2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (72+ words) Watch New Yorker films short-listed for the 2026 Academy Awards. What happens when a bad-tempered, distractible doofus runs an empire? After a London teen mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his "parents discovered that he'd been posing as an oligarch's son. The…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (68+ words) I wouldn't have guessed a star," Hamill said. The lonely fate of Typhoid Mary. The women Edmund White dated as he tried to go straight. Should we expect more from fathers? The heiress who probably spent more on clothing and…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1066+ words) Kyle Chayka writes about the second and final season of "Andor," the "Star Wars" spinoff miniseries streaming on Disney+. "Andor" has extremely elaborate set dressing. A viewer could easily get lost in the various planet names, revolutionary factions, alien races,…...