Cannes has finally stirred to life with back-to-back screenings by the two biggest provocateurs in the official selection: Spike Lee and Lars von Trier. For the first time since I got here a week ago, you felt a jolt of electricity shoot through the festival, albeit in very different directions. Lee’s galvanizing new movie, BlacKkKlansman, […]
I was 11 or maybe 12 years old when I discovered my parents’ bookshelves. They’d been invisible right up to the moment someone or something told me that the books on them were stuffed with dirty words and shocking behavior—a rumor whose truth was eventually confirmed by Portnoy’s Complaint. The book I still remember taking […]
Miquela Sousa has over 1 million followers on Instagram and was recently hacked by a Trump troll. But she isn’t real. Over lunch this spring, Nikola Burnett, a 15-year-old who always carries two cameras — one film and one digital — sat staring at an Instagram selfie, perplexed. The subject was Miquela Sousa, better known […]
On May 2, echoing the cries of a weary nation, Gizmodo ran an article titled “At This Point, MoviePass Is Just Messing with Us.” It was a response to the many changes that MoviePass had made to its service in the past year, and particularly in late spring, when the subscription service altered its offerings […]
Kanye’s been watching [my] stuff for a while,” Ali Akbar, a former Tea Party operative-turned-MAGA pundit, told me with glee over the weekend, referring to the sudden emergence of Kanye West as a conservative-media celebrity. A month ago, the idea would have seemed absurd: Akbar, who frequently reminds his viewers that he’s black and Arab, […]
