Photograph: Ryan Waniata Thanks to excellent picture processing, details pop, from crystalline 4K Blu-rays to 1080p and even 720p upscaling. Only the fuzziest SD images fail to impress, sometimes coming through a little blocky, but that’s true of pretty much any 4K TV. The only minor chinks in the armor I noticed over several days […]
The Los Angeles-based photographer Chantal Anderson was backstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, where she photographed Golden Globes winners for The Times. Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Demi Moore, “The Substance” “I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but […]
The bar wasn’t set very high for the Golden Globes on Sunday night. After last year’s host, Jo Koy, memorably bombed, the emcee this year, Nikki Glaser, could hardly do worse. But she wasn’t content to merely do better. After workshopping her opening monologue in dozens of club appearances over the holidays, she killed when […]
Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and a longtime favorite of children and adults, died on Dec. 25 in Los Angeles. She was 81. Her death was confirmed by her daughter Holly […]
From the very first word of the show—Tom Hanks‘ distinguished “Hi”—the studio audience was all in on Saturday Night Live‘s Christmas episode. There was no stodgy political cold open for us to suffer through this week before Christmas, not when host Martin Short was being ushered into the five-timers club. Hanks was quickly joined by […]
Earlier this week, feeling somewhat inundated with memes and social media posts about Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, I emailed Simone Driessen. She’s a professor of media and popular culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and often has smart insights on the ways online commentary and real-world issues intersect. Mostly, […]
Netflix’s ambitious new adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude builds on what the revered 1967 novel has delivered to readers for more than 50 years: a grand opera of the alluring, violent history of Latin America. The region has long been shrouded in myth, which is what inspired author Gabriel García Márquez. Christopher Columbus’s […]
The same goes for its off-axis viewing, which takes a step back from last year’s QN90C due to Samsung’s choice to once again change LCD panel types year-over-year. It’s far from the worst I’ve tested this year, and better than Sony’s Bravia 7 (7/10, WIRED Recommends), staying mostly accurate from a moderate angle. You may […]
That’s all, folks. On the final episode of Still Watching, Vanity Fair’s TV recap podcast, hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy share their favorite series finales of all time during one last rousing roundtable discussion. Lawson’s choice for best series finale of all time? HBO’s Six Feet Under. On the final episode of […]
Bravo announced that the hit reality series has been renewed for a 12th season—but with an all-new cast.
