Why Keanu Reeves Is Such an Unusual (and Great) Action Star

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( February 17, 2017 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [Why Keanu Reeves Is Such an Unusual (and Great) Action Star He works in both the tradition of Hong Kong action films and classic Hollywood.]( [What Logan Gets About Telling a Great Superhero Story The new Wolverine movie understands the ideas and beats necessary for a great superhero story.]( [How ‘Classic Man,’ One of the Best Music Cues of the Year, Ended Up in Moonlight Jidenna, whose ‘Classic Man’ soundtracks one of Moonlight’s best scenes, wishes he had a copy of the chopped and screwed mix.]( [Tom Hiddleston Played the Front Leg of Eddie Redmayne’s Elephant in Their Extremely Posh School Play What school puts on A Passage to India?]( [Vulture Pick: Mophie Powerstation Throw it in your bag and charge your phone fully up to two times while on the go.]( [How to Watch Planet Earth II in 4K Ultra High-Definition If you have satellite TV, you’re in luck.]( [Subject of Oscar-Nominated White Helmets Will Attend Awards Despite Travel Ban “We are eagerly looking forward to coming to the Oscars.”]( [How A Cure for Wellness Pulled Off Its Creepiest Scenes Director Gore Verbinski and star Dane DeHaan tell the stories behind the new horror movie’s scariest bits.]( [Jidenna’s The Chief Is Smart, Fun, and All Over the Place It’s a trip through rap, R&B, rock, reggae, and dancehall that feels like a function of an artist’s genuine widespread interests.]( [Todd Grinnell On Becoming the New Schneider on One Day at a Time and His Part in The Young Pope “This guy kind of sees himself as a mix between Keith Richards and Richard Branson.”]( [How Lion, Arrival, and Other Oscar Movies Are Revamping Their Awards-Season Narratives On this week’s episode of The Awards Show Show, hosts Kyle Buchanan and John Horn look at films that have pivoted to new talking points.]( [Betrayal! Music! Kissing! Watch the Trailer for Terrence Malick’s Song to Song Starring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman.]( [Why Are American Directors So Bad at Sex? The gulf between how American directors present sex and how their colleagues across the pond do it has never been wider.]( [The ‘Jedi’ in Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi Is Plural, Meaning Luke Doesn’t Have to Die There had been confusion since the title was announced.]( [According to a New Star Wars Novel, Jar Jar Binks Lived Out the Rest of His Life As a Sad Clown Haunted by Guilt “Jar Jar makin some uh-oh mistakens.”]( [Jim Gaffigan On Writing a Joke About Attractive Cable News Anchors, and How He Stopped Using the Voice The comic takes us inside his process in this transcript of Vulture’s new comedy podcast Good One.]( [Late Night’s Best Jokes About Trump’s Instantly Infamous Press Conference There’s a lot to unpack, and Colbert, Fallon, Noah, Meyers, Kimmel, and Corden are here to unpack it.]( [Nashville Recap: Seeing Red Really, Nashville? Another car crash?]( [Lin-Manuel Miranda Casually Consulted Meryl Streep on British Accents They discussed the finer points of nailing different British accents.]( [The Golden Girls Proved Its Fearlessness Yet Again When It Tackled the AIDS Epidemic The show reminded viewers of its progressiveness when Rose had an HIV scare.]( [Katy Perry Came Late to the ‘Purposeful Pop’ Party Katy Perry just coined a name for something her peers have already been doing for a while now.]( [Solange Remembers Late Funk Legend Junie Morrison, the Inspiration Behind Her Song ‘Junie’ Morrison died at 62 on Saturday.]( [Reese Witherspoon’s Best Type-A Maniacs From Election to Big Little Lies.]( [The Leftovers Begins Its Descent Into Australia, Its Final Destination, in a New Season 3 Trailer Coming to HBO Sunday, April 16.]( [USA’s The Sinner Trailer Finds Jessica Biel Very Far From Both 7th and Actual Heaven Coming to USA this summer.]( [Read More on Vulture »]( REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe]( | [vulture.com]( | [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy policy]( | [nymag.com]( | Copyright © 2017, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013