You may not have heard of them, but Owl City hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with their ultracatchy pop number, “Fireflies.” Anyone who’s ever heard that song realizes that it follows the very specific pattern of blippy-emo-pop success that was set by the Postal Service on their 2003 smash LP, Give Up, yet Owl City mastermind Adam Young claims that there’s little resemblance between the two outfits.
The new Cinemax series Banshee, which debuts tonight, is so plot-driven, so utterly dependent on “I can’t believe they did that!” twists, that I’m reluctant to describe any part of it in this opening paragraph. So I’ll just say that while it’s emphatically not a great show, it is an overheated yet intriguing one, driven more by visuals than words — and if you don’t mind that its gory action and soap-opera plots aren’t yet matched by dialogue and performance, it’s worth a look.
“I’ve said, I made you shed tears for me in Dunkirk, and now I’m going to fuck you up,” says Barry Keoghan. The 25-year-old Dubliner had his breakout role in Christopher Nolan’s summer epic, as a kindhearted lad who joins Mark Rylance’s rescue mission and ends up getting a firsthand look at the horrors of war; he’s currently starring alongside Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, playing a dead-eyed teen menacing Farrell’s family through methods that are never entirely explained.
Barry a nice meal Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Barry a nice meal Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Can people change? That’s one of the central questions of Barry, and for the most part, the answer has been a resounding no.
Bates Motel Refraction Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bates Motel Refraction Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Vera Farmiga as Norma. The noose is tightening on Bates Motel. As Norman Bates’s façade crumbles, his mother Norma is watching her chance for domestic bliss erode amid violence.
Bates Motel The Cord Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Bates Motel The Cord Season 5 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates. Series finales often feel desperate to please, rushing to a finish line in a way that leaves audiences dissatisfied.
A few weeks back, Volkswagen released a British commercial using music that sounded an awful lot like Beach House’s “Take Care,” but was not in fact Beach House’s “Take Care.” (This happens a lot.) Fans cried foul, and the Baltimore duo took to Facebook for a polite protest: “The ad agency actively tried to license ‘take care’ from us for weeks, to which we politely declined. People’s comments/ anger should not be directed towards VW or us.
Becky Ann Baker. Last night’s 30th Annual Drama League Gala was held in honor of Neil Patrick Harris, star of Broadway’s upcoming Hedwig and the Angry Inch. But it was apparent that the man on everyone’s mind was Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose death was as great a loss to the theater community as it was to the film industry. (Broadway is going to dim its lights tomorrow as a tribute to the late actor.
Whenever Josh O’Connor is onscreen in Challengers, he’s a cocky charmer, confident in his power (and his sexual prowess) even at his lowest. It’s a far cry from the role most people in the U.S. know him for — The Crown’s Prince Charles — but it’s not too distant from the role people should know him for: The Durrells in Corfu’s Larry.
Airing from 2016-2019, The Durrells in Corfu (or The Durrells, as it’s known in Europe) is an ITV period drama with swagger.
The Toppy Awards. At the end of every year since 2014, comedian Zach Broussard has been honoring comedians with the best and biggest list of “top comedians” the internet has to offer. In 2014, Broussard kicked off his annual tradition by simply posting a list of the “Top 1,000 Comedians of 2014 (So Far!)” to Tumblr, and in 2015 he took it to a new level by creating a website for the list in which comedians were forced to click through a slideshow to find out whether or not they were featured.