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If Netflix has its way, all of us are about to become gamers. News broke last week that the streamer plans to make four new games based on some of its...
Every now and again, the circumstances of one’s life converge in a single incandescent moment to illustrate how absurd this world really is. Take,...
Donald Trump’s hush money trial is a historic landmark of great national and electoral significance. This marks the first time a former U.S....
When did you first fall in love with Jennifer Lopez on screen? Maybe she charmed you while stealing Natasha Richardson’s clothes to flirt with Ralph...
Nepo babies are a dime a dozen at the Cannes Film Festival, but this week, one of them has really stood out from the pack. Her name is Pilaf Moore....
Which of these scenarios would be more frightening: walking into a particle accelerator that might or might not open the gates of hell, or becoming...
As a longtime fan of the reality dating genre, I’ll be the first to admit that some of my favorite shows have never scored high in the “taste”...
For decades now, French beaches have weathered a strange kind of plague. Since the 1980s, shards of orange plastic phones have been washing...
It’s hard to overstate how gaga viewers were over The Good Doctor when it first premiered in 2017. The ABC medical drama stars Freddie Highmore...
When Parks and Recreation first premiered in spring 2009, we were all living in a different world. Wide belts, baker boy hats, and multi-colored...
Dearest gentle reader, I recognize that the laws of attraction can be fickle. The very same features that might make one person quiver beneath her...
Hailey and Justin Bieber’s baby might not have left the womb yet, but it’s already learning the ropes of influencer marketing. True to form,...
Friends, I might have a problem. Give me your thoughts on this one: Is it just me, or is Chris Pine slowly ascending to a plane of hotness that most...
John Mulaney has no intention of making his six-episode live Netflix show, Everybody’s in L.A. , more coherent. As he put it during the show’s...
It’s not easy being a mom—just ask Brooke Shields’s character, Lana, in Netflix’s newest rom-com, Mother of the Bride . One minute, your...
Each night, John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in L.A. loosely organizes itself around a theme. Friday’s premiere of the six-episode Netflix live...
John Mulaney’s free-wheeling, ongoing Netflix special Everybody’s in L.A. might want to start informing their guests that they’re being...
When Brigette Lundy-Paine met director Jane Schoenbrun, they knew they needed to be a part of A24’s emo horror hit, I Saw the TV Glow . It wasn’t...
I Saw the TV Glow is one of those movies that seems to crawl under your skin. For months after watching the film, you might just catch yourself...
I had no idea what to expect when I tuned into the first episode of John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. on Friday night, but by the end, I...
Maya Hawke might play the famous novelist and essayist Flannery O’Connor in her new movie, Wildcat , but during the film’s press tour, she’s...
Anyone who’s ever lived in the ’burbs knows what a thorny topic landscaping can be, and for the past couple years, Chris Pine has apparently been...
Welcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of...
If you spend too much time on the internet, it can start to feel like everyone is talking about age gaps all the time—and if they’re not talking...
Welcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of...
Blue Ivy Carter might not appear in the first teaser for Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, but she’s already stolen the show. It turns out that both...
For weeks, it seems, the name on everybody’s lips has been Zendaya. Coming into the Challengers press tour, we all knew that Queen Z would show...
According to its own self-mythology, the entertainment industry is something far grander, more poetic and noble, than just a titanic money-maker. Our...
Maya Rudolph didn’t mean to make waves this week when she sat down with Dax Shepard for an episode of Armchair Expert, but alas, sometimes you...
If Meghan Markle’s lifestyle brand American Riveria Orchard and its strawberry jam are all part of a grand plan to troll the royal family, chances...
The Grey’s Anatomy fandom has never lacked for controversial characters. In fact, Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital seems to hire specifically for that...
Eight years ago, Taylor Swift and Kanye West shared a phone call that would later go down in infamy. Somehow, we still haven’t heard the end of it,...
Katy Perry, respectfully, what the hell are you doing? Is it just me, or do we, as a society, collectively ask that question every three months or...
Baby Reindeer is not the sort of show you’d necessarily expect to take over Netflix. It’s not a sensational true-crime drama, a flashily produced...
It might be hard to imagine how any human character could steal the show in a movie all about a 12-year-old vampire-ballerina, but in the deliciously...
These are two things I never thought I’d mash together in a sentence, but here goes nothing: RuPaul’s Drag Race and a Martin Scorsese biopic have...
In the year of our lord 2024, the scourge of AI has become inescapable, even in pop culture. There’s a robo-character named “Max” catfishing on ...
When I first learned that an AI chatbot was joining The Circle for Season 6, I wasn’t exactly worried for the human players. We’ve heard plenty...
Chappell Roan’s debut album might chart The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, but in the world of pop, she’s going nowhere but up. The...
By the end of The Stranger , Maika Monroe’s terrified protagonist, rideshare driver Clare, has really suffered. She’s been stalked by a menacing...
Veena Sud’s goal in making The Stranger might’ve been to tell a story about toxic masculinity, but this horror movie also doubles as a cautionary...
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne has no idea how he came to be the executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate, but he wants everyone to know that he takes the job...
Friends, I regret to announce that we’ve reached a new, uniquely annoying era when it comes to celebrity beef. Either Drake just fired back at...