The creator of 'Breaking Bad' is back with 'Pluribus'

Watching

  • Pluribus. Vince Gilligan is best known for creating the Breaking Bad universe and helping usher in an era of anti-heroes. Now he’s back with Pluribus, which can be seen as a corrective of sorts. Read more here. 

  • Die My Love. In this new darkly comic marital thriller, an aspiring novelist, Jennifer Lawrence's Grace, and her scruffy, country-born boyfriend (Robert Pattinson) swap New York City for the eerie, isolated wilds of Montana. With the arrival of their baby, Grace’s life starts to come apart at the seams. We break down the ending with the director here.

  • Peter Hujar’s Day. This is a New York movie that takes place solely within the walls of one apartment—a pretty nice one, not a dump—on Dec. 19, 1974. Yet it’s the quintessential film for anyone who loves the city as it is now, or as it was then. Read more.

Talking About

  • Padma Lakshmi’s newest cookbook was released Tuesday. We spoke to Lakshmi about about centering immigrant stories, how she approached writing Padma’s All American, and what we can expect from her upcoming cooking competition show. Read here.

  • TV critic Judy Berman watched Kim Kardashian’s new legal drama so you don’t have to: “All’s Fair is a 2010s Shonda Rhimes procedural on steroid shots and Goop supplements, if everyone in the writers’ room had been freshly lobotomized. All’s Fair is The First Wives Club for psychopaths.” Read more.

  • What makes the disturbing images in celebrated Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s new film, Dracula, efficient nightmare fuel stems from their construction more so than their appearance: they’re the product of AI. Read about how this new iteration of Dracula is reanimating the debate around AI in film.

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