Five Free Movies to Stream Now

Maybe Big Tech hasn’t delivered on its disruptive promise for movies after all: We’ve cut our cable cords for price and convenience only to pay just as much (if not more) to jump through hoops and across platforms, with diminishing returns in quality. But there’s always good work being made. This new column, then, is … Read more

I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back

Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly and elegant: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, crisply punctuated, with syllables cut to measure. But like a great many sonnets — most famously the 154 written by William Shakespeare … Read more

Watch Austin Butler in Battle in ‘Dune: Part Two’

“Hello. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Part Two’.” [TENSE MUSIC] “So this scene happens exactly after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, where we saw him as a psychopath. And here, we bring this character into his political environment, where it would be a strange celebration of its birthday, where in Harkonnen culture, the … Read more

‘Dune: Part Two’ | Anatomy of a Scene

“Hello. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Part Two’.” [TENSE MUSIC] “So this scene happens exactly after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, where we saw him as a psychopath. And here, we bring this character into his political environment, where it would be a strange celebration of its birthday, where in Harkonnen culture, the … Read more

Stephen Colbert Crowns Trump the Troll King

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. King of the Road On Wednesday, President Donald Trump pre-emptively announced on social media that New York City’s congestion … Read more

7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Rural life anchors a number of our recommended titles this week, from Charlotte Wood’s lovely novel set at a remote Australian convent to Bob Johnson’s Indiana short stories, and from Lyndal Roper’s history of peasant revolution to Callan Wink’s novel of brothers scratching for sustenance in rural Montana. Elsewhere, we also recommend a biography of … Read more