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Two of the stars of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie were detained by police while protesting outside of the capitol building in Washington D.C. Jane Fonda (Grace) and Sam Waterston (Saul) were arrested alongside other protesters on Friday morning while…

Amazon just announced it’s producing a five-part Ted Bundy docuseries, adding to the deluge of Bundy content already out there — much of it framing the serial killer as a suave, handsome lady killer (pun intended, obviously). The show is a ploy to…

If Snapchat’s documentary series about Tekashi 6ix9ine weren’t enough content about the rapper turned federal informant, then I’ve got good news. Rolling Stone will produce SuperVillain, based on their 2019 feature on Tekashi. The documentary will…

I was a weird kid. Most of the girls at my elementary school were into Care Bears, My Little Pony, and the Disney princesses of the day. I always loved the cartoony aesthetics of those characters and I was down with any excuse to collect stickers,…

Remember when Jeff Bezos took that photo with Lil Nas X, and it occurred to you that Jeff Bezos has the power to taint everything you’ve ever loved, wanted, or needed? The Amazon empire started with books, and now sells everything from paper…

Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill offers insight into the ways alleged predators like Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein escaped accountability for so long. According to Farrow’s book, people often agreed to look the other way when it came to…

Frank Ocean is throwing a party in New York City tonight. It’s the first in a series of Blonded club nights, called PrEP+ in homage to the revolutionary HIV prevention drug. According to a statement, the party will celebrate New York’s club scene in…

One of the challenges of hosting a debate with 12 candidates is that it takes about a century to get through a single question. And a lot of people watching last night’s Democratic debate were not impressed that CNN and the New York Times chose to…

“I just don’t understand how you’re 48 and you still don’t have anything,” Annie, a 25-year-old bride-to-be from Thailand, tells her would-be fiancé. She’s one half of a couple on the TLC reality series, 90 Day Fiancé in which Americans quickly —…

GQ published a thoughtful interview with Pharrell Williams on Monday as the cover story of its “New Masculinity” issue. The 46-year-old rapper-singer-producer was candid about his personal growth in an era of shifting gender politics. Most notably,…

It’s mid-October, so it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming holiday season. So, before we've even settled on a Halloween costume, Netflix previewed this year's holiday films. In a new trailer that emphasized words like “family,” “old…

Ava DuVernay and Netflix are reportedly facing a lawsuit from the company that created the interrogation technique depicted in the four-part limited series When They See Us. According to a report from Deadline, John E. Reid & Associates, a Chicago…

Elton John was a guest on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Sunday promoting his new memoir, Me. After being asked whether he objects to his songs being played at Trump rallies, the iconic musician demurred, saying he doesn’t get involved in politics. He…

For a certain stratum of millennials, Disney Channel's original movies represent the peak of American cinema. Titles like Brink, about a group of young rollerbladers faced with the dilemma of "selling out" are stories that resonate to this day.…

In Barbarians at the Gate, the 1993 HBO film based on the best-selling book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, the victims of capitalism’s more visceral excesses are gestured to but never represented. The film follows the leveraged buyout of RJR…

Donald Trump is, like he always has been, in campaign mode, holding huge rallies for his dwindling horde of fervent supporters. At his rally on Thursday night in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Trump and his team tried to seem likable by playing a song from…

The fourth season of Riverdale premiered Wednesday night, and though the show has always been dark, “Chapter 58: In Memoriam,” was starkly more somber than any previous episode. The soapy TV show, based on the Archie comics, had to grapple with the…

Countless American kids are paying the price of the opioid crisis, and the creators of Sesame Street have taken note, the Guardian reported. The long-running children’s show recently introduced a new muppet to the gang — Karli, whose mom struggles…

The streaming service boom has brought us choice surplus: we can watch movies and television from all over the world with a few clicks and a relatively affordable monthly subscription. The existence of these platforms has disincentivized plenty of…