for Fiction Longlist

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. So time to rearrange your to-read pile and get on those library hold lists before everyone else! The longlisted fiction authors join writers recognized on theNonfiction,Poetry,Translated Literature, andYoung Peoples Literaturelonglists. The finalists in all categories will be announced on October 5; below, find the full fiction longlist.

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 62 words · Christopher Hurst

Pink Label’s Trove of Erotic Cinema Is a Vital Historical Archive

Streamliner At your service. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The Netflix-style categorization makes Pink Label super-easy to navigate. (Well leave the rest to your imagination.) Its layout is so simple you could probably traverse the site one-handed, if thats your thing. It wouldnt have been made available otherwise. And yet, before I discovered Pink Label, erotica was an unbeknownst blind spot....

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 93 words · Christopher House

SpencerIs a Devastating Portrait of a Princess Too Sane to Play the Royals’ Game

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This review originally ran during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. We are republishing it on the occasion of the films theatrical release. Diana is always running late inSpencer. Its a place she knows well, having been born in nearby Park House. Diana cant make her body do things she hates. In some ways, the alienating plushness of her troubles is the biggest hardship of them all for Diana....

September 17, 2021 · 1 min · 99 words · Brooke Underwood

The Big-Screen Redemption of Tammy Faye

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Tammy Faye Messner never escaped her first husband. She became a national punch line for her elaborate makeup and gaudy clothes and high-pitched voice. Was there anything else to Tammy Faye underneath the sin and paint? A new film argues the affirmative. Perhaps my own religious background cramps my view here. I was raised a Christian fundamentalist with a love of straight lines and black-or-white answers....

September 17, 2021 · 4 min · 662 words · Jared Rivera