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All the links you need to make yourself unbored this weekend. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday and the weekend looms before you. Here are your pop-cultural marching orders, should you choose to accept them:
1) Watch Drop Dead Years, Bill Burr’s brand-new Hulu special, in which Burr—currently starring on Broadway alongside Kieran Culkin and Michael McKean in a Glengarry Glen Ross revival, while also going viral every other day for saying what no one else with a platform seems willing to say about (for example) Elon Musk and the healthcare industry—ponders his own mortality as he pushes 60. The pondering continues in this new GQ profile of Burr by Anna Peele; his worst nightmare, he tells Peele, “would be that his gravestone says, ‘Here lies Bill Burr. Man, was he an angry guy.’”
2) Go see Eephus, a rec-league baseball comedy in the hang-out spirit of Dazed and Confused and Last Night at the Alamo, in which a bunch of bush-league batters play one last game on a beloved ballfield before the city paves their paradise; in his Q&A with the filmmakers this week, GQ’s Matthew Roberson calls it “the best sports movie of the 2020s.” The title derives from the “eephus pitch,” which Roberson calls “a fittingly wacky, super slow curveball that throws off the hitter’s timing with its endless, arcing trajectory.” It’s playing in select theaters as of today; a list of those theaters can be found here.
3) Marvel at the moody world-building in the new ten-minute trailer for video-game auteur Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2, hotly-anticipated and due out in June. If the guy in the bandana glimpsed in the trailer reminds you of someone, that may not be a coincidence; as Scott Meslow reminds us this week, Kojima created the Metal Gear franchise and shepherded it for nearly 30 years before parting ways with the game’s parent company Konami ten years ago, and this new character may be a none-too-subtle nod to Metal Gear’s protagonist Solid Snake. Konami still owns the rights to Snake, though, so—if anybody asks—this dude’s name is “Neil.”
4) The British miniseries Adolescence, now streaming on Netflix, is both a story about a teen accused of murder and an exploration of the effect the toxic rhetoric of misogynist Internet personalities like Andrew Tate is having on young minds. Not exactly an upper, but as GQ’s Jack King wrote this week, it’s technically brilliant (every episode consists of one continuous shot) and features a superb cast; King calls young Owen Cooper, who plays the prime suspect, “one of the best child actors I’ve ever seen.”
5) If you need an excuse to rewatch Billy Madison—arguably the lesser of the iconic 1995-1996 Adam Sandler comedies, although Happy Gilmore doesn’t have Norm MacDonald saying “Hey, you wanna go feed that donkey some beer? Get it all messed up?”—that movie turned 30 not long ago, and this week Esther Zuckerman made the case for it as an all-time Sandler Fits classic.
6) And if you haven’t already seen Trap—which adult-film legend turned Letterboxd power user Mia Khalifa says was her Best Picture of the Year in this Q&A with GQ’s Frazier Tharpe—you should go ahead and do that.
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