From Admissions, at Lincoln Center. The world’s most fashionable astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, recently tweeted, “Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.” Despite a fair number of comments that point out how (a) simplistic, (b) clichéd, and (c) generally silly this sentiment is, at the moment of my writing it’s garnered almost 65,000 likes and over 21,000 retweets.

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Writer-director Trey Edward Shults likes to call his dizzying, devastating, hip-hop-saturated third feature film Waves a “diptych.” The A24-distributed drama (which arrives in theaters Friday) is broken into distinct first and second halves, with alternative sets of lead characters. Each section features its own plotline that, while inextricably linked to the other, ignores the traditional three-act structure that governs so many movies — even the art-house-iest of indies.

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In the not great but likable and intelligent Madam Secretary, Téa Leoni’s talent gets a deserving showcase. Throughout the early part of her career, the actress had a knack for playing kooks, and did so brilliantly, most notably on the 1995–98 NBC sitcom The Naked Truth, her most recent starring TV role. This CBS drama about Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA agent and college professor tapped to be secretary of state, gives her a vehicle comparable to Julianna Margulies’s in The Good Wife (only in the sense that she’s asked to act as the calm eye at the center of a storm of more colorful supporting players).

Just as most of us are confined to our homes under (local) government mandate, the global film industry has effectively shut down, with the box office frozen since cinemas closed in early March. Most intended 2020 theatrical releases have been indefinitely postponed or demoted to an on-demand debut as a result. With a lack of splashy new titles to pore over, former moviegoers are left with nothing but the typically maligned “January movies” getting digital releases this spring.

With Dead in Long Beach, California, she takes on the kind of grief that can lead to deception. Dead in Long Beach, California is out from MCD x FSG on January 23. Photo: Nicholas Albrecht Dead in Long Beach, California is out from MCD x FSG on January 23. In 2008, Venita Blackburn’s mother died unexpectedly — and at first, one of Blackburn’s brothers refused to tell his daughter, for whom their mother had been an important maternal figure.

Vinyl He in Racist Fire Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vinyl He in Racist Fire Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ato Essandoh as Lester, Juno Temple as Jamie. Even by the shoddy standards of prestige cable drama, Vinyl has a problem with women.

We live in a capitalist society, so there’s no reason that the winter-holiday season should have a monopoly on gift guides. Santa Claus is hitting the beach, leaving you on the hook to buy gifts for any friends who have summertime birthdays. Or maybe you just want a little warm-weather treat for yourself. It’s okay! You deserve it. Whatever your gift-giving needs might be, the Vulture staff has you covered, as we have rounded up the best summertime pop-culture gifts.

Everyone’s super excited for Lars Von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac because famous people will be having sex, using digitally imposed genitals — sexy, sexy digitally imposed genitals. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Stellan Skarsgård, Christian Slater, and Connie Nielsen; however, the first clip features none of those folks. Instead, it’s a scene from the film’s first of eight chapters, in which Stacy Martin plays Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg’s character) as a youngin’ learning how to seduce men on the train.