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Ed Kilgore Author Archive

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Getting to Know H.E.R.

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The artist is halfway to an EGOT, but she’s still a mystery to the masses. You have to see her live to understand her. Photo: Tyrell Hampton for New York Magazine Photo: Tyrell Hampton for New York Magazine Over the course of, say, four minutes, I witness Gabi Wilson hop from a Rhodes piano stacked on its suitcase to a synth across the studio, on which she begins banging out the riff from Coldplay’s “Clocks,” before moving to a drum kit, whaling on the thing without mercy. Read More...

Im Ready! Im Ready! Im Ready for Keanu Reeves in The SpongeBob Movie!

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How can any film top the iconic David Hasselhoff cameo as a human speedboat-man in 2004’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie? Easy. That first film used Hasselhoff to send up and camp-ify the inherent goofiness of traditional ideas of masculinity. So 2020’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run trailer features the perfect follow-up, the beloved poster man for sensitive Neo-Masculinity: Keanu Reeves. More specifically, Keanu Reeves’s head, floating in a tumbleweed. Read More...