Noah Berlatsky

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

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

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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

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.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.