By Louis Peitzman To make a Universal Pictures Wolf Man movie, you really only need two things: a werewolf and daddy issues. That goes all the way back to The Wolf Man, the 1941 film that introduced the titular lycanthrope to the Universal monsters lineup. Lon Chaney Jr. starred as Larry Talbot, who reconnects with
By Robert Rubsam Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee. They have actually been divorced for years. She has written very little about herself, and while many characters
By Zoe Guy Robert Pattinson’s last space sci-fi film saw the actor playing a prisoner made to serve his sentence on a shuttle hurtling toward a black hole (among other human-rights offenses, including really messed-up sexual harassment). His next space drama? Mickey 17, a Bong Joon Ho joint based on the novel Mickey7, by Edward
By Rebecca Alter The new season of The White Lotus is coming into view. Not only do we finally have a release date for the show, but the characters at play are coming into view, too. Between trailers, cast interviews, and a little bit of unverified speculation, we can confidently say that we are (pretty)
By Roxana Hadadi Calling a vampire movie Ellen doesn’t have the same pizzazz as Nosferatu. But Robert Eggers’s new version of the vampire classic sets itself apart exactly for its treatment of that character, whom F.W. Murnau’s silent 1922 original defines only as a willing victim in service of her husband. Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen,
Kate Mothes You’ve probably heard the term “cookie-cutter” to describe rows of houses seemingly indistinguishable from one another, save details like color or which side the garage sits on. For Brooklyn-based artist Hayden Williams, the comforting yet slightly eerie predictability of these sprawling settings is fodder for Suburbs, a series of illustrations tapping into
Grace Ebert Like many sports, men have typically dominated the world of bodybuilding, but for a small group of women in India, lifting weights and chiseling their bodies subverts more than athletic competitions. In an ongoing series of images titled Not What You Saw, photographer Keerthana Kunnath documents a burgeoning community of female bodybuilders
To say that Stephen Morrison’s work is inspired by dogs would be an understatement. Through sculptural assemblages and paintings of puppy faces tucked in foliage or morphing from household items, Morrison evokes the timeless love for our pets. Kate Mothes “I think I’ve always been a bit of a hedonist and kind of set
Grace Ebert From Nobuhito Nishigawara’s gilded drips to Andrés Anza’s spiny forms that could seemingly scuttle away at any moment, an eclectic array of works go on view this month for Ceramic Brussels. In its second year, the annual gathering is the only international art fair devoted entirely to the medium. The 2025 edition
Kate Mothes We’re more selective these days about how we use the word “meta,” but when it comes to OK Go’s latest release, the band has created—bear with us here—a music video using phones about videos made with phones. Known for elaborately choreographed music videos that bring pop songs to life through playful, chromatic,
