Culture

Last year, the writer-director Oz Perkins released a film called Longlegs that was a surprise critical and box-office smash. It was a nasty, unsettling thriller in the vein of The...

Steve Martin says that Martin Short and Maya Rudolph have tested positive for Covid after attending the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special on Sunday. “Maya had Covid. Marty has...

Pepperdine University filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Thursday for alleged trademark infringement over Mind Kaling’s upcoming comedy series “Running Point.” The upcoming series centers around a...

Ever since Elon Musk bought X, the platform’s production of novel slang, metonyms, catchphrases, and other neologisms has fallen precipitously. The site that gave us milkshake duck (shorthand for discovering...

CNN hosts derided Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new guidance on biological differences between men and women, claiming such “new definitions” are more restrictive than...

Chicago residents are fed up with the city spending taxpayer dollars on illegal immigrants, prompting some to call for Republicans to take over the traditionally Democrat-run city. “The taxpayers are...

A Pokémon-shaped Flamin’ Hot Cheeto is on auction as part of Goldin’s February lot of pop culture stuff. If you want it, you’ve got just over nine days to place...

About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work. “Action movies are man...

Bezos. Jeff Bezos. Amazon MGM Studios, the tech giant’s film unit, plans to take “creative control” of the James Bond series under a new deal with the franchise’s longtime producers,...

One of my first enduring memories of the Netherlands was a stranger asking to cradle my baby. Months after my family relocated from Philadelphia to Maastricht, a small Dutch city,...