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‘The Happytime Murders’ Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Painfully Unfunny Puppet Noir Is an Utter Abomination The worst movie of the summer is here. /Author byline Share Tools /Share Tools IndieWire owes our readers an apology. Last week, in a moment of desperate optimism and/or extreme naïveté, this critic declared “Mile 22” was “far and away…
The Happytime Murders may not be this summer’s funniest movie. It may not be the smartest, or the most imaginative, or even, fundamentally, coherent. But it is most assuredly this summer’s only movie in which the plot hinges on the graphically depicted pubic hair of a nymphomaniac puppet. Life of the Party review – Melissa…
Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart. For those of you who don’t know, H Mart is a supermarket chain that specializes in Asian food. The “H” stands for han ah reum, a Korean phrase that roughly translates to “one arm full of groceries.” H Mart is where parachute kids go to…
Don’t believe your eyes and ears. Believe only me. That has been President Trump’s message to the public for the past two years, pounded in without a break: The press is the enemy. The news is fake. In raucous campaign rallies, in lie-filled Fox News interviews, through dissembling surrogates such as Kellyanne Conway and Rudolph…
Just before 5 P.M. on Tuesday, the afternoon of August 21, 2018, became one of those unforgettable Trump news cycles, like the moment when the “Access Hollywood” tape was released, on October 7, 2016, and Donald Trump’s voice was heard bragging about sexually forcing himself on women, or when the White House suddenly announced, on…
Digital advertising is awfully messy. From ad fraud, murky media supply chains, and Facebook and Google sucking up all the industry’s oxygen and budgets, digital marketing has seemingly never had more minefields. Brands are under increasing pressure to show that their digital ads are not just being seen but are effective. Brand-safety concerns have come to…
In the past two decades there has been a sharp drop in the share of national income going to working- and middle-class Americans. As the discontent among these workers begins to affect their livelihoods and the entire nation’s politics, policy makers must either hope the market will somehow fix wage stagnation or enact policies to…
Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental health initiative for the VA. “Received,” O’Rourke replied. “I will begin a project plan and develop a timeline for action.” O’Rourke treated the email as…
Some Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk is being recalled “because the product may contain milk, an allergen not listed on the label,” the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. The FDA said there has been only one report of an allergic reaction due to milk contamination, a case in which “medical treatment or hospitalization was not required.”…
Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn’t the first woman who’s been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate, the self-styled reform movement that’s become difficult to ignore over the past several…