VoxMark Wahlberg Can Mark Wahlberg have it all? verified_publisherVox - Alissa Wilkinson“You know why this show is gonna be such a hit?” Mark Wahlberg says, a slightly manic grin on his face, walking away from the camera after a meeting. It’s the sixth and final episode of HBO’s Wahl Street,...
VoxColton Underwood A former Bachelor star came out as gay. The announcement was as messy as his season. verified_publisherVox - Emily StewartColton Underwood, one of the most memorable, albeit problematic, stars of the Bachelor TV franchise, has come out as gay. Underwood, 29, made the announcement in an interview with Good Morning America...
VoxCitizen Kane Mank is the most-nominated film at the Oscars. Should it win Best Picture? verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonThis year, eight films are in the running for Best Picture, the most prestigious award at the Oscars. That’s a lot of movies to watch, analyze, and enjoy! So in the days before the ceremony on April 25,...
VoxCulture Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a playful social satire with teeth verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyIn the first half of Sanjena Sathian’s terrific debut novel, Gold Diggers, it’s the early ’00s, and Kanye is all over the radio. But the gold that Sathian’s protagonist Neil has on his mind is a little...
VoxTrial Of The Chicago 7 Our mixed feelings about The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Aaron Sorkin, explained verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonThis year, eight films are in the running for Best Picture, the most prestigious award at the Oscars. That’s a lot of movies to watch, analyze, and enjoy! So in the days before the ceremony on April 25,...
VoxPolicing How 70 years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyIn 2019, polls found that the police were one of the most trusted public institutions in America, more trustworthy than Congress or journalists or religious leaders. But in 2020, after George Floyd died...
VoxKenan Thompson SNL’s cold open pokes fun at white Americans’ optimism about Chauvin trial outcome verified_publisherVox - Zeeshan AleemSNL’s cold open this week featured a fictitious morning news show in Minnesota in which uncomfortable disagreements between anchors highlighted differences in how white and Black Americans perceive the...
VoxRachel Hollis Why the author of Girl, Stop Apologizing had to apologize twice in a week verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyEarlier this week, influencer and bestselling self-help author Rachel Hollis apologized for appearing to compare herself to Harriet Tubman. “I know I’ve caused tremendous pain by mentioning prominent —...
VoxBritish Royal Family The British media narrative of Prince Philip’s death is about Meghan Markle verified_publisherVox - Aja RomanoOrdinarily, the death of a 99-year-old man wouldn’t raise much suspicion. But because Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, isn’t your typical long-lived man, his death on April 9 provides a window into the...
VoxScooter Braun Why Taylor Swift is rerecording all her old songs verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyTaylor Swift’s first full album of rereleased vintage classics — Fearless (Taylor’s Version) has arrived. After declaring that she would rerecord the masters for all of her pre-Lover music, Swift dropped...
VoxWhite Nationalism It’s astounding that HBO’s new docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes even exists verified_publisherVox - Alissa Wilkinson“A certain view of history contends that the historical narrative is just one fiction among others,” Raoul Peck’s deep, gravelly voice asserts near the beginning of Exterminate All the Brutes. But this...
VoxBooks Helen Oyeyemi’s unsettling new novel Peaces starts weird and gets weirder verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyTruly, God bless Helen Oyeyemi. She started her career in 2005 writing books that were already pretty weird, and in the years since, her books have only gotten steadily weirder. And her latest novel, is...
VoxHBO Max WarnerMedia’s CEO says that in 2022 his movies will debut in theaters before they stream verified_publisherRecode - Peter KafkaA few months ago, WarnerMedia upended Hollywood by streaming all of its new movies on HBO Max on the same day they debuted in theaters. Now it wants to put the genie back in the bottle. Starting next CEO...
VoxSpace Jam Why the new Space Jam trailer is so gross verified_publisherVox - Emily VanDerWerffThe trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy underlines the dark horror that animates too much of Hollywood right now — and, honestly, too much of capitalism right now. The upcoming film, a follow-up to the...
VoxMotherhood The problem with "mom boss" culture verified_publisherVox - Amanda MonteiWhen I became a mother in 2015, my old life no longer felt relevant. I lost friends; I stepped back from work. I was consumed by the labor of taking care, and I found an odd solace online — a form of —...
VoxIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum The new Netflix docuseries about history’s biggest art heist is weirdly dull verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonLet me say at the outset: I love art. I think we should take care of it. Don’t steal art, please. But I must confess I also love art heists. They take two elements that seem diametrically opposed — fancy...
VoxDerek Chauvin The power of televising Derek Chauvin’s trial verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonThe trial of Derek Chauvin wasn’t going to be broadcast. Minnesota trials never are. It took a pandemic and a decision by Judge Peter Cahill to change that over the objections of the prosecution. Attorney...
VoxApple TV + Is Apple TV+ the best streaming service out there? Not yet. But it’s gaining. verified_publisherVox - Emily VanDerWerffWhen Apple TV+ launched in late 2019, I found the whole idea of it deeply annoying. A big tech company entering the streaming game, simply because it could, throwing around money to attract big-name talent...
VoxMatt Gaetz SNL’s new cold open features Matt Gaetz and a lapdance for God verified_publisherVox - Cameron PetersThis week, Saturday Night Live brought back the talk show Oops, You Did It Again, hosted by Chloe Fineman’s Britney Spears and sponsored (fictitiously) by Georgia — “voted best place not to vote,” according...
VoxBooks The Power author Naomi Alderman talks patriarchy and revenge with the Vox Book Club verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyThe Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers. In March, the Vox Book Club read Naomi Alderman’s The Power, a dizzying thought experiment of sorts, about a in...
VoxMike Nichols We give geniuses license to be jerks. Mike Nichols tried not to be anyhow. verified_publisherVox - Emily VanDerWerffMike Nichols, the director behind a wide range of seminal stage productions and movies, from The Graduate to Working Girl to HBO’s Angels in America, was always a filmmaker I respected more than I loved....
VoxUnited States Idris Elba stars in Concrete Cowboy, about the Black urban cowboys of Philadelphia verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonThere are seven horses living in a stable on Fletcher Street in North Philadelphia, which is probably not the first place most people expect to find them. It’s there that Fletcher Street Urban Riding led...
VoxBooks Ask a book critic: The history of the end of the world verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyWelcome to the latest installment of Vox’s Ask a Book Critic, in which I, Vox book critic Constance Grady, provide book recommendations to suit your very specific mood: either how you’re feeling right...
VoxWest Africa This April, the Vox Book Club is reading The Death of Vivek Oji verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyThe Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers. This April, the Vox Book Club is reading Akwaeke Emezi’s lovely, ferocious kaleidoscope of a novel, The Death...
VoxWeWork Americans believe in work. WeWork preyed on that instinct. verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonWatch the new Hulu documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, and if you can keep your eyebrows from crawling off your face entirely in the first 20 minutes, my hat’s off...
VoxOccult Demonic rituals, false confessions, ruined lives: Satanic Panic is still alive and well verified_publisherVox - Aja RomanoPerhaps the most common misunderstanding about “Satanic Panic” — the societal fear of the occult that troubled the US and other parts of the world throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s — is that...
VoxMillennials Millennials are stuck in the broken world Boomers built verified_publisherVox - Sean IllingI’m not a fan of baby boomers. And no, it’s not really fair to paint an entire generation with the same brush, but I’m doing it anyway. If you’ve followed my work, you know I’ve been on this beat for long...
VoxNetflix One Good Thing: Netflix’s gone-too-soon Teenage Bounty Hunters is warm-hearted and whip-smart verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyIs there something about a teen TV show with a ridiculous name? Maybe it’s the outsized weight of Buffy the Vampire Slayer skewing my perceptions, but it seems as though the campier and sillier a teen...
VoxKing Kong Godzilla vs. Kong is full of holes but fun as hell verified_publisherVox - Alissa WilkinsonGodzilla vs. Kong feels like 65 percent of a good movie. Not 65 percent good as in quality; it feels truncated, like it was hacked down to size from some much longer, possibly more narratively coherent...
