Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a gamelike element to being a detective—the seeking of hidden information, the identification of patterns, the piecing together of clues, the “Eureka!” of discovery. Several legendary fictional detectives have been…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The musician Tamara Lindeman founded the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young innocent Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles from small-town…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Québécois director Philippe Lesage began making documentaries in the early two-thousands. He has since switched to narrative features, but they have been meaningfully shaped by his nonfiction work, in ways…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be as bad for movies as it was for movie theatres. Few films that confront the pandemic head on have illuminated the experience, and the most…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The marvellous new espionage thriller “Black Bag” is, among other things, a sparkling ode to a happy marriage. I’m referring, in part, to the union between the movie’s central characters, George…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Film festivals are important showcases for films that don’t yet have distribution, but there’s a hitch in the process. What happens when a movie, after a première at a festival, hits…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Through most of the twentieth century, the American…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the very first shot of the pilot episode of “Paradise”—a recent dystopian political thriller from Hulu—a man played by Sterling K. Brown lies alone, unrestfully, in bed. His eyes are…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The artist Amy Sherald is known for her stirring portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, and often uses grayscale to complicate representations of race in portraiture. In Sherald’s…
