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“Who’d have thought it’d be not me?”: “SNL” recreates Trump reaction to Oval Office fainting

This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” opened with a soliloquy from President Donald Trump, using the occasion of a pharmaceutical company representative fainting in the Oval Office to give James Austin Johnson‘s Trump a minute to speak his mind.…

November 9, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

In “Christy,” Sydney Sweeney’s only fighting herself

Considering what happened to the intrepid Christy Martin, the fighter who put women’s boxing on the map in the 1990s and paved the way for countless others in her sport, there is no joy in disliking her Sydney Sweeney-starring biopic,…

November 8, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Grimes ushers in a new era of internet infestation

Have you ever tricked yourself into seeing a non-existent cockroach in your kitchen? Your hand catches the light just so, casting a shadow into a seldom-examined corner. Something malicious and alive, an indicator of a deeper rot, has crept into…

November 7, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

In “Die My Love,” Jennifer Lawrence rescues a film from itself

Late in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” — the latest film to mystifyingly leave out a much-needed comma from its title — Jennifer Lawrence’s Grace, a young mother in the throes of post-partum depression, raises a glass. “Live long and…

November 7, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Martha Stewart, the patron saint of Gen Z perfectionists

“She’s kind of been a staple in our house as long as I can remember. My mom always had her playing in the background growing up, as a kid. So, yeah. I’m a big fan. And I remember, I watched…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Congratulations, it’s a Kardashian! “American Horror Story: Delicate” delivers a new scream queen

When it was first announced back in April that Kim Kardashian would be joining the twelfth ensemble of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” avid viewers of the buzzy FX series sat back and prepared to laugh. Myself included. It turns out,…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“All’s Fair” and the problem with Kim Kardashian

If you haven’t yet subjected yourself to the three-episode premiere of “All’s Fair,” I have a challenge for you: Break out a stopwatch, start the timer the moment the action begins, and see how long it takes for your jaw…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The radical politics of “Dancing With the Stars”

A chorus of boos seems to rise up in the presence of Sarah Palin — and America wants to believe. A teen mom gets in a pitch for abstinence. An outspoken comic declares: “It’s a tough time for the gay…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Ryan Murphy’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” is an example of the brand undermining the mission

It doesn’t take a dedicated Ryan Murphy aficionado to understand why Jeffrey Dahmer appeals to him as a drama subject. The nature of Dahmer’s singularly horrific crimes, several of which are studiously dramatized in Netflix’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The late night rise of “Gutfeld!” is telling us something. It isn’t funny, but that doesn’t matter

Greg Gutfeld proudly preaches that his worldview is informed by 1978’s “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” a movie Generation X and Boomers consider to be a comedy classic. Watch his Fox News hit “Gutfeld!” and you can see it. In his mannerism,…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0