From a Warped Sense of Self to Missing Most of Real Life, Jay Kelly is An Unflinching Look at the Tradeoffs of Being an Actor—Or, More Precisely, a Movie Star

While the genericness of the title might fool one into believing that Noah Baumbach’s latest film (co-written, unexpectedly, with Emily Mortimer), Jay Kelly (not to [Read More…]

Macaulay Culkin Doubles Down on His “Wanna Feel Old?” Troll with a New Home Alone-Inspired Advert About In-Home Care for Kevin’s Mom

As though to further build on his infamous 2020 tweet (back when Twitter was still Twitter) that went, “Wanna feel old? I’m forty now,” Macaulay [Read More…]

JADE’s That’s Showbiz Baby! The Encore (a.k.a. the Deluxe Edition) Has Her Taking Another Bow Expressly for the Gays

When JADE unleashed That’s Showbiz Baby onto the world back in September, she had already built up her solo credibility to stratospheric proportions thanks to [Read More…]

FKA Twigs’ “Love Crimes” Video Shows Off a 90s Influence with Aesthetics That Recall The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and, Of Course, Madonna

On a seemingly unstoppable mission to create visuals for her songs with Jordan Hemingway, the latest video from FKA Twigs is “Love Crimes,” the first [Read More…]

“When Will They Ever Learn?”: Bugonia Is Mercilessly Unsympathetic Toward Humankind (And It’s Deserved)

To many, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, Bugonia (a remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 movie, Save the Green Planet!), will come across as being “preachy.” To be sure, there’s [Read More…]

The Tone of Tate McRae’s So Close to What Takes on a New Slant with the Addition of Five Songs to the Deluxe Edition, So Close to What???

While the original overarching tone of Tate McRae’s third album, So Close to What, was largely one of amorousness and, well, being “Miss Possessive” when [Read More…]

With Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter, Madonna Highlights an Era of Intense Artistic Growth Spurred by Intense Artistic Scrutiny

On October 25, 1994, almost exactly two years after Madonna released Erotica, and with it, a backlash against her like never before, she reemerged with [Read More…]