What a Solar Eclipse Taught Me About Love
The darkness came unexpectedly. One second my father was walking my 7-year-old brother and my 10-year-old self past a bodega in New York City; the next, a shadow descended. The noise of the city stopped. A taxi pulled up nearby and parked in the middle of the road. Feet clacked on the sidewalk once and…
When Real-Life Female Friendships are Tough, Games Can Help
"We have to have a girls' night soon!" That’s how a female acquaintance—the one I can say I'm fairly close to—always concludes our monthly lunch date. Despite her cheery insistence, it never happens, but that doesn’t stop me from dreading the possibility.I know that if I go, I'll listen to everyone discuss their marriages, jobs,…
Yes, It Matters That Spider-Man: Homecoming Just Made $117 Million
No one ever really expected Spider-Man: Homecoming to fail. Massive summer comic-book movies out of the Marvel universe don’t really do that anymore. If anything, Marvel has proven over the last few years that even heroes as weird as Doctor Strange and small as Ant-Man can get butts in seats. But when it came to…
The Terrible, Predictable Life Cycle of Every Trump Tweet
Click:A20004-24 There is nothing Donald Trump can tweet that people won't lose their minds over. Whether it's a masterpiece of design, a Crooked Hillary throwback, or a typo made while falling asleep with a death-grip on his government-issued iPhone, no tweet is too dumb or tiresome to rule the entirety of our daily lives. But…
Star Trek: Discovery Is Worth the Price of CBS All Access—Maybe
Last night, CBS finally took the wraps off its oft-delayed new show, Star Trek: Discovery. The two-part debut ("The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle at the Binary Stars") gave fans the first new TV Trek since Star Trek: Enterprise ceased subspace transmission in 2005. And they were ready for it—last night's premiere set a single-day record…
While You Were Offline: Free Nuggs. Pls RT
As of this writing, most of the internet is discussing the US missile strike in Syria, Russia's condemnation of it, or some combination of the two. Oh, you thought Twitter suing the government to keep its users' identities secret would be the most controversial story this week? Nope! In fact, that was just a blip…
The 11 Best Comic Book Movies You Can Stream Right Now
With both Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War Hulk-smashing box office records, the ability to draw large numbers of moviegoers into real, live cinemas might be the greatest super power today’s comic book heroes have in Hollywood—and they’re just getting started. Before the year is up, Deadpool and Ant-Man will both have sequels, Tom Hardy…
The Deuce Isn't About Sex. It's About Capitalism
The Deuce is not a sexy show. The HBO series, which just concluded its first season, examines the sex trade in 1970s New York City, but it does so through the eyes of professionals—sex workers and their pimps. Their jobs may be to fulfill fantasies, but the bulk of their day-to-day grind is remarkably unsexy,…
Cantina Talk: You Can Bet Carrie Fisher Would Love Episode IX
It might seem like things are quiet right now on the Star Wars front, but it's just the calm before storm. Both Comic-Con International and Disney's D23 Expo are about a month away and chances are a lot of new information will come out of both. What info? It's hard to tell, but just remember…
Disney’s Building Its Own Netflix. Everyone Else Might, Too
The boats are coming for Disney’s movies, ready to evacuate them from Netflix’s disputed shore. The studio’s deal with the streaming service expires next year; in 2019 everything that smells even faintly of mouse will move to a new redoubt. Disney and Pixar movies will supply the pipeline for a new Disney-owned streaming platform, a…