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If you find a formula that works, why mess with it? That philosophy applies to a lot of things in life, but also apparently to Oscar season. We all know how that went. Credit: Daniel McFadden/Universal Pictures He won the Oscar for Best Picture well, for a couple of minutes at least. This week, he decided to follow the same playbook with his technically dazzling Neil Armstrong biopicFirst Man. That thumbnail may immediately bring to mind easy comparisons to, say, The Right StufforApollo 13....

Have you ever wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger punch a reindeer and Sinbad yell “Rodney King!” as angry shoppers jump on top of him? Then, boy, do I have a holiday film for you! Credit: Everett Collection The search includes endless high jinks and, more importantly, countless face-offs for our favorite Minnesotan. Phil Hartman, a.k.a. Let me know when you find me a weirder, more hilariously random collection of actors....

Twenty-five years ago, a unique geek stumbled onto pop’s main stage. Each was svelte, handsome, and sure, if also highly wary of the corny conventions of stardom. But it wasn’t only how Duritz looked that stood out, or even how he sounded. Credit: Dave Tonge/Getty Images It was also what he sang about. His emotional transparency robbed the band of the necessary mystique. (The precise silver anniversary of the Crows' debut is Sept....

Elizabeth Gilbertstill remembers the moment whenCity of Girlscame together. She was interviewing a 95-year-old former showgirl, and the conversation took a turn. I asked her, Do you ever regret never getting married?' Credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Riverhead Books the author, 49, recalls. She said, Who the hell wants to f the same man for 60 years?' She lands in the citys theater scene and meets an endlessly entertaining group of artists....

So Brie Larson isnt the only one breaking a glass ceiling in 1995! The O.J. But one of the biggest legacies of the years cultural narrative was the O.J. Disney/Pixar; Chuck Zlotnick/©Marvel Studios 2019; NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Simpson trial, the aftermath of which continues today in countless directions. saga was still just must-must-watch TV. The story opens with the shocking revelation from David Schwimmer: “I hate the monkey....

Lili Anolik introduced a new generation to avant-garde literary star Eve Babitz ina 2014Vanity Fairarticle. Read on below.Hollywoods Eveis now available for purchase. Joan Didion was there and Michelle Phillips. Credit: Michael Benabib; Scribner Wow.So youre finding out all these backstories and secret stories of how L.A. was constructed then. Peoples relationships with one another and how they were influencing each other. Right.Look, Joan Didion is great. Paul Harris/Getty Images...

TheTribeca Film Festivalhas added 16 television projects to its 2019 lineup. Two other shows joining the festival areMr. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival also featuring the N.O.W. Credit: Everett Collection ET; Single tickets for all other festival events go on sale March 26 at 11 a.m. Read on for more details on the festivals just-announced TV and N.O.W. Based on a comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Directed and written by Tyler Measom, Patrick Waldrop....

This is not to sayMad and Furiousalways works. Hes fascinated by the experience of alienation, interrogating processes of radicalization with sympathy and surprising fatalism. His rendering, violent and pointed as it may be, brims with empathy. Credit: Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals Theres also a sort of experimental ambition here. Dialogue and slang are employed generously, near-imposingly specific to the North London milieu. Their sections permeate a distance, relative to the main trio, widening the novels scope....

It makes the recent ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ entries feel empty. It’s more fun, too! I cant stop thinking about the best new episode ofBlack Mirror. Credit: Jonathan Prime /Netflix Go watch it now so I can start spoiling it. God, we were lousy with space operatics this year, lousy being the operative word. USS Callister doesnt just mercilessly deconstruct those aging sci-fi franchises: It out-thrills them, too. Netflix...

Three films, three lying dads, three worlds built on lies. A son finds out his father lied about everything. The only way forward is destroying everything backward. Credit: Chuck Zlotnick/© Marvel Studios; Jasin Boland/©Marvel Studios; ©Marvel Studios 2018 Does he yet live? Kill him: Hooray! 2,Thor Ragnarok, andBlack Pantherarrived as Marvel Studios normalized billion-dollar grosses and achieved triple-yearly feature debuts. Increased quantity meant annualized characters, so Tom Holland already holds the record for most movies as Spider-Man....

TheX-Menfranchise is the oldest ongoing superhero film series. It ran out of gas before Marvel had a Cinematic Universe, before DC even tried to overextend itself. Actually, you could argue that 20th Century FoxsX-Menseries is the oldestcontinuousfilm franchise in Hollywood now. Twentieth Century Fox (5) And at the start of this decade, theX-Menfranchise was, no question, in decline. This is not the situation today. If you include spinoffs, it was maybe healthier than ever, big box office, some Oscar talk....

If you watch only one episode ofMindhunter, watch episode 8. Its the weirdest episode of the delightful first season, an hour of television I cant stop thinking about. Manson, Son of Sam: Where do such creatures come from, and how do we stop them? Credit: Netflix Its a tantalizing question and an entertaining story structure. Holdens a fictional character, but his quest leads him to real-life imprisoned maniacs, chatty and demonic....

Its good to be the King, and these past few years more than ever the King is good. Scratch that:Stephen Kings doinggreat, whatever screen youre looking at. (Side note: Were all still in agreementThe Dark Towernever happened, right?) Credit: AT+T Audience Network But for my money,Mr. Mercedes premiering tonight at 10 p.m. Thankfully, the first few episodes of season 2 dispel such fears; if anything,Mr. Mercedeshas actually grown more gripping in the wake of Bradys capture....