Tell us about your pop culture weekend: March 22-24
Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this…
Nicole Byer, Awkwafina, and Chelsea Peretti swing by for Megan Amram’s The Simpsons debut
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, March 24. All times are Eastern.
John Wick wants to wish us all a happy National Puppy Day, which is a little rich
As far as major action movie franchises go, the John Wick series has had a pretty ruff (sorry) track record when it…
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Shazam! zaps an old-fashioned superhero into a blockbuster world
A phenomenon of the 1940s, the superhero formerly known as Captain Marvel embodies a simpler era of comics, the…
Hell yeah, the Elton John biopic Rocketman is going to be R-rated
Ah, the rock ‘n’ roll biopic: Always walking that fine line between Hollywood respectability, and giving the people the…
Jason Clarke sad he didn't get to be in more lousy Terminator sequels
[This article discusses plot details from Terminator Genisys, in case avoiding plot spoilers for Terminator Genisys was…
Chasing Barbara Loden and the broken, beer-soaked soul of Wanda
Born either in 1932 or 1934, depending on who’s asking, and dead by 1980, Barbara Loden was a brief glimmer in the eye…
This high school drama club put on a stage production of Alien, and it looks fantastic
Picking up the mantle once championed by the (sadly fictional) Max Fisher Players, a high school drama club in Bergen,…
Larry Fessenden on Frankenstein, art, and Universal's Dark Universe: "They don't understand horror"
Larry Fessenden’s name is pretty much inextricable from independent horror cinema at this point. Over the course of the…
Our favorites—from Game Of Thrones moments to cats in film to profanity—make up our favorite stories this week
Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check…
What’s your favorite expression of profanity from pop culture?
This week’s question is pegged to the upcoming Deadwood movie:
Jojen Reed gets out of Bran’s dreams, and into his traveling party
Bran, Rickon, Hodor, and Osha meet the Reeds
Jesus, these Barbra Streisand quotes about Michael Jackson's Leaving Neverland accusers are rough
Every now and then, our cultural zeitgeist coughs up a new public Rorschach test, the sort of big, emotionally charged…
Here's what'll be on The Criterion Channel when it debuts next month
Ever since classy, high-end movie streaming service FilmStruck was shuttered late last year, Warner Bros. has been…
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend plays with perception, perspective, and frames-per-minute in an excellent hour
Isn’t it magical? Say it’s magical!
Taika Waititi is voicing a beloved murder-droid in The Mandalorian
Jon Favreau’s upcoming Star Wars TV Western The Mandalorian keeps making the kind of behind-the-scenes decisions that…
Hereditary's Ari Aster says his next movie is "a Wizard Of Oz for perverts"
We were already suitably disturbed by the brightly sinister trailer for Midsommar, the second big horror release from He…
An algorithm now has a record deal
In what we can only assume is some kind of supervillain-ass effort to flood the entire planet in the tears of…
Julianne Moore was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me? because she wanted a fat suit and fake nose
In a turn oddly fitting for a movie all about deception and controversy, a weird wrinkle has recently cropped up in the…
Nobody can name a single character in Avatar, apparently
Despite the massive box office returns of recent Marvel movies and Star Wars installments, James Cameron’s Avatar…