Whether it’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Fargo, Wild Rose, or The Lost Daughter, the actress frequently gives the best performance in any project she’s in. In her next film, A24’s Men from writer and director Alex Garland, she plays… well, I’m not sure who she plays. I’m not sure of anything about the film because there’s no plot description, but based on the cryptic trailer above, it apparently involves a creepy tunnel, the woods, a rock with a face on it, apples falling from a tree, screaming, and men being bad.
Buckley is joined by Rory Kinnear and Paapa Essiedu (who played Kwame on I May Destroy You), while the film’s cinematography was handled by Rob Hardy, who previously worked with Garland on Ex Machina, Annihilation, and the FX series Devs. A24 also released a poster for Men. The tagline: “What Haunts You Will Find You.”
Teaser trailer tomorrow for Alex Garland’s #Men, starring THE Jessie Buckley—now an Academy Award nominee! pic.twitter.com/p1BMUUXpwE
Buckley and co-star Olivia Colman were nominated for playing the same character in The Lost Daughter, one of only a few times that’s happened in Oscar history. Other instances include Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart as Rose in Titanic, and Winslet again and Judi Dench as novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris. None of them won, but maybe Buckley will. We’ll find out on Sunday, March 27.
Where will Reno 911! land? No one knows. The sky is the limit for Lieutenant Dangle! I’m only kidding there, and hopefully, Roku will be the show’s final (and ongoing) stop. As fans will recall, Comedy Central show got revived by Quibi, which burned bright for about 10 seconds before swiftly going down like a flaming asteroid. Roku stepped up to rescue the beloved cult series with new episodes and specials, including the “Hunt For QAnon” special that brought up Jeffrey Epstein and a whole host of right-wing shenanigans. Now, it’s time to tackle police reform in the Reno 911! way. Hold onto your goofin’ new boots.
In this special, guest stars including Jamie Lee Curtis and Weird Al Yankovic and George Lopez will help Reno’s finest tackle a world where cops aren’t terribly fondly regarded, but they still want to have a good time. And they wanna focus on the important things like whether Amazon delivered the Highlights magazine or not. Occasionally lightening up (and enjoying some harmless mayhem) is good for the soul, man:
It’s 2022. Crime is on the rise, but one city is never short on heroes. Reno’s finest are back and this time they’re facing their biggest challenge yet –they’ve been defunded! No budget. No back-up. No problem for your favorite top cops as they return along with a squad room full of guest stars for a season low on resources and high on chaos.
‘Reno 911!’ officially arrives on Roku with the ‘Defunded’ special on Feb. 25.
Ordering a bourbon cocktail at a bar generally goes one of two ways. Either you’ll order a standard drink and it’ll be made with the house bourbon and that’ll be that. Or, you’ll order off the cocktail menu and find a special, high-end, or top-shelf bourbon that the bar chef has decided works perfectly in that particular cocktail. Even then, it’s not always as simple as “Eagle Rare works for everything” either (no matter how much the good people at Buffalo Trace want that to be true).
We think there’s a good middle ground here. The key to getting the drink you want is knowing which top-shelf bourbons to put in your standard cocktails. A lot of this comes down to what you know you like. But you have to get there first and that’s where we come in to offer a guiding light.
To find out which “top shelf” bourbons are being used in cocktails, we asked a handful of our favorite bartenders to tell us the slightly more expensive (and a lot more expensive) bourbons they’re using. Hopefully, this will help you make a more informed decision the next time you’re in a bar and faced with a wall of bourbon bottles.
Eagle Rare 10
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Kevin Smith, food and beverage manager at The Vinoy Renaissance in St. Petersburg, Florida
Eagle Rare is my go-to bourbon for top-shelf cocktails. It’s a complex bourbon with an herbal aroma and a velvety smooth bold taste. Plus, it has hints of vanilla, caramel, and almond that add a sweet lingering finish to a classic bourbon cocktail.
One of my favorites is Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon. Like regular Woodford Reserve, it is very smooth and super flavorful but has just a bit more. Flavors of vanilla, oak, and cinnamon make it one of my favorite top-shelf bourbons.
Weller 12
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Alejandro Mendoza, restaurant and bar manager at Hotel SLO in San Luis Obispo, California
I don’t mix drinks with my top shelf unless the guest calls for it. But I love my Weller Line up. Weller 12 Year has a soft creamy start with a nice hint of oak and sweet spices, then finishes off with a long bite that keeps me wanting more.
If a guest wants to go beyond the basics for their bourbon cocktail, I’ll usually recommend something local. Law’s Cognac Finished Bourbon is excellent. Distilled in Denver, it’s spicy and powerful but softened with rich dried fruits, toasted oak, vanilla, and burnt citrus. Put it in an old fashioned and you’ll be sitting pretty.
Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch
Buffalo Trace
Josh Curtis, bar director at Malibu Beach Inn in Malibu, California
Colonel E.H. Taylor is one of the smoothest bourbons around without being too sweet and heads toward subtle spices. Obviously, you’d choose to drink this whiskey neat or on the rocks, but it can stand up well in any cocktail.
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Jim Beam
Christopher Devern, lead bartender of Red Owl Tavern in Philadelphia
Woodford Reserve is known for its special craft of 72 percent corn, 18 percent rye, and ten percent malted barley to create a flavorful bourbon. It’s impeccably smooth while still showcasing the earthy, smoky oak barrel flavor elements. We love using it to create a smoky Manhattan made with Pink House Alchemy’s smoldered bitters.
Bourbon, like Scotch whisky, has such a range of flavors and textures, and introducing people to different profiles is one of my favorite things to do. Depending on the person and the cocktail request, I love sending people to brands like Angel’s Envy as higher-tier options. It represents a slightly more sophisticated profile of vanilla, spice, and sweetness that can really make a cocktail sing, especially Angel’s Envy with its sweetness thanks to its port cask maturation.
With all eyes on Brooklyn and Philadelphia as the NBA trade deadline approaches, the most common rumblings include a potential trade featuring Ben Simmons to Brooklyn and James Harden to Philadelphia. For months, this has been a popular rumor but, in recent days, things have escalated according to reports. Both players are under contract for very large sums, making it easier to match salary in a deal. However, another angle is also in play in that Harden can become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, creating flexibility to force his way to a preferred destination.
At present, the 76ers have more than $130 million in guaranteed salaries on the books for the 2022-23 season, seemingly taking Philadelphia off the table to sign Harden outright. Kyle Neubeck of PhillyVoice brings an intriguing report, though, and he shines the light on a potential move to trade Tobias Harris, who is due $37.6 million next season, to make the math work.
The Sixers are sending a clear message: they view signing Harden outright as a real possibility. If the Sixers eventually need to move Tobias Harris in order to clear the cap space necessary to sign Harden in the summer, sources familiar with the situation say they have two potential suitors with cap space lined up who they could move Harris to if they need to clear the decks. The pick-collecting Thunder are an obvious team to watch. Whether you believe that’s a central part of their plan or a threat meant to bring down the Nets’ current ask, that’s the word that keeps slipping out.
Harris is a quality starter for the 76ers, though his contract is generally viewed as a negative value because of the $37.6 million for 2022-23 and a whopping $39.2 million for the 2023-24 season, all for a non-superstar player. There are teams, headlined by the Oklahoma City Thunder, who might take Harris for the right price, and Neubeck notes “two potential suitors,” bringing a mystery team into the mix.
It must be noted that it would be much easier, at least in some respects, for the Sixers to trade for Harden, rather than jumping through the hoops to create max cap space. A Simmons-Harden swap would likely include additional assets heading to Brooklyn from Philadelphia, but those assets might be less valuable than the capital needed to clear the decks by July. Still, the Nets have to agree to any deal if it happens before Thursday, and Brooklyn isn’t likely jumping up and down to help Philadelphia in the process.
Last fall, the entertainment world received the first preview of Jeen-Yuhs, the upcoming Netflix documentary that looks back on Kanye West’snear-20 year music career. It was a brief video of him and Mos Def rapping to their 2004 collaboration, “Two Words,” from the former’s debut album College Dropout. Since then, we’ve received two trailers from Jeen-Yuhs, which was made a reality thanks to directors Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah (aka Coodie And Chike). The film is comprised of three parts and the first one will be available to watch on Netflix next week on February 16.
Why Is Kanye West’s Documentary Called ‘Jeen-Yuhs?’
Jeen-Yuhs is the phonetic spelling of the word “genius,” and that’s an adjective that’s often been used to describe Kanye West. Whether it be his vision in music through production, crafting full bodies of work, or spotting the next great talent, he’s earned that title in the realm. However, he’s also earned it in the fashion world through the work in his Yeezy brand whether it was during its time with Nike or now as a partner with Adidas. All in all, Jeen-Yuhs examines Kanye’s career from past to present and highlights the many ways he was ahead of his time, thus making him a genius — or a Jeen-Yuhs — that took people some time to realize.
You can watch the latest trailer for Jeen-Yuhs below and stay tuned for its release on Netflix on February 16.
The song tells a story about a film adaptation of a book, and in that same vein, the video is presented as a end credits sequence for a movie, featuring an artistically presented list of names and roles of people involved in the making of a fictional film. As the video goes on, though, some of the roles get silly, as credits include things like Typewriter Advisor; Post Pre-Production Optical Coordinator (Uncredited); Occultist To Ms. Fischer; Personal Supervising Color Technician To Transportation Department; and Supervising Apprentice, Sensual Sound Designer, and ADR Re-Mix.
As for what the next Chloë And The Next 20th Century singles will be, Sub Pop has actually already revealed that: Their online store page for the album notes that “Goodbye Mr. Blue” and “Kiss Me (I Loved You)” will be released as singles.
Watch the “Q4” video above.
Chloë And The Next 20th Century is out 4/8 via Sub Pop. Pre-order it here.
Ever since Verzuz started back in March 2020 with Swizz Beatz and Timbaland doing a hit-for-hit battle over video to do something for fans with everyone locked down at the start of the pandemic, there have been ideas for spinoffs and how the battle format might work outside of the world of music — where Verzuz is now doing full-on battle concerts.
On Friday, Feb. 18 at All-Star Weekend, the brand will try out its first basketball highlight battle between two legends of the NBA, as Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson will go highlight for highlight from Cleveland after the Friday night festivities wrap up. The event will be shown on the Bleacher Report app, Verzuz Instagram page, and on the Triller app, starting at 11 p.m. ET. Taylor Rooks will serve as the host for the event, with Fat Joe as the “analyst,” and Shaq will be the “commissioner,” in which he’ll set the matchup for each event and offer his thoughts on who won each round.
It’ll be interesting to see how the format works in the world of sports and whether it can stay engaging throughout the battle or if the novelty fades at all as it goes on, but it should be fun to see the two Hall of Famers try to one-up each other with their highlights and getting their thoughts and insight on how it all went down. We’ll see if there are times the other simply concedes with a bit of a throwaway — like, what will T-Mac throw up against the Ty Lue stepover from Iverson — and it’ll provide some great nostalgia for those who grew up during their heydays in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they really love in its true form, we’ll be offering a digest of the best new R&B songs that fans of the genre should hear every Friday.
It’s been almost a year since Queen Naija dropped a deluxe reissue of her debut album, Missunderstood. The album’s original version was recognized on Uproxx’s Best R&B Albums of 2020 list and now, it appears that she’s ready to start the second chapter of her career. Naija teams up with Big Sean for their new single, “Hate Our Love.” The track sees Naija and Sean striving to be the best in love so that those praying on their downfall can be proven wrong.
Kyle Dion & Tkay Maidza — “Hazy”
A few months after dropping his sophomore album, Sassy, Kyle Dion is back in action and it comes through a new collaboration with Zimbabwean-born and Australian-bred singer-songwriter Tkay Maidza. Together, the two deliver their new song, “Hazy,” and it’s a bright and bouncy record that speaks about finding new love and doing your best to not overthink your way out of it.
Ravyn Lenae — “Skin Tight” Feat. Steve Lacy
Ravyn Lenae’s return in 2022 might be a sign that this year will truly be a good one. The last project we received from the singer came back in 2017 and since then we’ve heard her on records with Smino, Joey Purp, and more. Finally, she’s back and she brings Steve Lacy with her for the ride. The two pair up for “Skin Tight” and it’s a silky and magnetic record from Lenae that she says is about “not being in a relationship with somebody, but still having those physical and mental ties.”
SAFE — Get Home SAFE (Part 1)
Toronto singer SAFE made his debut back in 2015 with his project, Stay Down. He returned in 2019 with Stay, which featured contributions from Playboi Carti and singer Quin. Less than three years later, he drops his third project Get Home SAFE. His latest effort continues the theme of staying grounded and he achieves this across seven songs and help from Kaash Paige and Kiana Lede.
Adekunle Gold — Catch Me If You Can
For the past few months, Adekunle Gold has impressed with singles like “Sinner” featuring Lucky Daye, and “High” with Davido. Both songs were the first offerings of what eventually became his fourth album Catch Me If You Can. It presents 14 songs and additional contributions from Fatoumata Diawara, Ty Dolla Sign, Stefflon Don, and Foushee. While there’s plenty of time left in the year, Catch Me If You Can will surely be a memorable release from the afrobeats world.
Moonchild — “Love I Need” Feat. Rapsody
Later this week, Moonchild, the trio composed of Amber Navran, Andris Mattson, and Max Bryk, will release their fifth album Starfruit. Last month, they built up anticipation for the project thanks to “Tell Him” with Lalah Hathaway. Now, the trio delivers “Love I Need” with Rapsody which grants another reason to be excited about the upcoming project. In addition to the aforementioned names, Starfruit will also feature contributions from Alex Isley and Tank And The Bangas.
Koffee — “Pull Up”
It seems like it’s been forever since Koffee released her debut project, 2019’s Rapture, an effort that granted her the award for Best Reggae Album at the 2020 Grammys. After a few years of singles and guest verses, Koffee is ready to drop off another project. Her upcoming effort, Gifted, is set to drop on March 25 and with that announcement comes her new song, “Pull Up.” The track is a fun and infectious record that finds Koffee extending an invite for a night of partying.
The WRLDFMS Tony Williams — “Kiss Or Go Crazy”
After releasing a few singles across 2021, some that included “Everybody Knows” and “Anymore,” The WRLDFMS Tony Williams is here with his first offering of 2022. The singer returns with “Kiss Or Go Crazy,” and it arrives as a love-filled record that captures Williams head over heels about a new woman in his life. He’s so overwhelmed by his feelings for his new partner that he’s unsure of how to express them.
Taliwhoah — “Playbook”
London-born and Los Angeles-bred singer Taliwhoah has a collection of quality singles in her discography. From 2018’s “Soul Food” to 2019’s “Love Cycle” as well as last year’s “In Love Alone,” Taliwhoah’s consistency is one to recognize. She continues it with her latest record, “Playbook.” The somber record discusses a failing love that comes as her partner is unable to do his part in the relationship, leaving her with no option but to let him go.
Tyus — “Ridin’ Shotgun”
After going some years without a full-length project, Tyus kicked off 2022 with Synergy. The 13-track project features ten songs and three interludes, and while that would’ve been enough for some, Tyus is already back with more music. He returns with “Ridin’ Shotgun,” a brief record that feels more like an interlude than a full-on song. On it, he showers his lover with praise and labels her as “the one” while sharing his happiness to be able to have her riding shotgun with him.
SuperSmashBroz — Miles Away
Boston-based produced duo SuperSmashBroz ended 2021 with a visual for “Pace” with Echezona. The record was housed on their 2021 project Black Soap: Reloaded. With 2022 well underway, the duo returns with a new EP, Miles Away. It’s comprised of four songs and features from Phaemous, Adam Halliday, DYM, Chrystel, and Minz for a project that you will surely enjoy.
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There’s something about grifters with fake voices that (to quote Will Ferrell from Blades of Glory, as later sampled by a certain Jay-Z and Kanye song), really “gets the people going.” These grifters are having a moment, really. One only need to reflect upon the Elizabeth Holmes saga and wonder if those courtside cosplayers are really devoted fans, but it’s impossible to deny being intrigued by the long game played by Holmes (leading up to a white-collar trial and convictions), and the same goes for Anna Delvey. Make that, uh, Anna Sorokin. Who? Exactly.
We’ll soon see Amanda Seyfried morphing into deep-voice territory as Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout, but sooner than that, Julia Garner is making her way to Netflix with the unusually-accented Delvey in Inventing Anna. Is it German with a touch of Russian or something altogether different? And who the hell is Anna Delvey, anyway? The latter is a question that gets asked in this show, by many people but most explicitly by Anna Chlumsky’s Vivian, a dogged journalist who’s also attempting to settle a career score by captivating the masses with Delvey’s story.
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Vivian is based loosely upon Jessica Pressler, who published the New York magazine profile called “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People.” Expect some hefty dramatization and a reimagining of Vivian’s professional and personal lives, which feel crafted to give the overarching story a sense of structure. Otherwise, it might simply be a disjointed mess of dastardly financial deeds from Ms. Delvey/Sorokin. Oh, but what a fascinating mess this turns out to be. Shondaland very rarely misses, after all.
The story of Anna Delvey comes to sordid life (with some beats that match up exactly to Pressler’s original piece, and other benders that may or may not be invented) in what begins as a showcase for Julia Garner, in the midst of her final Ozark lap and with even more scandal than her Dirty John character endured in that dramatized real-life story. Anna’s in jail when we meet her, after she’s allegedly left a tornado-like path of financial ruin for those who felt compelled to climb onboard with her infuriatingly vague business plans. Yet nearly no one seems immune to her charms. People wanted to believe in her twisted version of the American Dream, one in which she posed as an impossibly wealthy heiress/socialite/Instagram star and tossed out $100 valet tips.
In reality, Anna’s seemingly piggybacking off of friends and fleeting mentors and everyone else while waiting for that wire transfer. You see, her credit cards are having problems due to being international. Dad will send the money soon. Don’t worry, the time zones are slowing things down. Oh, don’t worry. She’ll pay you back. Once she hears from Dad, or once that multi-million-dollar bank loan for the Anna Delvey Foundation comes in. You can see where this is all going from about fifty miles away, but the storytelling sleight of hand makes this show anything but predictable. In fact, the writers succeed at ratcheting up the tension to eleven, presenting some suspenseful and uncomfortable situations that keeps the characters and the audience on their toes, all after you thought this might only be Julia Garner as a Paris Hilton-inspired criminal.
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Above with Garner, here’s ^^^ Katie Lowes as Rachel (who works plenty of emotional heft on what she endured), Laverne Cox as Kacy Duke (who largely knows all, in the way that many badass Laverne Cox characters do), and Alexis Floyd as Neff (who’ll defend Anna despite, you know, all of it). None of them will ever forget their time with Anna, that’s for sure, and these characters are well-drawn with personal lives and dreams and hopes and concerns and visions of red flags, all inspired by real-life developments. To varying degrees, watching them fall for Anna’s fraudster ways can make one scream at the camera while continuing to watch social hell unfold.
That is to say: the show’s not perfect, but it’s always entertaining. What made Anna the way she is, and does she ever feel remorse or develop in any way? The show attempts to answer those questions but doesn’t take them too seriously. Garner does get to have a ball with unusual accent work and wild wigs/glasses, and this is also a critique on the culture that allowed an Anna Delvey to prosper. Not only that, but she rose to the top of the pile without any true merit of her own, only that she’s “building something.” False promise upon false promise builds up, and more stunning than Anna’s ability to sell herself is the willingness of people to believe. They’re practically falling all over each other to do so, and that group of people ranges from deep-pocketed society mainstays to bankers to connected hotel employees to fellow Instagram wannabes and journalists.
One might be tempted to scoff at the excess (and discomfort) of it all, since it’s both difficult and surprisingly easy to see how these associates and friends fall for those lies. She exploits stereotypical American weaknesses in such a way that she reveals everything wrong in a system that let her flourish. She’s a melting pot of corruption and, in a way, she’s held out as a folk hero. A few rare people emerge unscathed from Anna’s path, but for the most part, she’s left a wake of immense debt in her wake with many others holding responsibility, and all of this eventually lands her in jail while a dramatic investigation and trial unfold. Anna’s life, and Garner’s portrayal, then take defiant turns, and the show turns into a mirror that might anger some people but also provides an opportunity to judge Anna and her victims accordingly.
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Garner’s performance (and accent) are as electric as one would expect here, and it’s a real treat to watch her go. She’s surrounded by a cast that’s committed to bringing this tale of a super-grifter to life. And Shondaland captures eyeballs again, all while Bridgerton fans are waiting for the next installment of that addiction. Inventing Anna doesn’t lend itself to further exploration or spinoffs, but this sole season is filled to the brim with scandal. Who really is Anna Delvey, though? Hit “play” and find out.
Netflix’s ‘Inventing Anna’ debuts on February 11, 2022.
(Spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett finale will be found below.)
If the Chewbacca fake-out in The Rise of Skywalker didn’t make it obvious, the season (series?) finale of The Book of Boba Fett should have: Star Wars, especially in the Disney era, does not like killing the good guys. Or girls. Or Wookiees. After saving the fine folks of Mos Espa from the Pyke Syndicate and their bubble-protected Scorpenek droids, Boba Fett and Fennec Shand celebrate by giving a melon to Black Krrsantan and palling around with their new speeder bike friends. Nearly all the heroes — including Mando and Baby Yoda, obviously — survive the show, except for Cobb Vanth, who was gunned down and killed by Cad Bane in the previous episode. Or was he?
The post-credits scene shows the Mod Artist, played by Stephen Lee Bruner a.k.a. Thundercat, tinkering around a bacta tank. Who’s inside? None other than Space Raylan himself, Cobb Vanth. Does this mean Timothy Olyphant will return in a future Star Wars project? Seems that way, once he’s done filming the Justified spin-off, Justified: City Primeval. It also likely means that Cobb will have technological enhancements, like how the Mod Artist helped save Fennec in a flashback earlier in the season.
It wasn’t The Book of Boba Fett post-credits scene people were expecting (there’s no The Mandalorian season three premiere date and no Obi-Wan cameo), but it’s the one we deserve. The more Olyphant, the better, I always say.
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