NASA Let’s say you want to experience a solar eclipse, but you’re busy on Monday. Maybe you have to work, or don’t want to miss any of The Price Is Right. I get it! I don’t want to put forth the effort of going outside for 90 seconds either. That said, there are plenty of […]
Elinor Jones
Elinor Jones writes the gossip column, THE TRASH REPORT, as well as movie reviews, and dinosaur stuff. She likes your lipstick.
Posted inFeature
How to Make Your Own Eclipse
It’s Super Easy, Everybody
It’s super easy, everybody.
Posted inMovies & TV
Atomic Blonde Review: Whatever! It’s Fun!
Atomic Blonde isn’t subtle. On about the 89th shot of Charlize Theron walking coolly down a Berlin street wearing sunglasses to an ‘80s new wave hit, I wondered if it wasn’t a little excessive. Yes, of course—it’s absolutely excessive. But also: great! Excess is great! Sunglasses and Charlize Theron and ’80s jams are all great. […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Atomic Blonde Is Cooler Than You and Your Crusty Old Dude Spies
Spies on Spies on Spies
Spies on spies on spies.
Posted inMovies & TV
QDoc Starts Tonight, and This Year’s Selections Are Excellent
Remember back in the Dark Ages, before streaming, when everyone was always sad that we had all these channels but nothing was ever on? (Does this paper have readers young enough to not know that agony?!) Anyway, QDoc, Portland’s annual gay and lesbian documentary film festival, presents the opposite problem: There aren’t a ton of […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Amy Schumer’s Snatched Is… You Know. Fine.
Do you follow Amy Schumer on Instagram? I do. Or I did. I stopped because she posted too many pictures of herself with Goldie Hawn filming a movie, being muddy in a jungle. I felt like I should groan, but could I barely muster a grunt. “White ladies in a brown land,” I thought. “I […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Sun’s Out, Tits Out
Snatched Isn’t As Disappointing As It Could Be!
Snatched isn’t as disappointing as it could be!
Posted inMovies & TV
Maybe the Middle of a Genocide Isn’t the Best Time for Romance
The Promise has been marketed as a romance set against the backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire. So hey, pop quiz: Do you guys remember what happened during the fall of the Ottoman Empire? Answer: the Armenian genocide. Yeah—not a great time for romance, and definitely not a great setting for an awkward […]
Posted inMovies & TV
The Promise: Love in the Time of Genocide
Not a Good Time for Love.
Not a good time for love.
Posted inMovies & TV
Gifted: Jenny Slate + Chris Evans 4EVR
Remember last year, when we learned that Marcel the Shell’s Jenny Slate and our soulful, Nazi-crushing Captain America Chris Evans were ~DATING~ and we all died of how unexpectedly-yet-perfectly sweet and cute it was? Well, Gifted is the movie that brought them together. Knowing only this, I was ready to hand in a review of […]
Posted inMovies & TV
👱 + 🙋 + 😺 = 😍
Gifted Review: Math, Cats, and Celebrity Romance
Gifted review: math, cats, and celebrity romance.