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  1. role call
    Gugu Mbatha-Raw Answers Every Question We Have About Beyond the LightsThe star of the classic rom-dram recalls the pop-star training Gina Prince-Bythewood put her through and hanging off that Sofitel balcony at 4 a.m.
  2. role call
    Harold Perrineau Answers Every Question We Have About Romeo + JulietMercutio on the wild off-set nights with Leo, getting caught in a hurricane filming his death scene, and the movie’s second life as a cult classic.
  3. friday night movie club
    Leonardo DiCaprio Won’t Let Himself Be Hot Onscreen Without DyingI am here today to posit a theory about the Romeo + Juliet and Titanic actor’s storied career and his Fibonacci sequence of a face.
  4. dead wives club
    In Stunning Move, Christopher Nolan Allows a Wife to LiveBut not before [redacted: spoiler!] her first.
  5. i was born in the dark
    Wait, Kenneth Branagh’s Villain Made Some Points in TenetIn defense of the world-destroying plot enacted by Kenneth Branagh’s psychopathic Russian oligarch.
  6. q&a
    The Story of Lingua Franca, Isabel Sandoval’s Deeply Personal Indie RomanceThe writer-director-star explains how her third feature, about an undocumented Filipina transgender woman falling in uneasy love, came to be.
  7. know your rights
    Fiona Apple on the Election, What Scares Her, and Her Anti-ICE Short Film“We f- - -ing need to know our rights. Otherwise, we’re just all without protection. We need to protect ourselves and each other.”
  8. side hustles
    Which Erstwhile Disney Star Has the Better Utterly Random TV Show?Selena Gomez and Zac Efron both host series completely unrelated to their previous work. Why? We can’t answer that. But we can say who does it best.
  9. role call
    Holland Taylor Answers Every Question We Have About Legally BlondeThe actress on her iconic line, the joy of playing professional women, and why she’s typecast as elegant, hilarious, and a little bitchy.
  10. horny summer
    We Asked a Gyno About “WAP”Dr. Lauren Streicher weighs in on “macaroni in a pot,” touching that dangly thing that swings in the back of your throat, and more.
  11. role call
    Kate Maberly Answers Every Question We Have About 1993’s The Secret GardenThe actress remembers stalking Roger Deakins on set, squaring off with Maggie Smith, and receiving letters (still) from young fans of the dark film.
  12. vulture lists
    Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked by Whether I’d Risk My Life to See ThemWould I, like most of the women in Nolan’s movies, die for cinema?
  13. emmys 2020
    A Quick Chat with Paul Mescal About His Emmy Nom and His Shorts“They’re unfortunately the standard short length in football.”
  14. folklore
    Taylor Swift’s Freaky folklore Movie Mood BoardLike all of us, Swift has been watching too much Criterion Channel during quarantine, apparently interspersed with some A24 horror.
  15. role call
    Mira Sorvino Answers Every Question We Have About Romy and MicheleThe actress talks taking an R-rated buddy comedy after winning an Oscar, what she changed about the script, and how she came up with that voice.
  16. role call
    Helen Hunt Answers Every Question We Have About TwisterThe actress on performing with Bill Paxton, what it was like to be temporarily blinded on set, and what her future with the franchise looks like.
  17. zac efron
    Toward a Working Theory of Zac Efron’s Down to Earth LooksOn his Netflix show, Zac expresses himself via beanies, beard styles, tight pants, and shark-themed bathing suits. But why?
  18. swedish angst
    An Ingmar Bergman Movie for Every Quarantine MoodLoneliness, dread, descents into madness. Whatever your disposition, our Swedish king of isolation has a film for you.
  19. quantum physics
    Cristin Milioti Explains the Time-Loop Science Behind Palm SpringsTurns out her character, Sarah, had a three-page speech on quantum physics that was cut from the final film.
  20. encounters
    Cristin Milioti, ForeverIn Palm Springs, she plays a furious depressive stuck in a time loop. It’s the rom-com role she was meant to play.
  21. profile
    Alia Shawkat, Through the Looking GlassWhat the Search Party actress has learned from her tabloid year.
  22. role call
    Patrick Fugit Answers Every Question We Have About Almost FamousFugit tells us about his crush on Kate Hudson, the legendary cast parties, and Bijou Phillips’s attempts to “corrupt” him.
  23. friday night movie club
    The Bittersweet Experience of Watching Almost Famous 20 Years OnThe movie is, by Cameron Crowe’s own admission, based on actual things that happened to him. Two decades later, it feels like his biggest fantasy.
  24. remember that time
    Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins Break Down Private Life’s ‘Vagina-Vagina’ SceneThis one goes out to all the women sitting absolutely pantsless in front of their screens right now.
  25. backstories
    Cameron Crowe Is Finally Ready to Tell Us Vanilla Sky’s SecretsThe director reflects on his famously divisive sci-fi thriller, which envisioned an empty, virtual city long before our current predicament.
  26. coronavirus
    Zoey Deutch’s Quarantine Hobbies: Recovering, Cooking, Crying Over ShallotsThe Politician and Buffaloed actress contracted COVID-19 before shutdown. That doesn’t mean she missed the internet’s latest food drama.
  27. crystal balls
    Mary-Kate Olsen Will Date Cara Delevingne: A Mystical PredictionHear us out.
  28. cabin fever
    Mandy Patinkin Contemplates Mortality and GIFs From Inside His CabinThese videos have been elevated to meta commentary.
  29. role call
    Vivica A. Fox Answers Every Question We Have About Set It OffThe actress talks ad-libbing on the roof, almost losing her role to Rosie Perez, and how Will Smith helped her prepare for her audition.
  30. backstories
    How Normal People Does Sex So GoodThe making of Connell and Marianne’s genuinely hot (but never pornographic) sex scenes.
  31. role call
    Minnie Driver Answers Every Question We Have About Return to MeAnd getting “pantsdrunk” on Instagram, bad celebrity behavior in quarantine, and the origins of her infamously raunchy Good Will Hunting joke.
  32. a long talk
    Not So Normal AnymorePaul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are the heart of Normal People’s sexy, angsty romance. And now they’re famous.
  33. the last dance
    The Only Good Look Is Michael Jordan’s ’90s Practice UniformThe Last Dance has entirely changed my quarantine wardrobe.
  34. role call
    Kate Beckinsale Answers Every Question We Have About SerendipityAnd talks Instagram humor, John Cusack’s lack of skating skills, and the unlikely male Serendipity fans who still approach her today.
  35. a long talk
    Allow Fiona Apple to Reintroduce Herself“Nowadays, I try to remember who I was before all this started.”
  36. as told to
    The Story Behind Every Track on Fetch the Bolt CuttersFiona Apple reached into the past to confront her rapist, middle-school bullies, and herself.
  37. anonymous in hollywood
    I’m a Famous Actor and I Think It’s Disgusting We Can Get Tested for COVID-19“Here I am, able to get a test because I have a doctor who has one, and I feel a lot of shame about that.”
  38. larry you're a jew again
    How to Have a Very Uncut Gems PassoverThis year, we should all lean deeply into crazy and emulate our modern Jewish icons of drama and anxiety: the Ratners.
  39. profile
    Her Dark MaterialsWith Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman takes on the “bureaucratic odyssey” of getting an abortion in the U.S.
  40. love in the time of corona
    A Coronavirus Diagnosis Won’t Stop Chloe Fineman’s InstagramThe SNL star recaps her fake Instagram wedding, which she pulled off while sick.
  41. dance dance revolution
    Crying and Twerking Through the Apocalypse With The OA’s Ryan HeffingtonHeffington is starting a revolution from his living room: cathartic Instagram dance classes, attended by upward of 6,000 strangers.
  42. friday night movie club
    Moonstruck Is the Morbid Spaghetti Rom-Com We All Need Right NowHere are five reasons you should all watch Moonstruck with me in these strange, semi-apocalyptic times.
  43. hoaxes
    Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke on Being the First Celebrity Coronavirus HoaxThe long-time couple talk about where they were when they first heard the rumor, how they’re quarantining, and laughing off years of unhinged gossip.
  44. it's like inevitable
    Are the Celebrities Okay?An investigation into the bonkers — and often wonderful — world of celebrity quarantine Instagram.
  45. it's cinema
    The Women of Portrait of a Lady on Fire Believe Their Movie Can Save the WorldDirector Céline Sciamma and stars Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant debate the power of a lesbian period drama.
  46. role call
    Rosanna Arquette Answers Every Question We Have About Desperately Seeking SusanThe actress talks falling in love with Madonna, where that jacket is now, and what it feels like to know Harvey Weinstein is behind bars.
  47. the simulation
    I Can’t See My Family Right Now, So I Rebuilt Them As SimsAs the world around me falls to shit, what I really want is simulated quotidian life.
  48. vulture recommends
    You Too Can Find Love While Social DistancingTake it from these 13 rom-coms, whose objectively sterile meet-cutes are inspiring.
  49. quarantunes
    Ariana Grande Invented Staying HomeShe has been wearing a sweatshirt for years, exclusively owns beanbag chairs, and her lyrics have long urged us to stay indoors.
  50. quarantine inspo
    Let Nancy Meyers Inspire You to Self-QuarantineSome social-distance-spo from Nancy Meyers: Stay home, make a chocolate croissant, and put it under your face like a beard.
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