Contributor: Emily Tsiao

Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.

Culture Clips: Lil Nas X is Music’s New Record-Setting Sheriff

The music industry has a new top dog: “Old Town Road.” It took 24 years to beat “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men as the music industry’s longest-running pop chart-topping song. That ditty spent 16 straight weeks on the top of Billboard’s …

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Culture Clips: Will a Curious Trailer Kill These Cats?

In case you missed it, the new trailer for the upcoming movie musical Cats came out this week and audiences are … unsure about how they feel. On the one hand, the movie is taken from one of the longest-running Broadway shows of all time. With its star- …

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Culture Clips: Netflix Edits 13 Reasons Why

When 13 Reasons Why debuted on Netflix two years ago, many voices offered a strong word of caution regarding the graphic depiction of a teenage girl’s suicide in the first season’s final episode. Experts worried that the scene could act as a trigger fo …

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Stuber

More problematic than this buddy cop movie’s comedic failures are its intense violence and frequent profanities.

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Is Summer the Time for Fun and Game … Shows? (TV Sure Thinks So.)

Ah, summer…warm weather, no school, and nothing new to watch on television. Whatever shall we do without the latest episode of This Is Us to keep us entertained every week? The answer—at least the answer broadcast TV execs want us to give : Watch all t …

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