Alexander Payne’s nuanced and hyper-literate “The Holdovers” takes great pleasure in defying every impulse of modern cinema from even before the moment it starts (the studio fanfare includes a “throwback” Focus Features logo, which is a cute little in-joke about a company that wasn’t fo...
Georgia quintet pledges allegiance to the sounds that powered the Armadillo World Headquarters way back when long-haired hippies like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings roamed the land. The group — who pointedly make the joke that they play both kinds of music, “Country ...
The logic of latter-day prestige TV holds that it’s not enough to simply be funny. “The Righteous Gemstones” proves that if you put the joke first, the visual panache and grand statements about America can follow. 7. Gen V (Amazon Prime Video) Photo : Courtesy of Prime Video Spin...
While Amazon explicitly says the Echo Dot is not a toy, it's still a great interactive gift for kids ages 3-12. Kids can ask Alexa to read them a story, help with their math homework, and even tell them a funny joke. It also comes in fun kid designs. Show more Do little kids l...
This is not his image, so I could see that some people didn’t get that he was exercising his sense of humor when I went on Twitter and posted a passing joke that figures into his stage patter every night, saying that the next song “requires some audience participation: We si...
Not only does Miles have to face off against the tough Miguel but he also has The Spot to contend with, a fascinating villain who goes from a laughable joke to a terrifying nemesis thanks to Jason Schwartzman’s pitch-perfect performance. Meanwhile, Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) and the ...
There’s so much going on in this patter-filled, joke-a-second comedy that it feels like 2023’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, right down to the big life messages smuggled into all the goofery. It’s a high-speed joke-fest that doesn’t take Barbie any more seriously than she ...
No matter what the internet says, RiRi pulled out the W. Musk axes Twitter's blue check verification system Credit: Twitter The death of the blue check was just one more joke in the comedy of errors that has been Elon Musk's reign over Twitter. The verification system that once helped...
Lenderman’s reference to Daly in “Knockin” is funny, but it’s not merely a joke: The PGA’s tragic wildman knows as much about staring down darkness as any of those other guys. Over soaring pedal steel, Lenderman places his performance among other similarly bathetic scenes: a bird ...
CD:We used to have this joke where ou have to get the hammer and then The Emperor is going, "What was that conversation you just had?" We used to joke that basically you were stuck between an accountant and a lawyer. One guy just wants to get back to running his nasty evil busines...