Nicole Stawiarski

Romance, as a verb, becomes the ultimate manipulation.

It’s a very busy week for powerhouse couple Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. He’s on the cover of GQ today (8/12), and the Chiefs’ ESPN documentary is dropping this Thursday.

New titles are falling from the sky this week, and this weekend is especially ripe for true crime fans. We have new info on decades old cases and a follow-up to a chilling tale about self-professed prophets.

I loved The Life List, and had the highest hopes for My Oxford Year. I even watched all of Sofia Carson’s films in the lead up to its release.

The crime thriller genre gets pretty predictable when you know what tropes to look for, and Dept. Q has its fair share. Prickly cop with a difficult home life who uses cockiness and sarcasm as a coping mechanism? Check.

As newscasters continue to report on how politically polarized this country has become, and politicians continue to claim they each have the solution that will finally bring us together, I did not have it on my 2025 bingo card that…

I am fascinated by Sofia Carson.

After Netflix made Sofia Carson their official host for Netflix Tudum 2025, I knew I had to keep an eye on her.

For actor Jason Isaacs, ‘The White Lotus’ is just one of many acclaimed and beloved projects on his impressive filmography, which also includes ‘The Patriot’, the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise, ‘Sex Education’, and ‘The Great’, among others.

Before we head back to work tomorrow, here are two great TV + Film options to round out your weekend, and end things on a high note.

South Park is back for it’s 27th season, and the premiere, “Sermon on the Mount”, takes the beloved series back to its roots in one of its most irreverent and relevant episodes to date.

You would have lesbians lined up around the block. I mean blocks. The entire city of LA might shut down, honestly.

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days might be the Perfect Film. Released back in 2023 at Cannes, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Actor Award, I still haven’t seen anything since then that can top it.

Sofia Carson is Netflix’s rom-com golden goose, and her fifth feature film with the streaming giant after the success of The Life List earlier this year, My Oxford Year, is primed to be the OTT event of the summer.

South Park is back and making bigger waves than ever following their massive $1.5 billion streaming rights deal with Paramount. But that’s not stopping co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone from critiquing everyone from their patron to the president.

It takes a lot to get me excited about an e-mail these days, and even if I wasn’t an entertainment writer, Netflix announcements would still be one of the few exceptions to the rule.

Kaiju No.

We fell in love with Holt McCallany in his role as FBI Special Agent Bill Tench on Netflix’s psychological true crime series Mindhunter when it first aired in 2017.