Plastic Beauty Review: Who Profits From a New Face?
Yoshiko Tanaka wants to become a voice actor, yet her appearance keeps costing her opportunities. At a party for celebrity...
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Iggy Pop, the New York Dolls and the Ramones are present in Mark Sloper’s account of punk’s beginnings. Their music and attitudes reached Britain before a shop on London’s King’s Road became the film’s main address. That movement across the Atlantic matters: it keeps the story from treating British punk as an invention that appeared fully formed in 1976. It also makes the film’s narrowing focus noticeable. Once Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s SEX takes over the narrative, other places and influences remain in view chiefly as routes into London. The shop gives Sloper something unusually concrete to work with....

Yoshiko Tanaka wants to become a voice actor, yet her appearance keeps costing her opportunities. At a party for celebrity cosmetic surgeon Rin Tohyama, she spots a performer celebrated for her natural beauty among the clinic’s clients. Plastic Beauty could play that discovery as a simple exposé. Instead, it exposes a hiring culture that prizes a particular face even when the job depends on a voice. The clinic sells Yoshiko a way to meet that demand. Her friend Hina tries to reassure her, but reassurance cannot offer her the auditions she has lost. Yoshiko struggles to pay for surgery and...

“I’d feel like shit picking Kim,” Madeline Kostopulos says while discussing the castle’s first murder. Kriste Lewis takes that ordinary expression of sympathy to the roundtable as “I feel bad picking Kim.” A conditional thought has lost its condition, and suddenly Madeline is defending herself against something she never said. The first two episodes of The Traitors: New Blood understand how much television can fit inside that tiny change of wording. The audience heard the original. The players have a vote. Victor Vollbrechthausen has a different problem. He takes an immunity shield at the first opportunity, then finds himself explaining...

The people making the decisions in Patrick Bresnan’s First They Came for My College usually appear at a greater distance. In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed a conservative majority to New College of Florida’s board of trustees. President Patricia Okker was removed, and Richard Corcoran took her place. New trustee Christopher Rufo appears in board meeting footage, at times attending virtually. Bresnan’s movement between those meetings and student spaces gives the political language a physical destination. A vote or appointment reaches a classroom, a student organization, a faculty member deciding how long she can continue her work. The conversations...

The vampires of Vampire: The Masquerade spend a great deal of energy keeping humanity ignorant. Cradlebridge has passed that point. Its undead carry identification, have political representation, and can obtain diluted blood from a clinic. They still enforce their own territorial rules: hunt in another faction’s district and an enforcer may come looking for you. Nighthawks keeps the familiar vampire power struggles, then asks how they function when the rest of the city knows who is involved. That question grows with the player’s place in Cradlebridge. The first act casts your newly turned vampire in a search for a traitor....

Mr Mungai has spent years gathering evidence that his family’s land was taken. He still has to stand outside Kenya’s National Land Commission and ask for the right to call it home. His persistence gives Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu’s documentary its most painful measure of time: an injustice can pass from one generation to the next while the person seeking redress grows older in front of it. Mungai is a pastor, and his refusal to surrender the claim has the endurance of faith. The film lets us feel how much that endurance costs. His son Njenga describes a...
Yoshiko Tanaka wants to become a voice actor, yet her appearance keeps costing her opportunities. At a party for celebrity...
Read moreDetails“I’d feel like shit picking Kim,” Madeline Kostopulos says while discussing the castle’s first murder. Kriste Lewis takes that ordinary...
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Read moreDetailsEpisode three interrupts Route 187’s investigation of a fatal bus attack with an eviction. Renee comes home to find her...
Read moreDetailsKenji Noda’s team has a plan for the creature resting in the mountains. They have aircraft, weapons, and enough experience...
Read moreDetailsJames Buckley and Joe Thomas, the stars of The Inbetweeners, are reuniting for a Channel 4 documentary that tackles the show's favorite subject from the other side: what adulthood looks like once the sixth-form years are long gone. The working title is Joe and James: Boys to Men. The two...
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Read moreIggy Pop, the New York Dolls and the Ramones are present in Mark Sloper’s account of punk’s beginnings. Their music and attitudes reached Britain before a shop on London’s King’s...
Yoshiko Tanaka wants to become a voice actor, yet her appearance keeps costing her opportunities. At a party for celebrity cosmetic surgeon Rin Tohyama, she spots a performer celebrated for...
“I’d feel like shit picking Kim,” Madeline Kostopulos says while discussing the castle’s first murder. Kriste Lewis takes that ordinary expression of sympathy to the roundtable as “I feel bad...
The people making the decisions in Patrick Bresnan’s First They Came for My College usually appear at a greater distance. In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed a conservative majority...
The vampires of Vampire: The Masquerade spend a great deal of energy keeping humanity ignorant. Cradlebridge has passed that point. Its undead carry identification, have political representation, and can obtain...
James Buckley and Joe Thomas, the stars of The Inbetweeners, are reuniting for a Channel 4 documentary that tackles the show's favorite subject from the other side: what adulthood looks...
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Rachel Weisz has been photographed back in costume as Evelyn O'Connell on the London set of the fourth Mummy film, her first appearance in the role since 2001's The Mummy...
Mr Mungai has spent years gathering evidence that his family’s land was taken. He still has to stand outside Kenya’s National Land Commission and ask for the right to call...
Jackie Price turns down an extra two million dollars for a painting because the prospective buyer wipes his nose with his hand. She has watched him from another room, unseen,...
The vampires of Vampire: The Masquerade spend a great deal of energy keeping humanity ignorant. Cradlebridge has passed that point....
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