We’ve always been communal creatures, humans. From the dawn of time, it has been our capacity for partnership—for pooling the shared resources of collective labor, and leveraging them for great leaps forward into the progress-laden smorgasbord of the future—that has marked the great starts and stops of human…

Last January (pre-quar!), we reported that Paul Reubens was excitedly shopping around a new Pee-wee Herman project that he billed as a “dark and unexpected” take on the character in which he is “sent to a mental hospital for shock treatment for his alcoholism.” He offered to make it for no money and got separate…

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” was one of the biggest songs of 2020. It was seemingly inescapable, even as any activity where you’d be forced to listen to the radio diminished drastically thanks to the pandemic. In fact, the song became the first ever to spend an entire year on the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart

When The Simpsons first hit televisions back in 1989, they were meant to embody most Americans’ notions of typical suburban family: the dad with a working class job, the homemaker wife, three kids, a cat, a dog—the usual. But 1989 was a long-ass time ago, and my, oh my, have things changed. Although the show’s cartoon…

Steven Spielberg’s films have left an indelible mark on countless childhoods, giving generations of movie fans opportunities to come together through seemingly universal experiences—whether it’s with movies that are explicitly about growing up or movies that are simply so timeless that everyone at any point in their…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Coming 2 America now available to rent from home, we’re offering our own belated sequel to a past Watch This theme and singing the praises of more good comedy…

Drones. Sometimes they’re pretty badass. Most of the time... not so much. So it was only a matter of time before the internet stumbled across a video somehow straddling both options. On the one hand, this first-person, single-shot clip of a drone whizzing through the public and private sections of a bowling alley is…

Matthew McConaughey has been a lot of things over the course of various careers: He’s been a beach bum, an immortal wizard, the star of The Beach Bum, a guy who drives Lincolns, a bourbon spokesman, a rom-com icon, a guy in a Chevelle picking up high school girls, a god visiting from the heavens to enjoy our human Olympics

Now that an entire year has passed since most of us went into lockdown in response to the spread of COVID-19, there’s enough distance from the beginning of the pandemic to look back with some kind of remove and see how it’s affected the normal patterns of our lives. In an effort to allow readers “into the life of a…

At its heart, the Toy Story franchise has always featured pretty heavy meditations on mortality, loss, and letting go. For every slapstick gag or cute, squeaky, three-eyed alien zealot, there’s a bunch of beloved characters confronting death by staring straight into its inevitable, uncaring, fiery eyes... often right…

Gritty, everyone’s favorite shaggy-haired, googly eyed freak, has posed nude. Though we somehow missed this landmark shift in the Philadelphia Flyers mascot’s career when his overwhelmingly erotic portrait was unveiled last month, we feel it’s of the utmost importance that we mark the occasion now, with apologies to…

Disney Plus’ WandaVision is over, with the cottage industry of WandaVision theories drying up along with it, but a whole new sub-genre of WandaVision discussions has risen up to fill the hex-shaped hole in our hearts: the “please explain WandaVision to us” interview format. Earlier this week, series creator Matt…

What do Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie Tingz,” and Fiona Apple’s “Shameika” all have in common? They’ve each helped cast members of Genera+ion find their characters, whether they allow them to get vulnerable or—in the case of Chloe East’s rambunctious Naomi—let them cut loose: “Any…

Last year, Paul McCartney decided to use his time in quarantine to make McCartney III, recorded all by himself. But that gets a little bit lonely, so he invited some friends to be part of a new version titled McCartney III Imagined, out on April 16.

Last month, the entirety of Texas ground to a halt after a colossal winter storm pushed the state’s cordoned-off power grid to the brink. Power and heat outages, as well as resulting food and water shortages, led many businesses to temporarily shut down. This included a large number of Texan video game studios. Of…

A biopic series about Chilean author Isabel Allende might sound like an easy sell to a U.S. audience. Her 24 books have sold over 74 million copies around the world. Allende’s long list of awards includes the U.S. Presidential Medal Of Freedom she received from President Obama in 2015. Hers is the kind of life story…

Avatar: The Last Airbender got viewers immediately hooked with its world of characters manipulating the elements, and the series’ mythos quickly expanded when its second season introduced sub-elements. From bending lightning and the energy of living beings to bending the very blood inside a person’s body, these…

Ciara Bravo’s character in Cherry, Emily, is very good until she isn’t. Though she struggles with being emotionally unavailable, Emily is Cherry’s anchor when he’s in the war, making her way through school and even finding them a house to buy. When she realizes he’s making a scary slide into opioid addiction, though,…

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee host Sam Bee is no stranger to calling out her peers in the outspoken white woman community whenever they start migrating en masse into an all-too-predictable rabbit hole of “right-wing disinformation and grievance politics.” Noting how, as Helen Lovejoy has taught us over the years,…

Wednesday marked the return of one of the more bizarre reality competitions to have found success on American television, and that’s saying a lot. The Masked Singer season five kicked off with guest host Niecy Nash stepping in for COVID-positive Nick Cannon, a secret-keeping rooster hiding clues from the judges, and a…