After making Bloody Sunday and 22 July, the director of the new Tom Hanks Western says he’s interested in what a road to healing looks like. On its surface, an elegiac Western like News of the World might seem like quite a departure for director Paul Greengrass, who rose to fame on the strength of jittery, modern-day thrillers of both the pulpy (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) and the serious (United 93, Captain Phillips) kinds.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Justin Bieber. The first voice on Justin Bieber’s new album, JUSTICE, isn’t Bieber — it’s Martin Luther King Jr., delivering his oft-quoted line, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The line introduces a song called “2 Much,” a love song with lines like “Two seconds without you’s like two months.” It’s one of two speeches by Dr. King excerpted on JUSTICE and turning heads, along with a 104-second interlude of a 1967 sermon.

Awfulsome. Where awful and awesome meet, rub up against each other, and birth something new — something simultaneously good and bad. Katy Perry’s ecstatically, enjoyably, endearingly hollow album Teenage Dream, out today, is full of lyrics that embody this term — awful lyrics that after repeated hearings (and, there will be repeated hearings!) begin to earn some admiration for being so brazenly, so straightforwardly, so bravely ridiculous. Consider: Thanks to Perry’s unavoidably catchy “Peacock,” in a few months Americans will be going about their business with the phrase, “I want to see your peacock cock cock cock” stuck in their heads.

George Burns made a joke of getting old, says Quincy Jones. Years ago, as a nonagenarian, Burns told Jones, “When you become 90, sex is like shooting pool with a rope.” “I’m going to use that one when I get to be his age,” says Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who is on hand at the Apollo Theater to celebrate Jones’s latest birthday—the big 8-0. “He’s still got ten years of good stick work!

Guardians of the Galaxy may exist in the Marvel Universe, but its spiritual roots lie in a galaxy far, far away. Directed with wacko verve by James Gunn, this deliriously amusing and exciting superhero spectacle is a work that’s thoroughly indebted to Star Wars, whose influence can be felt throughout its space-Western story of outlaw misfits on a mission to save the universe. While it’s never explicitly referenced — somewhat surprisingly, given the raft of ‘70s and ‘80s pop-culture shout-outs found throughout Gunn’s rollicking adventure — George Lucas’s iconic series is evoked at almost every turn.

If you thought that the terrifying tales from the set of Suicide Squad would stop just because the movie got released, well aren’t you a beautiful little beacon of shining naïveté. No matter how many Suicide Squad horrors are recounted, there will always be more, because filming Suicide Squad was hell, and the only way to survive hell is to talk your way back. And so the latest entry in the saga comes from Jai Courtney, who revealed on Thursday’s Conan that he once targeted director David Ayer by chasing after him naked.

Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores. By now, it’s clear that Westworld has carefully manipulated its audience through clever editing and narrative sleight of hand. The HBO show is a Russian nesting doll of stories with flashbacks within flashbacks, often cut together in time-jarring sequences, so ahead of next Sunday’s season finale, let’s pull those pieces apart. It’s time to put the chronology of Westworld together, in order, from the very beginning.

American Crime Episode Eight Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Crime Episode Eight Season 2 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Lili Taylor as Anne. How does American Crime move on after the shocking events that ended last week’s episode?

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The fallout of the Artforum letter continues. Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Photos: Joe Bird/Alamy Stock Photo; Pietro D’Aprano/Getty Images On October 19, Artforum’s website published “An Open Letter From the Art Community to Cultural Organizations,” calling for Palestinian liberation and “an end to the killing and harming of all civilians, an immediate ceasefire, the passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza.” The letter did not originate with Artforum’s editors. It had been circulating as a Google form, where it had already been signed by more than 4,000 people, including Judith Butler and Fred Moten and, as David Velasco, the magazine’s editor of almost six years, put it, more artists who had made the cover of Artforum “than I’d ever seen in one space”: Barbara Kruger, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman, Nan Goldin.