
Shirley Li
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic staff writer. Zach Woods EGOT campaign manager. Messy tweeter. @EW alum. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Shirley Li
Modern dating, experts have lamented, has become a numbers game; the more matches you make, the more likely you are to land a mate. But in the new film Materialists, the only number that really matters is a suitor’s net worth. Take Harry (played by Pedro Pascal), for example: He’s a partner in a private-equity firm and the owner of a $12 million penthouse apartment in Manhattan.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Shirley Li
Of Stephen King’s two dozen novellas, The Life of Chuck is among the odder choices to make into a movie. The titular protagonist is an unexceptional accountant. His tale is told backwards, in loosely connected vignettes. And he barely appears in the first act, which follows a teacher making peace with what seems to be the end of the world.
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3 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Shirley Li
Every major movie franchise has boxes to check. In Jurassic Park, dinosaurs must run amok; in Planet of the Apes, apes have to meditate on intelligence; in The Fast and the Furious, Vin Diesel absolutely has to evangelize the benefits of family, Corona beers, and tricked-out cars. But Mission: Impossible took four films to fully establish its franchise must-have: the ever more blurred lines between its death-defying, stunt-loving star, Tom Cruise, and the superspy he plays.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Shirley Li
Every major movie franchise has boxes to check. In Jurassic Park, dinosaurs must run amok; in Planet of the Apes, apes have to meditate on intelligence; in The Fast and the Furious, Vin Diesel absolutely has to evangelize the benefits of family, Corona beers, and tricked-out cars. But Mission: Impossible took four films to fully establish its franchise must-have: the ever more blurred lines between its death-defying, stunt-loving star, Tom Cruise, and the superspy he plays.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Shirley Li
Men will literally, as the meme goes, do anything to avoid therapy. They’ll start wars. They’ll become obsessed with the Roman empire. They’ll join more improv teams than they could possibly need. The meme captures the exaggerated nature of the “male-loneliness epidemic” narrative: Despite a recent study finding that American men and women are roughly equally lonely, the idea that men are especially unable to cope with social isolation persists.
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