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Last night, I lit some candles, poured some tequila into a glass, and gazed across my dining room table at Dwayne…

The only way to understand Promising Young Woman is to skip right to the ending. The film’s mashup of soft-feminine…

There’s a scene from Sex and the City’s fourth season where Carrie finds herself in the Vogue office, a place where…

Girls and gays rejoice! Director Clea Duvall has brought us a queer holiday classic of our very own. Happiest Season—…

Well, that’s just great: Everyone is talking about Borat again. When the surprise sequel to the 2006 hit movie was…

It will take a few more needle-moving hits to recognize the last few years as a period of all-star romantic comedy…

In 2017, Katy Perry crashed and burned. Her album Witness, a confusing and vague attempt at more socially conscious…

As a child, I lived for the safe thrill of an amusement park. I loved a rickety wooden rollercoaster that sounded…

Even in a time when galaxies of explicit sexualities are mere keystrokes away, there is something about nudity in…

In the new HBO show Lovecraft Country, stark lines are drawn between markedly different worlds. Neighborhoods,…

It’s never been a secret that religion and healthy relationships to sexuality are usually at opposite ends of a very…

The romantic comedy is an evergreen form for the simple reason that most human beings spend vast amounts of time…

Very few beloved television shows that receive reboots successfully rejuvenate the format. Instead of giving…

When Search Party premiered in 2016, it began as a playful mystery that also functioned as biting satire,…

For the first time since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest will not take place, thanks to covid-19. Originally…

Depending on who you ask, and with variables ranging from age and race to digital savvy, the internet has been…

It might be impossible to name all the ways in which consent is routinely violated. Michaela Coel, however—creator…

Understanding what a society fears goes a long way toward understanding what it values, and horror movies have long…

A little over halfway through Netflix’s hit film 365 Days, there comes a scene that foreshadows the derivative…

Expanding the definition of what American food is, outside of the hot dog-hamburger-apple pie trifecta, is a…