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Cannes 2017: All Hail the Super-Pig of Bong Joon-ho’s Okja

In the run-up to this year’s festival, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Selection lineup. Now that people have seen it, Okja has turned out to be…one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Selection lineup. What is it, exactly? A children’s...
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Trey Edward Shults’s It Comes at Night Is a Horror Triumph

A red door is, biblically speaking, a sign of protection, an echo of the blood rubbed on posts and lintels during Passover to keep God from smiting you and your home. But like most things the Bible insists are positive, the red door also comes with an undercurrent of horror...
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Spontaneity Was Key for The Collaboration Between Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Batmanglij

Collaborations between established musicians always have the possibility of becoming something beautiful (see: the Postal Service) or something lackluster (see: Zwan). When Walkmen vocalist Hamilton Leithauser and Vampire Weekend multi-instrumentalist and producer Rostam Batmanglij came together for a record that proved to be a departure for them both, the result...
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Chuck Wepner, the Inspiration for Rocky, Gets His Movie Moment

Heavyweight almost-champ Chuck Wepner was a character long before he inspired Sylvester Stallone to pen Rocky. But Wepner is no Rocky Balboa. Sure, he comes from a working-class town (Bayonne, New Jersey), and when he boxed, he took a good punch, bled like a hemophiliac and dreamed of taking home...