If the superhero stratosphere has anything resembling a sole leading actor, it's the one who plays Captain America. That's Anthony Mackie now. The forthcoming Captain America: Brave New World will kick off a critical new chapter of the MCU, which will culminate with two new Avengers films. Meaning: His life, sure as the stars and stripes on his new suit, is about to change. For Mackie, the achievement—top billing in a major studio blockbuster—feels like validation. His superpower is not that he's very good at what he does but that he's very good in anything he does, no matter the size of the role. Throughout his twenty-five-year-long career, he's been so consistent that audiences and awards bodies have taken him for granted. "Captain America is my Oscar," he says. "Because I've been overlooked so many times in my career." |
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This isn't the return to Yellowstone that I imagined for John Dutton. |
| Right now, Gap's Leather Western Belt is only 30 bucks. |
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Not to toot our own horn or anything, but when it comes to loafers, Esquire has impeccable taste. The modern iteration of the loafer that we know and love (not to be confused with the moccasin, which originated with Native Americans) was first popularized by our editors back in the '30s. So when it comes to the best loafers of today, rest assured that we know what we're talking about. |
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In a new video interview with Esquire, the Captain America: Brave New World actor opens up about the 8 Mile rap battle, throwing fists in Million Dollar Baby, and squaring up against a shark. |
| You deserve better than those TV built-in speakers. |
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What better time for the USDA to be without an inspector general—or, worse, some MAGA hack pretending to be one—what with bird flu decimating cattle and poultry and leaping between species to 67 people? The White House defended the firing of Fong and the other inspectors general, saying "these rogue, partisan bureaucrats ... have been relieved of their duties in order to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy." |
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 In the course of our conversations, I mentioned to him that we had experienced trauma in our family—my younger son had been stricken with leukemia at age six, a few years before—and I suppose I thought that it might be a natural point of connection between us. I told him that we wanted to do everything we could to protect our older son—who at the time was almost the age Kennedy was when his father was assassinated—from the sadness that sometimes seemed to overwhelm him. I asked Kennedy for some wisdom about how to protect and love traumatized children so that the terrible circumstances of their lives don't define or control them.
In his reply, Kennedy did not give me wisdom about protecting and loving traumatized children. He said this: |
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Hey, it's better than grocery store roses. |
| The incredible new trailer flashes vampires, guns, and Michael B. Jordan going full Parent Trap. |
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There is perhaps no watchmaker more synonymous with motorsport than TAG Heuer. From the early days of Jack Heuer selling stopwatches to racers at the track to the introduction of entire watch families named for the pursuit—Monaco, Carrera, and, yeah, Formula 1—the Swiss maker has been beloved by speed freaks the world over. It's only natural, then, that earlier this month TAG Heuer announced (after much speculation and rumormongering) its sponsorship of Formula 1 as part of a larger deal with LVMH and conglomerate stablemates like Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy. |
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The cozy essential is the basis of your winter rotation. |
| The constitutional power of the purse is supposed to belong to the legislative branch. |
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Paradise, a new Hulu series starring Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden, contains a twist in the premiere that reminds me exactly why I love TV. Here's why: I missed the incredibly satisfying feeling of watching a Big Idea unravel before my eyes—and knowing that I'm either watching a new series that I'll tell everyone about, or lament to everyone who'll listen about how said series fumbled its Big Idea. I can't say which way Paradise will swing, but I'm heavily intrigued. |
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