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We will not stand for such disrespect to Mother.

What Aemond Does to Alicent on This Week’s ​House of the Dragon​ Simply Cannot Stand In a crowded field, the prince-regent is this week’s worst person in Westeros.

The world would like to forget this global hit movie, but its effects are still with us.

A 1980s Comedy Broke Box-Office Records Worldwide—Then Disappeared. The Story Behind It Is Stunning. The Gods Must Be Crazy has all but vanished—but the myths that it spread still persist.

Please, for the love of god, let us discover a post-MAGA entertainment industry.

What Happened to The Boys? Four seasons in, the Amazon hit’s satire is so didactic that it has practically become meaningless.

One of the most anticipated video games of the year will also turn you into an absolute monster.

The New College Football Game Turns Me Into Everything I Hate EA’s College Football 25 has laid bare a manipulative, anti-labor beast within me. It’s awesome.

In Netflix’s new Simone Biles doc, the star’s struggle is illuminated like never before.

Maybe this franchise should have stuck to flying cows.

Twisters Offers an Unlikely Solution to One of the Greatest Problems of Our Time The new movie addresses climate change in a way that’s rather, uh, unconventional.

It edged up to one of Star Wars’ most provocative questions, then backed away.

The Acolyte Was Almost the Most Radical Star Wars Story Since The Last Jedi. What Happened? The new series was the franchise’s most promising failure in years.

Twisters understands that the appeal of the original was about more than just flying cattle.

The New Twister Is a Pure, Mindless Hoot The new movie will scratch your itch for big, dumb action—and also for a charming rom-com.

Cody Ko has long been beloved for his online videos.

The Controversy Over One of the Internet’s Most Popular Stars Has Been a Long Time Coming YouTuber Tana Mongeau leveled allegations at the popular content creator Cody Ko.

She had that special “it.”

Shannen Doherty Made 90210. It Never Stopped Following Her Around. Her death, at 53, is tragic, but at least she survived us.

Was Hillbilly Elegy ever good?

Trump’s VP Pick Wrote a Bestselling Memoir. Rereading It Now Is Astonishing. Vance’s political supporters still carry copies of Hillbilly Elegy for him to sign, but you have to wonder if they’ve actually read it lately.

She was a pro-choice, feminist celebrity. Now she’s going all in on MAGA.

Why Is Amber Rose Speaking at the Republican National Convention? How Amber Rose went from SlutWalk to MAGA.

The theme of this week’s episode is: Be careful what you wish for.

House of the Dragon’s Worst Character Somehow Found a Way to Stoop Even Lower What’s a little war atrocity between enemies?

One professor referred to it as “the Twister effect.”

How the Original Twister Changed Storm Chasing Forever Back then, chasers thought the media hubbub would die down after a bit. That was not the case.

It’s not “the scariest film of the decade,” but it might be one of the most dread-inducing.

A Viral Horror Flick Had the Year’s Best Marketing. The Movie Itself Is Very Different. Longlegs isn’t designed to scare you. It’s designed to do something else.

And how long are those legs, really?

The Most Acclaimed Horror Movie of the Year Is Here. Is It As Scary As Everyone Is Saying? Nicolas Cage’s Longlegs makeup allegedly almost gave its star a heart attack. Is it really that frightening?

The biggest problem isn’t even the conspiracy theories.

Channing Tatum and ScarJo Made a Rom-Com About Faking the Moon Landing. Houston, We Have a Problem. Fly Me to the Moon is a $100 million disaster.

All the ways the president resembles a coach about to be fired.

Some May Think Biden Is Riding This Out. College Football Fans Know Better. They’ve seen this kind of crisis many times before. It ends only one way.

Her last book was big. Now she’s going even bigger.

Fleishman Is in Trouble Was a Huge Hit. The Author’s Latest Is a Masterpiece. Long Island Compromise is an enthralling epic about the crude gravity of wealth.

The series scans like it was written by an absolute dweeb, in the best way possible.

Bridgerton Fans Will Love Amazon’s Hit Historical Romance. In Some Ways It’s Even Better. My Lady Jane offers a refreshing twist on the sassy historical romance.

A closer look at “Vandals,” published just a year after Alice Munro learned of her daughter’s sexual abuse.

How Could Alice Munro Respond to Her Daughter’s Revelations So Callously? One Short Story Offers a Key. A closer look at “Vandals,” published just a year after Munro learned of her daughter’s sexual abuse.

This week’s worst person in Westeros isn’t who started the war. It’s who could’ve stopped it.

It Got Real on ​House of the Dragon The Dance of the Dragons is fully underway.

The restaurant has forgotten how to balance experimentation with simpler, more satisfying pleasures. So has the show.

This Season of The Bear Is About What’s Wrong With This Season of The Bear The Bear is about a restaurant that loses track of what made it popular. Sound familiar?

Axel F is the first movie in the series to consider the revolutionary notion that cops lying and covering up their misdeeds might be bad.

The New Beverly Hills Cop Is the First Since Black Lives Matter. It Knows How the Old Movies Look. The first movie was a valentine to renegade police. The new one takes a different approach.

After everything the Tokyo Games star has been through, her return to the Olympics is her sport’s story of the year.

Why It’s So Astonishing That Suni Lee Is Back at the Olympics This is gymnastics’ greatest comeback of the year.

Cooler heads will not prevail.

Who’s to Blame on House of the Dragon? The Answer Should Be Obvious. Westeros’ boorish noblemen are itching to take their cool weapons out for a spin.

It is impossible to describe the experience of being older to younger people.

A Bestselling Novelist Broke Her Neck at Age 85. Instead of Dying, She Wrote an Astonishing Book. An accident while gardening is transformed into a meditation on living creatively to the very end.

Remember when Sabrina Carpenter was just the other girl from “Drivers License”?

We Officially Have a Major New Pop Star To understand how Sabrina Carpenter got so big, you have to understand her controversies.

It’s the rare horror prequel that’s more terrifying than the original.

This Year’s First Big Horror Hit Is Here. Can You Handle It? How the new A Quiet Place measures up against the original, in charts.

The Bear is a failing restaurant.

The Bear Is Not a Good Show When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.