This week鈥檚 Nose gets the Oprah shot.
Britney is back. Over the last week, Britney Spears released covering her conservatorship and its long-awaited ending, and she dropped her first new music since 2016, .
And: Nope is Jordan Peele鈥檚 third film as writer/director/producer, his followup to Get Out and Us. It鈥檚 a kind of mashup of horror, sci-fi, and neo-Western with some notes of Spielberg thrown in, too. Peele has acknowledged the influence of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws, but there鈥檚 clearly some War of the Worlds going on here as well. Domestically, Nope is the highest-grossing horror film of the year so far.
Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:
- Fans and experts see a link between negative online reviews, primarily from male users, and the Marvel show鈥檚 exploration of gender.
- As Turner Classic Movies gets ready to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Oscar winner鈥檚 birth, host Ben Mankiewicz is among those calling it a 鈥渕isconception鈥� that the long-time civil rights champion once supported the Ku Klux Klan. 鈥淗e couldn鈥檛 have done what he鈥檚 accused of doing,鈥� adds actor Glynn Turman.
- NASA is ready to give an ambitious lunar program its first real test.
- Oh, bother.
- Camila Morrone has hit the glass ceiling of being one-fourth of a century old and must now pack her bags.
- Johnny Depp鈥檚 appearance at MTV鈥檚 Video Music Awards was at once bizarre and frustratingly predictable.
- The gossip includes conflicting accounts, a leaked video, and an on-set romance, but how much is just in fans鈥� imaginations?
- As soon as Swifties had finished screaming, crying, and throwing up over the Midnights announcement on Sunday, they got to work.
- Entrepreneurs are aiming to put A.I.-powered pet translation tools into our pockets.
- The iconoclastic studio has bred superfans, dropped swag, and perfected a house style. It鈥檚 also teetering on the verge of self-parody.
- Neon lights, creepy birds, white people rapping 鈥� the studio spawned an aesthetic universe. Here are the good, bad, and vibe-y.
- With the Venice Film Festival kicking off this week, the race is on to rule over the best season of the year for moviegoing.
- Television鈥檚 signature season offers a bounty of new series and returning favorites.
- Emmy-winning 鈥楪ame of Thrones鈥� veteran Alan Taylor will join the team for season two.
- Amid the endless tiny indignities of air travel, only one true retreat remains.
- Unpacking Kimye鈥檚 obsession, pre- and post-divorce, with Disney, 鈥淭he Incredibles,鈥� the nuclear family, and spandex.
- Reality reality was terrible. Would virtual reality be any better?
- Our chaotic public square will lose a lot more than typos.
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