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  1. the file
    Who Is Ariana Grande, Really? A Quick Catch-up.In less than six years, she has become one of the most successful pop artists of all time. Who is she?
  2. profile
    Penny Lane Wants You to Hail Satan?Lane’s breakout film is about the misunderstood world of Satanism. In a Halloween store in New York, we discuss how the Satanic Temple got serious.
  3. wild nights with emily
    Behind the New, Gloriously Queer Emily Dickinson MovieIn Wild Nights With Emily, the poet’s madly in love with her brother’s wife. The director says it’s the first and only time we’ve seen the real Emily.
  4. behind the scenes
    Brad Pitt, Baby Shampoo, a Unitard: The Story Behind That Meet Joe Black SceneWe talk to the men responsible for the scene in which Brad Pitt is violently hit by two cars at once.
  5. you know nothing
    The Game of Thrones Premiere Was Like The Bachelor But With Low-key IncestDany’s large adult dragon sons test Jon Snow, the Night King just wants to get everybody to the polls, and everyone has way too much free time.
  6. Watch People Try to Recap 7 Seasons of Game of Thrones“Jon Snow died? Or, like, maybe he died but we weren’t sure?”
  7. wwjd
    11 Lingering Questions About the Rooney Mara–Joaquin Phoenix Film Mary MagdaleneLet’s all smoke a quick cigarette underneath Jesus’s crucified body and talk about the long-delayed Rooney Mara–Joaquin Phoenix film.
  8. vulture lists
    The 50 Most Game of Thrones-y Names on Game of ThronesFrom Lommy Greenhands to Joffrey Baratheon, we rank the most insane names to ever be uttered aloud.
  9. cryface
    A Celebration of Elisabeth Moss’s Runny MascaraElisabeth Moss does her best work when she is utterly annihilating her eye makeup.
  10. party report
    Jodie Comer Loves Being Your Queer, Murder-y Girlfriend“The fact that she’s unapologetically herself and free with her sexuality — her sexuality was something I never questioned and always celebrated.”
  13. panini face
    Panini Beards and Jesus Waves: The Stories Behind The Beach Bum’s Deranged Hair“We’d pop the wig on Matthew, and he really just became this character. It was a crazy thing. We all called him Moondog. He was just another person.”
  14. fashion du jour
    How The OA: Part II Turned Brit Marling into a Glam Russian HeiressWe talked to the stylists who turned low-key Prairie Johnson into high-key Nina Azarova.
  15. spoilers
    24 Very Important Questions About The OA: Part IIWhat happens at the very end of the season? Who is “Brit Marling,” really? And what’s with the horny octopus?
  16. Women React to the 90-Second Orgasm in Long ShotThis seems more than a little unlikely.
  17. party report
    Tavi Gevinson Explains Her Ivanka Trump and Elizabeth Holmes Impressions“I found it delightfully sinister.”
  18. party report
    Midsommar Will Be ‘a Wizard of Oz for Perverts,’ Says Director Ari Aster“It’s less overtly a horror movie, but it’s still working in that same space. It’s very macabre. But people shouldn’t go in expecting Hereditary.”
  19. burning questions
    A Conversation With a Quantum Physicist About The OA: Part IICould we really hop between multiple dimensions using the power of dance? Can trees really talk? Could I live in a mirror?
  20. party report
    Here Is a Photo of Glenn Close Dressed As a Sheep at Paul Schrader’s Christmas“She just showed up dressed as a sheep.”
  21. chat room
    Armie Hammer Thinks Call Me by Your Name 2 Might ‘Set Us Up for Disappointment’“I’m not sure that it was ever really definitely going to happen. People just seemed so excited about it that we were like, ‘Oh, yeah, fuck it!’”
  22. party report
    Keira Knightley Agrees the Atonement Bookshelf Sex Scene Was Her Best EverIt’s all about choreography.
  25. deep questions
    Why Are There So Many Movies About Horny, Insane Dancers Killing Each Other?We talk to real dancers about whether or not they are all just lusty, deranged murderers.
  26. ariana grande
    Does Ariana Grande Know Something About NASA That We Don’t? An InvestigationIn “NASA,” Ariana suggests that the universe is going to implode unless we halt our space program.
  27. sundance 2019
    15 Movies We Loved at SundanceIncluding The Souvenir, The Farewell, We Are Little Zombies, and Animals.
  28. sundance 2019
    Alia Shawkat’s Quiet Rebellion“I used to have questions about what it meant to be desirable, to be feminine, to be successful … Now, I’m more comfortable being myself.”
  29. sundance 2019
    Getting Deep With Jenny Slate at SundanceThe actor, comedian, and writer on her new film, The Sunlit Night, and her year of radical change.
  30. sundance 2019
    Dr. Ruth, America’s Sex Therapist, Is Gunning for an OscarAsk Dr. Ruth, which premiered at Sundance, is a delightful, emotional portrait of a Holocaust survivor who went on to change America’s sex lives.
  31. sundance 2019
    Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore on Their ‘Raw’ After the Wedding Scene“It was a little bit scary, and I think everyone was scared, especially the producers.”
  32. sundance 2019
    The Babadook’s Director Has Made Another Movie About the Power of Female RageWe talk to Jennifer Kent about her harrowing new film The Nightingale, which premieres at Sundance today.
  33. starstruck by the tools
    I’m Obsessed With This Show Where Celebrities Nervously Cook Elaborate DishesBon Appétit’s Back to Back Chef is the cathartic brain-death experience you’ve been searching for.
  34. whiskey in a teacup
    I Lived Like Reese Witherspoon for a Week and All I Got Was This HamA New York Jewess goes south for the holidays.
  37. christmas music
    Mariah Carey’s Christmas Album Is the Only Thing That Will Never SuckMerry Christmas is the gift that keeps on giving and takes nothing in return, except for $60 million in royalties.
  38. chat room
    Rachel Weisz: ‘When Women Are Together, There’s a Lot of Freedom’The star of The Favourite on choosing films with queer overtones and creating human pretzels with Emma Stone and Olivia Colman.
  39. vulture festival la
    Busy Philipps Wants to Win a GrammyFor her audiobook, This Will Only Hurt a Little.
  40. chat room
    Carey Mulligan: ‘I’m Always Being Asked Sh*tty Questions’The Wildlife star on a “terrifying” new role, opening up about her notoriously private life, and awful questions she’s gotten from men over the years.
  41. late capitalism
    Where Is My Sweatshirt of Ariana Grande Fingering the Earth?One writer’s account of being trapped inside a Kafka-esque capitalistic nightmare, with only Ariana Grande’s Official Store for company.
  42. chat room
    Mary Elizabeth Winstead Is Mad As HellWinstead talks All About Nina, learning to do stand-up comedy on the fly, and the Louis C.K. joke that got cut at the last minute.
  43. fall preview 2018
    Claire Foy on First Man, Anxiety, and Working With Damien ChazelleThe star of The Crown is in the midst of a professional stretch so frenetic it would probably send a lesser woman screaming into the night.
  44. vulture lists
    A Quest to Find the Greatest Movie Bath of All TimeWhat is the best cinematic bath ever? From A Nightmare on Elm Street to Pretty Woman, let’s figure it out.
  45. sorry to bother you
    The Sorry to Bother You Cast Dishes on Their Group TextsGIFs, memes, baby pics — and horse dicks.
  46. Toni Collette on Hereditary, the Wildest Movie of Her Career“I fucking love this movie, and I hate my agent for sending it.”
  49. Why Is ‘Meghan’ Markle Using a Fake Name?We investigate the future royal’s ultimate deception: telling everyone her name is “Meghan.”
  50. duck butter
    Alia Shawkat and Laia Costa on Duck Butter’s Sexy Queer Utopia“Miguel [Arteta] always said, ‘I want lesbians as far as the eye can see.’”
  51. Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody on Being Madly in Love for 40 YearsThe Homeland star and his actress-activist wife on their first kiss, making each other sob in public, and fighting about communism.
  52. I Ate and Drank Like Olivia Pope for a Week, and I Didn’t DieBut it was still a very bad idea.
  53. Lola Kirke, John Cho, and Aaron Katz on Punching Zoë Kravitz and Fame’s Pitfalls“Famous people will still check their tagged pictures on Instagram to make sure they look good.”
  54. We Asked a Gynecologist About That Ice-Cream Scene in Fifty Shades FreedHow will dairy affect Ana’s pH levels? And why is she using such old-timey birth control?
  55. Zazie Beetz on Fame’s Limitations: ‘The Version of Me on the Internet Isn’t Me’“All of who you are is never going to be accepted or captured.”
  56. Naomi Watts Does Her Best David Lynch Impression“Rip his balls off!”
  57. Reed Morano Says Peter Dinklage Would Be the Lead in Her Star Wars MovieEven though she claims that rumors of her piloting the Millennium Falcon are “just rumors.”
  58. Omari Hardwick on Why Black Actors Can’t Go Full Method: ‘I’ll Get in Trouble’“I don’t want to be pulled over while ‘driving while method.’”
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