Roxana Hadadi

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Articles

Jude Law’s Mustache Is the Real Star of The Order

6 days ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

The actor’s facial hair smears blood, soaks up beer, absorbs cigarette smoke, and tells viewers everything they need to know about his character. Spoilers follow for The Order, now streaming on Hulu. Just like a movie is more than its plot, a perfect performance is more than line deliveries.
‘Poker Face’ Season 2 Is a Stacked Deck

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Poker Face transforms Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) from active participant to audience surrogate, sliding her into the role of easy-breezy observer to chaos. “Maybe my normal is just a little bit weird,” Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale says deep into the second season of Poker Face.
‘Andor’s Ghorman Massacre and ‘Genocide’ Speech, Explained

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

The Empire isn’t happy with just widespread support for its misdeeds. It wants annihilation, and the Ghor’s refusal to bow to that bloodlust is what makes this arc such an agonizing, moving watch. Spoilers follow for the first and second seasons of Andor, through season two’s ninth episode “Welcome to the Rebellion,” which premiered on Disney+ on May 6.
Alexander Siddig Answers Every Question We Have About Kingdom of Heaven

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

“It was really important to me that this character was the window into the soul of the Arab world.” In Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom’s Balian, a blacksmith-turned-Crusader-turned-baron, undergoes his “Are we the baddies?” realization almost immediately after meeting the first of the Muslims he’s meant to kill in this religious war.
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Always Forgives: Ending Review

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

They were selfish and megalomaniacal idiots, but they were our selfish and megalomaniacal idiots, Spoilers follow for all four seasons of The Righteous Gemstones, including series finale “That Man of God May Be Complete,” which premiered on HBO on May 4.
A Closing Prayer With ‘The Righteous Gemstone’ Siblings

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

“Maybe it’s nature that as people, we’re all sickos, and when you hear that a show’s ending, your initial reaction is, ‘Who’s going to die?’” Spoilers follow for The Righteous Gemstones through series finale “That Man of God May Be Complete,” which premiered on HBO on May 4, 2025.
‘Andor’s Rhydo Speech Explains So Much About Saw Gerrera

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

As Andor season two explores the challenges of building a united coalition, it has leaned on Saw as an embodiment of how difficult it is to create consensus. Spoilers follow for the second season of Andor through its sixth episode, and the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We probably weren’t meant to love Saw Gerrera.
Gavin Rossdale Answers All Our Questions About Constantine

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

The Bush frontman on the devilish pleasures of flirting with Keanu Reeves. Cult classic Constantine is Keanu Reeves’s movie: The actor is swoopy-haired, curmudgeonly, and single-handedly makes smoking look cool in the 2005 adaptation of the Hellblazer comics. As occult expert and in-demand exorcist John Constantine, Reeves’s athletic grace and simmering fury at the world’s injustices give the supernatural neo-noir its emotional grounding.
Dark Winds Draws New Border Lines

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Dark Winds’s season-three finale finds Bernadette not just retreating to a place she knows and trusts, but also rejecting her previous belief that the U.S. government could provide the validity she craves. Spoilers follow for Dark Winds through third-season finale “Béésh Łį́į́ (Iron Horse),” which premiered on AMC on Sunday, April 27. In its third season, Dark Winds went bigger, both narratively and geographically.
Every Tom Hardy Movie Performance, Ranked

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

If there’s one thing this guy loves, it’s a weird little voice. There’s no such thing as a typical Tom Hardy performance. In the 24 years since his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, he’s settled into a set of quirks: You know Hardy’s going to do a freaky little voice, engage in some light homoerotic flirting, and walk around with a hint of imaginary lat syndrome.