Let’s Take a Moment to RememberThe Lion King’s Goose-Stepping Hyenas

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Its easy to convince yourself the past was a simpler, more innocent time. Manichean notions of better or worse simply do not apply. The message is clear: Scar is not just gay, he is also Hitler. (If you need a refresher, the Nazi stuff starts around two minutes into the video below.) (Probably, but thats what gave it such power....

July 22, 2019 · 1 min · 104 words · Jay Liu

Scar Should Be Gayer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. By contrast, the2019 version, performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, is … fine? In its remake ofAladdin, Jafar was made scrappy and, uh,very masc. LikeThe Lion King, they still have white directors,plus ca change. If these updates are well-intentioned, and even thats a maybe, theyre also strategic. Related Tags:

July 22, 2019 · 1 min · 62 words · Michael Wheeler

The Best Actor on TV IsRussian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne

This is a star performance through and through. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. [Lights cigarette, jabs the air with it, making smoke trails in the air.] I said, ya want fun? Here we go, people! Yes, all of these characters were men. She just does it. Theres nothing funny, sexy, disarming, adorable, or daring about the look on Nadias face here....

July 22, 2019 · 2 min · 349 words · Maria Parsons

The Death of the Middlebrow Legal Thriller

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood was enjoying a pipeline to success as clean and unobstructed as any. Sydney Pollack helmedThe Firm, starring Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, and an Oscar-nominated Holly Hunter. That same year, Alan J. Pakula directedThe Pelican Brief, with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. But first hed direct Susan Sarandon to a surprise Oscar nomination in 1994sThe Client....

July 22, 2019 · 2 min · 357 words · Michelle Rodriguez

Veronica Mars’s Enrico Colantoni Knows You Want a Dad Like Keith Mars

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This is especially hard for Keith, whos never been one to ask for help in the first place. Keith and Veronicas relationship as father and daughter is so crucial to the show. But you know what? Its easy for an actor to come back into a role time and time again. Poor guy, it was like a punch in the stomach to him....

July 22, 2019 · 2 min · 423 words · Gregory Thompson

What It’s Like to Write for a Late-Night Host Now

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Read a short excerpt from the conversation or listen, below. Download the episode fromApple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Then it did, and it became a signature bit for us. Its not this big thing. If it doesntwork … Jessie Gaskell: …Im the only one to blame. You hope that if something humiliating happened, hopefully people have at least forgotten about it the next day....

July 22, 2019 · 4 min · 718 words · Nicole Miller

John Oliver Nervous to Finally Meet (the Space Into Which) Beyoncé (Would Be Photoshopped)

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I remember Chiwetel [Ejiofor] was sitting in the front. It was like an electrical reaction, to go, Oh shit! Just the future presence of Beyonce was so intimidating. Related Tags:

July 21, 2019 · 1 min · 45 words · Lisa Mcmillan

Marvel Phase 4: Everything We Know About the Future of the MCU

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The Comic-Con faithful naturally intuited this to mean the studios We got the IP back return to theUncannyX-Men. And he iced the whole thing with ashocking casting coup. Chloe is a strong woman, the Mexican actress said. It takes a strong woman to do a movie like this. The way she approaches leadership as a woman, she sees them like a family....

July 21, 2019 · 3 min · 564 words · Manuel Ward

Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne Give Us a Fairy Sex Talk

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Their new Amazon showCarnival Rowis billed asfantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian citythats filled with mythical creatures fleeing war. Delevigne also throws usaFriendsreferencealmost no one on stage catches, but we see you, Cara.

July 21, 2019 · 1 min · 47 words · Marcus Beasley

RiverdaleSeason 4 Will Open With Luke Perry Tribute Featuring Shannen Doherty

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The tone of theRiverdalepanel atSan Diego Comic-Conwas both celebratory and somber. She read the script and immediately said yes. That all sounds very reasonable, but hopefully the weirdest teen soap on TV doesnt pull back too far. We would hate for things inRiverdaleto get aggressively normal on us. Related Tags:

July 21, 2019 · 1 min · 65 words · Jennifer Thomas

Seth MacFarlane’sThe OrvilleJourneys Over to Hulu for Its Third Season

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Seth MacFarlanesThe Orvillehas explored the Fox universe for two seasons so far. Related Tags:

July 21, 2019 · 1 min · 29 words · Joshua Watkins

The Good PlaceCast Is As Sad As You Are AboutThe Good PlaceEnding

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Janet!, which they rightly did once all the attendees were settled on the stage. Jameela Jamil, for her part, leaned into the sadness. Its sad as hell, said Carden. We can say its great, but it sucks. Jamil immediately added, We hate Mike. Its a standing ovation for a weepy Mike Schur at his final#SDCC50panel for THE GOOD PLACE....

July 21, 2019 · 1 min · 79 words · Rebekah Kim

Veronica MarsRecap: Bald Avengers

Veronica Mars Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Veronicas visit to Chino isnt her only strikeout of the episode. Seriously, these two have to be the worst hitmen of all time. Greenfield, in particular, lights up every scene hes in, basically walking away with the episode. He even manages to ruffle Evolved Logan. Meanwhile, Marino only gets one scene, but his comic timing is as ferocious as ever....

July 21, 2019 · 1 min · 183 words · Javier Pearson