Alissa Wilkinson
Reporter and film critic @voxdotcom | Associate professor (criticism, culture, and cinema studies) @thekingscollege | @NYFCC | “Joy is not made to be a crumb”
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This week, PJ looks into a theory circling the internet about who might be behind QAnon. The investigation takes him back to the beginning of the QAnon scam, and to the message board trolls who started it.
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Alissa Wilkinson
Recommending this @replyall episode, which is nominally about who Q actually is but, more usefully, provides a window into the fringe origins of something that’s swallowing whole parts of the country, including, probably, someone you love.
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How Cuties, a French movie on Netflix, became part of America’s culture war
A movie critiquing the sexualization of young girls is accused of doing the thing it criticizes. Here’s how the controversy started — and why it matters.
The ancient palindrome that explains Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
A puzzle dug up all over Europe holds the key to Tenet — and turns it into more than a movie.
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is here. It’s fine.
The spy thriller looks like it was very hard to make. But it falls a little flat.
The summer without blockbusters
What Hollywood’s big-budget mythmaking spectacles did for America, and why it’s all changing.
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Behold: my #longread on a summer without Hollywood blockbusters, nationalism, the Ring Cycle, the mythology of the heroic American maverick, and the world changing.
(Thanks to @alexrossmusic and Jim Hoberman for their help and insights.)
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Biden called Ella Baker a giant of the civil rights movement. Her life was extraordinary.
Baker believed in the power of grassroots activism, and she spent her life fighting injustice.
Episode 7: An Extra or a Principal
Listen now (61 min) | Details, credits, errata: Episode 7, An Extra or a Principal, is written by Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson, produced by Sam and distributed by Alissa, with our very special guest, A.O. Scott—Tony, to his friends. Tony is the...
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Sam (@samthielman) and Tony (@aoscott) and I got to talk about HAIL CAESAR (which is on Netflix) for a while, and nerd out about dialectical materialism and religion and the Coens (we did not rank their movies I promise) on this week’s @YAMMPOD
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How Netflix’s new mafia documentary failed
Fear City takes everything at face value, and the results are tedious and vapid.
How the coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries
Most recently, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was delayed indefinitely.
How to Extract a Mother’s Rogan Josh Recipe Over Zoom
Standing in her kitchen in Michigan, my mother finally walked me through the recipe, peering into the screen as I held it above the pot of sputtering oil, so that she could sign off on the exact shade of red.
We got comfortable with Hamilton. The new film reminds us how risky it is.
Now streaming on Disney+, the movie underlines what makes the Broadway musical radical.
Book of Job Project at Exodus
A dramatic reading of The Book of Job as a catalyst for discussion about injustice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sunk Trump Rally
Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla.?
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Considering requiring all of next year’s postmodernism class term papers to be an intricate unpacking of this event
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Loving is a stirring romance with a Supreme Court case thrown in
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga play the couple at the center of the ruling that legalized interracial marriage across America.
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LOVING V VIRGINIA was decided on this day 53 years ago, effectively striking down state laws that banned interracial marriage.
If you're unfamiliar, you can watch a good movie
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How Elisabeth Moss and director Josephine Decker brought Shirley Jackson to life
They didn’t want to craft a "relatable" character.
11 movies that confront American racism
Films that challenge and rewire the imagination.
9 movies and shows that explain how America’s justice system got this way
The US’s system of policing, criminal justice, and incarceration didn’t just come from nowhere. And to change it, we have to understand it.
The Vast of Night is an exquisite indie sci-fi drama with Twilight Zone vibes
It’s a small film, but it has colossal ambitions.
The Man Who Discovered ‘Culture Wars’
James Davison Hunter coined the phrase in 1991, a year ahead of Pat Buchanan. Now he reflects on how the struggle has evolved over three decades.
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
A four-part strategy of hygiene, distancing, screening, and masks will not return us to normal life. But, when signs indicate that the virus is under control, it could get people out of their homes and moving again.
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Unsurprisingly, the most clear and engaging (and encouraging) thing I’ve read in weeks about how to stop the spread and get us back on our feet is by Atul Gawande. I urge you to read to the end.
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