I’m someone who does gay porn for a living. How do people who do gay porn meet someone who doesn’t just sexualize or fetishize them? I can’t eat, sleep, and breathe my work constantly, but the guys I meet want me to live out the “porn persona” version of myself all the time. How does someone who does porn know who you…
KJ Kearney and Anela Malik are both social media influencers, but they want to do more than serve up food porn. Malik, of travel and recipe blog Feed The Malik, and Kearney, founder of Black Food Fridays (an initiative encouraging people to order from Black-owned restaurants each Friday), have collaborated on Fix Your…
Andrew McCarthy will forever be known to most people as Blaine, the “major appliance” who steals Molly Ringwald’s heart in the 1986 John Hughes classic, Pretty In Pink. Before that, the East Coast native had gotten his start in bawdy prep school comedy Class, then reteamed with co-star Rob Lowe in Joel Schumacher’s…
In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?
Look, The A.V. Club is a pop culture news and reviews website and today is the second Mother’s Day of the coronavirus pandemic. If you’re spending the day with your family or whatever, you’re probably not reading this. If you’re not spending the day with your family for whatever reason, you probably don’t want to read…
Henry Zebrowski needs an outlet for his yelling. That might seem harsh, but we’re not saying anything he doesn’t. On his podcasts, the comedian—who you may recognize from his roles on shows like Superstore, Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, and Crashing—often worries out loud about whether his obsessions with aliens…
There are few bombs quite like Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. It had the talent; it had the characters; it had Bono and the Edge (who hates those guys?). However, despite all the elements being in place, Broadway was the one area of New York that wasn’t welcoming to Spider-Man—probably J. Jonah Jameson’s doing.…
[Note: This review mentions recent plot events in Jujutsu Kaisen.]
Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.
You’ve said that everyone is entitled to a “zone of erotic autonomy.” I was wondering if you thought that “zone” extends to sending thousands of dollars to a “FinDom.” I’m a 33-year-old straight woman and I love my husband and we have a great (or so I thought) sex life. He’s very dominant and controlling in bed and…
[This review reveals major plot points for Way Of X #1.]
Maybe it’s just where we find ourselves in this stage of late-stage capitalism, but this farcical narrative fiction podcast about a post-Purge murder-for-hire company just hits. Hit Job, Audible’s new 12-part scripted series, imagines a world where acts of homicide, just like everything else, can be outsourced for a…
As Ready Player One’s Ernest Cline is to outdated pop culture references, Andy Weir is to the science of space. The author of The Martian shares the same guileless enthusiasm for the intricacies of his obsession, the same willingness to sacrifice all other elements of a novel—pacing, structure, characterization—on the…
For decades, Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters was a comic-book urban legend. Originally pitched in 1984 as an Incredible Hulk one-shot exploring Bruce Banner’s abusive childhood, the story was shelved because of the word “goddamn” and then later repurposed during Bill Mantlo’s run on the series, infuriating Windsor-Smith…
Quinta Brunson is what marketing consultants might call a “digital native.” Her breakthrough in comedy came with an Instagram series, “The Girl Who’s Never Been On A Nice Date,” and making videos for BuzzFeed was one of several ways—alongside writing, acting, and performing stand-up—that this Philadelphia native built…
I have a quick question about bisexuality. What if one has a preference for dating straight individuals? As a straight woman, I am only interested in dating straight men. Is that some kind of phobia? Or is it okay for that to be a preference? I’ve always wanted to ask someone this but I’m afraid of being thought of as…
Cue the Phantom Planet song “California” because Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke are really taking The O.C. fans “right back where we started from.” The two actors launched their brand new podcast, Welcome To The O.C., Bitches on Tuesday, April 27 by taking us behind-the-scenes of the iconic teen drama’s very first…
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