Ava DuVernay is an accomplished dramatic director who knows how to craft a human story around a crusading idea without letting one overwhelm the other. She proved that with 2014’s Selma, her Martin Luther King […]
No matter what the online mobs tell you, spoilers can be fun. They let you keep an eye out for the clues to a great plot twist without forcing you to watch twice or at least let […]
“We Take a Zebra to Vegas,” the sixth episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is one that fans of the book series have been waiting for. Percy (Walker Scobell), Annabeth (Leah Jeffries), and Grover […]
“You believe Whitney’s racist?” asked Andy Cohen. “I do. 100%. I do,” she replied. After skipping out on the Season 2 reunion and quitting The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City for a season, Mary […]
In 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the following about a woman he was courting: “Victory hangs doubtful. The lady says she will not! I say she shall! It is not pride, but the madness of […]
You should avoid paying taxes whenever you can. That’s your right as a taxpayer. In fact, you might go further than that. You might flatly refuse to pay taxes. You might arm yourself with a […]
Actress Cindy Morgan has reportedly passed away. She was known for her role in the film, “Caddyshack,” where she appeared alongside actor Bill Murray. In the meantime, her cause of death is still uncertain, and […]
MRS Hinch raked in a whopping £2.8 million last year thanks to flogging cleaning products, running Instagram ads and book deals. The mega-influencer, famed for her cleaning tutorials and home organisation tips, is sitting on […]
Another year is almost done. We don’t know if you’re any richer or any stronger than you were a year ago. However, we’re at least confident you’re smarter. You could hardly have gotten any stupider, […]
As the year comes to a close and another is soon to begin, one way we can all attempt to maintain the illusion that humanity has some measure of control over life, and is not […]
When a company is basically linked one-to-one with the entire idea of “imagination,” you’d think that they would support, above all else, new art. It’s probably incalculable how many young creatives were inspired by the […]
When you forsake a life of physical exertion and devote yourself to scholarship, you spare yourself certain dangers. You probably aren’t going to tear your ACL, for example. You also likely won’t get athlete’s foot […]
Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks’ movie The Prince of Egypt hit theaters. Its release could have changed American animation — and maybe should have. But it didn’t. Instead, out of the DreamWorks projects released at the […]
What would Christmas be without the humble Christmas card? It’s hard to think of a more quintessentially British seasonal tradition than propping up colourful bits of stiff paper on your mantelpiece, but in fact we […]
Wearing a seersucker suit and looking a tad terrified, Wes Anderson took the stage not long ago at the Venice Film Festival to accept the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, a prize, he said, […]
In The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, the 2013 documentary about Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary director questions his vocation’s value. “How do we know movies are even worthwhile?” Miyazaki muses. “If you […]
It only took 65 years of twirling around that evergreen, but Brenda Lee’s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has finally hit No. 1. As a senior citizen among songs, the 1958 Christmas chestnut […]
There are two kinds of people: People who think everything can be divided into two groups, and people who think this is an oversimplification. There are additional kinds of people as well — namely, people […]
It came late last week; the news every pop fan worth their salt had been waiting for. The news every pop fan who recognises that Biology is one of the greatest bangers of the 21st […]
We started out as weird single-celled organisms, a few billion years ago. In time, we evolved into the complicated marvels we are today. But if you think it’s a one-way path, with humans growing more […]