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Tahar Rahim in "The Mauritanian" (STX Films)

"I wanted to be waterboarded for real"

Gary M. Kramer
Framing Britney Spears (FX)

Britney doc bares our complicit misogyny

Ashlie D. Stevens
John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison and Ringo Starr rehearse their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. February 1964. (Staff/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

The day the Beatles changed the world

Kenneth Womack
Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Donald Trump after it was projected that he had won the state of Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Four Seasons Total Landscaping: The Film

Ashlie D. Stevens
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SNL Zilow sketch (NBC)

The accuracy of SNL's sexy Zillow sketch

Ashlie D. Stevens
"The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" poster (Disney+)

The ads that scored during Super Bowl LV

Alexander Carter - The Conversation
Mike Pence (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Shocking no one, Pence starts a podcast

Ashlie D. Stevens
Conceptual illustration of the Statue of Liberty and New York flooded and in ruins, in a possible future showing a rise in sea levels due to global warming (Getty Images)

What fictional drowned worlds teach us

Chelsea Haith - The Conversation
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Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan in "The Dig" (Larry Horricks/Netflix)

An archaelogist on The Dig's accuracy

Roberta Gilchrist - The Conversation
Queen Latifah stars as Robyn McCall in "The Equalizer" (Barbara Nitke/CBS)

When a Queen becomes "The Equalizer"

Melanie McFarland
Former New York Jet and NFL Hall of Famer Joe Namath (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Joe Namath on first woman Super Bowl ref

David Edwards - Raw Story
Philip Roth in Aix en Provence with his companion. (Pascal Parrot/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

Philip Roth's troubling racial odyssey

Jacques Berlinerblau
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Sacha Baron Cohen stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" (Amazon)

Borat, Rudy & a year of farcical protest

Ashlie D. Stevens
Books, die, figurines from Dungeons and Dragons (Simon Hayter/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Dungeons & Dragons' essential escapism

Melanie McFarland
The Weeknd performs for the 2020 American Music Awards on November 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California (AMA2020/Getty Images via Getty Images)

Why did the Weeknd alter his face?

Alvaro Jarrin - The Conversation
Two Muslim women wearing the niqab take a selfie during the demonstration against the law established by the government banning the use of the niqab in some public places in The Hague, Netherlands (Nacho Calonge/Getty Images)

Wearing a niqab in a mask-wearing world

Anna Piela - The Conversation
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Peter Dinklage in "I Care a Lot" (Seacia Pavao/Netflix)

What's new on Netflix for February

Ashlie D. Stevens
On the far left, Harriet Tubman (c1820 - 1913) abolitionist leader and founder of the Underground Railroad (MPI/Getty Images)

Tubman, a woman of faith, for $20 bill

Robert Gudmestad - The Conversation
Zendaya and John David Washington in "Malcolm & Marie" (Netflix)

Save yourself from "Malcolm & Marie"

Melanie McFarland
Saint Maud (A24)

The feminist body horror of "Saint Maud"

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Lecy Goranson and Alexandra Billings in "The Conners" (Eric McCandless/ABC)

The joy of Alexandra Billings in Conners

Melanie McFarland
Chris Bailey, Dominique Druckman, Wylie Heiner in front of The Pink Wall in L.A. during the filming of HBO's "Fake Famous." (HBO)

How to make "Fake Famous" influencers

D. Watkins
Donald Trump and Macaulay Culkin in 'Home Alone 2: Lost In New York' (1992) (20th Century Fox)

Trump petulantly resigns from SAG-AFTRA

Ashlie D. Stevens
The Expanse (Amazon Studios)

Extremism is no joke on "The Expanse"

Melanie McFarland
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