I've been terrible at promoting this, but last year I launched a brand new A.V. Club column called Women of Action, all about the history of women-led action movies. And it just celebrated its one-year anniversary with a piece about Ripley and her seismic place in the canon!

Works for me!

Much to unpack in tonight's Task

HOW GOOD IS THIS This is how you speak truth to power and use your privilege.

#Swiped is two-thirds of a great movie with a third act that kind of feels like an ad for Bumble. But I'm a real sucker for movies that detail the 2010s female post-grad experience with the amount of detail this one does

Big, big Cabaret vibes in here folks. Come hear the music play.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

It's fun to research a James Cameron film because every story about him is insane. But my new favorite is a Lance Henriksen quote that refers to Cameron as "the bride in every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."

I would watch this rom-com

Odd finale to an odd season of Strange New Worlds, but I genuinely had so much fun doing my first-ever weekly Star Trek recaps!

I cried like 12 times watching the new Downton Abbey movie. The last two films went a little bigger and wackier to hook in new viewers, but this one is really a back-to-basics love letter for the long-time fans

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

I’m recapping HBO’s new Sunday night drama Task for The A.V. Club! Come for the harrowing character study, stay for me reminding everyone how good Tom Pelphrey was on Iron Fist.

I’m recapping HBO’s new Sunday night drama Task for The A.V. Club! Come for the harrowing character study, stay for me reminding everyone how good Tom Pelphrey was on Iron Fist.

@carolinesiede.bsky.social's detailed, nerdy delight is on display in her latest review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds recap - season 3, episode 9 share.google/8nJcRVvz449R...

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Sure you can just Google where you recognize an actor from, but it’s much more fun to be halfway through a Downton Abbey movie and suddenly realize that Jack Crusher on Picard is the hot footman everyone had a crush on in Downton S3.

Manifesting a Lily James cameo in the new Downton Abbey movie 🙏🙏🙏

It’s funny that the food containers in Alien no longer look futuristic because this is how every influencer stores their cereal now.

The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.

The goop budget for Alien: Earth must be insane.

Fuck AI, save the lake

Tracking down quarters was annoying, but not being able to dry my wet clothes because Verizon service is out and my building only uses a laundry room app is a particular kind of modern agony.

You know how when you buy a lottery ticket it’s not just the (unlikely) chance that you’ll win but the time you get to spend imagining the first few things you’d do if you DID win? It’s like that.

I do feel like this sums up my taste

Finally finished Picard S3! An incredibly sweet love letter to ‘90s Trek, but, more importantly, the arc my girl Seven of Nine DESERVED!!

I thought the new Sabrina Carpenter album was a little boring on first listen, but now I'm into it. It's like she's tracking the same sultry musical vibe across the '60, '70s, '80s, and '90s.

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

Ban all guns.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Taylor getting engaged the day Meghan Markle drops the new season of her Netflix show feels like a real diva-off for American royalty.

I'd watch 12 more Thursday Murder Club movies, tbh

And here's my piece on Disney's Sleeping Beauty! Which is actually not a film about a princess, but about three middle-aged fairies battling the ultimate Disney diva. And, honestly, that's some pretty great female representation for 1959!

Do you ever just want to cry about how beautiful old school animation was? Like, the composition!!!!

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I'm normally here for a streaming romance, but I found the main characters of Prime's The Map That Leads To You too insufferable to root for.

"It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that. I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over." This Tony Soprano quote bounces around my skull so often that some days I wonder if there's anything else there.

As someone the exact same age as Taylor Swift, I feel like there’s a non-zero chance her “Shiny Bug Collection” vinyl variant is a reference to this

May you all get to experience the joy of reviewing a movie you didn’t know David Tennant was in until he pops up.

I finally got COVID and also some stuff happened in the world of girl culture, so I wrote about that here! In this scary moment of cultural criticism flailing, it would mean the world if you subscribed (and maybe even supported?) my newsletter. Also, tell me all your Life of a Showgirl thoughts!

I’m pretty sure I singlehandedly got Pride & Prejudice on this list, thus fulfilling my true purpose at The A.V. Club film section. (Also, great list!!!)

This entire New Heights interview feels like I’m trapped at a wedding trying to make small talk with a couple and only barely kind of connecting to one of them.

For 20005 week at The A.V. Club, I wrote about the early days of Grey’s Anatomy and the episode where the show truly found its voice!

Exciting news!

I’m rewatching some early Grey’s Anatomy for a piece and Alex Karev is truly one of the all-time great TV characters.

Wrote about moms in comic book movies, how rarely they’re allowed to be heroic, and the cool choice to have a pregnant superhero in Fantastic Four www.avclub.com/the-fantasti...

I was talking with a teenager recently who is not a transphobe but said he didn’t think it was fair for trans women to play women’s sports . I said that I didn’t think it was fair that people who are taller than me get to play basketball and he paused for a moment and then said, ok you’re right.