Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin’s Complete Relationship Timeline

After Coldplay’s Chris Martin consciously uncoupled back in 2014 with his partner of a decade Gwyneth Paltrow, his dating life became decidedly more private. Martin seems to have finally found lasting love with Dakota Johnson after previously being linked to actresses including Jennifer Lawrence and Annabelle Wallis. Although they’ve kept their relationship low-key, they celebrated […]

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From McGraw to Midnights: A Retrospective of Taylor Swift’s Album Eras and Aesthetics

When did Taylor Swift become Taylor Swift? It’s not an easy question to answer. Swift is the consummate skin-shedder, forever toeing the line between self-expression and self-creation. In this sense, she’s also the consummate millennial: taught from youth to craft a persona, only for human emotion to blow it up. The difference is Swift, unlike […]

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Rihanna Serenades Us on the Beach in Her ‘Lift Me Up’ Music Video

Less than a day after dropping her single “Lift Me Up,” her latest song in years, Rihanna is treating us to a music video too. In the visuals, directed by Autumn Durald Arkapaw, she sings the uplifting ballad on a beach at sunset as a bonfire burns beside her. Clothing-wise, she’s layered up in laid-back […]

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Futura

Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi offer an illuminating portrayal of Italian youth in the midst of global uncertainty. In the autumn of 2020, a trio of Italian filmmakers traversed their country to take the emotional and psychological temperature of Italian adolescents. Those who were on the cusp of adulthood, what did they see […]

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