Superheroes, Norse mythology, and a Wild West masterpiece. Best of 2018 The best entertainment of 2018, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. Click here to see selections for every subject and more. Red Dead Redemption 2. Photo: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photo by Rockstar Games Best of 2018 The best entertainment of 2018, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. Click here to see selections for every subject and more. Red Dead Redemption 2. Read More...
Crime fictionReviewA debut vividly depicts acts of cruelty in lawless 18th-century Stockholm – but are its shocks gratuitous?As aficionados of modern Nordic noir in print and on television we have grown familiar with the endless night of northern winters, stark landscapes that conceal unspeakable acts of cruelty, flawed and damaged protagonists compelled to battle their own demons as they pursue the perpetrators. In The Wolf and the Watchman, his first novel and a bestseller in his native Sweden, Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist. Read More...
It’s been 20 years since Eminem politely requested that the real Slim Shady please stand up and this time he is not messing around with these clones. Eminem emptied out his ideas notebook on the music video for “Godzilla,” which, yes, since you were clearly about to ask, does include human-size Godzillas walking alongside the rapper. We say that like it’s normal, but it actually is the most predictable thing to happen in this four-minute music video, directed by Cole Bennett from Lyrical Lemonade. Read More...