Our expectations of celebrities have changed. Can stars keep up?
Opinion: Award shows like the Oscars have become focal points for our instinct to seek moral leadership from celebs. But that’s backwards thinking.
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John Semley
There’s no country for old actors in Hollywood—and that matters
An Oscar nomination for Christopher Plummer, 88, stands out—and that ageism reveals something broader that #MeToo and #TimesUp should take note of
The problem with ’The Shape of Water’ and other ’woke’ films
Guillermo Del Toro’s movie embodies what’s wrong with a certain school of self-satisfied, performatively socially conscious filmmaking
What if Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War flops?
Reboots, remakes and overly familiar franchises are starting to flounder at the box office. If we’re lucky, something more creative will replace them.
Finn Wolfhard: A child actor caught in our cultural Upside Down
With ’Stranger Things’ and ’It’, the Vancouver teen exemplifies a modern child actor’s odd bargain: conjuring others’ childhoods, while he lives out his own
How to find meaning in the futility of existence
The members of a monthly meet-up in New Orleans look to Sartre and John Cheever to get beyond life’s ultimate futility
The rise of the internet’s ’dirtbag left’
How a new strain of progressive leftism is using humour, irony, and diaper jokes to push back against the emerging alt-right
David Sedaris on drugs, lunch, and comedy’s role in politics
David Sedaris’s new book, Theft By Finding, is made up of diary excerpts chronicling acid trips and life in Paris
Is Bill Nye a science guy—or is he wearing a science guise?
Maybe he won’t save the world. But with a new doc and Netflix show, the Science Guy is, at the very least, saving his career
How the shower scene from ’Psycho’ slashed its way into legend
An obsessive new documentary dives deep into Psycho’s iconic shower scene, which changed film and culture forever