“Timothée Chalamet agrees that rom-coms are back — and that means only one thing. My beautiful, bowl-cut boy needs to star in a romantic comedy, like, yesterday.”— Morgan Baila, refinery29.com
“Lara Jean doesn’t wait for Kavinsky to come crawling back to her. Instead, she drives her own chariot, as scary as it is, to win back the boy she loves. She doesn’t need a savior. She saves herself. Instead of being a supporting character who progresses the white protagonist’s storyline or being the…”— Laura Sirikul, bitchmedia.org
“And therein lies the attraction of teenage love stories for people whose teen years are well and truly over: They provide an innocent, sanitized narrative free from the messy adult realities of sex and dating.”— Philip Ellis, manrepeller.com
“Do you tear yourself apart to entertain like me? Do the people whisper 'bout you on the train like me? Saying that you shouldn't waste your pretty face like me?”— Halsey, open.spotify.com
“Stories are built on tropes, and tropes about women are built on binaries. Whether it’s the Madonna or the Whore, the Maiden or the Crone, or the Ingénue or the Vamp, as women we are often forced to pick an all-encompassing identity from a short-list of pre-prescribed options that rarely represent t…”— Cate Young, manrepeller.com
“In honour of the brand’s 10th anniversary, British Vogue shoots style icon, Victoria Beckham, who tells Edward Enninful what she wants, what she really, really wants…”— British Vogue, twitter.com
“At this point, the American Horror Story franchise is basically a Russian nesting doll of characters, with Ryan Murphy's brat pack of actors playing numerous roles across all seven (and soon to be eight) parts, sometimes with multiple parts in a given season.”— Claire Dodson, teenvogue.com
“It’s easy to have an icy, cynical heart when there are so many terrible things happening in the world today. And yet, as Hugh Grant once said, if you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.”— Michelle Ruiz, vogue.com
“She drinks hard liquor (usually whiskey, and usually from the bottle) at all hours of the night and day, but never gets drunk, or gains weight.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“At their very best, romantic comedies are sheer joy. They are about forging human connections and people changing each other for the better — all of which is complex stuff that is worthy of sustained aesthetic attention — and they approach their subject matter with glee.”— Constance Grady, vox.com
“This display of Asian male beauty is fighting a decades-old narrative in America, a racist one where Asian male bodies were either portrayed as made for kung-fu or made for being laughed at. If you know the history, you might end seeing the abs in Crazy Rich Asians in a slightly sharper light.”— BOURREE LAM, refinery29.com
“Aretha Franklin was the prototypical soul diva whose explicit incorporation of gospel into R&B and pop changed music forever. Franklin’s titanic singing brought melisma to the masses, and indelibly filled whatever musical space it entered. A pop-culture pioneer, she was a black woman solo artist who…”— Rich Juzwiak, jezebel.com
“Jim Halpert? Mr. Darcy? It's time to decide once and for all who is the ultimate fictional boyfriend. Go forth and fill out the bracket — and share which boyfriend is truly the bae-est of them all”— Mashable, twitter.com
“What does it mean that 'Crazy Rich Asians' must accommodate simultaneous, conflicting demands—to tell a coherent narrative, to represent Asians of all stripes, to showcase Asian culture without alienating the dominant culture, to sell something palatable to the average American—when other movies, st…”— Jiayang Fan, newyorker.com
“Annie: That’s it? Nobody has a story idea? James: Annie, it’s been kind of a slow week. I mean, no rappers got arrested, no movie stars were hospitalized for “exhaustion”... Annie: Come on! A new trend, a new band, there must be a story we haven’t done? Sabrina: Okay, last night on National Supersta…”— Tod Himmel, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com
“Men in positions of power can be instrumental in changing the status quo — it’s an unfortunate truism that powerful men tend to take other powerful men seriously — and their speech can help normalize dissent and empower others who might face blowback for being the first to speak up.”— Anna Silman, thecut.com
“Each of us looks forward to working with our friend James again in the future. His story isn’t over — not by a long shot.”— Zoe Saldana:, twitter.com
“Black lives are degraded without regard, and we in here watching TV. This is how the revolution dies.”— Justin Simien, Reggie Green, Marque Richardson, imdb.com
“It's not that I'm pigeonholed as one character, but all the darker stuff gets more thrown at you. In a way, I have to prove that I'm not this crazy guy, which is fine. I just get to be myself now. I would love to go out for a romantic comedy. It's just a matter of opening that door to them and fight…”— Evan Peters, gq.com
“We take our hand-held entertainment very seriously.”— Carlos Jacott, Burton 'Gus' Guster, Dule Hill, imdb.com