Thursday, June 26, 2025

Culture

“M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation

The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact. Source link

The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”

Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical attack: the kind that instinctively finds fault with the derivative. This is a subset of splatter cinema that...

Glory and Gore in “Afternoons of Solitude”

You don’t have to like bullfighting to watch “Afternoons of Solitude” with fascination, any more than you have to like crime to enjoy a film noir. Full disclosure: I squeamishly watch horror films through my fingers and, in...

Are Young People Having Enough Sex?

The virgin allegations emerged about a decade ago. Young people “are so sexually inactive that it practically boggles the mind,” a writer for Bustle proclaimed, in 2016, invoking a then recent study that suggested that celibacy had lately...

Han Ong on Partisan Passions and Life Affirmation in the Theatre

Your story “Happy Days” revolves around an unorthodox staging of Samuel Beckett’s play “Happy Days,” by an Off Off Broadway theatre company, in the East Village. As the story explains, the Beckett estate is notoriously opposed to any...

The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs. Source link

The Astonishing Images of Diane Arbus

The grim spectacle of bullfighting is displayed with an unflinching, intimate glory in Albert Serra’s documentary “Afternoons of Solitude,” which follows the torero Andrés Roca Rey through fourteen corridas in the course of three years. Serra details the...

‘Dosa Divas’ Is a ‘Spicy’ New Game About Fighting Capitalism With Food

As protestors faced off against ICE agents and law enforcement in Los Angeles, game developers gathered just a few miles away for Summer Game Fest. They’d come to the annual show in early June to show off their...

What “Outrageous” Misses About the Mitford Sisters

The television series gives period-drama treatment to one of the most scandalous families of twentieth-century Europe. Source link

James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds

The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American Literature by The New York Times.” The copy...
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Tanner Martin Announces His Own Death

Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was...
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