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One step forward, two steps back

Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, Private Citizens, made me deeply uncomfortable. It was a pleasurable sort of discomfort: the book is also smart and dense and, often, hilarious. But over the few da…

You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about social justice causes they care about, or personal announcements. Even someone like actress and musician Maya Hawke mostly posts previews of upcoming […]

The phone scenes from 'Lost Highway,' 'Mulholland Drive,' and 'Inland Empire' edited into one paranoid sequence that highlights the terror that can be spawned from a simple phone call.

In a long, often terrifying career, The Mystery Man from ‘Lost Highway’ sticks out as the stuff of nightmares.

An Interview with Phil La Duke

Incel jargon is seeping into the mainstream, and that’s not good for anybody