Taylor Swift has cultivated an impassioned fanbase with catchy lyrics that incorporate themes of heartbreak, loss and coming of age — and her most recent release, The Tortured Poets Department, is no exception.
In dissecting the double album’s 31 tracks, many fans have come to relate their favorite fictional characters to themes in particular songs and lyrics. In
If you’re in the market for a spook-tacular vacation, then make a beeline for Alton in Southwest Illinois.
If you dare.
Alton has a deserved reputation as the most haunted small town in America, with a long roll-call of ghostly residents, from phantom nuns to a bank robber who haunts the local Irish pub and hotel guests… who can never leave.
We asked Cory Jobe, President & CEO of Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau, how long Alton has had
This article contains spoilers through the Season 3 finale of The Righteous Gemstones.
Though it uses the register of low comedy rather than moody character study or tragicomic caper, HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones, which follows a family of materialistic and vaguely corrupt religious showpeople, is prestige TV in the classic mold. Like Succession or Better Call Saul, it centers on a richly flawed antihero as he builds his empire, and, in the process, studies the workings of
When Ira Sachs’ new movie “Passages” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, critics couldn’t stop talking about the sex scenes. The movie, a drama set in Paris about a film director who leaves his longtime boyfriend for a young woman, featured an all-star European art-house cast — Franz Rogowski (“Transit,” “Great Freedom”), Ben Whishaw (“The Lobster,” “Little Joe”) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue is the Warmest Color”) — negotiating infidelity and betrayal. And having graphic sex.
Those scenes
‘Mmm, ice cream so good. Ooh, you got me feeling like a cowgirl. Gang gang. Fire, fire, fire,’ says TikToker PinkyDoll cheerfully as she sticks her tongue out and noisily pretends to lick a cone.
For the uninitiated, her nonsensical stream of words might seem like baffling gibberish but for those who love TikTok livestreams, they will probably seem very, very familiar. And for former stripper PinkyDoll, they’re her way of making a living.
Welcome to the new and bizarre
Charlie Chaplin had a big problem with law as it was enforced, order as it was imposed, and the norms of propriety and morality as they were applied—namely, against the downtrodden, the afflicted, and the outcast. “City Lights” (1931), perhaps his most acclaimed film (currently streaming on the Criterion Channel, Prime Video, and other services), begins with a bunch of grandees unveiling a large monument titled “Peace and Prosperity.” When the sheet is raised, we see a regally seated woman
Now that it’s finished its run on Disney+, this seems like the perfect time to look back at Secret Invasion, the latest of Marvel’s TV shows. The series, which follows Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury as he discovers Skrulls secretly living among humankind, was often riveting as it showed off Marvel’s ability to tell a story that was more of a conspiracy thriller.
Now, we’re taking a look back at the best characters we met on the show, including
Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster Oppenheimer has received rave reviews from critics and viewers alike, and made a huge $80 million in its opening weekend but not everyone is happy.
Cinema-goers from around the world who have seen the new film have taken to Twitter to blast how the movie’s female characters were written and portrayed.
One viewer wrote: ‘The women of Oppenheimer. Boobs, babies and a bit of booze. Bring the washing in dear. They may as well have been
Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 5 of New Amsterdam.
How can he not help? The New Amsterdam series finale followed Dr. Max Goodwin’s final day at the NYC hospital — but many fans said goodbye to the series before season 5 even began.
While Ryan Eggold, who portrays Max on the NBC medical drama, hinted to Us Weekly in April 2022 that the show would potentially end with a happily ever after between his character and
If you’ve watched Avatar 2, you may be wondering who’s in the Avatar: The Way of Water cast and who voices characters like Ronal, Tonowari and Kiri in the blockbuster sequel.
Avatar: The Way of Water is the sequel to 2009’s Avatar, James Cameron’s sci-fi epic set in the mid-22nd century as humans colonize the world of Pandora, a thriving moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, to mine the valuable mineral, unobtanium. The … Read more
