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This article was originally published on March 2, 2015. We’ve republished it to coincide with The Jinx Part 2. More »

Almost 20 years after Kathie Durst disappeared, in 2000 a newly arrested man volunteers some details that cause police to reopen her case.

White Broncos, uncomfortable women, and random homophobia.

Gearhead classics, modern blockbusters, art-house favorites, and even some genuine obscurities.

Some of them are even pretty good, so where do Five Nights at Freddy’s and The Super Mario Bros. Movie stack up?

Got some extra time? Lose yourself in these cinematic spectacles.

Ever since the early years of cinema — even before the term “robot” was coined, in fact — the movies have been obsessed with them.

The Turtles were inadvertently responsible for one of the most disastrous speculation runs in comics history.

Which of the Oscar-winning director’s films are masterpieces and which are merely near-masterpieces?

Political satires and future dystopias, soulless nihilism and life-affirming humanism — anything is possible in this anthology series.

None of these movies is bad, but one of them has to be No. 27 and one of them has to be No. 1.

This article originally ran in 2016 and has been updated with additional movies and streaming information. More »

This piece was first published in 2016, updated in 2018, and updated again in 2022 to include even more October-worthy episode selections. More »

Sure, it’s great to turn off your mind and immerse yourself in a three-hour-long orgy of cinematic excess. But sometimes, you just want a good story, capably told, that gets in and out and in less than 90 minutes... More »

All the fun of staying up late in your bunk, without the bug bites.

This piece originally ran in 2014 but we are republishing it as part of Vulture ‘s week-long erotic thriller celebration. More »

“It’s not two actresses trying to kiss each other in a pretty way — even if I did ask her to prop up my breast!”

Zoë Kravitz finally made her way into the Batman universe, but the journey to her role as Catwoman in

What makes cinematic depictions of catastrophe so compelling?

From Jaws to his latest, West Side Story, see where each of the director’s major works falls.

This list was updated May 5, 2017, to reflect Netflix’s current offerings.Romantic comedies: They make us laugh, they make us cry, then they make us laugh at how much we cried. We’ve rounded up the best romantic comedies on Netflix, from…

All Trent Reznor needs is a Tony.

After watching all ten episodes of the work of high sordid art that was The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, it felt like everything that needed to be said about O.J. Simpson on television in 2016 had been said. It turns out…

Things aren’t going so well for future music legend Dewey Cox in the initial stretches of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. One early scene in this send-up of rock-and-roll biopics in general — and the then-recent Ray and Walk the Line in…

Manhattan real-estate scion Robert Durst has never been convicted of murder, but he's been suspected of many. Now, thanks to Durst's admission in the finale of HBO's The Jinx that he "killed them all" and his near-simultaneous arrest in…

HBO six-part documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” is an investigation into a scion of one of Manhattan’s wealthiest real-estate fortunes who may or may not have gotten away with at least two different,…

HBO six-part documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst is an investigation into a scion of one of Manhattan’s wealthiest real-estate fortunes who may or may not have gotten away with at least two different, elaborate…

Thirty years ago tomorrow, a time came when over 40 musicians heeded a certain call. The call was to come to a studio in L.A. and record a song — a song so epic, so star-studded, so unabashedly schmaltzy it will never be forgotten. That…

As Paul Thomas Anderson has often said, seeing Dirk Diggler's gigantic penis in Boogie Nights is like seeing the shark in Jaws: It's more powerful if you have to wait for it. Now, thanks to Grantland's 16,000-word oral history of Boogie…