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Alle Wes-Anderson-Filme im Ranking
Wes Anderson ist der Koriander des amerikanischen Kinos. Manche hassen sein Werk fast genetisch bedingt. Anderen sind Andersons Filme unverzichtbar. Andersons Kritiker greifen gerne zum Wort „verspielt“, wenn sie die Komödien des Auteurs verreißen – doch das ist eine oberflächliche Lesart, die verfehlt, was das Werk des 56-Jährigen, 13 Filme in 30 Jahren, so einzigartig und fesselnd macht.
Ranking: Alle Wes-Anderson-Filme
Videospiele 1 hour ago GTA 6-Fans entdecken eine kaputte Brücke irgendwo im Hintergrund und wissen schon ganz genau, was die Community damit anstellen wird gamepro.de - Samara Summer • 1h Wer eine bestimmte Community kennt, kann unschwer erraten, was die nach Release treiben wird. GTA 6 wird ohne Frage das große Community-Thema, das uns … Influencer 3 hours ago Fitness-Influencer isst während 13-Stunden-Flug 10’000 Kalorien 20min.ch • 3h Es war schwieriger als gedacht.
Weed Is Chic Now. Too Bad for This Former Stoner.
I haven’t smoked weed since the second Bush administration, but I don’t need to be high to be paranoid. Did I turn the stove off? Is the government reading my texts? Is everyone stoned but me? Yes, yes and, most definitely, yes. My friend, the marketing executive? Blitzed while on Zoom. The little old lady who lives next door to me? She’s blazed every morning on her stoop. I watched a dude suck on a vape on the New York City subway just the other day. I’ve lived in this city forever.
The 24-Hour Diner Is Disappearing — but It’s Not Dead Yet Original
New York City has seen a significant decline in 24-hour diners, with many iconic establishments closing or reducing hours due to economic and cultural shifts, including the pandemic and changing dining habits. The remaining diners, like The Flame, Court Street Diner, Kellogg’s Diner, and Daisy’s Diner, reflect a mix of nostalgia, evolving menus, and varied customer experiences, from quiet late-night meals to bustling crowds.
It’s OK to Dream of a Blue Texas Original
Whenever my friends and family despair about the GOP’s decades-long stranglehold on Texas, I remind them—wistfully—that it hasn’t always been this way. If you’re wincing, I get it. Such optimism in the face of electoral reality is insufferable, especially since I’m frequently bringing this cheerful message from highfalutin New York City, where I moved in 1996, two years after Democratic Governor Ann Richards lost to Republican George W. Bush.
The Dish: Markette's Braised Oxtail Gratin
The Dish: I found Markette’s Braised Oxtail Gratin the way all good things are found (no, not Instagram), but through word of mouth. There are a dozen ways to find out what’s hot, but nothing beats a friend who eats out all the time and randomly tells you about this upscale but low-key European-slash-Caribbean restaurant in Chelsea called Markette. “Two words,” they say. “Oxtail gratin.” And so a seed is planted.
For a James Beard Award–winning food writer, the suffering is how he knows the drug is working.
Let’s keep this between you and me: I started taking a GLP-1 six months ago. My doctor wrote me an insurance-friendly prescription for Zepbound, one of the popular new weight-loss drugs, which I kept incorrectly calling Ozempic—the most recognizable brand—in his office and at the pharmacy and will continue to do so for the same reason I call all sparkling wines Champagne. I inject 15 milligrams of Zepbound into my belly once a week. I started with 5 milligrams.
The Lobster Roll Is Summer's Only Perfect Food
Photo by Jesse on Unsplash There are foods best eaten during the summer: grilled burgers, soft serve, thick slices of watermelon. And then there’s the lobster roll. I ate my first lobster roll as an adult, a Texan visiting Boston. This was a long time ago. I was shocked and delighted by the (at the time) inexpensive bite.
An Elegy for Dad Bods in the Days of Looksmaxxing
Despite my best efforts, I have the same build as my dad did at my age. My wife tells me I have a “dad bod,” which she says with equal parts cheek and affection. My old man did not live long enough to witness the rise and short-lived reign of the “dad bod” as the ideal male form. This happened about 10 years ago. A college student wrote an essay for her school’s blog titled “Why Girls Love The Dad Bod,” and that was that. Normal bodies were normalized. Beer bellies were celebrated.
Dad Bods, An Elegy
Despite my best efforts, I have the same build as my dad did at my age. My wife tells me I have a "dad bod," which she says with equal parts cheek and affection. My old man did not live long enough to witness the rise and short-lived reign of the "dad bod" as the ideal male form. This happened about 10 years ago. A college student wrote an essay for her school's blog titled "Why Girls Love The Dad Bod," and that was that. Normal bodies were normalized. Beer bellies were celebrated.
Where Colin Ate: Corima, Yoshino, Raoul's, Sushi Yasuda
Colin Camac (aka @resyguynyc) is officially Blackbird’s “Strategic Sales Lead,” and unofficially is our resident insider’s insider. He is out, on the town seven nights a week, sniffing out the city’s best joints, skateboard in one hand, martini in the other. After a slight break in the action, I have to say it feels good to be back! This month was jam-packed with a ton of great meals and unusually heavy on some heavy-hitter sushi spots.
Elon Musk is losing the culture war — he just doesn’t know it yet
Elon Musk on April 28, 2026 at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP Photo) Elon Musk has been busy: SpaceX filed for a blockbuster IPO. On Monday, a U.S. jury dismissed his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. And last Wednesday, he accompanied President Donald Trump, and an entourage of tech moguls, to China for an elaborate state visit.
Restaurant Dos & Don'ts Vol. 1
Without rules, society would collapse into chaos. That’s especially true when dining out, which requires a basic understanding of human decency. The entire restaurant experience is built on hungry flesh-and-blood strangers knowing how to behave. You might think you’re above such codes of conduct, but you’re not. No one is. This is where The Supersonic’s Restaurant Do’s & Don’ts Vol. 1 comes in: a definitive, ever-evolving guide to eating with a little dignity.
Chuck Norris hat die Achtziger redlich gewonnen
Anfang der 2000er-Jahre war Chuck Norris zur Witzfigur geworden. Seine erfolgreiche CBS-Serie „Walker, Texas Ranger“ war 2001 abgesetzt worden, und wenige Jahre später ging ChuckNorrisFacts.com online – ins Leben gerufen von Brown-University-Student und späterem New York Times-Bestsellerautor Ian Spector.
Chuck Norris Won the Eighties Fair and Square Original
By the early 2000s, Chuck Norris had become a punchline. The star’s hit CBS TV show, Walker, Texas Ranger, was cancelled in 2001, and a few years later, ChuckNorrisFacts.com went live, launched by Brown University student and future New York Times bestselling author Ian Spector.
25 Rules for Enjoying Restaurants Like a Normal Person Again
To say we live in an uptight era just might be the understatement of the year. Drinking and socializing are out. Self-optimization is in (we see you, bro). You can blame all this on doomscrolling, dating apps, fear of AI, the paradox of choice — the list goes on and on. Our collective uptightness applies to dining, too. The hot table, bucket list restaurants, the must-have (and document!) viral dish. This is nothing particularly new.
Food Kinks: Dining in the Dark
I have seen every movie nominated for an Oscar this year because I spend a great deal of my free time at movie theaters with reclining seats and full-service menus. I don’t know if I’m a cinephile, per se. I don’t have a Letterboxd account. I will watch almost anything: horror, action, period dramas. Mostly, I just like to emotionally eat in the dark. This isn’t a hobby or a coping mechanism. I need this. It’s my thing.
Advice For Men: You will survive a layoff (or six)
I’ve been laid off six times and learned a few things. For instance, getting laid off happens. When I was younger, I thought jobs were strictly binary situations; you were either hired or fired. I imagined my worst-case career scenario: my boss screaming, “You’re fired!” But there was a third option that was just as unpleasant. And that’s losing your job because some beancounter said so. I look forward to being laid off by AI soon, lucky number seven. My first layoff was short, sweet, and impersonal.
Stephen Miller can never understand the core message of ‘Star Trek’
Stephen Miller can never understand the core message of ‘Star Trek’ Calling the “Star Trek” franchise “woke” is not far off from accusing the Atlantic Ocean of being wet.
There Is No Such Thing As a Bad Caesar Salad
Not all salads are created equal. The basic house salad, with its cherry tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette, isn’t worth the energy it takes to order it. The blue cheese wedge salads found at steakhouses look decadent, but…well…one shouldn’t have to attack their salad with a fork and knife. Shareable salads, like a Caprese, are visually pleasing but don’t quite satisfy hunger before the main course the way a Caesar salad does.
The Dish: Frankies 457's Grandma-Coded Dessert
Photo by Christian Harder There are great meals and then there's The Dish. That perfect plate of food you think about—and long for—while forlornly poking lesser fare with your fork. In the inaugural edition of The Dish, writer John DeVore revisits what is, to him, the best restaurant dessert in the game: "I normally avoid prunes unless my doctor suggests them but I have been converted. I could eat this dish every night, forever." The Scene: First things first: I am not a fan of restaurant desserts.
Rob Reiner: 8 Essential Movies
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Rob Reiner: 8 Essential Movies Generate Key Takeaways Rob Reiner may not have been an auteur on the level of contemporaries like Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg, but you’d be hard pressed to find a director whose filmography had a bigger, broader impact on popular culture than Reiner’s over a roughly 10-year stretch from the mid-Eighties to mid-Nineties.
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Opinion | Why people can't seem to look away from the breathtaking heist at the Louvre Original
I recently rewatched — for the thousandth time — the 2001 film “Ocean’s Eleven.” Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s stylish crime thriller, with a cast of superstars including George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, revolves around a team of smooth-talking, charismatic rogues who knock over three casinos in one night. It has long been one of my comfort movies, because I love stories where rascals do a good job.
West Point's Tom Hanks snub proves kindness is woke now. At least in MAGA world. Original
Who knows what “woke” even means anymore to the increasingly paranoid MAGA movement. The word has become empty slang for anything (and anyone) that offends conservatives. The new star of their growing list of bugaboos is none other than Tom Hanks. For his patriotic wartime tearjerkers and folksy family classics, the prolific Hollywood icon earned the nickname “America’s Dad.” The serial box-office star and two-time back-to-back Oscar winner is well known for being a nice guy, on and off the screen.
Stew Kids on the Block
Here’s the story of mouthbone soup. I spent peak COVID in a house in the woods, 30 minutes north of Yonkers, with three women: my girlfriend at the time, her younger sister, and their mother, who had the constitution of a goat. During that long, dark season, I cared for them, and they cared for me. Like any family, they had their quirks. For instance, they often kept a pot of gnawed drumsticks and cartilage, shanks, and knuckles gently boiling on the stove. The family was crazy about homemade broth.
The manly ridiculousness of 'Braveheart'
100% HUMAN-GENERATED CONTENT Dudes have been randomly screaming "freedom!" in a bad Scottish brogue ever since the blockbuster Braveheart came out in 1995. I've heard that single word shouted in bars and at ballgames and between friends, a revered callback to a movie that all American men seem to love, except for me, and that's mainly because I had never seen it until a few weeks ago. This news came as a surprise to many of my friends. "I can't believe it," one said.
'Gone With the Wind' Explains a lot About America
Gone With The Wind is one of my absolute favorite movies. If you haven't seen this iconic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's melodramatic 1936 novel about the Antebellum South, I suggest you do so as soon as possible. You cannot understand America until you've seen this sprawling Civil War classic about the fall of the Confederacy. I recommend it to anyone who thinks a new civil war is inevitable.
‘Gone With the Wind’ explains a lot about America
100% HUMAN-GENERATED CONTENT Watch it before the Second Civil War Press enter or click to view image in full size Gone With The Wind is one of my absolute favorite movies. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do so as soon as possible. You cannot understand America until you’ve seen this sprawling Civil War classic about the fall of the Confederacy. I recommend it to anyone who thinks a new civil war is inevitable.
You Don't Have to Go to Gym
You can always opt for ice-cream curls, friend Donot read any further if you're the kind of person who runs at full sprint on the treadmill before juggling kettleballs at the gym. This essay is not for you or your glistening muscles. Instead of wasting your time on the next 600 or so words, feel free to cartwheel back to your local fitness hut to crush it. I want you to crush it and, more importantly, I want you to be happy crushing it, whatever "it" happens to be.
Opinion | Amid the slap-stick comedy, ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ gives us something unexpected
I almost didn’t watch “Happy Gilmore 2,” but the first “Happy Gilmore” happens to be one of my favorite Adam Sandler movies, and a sudden wave of nostalgia washed over me. I was 21 when the original came out, and I wanted to see if Sandler was aging just like me. (Which is to say, rapidly.) His oeuvre — if you will — is riddled with off-color jokes, casual racism and locker-room homophobia that are either cringeworthy or gratuitously unnecessary by today’s standards.
Don’t go to the gym
Don’t go to the gym Do not read any further if you’re the kind of person who runs at full sprint on the treadmill before juggling kettleballs at the gym. This essay is not for you or your glistening muscles. Instead of wasting your time on the next 600 or so words, feel free to cartwheel back to your local fitness hut to crush it. I want you to crush it and, more importantly, I want you to be happy crushing it, whatever “it” happens to be. I’m assuming you’d want to crush a workout.
Can You Mourn Hulk Hogan the Wrestler, But Not the Man? Original
July 26, 2025 The Hulkster doing his signature shrit-rip in 1989. WWE/Getty Images The French writer Gustave Flaubert famously warned, “You mustn’t touch your idols; the gilt will come off on your hands.” The reverse is true, too. Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, who died this past Thursday at the age of 71, left gold paint fingerprints all over the childhood memories of his fans. For Gen Xers, Hulk Hogan was a fantasy, like Batman or universal healthcare.
Why Superheroes are So Lonely
I loved superheroes as a boy because superheroes are allowed to punch. Their fury is righteous. They spoke to me from the pages of comic books I would read, by myself, in the backseat of the family car, while it was parked in the driveway. No one ever thought to look for me there. I was safe from parents, siblings, and supervillains. Superheroes explained the world to me at the same time it was being explained to me by uncles, coaches, neighbors, and men on screens, big and small. Fight. Do not cry.
The loneliness of superheroes
I loved superheroes as a boy because superheroes are allowed to punch. Their fury is righteous. They spoke to me from the pages of comic books I would read, by myself, in the backseat of the family car, while it was parked in the driveway. No one ever thought to look for me there. I was safe from parents, siblings, and supervillains. Superheroes explained the world to me at the same time it was being explained to me by uncles, coaches, neighbors, and men on screens, big and small. Fight. Do not cry.
Os 13 filmes de Wes Anderson, do pior ao melhor, segundo Rolling Stone
Wes Anderson é o coentro do cinema americano. Há quem praticamente odeie seu trabalho por instinto. Para outros, seus filmes são indispensáveis. Os críticos de Anderson costumam usar a palavra "afetado" ao criticar suas comédias, mas isso é uma leitura superficial que não capta o que torna a obra do cineasta de 56 anos — composta por 13 filmes ao longo de 30 anos — tão singular e envolvente.
Os 13 filmes de Wes Anderson, do pior ao melhor, segundo Rolling Stone
Wes Anderson é o coentro do cinema americano. Há quem praticamente odeie seu trabalho por instinto. Para outros, seus filmes são indispensáveis. Os críticos de Anderson costumam usar a palavra “afetado” ao criticar suas comédias, mas isso é uma leitura superficial que não capta o que torna a obra do cineasta de 56 anos — composta por 13 filmes ao longo de 30 anos — tão singular e envolvente.
Superman isn't 'woke,' but give James Gunn credit for making Fox News thinks he is
Superman is a uniquely American fairy tale. A simple one, too. Once upon a time, the Kents, a childless couple from Kansas, found an alien baby in a rocket ship. They called him Clark and loved him. His real name was Kal-El, and he was forced to flee from his home world, the doomed planet Krypton. Although possessing extraordinary powers, he grew up an American, and he decided to use those abilities to help others.
Foundation is as weighty, high-stakes, and oddly captivating as ever
Foundation isn’t as buzzy as its siblings on Apple TV+, like Severance, with its surreal, retrofuturistic offices, or as accessible as the more straightforward, post-apocalyptic bunker drama Silo. The casual viewer may, in fact, be overwhelmed by the scope of this sprawling sci-fi epic, which explores the collapse of an interstellar civilization in a far-flung future over hundreds of years and features dozens of characters. It is weighty, ambitious stuff.
Every Wes Anderson Movie, Ranked
June 8, 2025 Touchstone Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures; Everett Collection Wes Anderson is the cilantro of American cinema. There are some whose loathing of his work is almost genetic. To others, Anderson’s films are essential viewing. Anderson’s critics frequently use the word “twee” when dragging the auteur’s comedies, but that’s a superficial read that fails to grasp what makes the 56-year-old’s body of work, comprising 13 movies produced over 30 years, so singular and compelling.
‘And Just Like That’ season 3 shares a message 50-somethings need to hear Original
I have a confession to make: I just watched the season premiere of the third season of HBO’s “And Just Like That,” the hit sequel to the cult late '90s-mid-'00s “Sex and the City.” Wait, there’s more. I watched every single episode of the first two seasons, too. Although I was not a fan of Carrie Bradshaw and her coven’s original run from 1998 to 2004, I am low-key obsessed with the sequel series.
‘And Just Like That’ has an important message about living a messy life in your 50s
1 hour ago "We're so cooked." At the Google I/O 2025 event on May 20, Google announced the release of Veo 3, a new AI video generation model that makes 8-second videos. Within hours of its release, AI artists and filmmakers were showing off shockingly realistic videos. You may have even seen some of these …
Every 'Mission: Impossible' Movie, Ranked Original
May 26, 2025 Everett Collection; Skydance/Paramount; Everett Collection With the release of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, one of cinema’s great action franchises is (allegedly) winding down. Over 29 years, it has delivered more than 18 hours of expensive big-screen mayhem: explosions and car crashes and handsome Tom Cruise hanging off the skids of helicopters. The action sequences in these movies are amazing. Impeccably choreographed and executed. Everything else, not so much.
I don’t remember my dreams
A story about sobriety, fifteen years in I dreamt about drinking a few days ago. This is a common experience for people in recovery. I hear about these dreams after meetings, over coffee. Occasionally, a friend will tell me about waking up suddenly after tossing back a shot. These dreams sound intense, and scary, and full of longing. I don’t remember my dreams, though.
Opinion | How Tom Cruise aged into a death-defying symbol of positive masculinity Original
I pulled a muscle the other day picking up a potato chip off the kitchen floor. As I recuperated on the couch, I clicked on the most recent “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” trailer. I watched him fight off a knife attack, plunge into the ocean and hang off an airplane midflight while thinking, “This man is 12 years older than me.” The last installment in the nearly 30-year-old blockbuster megafranchise catapults the 62-year-old Tom Cruise onto movie screens around the country on Friday.
The Triumph of the 'R-word'
It is my understanding that neither cowards nor liars are allowed into Valhalla, the Viking afterlife. But maybe a few sneak in from time to time? So imagine superstar podcaster Joe Rogan elbowing his way into Valhöll, the Hall of the Slain, where the greatest Norse warriors spend eternity battling one another in the fields by day, followed by feasting, drinking, and boasting of their heroic deeds at night. These are stories that will be remembered forever.
The triumph of the ‘r-word’
100% HUMAN-GENERATED CONTENT Joe Rogan called the popularization of the slur a “great culture victory.’“ Sad. It is my understanding that neither cowards nor liars are allowed into Valhalla, the Viking afterlife. But maybe a few sneak in from time to time?
The Miserable Masculinity of 'Glengarry Glenn Ross'
It is my limited experience that the words one writes and releases into the wild immediately take on their own lives, and if that is true for hacks, then it must be true for novelists, poets, and playwrights. David Mamet's Pulitzer-winning 1983 drama Glengarry Glen Ross - a playabout cannibalistic Willy Lomans - is enjoying its third Broadway revival this century.
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