The Stan Lee Myth Is Safe — for Now

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The bluntly titledStan Lee, directed by David Gelb, certainly aims to like Lees most die-hard fans. It reinforces their sincerely held belief that the comics maven was the singular creative force behind the Marvel universe. I have not come to do a fact-check or a takedown. Ivealreadydone thatmany, manytimes. Its conclusions were written about everywhere, fromThe New Yorkerto SpainsEl Pais....

June 22, 2023 · 2 min · 338 words · Jonathan Robinson

A24 Will Teach You How to Cook and Eat Unspeakable Things

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Weirdly, there are no recipes fromThe WhaleinA24s new cookbook. We missed you, Lady Bird. But mostly, this cookbook is a tribute to the great shitty meals of cinema history. Some of the books recipes look delicious, like the ram-don with sirloin fromParasiteand the carbonara fromHeartburn. For the hungry boy! Related Tags:

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 66 words · Ann Martinez

Academy Awards Reportedly in Preliminary Talks for a Stunt Category

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. From what research Ive done, is that the conversation hasnt happened. I think, for the first time, weve made real movement forward to making this happen. Sources Related Tags:

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 44 words · Brian Fleming

Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Her paintings are full of nails and stigmata surreal, sadomasochistic images that depict male ruin and female power. Slowak wrote to me that she, a young woman in a Catholic country, occupies a rupturing position. She added, I find it difficult to function in communities in general. From the Cycle, White Balls on the Wallgives us an icon of neurotic obsession....

June 21, 2023 · 2 min · 325 words · John Porter

And Just Like That …Stumbles Into the Future

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. As a TV show,And Just Like That …is a pratfall. Carries clumsy; Sarah Jessica Parker trained as a ballerina anddoes all of her own falling. But watching season one of the sequel series was like seeing someone accidentally twist their own ankle. We got a fumblingly woke Miranda torching her marriage to Steve (poor Steve!...

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 206 words · Travis Johnson

Bad Bunny Says He Didn’t Throw That Phone Into the Ocean

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Remember whenBad Bunnythrew that fans phone after she asked him for a selfie? Who are we kidding this is the internet, you dont just forget stuff like that. Bad Bunny feels bad about the whole thing now, hetoldRolling Stonein a new cover story. But he has a few things he wants to clear up about that situation....

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 163 words · Joyce Mcmillan

Cardi B,The Simpsons,and a Submersible

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. You ever read something so weird, upsetting, or mind-boggling that you almost refuse to remember it? Heres one: You knowthat sub full of billionairesthat got lost touring the shipwreck of theTitanic? According to the New YorkTimes,Rushs great-great-grandparents were the inspiration for the old couple inJames Camerons film. You know the one. But that connection is only the beginning of theTitansubmersibles connection to pop culture....

June 21, 2023 · 2 min · 303 words · David Carter

EveryBlack MirrorEaster Egg in Season 6

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Later in the episode, the real Joan is looking at a newspaper with a story about Streamberry. Its a reference to Victoria Skillane, the protagonist of season twos White Bear. Of course, theyre not random stickers on that case. The season-one episode gets a third mention with a headline that reads Whatever Happened to Michael Callow?...

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 130 words · Jeffrey Clarke

Hayley Kiyoko on Dodging Drag Bans and Writing Her First Novel

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. What is something youve never told anyone else? asked her co-writer Lily Mae Young at the time. Well, Kiyoko responded, Ive never told any of my writing partners this, but Im gay. Up until that point, no one had asked me. Everything changed, she says. Six years later, the 32-year-old singer is revisiting that moment with her debut novel,Girls Like Girls....

June 21, 2023 · 3 min · 580 words · Stacy White

How Genndy Tartakovsky Cracked the Code to Quiet Animation

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And its complete bullshit. I think it was around 2003, finishing upClone Wars. So I thought maybe I should do some stuff with magic. I wanted a bigger story, a grander scale, to push myself. I doodled this scene of somebody running from a train that was on fire and alive. And I was like, Yeah, this could be really cool....

June 21, 2023 · 7 min · 1420 words · Chelsea Martin

Lorne Michaels Is Throwing a BigSNL50th Bash at Radio City

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Right now, theres a Friday event at Radio City a kind of homecoming night, Michaels said. It will have musical acts and stand-ups. Throughout the show, musical things that the cast have done over 50 years will be live. It will be emotional, but everyone will show up because its important, he noted. Im obviously a supporter, and I hope it gets resolved....

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 123 words · Jennifer Terry

Multibillion-Dollar Company Uses AI Instead of Paying Designers

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. AI is just one tool among the array of tool sets our artists used, the statement read. So the opening sequence just looks like that on purpose? Original story published June 21 follows. Disney sure got on the AI train quick. The opening-credits sequence of theMarvel Cinematic Universes latest show,Secret Invasion, was generated by AI....

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 124 words · Vicki Stewart

Ryan Murphy Potentially Switching Teams

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Disney is clamoring for a chance to have Evan Peters locked in its basement. Murphy first signed the deal with big redin 2018after a longtime relationship with Fox. The man loves his IP and no one does a franchise like the Mouse. We should all be prepping for aClara the Coworigin story soundtracked to the music of Kylie Minogue....

June 21, 2023 · 1 min · 77 words · Tasha Morris