Kara Weisenstein

On Tuesday, novelist Sarah Dessen, who the New York Times has called a “best-seller machine,” got very upset that someone doesn’t like her books. When a fairly innocuous quote about Dessen appeared in a local news story out of Aberdeen, South…

Alexa Demie doesn’t realize she's been credited with rescuing #HotGirlSummer. A fan turned her into a meme in August, posting “Maddy Perez saved hot girl summer” on Twitter with a mashup of clips featuring Demie's character in the HBO teen drama…

The streaming wars are starting to look a lot like the ‘90s. Disney+ arrived on the scene on Monday, offering as many Disney Channel Originals as millennials can stand to binge. Apple+ has a reboot of Ghostwriter, the ‘90s PBS show about a literary…

I’m feeling a little bewildered by all the papal content coming our way these days. There’s The New Pope, which is a spinoff of The Young Pope — the HBO show starring Jude Law as a pontiff with a penchant for... Speedos? In the new series, he’s…

After an endless marketing blitz, Disney+ is here, and one of the most notable things about the streaming service is that subscribers have access to the entire “Disney Vault” — a catalogue containing nearly every movie made since the dawn of the…

Austria won’t be allowed to compete in the Oscars this year, according to an exclusive story by The Hollywood Reporter. The country’s entry, Joy, was disqualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because “only 33% of the dialogue…

In theory, the streaming era is an embarrassment of riches for connoisseurs of prestige TV. There’s Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime Video, Russian Doll and Ozark and Stranger Things on Netflix, The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu… the…

A new film starring James Dean, who’s been dead for more than 60 years, is slated to hit theaters a year from now, The Hollywood Reporter announced on Wednesday. Dean starred in just four movies before fatally crashing his car in 1955 at 24 years…

Murdering fuzzy little critters to wear them as an ostentatious status symbol has been passé for some time. But in recent years, a number of brands, retailers and celebrities have jumped on the bandwagon and finally sworn-off fur. The latest…

I really dig Dickinson, the new Apple TV+ series about 19th century poet Emily Dickinson. I like that every episode is named after and centers on a different poem, sneaking a little literary criticism into my TV time. And I’m dying to find ways to…

A month ago (was it only a month ago?) director Martin Scorsese set the internet alight with his inflammatory take on the Marvel movie franchise. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they…

Delta will restore the same-sex love scenes it edited out of in-flight versions of Booksmart and Rocketman, the airline announced on Friday. The carrier came under fire last week when passengers noticed that key same-sex love scenes had been…

All the bands are getting back together. On Friday, news broke that Rage Against the Machine is reuniting to headline Coachella’s 2020 lineup. An unverified Instagram account in the band’s name announced a total of five shows in a post featuring a…

Perhaps you missed Booksmart, one of the freshest and funniest films of 2019, in theaters. Or maybe you saw the film and can’t wait to take its crazy ride all over again. Imagine your delight finding the movie among the entertainment options on your…

Cancer doesn’t discriminate. It comes for normal folks and famous people with equal aggression. But when a celebrity learns they have a life-threatening illness, unless they keep their diagnosis a secret, they face the complicated prospect of…

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” is one of the most controversial casualties of the #MeToo movement. Calls to cancel the classic wintertime duet over its outdated lyrics — like “Hey, what’s in this drink?” which connotes date rape more than snowbound…

Kanye West sat down for an interview with radio host Big Boy over the weekend to publicize his latest album, Jesus Is King, which finally dropped this past Friday. It was his normal stew of quasi-coherent blusterings about faith and fame until Big…

Netflix is testing out a feature of its mobile app that lets people speed up or slow down videos, and while many subscribers seem excited about the prospect of streaming Friends (for a few more months at least) 0.5x, 0.75x, 1.0x, 1.25x or 1.5x…

Prince’s posthumous memoir The Beautiful Ones, named after the haunting ballad on his 1984 album Purple Rain, hits shelves on Tuesday. It’s a trove of joyous selfies, childhood remembrances, and hand-drawn cartoons. It’s also hardly the book Prince…