Jurassic Park, a cinematic achievement in its own right, is the sort of film best enjoyed at any time because dinosaurs are endlessly entertaining and Laura Dern’s acting deserves a retroactive Oscar (her win for Marriage Story does not do her entire body of work justice). The appeal of Jurassic Park and its…
The Amazon Prime show Hunters, which follows a group of Nazi hunters in the 1970s, has gotten mixed reviews from critics, who’ve found it tonally confusing and jarring. It also got a very damning review from the Auschwitz Memorial, which says the show’s depictions of immense brutality are so exaggerated and…
When I was in the ninth grade, two television shows debuted that would go on to define a significant portion of my teenaged experience. One, The O.C., achieved some kind of widespread cultural status and also ruined high school for me by making me think it would be fun. The other, One Tree Hill, had both Chad Michael…
1000 percent Yes: BTS, “ON” - Boy bands, since their origin, have been highly visual entities—their music exists in an image industry as much as it does a sonic one. BTS has taken that idea and exploded it to previously uncharted territory. The latest music video from the K-pop group’s recently released album Map of…
It wasn’t until this week when the on-screen reunion of the queens of The First Wives Club was announced that I realized how much the moviegoers of America truly needed to see Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton together again. There’s something about the acting chemistry between these three women that can…
Restorative yoga, like most wellness endeavors intended to quiet the mind and clear the brain, is beautiful and stupid in equal measure. Paying $25 for an hour of carefully architected prostrations feels silly until you actually get over yourself and do it. Ensconced in the warmth and light of your fellow…
Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, Margot Robbie’s unexpected superhero vehicle, is chaotic in all the best ways. The movie is full to the brim with color and neon and sparkles and is largely guided by the dizzying, frenetic energy of Harley Quinn herself. Harley’s outfits and makeup, styled significantly differently from…
Television has been significantly more boring since Kerry Washington exited the cluttered landscape, along with melodramatic behemoth Scandal, in 2018. Things haven’t been the same since! There are fewer monologues about impassioned love affairs with the president, crazed screaming matches, and pensive wine-drinking…
For many, both versions of High Fidelity—the 1995 novel penned by Nick Hornby and the 2000 movie starring a single-jacket-owning John Cusack—are cult classics. They’re texts that get at the heart of what it’s like to be a person who is very into vinyl records if the only kind of person who can be very into vinyl…
Good news! We are soon to be blessed with a prequel to 2009's wildly entertaining and underrated domestic thriller Orphan, in which (spoiler alert) it is revealed that a family’s seemingly 9-year-old adopted daughter is actually a 33-year-old woman with dwarfism. And you know what? I feel like I deserve this.
Many years ago, in my youth, a man named P. Diddy blessed the airwaves with the iconic talent show Making the Band. Now, 11 years since its final episode, the show that birthed O-Town and Danity Kane is returning to MTV, helmed by Diddy, his children, and choreographer/producer LaurieAnn Gibson.
When Claire Boucher, the artist known as Grimes, released her album Art Angels in 2015, her sound did a full 180. The cold, electronic minimalism that catapulted her to mainstream success on her 2012 album Visions went through a dizzying, sugary makeover, with Boucher zipping between pop-punk riffs and squelchy synths…
Fyre Festival was dead in the water. Woodstock 50 never got in the water at all. And now there’s a new unreal festival in town called Lovers & Friends, which looks like an extravaganza featuring R&B and hip-hop acts from the ’90s and 2000s.
If my grandmother were around to see some of the looks at this year’s BRIT Awards, she would be wondering why Ellie Goulding stole her table cloth, threw it over her body and called it a dress. Goulding’s lace patchwork look by Koche drew lots of eyeballs on the red carpet but also stares from elderly Latinx women who…
Hello, it’s me. I’ve thought about us for a long, long time—and it’s finally real. Adele’s fourth album will drop in September, according to Adele.
My first crush was Peter Pan, which has provided my therapist with a lot of fodder. My second crush was Harrison Ford, who captured my heart so immensely when I first saw Star Wars that I dressed up as Han Solo for no fewer than three Halloweens. It is, therefore, a mild mindfuck that Ford is now into the “old man…
Ya: Billie Eilish, “No Time To Die” - “No Time To Die” isn’t Billie Eilish’s best, and she can’t be blamed—working within the confines of the James Bond series (which usually means forced lyrics about, like, sexy spy stuff... and orchestral refrains), she and her collaborator/brother Finneas managed to craft a…
Did you know that when he is not dating brunette women, Pete Davidson also tells jokes? Well, apparently, unbeknownst to most of us, when Davidson is not acting like a boyfriend, he moonlights as a comedian who jokes about being a boyfriend. And judging from the trailer for his upcoming Netflix special, those jokes…
Sonic the Hedgehog is a failure of the imagination so catastrophic, so unfathomably antipathetic to the very idea of itself, that sitting down to write this review felt like sawing a hole in my own skull, blending my brain up, and drinking it back through a straw. Even conjuring up the words to say this was like…
She has trolled and trolled, but Rihanna has given no indication that her ninth album is coming anytime soon. While she’s been cryptic about when exactly her new music is dropping (“to be continued,” she told ET Online recently), we know that music is being recorded because, and please, I hope you’re sitting down for…
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