The Hunger Games: Catching Fire made all the money this weekend, raking in a record-topping $161.1 million. But that's not all this YA sequel did for the movie franchise. Catching Fire actually goes about unchecking our long list of problems with the first Hunger Games film, resetting the franchise both for die-hard…
Pretty much everybody loves The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins' masterful dystopian novel. But the two novels that follow are divisive: Some people love Catching Fire, others love Mockingjay. Very few people seem to love both. And for me, personally, Mockingjay is the superior novel. Here's why.
Watching television with your friends can be a lovely bonding experience — unless someone acts like a jerk, and ruins it for everyone. Here's our helpful rundown of the worst types of obnoxious behavior to avoid when watching TV with your crew.
Kate Bosworth has a new collection for Topshop. Actually, it's her second collection for Topshop. She's also on the November cover of Lucky magazine. Actually, it's her second time being on the cover of Lucky. However. Can you recall seeing her in any film besides Blue Crush? Which came out more than ten years ago?
They believe that certain groups of people are inherently smarter than others. They write books about how rape is a natural part of human evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into the spotlight: evopsych douchebags.
Now that The Man of Steel has set a new record for June movie openings, Warner Bros. is rushing ahead with plans to create a DC Universe on screen. Which means one thing: we'll finally get a big-screen version of Wonder Woman, and she'll probably be created by Sucker Punch director Zack Snyder. That's a terrible idea.
During the second to last episode of Battlestar Galactica, we learned that, before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies, Laura Roslin lost her father and her sisters in a car accident. How horrible, I remember thinking. This explains so much about her emotional armor, how slow she is to grow close to anyone. It also…
THE U.S. NAVY ANNOUNCED TUESDAY THAT THEY WILL NO LONGER TRANSMIT INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS IN ALL-CAPS. LOWERCASE MESSAGES, THEY SAID, "PROVIDE A MORE READABLE FORMAT" AND ARE "HERE TO STAY." LOWERCASE MESSAGES ARE THE FUTURE. ALL-CAPS CAN SUCK IT.
Last week's Game of Thrones season finale ended with a scene full of racial imagery that seemed kind of messed up. But actually, argues comedian Aamer Rahman, Daenerys' whole storyline has been problematic from the very beginning. Here's why.
When it comes to being a woman on the internet, there are enough frustrating roadblocks every day to make your brain liquefy and dribble out your ear all gross (more frustrating roadblocks than there are fireplaces at Rosings Park, AMIRITE). But possibly the most frustrating of all are the gnashing hordes constantly…
Last month, science geek and costumer Emily Finke attended a sci fi convention dressed in a screen-accurate uniform from Star Trek: TOS, where she was met with microaggression, mock-concern and men intent on outing her as a Fake Geek Girl. So she decided to write something, "because I haven't caused enough flame wars on …
I swear a lot. In writing, if not so much in speech (but, fuck it, also a lot of times in speech). Swearing is awesome, because it adds a little extra punch to your sentence that lets people know you mean business! Or, at least, I guess that's how most people characterize the function of swearing. Personally, I don't…
Man, fuck this week. Is it Sunday yet? No? Fuck that.
The death of the cupcake is a victory for womankind.
Arrow is the greatest superhero show in ages
There's this prevailing attitude that the "culture war" is some kind of discussion that we're all having. But you know what? Fuuuuuuck that. I know this is divisive and counterproductive and inflammatory or whatever, but not all ideas are created equal. Some ideas are shitty, and I'm sick of coddling people with shitty…
You know what? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think dictionaries should keep inducting new words.* I think we have enough already. ABOLISH IT. Like, I know we all had a hearty wocka-wocka when Merriam-Webster added "aha moment" and "man cave" earlier this month, but do we really need that stupid…
There's a species in the animal kingdom that needs to be eliminated from planet earth and it's called "a cat," or Felis domesticus, traditionally adopted by many lonely individuals as a stand-in companion to an actual person, handicapped or upright-walking. Cats, also known as felines, pussies, overgrown hamsters,…
The New York Times and the Huffington Post (and the Daily Mail, for good measure, although the Daily Mail piggybacks onto every fake trend story so they don't count) are all aflutter about high school girls who brought younger boys with them to prom this year. "Call it young cougars, a game of confidence or just female…
I have some wonderful new tattoos on my ass by the incredible Cris Cleen, who I love, and I posted a picture of them on Twitter, which got many favorable comments — but there were two negative ones, and I blew a fucking gasket. I screamed out loud and tracked the perps down and blocked them, but not before really…
I was standing in line at a coffee shop this morning when I heard a girl behind me say to her friend, "Yeah, I am totally obsessed with Breaking Bad." "Hmm, are you really obsessed with Breaking Bad?" I thought to myself, "Or do you just enjoy Breaking Bad?" Do you think about it constantly? Does it interfere with your…
Even if you aren't a stiletto enthusiast, there's a good chance your shoes are leaving you with foot pain and blisters. A growing number of products aim to treat these female foot issues, but it seems that few have considered the easiest option: Making more comfortable shoes.
There are few things I want more than the return of Daria.
There's a glitch in the matrix. And no, it's not the arrival of The One or 17 billion agents — it's the attractive man who smiled at me while I was hunched over my laptop at my local café. The smile itself was not the anomaly; New York's male population is constantly in heat, scanning every room for the presence of…
I haven't read Cosmopolitan magazine since I was 16.
The New York Times has taken a firm stand: Game of Thrones, the venerable paper argues, is for boys only. How bizarre is that? The show is obviously targeted exclusively at women. Here's why.
It's easy to see why this would happen. Many screenwriters who choose to write about high school didn't have a magical four years there and most screenwriters are male. So of course when they write a screenplay about high school, it's going to center around the nerdy guy they feel they were. And in their movie, they…
The problem is not Valentine's Day. It never really was. Any reasonably sane person, single or taken, can recognize that the very idea of Valentine's Day is a prefabricated crock of shit. Yes, it's very nice to spend quality time with your beloved, and there's nothing wrong with having a reminder to do that. But to…
