Moze Halperin
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Flavorwire Interview: Alex Cameron and Saxophonist Roy Molloy Are the “Forced Witnesses” of Some Really Sad Men’s Lives
"These aren’t things you keep in the dark. You shine a light on the badness and you strive to understand it." → Read More
What the Koch Brothers’ Seeming Financial Gain From ‘Wonder Woman’ Says About Entertainment Discourse
Was Wonder Woman a radical feminist movie? Was it another politically underwhelming work of white feminism? Was it zionist propaganda? Was Dunkirk a brutal anti-war statement or an expensive jingoistic poem? Will Ready Player One be a narcissistic male nerd fantasy or a comment on the corporatizing ... → Read More
Moses Sumney Releases “Quarrel,” the Second Gorgeous, Isolating Track Off ‘Aromanticism’
Moses Sumney hasn't even released his first full album yet, but with his "Lamentations" EP, his championing by Solange, his track "Plastic"s' prime spot on Insecure's Season 1 finale, or his more recent "Lonely World" ending an episode of Queen Sugar, there are quite a few places where you may ha... → Read More
Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson Are Coming to HBO with Four ‘2 Dope Queens’ Specials
Those who know Jessica Williams from her time as a Daily Show Correspondent, or who recently got to know her when she catapulted to smart-rom-com stardom with The Incredible Jessica James, will also likely know that she hosts a comedy/storytelling podcast, alongside writer/actor/comedian Phoebe Rob... → Read More
Watch the Trailer for the Dardenne Brothers’ Next Quietly Intense Drama, ‘The Unknown Girl’
From L'Enfant to The Kid With a Bike to Two Days, One Night, Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been making understated dramas with startling emotional and moral heft for quite some time — and their latest, The Unknown Girl, looks to follow suit, though there's apparently... → Read More
Netflix Picks Up the Coen Brothers’ Anthology Series, ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
The Coen Brothers' venture into anthology series territory with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs became public knowledge back in January, and now it seems that the directorial bros have skipped straight to the peakiest of peak-TV territory. → Read More
Bruce Springsteen Officially Announces His Solo, Acoustic, Eight-Week Broadway Residency
Though reports of a Bruce Springsteen Broadway residency were circulating back in June, today the musical legend officially announced his 8-week stint at New York's Walter Kerr Theater. He'll be playing the theater five nights a week (Tues-Sat), solo, from October 12 to November 26. → Read More
Watch the Trailer for the Oil Paint-Animated Vincent Van Gogh Biopic
Biopics are largely affiliated with perfunctory, artless play-by-plays of famous people's lives — and impressionistic exceptions like Todd Haynes' I'm Not There truly stand out. → Read More
Maya Rudolph Will Musically Deny Ralphie a BB Gun in Fox’s Live ‘A Christmas Story’
The announcement of a televised live musical now almost sounds like a warning: this thing you love will be regurgitated to you as a cheapened nostalgia spectacle! But with the legitimately cool thrill of getting to watch people perform it in real time! That simultaneity will surely be on display as ... → Read More
Javier Bardem Is a Horrifying Husband in Full Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’
The first full trailer for Darren Aronofsky's anticipated mother!, is out, and it reveals a Rosemary's Baby type narrative, drawing on the horrors of intimacy, wherein a husband and wife lovingly make a domestic paradise together, while in the meantime, the husband has secretly been inviting evi... → Read More
Amazon Takes on Cate Blanchett-Starring Lucille Ball Biopic
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Amazon has acquired the rights to the Aaron Sorkin-scripted Lucille Ball biopic, which is set to star Cate Blanchette as the comedian with inimitable facial expressions, impeccable timing, compelling sense of mischief, and those famous nasal noises of disda... → Read More
Check Out Lorde’s Rendition of Martha Wainwright’s “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole”
As soon opened with the words "Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore," the four-or-so people who recognized Martha Wainwright's scathingly, vulnerably brilliant 2005 track "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole" in those words whooped their approval. → Read More
‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Part 13 Recap: Peak Twins
Last night on Twin Peaks, we got to see Dougie at the height of serendipitously life-saving daftness and Mr. C continue to kill people bizarrely, in prolonged scenes that draw on the inevitability of murder for tension. → Read More
Sam Shepard, Angelyne, Democratic Socialism in Brooklyn: This Week’s Recommended Reading
Here at Flavorwire, we pride ourselves on not only publishing excellent writing, but also keeping an eye on other great work from around the web. This week, we're looking at a piece on democratic socialism in NYC politics; an article — and a critical response to it — on the identity of L.A. → Read More
Tina Fey to Play a “Sort of Sheryl Samberg on Steroids” on ‘Great News’
As Indiewire reports, Great News creator Tracey Wigfield spoke at the Television Critics Association yesterday, and detailed Tina Fey's upcoming 7-episode guest starring arc on the series. (Fey's presence on the show — beyond serving as an executive producer — was first announced in May. → Read More
Cindy Sherman Has an Instagram Account, Full of Hundreds of Cindy Shermans
Artnet News noted yesterday that not long ago, Cindy Sherman switched her Instagram account from private to public — therein unleashing a stampede of new, digitally distorted Cindy Shermans. → Read More
The Public Theater’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Avoids All Gravity. So?
Though A Midsummer Night's Dream may be Shakespeare's most-performed comedy, replete with built in slapstick, wonderment, and magic-enhanced emotional roller coasters, it's not without its share of challenges. → Read More
Staff Picks: ‘Inferno,’ Eve Babitz, Maggie Nelson’s ‘The Argonauts’
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or experience they’ve enjoyed most in the past seven days. Scroll through for our picks below. → Read More
Björk’s Utopian Follow-Up to ‘Vulnucira’ Will Soon Be Upon Us
Björk shared an at once informative and not-so-informative post on Instagram this morning: Over a year ago, actually, Björk announced that she was working on a utopian follow up to her last album, Vulnicura (which with both apocalyptic grandeur and ... → Read More
Listen to the First Single From Kelela’s Just-Announced New Album, ‘Take Me Apart,’
Given how often Kelela's name seems to come up — and how many cooly sensual, casually visceral songs of hers you might know — it's almost a surprise that the Solange-championed artist still hasn't released an LP. → Read More