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The Stars of Vulture Festival 2024

Behind the scenes with Paris and Nicole, Quinta Brunson, Mike Myers, and more. By Sinna Nasseri

scene report

Rust Didn’t Choose to Echo Its Tragedy, But It Courses Through the Film

The finished movie is an appropriately unvarnished western, starring a lead actor visibly shaken by his experience making it. By Nick Newman

a long talk

Replacing Halyna Hutchins on Rust Was the Challenge of a Lifetime

Cinematographer Bianca Cline on why the film had to be finished after her predecessor’s tragic death on set. By Laura Bradley

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How The Penguin Became the Sofia Falcone Show

Cristin Milioti thought through every motivation, music cue, and mullet option to craft the most sympathetic psychopath on TV. By Roxana Hadadi

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Anne Hathaway Is Back in BookTok She will star in an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Rebecca-esque Verity.
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Every Ridley Scott Movie, Ranked Sizing up the director’s decades-long career.
coming soon 2:52 p.m.

Rust Premieres, Three Years After Fatal Shooting What we know about the film’s completion and debut following Halyna Hutchins’s death.
trailer mix 12:00 p.m.

Anthony Jeselnik Is Thoroughly Applauded in Bones and All Your first look at the comedian’s first special in five years, out November 26 on Netflix.
encounter 10:40 a.m.

Christina Tosi Wants You to Join Her Club She built Milk Bar from scratch with a sunny intensity. Now she’s constructing her version of domestic life.
deaths 10:37 a.m.

Liam Payne’s One Direction Bandmates Attend Funeral Simon Cowell and James Corden were also seen arriving for the service.
another one? 10:12 a.m.

How to Train a (Live-Action) Dragon At least Toothless looks cute in the first trailer.
here we go again! 9:32 a.m.

PBS to Air Doc About Newt Gingrich-Approved Immigrants The cozying up to the incoming administration has begun.
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The Buddy Puzzle 18-Across, Four Letters: Immortal pirate Jones played by Bill Nighy
vulture games 5:00 a.m.

Cinematrix No. 239: November 20, 2024 Can you name a movie starring Terry Crews with a number in the title?
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Yellowjackets Wants to Be Your Bloody Valentine Season three will have a double premiere on a romantic date.
health 12:12 a.m.

Jay Leno Is Wearing an Eye Patch After Falling Down a 60-Foot Hill He also broke his wrist and is covered in bruises, he revealed to Inside Edition.
be mine 11/19/2024

A Minecraft Movie Jump-Square Warning The new trailer spawns an origin story for Jack Black’s Steve.
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Looks Like Post Malone Will Headline Coachella Get ready to rock, rave, and possibly even rodeo.

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Shrinking Recap: Trending Upward “Fucked-up people are good at helping fucked-up people.” Leave it to Paul to distill this show’s main theme so eloquently.
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Bad Sisters Recap: Aftershocks It sure seems like Angelica doesn’t have the Garvey sisters’ best interest in mind.
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The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: For the Birds Becky and Erin’s pregnancy prank was a complete flop and totally pointless.
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season-Premiere Recap: Separation Anxiety The wives are back to relitigate past fights and soft launch divorces.
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What We Do in the Shadows Recap: The Vault A true endgame for Guillermo is finally starting to emerge.
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Below Deck Sailing Yacht Recap: Cloyce Steps Up The bar is low, but at least he’s clearing it.
overnights 11/18/2024

The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Honesty Is the Best Policy Whether consciously or subconsciously, the cast seems to understand what’s needed to keep this rebuilding season on track.
overnights 11/18/2024

Yellowstone Recap: Cattle Country With the timeline jumping around for no apparent reason, it feels like Taylor Sheridan is struggling to fill space.
overnights 11/17/2024

Somebody Somewhere Recap: Did You Manifest That? The Miller sisters get up close and personal in an episode that shows just how much they’ve come to rely on each other.
overnights 11/17/2024

The Franchise Recap: A Bridge Too Far Will Martin Scorsese ever live down comparing comic-book movies to theme-park rides in an interview once? No. Probably not.
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Dune: Prophecy Series-Premiere Recap: The Space Witch Project HBO’s latest series of warring houses and political intrigue goes interstellar following the Bene Gesserit’s multi-millennia-long conspiracy.
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Tulsa King Season-Finale Recap: An Offer He Can Refuse Dwight’s refusal to negotiate in good faith somehow makes for an exciting and shocking finale.
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Saturday Night Live Recap: When Charli XCX Shows Up, SNL Is Brat The fashionably bored Brit got big laughs without breaking a sweat.
overnights 11/17/2024

Lioness Recap: Apocalypse Soon Cruz and Josie bond, lioness to lioness.

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scene report 2:30 p.m.

Rust Didn’t Choose to Echo Its Tragedy, But It Courses Through the Film The finished movie is an appropriately unvarnished western, starring a lead actor visibly shaken by his experience making it.
theater review 11/19/2024

Out to Sea and Back With Swept Away The story of a whaling expedition that turned horrifying, musicalized by the Avett Brothers.
movie review 11/19/2024

Wicked Is As Enchanting As It Is Exhausting Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the hit musical has charm, but the bloat is inescapable.
album review 11/19/2024

Linkin Park’s Risky Rebirth Paid Off An initially messy return paved the way for a balanced new album.
book review 11/19/2024

Haruki Murakami Has Lost the Sauce Two new works read more like fan fiction set in the extended Murakami universe than the thrillingly strange novels he’s famous for.
theater review 11/18/2024

Shit. Meet. Fan. Tells Us Lots That We Already Know Neil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski star in Robert O’Hara’s self-described “blistering vulgar satire.” It delivers one of those three things.
theater review 11/17/2024

Elf: The Musical, Where They Sing Really Loud for All to Hear Everyone’s trying, but the show itself is a cotton-headed ninny-muggins.
tv review 11/17/2024

Stuck in Prequel Quicksand Dune: Prophecy’s derivativeness is both its greatest flaw and its most defining characteristic.
movie review 11/15/2024

‘Some People Call It the City of Dreams, But I Don’t’ Payal Kapadia’s new film, All We Imagine As Light, is a shimmering portrait of a Mumbai where everyone goes and nobody feels at home.
theater review 11/14/2024

The Lighter Side of Christian Nationalism: Tammy Faye Spinning an evangelist grifter into a camp icon and sorta-feminist heroine is a little hard to take right now.
theater review 11/14/2024

King Lear at the Fountain of Youth Kenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile.
tv review 11/14/2024

How to Get Away With More Murder Sharon Horgan delivers a second season of Bad Sisters with fewer laughs but plenty more twists.
tv review 11/14/2024

Tell Everyone About Say Nothing FX’s exploration of the Troubles captures the thrill and romance of revolution — and the cost of its violence.
art review 11/13/2024

Maps of Things Past The brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.

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Interview

We Asked Anora’s Yura Borisov About That Final Scene Inside the Car By Roxana Hadadi

Shrinking (S2/E7)

Trending Upward “Fucked-up people are good at helping fucked-up people.” Leave it to Paul to distill this show’s main theme so eloquently.
Bad Sisters (S2/E3)

Aftershocks It sure seems like Angelica doesn’t have the Garvey sisters’ best interest in mind.
The Real Housewives of New York City (S15/E8)

For the Birds Becky and Erin’s pregnancy prank was a complete flop and totally pointless.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S14/E1)

Separation Anxiety The wives are back to relitigate past fights and soft launch divorces.
What We Do in the Shadows (S6/E7)

The Vault A true endgame for Guillermo is finally starting to emerge.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht (S5/E7)

Cloyce Steps Up The bar is low, but at least he’s clearing it.
The Real Housewives of Potomac (S9/E7)

Honesty Is the Best Policy Whether consciously or subconsciously, the cast seems to understand what’s needed to keep this rebuilding season on track.
Yellowstone (S5/E10)

Cattle Country With the timeline jumping around for no apparent reason, it feels like Taylor Sheridan is struggling to fill space.
Somebody Somewhere (S3/E4)

Did You Manifest That? The Miller sisters get up close and personal in an episode that shows just how much they’ve come to rely on each other.
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Streamliner

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streamliner Maybe You’ll Watch Megalopolis at Home? The Francis Ford Coppola film is now available to rentalopolis. By Savannah Salazar
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art The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-Villani Less than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money. By Jay Bulger
the pluck of the irish Why Are Irish Actors So Good at Accents? Dialect coaches share their theories. By Jasmine Vojdani
theater review Out to Sea and Back With Swept Away The story of a whaling expedition that turned horrifying, musicalized by the Avett Brothers. By Sara Holdren

Movies

mystery and intrigue

Anne Hathaway Is Back in BookTok

She will star in an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Rebecca-esque Verity. By Jason P. Frank

vulture lists Every Ridley Scott Movie, Ranked Sizing up the director’s decades-long career. By Scott Tobias
coming soon Rust Premieres, Three Years After Fatal Shooting What we know about the film’s completion and debut following Halyna Hutchins’s death. By Zoe Guy
another one? How to Train a (Live-Action) Dragon At least Toothless looks cute in the first trailer. By Jennifer Zhan and Michael Savio

here we go again! PBS to Air Doc About Newt Gingrich-Approved Immigrants The cozying up to the incoming administration has begun. By Anne Victoria Clark
the pluck of the irish Why Are Irish Actors So Good at Accents? Dialect coaches share their theories. By Jasmine Vojdani
be mine A Minecraft Movie Jump-Square Warning The new trailer spawns an origin story for Jack Black’s Steve. By Jennifer Zhan
movie review Wicked Is As Enchanting As It Is Exhausting Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the hit musical has charm, but the bloat is inescapable. By Bilge Ebiri
the vulture transcript ‘We’re All Going to Die, and I Think About It a Lot’ His Three Daughters star Elizabeth Olsen on why she keeps doing movies about grief and dying and why she’s decided, “Marvel, done.” By Rachel Handler

Movies

TV

hive mind

Yellowjackets Wants to Be Your Bloody Valentine

Season three will have a double premiere on a romantic date. By Jennifer Zhan

if i could turn back time 14 Stunning Stories From Cher’s (First) Memoir From Warren Beatty asking her out when she was a teenager to her “chicken joke” with Carol Burnett. By Justin Curto
the pluck of the irish Anthony Boyle Didn’t Have To Do Much Research For Say Nothing “My mom, one of her earliest memories is the Brits raiding the house and her father getting pulled down the stairs by the British Army.” By Jackson McHenry
xxxmas Sabrina Carpenter Wants Her Stocking Stuffed (by Netflix) Chappell Roan is coming home for the holidays in A Nonsense Christmas. By Bethy Squires
death Paul Teal, One Tree Hill Actor, Dead at 35 Bethany Joy Lenz remembers casting the “shy and funny” for his six episode arc. By Alejandra Gularte

vulture festival 2024
The You’re The Worst Burn Book The reunited cast and creator name-drop the worst LA has to offer. By Bethy Squires

vulture lists Every Taylor Sheridan TV Show, Ranked He’s become one of television’s biggest hitmakers thanks a steady stream of shows that offer a stark vision of America. By Noel Murray
houston texas baby Beyoncé Got Us — and Netflix — a Christmas Gift She’ll be playing halftime at the streamer’s Christmas NFL game in Houston. By Justin Curto
vulture festival 2024 Does the New Cruel Intentions Go There? “To me, growing up, it was the naughty film.” By Jason P. Frank
tv review Stuck in Prequel Quicksand Dune: Prophecy’s derivativeness is both its greatest flaw and its most defining characteristic. By Roxana Hadadi

Music

deaths

Liam Payne’s One Direction Bandmates Attend Funeral

Simon Cowell and James Corden were also seen arriving for the service. By Justin Curto

rockstar Looks Like Post Malone Will Headline Coachella Get ready to rock, rave, and possibly even rodeo. By Justin Curto
switched on pop The Enduring Appeal of Buckingham Nicks How Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham covered Stevie and Lindsey’s lost classic. By Charlie Harding
album review Linkin Park’s Risky Rebirth Paid Off An initially messy return paved the way for a balanced new album. By Craig Jenkins

ask an expert NDAs for People Following the Zach Bryan Drama The breakup updates aren’t going anywhere, so we asked a few NDA experts to breakdown the $12 million drama. By Claudia Rosenbaum
respect the classics Everybody Loves Al Green’s R.E.M. Cover And if you don’t … who hurt you? By Devon Ivie
the law Diddy Accused of Witness Tampering in Sex-Crimes Case His attorneys claim prosecutors violated his due-process rights. By Justin Curto
chapters I Thought the Sun Rose and Set on His Sicilian Ass Sonny Bono was one of the most charming — and possessive — men I’d ever met. By Cher
respect the classics We Bought a Zoo Turned Elle Fanning Into a Bob Dylan Stan But she still hasn’t met the man after starring in A Complete Unknown. By Justin Curto

Music

Comedy

trailer mix

Anthony Jeselnik Is Thoroughly Applauded in Bones and All

Your first look at the comedian’s first special in five years, out November 26 on Netflix. By Hershal Pandya

double domingo Marcello Hernández Brought Back Domingo Twice in One Weekend First on SNL and then at a Sabrina Carpenter concert in L.A. By Hershal Pandya
vulture festival 2024 Katt Williams: ‘If I’m at the Diddy Party, I’m There to Tell’ Sounding off on Mike Tyson vs. Logan Paul, his infamous Club Shay Shay interview, and more. By Hershal Pandya
vulture festival 2024 Saturday Night Live Was Director School for Julio Torres “We treated every sketch as if they were a little short film.” By Bethy Squires

snl 50 Paul Mescal to Gladi-eat on Saturday Night Live With Shaboozey as musical guest. By Jason P. Frank
vulture festival 2024 Mike Myers, King of Catchphrase Comedy, Doesn’t Write Catchphrases Intentionally “Remember ‘Get in my belly?’ That was improv. It wasn’t Ladies and gentleman, my next catchphrase!” By Bethy Squires
this week in late night Late Night With Seth Meyers Delivers the Best Topical Comedy for This Moment This week, Seth and his team ran the table while the table was actively on fire. By Bethy Squires
vulture lists A Definitive Ranking of Friends Thanksgiving Episodes Missing toes, Brad Pitt, and Chandler in a box. By Brian Boone
brat Charli XCX Tells Marcello Hernandez Her ‘Real Name’ on SNL Spoiler: It’s giving “Charles Entertainment Cheese.” By Alejandra Gularte

Comedy

Theater

theater review

Out to Sea and Back With Swept Away

The story of a whaling expedition that turned horrifying, musicalized by the Avett Brothers. By Sara Holdren

theater review Shit. Meet. Fan. Tells Us Lots That We Already Know Neil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski star in Robert O’Hara’s self-described “blistering vulgar satire.” It delivers one of those three things. By Sara Holdren
theater review Elf: The Musical, Where They Sing Really Loud for All to Hear Everyone’s trying, but the show itself is a cotton-headed ninny-muggins. By Jackson McHenry
theater review The Lighter Side of Christian Nationalism: Tammy Faye Spinning an evangelist grifter into a camp icon and sorta-feminist heroine is a little hard to take right now. By Sara Holdren
theater review King Lear at the Fountain of Youth Kenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile. By Sara Holdren

movie review
The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s Play Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms. By Bilge Ebiri

theater review When Robots Meet Cute: Maybe Happy Ending “It might feel like 2064 on the surface, but in its nostalgic, rechargeable heart, the show parties like it’s 1999.” By Sara Holdren
theater review A Wonderful World Is Also a Familiar One James Monroe Iglehart does a fine job embodying Louis Armstrong in a show that’s anything but improvisational. By Jackson McHenry
stella!!!!! Yes, Paul Mescal Will Star in A Streetcar Named Desire in New York But, no, despite previous reports, it will not be on Broadway. By Jason P. Frank
theater review Soho Rep Closes Out the House With Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! It’s the final show at Walkerspace, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Alina Troyano’s play is a wild goodbye whoop. By Sara Holdren

Theater

Books

reading is fundamental Vulture’s 2024 Books Gift Guide A lack of celebrity memoirs doesn’t mean a lack of gossip. By Vulture Staff
book review Haruki Murakami Has Lost the Sauce Two new works read more like fan fiction set in the extended Murakami universe than the thrillingly strange novels he’s famous for. By Bailey Trela
books Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize for Space-Station Novel Orbital It’s the second-shortest book to be awarded the prize. By Emma Alpern
books Literary Assassin Revealing the secret histories of Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, and Eve Babitz. By Lili Anolik
paws up lil zazzters HBO Is Making a Decade-Long Harry Potter Series And has reportedly reached out to a potential Dumbledore. By Rebecca Alter

Books

Art

art The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-Villani Less than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money. By Jay Bulger
art review Maps of Things Past The brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk. By Jerry Saltz
art Kehinde Wiley Can’t Believe This Is Happening to Him He built an empire out of painting young Black men into art history. Can it survive accusations of sexual assault? By Rachel Corbett
art review Maybe KAWS Is Not So Bad After All His collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel. By Jerry Saltz
tributes Gary Indiana’s Exuberant Venom The late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy. By Brandon Sanchez