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Warner Brothers // Getty Images Movies audiences hated but critics loved With the popularity of social media and the rise of sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Letterboxd, it's easier than ever for average moviegoers to…
Sofia Voss
NetflixThe streaming calendar doesn't always cooperate. Most weeks, it's a few decent options buried under a landfill of algorithmic filler. This week is different. Three major platforms dropped tentpole titles on the same Friday, a…
Colby Droscher
Frennie Shivambu // Gallo Images via Getty Images What artist data reveals about the rise of Amapiano, a house music subgenreMusic trends often arrive with a sense of urgency. A song goes viral, a dance…
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Mark Sennet // Getty Images A brief history of the infamously terrible 'Star Wars Holiday Special' George Lucas' "Star Wars" saga stands as the most dominant pop-culture franchise of the last half-century. The space western…
Nicole Caldwell
Archive Photos // Getty Images #1 summer movie the year you graduated high school Movies have been a defining part of the summer experience for several decades now, with the modern summer blockbuster pioneered by…
Brianna Zigler
NetflixMarch arrived quietly and then detonated. Over the past two weeks, Netflix dropped a long-awaited Peaky Blinders film, a second season of the best live-action anime adaptation in years, a Rachel Weisz limited series, and…
Colby Droscher
Richard Rodriguez // Getty Images Controversial songs from the last 50 years Not a year goes by without some music controversy. In 2025, Zach Bryan's October teaser of an as-yet unreleased song that appeared to criticize…
Jacob Osborn
Best Western film from the year you were born Westerns are one of the oldest genres of cinema, with many of the earliest big-screen adventures recounting tales of rough-and-tumble life in the Old West. The…
Joseph J. Airdo
Canva Best Emmy-nominated shows of all time The first Emmy Awards show took place at the Hollywood Athletic Club in 1949. Hosted by Walter O'Keefe, tickets to the show were five dollars and only six…
Kelsi Trinidad
Warner Bros. // Getty Images Movies where it was all a dream (or was it?) Was it a dream? Was it a hallucination? Is anything in the world actually real? These are the fundamental questions…
Paul Feinstein