• I wish more shows had the guts to pull off the damning evisceration of manufactured noncomformity and packaged rebellion that Daria did in [...]

  UO’s Standing On My Neck

  October 3, 2011
• Salon‘s TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz wonders whether pop culture-referencing (or “self-aware”) comedies, including my favorite [...]

  A Meta-Fandom Question

  March 9, 2011
• It’s a shame that Natalie Portman took home the Best Actress Oscar last night for her one-note performance in Black Swan, with the Academy [...]

  Who is Mia Wasikowska and Why is She So Likable?

  February 28, 2011
• WTF? I can only guess that some poor designer at Urban Outfitters was forced to make something related to that movie where Natalie Portman is a [...]

  Single White Female Not Included with Purchase

  February 21, 2011

• The most recent of Simon Doonan’s must-read columns for Slate is on the Rise of the Tildas.

  Girls Looking Like Boys Looking Like Girls Are Back

  January 28, 2011