Noah Berlatsky

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.