We’re approximately two years into 2021, and it’s been a bumpy ride. With warnings of potential armed demonstrations at state capitols in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, and an impending vote on whether or not to impeach Donald Trump for inciting last week’s insurrection, many of us…

Netflix is trying hard to usurp Hallmark as the go-to place for fizzy, big-hearted romantic comedies, but few of its stabs at the genre have hit quite like 2018's To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, the first of what has become a trilogy based on Jenny Han’s young adult novels. It’s been less than a year since its…

Imagine a faded photograph of a bouquet of flowers. Blushing rose has mellowed into apricot and radiant gold into the color of wheat, as what was once a tangible object with weight and scent is reduced to a scrap of paper brittled by time. Someday soon, that paper will also disintegrate, a melancholy idea that’s…

When last Avengers-loving audiences saw Paul Bettany’s Vision, the Synthezoid was lying dead after Thanos ripped the mind stone from his head. As a pre-snap victim of the big guy, Vision wasn’t subject to the resurrections of Avengers: Endgame, because he was actually capital-d dead.

“We’re close.” “Close?” “Yes, to something. I don’t know what.”

Neil Gaiman’s kept habitually (albeit not always happily) busy during the times of quarantine, lockdown, and world-shaking American political chaos—even if he wished real life were a little better written. Appearing on comics and Gaiman superfan Seth Meyers’ Late Night on Tuesday, the American Gods, Sandman, Good Omens

“King Kong ain’t got shit on me!” boasts Denzel Washington’s corrupt cop toward the end of Training Day. That wasn’t actually true, but it apparently sparked a high-concept idea in someone’s mind, since Outside The Wire answers the unasked question, “Say, what if a callow rookie got partnered with the Terminator?” Set…

As you can see by my signature, Dan, I’m a linguist. On your podcast you frequently ask researchers “whatchyougot” on all kinds of sex- and romance-related questions, I thought maybe you’d be interested in some expertise on linguistic matters too. And I have some on “cum,” “cumming,” and (shudder) “cummed.”

Bubble-gummy singles, a relentless touring schedule, and a viral TikTok tune helped pave the way for last year’s Honeymoon, the debut LP from Chicago indie-rock outfit Beach Bunny. The album, a crunchy, hyper-caffeinated ode to turn-of-your-20s romance and doe-eyed yearning, delivered upon the band’s budding promise,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, January 13. All times are Eastern. 

These days, with so many different things to watch and ways to watch them, it can be hard for any one thing to make an impact if it’s not, say, a six-episode HBO miniseries or the one new thing on Netflix that everyone wants to make fun of. And then there’s The Haves And The Have Nots, an original drama on OWN that…

“Birth Mother” ends with one of the most beautifully original sequences in This Is Us history. Having finally learned the full story of his biological mother, Laurel, Randall wades into the lake that served as her place of baptism and renewal during her long and complicated life. There he sees a vision of his birth…

We won’t get to see Matt Reeves’ The Batman for a long time, but Warner Bros. is still banking on the film being enough of a success to justify and HBO Max tie-in series about Gotham City’s police department. We first heard about this plan over the summer, though all we knew at the time was that Boardwalk Empire’s…

On Sunday, an NFL playoff game between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints aired simultaneously on CBS and Nickelodeon, with the former being a traditional broadcast and the latter being a kid-friendly version with some jazzed-up graphics and Nickelodeon cameos designed to make the traditionally dull and…

Per EW, Saved By The Bell alum Dustin Diamond is currently hospitalized in an undisclosed hospital in Florida. Representatives confirmed that the former actor, who played Screech Powers on the perennial teen hit, entered medical care sometime over the weekend. They did not specify why Diamond was hospitalized, but…

It’s not every day you hear about an enormous platform like Twitch swatting the face of one of its most popular emotes clean off and rendering the president’s account indefinitely inert, as it did in the aftermath of last week’s Capitol Building insurrection. But Twitch does do similar things from time to time, on a…

In Yesterday, Danny Boyle imagined a world where The Beatles never existed but everything else was mostly the same for some reason, and his next project is going to be the opposite: Rather than a movie about a world where one popular British rock band never existed, it’s going to be a TV show about a world where one…

The “oddly satisfying” video compilation has become a genre unto itself, although, per the name, it’s often hard to pinpoint the psychology behind it. Who knows why humans are drawn to—and often comforted by—footage of frozen paint being cut or various objects being crushed by a hydraulic press?

As reported by Deadline, filmmaker Stacy Title—who earned an Oscar nomination for directing the 1993 short film Down On The Waterfront—has died. Title was diagnosed with ALS three years ago, shortly after being involved in a car accident that doctors suggested had somehow triggered the neurodegenerative disease. Title…

After years of insisting the show could go on indefinitely, AMC was finally forced to face the post-apocalyptic music last year in the wake of sharply plummeting ratings for its monster-sized flagship series, The Walking Dead. (One would think the obvious fact that no program can go on in perpetuity as the biggest…