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We’ve got news on Pedro Pascal, Ozzy Osbourne, and some guys with regular non-alliterative names. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday, and we’re eating all our meals out of a Galactus popcorn bucket for the rest of the weekend. It holds 2.37 gallons! That’s a lot of soup!
First Steps things first: The Fantastic Four’s Marvel Cinematic Universe debut is here, and—great news—it’s a fun retro-’60s adventure set outside the MCU’s increasingly sprawling and unwieldy continuity, which means you don’t have to watch 90 hours of Disney+ streaming content in order to understand who these people are and why they’re fighting each other. We love a superhero movie where the superheroes are already superheroes. But it wouldn’t be Marvel without a post-credits scene that sets up years’ worth of forthcoming blockbusters, and First Steps has one of those; William Goodman breaks it down here, along with some recent comments from Marvel honcho Kevin Feige that shed light on the studio’s future plans.
Discussed in Marissa R. Moss’ excellent profile of country insurgent Tyler Childers, whose superb, Rick Rubin-produced new record Snipe Hunter lands today: Drug busts, Malinois puppies, winning over the ‘Livies,’ gettin’ real stoned and reading the Bhagavad Gita, and Jack Kerouac, who Childers credits with giving him his “first real permission slip to be a spiritual wanderer,” a role Childers now hopes he can fill for his own fans. “It’s one thing to find some random dude from Lowell, Massachusetts, that you connect with,” he tells Moss, “but it’s way more exciting to find someone from East Kentucky. If I’m trying to talk to another young Tyler out there, he needs to know he's not going to hell for thinking something else different.”
Also this week: Vince Mancini investigated the (seeming) disappearance of nudity from streaming television. Sam McPheeters reported from the Georgia set of Weapons, director Zach Cregger’s followup to the surprise horror hit Barbarian. Olivia Ovenden talked to Will Sharpe about playing Megan Statler’s too-good-to-be-true love interest in Lena Dunham’s Too Much. Molly Mary O’Brien watched the five-hour Billy Joel documentary, and we’re tempted to add “...so you don’t have to,” but apparently it’s kinda great? Frazier Tharpe weighed in on the fired-up new Tyler, the Creator album and (in this week’s Tap In newsletter) beseeched James Gunn to let Superman 2 be a true Superman movie. Esther Zuckerman unpacked the twist (spoilers, obviously) in Happy Gilmore 2. And Chris Weingarten picked fifteen essential Ozzy Osbourne songs, should your weekend plans include barking at the moon in tribute to the late Prince of f**king Darkness. It is, as discussed, Friday—like the man said, always a good night for some Sabbath. –AP
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