‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ 4×07 Recap: “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”
“Are We Back In The Musical Again?”
‘Gilmore Girls’ Series Premiere Recap: “Pilot”
'Gilmore Girls' is cool, funny, fast, and loose.
‘Murder, She Wrote’ 2×18 Recap: “If a Body Meet a Body”
Deadlines and dead bodies make for rotten bedfellows.
Stop Eating My Sesame Cake: 10 Tim Curry Roles Every Fan Should Know
Tim Curry wove a tapestry of truly unforgettable characters that live in the recesses of our cultural mind.
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Features
Order Up! The 10 Best Fast Food Toys of All Time
Where does he get those wonderful toys? McDonald's, mostly.
Mannequin Is Even Gayer Than You Thought
'Mannequin' makes it clear that queerness should be celebrated and that your uniqueness makes you better.
‘Late Show’ Changed My Life: An Intern’s 2006 MySpace Blog
'The Late Show' is where I learned to be myself. Also, where I learned how to unjam a copy machine.
The Mothman Festival: Go! Fly, You Fools!
Your 2026 tourist destination, thanks to a mysterious West Virginia monster.
Recaps
‘Freaks and Geeks’ Episode 1 Recap: Bad Reputation
The world is unfair, especially in high school, but there's so much joy to be found if you're open to seeing it.
‘I, Claudius’ Series Premiere Recap: The Empire Writes Back
There are so many ways to make great television drama, and this is one of them.
‘Murder, She Wrote’ Recap: “The Murder of Sherlock Holmes, Part I”
"Back in Cabot Cove, the only thing we have with claws are lobsters, and we eat them."
‘Twin Peaks’ Series Premiere Recap: The Departed
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything."
Classic Horror
Horror Secret Handshakes: ‘The Black Cat’ (1934)
'The Black Cat' remains one of the most stylish, compelling, and wonderfully dark entries in Universal's horror catalogue.
Up From the Depths: ‘Revenge of the Creature’ at 70
Gill-Man's sequel blends creature feature thrills with a rather sly commentary on exploitation and the cruelty that often accompanies scientific "progress."
‘The Whisper Man’ Review: Hey, at Least It’s Not True Crime
In our golden age of true crime, throwback airport-book-kiosk crime provides a change of pace.
‘Twin Peaks’ 3×08 Recap: Drink Full and Descend
David Lynch and Mark Frost constructed a cathedral for Hell.
Fantastic Plastic: The Best Toys of August 2026
Multiple monsters, two automobiles, and one big tick.
‘Finding Emily’ Review: Witty Gen Z Romcom Charms as It Tackles Modern Dating Anxieties
It’s a meet-cute that is extremely heavy on the cute.
‘Colony’ Review: A Stylish Zombie Movie Missing Substance
There is style to spare in this zombie film.
‘It Ends’ Review: A Haunting Road Movie
'It Ends' resists all temptations to stray from its very definite path.
‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ Is a Charming, Whimsy-Maxxed Win
This is a throwback to Millennial childhood classics from the Amblin Entertainment catalogue.
Tim Curry Cracked My Egg
The 'Rocky Horror' audience celebrated this character who was everything I was terrified of being seen as.
Long(er) Reads
The Republican Party Is Just Dumb Cobra; or, G.I. Joe Is Quite Liberal, Actually
Honestly, Cobra would be doing a better job right now.
Saints, Bats, and Birds: What’s the Longest Running Comic Series?
Everything you think about long-running comic titles gets an asterisk next to it. There are no easy answers.
‘Cinderella’s Castle’ Is What My Adult Self Needs Right Now
To see a Black Cinderella express her anger through song showed me that it is possible to be kind while also feeling resentful.
From the Vault
‘Homoti’ Is the Gay Turkish E.T. Rip-Off We Got, Not the One We Deserved
What if E.T. landed in Turkiye, no one gave a shit, and he was also gay?
‘The Prisoner’ Episode 1 Recap: The Man in Black
"Questions are a burden to others, answers a prison for oneself."
Heist Guide: How To Be A Drag Queen
From beauty to body and beyond, here's everything you need to know to start stunting as a drag queen.
The Queer Trailblazers of ‘Are You the One?’ Season 8 Deserve a ‘Family Vacation’-Style Reunion Series
What is better reality television than a reunion between people who had an orgy years ago?
