Has anyone done an investigation as to why that one section of Moynihan Train Hall always has a bunch of youths learning/doing tiktok dances

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl is a just-okay album that doesn’t live up to the promise her immense talent demands. My review for @avclub.com : www.avclub.com/taylor-swift...

Heart The Lover came out yesterday and it is so, SO good. This and other recs here:

Been treating myself to more theater in the past few months and it’s like oh yeah experiencing art is nourishing and stimulating. John Proctor Is The Villain was great and made me cry. www.avclub.com/best-live-sh...

Shiny Happy People s2 could not be more relevant to everything happening today (specifically, and more broadly as a country) — outlines the playbook for this rhetoric specifically. They have been waiting and hoping for a martyr

This Emerald Fennell quote from a Saltburn Q&A is the Rosetta Stone for her Wuthering Heights btw. Perhaps for her whole career

32 action franchises have been summoned to a tournament of champions. One will win the title belt. This is the first round of The A.V. Club's action franchise bracket: www.avclub.com/best-action-...

Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.

The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women… three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social www.avclub.com/the-summer-i...

What do yall know about this

I’m one of the world’s foremost advocates for Bruce Springsteen covering “peace” by Taylor Swift

I wish I didn’t still care so much about Christian storytelling that it still makes me mad anytime someone perpetrates the myth of Mary Magdalene being a prostitute

Put some Rachel Chinouriri on your summer playlists! You’re welcome! www.avclub.com/avqa-song-of...

Saturday morning on the subway, just headed to— SELFIE (2014) STARRING KAREN GILLAN AND JOHN CHO???

Not sure how I feel about the Mommies phase of the MCU

My new book is out today :) With Coercion I wanted to dedicate a book to unpacking at the most granular level how abortion bans aren't just some abstract political debate but state gender-based violence w/ material consequences that can't be ignored. more about the project linked below:

last call g/orphans if ur around in NY this weekend slide into the DMs (is that how it works on bluesky idek)

It was so wonderful talking to @jamesfolta.com for @literaryhub.bsky.social about books, my forthcoming book (out Sunday), and writing in general :)

SUPERMAN CW EYEBALL STUFF

Watched My Brilliant Career for the first time last night… wow

They are trying to ruin my LIFE

Ohhhhh she picked a romance novelist for her staff pick??? Groundbreaking!!

this is labubu vibes to me

Is anyone leading the fan campaign to get them to un-cancel Duster… brainstorming something along the lines “ #GetDusted “ ?

Matthew Goode’s two major rom-coms (Chasing Liberty and Leap Year) having the same basic premise (strangers to lovers on an international fish-out-of-water road trip adventure) 🧘‍♀️

If you are a g/orphan in ny check in with me babes…

I for one am grateful for Will to get the last word

Planning for the G/O Media funeral begins NOW

Lorde’s Virgin struck me right in the heart! Wrote about it for @avclub.com ! www.avclub.com/lorde-virgin...

Men who think they can get away with sexually abusing women can EAT SHIT

Department Q just kind of felt like a waste of Matthew Goode to me

reviewed the new HAIM album, which is fine but it ain't Women In Music Pt III, ya kno?

went long about Materialists & its romantic comedy heritage for @avclub.com <3 www.avclub.com/materialists...

Amanda Seyfried should have an Emmy for playing Lilly Kane

I was absolutely bumpingggggg this in 2019 like I was Hello Peril’s biggest fan

“Hyperbolic chamber” Is this anything? A New Yorker cartoon caption perhaps

Whoaaaaaa the Doctor Who finale hurt my feelings so bad I wanna do feminism on tumblr about it

Catch me at the function explaining in detail the plot of the season 21 Grey’s Anatomy finale

The crimes they were doing to Bucky Barnes’ hair in Thunderbolts omg no wonder Sebastian Stan shaved his head

getting to open a piece with “Habemus papam, and habemus a new Lorde tour while we’re at it” is the highlight of my week, closely followed by

Wrote about my big problem with this era of Doctor Who for @avclub.com: it’s simply too much all the time www.avclub.com/doctor-who-h...

Hollywood I am putting together a package for you free of charge… but you have to act fast and strike while the iron is hot

This should be in the pantheon as an all time modern classic but for Dacre Montgomery’s deeply unsettling vibe … Geraldine INNOCENT!!!!

There should be a ruling, maybe in the AP Stylebook, about how long someone has to be silent about a topic before they can officially be described as “breaking their silence”

The Daily Dot EIC & CEO confirms to @avclub.com the layoffs of 15 people from the editorial and tech teams, saying he hopes “to be able to go back to people and offer them their jobs back” in the future: www.avclub.com/polygon-sale...

Wrote about the sweet funny new Netflix rom-com series North Of North ❄️

Saw the brilliant Jacqueline Novak performing some new material last night and was reminded of this bit from our convo last year 🤭

Grace VanderWaal’s new album Childstar is a fascinating and often quite sad insight into the psychology of a child performer — wrote about it for this week’s @avclub.com staff picks ❤️ www.avclub.com/staff-picks-...

Lorde and Ariana I am receiving your messages… we are adding a new stage of grief called bewilderment

I thought the new Mythic Quest ending was going to be like a little epilogue not a retcon… bad