Noah Berlatsky

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.