‘Joker’ is a corrective film, undoing the character’s magnetism in ‘The Dark Knight’ and condemning anarchism in the most damning of ways for young men: it makes them look weak.
NEWS & ART
Frank Ocean, giving credit where credit’s due: “the Melody Allusion”
Frank lifts an occasional melody as if by flutter.
Money is not necessary for economies to work — we are.
Universal Basic Income, and what the distant future inevitably holds for developed-world workers.
The election lawsuits are finally over. I’m going to blame a map.
A few Americans’ bad idea ages ago need not be the standard.
Dine-in tonight: ‘Coherence’ is a sci-fi horror delight streaming on Hulu and Prime.
‘Coherence’ seems to play chemistry in a part of your brain that’s reserved for existential stretching — which, for most of us goes unmoved — and it tugs.
‘Drag Me to Hell’ on Peacock is fun for most of the family.
Jesus spoke not a word about Hell, so the filmmakers had to mad-lib some things — but the end result is a popcorn-munching blast.
The story of Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation 1814’ — the greatest feat in pop music history.
This March, the Library of Congress announced it was adding the album its registry — an overdue honor.
Flies are just flies again, and Mike Pence isn’t a demon.
GOP Conspiracy theorists once said flies’ landing on Obama and Hilary proved they were demons — where are the pitchforks for Pence?
The Postmaster General and ‘Passive Voice’: obscuring the obvious.
The testimony that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy delivered to the United States Senate in August cleverly obscured absurdity.
Kanye West wants prosecutors to prove he didn’t get Mickey Mouse’s signature.
The pen is mightier than the mouse.
