15 of the Best Movies About Teen Angst to Watch After ‘Turning Red’
Screenshot: Now and Then/New Line Cinema Not entirely unlike Inside Out a few years back, the new Pixar film Turning Red stars a character confronting her own adolescence and the…
16 Super Grimdark Genre Movies That Aren’t ‘The Batman’
Perhaps its a reflection of the state of the world (or our perception of it), but many of the most popular genre films of the past decade or more have…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Who Is homecoming.dairy?
This week, young people are posting puzzling videos about housework, finding naked men in the trunks of their cars, and virtually riding horses together. It’s a strange and wonderful world.…
25 of the Most Rewatchable Movies Ever Made
Screenshot: The Rocky Horror Picture Show/20th Century Fox Without question, we live in an era of media over-saturation. Even post-COVID (lol), the industry is still pumping out new movies and…
What’s New on Paramount Plus in December 2021
The weirdest thing about the Peak Streaming Era is that there are TV shows that have been running for years that I, a person who reads entertainment websites for fun…
14 of the Best Nontraditional Board Games to Play so You Don’t Kill Your Family Over the Holidays
If your loved ones are a little dark and a little nerdy, they’ll love this unique roleplaying/story-telling game. Unlike most table-top role-playing games, Ten Candles doesn’t require tons of gear,…
19 of the Best Movies With the Worst ‘Uncanny Valley’ Effects
Screenshot: Alita: Battle Angel/20th Century Studios A movie doesn’t have to be a special effects extravaganza to be worth watching, but it seems like we’re increasingly uninterested in going to…
13 Books That Are as Unsettling as ‘Squid Game’
Image: Docile/K.M. Szpara/Tor.com Publishing Every now and then a particular TV show takes over and commands the all-seeing eye of pop culture for weeks or months at a time—think the…
You’re Using Too Many Adjectives (and Other Common Writing Mistakes to Avoid)
Photo: simona pilolla 2 (Shutterstock) Whether you write for a living, functionally as part of your job, or as little as humanly possible because thinking about high school English still…
18 Halloween Thrillers That Are Scary but Not Gory
Screenshot: The Conjuring/Warner Bros. I give director James Wan an awful lot of credit. After making a boatload of money creating the Saw franchise (a series of movies that popularized…