11 Famous Places That Don’t Really Exist
In 1906, explorer Robert E. Peary set out to reach the North Pole. He was unsuccessful, but in the book he wrote upon returning to civilization, he said he’d seen…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Misiveria?
This week’s Out-of-Touch Guide is a potpourri of trendlets, memes, and terrible ideas. Young people are teaching each other questionable geography facts, “cleansing” their colons with saltwater laxatives, and buying…
12 of the Worst Biopics of All Time (and 12 to Watch Instead)
Andrew Dominik’s NC-17 Blonde has faced controversy since its inception: for its rating, for its source material (a highly fictionalized Joyce Carol Oates novel), and later for interviews with its…
Timothee Chalamet Reveals Career Advice He Received From Leonardo DiCaprio
Chalamet revealed the career advice DiCaprio gave him when he met him in 2018.Actor Timothee Chalamet recently revealed the sage piece of advice he received from Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo…
20 of the Best Man-Versus-Animal Movies of All Time
Screenshot: Jaws, Universal/Tubi In the trailer for his new film Beast, opening today, Idris Elba punches a lion. It sounds like the stuff of pulp trash, but the survival thriller/animal…
18 Movies for Times of Economic Turmoil
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET | “Not Leaving” Clip | Paramount Movies Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street tells the story of stockbroker and scammer Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio)…
Sorry Urvashi Rautela, Twitter Isn’t Buying Your Leonardo DiCaprio Story
Urvashi Rautela on the Cannes red carpet. (courtesy: urvashirautela)New Delhi: So Urvashi Rautela is trending once again, courtesy her latest statement about a Hollywood star praising her during her visit…
32 Movies Best Watched in Total Ignorance
The logic of film marketing suggests we need to know everything about a movie before we’ll pony up for a movie ticket—but that doesn’t mean that’s the right way to…
10 of the Best Movies That Prove Rich People Are Terrible
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street gave us the iconic, and chronically misused, aphorism “greed is good,” but the movies generally love to show us the opposite. History is positively lousy with…
11 ‘Successful’ People Who Were Actually Huge Frauds
Photo: lev radin (Shutterstock) Adam Neumann fooled a lot of people, but not in a criminal way. Neumann’s WeWork, founded in 2010, has a boring business model—it’s essentially a commercial…