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Nov 21, 2025
“You’re in a ‘situationship?’ Which one are you: the one with commitment issues or the one with no self-worth?”
Prolific on TikTok, this viral meme...
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Nov 17, 2025
When you think of a smoking slipper, you likely think of a few different things:
Elegant aristocrats in a smoke-filled room;
Athletes and celebrities dressed to the nines;
And...
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Nov 7, 2025
There’s a certain kind of film that weighs heavily on America’s collective nostalgia for kinder and gentler times. Yet in the same breath that we yearn for this...
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Nov 5, 2025
When I took my Birthright trip to Israel, I was surprised to learn that no one makes a more ghastly Holocaust joke than the IDF soldiers sworn to protect their homeland. I get it,...
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Oct 13, 2025
“We used to be a proper country,” I explained to two beautiful young blonde women who were only half paying attention.
It was a dinner for so-and-so conservative...
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Oct 8, 2025
Despite Stephen King’s long and prolific writing career, today he is perhaps better known for moonlighting as a political lunatic on the social media platform X. Once...
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Oct 6, 2025
Marlon Brando was a great man: a genius, a visionary, a generational talent, and perhaps the best actor to ever live. Few would disagree, claiming it self-evident. But the latest...
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Sep 29, 2025
ICEBlock is an app that uses real-time information to pinpoint the location of ICE agents in the field. Launched in April in response to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,...
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Sep 5, 2025
Throughout his nascent film career, director Ari Aster has already shown he’s a one-trick pony—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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Aug 29, 2025
There’s a common myth in American culture that only the left is capable of producing great art. Right-wing art must be formulaic and preachy because it values established...
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Aug 19, 2025
The horrifying premise of the film Weapons has had audiences buzzing for months. There’s nothing scarier than the thought of children inexplicably disappearing from...
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Aug 5, 2025
For nearly 50 years, Americans lived in a stand-off with Soviet Russia called “Mutually Assured Destruction” or MAD: When the bombs started flying, we all knew that...
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Aug 4, 2025
What makes a great superhero film?
It’s the billion-dollar question that largely keeps Hollywood afloat. While big budgets, A-list casts, and over-the-top CGI explosions land...
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Aug 1, 2025
Since 1997, South Park has satirized just about every group in modern life while hilariously positioning itself as the voice of moderation. Yet with the premier of Season...
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Jun 10, 2025
After almost five years of on-and-off production and an extensive trial by tabloid, Alec Baldwin’s infamous Western epic Rust finally premiered this month. It’s...
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Jun 4, 2025
This piece contains spoilers on 'The Last of Us'
HBO’s The Last of Us is best known for its aggressive foray into the culture war, but beneath its surface-level agenda the show...
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May 30, 2025
We’ve come to expect very little from our “big summer blockbusters.” Gone are the days of Jaws, E.T., and Indiana Jones, films as visually exhilarating as...
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May 15, 2025
Hollywood may have long since retired the knight in shining armor trope as a vestige of the dreaded patriarchy. Even so, here he comes—riding in to save Hollywood from...
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May 5, 2025
It’s been 25 years since the world first met Patrick Bateman, the inimitable villain of American Psycho. Intended as a feminist critique of masculinity and yuppie-era...
Nov 21, 2025“You’re in a ‘situationship?’ Which one are you: the one with commitment issues or the one with no self-worth?” Prolific on TikTok, this viral meme...
Nov 17, 2025When you think of a smoking slipper, you likely think of a few different things: Elegant aristocrats in a smoke-filled room; Athletes and celebrities dressed to the nines; And...
Nov 7, 2025There’s a certain kind of film that weighs heavily on America’s collective nostalgia for kinder and gentler times. Yet in the same breath that we yearn for this...
Nov 5, 2025When I took my Birthright trip to Israel, I was surprised to learn that no one makes a more ghastly Holocaust joke than the IDF soldiers sworn to protect their homeland. I get it,...
Oct 13, 2025“We used to be a proper country,” I explained to two beautiful young blonde women who were only half paying attention. It was a dinner for so-and-so conservative...
Oct 8, 2025Despite Stephen King’s long and prolific writing career, today he is perhaps better known for moonlighting as a political lunatic on the social media platform X. Once...
Oct 6, 2025Marlon Brando was a great man: a genius, a visionary, a generational talent, and perhaps the best actor to ever live. Few would disagree, claiming it self-evident. But the latest...
Sep 29, 2025ICEBlock is an app that uses real-time information to pinpoint the location of ICE agents in the field. Launched in April in response to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,...
Sep 5, 2025Throughout his nascent film career, director Ari Aster has already shown he’s a one-trick pony—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 
Aug 29, 2025There’s a common myth in American culture that only the left is capable of producing great art. Right-wing art must be formulaic and preachy because it values established...
Aug 19, 2025The horrifying premise of the film Weapons has had audiences buzzing for months. There’s nothing scarier than the thought of children inexplicably disappearing from...
Aug 5, 2025For nearly 50 years, Americans lived in a stand-off with Soviet Russia called “Mutually Assured Destruction” or MAD: When the bombs started flying, we all knew that...
Aug 4, 2025What makes a great superhero film? It’s the billion-dollar question that largely keeps Hollywood afloat. While big budgets, A-list casts, and over-the-top CGI explosions land...
Aug 1, 2025Since 1997, South Park has satirized just about every group in modern life while hilariously positioning itself as the voice of moderation. Yet with the premier of Season...
Jun 10, 2025After almost five years of on-and-off production and an extensive trial by tabloid, Alec Baldwin’s infamous Western epic Rust finally premiered this month. It’s...
Jun 4, 2025This piece contains spoilers on 'The Last of Us' HBO’s The Last of Us is best known for its aggressive foray into the culture war, but beneath its surface-level agenda the show...
May 30, 2025We’ve come to expect very little from our “big summer blockbusters.” Gone are the days of Jaws, E.T., and Indiana Jones, films as visually exhilarating as...
May 15, 2025Hollywood may have long since retired the knight in shining armor trope as a vestige of the dreaded patriarchy. Even so, here he comes—riding in to save Hollywood from...
May 5, 2025It’s been 25 years since the world first met Patrick Bateman, the inimitable villain of American Psycho. Intended as a feminist critique of masculinity and yuppie-era...