Every year, Awards Season is special for one reason: we all come together in outrage against a very specific group of voters, and publicly shame them until we grow bored. The Golden Globes and Emmys are great predictors of who will be ultimately nominated for an Oscar…but this year, it appears that the Academy stopped watching movies altogether.

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Whenever I watch an awards ceremony for the “biggest names in Hollywood,” I regret tuning in about 30 minutes in. It sounds like a great idea to watch The Oscars in theory, but in practice, it’s more agonizing than a low-scoring football game. Last night’s 95th Annual Academy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel held us hostage and threatened to go on for almost four hours.

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Will You Be Tuning In To Tarantino TV?

The controversial filmmaker is coming soon to … your TV

Quentin Tarantino with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie at Cannes in 2019

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Remember that feeling? Watching Pulp Fiction for the first time and wondering … what the hell is happening? Well, now you can have that feeling for eight episodes coming soon to your TV.

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Worst Celebrity Halloween Costumes: Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford? Or Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly?

These problematic couple costumes weren’t just cringe — they’re making light of serious issues

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Halloween: a holiday for spooky-themed debauchery. Its allure can partly be attributed to its unabashed celebration of our inner children. We’re encouraged to be creative. To carve pumpkins, dress up in costume, and revel in our shared silliness. We show off our interests — from our favorite characters and to our favorite memes — with our elaborate get-ups. Even if you opt for a minimal, last-minute, or outright “sexy” outfit — bunny ears or cat ears included — it’s all about the fun.

Until it isn’t.

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Was Vogue World Worth The Kidney It Cost For A Ticket?

How Vogue World Is Changing Fashion Events As We Know It

Bella Hadid, Serena Williams and Gigi Hadid at NYFW Vogue World Fashion Show, Meatpacking District, New York, USA - 12 Sep 2022

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It was a big week in pop culture history. There was a mountain of events to cover, so this was no time to leave our phones behind. Everything's been chaotic lately — and, yes, I’m blaming Mercury retrograde.

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