A funeral, a time loop, and enough unresolved friendship drama to make one Saturday last forever. Destination Funeral turns emotional baggage into a full-blown supernatural itinerary.
Busy Philipps went in for a scan and came out with a brain tumor diagnosis. Somehow, the story is terrifying, funny, deeply human, and exactly why I’ve been a fan since Freaks and Geeks.
I’m probably too old for Polly Pocket and Monster High dolls, but Mattel made them Buffy the Vampire Slayer-themed, so apparently age is just another thing we’re ignoring in Sunnydale.
Move naturally, eat plants, know your neighbors — that’s basically the whole Blue Zone pitch. Turns out some communities are paying six figures a year for common sense.
Rachel Khong’s My Dear You comes in weird and stays weird, with stories about race, love, ghosts, sex dolls, God, and the general inconvenience of being human. Not every story lands, but even the misses are strange...
Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto delivers a sweeping, emotionally heavy love story about identity, sacrifice, and the secrets families carry across generations. Find out why I gave the book 3.75/5 stars.
A 22-year-old on TikTok told me I’m too old to watch a college romance like Off Campus. I have never been more motivated to write 1,000 words in my life. I know we are not the target audience for Off Campus. I...
Daniel Kish clicks his tongue, listens for the echo, and finds his way through a world most of us barely hear. Echo starts with echolocation, but what really sticks is its bigger question: who gets to decide what...
Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande take their Wicked friendship to the next level—by facing a lie detector test. No spells, just truth! The movie Wicked is a gift to the world, and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s...
Watch one of my favorite emotional scenes from the end of Euphoria’s second season, starring Zendaya and Maude Apatow. 2026 UPDATE: The original video at the end of this post is no longer available. I’ve...
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