8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (759+ words) For decades, Leia Organa was portrayed as a princess, senator, rebel leader, general, and one of the most important political figures in the galaxy. Only much later did Star Wars fully acknowledge that Luke Skywalker’s twin sister was also the…...

22+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1161+ words) This week’s rankings are practically a map of that behavior. House of the Dragon, X-Men ’97, Loki, Yellowstone, South Park, Scream 7, Masters of the Universe, and Descendants: Wicked Wonderland do not need to introduce themselves to audiences from scratch. Even when…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1758+ words) Kelly chose a third possibility. That distinction matters because psychoanalysis has never proposed self-sufficiency as an ideal of mental health. Freud did not imagine that a person should learn not to need anyone. On the contrary, we are constituted through…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (536+ words) We recently talked about Suri and that curious Hollywood tradition in which the children of major stars eventually have to decide what to do with a surname that can open doors while also creating an almost impossible standard of comparison....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (986+ words) Six years later, Ted is coming back. The question is: to what kind of world? He has even said that he was not going to uproot Ted’s life again just to justify “the money truck.” It is an important remark…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (607+ words) It was an extraordinarily effective formula. Ron Burgundy in Anchorman, Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights, and several other Ferrell characters were essentially built around the same idea: men who occupied the center of the world without ever realizing how ridiculous…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (901+ words) There is something particularly brutal about removing a last name. Money can be divided. Houses can be sold. Lawyers can spend years arguing over French wineries, custody arrangements, and agreements that no one outside the family will ever fully understand....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1350+ words) Discussing the major changes House of the Dragon has made to the book has already become a predictable and divisive ritual. I am almost always on the side of the purists, and I have questioned many of the “adaptations” that,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1077+ words) Depending on where one stood, the media battle almost resembled a convenient version of the final itself: young, irreverent CazéTV cast as the challenger, while Globo played the role of the old giant many wanted to see brought down. It…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1791+ words) Perhaps a little too much. His relationship with Rhaenyra, merely suggested in the book, was made explicit in the series: she seduced him and they spent a night together, but when Criston asked her to leave everything behind and marry…...