Vivian Kane

More than 40 years into its existence, 2017 was Dungeons & Dragons’ biggest year ever, and not by a small margin. And while it’s still early, all signs point to 2018 being even bigger.

Back in July of 2022, writer Gillian Flynn flooded the internet with equal parts delight and confusion when she let us all know about the existence of a Gone Girl-themed cruise. “There are still tickets available to join me on the Avalon Waterways…

Ann M. Martin's popular book series inspired a whole generation of young girls—but does it hold up in 2017?

It was just over a year ago, right at the start of the global pandemic we’re all still living through, that our collective obsession with Animal Crossing: New Horizons consumed us. It was exactly what we needed: a soothing game that filled our days…

This article is over 7 years old and may contain outdated information It’s been just over four years since the 2013 Oscars, when Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Les Miserables. That was also around the time that it…

Chasers gonna chase.

**Warning: Spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story ahead.** Solo: A Star Was Story is out today, and for the most part, I agree with pretty much everything Kaila said in her review. I found the movie to be fun, if fluffy. It felt to me like an…

Now that Yellowjackets has wrapped its first season, Showtime has been sharing some of its ratings numbers for the show and they are out of this world. To start, S1 of Yellowjackets was the network’s most-watched freshman season of television in…

Rotten Tomatoes isn’t a perfect site. Far too many people think that a movie’s score is a direct “grade,” indicating exactly how enjoyable a movie is. The Brett Ratners of the world love to blame RT for everything wrong with the film industry.…

Over 200 ships are currently stuck waiting to pass through Egypt’s Suez Canal, thanks to the enormous shipping vessel the Ever Given, which has gotten lodged sideways, blocking the entirety of the waterway and shutting down all traffic in both…

For Donald Trump’s entire term, there was a weird, pervasive idea that he was good, even essential, for comedians. Late-night talk shows were especially thought to be dependent on Trump for material. What would they manage to do without Trump in…

As most of our social lives have been reduced to Zoom happy hours and movie-watching text chains for the better part of a year, we’re always on the lookout for new fun, maybe even exciting activities that can be done remotely. Alice Is Missing, a…

Tucker Carlson is a pro at making himself an easy target. Every night, he goes on Fox News and scrunches his face up and pretends not to understand why the things he’s saying are so misogynistic, racist, transphobic, or whatever form of bigotry he’s…

If it feels like the entire world has gotten political overnight, that’s because it has. It’s not just your friendly neighborhood geek site that can’t (and doesn’t want to) rest on escapism. Everyone I know is more engaged, and consuming more news…

From the start, Brea Grant’s new slasher film Lucky feels like another installation in the current renaissance of time loop movies. But the further you go, the more complicated things become. In Lucky, directed by Natasha Kermani, Grant plays May, a…

From the very start, Crazy Rich Asians lets you know it’s not going to be what you expected. The film opens with a flashback to the 1990s, and the essentially titular Young family experiencing an encounter of overt racism—not the sort of light,…

**Spoilers for the finale of Dirty John** The opening scene of the first episode of Bravo’s Dirty John told us how the show was going to end. The series premiere opened with Connie Britton’s Debra Newell walking through a hospital and talking to…

This article is over 5 years old and may contain outdated information The beloved band The Doubleclicks are back with a new album that’s already topping Billboard charts. The geeky, insightful, empowering sibling duo of Laser Malena-Webber and Aubrey…

The Associated Press recently decided to get into the NFT game, and things are already going predictably terribly. On Thursday, the news organization tweeted an announcement that the following day’s auction would for be a video “of migrants drifting…