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Smearing Pedro: Kat Tenbarge on the Pedro Pascal Smear Campaign
The weird world of astroturfed celebrity smear campaigns, with Kat Tenbarge from Spitfire News.
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Entire Plot of Ice Cube's 'War of the Worlds' Recreated Using Only Quotes From Scathing Reviews
Ice Cube stars in an HG Wells adaptation apparently shot during the pandemic and shelved. UNTIL NOW.
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'The Naked Gun' (2025) Is, Shockingly, Worthy Of The Title
'The Naked Gun' is basically the reverse 'Happy Gilmore 2,' in which commitment to the bit of making not just comedy, but a *movie,* is what makes all the dopey humor so great.
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The 10 Best Lonely Island Videos
In honor of Akiva Shaffer directing The Naked Gun remake, I'm remembering some Lonely Island videos.
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'Fantastic Four' is an Adequate, Live-Action 'Incredibles'
The latest MCU entry dispenses with all the tie-in nonsense and delivers a solid popcorn movie, if not an especially memorable one.
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'Happy Gilmore 2' Feels Like An Adam Sandler Charity Special
What if they threw you a sequel, and *every* golfer came??
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'Eddington' is the First Great Art About the Pandemic
Ari Aster plumbs our fractured national psyche, synthesizing the upheavals of the pandemic into something approaching arthouse South Park (complimentary).
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'Oh, Hi' is a Sweet Genre-Bender About Light Bondage
Molly Gordon shines in the Gen Z dating version of 'Falling Down.'
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Where Have All The Boob Shows Gone?
Nudity on prestige TV, This Week In Posters, and Top Chef's next destination.
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The Coldplay Couple Brought "Main Character" Back
How a canoodling concert couple gave us exactly the kind of low-stakes, zero-calorie scandal we needed.
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It's Santa Claus Melon Season, Motherf*cker
All hail the king of melons.
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'Superman' Valiantly Tries to Pull Superheroes Down from the Rafters
James Gunn's Superman reboot works well when it's super silly but gets kind of incoherent when it tries to be serious.