The Angry Christian Right Should Watch Netflix’s ‘Cuties’

By Cassie da Costa

Right-wingers are accusing Maïmouna Doucouré’s “Cuties” of sexualizing young girls, thanks to a bad Netflix gaffe, but the film itself provides a nuanced examination of girlhood.

By Marlow Stern

Keith Raniere’s women-branding sex cult had a media arm called The Knife, which published hundreds of articles and appeared on “Fox & Friends” defending Trump against “media bias.”

By Tarpley Hitt

The digital streaming device’s easy-to-access private channels are a dark place filled with some of the worst of humanity.

By Kevin Fallon

Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.

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By Matt Wilstein

On this bonus episode of “The Last Laugh” podcast, stand-up comic Ron Funches talks about his upcoming special “Awakening” and the state of comedy under quarantine.

By Marlow Stern

The “Real Time” host dove into the weird online world of QAnon Friday night, whose wacko believers think Trump is stopping a cabal of elite Hollywood and Democratic pedophiles.

By Laura Bradley

As one writer of the Warner Bros.-produced CBS series put it, “We had to do so much behind the scenes to keep these scripts from being racist and offensive.”

By Nick Schager

“Peninsula,” the high-octane zombie-movie sequel to South Korea’s “Train to Busan,” features a contagious virus, lying government officials, and selfish survivors. Sound familiar?

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It’s gross political malpractice to leave Jesus’ actual message to the tender mercies of cynical Republican spin-doctors and ad men

In the three weeks since school started in Cherokee County, Georgia, three of the district’s six high schools have temporarily shuttered due to coronavirus outbreaks.

The Italian author’s Neapolitan Quartet is beloved around the world (3 million copies sold in the U.S. alone), and the fanbase can’t wait for the new novel landing next month.

These Bin Liners Keep My Crisper Drawer Way Cleaner

Who knew a simple liner in the crisper drawer could solve such an annoying problem?

Never stare at an empty paper towel roll again with these reusable ones.

I never thought I’d need a pasta pot that also functioned as a colander. I was dead wrong.

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