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It’s a Hollywood cliche, but unfortunately true, that talented children rarely have it easy transitioning their careers into adulthood, much less...
The end of Netflix’s new true crime documentary What Jennifer Did reveals a bombshell detail: After we’ve learned of the alleged culprits and the...
Netflix is banned in China — part of the government’s ongoing efforts to limit both foreign influence and Chinese citizens’ access to...
Today, the parents of the 2021 Michigan school shooter will cross a grim legal threshold: They will be the first parents in American history to be...
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem premiered March 21, and there’s a lot of science! The new Netflix series from screenwriter Alexander Woo and Game of...
Despite the pro-Palestinian protests taking place outside and the number of politically charged films up for awards, Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony...
Ah, the Oscars. Sunday night’s 96th Academy Awards are the night of a thousand stars and a thousand dreams (hello, Moonlight !) — or heartbreaks,...
We know a gender-nonconforming teen in an Oklahoma high school is dead. We don’t know much else. Nex Benedict did not have a long and troubled...
In 2016, three years before comedian Shane Gillis was hired and then immediately fired from Saturday Night Live , he told an interviewer that he was...
Reader, you can relax: They nailed it. Halfway through the third episode of Netflix’s tremendously anticipated live-action adaptation of Avatar: The...
To be a True Detective fan is to wrestle with uncomfortable contradictions. The first season is both a masterpiece of cosmic horror noir and a piece...
What would Jesus do? The answer is more debatable than you might expect, at least according to the highly polarized reactions to a controversial Super...
Humans are funny little creatures. We love making lists, participating in oddball competitions, and creating weirdly specific metrics to be proud of...
In 2004, in one of the most high-profile trials of the past two decades, Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, 27, and...
The 2024 Oscar nominations are in, and as always, all anyone can talk about are the snubs. Buzzy, highly debated audience favorites like Saltburn and...
By all accounts, it was an accident everyone saw coming, but the questions and chaos surrounding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have...
When a prisoner leaves the carceral system, questions related to their stability and support are paramount: Can they find steady work? Can they secure...
When the 81st Golden Globes arrive on Sunday, January 7, it may look a lot like the award show you remember: informal, mildly erratic, with caustic...
The current Broadway revival of the late Stephen Sondheim’s most notorious flop, 1981’s Merrily We Roll Along, has unquestionably reclaimed the...
After a three-week trial and two days of jury deliberation, Jonathan Majors, the Emmy-nominated star of Lovecraft Country and Creed III , has been...
In the opening moments of Todd Haynes’s May December, scandalous tabloid subject-turned-homemaker Gracie (Julianne Moore) opens a refrigerator,...
The criteria for success on Netflix have always been slippery, particularly regarding the platform’s hit-and-miss efforts with anime. Yet in the...
Comedian Matt Rife’s debut Netflix special Natural Selection may be a hit — the show premiered in the top 10 on November 15 and has stayed there...
In many ways, the country isn’t ready to revisit and reassess the story of Mary Kay Letourneau and her sexual-abuse-victim-turned-husband Vili...
While the most gripping true crime stories take us into the darkest parts of the soul, rarely does a case open the ugly heart of the nation itself....
As Netflix’s The Crown has progressed, its creator and arbiter Peter Morgan has increasingly preferred a humanist touch when it comes to his royal...
Eli Roth’s new film Thanksgiving bills itself as a tongue-in-cheek slasher about a killer stalking the streets of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the...
Imagine a group that promises to help you find your soul mate. What could be more pure? When I stumbled across the concept of “twin flames” years...
Rarely have public scandals been as confused or confusing as the one that caused comedian and former Patriot Act host Hasan Minhaj to lose the Daily...
The reputation of cute cuddly exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren has grown outsized in 21st-century pop culture. That’s mainly thanks to the...
You might not think a story about a bunch of terrifying animatronic pizza joint robots who routinely kill children would make for a hot-ticket movie,...
Throughout the tabloid frenzy, the international headlines, the years of rumors and myths of stranger danger and child trafficking, there was only...
Killers of the Flower Moon , Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated film, opens in theaters on October 20. The newest epic from the acclaimed...
What does it mean to adapt Poe for the modern age? Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, The Fall of the House of Usher, a loose adaptation of the...
If you’re a football fan, you’ve probably heard more about Taylor Swift in the last two weeks than you have in your life to date. If you’re a...
So much for the virtue of staying silent. Several public figures have stepped in it recently by oversharing or making moves they simply didn’t have...
The internet artist Zardulu — creator of Pizza Rat — has claimed that “the creation and perpetuation of myths is art of the highest form.” ...
It’s 2023, and everyone is watching Suits. The question is, which Suits are they watching? In one corner, we have Suits, seasons one through four,...