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Stories are driven through conflicts, showing us how characters either solve these conflicts or make them worse. If everyone in these tales acted rationally or without ill intent, stories would go nowhere, so there is a need for conflict-seeking characters. Even if, sometimes, they feel like too much. And too

This Lord of the Flies review is spoiler-free. Even if you’ve never actually read Lord of the Flies, you probably still know the story of Lord of the Flies. William Golding’s iconic novel was written over 70 years ago, but its influence can still be felt throughout our pop culture

This article contains spoilers for Euphoria through season 3 episode 3. Euphoria has always enjoyed mistreating young bodies. From the physical toll Rue (Zendaya) faces during her numerous drug relapses and withdrawals, to the way characters like Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Kat (Barbie Ferreira) utilize their sexuality in dangerous situations,

There’s a special kind of obnoxious nothingness to the way people talk about “world peace.” Not the wanting of it. Wanting world peace is fine, obviously. It’s the framing that gets under the skin: the tiara-and-sash simple-mindedness of it, the idea that wishing hard enough into a microphone counts as

It was a different world The Devil Wears Prada opened in 20 years ago, as indicated by the fact that you could open a summer hit like The Devil Wears Prada without it being a sequel, remake, or reimagining. To be sure, the 2006 original—which also netted Meryl Streep an