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Soon You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Feature-Length Movie Movie With AI
Some argue that AI is too derivative. But in Hollywood, shallow riffing on preexisting IP is a lucrative skill.
36 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2023
Let’s revel in anticipation of the televisual pleasures the new year will bring.
Vulture on Books
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses
As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his eyeglasses.
«“Losing your glasses,” Spiegelman says. “It’s like …” He pauses. “You’re going to lose everything. That’s how it works.”»
Bob Gottlieb vs. Bob Caro
The 91-year-old book editor would like his 87-year-old star writer to finish his latest book.
Vulture on Comedy
The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy
From the Marx Brothers to The Simpsons, Richard Pryor to Amy Schumer: 100 bits, sketches, and one-liners that changed humor forever.
Vulture on Comics
Vulture on Corporate Communications
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate slanguage and self-deluded gibberish. Young’s keen ear and sharp tongue will provide relief and amusement to anyone who’s endured a meeting replete with nonsense terminology, such as “parallel-pathing, growth hacking, upleveling” and “blitzscaling.”
Vulture on Fiction
Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story?
Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.
One Neat Trick to Writing Great Mystery Plots
The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.
Vulture on Habits
Bed Habits
One insomniac’s journey into sleep research to understand what screens before bed are doing to our brains.
Vulture on Podcasting
We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting
2019 has ushered in a new, more moneyed phase for the medium.
This Could Be a Rough Year for the Podcast Industry
We spoke to dozens of insiders and creators about 2023 trends, gripes, and potential pitfalls.
Vulture on Self Control
My Appetites
Jerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
Vulture on TV
Netflix’s Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It
A deep look at what happened to the company, and what will happen next.
The 101 Best Movie Sequels of All Time
Whether they come after, before, or between their predecessors, these films have created their own indelible legacies.
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The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History
From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.
Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice.
The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies History
Good finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether.
Podcasting Is Just Radio Now
It’s been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form?
Cops Are Always the Main Characters
TV perfected the cop show, metastasized it, and then franchised it into ubiquity. How does that affect the way audiences think about police?
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