This weekend, Baby Yoda wasn’t the only endearing Child of a doting father to turn up on The Mandalorian. Episode director Bryce Dallas Howard took the opportunity to remind the world—well, at least to remind Apollo 13 fans—that she, like Baby “The Child” Yoda, has a dad.

What’s the word for a tale that is more elaborate and twisting and operatic than a saga? An epic? An odyssey? Whatever it’s called, that’s what the story of Taylor Swift and her old label Big Machine has become. It somehow started just last year, even though it seems like we’ve been dealing with this for our whole…

America’s theater industry is in trouble, the government has shown no interest in helping anyone (let alone movie theaters), and the pandemic is actively getting worse in this country so it’s even less of a good idea to go see a movie than it was when theaters started opening back up.

We live in an age of professional internet trolls. It’s a bustling industry. One is currently POTUS. The current Senate Majority Leader’s soul has been replaced with enough nuclear-strength trollishness that his flesh is starting to rot off his body like he tried to wear a cursed horcrux or something. There’s an…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Jackie Chan has two new movies, Vanguard and Iron Mask, headed for release. To honor the occasion, we’re recommending a few of his best vehicles.

Kenichi Kanazawa is an artist who makes stunning displays with sound. Or at least that’s what people say. Look upon a clip of Kanazawa at work and know, without a doubt, that he is in fact a modern-day wizard.

Okay, we get it. This might seem like a bit of a niche story. Some people will see the words ‘Chekhov’ and/or ‘The Sims’ and their eyes will glaze right over. If you are such a person, fine, but if you are also a person who cares about pop culture—and your visit to this very website would suggest you are—then stick…

With his latest memoir, No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael J. Fox reminds us that hope is an exercise and a discipline, not just a feeling or even a state of mind. The actor, author, and activist has already published three books, including two earlier memoirs, that course with the…

In Run, helicopter parenting reaches a whole new level of unhinged. Likely taking cues from the real-life Munchausen-by-proxy case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, writer-director Aneesh Chaganty’s second feature makes mommy dearest a formidable foe against teenage dreams of independence. Contrary to what it looks like,…

This well-produced but wonky show examining the American health care system likely has a hard ceiling of interest for each episode. That cap is obliterated, however, by the gripping modern folk tale of a single man standing defiant in the face of an unreasonable claims department. Jeffrey Fox isn’t an attorney, and…

Viral rapper, snitch, and general scourge Tekashi 6ix9ine is free from both prison and house arrest as of this past August, so you can bet he’ll be streaming Hulu’s new documentary about him. It’s out now, and the streamer just dropped a trailer for the tumultuous story of Snoop Dogg’s least favorite artist.

A while back, a man named Jeff set out to find the mysterious creature intent on destroying his garden. “Everything I planted was getting eaten to shreds,” he says in a video about his curse. Determined to solve his problem, Jeff installed a motion detector camera and identified the source of his trouble: A groundhog…

It only took half a year for them to get their acts together, but they finally did it: WarnerMedia media and Amazon have struck a deal that will bring HBO Max to Amazon Fire TV users beginning Tuesday, November 17. WarnerMedia’s Monday morning announcement was met with a resounding chorus of, “Oh yeah, that was still…

Inspiration has to come from somewhere. For writers, it’s often from those in their orbit, much to the chagrin of, well, those in their orbit. In the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, Meryl Streep stars as a successful author who, after hitting a bout of writer’s block, reunites with a few old friends—and a…

In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?

This Friday, Amazon Prime will drop Mangrove, the first of five new features from 12 Years A Slave and Widows director Steve McQueen, whose Small Axe anthology aims to shine on a light on the West Indian community of South London. A new film hits the streamer every Friday throughout November and December, with one of…

It was only 42 years ago that CBS blessed (cursed?) us with The Star Wars Holiday Special. The 1978 independent “sequel,” which fell between the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, featured all your favorite characters celebrating Life Day (the galaxy-far-far-away equivalent to Christmas) and introduced…