Since we didn’t dry up and die like a popped lipoma after watching the first episode of TLC’s deliriously gross new series Dr. Pimple Popper, we’re back to chat about what the hell is going on in episode 2 and what it’s doing to our constitutions. Join us if you dare.
It was about 50 minutes into Skyscraper—after approximately four explosions, two knife fights, five gun battles, and one all-too-brief sighting of The Rock’s immense, tattooed pectorals—that I sighed internally at the empty, unoriginality of Hollywood, gave up on the movie almost entirely, and turned instead to my…
We don’t recommend watching the video above, an overview of the new TLC series Dr. Pimple Popper in which dermatological growths are poked, prodded, squeezed, jiggled, and irrigated. But then again, we don’t recommend not watching it either. The show—which opened with this scene during its premiere on Wednesday night…
“I’m going out to join the search party now,” St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker nearly whispers to her editor in the Sunday night premiere of HBO’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s book Sharp Objects, while cradling a pay phone in one hand and an ample glass of whiskey in another. “Hopefully, we’ll turn up a dead…
First, a word on my bias: I consider watching the neck-first lurch of a T-Rex with the smell of popcorn filling my nose and the arctic air conditioning prickling the skin on my exposed legs to be one of life’s distinct joys. That’s to say, I’m already basically on board with whatever a movie in the Jurassic Park …
Fourteen years ago, Disney/Pixar released its superhero centerpiece The Incredibles, an animated film about a latex-clad family blessed with superpowers which, when the government abandons them for being different, retreats into suburban existence. The movie won an Oscar, which means the long-awaited sequel, released…
The popular children’s game Tag—where kids run around getting “tagged” until one survivor remains—does nothing more than foster strategic skills and provide a healthy amount of cardio for its participants. One person in the game wins, while everyone else loses. The movie Tag, which stars a crew of occasionally…
After Beyoncé and Jay-Z beyoncéd their joyous joint album Everything Is Love Saturday evening, the memes turned to Christina Aguilera. Mere hours earlier, on Friday, she released her eighth studio album Liberation—her first in six years—and so it seemed she’d been eclipsed. What was supposed to be her comeback turned…
Because we are women and therefore simple creatures who are easily enticed by a movie with a cast of all women, the Jezebel staff had been hotly anticipating Ocean’s 8 for awhile. For months, we would walk past promotional posters (“Every Con Has Its Pros,” they read) and would think, Good tagline! We’d then proceed…
“Can someone please explain modern high school boys to me?” asks Claire (Madeline Weinstein), the long-suffering girlfriend of the questioning, titular character of Netflix’s new queer-teen flick, Alex Strangelove. “They are so oversensitive and high strung and selfish and just, like, rude. My mom made me watch this…
Disclaimer: This blog has major spoilers.
If only Brokeback Mountain and the Frozen musical hadn’t already claimed it, “Love is a force of nature” would be the perfect tagline for Adrift. Based on actual events that resulted in Tami Oldham Ashcraft floating helplessly in a critically damaged sailboat for 41 days in 1983 after an unexpected hurricane, Adrift…
The unnamed narrator of Sheila Heti’s new contemplative new novel Motherhood is ambivalent about having children. She never envisioned herself as a mother and still can’t quite see herself as one. But, now in her late 30s, the question of motherhood nags at her, demanding an answer. “Time is running short on making…
It is extremely gutsy to take on an adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock when there is already Peter Weir’s perfect 1975 film. But not long into Amazon’s 2018 revamp of the Gothic classic does it become clear that the show’s intention isn’t to simply bring this story of four schoolgirls who…
Forgive me, self-assigned arbiters of taste, but I’m about to lay one on you: Life of the Party, for all it’s simplistic script-flipping, is kinda great. At the very least, it’s a pleasant ride and doesn’t ask to be anything else.
Constructing an album as a reflection of sexual awakening is practically a rite of passage for pop singers (particularly women pop singers) at this point. There was Madonna’s Erotica, Janet Jackson’s janet (and then The Velvet Rope and then All for You and then Damita Jo and then...), Rihanna’s Rated R into Loud,…
This review contains spoilers. Not as many as you’d think, however, because I’m still not entirely sure what just happened?
Duck Butter’s Naima (Alia Shawkat) and Sergio (Laia Costa) fuck like the world is ending. They do it at Sergio’s house, they do it at Naima’s house, they do it outside within potential view of strangers. They finger bang on a piano bench and kiss in between slurps of mango. They recreate Sergio’s experience of…
Mary Shelley has all the makings of a classic teen girl coming-of-age film. There’s a passionate, star-crossed romance, spats with pseudo-intellectual sexist bros who undermine our heroine’s intelligence, drunken parties, and nights filled with scribbling in a notebook instead of sleeping. The themes are so familiar,…
In the weeks leading up to its premiere—a promo run that saw Amy Schumer doing her best to get ahead of what might be a public excoriation—there’s been heavy criticism about the premise of I Feel Pretty, fueled more so by publicity and perception than the film’s content. The movie itself isn’t all that bad. Schumer,…
