Yes: Lady Gaga feat. Ariana Grande, “Rain On Me” - Dance Gaga is back, thank god! The latest from Chromatica is a smoldering disco song featuring Grande that’s giving me Kyle Minogue’s “Love at First Sight” vibes. You think Grande, who is so earnest and pitch-perfect, wouldn’t be a match for Gaga’s campier vocals…

Pop culture has not been kind to Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff at the center of Roe v. Wade. Cinematic and written depictions of McCorvey have alternated between painting her as a dumb country bumpkin or a calculating con artist, someone who was willing to pump both sides of the abortion picket lines for financial…

Almost 30 years after its release, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs still shocks me. No matter how much I’m convinced that I love it, no matter how many scenes I can practically recite verbatim, upon each repeat viewing I’m never not astounded by how fucking good this movie is. It’s always better than I…

Recently, I became obsessed with the WE tv franchise Growing Up Hip-Hop, the cast of which is comprised of former child-star rappers like Bow Wow and also the children of rappers who were famous in a distant past. What initially drew me to the show were the names: Lil Wayne, T.I., Pepa, Treach, and my former high…

Emily Blunt’s husband John Krasinski has sold his self-produced YouTube show Some Good News to ViacomCBS for an undisclosed amount, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Krasinski, of The Office and maybe Jack Ryan fame, launched SGN while self-isolating as a way to spread positive news and to presumably escape from…

Why don’t we talk more about what happened to Jean Seberg? A stylish It Girl bouncing between America and Paris, the actress became one of French New Wave’s most indelible heroines in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film Breathless—ironic considering she was an American—though her career as a serious actress plummeted just as…

On Thursday, Lana Del Rey offered a reductive critique of the pop music scene and feminism, and in the process, she felt compelled to throw a bunch of black women under the bus, which as you can imagine didn’t go well for her.

Not very long ago, Taylor Lautner was getting paid by the ab, each commanding upwards of $1 million. At least, that’s how legendary Hollywood journalist Nicki Finke put it when she reported in January 2010 that Lautner would be getting paid $7.5 million for Northern Lights, a planned extreme-flying flick. Just like…

Have you ever wanted to see what it would look like if you tried to turn a corpse into a playable musical instrument? What about making a beehive out of a human skull, or using comatose bodies to fertilize a mushroom garden? If your answer is no, absolutely not, to all of these questions, I want to congratulate you on…

Shockwaves radiated throughout the Bravosphere last week when a Vanderpump Rules editor admitted to purposefully giving Scheana Shay an embarrassing edit on the show. The news only emboldened the #JusticeforScheana movement of late—which calls for better treatment and more respect for the series OG, who is often…

Like many high school students with a superiority complex, I thought I was too cool for Twilight when it first emerged as a new, exciting pop cultural force for brooding teens. Though firmly in the “Y” demographic that makes up YA literature’s readership, something about horny vampires unrelated to the poetry of my…

It’s been a long season for viewers of Vanderpump. I’d normally summarize events up top, but I’m at a loss for what exactly happened. Did they do a Pride episode? Was there even a cast trip? Was Jax and Brittany’s wedding this season or the last one? Questions with easily-found answers, but I’m at a deficit of…

Every spring, the New York Botanical Garden unveils its showstopper exhibit for the summer season: the annual Orchid Show. The conservatory at the Botanical Garden is lovely enough on its own, but the Orchid Show injects a hearty dose of theatricality into an already-dramatic setting, which takes the edge off walking…

In the upcoming film Infamous, Bella Thorne revamps a classic Bonnie & Clyde tale: she’s Arielle and Jake Manley (A Dog’s Journey) is Dean—two lovers who commit crimes together and document them on social media, earning millions of followers for their stunts. It is an insane premise with a trailer that truly delivers.

Covid-19 has prompted a massive swath of cancellations—festivals, weddings, vacations, everyone’s future. And now, even the Oscars are on the chopping block, even though they take place in February. So much for those “packed churches by Easter” plans.

How do you describe a woman like Phaedra Parks? On television, before being ousted from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, she was both a preacher’s kid and the nastiest sex maniac of the bunch. She was a lawyer, but would gladly libel her castmates with felonious accusations of sex dungeons, druggings, and attempted rape…

Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice’s 1976 foray into the bloody, sexy world of the undead, is an undisputed classic. The 1994 movie, which features Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and freaking Antonio Banderas, is a different story.

Legally Blonde is without question Reese Witherspoon’s greatest contribution to film, and anyone who disagrees has not seen the movie in its entirety. The sequel was less of a film revelation, but it was still nice to spend time with Elle Woods. In her never-ending benevolence, Witherspoon has chosen to don the pink…

Temptation Island, the reality tv dating show that is not Love Island despite the fact that couples compete to see if they can manage not to cheat on their significant other, will continue on as coronavirus-related shelter in place restrictions become more relaxed in a few international locations.

My history with the Twilight films is nonexistent unless one counts the time a friend and I filled my purse with miniature bottles of wine and went to a midnight showing of the final film, which I believe was called Daylight. However, I, personally, do not count this experience as having seen a Twilight film, as I…