Following in the footsteps of two all-timer Hollywood legends like Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro would be intimidating for anyone, but taking on a role like stalker-rapist Max Cady already requires a certain amount of quasi-psycho chutzpah. And hot diggity danger, Javier Bardem is truly embodying beast mode in the first trailer for the
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It takes Bill Callahan just a track or two on My Days of 58 to start a song with the first-person “I”. The song in question, “The Man I’m Supposed Be”, serves as a decent bellwether for the highly autobiographical material that surrounds it. Callahan, who murmured for much of the 1990s and 2000s under
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Arlo Parks’ third album, Ambiguous Desire, bears little resemblance to her previous record, My Soft Machine. My Soft Machine, though, only felt tangentially connected to Parks’ Mercury Prize-winning and Grammy-nominated debut, Collapsed in Sunbeams. Sunbeams, for its part, felt like a sad, confessional R&B album with folk elements, while Machine brought in more downtempo rock
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Less than a year after her luscious solo debut, Pacífico Maravilla, Nidia Góngora returns, this time as the frontwoman of Nuevos Ríos. Alongside her are members of her longtime group, Canalón de Timbiquí, and Toulouse-based Reco Reco, an ensemble that focuses on plugged-in renditions of South American styles. Together, the collective perform lively, electrified versions
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Iowa Ohyung Ohyung / Trans Music Archive 6 March 2026 Composer and performer Ohyung (Lia Ouyang Rusli) takes an impressionist approach with real depth on the new experimental album Iowa. Created based on her 11-month stay in the album’s namesake state, Iowa, is an act of counter-cartography. Against the grain of static pastoral heartland narratives,
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HGTV viewers have seen lots of shifting content on the network over the past year. Summer 2025 was especially active, as at least seven shows getting canceled during that time, with even more disappointing announcements coming later. (The network even had the gall to joke about it on social media amidst fan complaints.) Anyone wondering
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Severance by Ling Ma A send-up and takedown of corporate drudgery, late-stage capitalism, and adulthood listlessness familiar to so many of us, Ling Ma’s Severance serves up a wry and tense satire featuring an eerily monotonous pandemic. Candace Chen, a millennial publishing drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is so devoted to routine she
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Our Zero to Well Read episode on “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville got me thinking of the form and how interesting it can be within the book club setting. If you haven’t already explored reading short stories
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Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem Seventeen-year-old Mina has always just kept her eyes on the prize. Asking her father to tell her anything about her Egyptian heritage or her mother’s mysterious death leads to silence. So when Mina is invited by her aunt to visit her mom’s childhood home, Haikal mansion, in El
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There are so many excellent queer books out this year, and that’s a comfort in these trying times. Today, I’ve rounded up ten to have on your radar, but that just scratches the surface. There’s queer and trans
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Libraries and bookstores are magical places—full stop. So it’s no wonder that these repositories of stories have inspired countless tales of magic and wonder. After all, what better backdrop for a work of speculative fiction than the very
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a poet and nonfiction author (World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments). Her newest book is Night Owl: Poems, out today from Ecco. Below, she shares the connection between poetry
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“No child should be locked in an immigration detention center,” reads an open letter signed by a growing list of Hollywood stars, physicians, policy experts, and organizations demanding the “immediate closure” of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. Hundreds of young children, teenagers, and their parents have been held at the remote facility that
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A drifter’s search for Kentucky gold turns into a nightmare in this atmospheric descent into madness, arriving on digital platforms April 7, 2026. Deskpop Entertainment is proud to announce the April 7, 2026, VOD release of SOUL CHAPEL, a haunting new thriller produced by MTS Pictures. Directed by Jake C. Young and written by David
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Love, fashion, and star power collided at the premiere of The Return of Arinzo as Priscilla Ojo and her husband, Tanzanian music star Juma Jux, made a striking entrance that instantly commanded attention. Priscilla Ojo—widely known as @its.priscy—is a Nigerian actress, model, and influencer, and the daughter of Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo. She has built
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Cardi B surprised fans at her sold-out New York show by bringing out Lil’ Kim for a special performance of “Quiet Storm,” creating a moment that blended nostalgia with high-impact stage style. Lil’ Kim took the stage in a dramatic metallic ensemble that leaned into futuristic, armor-like design. She wore a sculptural gray coat with
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