April 24, 2026 - Week in Review: "Michael," toxic fandoms, and a new Drag Race champion
About The Episode
On this edition of The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Joyce Kulhawik, go over the week’s top arts and culture headlines, which include
“Michael,” the new Michael Jackson biopic is reigniting an old argument. The film leans into Jackson’s rise as a child star and global pop phenomenon while sidestepping the child sexual abuse allegations that permanently altered his public standing, raising questions about mythmaking, memory, and omission.
Hollywood is revving Miami Vice back to life with Miami Vice ’85, a new feature film starring Michael B. Jordan as Tubbs and Austin Butler as Crockett. The project heads back into the franchise’s pastel, speedboat, neon-night vision of 1980s cool.
In the final days of World War II, hundreds of paintings hidden in Berlin for safekeeping were destroyed by fire, including works by artists like Caravaggio and Rubens. Now those lost masterpieces are being recreated in digital form from old photographs, turning a story of destruction into one of remembrance.
One of Britain’s great television landmarks is coming to a close. The documentary series Up, which returned to the same participants every seven years from childhood onward, became a portrait of class, fate, and the changing character of England; now 70 Up, directed by Asif Kapadia, will bring the series to an end later this year
