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A 2021 BOMB interview with artist Leonardo Drew vs. a 2017 Vulture interview with filmmaker Jay Chandrasekhar.
A 2008 The Nation interview with historian Taylor Branch vs. a 2020 Interview Magazine interview with artist Cristina Martinez.
Season four of The Bear is a return to form.
On Principal Wolchezk's (Troy Evans) brief but powerful scene in the Twin Peaks pilot.
A 2003 Mark Prindle interview with musician Jerry Only vs. a 2011 University of Chicago Press blog interview with author Brian Garfield.
Whether it’s artificial intelligence, mass atrophy, or both, typos are everywhere now.
What David Shields got right and wrong in Reality Hunger.
Modeling leadership and decision-making.
Even when Apple Cider Vinegar is too pointed in its message to sustain its narrative, Kaitlyn Dever’s performance justifies it.
A 2023 British Film Institute interview with documentarian Errol Morris vs. a 2025 SPIN interview with rapper Dennis “Ghostface Killah” Coles.
Good Night, and Good Luck is hardly an allegory for our times.
Watching the 1981's The Four Seasons and the current Tina Fey reboot series back-to-back only reveals the latter's weaknesses.
I can’t decide which worries me more, the summer’s movies or the fall’s election.
Downloading and bingeing Queer Ultimatum and Sirens episodes on airplanes instead of my usual task.
The boredom of all-things-to-all-people celebrities and politicians.
The Last of Us’ second season is a fumbled attempt to adapt difficult source material.
Apple’s Murderbot takes us into a soy-latte future.
The drug remains an open question for science to answer.
The Apple TV+ series Sugar has a strange justification for its Old Hollywood nostalgia.
Netflix’s latest “eat the rich” satire Sirens is a scathing indictment of narcissism.
Why are homophobes so triggered by Pride month?
The actor talks about working with the late filmmaker after the first 35mm screening of the pilot in England.
The Congressman talks about Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk, the Democratic Party, and more.
The actor returns to talk with Bill Maher about kissing James Franco in Milk and more.
Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw talks about Hollywood relationships, the Pope, and more.
The show's creator and its star talk about their work together, the reboot, and the controversial ending.
The late actor talks about his work in this interview recorded in Sacramento in 1983.
The late musician is up for anything in this Late Night appearance first aired on May 18, 2000.
The comedian talks about his new movie Friendship and more during this talk show appearance.
Fry talks to Crumb and his biographer about the cartoonist's life.