Tag: netflix

The movie theater was once a kind of lay church, with festivals like TIFF serving as annual religious holidays — until new houses of worship opened online.

Vomit culture keeps repeating on us because who doesn’t enjoy a good puke.

Pop culture loves to show teen boys jerking off, but girls never seemed to get the same attention. They are getting their happy ending now.

The writer, director, producer, and actor used her versatility to to take on the Hollywood system.

“We have to get rid of the romantic part.”

After the binge-watching comes the binge-reading.

NPR’s Linda Holmes, on whether pooh-poohing television makes any sense in a changing digital media landscape.

This whitewashing of Jewishness out of pop culture is an old, old story, and it isn’t specific to camp movies; it’s true of plenty of other Hollywood representations of American teens, too. The Czech Jew who wrote the novel that was the basis for Gidget (1959) was inspired by his own surfing daughter, Kathy Kohner, who went on […]

Last week, ‘Tig’, a documentary about stand-up comic Tig Notaro–whose career reached new heights in 2012 after she opened a set by announcing she had breast cancer–debuted on Netflix. In January, at Vulture, Jada Yuan spoke with Notaro about the film, the assorted grave misfortunes from 2012 that are now behind her, her plans for […]

When Piper optioned her book to Jenji Kohan, the creator of Weeds, a number of people were asked to sign over something called “life rights.” In short: Some version of our lives could be depicted on the show, and we each agreed not to sue its creators if, for example, the character based on one […]

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