open thread
What's the best movie from the year you were born?
Discuss amongst yourselves! (And/or, read our answers below.)
movies
What piece of culture should get its own "biopic"?
A question for the group
open thread
What pop culture are you looking forward to in 2025?
I'm looking forward to Superman, a new Japanese Breakfast album, and (sigh) the next Avatar movie
discussion
What's something you thought you would hate but ended up loving?
My answer isn't Wicked, but only because I haven't seen it yet.
discussion
Discuss: What art screams "August" to you?
Taylor Swift or Don Henley: Choose your fighter.
discussion
Discuss: What was the first movie or TV show you loved?
And how did it affect what you love now?
cereal
Pop culture weekend (Sept. 15): General Mills Cereal Monsters, ranked
How will the new cereal monster, Carmella Creeper, fare?
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Sept. 8): Foundation and the rise of the "episodic" streaming show
Serialized shows can seem more episodic using this one weird trick.
saw
Pop culture weekend (Sept. 1): On vacation
What are you reading, watching, listening to, or staring at blankly?
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Aug. 25): The millennial Big Chill (doesn't exist)
Is it possible to define a generation's experiences anymore? Was it ever?
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Aug. 18): I can't watch bad things happen to fictional kids anymore.
I became a parent, and you won't believe what happened next! (Spoilers: I found watching scenes of children dying or being endangered almost completely unbearable.)
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Aug. 11): Country music and hierarchies
Just how conservative is country music anyway?