Abraham Josephine Riesman
Vulture
Providence, RI, United States
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Andor’s Kathryn Hunter Saw Eedy Karn’s Comedic Potential Immediately
Classically trained Shakespearean actor Kathryn Hunter looks back on season 1 of ‘Andor’ and playing Syril’s Karn’s mom Eedy, who she sees as both a sympathetic and comedic figure who falls somewhere between a Woody Allen character and Lady Macbeth. → Read More
She Was WWE’s First Female Referee. She Says Vince McMahon Raped Her.
Rita Chatterton does not want to be forgotten. The 64-year-old says she was assaulted by McMahon in his limo in 1986. She went public with the accusation on Geraldo’s show in 1992, but her case was memory-holed. → Read More
A Religious Fable That Confounded Scholars for Millennia Finally Makes Sense Right Now
The story is perfect for our harrowing times. But we’ve been reading it all wrong. → Read More
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses
Sales of Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” have been spiking since late January, when the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee yanked “Maus” from an eighth-grade curriculum after a few parents objected to the nudity and use of profanity in it. → Read More
The Progressive, Controversial History of Suicide Squad’s Amanda Waller
This piece originally ran in 2016. We are republishing it on the occasion of The Suicide Squad’s 2021 release and Viola Davis’s return to the big-screen role. → Read More
My Grandfather the Zionist
Robert Riesman helped build Jewish American support for Israel after World War II, becoming a fervent backer of the country during the Six-Day War. What’s his legacy now? → Read More
The Story Behind Bucky’s Groundbreaking Comic-Book Reinvention As the Winter Soldier
The comics history of Bucky Barnes’ transformation from Captain America’s teen sidekick to the Winter Soldier, and why that characterization is the one that made its way into Marvel’s MCU, first in the films and now in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. → Read More
WandaVision Recap: Confessional of a Dangerous Mind
It seems Westview’s sitcom setup is on the fritz — but who’s to blame? A recap of ‘Breaking the Fourth Wall,’ episode 7 of Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, and Kathryn Hahn. → Read More
‘High Maintenance’ Will Live On As A Time Capsule Of A Lost New York City
High Maintenance will remain as a testament to and document of what we lost. → Read More
DC Rethinks Its Universe
While Warner Bros.-owned DC Entertainment has won big in comics, TV, and games, they’ve struggled at the movies. Then Wonder Woman happened. → Read More
The Guy Behind the ‘America: Endgame’ Video Explains Why This Thing Got Made
Love it or hate it, a viral Avengers video about the election, based on a Marvel movie scene, might be a defining image of our quar-brained culture. → Read More
The Boys Is the End of the Superhero As We Know It.
In its depiction of Homelander, Stormfront, and other fictional superheroes, season two of the Amazon Prime Video series ‘The Boys’ has illuminated the rotten core of superheroism, and cast our collective obsession with it in an unflattering light. → Read More
What Hath the Snyder Cut Released?
In retrospect, Warner Bro’s decision to rerelease Zach Snyder’s Justice League was inevitable. It’s also deeply consequential. → Read More
But What Does the Title Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Mean?
What does the title Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker mean? Our best guesses about Star Wars: Episode IX’s new title revealed today. → Read More
How the Joker Became Batman’s Ultimate Villain
Although Batman foe the Joker was first introduced in 1940, he spent the next few decades as just another gimmicky antagonist. It was only with Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’s ‘Batman’ No. 251 for DC Comics in 1973 that things got serious. → Read More
Why You Should Be Reading the X-Men Right Now
For years, the X-Men languished in their comic-book adventures. But now, all-star writer Jonathan Hickman has taken over the series and fans and critics are going nuts. If you like Marvel’s merry mutants, you should pick up what he’s putting down. → Read More
The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off
42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists remember the moments they can’t believe they pulled off, including scenes in Rogue One, A Quiet Place, Game of Thrones Maniac, Deep Impact, Apollo 13, American Gods, True Detective, and more. → Read More
How Our Boys Painstakingly Re-creates an Israeli-Palestinian Tragedy
The new HBO miniseries Our Boys looks back at the kidnappings and murders of Israeli and Palestinian teens that sparked horrifically bloody battles in the summer of 2014. → Read More
David Berman Struggled to Feel the Joy He Brought Us
David Berman, a poet and singer-songwriter best known for fronting the bands the Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, passed away yesterday and left behind a legacy of spiritual longing and railing against the darkness of misery. → Read More
Tracing the Evolution of Batman’s Alfred, From Clueless Sidekick to Special Forces Stud
How the Dark Night’s faithful steward, Alfred Pennyworth, went from clueless sidekick to special-forces stud, now with his own show, ‘Pennyworth’ on Epix. → Read More