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tv A brief history of Emmys voting rules—and snafus
By Saloni Gajjar September 18, 2021 | 2:47pm
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film Everybody’s Talking About Jamie—and soon they’ll be talking about Max Harwood, too
By Cameron Scheetz September 18, 2021 | 3:00am
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aux Let's bring in the weekend with Copshop, Deathloop, vampires gambling—and Weezer
By William Hughes September 18, 2021 | 1:52am
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film There’s a strong streak of Hereditary horror in Broadway adaptation The Humans
By A.A. Dowd September 17, 2021 | 11:30pm
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aux Cower in terror: The latest TikTok trend is about dumping canned beans on peoples' front porches
By Reid McCarter September 17, 2021 | 9:30pm
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music Riot Fest doesn't seem to be taking the whole COVID thing seriously
By Gabrielle Sanchez, Alex McLevy September 17, 2021 | 9:02pm
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film Watch a horror artist turn a Frozen coloring book into a catalog of terrors
By Reid McCarter September 17, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux A look at how Fat Bear Week went from a one-off event to the highlight of every year
By Reid McCarter September 17, 2021 | 5:30pm
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film Andrew Garfield says Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were America's first reality show couple
By Marah Eakin September 17, 2021 | 5:00pm
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tv The Morning Show's Billy Crudup on humanity’s slow march towards progress
By Marah Eakin September 17, 2021 | 3:00pm
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film There were hits and misses aplenty at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife September 17, 2021 | 12:00pm
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film The new era of Nic Cage, Movie Star: The actor shares the methods behind his on-screen madness
By Cameron Scheetz September 17, 2021 | 11:00am
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film Is Bad Boys For Life the last blockbuster?
By Tom Breihan September 17, 2021 | 5:00am
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games Lost Judgment is a faithful recreation of living a completely absurd life
By Sam Barsanti September 17, 2021 | 5:00am
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games Dutch thieves execute daring Pokémon card heist
By William Hughes September 16, 2021 | 10:55pm
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film Read this: A brief history of “Licorice Pizza,” the L.A. record store that inspired Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest
By Matt Schimkowitz September 16, 2021 | 9:53pm
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aux Strange if true: People prefer watching TV to gnawing off their own arm during their morning commutes
By Andrew Paul September 16, 2021 | 9:45pm
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aux Scientists are working on a wooly mammoth hybrid, presumably so we can make it extinct for a second time
By Reid McCarter September 16, 2021 | 8:45pm
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film Texas man cited by police for walking around in a storm dressed as Michael Myers
By Reid McCarter September 16, 2021 | 7:45pm
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aux How To With John Wilson begins another season of life lessons on November 26
By Matt Schimkowitz September 16, 2021 | 6:44pm
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music Nicki Minaj's swollen BallGate eclipses White House, Trinidadian health officials, Tucker Carlson
By Andrew Paul September 16, 2021 | 6:33pm
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tv Which actors will win, and which should win, at the 2021 Emmys?
By Danette Chavez September 16, 2021 | 5:00pm
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tv Jennifer Aniston on COVID, hubris, and The Morning Show
By Marah Eakin September 16, 2021 | 5:00pm
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film Jessica Chastain on becoming Tammy Faye and why she'd love to be a Drag Race judge
By Marah Eakin September 16, 2021 | 3:00pm
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tv Forget Mike Richards: Let Jeopardy! be guided by Alex Trebek’s philosophy
By Alex McLevy September 16, 2021 | 2:40pm
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film St. Vincent on her meta-documentary The Nowhere Inn and the upshot of "flop eras"
By Cameron Scheetz September 16, 2021 | 5:00am
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film Clint Eastwood once told Jeff Daniels he could relate to Dumb And Dumber's diarrhea scene
By Reid McCarter September 15, 2021 | 9:30pm
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music Grit your teeth and fling yourself into a history of the mosh pit
By Reid McCarter September 15, 2021 | 8:00pm
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film Why has Alanis Morissette denounced this documentary about her life?
By Katie Rife September 15, 2021 | 7:35pm
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music Rolling Stone's released a new "500 Best Songs Of All Time" list for you to get mad at
By Reid McCarter September 15, 2021 | 6:30pm
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tv What shows will win, and which should win, at the 2021 Emmys
By Danette Chavez September 15, 2021 | 5:30pm
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film At Toronto, three major films bloom in the shadow of Great Artists
By A.A. Dowd September 15, 2021 | 5:20pm
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aux Norm Macdonald told jokes, dammit
By Matt Schimkowitz September 15, 2021 | 3:04pm
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tv Hasan Minhaj on going from The Daily Show to The Morning Show
By Marah Eakin September 15, 2021 | 3:00pm
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tv Chris Bauer on True Blood, The Wire, and the “incredible grace” of Tom Hanks
By Marah Eakin September 15, 2021 | 5:00am
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aux This week in Savage Love: Hands on
By Dan Savage September 15, 2021 | 5:00am
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tv Fans, fellow comedians, and Frank Stallone react to the death of Norm Macdonald
By Sam Barsanti September 14, 2021 | 10:14pm
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tv These clips show why Norm Macdonald was the best worst talk show guest of all time
By William Hughes September 14, 2021 | 9:55pm
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film A scientific inquiry into the number of s'mores the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man's body could create
By Reid McCarter September 14, 2021 | 9:30pm
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film Lord Of The Rings actors encourage Italian man's quest to live as a real world hobbit
By Reid McCarter September 14, 2021 | 8:00pm
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film A company is willing to pay you $1,300 to watch 13 horror movies while wearing a Fitbit
By Reid McCarter September 14, 2021 | 7:30pm
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music Nicki Minaj wasn't at the Met Gala because her cousin's friend's balls are swollen
By Andrew Paul September 14, 2021 | 5:48pm
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film The Boss Baby is now the subject of a philosophy symposium
By Matt Schimkowitz September 14, 2021 | 5:00pm
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tv Eileen Davidson on the differences between Days Of Our Lives and the unscripted soapiness of Real Housewives
By Gwen Ihnat September 14, 2021 | 3:20pm
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tv Here's why The Morning Show decided to set its second season on the cusp of COVID
By Marah Eakin September 14, 2021 | 3:00pm
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film Is Kenny G good, actually?
By Katie Rife September 13, 2021 | 10:30pm
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tv Well, hi-diddly-ho, Portland now has a bridge called "Ned Flanders Crossing"
By Reid McCarter September 13, 2021 | 9:30pm
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music The VMAs again prove that "Latin" is a flawed classification in awards shows
By Tatiana Tenreyro September 13, 2021 | 7:15pm
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games Here, for your consideration, is a Nintendo 64 that plays metal music and breathes fire
By Reid McCarter September 13, 2021 | 6:30pm
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tv If you've worn out LuLaRich, try these 7 documentaries about grifters, scammers, and Fyre fraudsters
By Danette Chavez, Saloni Gajjar September 13, 2021 | 5:41pm
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film Jeff Daniels on everyone who wanted to stop him from doing Dumb And Dumber
By Reid McCarter September 13, 2021 | 5:30pm
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aux Aack Cast reclaims Cathy from decades of detractors
By Marnie Shure, Dan Jakes, Anthony D Herrera September 13, 2021 | 5:00pm
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music The best of Pitchfork Music Festival 2021
By Alex McLevy, Laura Adamczyk, Gabrielle Sanchez September 13, 2021 | 3:52pm
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film Olivia Munn battles assaultive anxiety on a very psychological day at TIFF
By A.A. Dowd September 12, 2021 | 9:45pm
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film The director of Portrait Of A Lady On Fire pivots from romantic to motherly love
By Katie Rife September 12, 2021 | 1:00am
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film Study finds the Jackass guys have suffered $24 million in injuries
By William Hughes September 11, 2021 | 11:14pm
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film Toronto gets the big folly of the festival out of the way immediately with Dear Evan Hansen
By A.A. Dowd September 11, 2021 | 7:20pm
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film Halloween killed, and so did Kristen Stewart, at a beautifully excessive Venice Film Festival
By Leila Latif September 10, 2021 | 10:50pm
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aux Media tries, fails to convince us that Mr. Peanut-shaped UFO was a Planters ad
By Reid McCarter September 10, 2021 | 8:00pm
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film Shang-Chi finally gives The Mandarin (both of them) their due
By Matt Schimkowitz September 10, 2021 | 7:00pm
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film Blockbuster lives on as little free library-style boxes
By Reid McCarter September 10, 2021 | 6:00pm
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film Why turning books into movies is such a challenge
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife September 10, 2021 | 12:00pm
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aux Let Guy Fieri, Natalie Morales, and Keanu’s rubber ducky set the tone for your weekend
By Katie Rife September 10, 2021 | 11:00am
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film Ever After did the Cinderella story right
By Caroline Siede September 10, 2021 | 5:00am
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games Life Is Strange: True Colors blends a playable indie movie with a stunning treatise on empathy
By William Hughes September 10, 2021 | 5:00am
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tv What We Do In The Shadows’ Aida Turturro on this week’s Twilight spoof
By Saloni Gajjar September 10, 2021 | 4:00am
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aux The story of the first "cryptocoin cruise ship" is exactly as weird and dumb as all those words imply
By William Hughes September 10, 2021 | 3:45am
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aux Literal bird brains can accept climate change faster than Republicans
By Andrew Paul September 9, 2021 | 9:35pm
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music "Never Gonna Give You Up" achieves its anime theme song final form
By Andrew Paul September 9, 2021 | 8:30pm
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tv Realtor runs down the accuracy of pop culture apartments and homes
By Reid McCarter September 9, 2021 | 7:45pm
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tv Just a really good performance of the Twin Peaks theme song on electric guitar
By Reid McCarter September 9, 2021 | 7:00pm
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aux Great blue heron becomes New York City hero for eating a big, wet rat
By Reid McCarter September 9, 2021 | 5:30pm
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tv Cowboy Bebop’s villain shouldn't work in live-action, but that makes him perfect for it
By Sam Barsanti September 9, 2021 | 3:20pm
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music "Raffi for President": The children's music icon looks back on his playful life and career
By Marah Eakin September 9, 2021 | 11:00am
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music Which of the 53 new covers of songs from Metallica’s self-titled Black Album are the best?
By Alex McLevy September 9, 2021 | 5:00am
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film David Chase spills beans on Many Saints sequel, failed projects, and more in new interview
By Matt Schimkowitz September 8, 2021 | 9:41pm
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aux Kamala Khan takes on the internet in Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin
By M.L. Kejera September 8, 2021 | 8:00pm
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aux Spanish bishop resigns to pursue relationship with "satanic-tinged erotic fiction" author
By Reid McCarter September 8, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Regina Hall and Melissa McCarthy on the tiny husbands and big reveals of the latest Nine Perfect Strangers
By Cameron Scheetz September 8, 2021 | 3:00pm
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tv RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio on selling shoes, and the history of male-presenting drag performers
By Marah Eakin September 8, 2021 | 5:00am
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aux This week in Savage Love: On the down blow
By Dan Savage September 8, 2021 | 5:00am
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tv Steve from Blue’s Clues is sorry he abandoned us as kids
By Tatiana Tenreyro September 7, 2021 | 10:46pm
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aux Agent of chaos responsible for demoting Pluto now says there is a ninth planet, actually
By Andrew Paul September 7, 2021 | 9:30pm
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music Tony Hawk covers "No Cigar" from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 soundtrack
By Reid McCarter September 7, 2021 | 8:00pm
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music Musician plays Red Hot Chili Peppers on a bunch of red (presumably hot) chili peppers
By Reid McCarter September 7, 2021 | 7:30pm
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aux Red Lines’ clumsy attempt to decry cartoon censorship ends up defending bigotry
By Caitlin Rosberg September 7, 2021 | 6:05pm
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aux Let’s remember the myriad ways Michael K. Williams was a joyous badass
By Andrew Paul September 7, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Simu Liu is (probably) the world's most successful stock model
By Tatiana Tenreyro September 7, 2021 | 5:15pm
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tv The unknowable Guy Fieri, pandemic folk hero and political Rorschach test
By Matt Schimkowitz September 7, 2021 | 2:45pm
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tv Aasif Mandvi on Evil season 2 and exploring South Asian folklore through horror
By Saloni Gajjar September 7, 2021 | 5:00am
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tv Drag Race All Stars 6 winner Kylie Sonique Love reveals what was going through her head during that tumble
By Cameron Scheetz September 6, 2021 | 1:00pm
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film Diamonds in the multiplex rough: 13 great Hollywood movies from the dog days of August
By Gwen Ihnat, A.A. Dowd, Cameron Scheetz, Alex McLevy, Laura Adamczyk, Katie Rife, William Hughes September 6, 2021 | 5:00am
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film The secret to Twitter success is being Mark Hamill and just tweeting "Mark Hamill"
By Sam Barsanti September 5, 2021 | 10:06pm
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tv Matt Rogers talks Q-Force and the challenges of making queer comedy for the masses
By Cameron Scheetz September 5, 2021 | 5:00am
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film Cinderella's director strove for inclusivity, comedy in new adaptation
By Marah Eakin September 4, 2021 | 10:04pm
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tv What’s a piece of media you were expecting to hate but ended up loving?
By Baraka Kaseko, Alex McLevy, Shanicka Anderson, Tatiana Tenreyro, Matt Schimkowitz, Sam Barsanti, Katie Rife September 4, 2021 | 11:00am
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film Shang-Chi director on the Mandarin, the Hulk, and the Morrises that could have been
By Marah Eakin September 4, 2021 | 3:00am
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aux A scammer is using Keanu Reeves to trick unwitting older women
By Tatiana Tenreyro September 3, 2021 | 6:34pm
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film Let’s talk about Shang-Chi’s confusing post-credits cameo
By Alex McLevy September 3, 2021 | 6:00pm
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film Dune has finally premiered, and it’s a staggering spectacle of sci-fi imagination
By Leila Latif September 3, 2021 | 4:45pm
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film Cinderella's Billy Porter: "Magic has no gender"
By Marah Eakin September 3, 2021 | 3:00pm
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film Should you spend Labor Day weekend with Shang-Chi or the Candyman?
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife September 3, 2021 | 12:00pm
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aux Shang-Chi, meet Steve Martin: Here’s everything you should watch this weekend
By Marah Eakin September 3, 2021 | 11:00am
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film Disney’s lucrative remake plan culminated with a soulless, joyless “live action” Lion King
By Tom Breihan September 3, 2021 | 5:00am
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games Psychonauts 2 cooks up a beautiful spin on its brilliant, busted, brain-blasting mechanics
By William Hughes September 3, 2021 | 5:00am
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tv What We Do In The Shadows cast on the biggest moments from the season 3 premiere
By Saloni Gajjar September 3, 2021 | 4:00am
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tv Cameo's rankings of its most successful celebrities come straight out of our sitcom nightmares
By William Hughes September 3, 2021 | 3:18am
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aux We condemn you to Websites From Hell, an archive of the internet's ugliest websites
By Reid McCarter September 2, 2021 | 9:30pm