Christina Animashaun/Vox Try these small (but effective!) tactics to help you stay off email, manage your colleagues, and reclaim your weekends. If you’re reading this, you probably already know that you need to adopt better work-life boundaries. Perhaps you feel like your brain is constantly on fire with thoughts about Continue Reading
Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown in It Chapter Two. | Warner Bros. It Chapter Two is faithful to Stephen King — in all the messiest ways. It Chapter Two arrives at the inevitable problem with many a Stephen King adaptation: The more faithful the adaptation, the more it exposes Continue Reading
Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sterling K. Brown, and Renée Elise Goldsberry in Waves. | Courtesy of TIFF The director of It Comes at Night and Krisha returns with a bruising, beautiful story of hard-won grace. When, near the end of Trey Edward Shults’s extraordinary drama Waves, a father quotes Proverbs Continue Reading
Full moon appears after midnight in Brussels, Belgium on July 17, 2019. | Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects. Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and Continue Reading
Noah Jupe in Honey Boy. | Courtesy of TIFF LaBeouf wrote the film based on his own troubled childhood. It’s an exercise in extreme empathy, and a must-see. People say art makes us more empathetic — and research seems to confirm this, to a degree — but I’ve always found Continue Reading
Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project | Lionsgate The Blair Witch Project was an innovator. But The Sixth Sense became one of the biggest horror hits ever. By almost any estimation, the weekend at the movies that kicked off 20 years ago this week was a terrific one, a Continue Reading
Musician Jacob Collier breaks down “Sir Duke.” Stevie Wonder began his musical career at just 11 years old, and from the get-go, his love of jazz became a central part of his sound. In 1962, a year into his contract with Motown Records, he released The Jazz Soul of Little Continue Reading
The show’s world is expanding, but it’s not getting any deeper. How much should that matter? Stranger Things has always worn its heart on its sleeve and flown its nerd flag high. Season three leans into both impulses to deliver a story that’s fun and familiar, one that may seem Continue Reading
shutterstock Rude, crude and extremely funny, “Scottish Twitter” has garnered much attention in recent years for its uniquely Celtic wit – and for the specific ways it uses language. Journalist Eve Livingston’s recent article for The Face examines the many social and cultural features of Scottish Twitter. But the fact Continue Reading
From left: Cathy Gillies, Kitty Lutesinger, Sandy Good, and Brenda McCann, of the Manson Family, kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice on March 29, 1971. They kept a vigil throughout the trial in which Manson and three women were convicted of slaying actress Sharon Tate Continue Reading
Subscribing to Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu together will cost $12.99 a month once the Disney-centric service launches in November. | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Disney is aggressively crafting the service to be an end-all, be-all for streaming subscribers. The Walt Disney Company is serious about streaming. And during Continue Reading
The Hunt was pulled off the release calendar by Universal after backlash — and tweets from the president. | Universal Pictures The movie industry has tried for a century to keep the government out of the box office. Less than two months before The Hunt’s scheduled late-September release, Universal Pictures Continue Reading
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