Culture is conflict in Andrew Ahn’s debut feature, Spa Night. Protagonist David (Joe Seo), who, like Ahn himself, is the son of parents who emigrated from Korea, awakens sexually in the Korean spas in Los Angeles that he frequents with his family and friends. Meanwhile, his family’s expectation that he’ll settle down…
“Cool Girl” is one of those songs that makes you want to do something horrible and then gyrate on top of a car. Conveniently, that’s exactly what Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson of Tove Lo does in the video, directed by Tim Erem; the video is the first in an evidently very dramatic series for LADY WOOD, Tove Lo’s sophomore…
Queen of Dropping Videos On Days Where Everyone’s Paying Attention to Bigger Music Releases Carly Rae Jepsen can be seen jubilantly spinning around a very expensive home along with bespectacled realtor/producer Danny L Harle in the video for his newest single, “Super Natural.”
At just 14 years old, Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia Gerber has a burgeoning modeling career unto itself. Though this Pop cover (via Fashionista) is Gerber’s first solo joint, you can already divine the talent in her fresh face, which is reminiscent of iconic super-early covers like Cecilia Dean on lei; Karlie, Chanel…
K-pop superstar and fashion icon CL is a member of girl group 2NE1, already hugely popular around the world. But with her latest tracks, she’s been set on further breaking through to an English language audience, and in brand-new video “Lifted,” she gets a cool cosign and makes it locationally clear, too, placing her…
Before you venture into the cliché white savior/“magical negro” double whammy that is the trailer for the Renee Zellweger/Greg Kinnear/Djimon Hounsou film Same Kind of Different Is Me, do note that of course one cannot judge a film off its trailer, and perhaps once it’s in theaters those viewers drawn to this kind of…
Fashion industry “tour merch” is nothing new, though it seems to be having a moment—Demna and Gosha recently got their own devotional tees, for one, RIP—and anyone with as strong a media presence as the Hadid sisters would be silly not to try and capitalize on that.
Here is the trailer for A Quiet Passion, a film about the life of the famously reclusive Emily Dickinson from director Terence Davies, starring Cynthia Nixon. Featured: some very deliberate reading of lines from Dickinson poems.
The week I spoke with actor Adrienne C. Moore was a tough one, not long after the murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers. Yet in her role as “Black Cindy” Hayes in Orange Is the New Black, Moore’s creative life has become increasingly intimate with explorations of systemic racism…
Denis Villeneuve, director of critically acclaimed thrillers like Incendies, Prisoners, and Sicario, is bringing humanity on the brink of a “global war” with aliens in his upcoming film Arrival, and the only person who can prevent it from happening is an “expert linguist” named Louise. It’s the role Amy Adams was born…
It’s just a jump to the left, but somehow the newly released rendition of “Time Warp” from Fox’s remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show has taken the song from DIY freak carnival to Disney Channel nightmare. Brad, let’s go back, I’m cold and I’m frightened!
In the latest issue of T Magazine, fashion critic Alexander Fury profiled Anne-France Dautheville, the 72-year-old French journalist who, in the ‘70s and ‘80s, rode a motorcycle from Paris to Afghanistan and then across the world—the first woman to do so—before writing Une demoiselle sur une moto, a memoir of her…
In the trailer for Hidden Figures—a long overdue science movie with black women as the focal point—Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe portray NASA mathematicians whose contributions to space travel were historically under-celebrated.
Tinashe’s “Superlove” is more than slightly ‘90s, a near-identical interpolation of INOJ’s Rhythm & Quad classic “Let Me Love You Down,” among other references. So the video went fully there, too, taking the beach body concept of Baywatch (“#baewatch”) and pushing it to its choreographed limits. Way to get a jump on…
Raye is a South London 18-year-old who has pop chops that are just off-kilter enough, which is probably one reason she and Charli XCX hit it off when they first met. Their shared sensibilities of being exactly themselves, as well as letting a wack dude have it when he deserves it, are present in this video for Raye’s…
Season 2 of UnREAL had almost as many exhausting storylines as Empire and felt more like a soap than a show tucked in a show about a real-life dating show. Altogether, it made for a cluster-fuck of a season, at times more overwrought than it was enjoyable, though definitely not at all devoid of drama.
British music magazine the NME has issued an apology to London rapper Giggs for mistaking the lyric “man rates her” as “man rapes her” on a recent track called “The Process.” Yikes.
Nostalgia for the 1990s, the era National Geographic boldly proclaimed “the last great decade,” hasn’t really let up over the past six or so years, which is pretty astonishing. Sure, which part of the ‘90s people are fetishizing has vacillated—in fashion, currently it’s hovering somewhere around ‘98, though ‘92 is…
Give it about 25 minutes into Suicide Squad, with its heavy-handed soundtrack and 400 over-stylized fonts meant as a shortcut to introduce you to to its 62 main characters. It’s about then that you’ll realize you’re basically watching someone else play video games. I’m gonna use the trope that it’s a boyfriend,…
Frank Ocean will allegedly release his second studio album, Boys Don’t Cry, today. Many people on the internet will have opinions about it, and about Frank. But ours are the best.
