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3 weeks ago | 
vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi |Kathryn Vanarendonk |Joe Reid |Katie Heaney
When The Last of Us came out for the PlayStation 3 in 2013, critics and gamers alike hailed it as a new achievement for video games as a medium, praising not just the gameplay but its complex story that was closer to what you might expect from prestige TV than most games at the time. Now, a decade later, Chernobyl showrunner Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, creator of the game, have closed the loop, turning the game into a series for HBO.
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2 months ago | 
vulture.com | Nate Jones |Joe Reid
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. If you think about it, The White Lotus is the Anora of TV, and Severance is The Brutalist. Let us explain. As the 2025 Oscars fade into the rearview, my time as your Gold Rush author is coming to an end.
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2 months ago | 
vulture.com | Nate Jones |Joe Reid
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. At Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Best Actor race that felt like Adrien Brody’s to lose (even Kieran Culkin thought so!) got shaken up by a 29-year-old College GameDay analyst in a leather suit.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Nate Jones |Joe Reid
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. As Oscar pundits, we try to be fair to everyone, but we know who we’re rooting for — and also, who we aren’t. As Oscar pundits, we have always preferred to observe the awards race rather than try to influence it.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Joe Reid
Lala and Alan’s skirts are somehow not the most significant cages to appear in this episode. Warning: Spoilers ahead for the firsttwo episodes of season three of The Traitors, now available on Peacock. The Traitors U.S. returns for its third season somehow even more packed with big-personality reality-TV all-stars than it was the last time, and in the first three episodes, these players hit the ground running — or, in the case of the first-episode challenge, rowing.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Joe Reid
I’m going to be frank right up top: Landman is none of my business. The Television Academy seems to have an allergy to Taylor Sheridan, and so I’ve been able to limit my exposure to his prolific output to my colleague Kathryn’s coverag of it. But now I’m seeing clips of his newest show all over social media and hearing them infest the sports podcasts I listen to while I worry about the Bills’ chances in the NFL playoffs.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Joe Reid
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was a bunch of corrupt glad-handers who were elevated to a pedestal far higher than they deserved because Dick Clark Productions put on a hell of an entertaining TV show that became the most visible pit stop on the road to the Oscar. There is no reason the industry should have put up with their bullshit for as long as it did.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Joe Reid
In 2004, six movies starring Jude Law came out in a three-month span, turning him into unfair shorthand for Hollywood’s failure to launch new stars. “Who is Jude Law?!” Asked by Chris Rock during his opening monologue at the 2005 Academy Awards, the question was both rhetorical and an accusation. It came after a three-month stretch at the end of 2004 when Law appeared in six movies, a gaudy statistic that rose closer to infamy every time one of those projects flopped.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Joe Reid
Every one of them is liable to knock your shoulders back. For a person who loves movies, there are few things more satisfying than a performance that really takes you by surprise. Maybe it’s an actor or actress you’d previously dismissed, surpassing what had once seemed like their limitations. Maybe it’s a veteran movie star rediscovering their fastball. Maybe it’s someone completely new to you announcing their presence in spectacular fashion.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Joe Reid
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. This is the latest edition of the Movies Fantasy League newsletter. The drafting window for this season has closed, but you can still sign up to get the newsletter, which provides a weekly recap of box-office performance, awards nominations, and critical chatter on all the buzziest movies.
