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Borderlands Is a Total Catastrophe

One of the strangest things about so many of these studio salvage-job disasters is that we’re often left wondering: What happened to the salvaging? By Bilge Ebiri

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It Ends With Us Drama Starts With Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

Are the movie’s two stars really in a feud? By Alejandra Gularte

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Hire Matt Berry As a 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Commentator

If we get him to agree now, he can’t back out when it becomes real. By Anne Victoria Clark

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Everything to Know About Tom Girardi’s Embezzlement Trial

Is Erika Jayne going to be called to testify? By Claudia Rosenbaum

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The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 Olympics LOW — A potential muffin shortage in Olympic Village?
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Who’s Up and Who’s Down on Industry? The Pierpoint power struggle never truly ends, but here’s where it stands heading into season three.
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Can You Handle Another Bennifer Breakup? J.Lo’s own (alleged) friends aren’t holding back anymore.
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Colleen Hoover Picks Her Riskiest, Buzziest, and Most Romantic Novels The It Ends With Us author reflects on which of her books warrants a sequel — and which one could use a rewrite.
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The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Time to yell at Industry again.
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Shawn Mendes Could’ve Been a Daddy?! He just drops this on us in new single, “Why Why Why.”
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Every Matt Damon Movie, Ranked There are no truly bad Damon performances: He’s too controlled for that. But how does his latest role, in The Instigators, stack up?
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Everything We Know About the Thwarted Taylor Swift Terror Plot An 18-year-old Iraqi man has also been arrested.
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Your Daily Schedule for the 2024 Summer Olympics We’re updating it every day. Allons-y!
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The Umbrella Academy Series-Finale Recap: Fighting With My Family The series’ ending is satisfying enough, but watching these characters go out like this is a tough pill to swallow.
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Lady in the Lake Recap: Connect the Dots Maddie is a selfish, bad journalist, but she’s the show’s main character, so she finds herself at the center of all these stories.
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The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Amigas No More Tamra deserves some admiration for being as evil as humanly possible for the good of the show. Her time on The Traitors has done wonders.
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The Umbrella Academy Recap: Time Enough at Last The shortened season doesn’t have enough time for all of these subplots.
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Evil Recap: Seeing Double It may be the last ghost stakeout before the band splits up.
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Love Is Blind: Mexico Recap: Okay, Karen … It’s back to the real world for our couples, which naturally means things are starting to unravel.
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The Umbrella Academy Recap: Just a Small-Town Girl The team is back together, and the season kicks into gear just in time for some major revelations.
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The Umbrella Academy Season-Premiere Recap: A Whole New World So, we’re just going to forget how last season ended, I guess.
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The Bachelorette Recap: Something’s in the Air What happened in the casting this season that every single guy was in a toxic relationship?
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Where — and When — Were We on The Umbrella Academy? Get your timelines straight before stepping into the series’ final season.
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Sunny Recap: Been Caught Stealing It sure seems Mixxy knows more than she’s letting on.

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Borderlands Is a Total Catastrophe One of the strangest things about so many of these studio salvage-job disasters is that we’re often left wondering: What happened to the salvaging?
movie review 8:00 a.m.

You’ve Seen This One Before The Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us plays like an overfamiliar Lifetime movie with a lot more gloss and only slightly more grit.
confession 8/8/2024

I’m In the Tank for M. Night Shyamalan Trap is unrealistic, lacking in thrills, and a stunning example of just how masterful the writer-director’s twistless storytelling can be.
it's a trap! 8/8/2024

Game of Thrones Is Approaching Tricky Star Wars Territory That could be a good or a bad thing, depending how A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms plays it.
close read 8/6/2024

House of the Dragon Deployed Its Strongest Weapon Sorry, Vhagar, the queens are talking.
crime stories 8/5/2024

Batman: Caped Crusader Feels Like the Lost Third Season of Perry Mason There’s even a subplot about a disputed land-use deal! What could be more neo-noir than that?
comedy review 8/5/2024

Joe Rogan Plays an Unconvincing Fool His first live Netflix comedy special is as exhausting as it is lazy.
endings 8/5/2024

House of the Dragon Has a Prophecy Problem Raising questions that really should be answered by now, like: What is this show even about?
movie review 8/2/2024

Josh Hartnett Gives Grade-A Murder Daddy in Trap M. Night Shyamalan’s latest works better than should be possible because of Hartnett, who plays a monster wearing the skin of a devoted family man.
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Purple Pain, Purple Pain This adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon might be worse than you imagined.
performance review 8/2/2024

He’s So Annoying For years, being “sexy” didn’t work for Ryan Reynolds. It took him too long to realize being irritating did.
best of 2024 8/2/2024

The Best Anime Series of 2024 (So Far) A train ride through the apocalypse, wars for succession, and vampire content creators.
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Seeing Matt Damon Paired With Casey Affleck Is So Disorienting The Instigators, starring Damon and Ben Affleck’s younger brother, Casey, plays like an indirect comment on the ‘Matt and Ben Show.’
theater review 8/1/2024

A Poodle Room on Wall Street: Life and Trust The immersive follow-up to Sleep No More imagines sex and horror in early-20th-century Fidi.

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Fighting With My Family The series’ ending is satisfying enough, but watching these characters go out like this is a tough pill to swallow.
Lady in the Lake (S1/E5)

Connect the Dots Maddie is a selfish, bad journalist, but she’s the show’s main character, so she finds herself at the center of all these stories.
The Real Housewives of Orange County (S18/E5)

Amigas No More Tamra deserves some admiration for being as evil as humanly possible for the good of the show. Her time on The Traitors has done wonders.
The Umbrella Academy (S4/E5)

Time Enough at Last The shortened season doesn’t have enough time for all of these subplots.
Evil (S4/E12)

Seeing Double It may be the last ghost stakeout before the band splits up.
The Umbrella Academy (S4/E4)

In Search of Lost Time The Umbrellas have already prevented the end of the world three times throughout the series. What’s one more?
Love Is Blind: Mexico (S1/E5)

Okay, Karen … It’s back to the real world for our couples, which naturally means things are starting to unravel.
The Umbrella Academy (S4/E3)

Where Is My Mind? It looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out what the Jennifer Incident is and how Ben died.
The Umbrella Academy (S4/E2)

Just a Small-Town Girl The team is back together, and the season kicks into gear just in time for some major revelations.
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now streaming The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Time to yell at Industry again. By Savannah Salazar
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le sports du jour Your Daily Schedule for the 2024 Summer Olympics We’re updating it every day. Allons-y! By Savannah Salazar
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buffering Our Judges Will Now Review NBC’s Final Scores Peacock’s highly rated Olympics coverage has proven comprehensive — but not always perfect. By Josef Adalian, Nicholas Quah, and Jen Chaney
movie review You’ve Seen This One Before The Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us plays like an overfamiliar Lifetime movie with a lot more gloss and only slightly more grit. By Roxana Hadadi
confession I’m In the Tank for M. Night Shyamalan Trap is unrealistic, lacking in thrills, and a stunning example of just how masterful the writer-director’s twistless storytelling can be. By Matt Zoller Seitz

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I Have So Very Many Questions About Cuckoo’s Time-Loopy Ending

What in the name of bird flu is this movie trying to say? By Laura Bradley

baby come back Joaquin Phoenix Puts the ‘Quitter’ in LGBTQ Reportedly pulling out of an explicit gay romance five days before filming. By Jason P. Frank
splits? Can You Handle Another Bennifer Breakup? J.Lo’s own (alleged) friends aren’t holding back anymore. By Justin Curto
now streaming The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Time to yell at Industry again. By Savannah Salazar

vulture lists Every Matt Damon Movie, Ranked There are no truly bad Damon performances: He’s too controlled for that. But how does his latest role, in The Instigators, stack up? By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
movie review You’ve Seen This One Before The Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us plays like an overfamiliar Lifetime movie with a lot more gloss and only slightly more grit. By Roxana Hadadi
explainer An Armchair Analysis of It Ends With Us’s Ellen DeGeneres Obsession The now-disgraced daytime talk-show host is referenced three times in flashbacks without much explanation. By Nina Starner
confession I’m In the Tank for M. Night Shyamalan Trap is unrealistic, lacking in thrills, and a stunning example of just how masterful the writer-director’s twistless storytelling can be. By Matt Zoller Seitz
studio ate-h New York’s Hottest Trailer Is Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night And yes, it’s got everything. By Jesse David Fox

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assets and liabilities

Who’s Up and Who’s Down on Industry?

The Pierpoint power struggle never truly ends, but here’s where it stands heading into season three. By Jack King

le sports du jour Your Daily Schedule for the 2024 Summer Olympics We’re updating it every day. Allons-y! By Savannah Salazar
it’s a trap! Game of Thrones Is Approaching Tricky Star Wars Territory That could be a good or a bad thing, depending how A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms plays it. By Nicholas Quah
trailer mix Everybody Playing Everybody in Saturday Night Saturday Night (f.k.a. SNL 1975) has a trailer, and, wait who is Sammy Fableman playing? By Bethy Squires
predictions If Steve Martin’s Out, Who’s in to Play SNL’s VP Candidates? It could be anyone! (Actually, no, it can’t.) By Anne Victoria Clark and Jesse David Fox

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Elizabeth Gilles, Ariana Grande, and More React to Quiet on Set Keke Palmer is the latest former Nick star to reflect on her time at the studio. By Zoe Guy

theories of relativity Who Are Claim to Fame’s Celeb Family Members? Our best wild — and educated! — guesses. By Marah Eakin
vulture lists The 13 Best Sports Anime to Keep Your Olympic Endorphins Pumping The sportsmanship! The drama! The cartoon sweat! By Nicholas Quah and Eric Vilas-Boas
chat room HotD’s Abigail Thorn Thinks Tyland Could Become One of Lahor’s Wives “You never know. ‘Wife’ could mean a lot of things.” By Roxana Hadadi
apocalypse again Where — and When — Were We on The Umbrella Academy? Get your timelines straight before stepping into the series’ final season. By Maggie Fremont

Music

why why why

Shawn Mendes Could’ve Been a Daddy?!

He just drops this on us in new single, “Why Why Why.” By Justin Curto

major labels Addison Rae Boldly Asks: ‘Is Diet Pepsi Okay?’ After months of bumpin’ it with Charli XCX, wouldn’t you like to cool off with a nice, refreshing Pepsi? By Jason P. Frank
crime Everything We Know About the Thwarted Taylor Swift Terror Plot An 18-year-old Iraqi man has also been arrested. By Justin Curto
man of the woods Shawn Mendes Went to the Woods and Came Back Sounding Like Noah Kahan His fifth album, Shawn, is out on October 18. By Justin Curto

my single is dropping Katy Perry Is Back in the House With New Single ‘Lifetimes’ But it’s once again produced by Dr. Luke. By Justin Curto
still together Tenacious D Just Needed a Break Y’all Jack Black confirms the group isn’t broken up and he’s still friends with Kyle Gass after canceling their tour last month. By Alejandra Gularte
the block is hot in herre Nelly Arrested for Alleged Drug Possession in Missouri He was collecting a casino jackpot when an officer discovered a warrant for his arrest. By Alejandra Gularte
my data is dropping 13 Takeaways From Drake’s Hard-Drive Dump New songs, personal videos, and the kinds of PDFs a Bond villain would commission. By Paul Thompson
crime Two Men Guilty on All Counts in PnB Rock Murder Trial The rapper’s mother said she was “elated” afterward. By Justin Curto

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Comedy

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Roast Jokes Are In for 2024

Cecily Strong cut through the cringe at the Comics for Kamala Zoom by being mean. By Jason P. Frank

characters welcome Brian Jordan Alvarez Is a TV English Teacher Now, You Guy! He’s graduated from studempt to teachert on FX. By Rebecca Alter
comedy review Joe Rogan Plays an Unconvincing Fool His first live Netflix comedy special is as exhausting as it is lazy. By Kathryn VanArendonk
sitcom logic Cheryl Hines Still Lives in a Sitcom Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who operates under multi-cam logic, left a dead bear cub in Central Park in 2014. By Jason P. Frank

over the hill How Is SNL Celebrating Its Big Five-Oh? What we know about season 50, fromh Maya Rudolph’s expected return as Kamala Harris to which cast members are leaving. By Jennifer Zhan
farewells Molly Kearney Departs the SNL Cast Ahead of Season 50 The news comes a day after fellow cast member Punkie Johnson announced her departure. By Hershal Pandya
this week in late night The Top-10 Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest Hosts Ranked by how badly we want them to have a show of their own. By Bethy Squires
farewells Punkie Johnson Won’t Return to SNL for Season 50 “Man, I was a part of one of the most elite institutions in comedy, and I am so grateful for it.” By Hershal Pandya
stand-up Carmen Christopher Must Bring His Solo Show to Edinburgh In his new special produced by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the comedian expertly sends up the self-indulgent Fringe hour. By Hershal Pandya

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Theater

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Roman Roy Has Big Shoes to Fill Again

Joining Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr in Glengarry Glen Ross. By Jason P. Frank

theater review A Poodle Room on Wall Street: Life and Trust The immersive follow-up to Sleep No More imagines sex and horror in early-20th-century Fidi. By Jackson McHenry
theater review Plot Twists, Slick and Surreal: Job and Six Characters A tech-thriller unknots itself on Broadway, and a metatheatrical revolution keeps probing. By Jackson McHenry
jamie is over and jamie is gone Nick Jonas to Cheat on Adrienne Warren on Broadway In The Last Five Years, a show in which he will play a Jewish man. By Jason P. Frank
diva-off Idina Menzel Is Venturing Into the Redwood And, even more importantly, into the 2025 Best Actress in a Musical Tony race. By Jason P. Frank

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What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

theater review Empire: The Musical Stacks Up 102 Stories, Every One a Cliché A cringey new musical about the rise of the Empire State Building. By Sara Holdren
theater review Oh, Mary! Is Excellently Uncivil Cole Escola’s Mary Todd Lincoln farce transfers uptown, preserving the union between absurdity and hilarity. By Sara Holdren
health Ian McKellen Withdraws From Player Kings Performances After Hospitalization He says he must “protect his full recovery” by not working. By Alejandra Gularte
theater review ERS’s Ulysses Is a Little Stately, a Little Plump Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. By Sara Holdren

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Books

booktok Colleen Hoover Picks Her Riskiest, Buzziest, and Most Romantic Novels The It Ends With Us author reflects on which of her books warrants a sequel — and which one could use a rewrite. By Carly Lane
liza newz Liza With a Z to Release Memoir With an M We know she’s good with spelling, but how is she at settling scores? By Jason P. Frank
vulture lists 2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading List The return to Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the final chapter for The Umbrella Academy, and a Colleen Hoover romance. By Emily Maskell
books Four Friends, Two Marriages, One Affair — and a Shelf of Books Dissecting It When writers cheat on each other, everything is fair game for publication. By Chris Heath
books Tommy Orange Is the First Native American Author to Be Booker Prize Longlisted Wandering Stars joins 12 other books on the list, including three debut novels. By Emma Alpern

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Art

public art watch A Sixteen-Foot-Tall Pigeon Comes to Nest on the High Line Please don’t feed Iván Argote’s monumental Dinosaur. By Carl Swanson
wwjd Da Vinci Would Have Loved the Olympics’ Controversial ‘Last Supper’ The Catholic church of France, however, did not. By Jason P. Frank
remembrance The Power and Grace of Barbara Gladstone The venerated gallerist worked for the love of art. By Jerry Saltz
art review Jenny Holzer’s Word Salad Her takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era. By Jerry Saltz
art review Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of Kitsch A shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell. By Jerry Saltz