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Is Vanessa Hudgens aiming to be a queen of Christmas TV movies? She should. The title and concept of her future Netflix classic, The Knight Before Christmas, is so good, it needs to be celebrated and duplicated. The movie, according to Deadline, “follows a gallant English knight who seeks out his true quest after a…

After largely being omitted from previous debates, Tuesday’s night Democratic presidential debate featured, finally, a discussion on abortion rights. While most candidates made impassioned—if oddly worded (cough Kamala Harris cough) and deliberately vague—calls for reproductive rights, Tulsi Gabbard staked out a…

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“We knew—if we didn’t win this time—the town would be a dead town,” a member of the Women’s Emergency Brigade said about her hometown of Flint, Mich. during the 1937 Sit-Down Strike on General Motors. “You know, there was just nothing to look forward to.”

If romantic comedies are so predictable, why are they still so good at making me cry? “There’s a comfort in knowing what you’re getting in the movie,” Shea Serrano, author of Movies (And Other Things), explains.

Let’s consider this week’s In Touch cover, “Friend’s Worst Fear! Matt’s Suicide Drama! Horrifying New Accusations as Kids Change Their Last Name.” It constructs a crisis—Matt Lauer’s alleged suicide ideation—while imbuing it with a sympathetic angle by the inclusion of friends and children. Meanwhile, some of the…

In a move that would have been rejected from even the sleaziest, most exploitative reality TV franchise of the mid 2000s, the Trump administration attempted to engineer a surprise meeting for the cameras between the grieving parents of a 19-year-old British man killed in a car crash and the diplomat’s wife who was…

Kate Bush’s sixth album came into the world 30 years ago today sounding old. Largely midtempo and/or melancholy, The Sensual World signaled a calming down of sorts from the furious innovation and conscious madness of the albums that directly preceded it: 1980's Never Forever, 1982's The Dreaming (her masterpiece, in…

In the weeks since the last Democratic primary debates, it’s become apparent that Elizabeth Warren is gaining momentum and establishing herself as a clear frontrunner. She’s rising in the polls, expanding her base of support while polling numbers for Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, the other two leading candidates, have…

Today I speak not as a blogger, but as a person prone to internet horniness. When there is a new man to crush on– a Hot Priest or Oscar Isaac to know about–I make myself ready and available to be destroyed. It is the only time I want to participate in pop culture conversation. I’ll tweet, “Harry Styles should step on…

Within the first seconds of Bella Thorne’s new porn film, Her & Him, a woman snuggles her boyfriend in bed before saying, smokily, “Hey, can you pick up some cat food tomorrow?” (Bow chicka... .) The girlfriend, played by Abella Danger, then gives him a kiss of thanks and walks into the bathroom to brush her teeth,…