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Polygon Entertainment Editor. Former editor at Verge, The Dissolve, The A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her. Letterboxd.com/tasharobinson Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson Nextpictureshow.net
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CHALLENGERS (2024), dir. Luca Guadagnino

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Click through for the first look at the TV version of Murderbot unmasked. I know nothing in a screen adaptation ever looks quite how you pictured it, but in this case, I'm less surprised by how gendered the character looks, and more dubious about how unlined, undamaged, and fully human it is.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Jack Frost has come to murder us all, but at least his work is kinda pretty.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a little bit of ridiculous joy that turned the birthday party I went to last night into a sing-along about a horse named Ricky. Recommended if you need a boost today.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I know the design of the unicorn in Dana Simpson's strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn was inspired by the Rankin-Bass animated movie THE LAST UNICORN, but I still find it unexpectedly funny whenever she throws in a really direct reference.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely essential reading — not just about this particular rageclick moment and parsing out the actual truth, but in terms of figuring out how to examine and interpret the news (and online frustration about it) right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This one's from the heart. For the record, in spite of the star's profoundly dumb "woke" quote torpedoing a lot of the online conversation about YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, I've largely enjoyed this show. But this one aspect of Peter Parker's trauma is a sticking point for me.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

With El*n bragging about dismantling USAID, I kept wondering what he and the administration gained by taking medication from sick infants and food from starving children. Turns out I was just naive about how fascists around the world saw the org. This piece lays it out:

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Remind me, I don't watch a lot of football — is this one of those sports where a lower score is better, like golf? It kinda seems like the green team is getting penalized a lot of points because they keep wandering into the red team's zone at the end of the field, maybe someone should warn them.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Lily is raptly watching the Super Bowl.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

LOVE HURTS is a little bit NOBODY, a little JOHN WICK, and a lot of first-draft lines where people talk in Successories-poster affirmations. It's weird how much it feels like someone watched EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and decided they could get as far just on Ke Huy Kwan and martial arts.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Seriously, nobody on the planet: Marketers: "Hey, what if Harry Potter's made-up beer for kids was also a nail-care line?" Actual, not-made-up press release: "Transform your nailcare routine with a range of products from ORLY infused with the iconic Butterbeer scent."

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

So here's a new experience I had today.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The news is exhausting and I'm tired. Have a picture of Worst Cat deciding Smol Cat is warm and he wants his butt on her. She complains loudly if he's within a foot of her, which didn't stop him from draping his tail over her when he was trying to figure out where to lie down. Note her weary glare.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I have spotted the dog version of the Driving Crooner.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Got a PR blast for a NOSFERATU-inspired candle, with "a scent as atmospheric as the film," to send you "into the dark spaces inhabited by Count Orlok… cold, pale and pellucid, evokes the uneasy chill of encountering an apparition." There is nothing from a movie I less want to smell than Count Orlok.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

Seems like a good day for the original AKIRA soundtrack. archive.org/details/AKIR...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Broad question for other entertainment writers and editors: Are you also getting a LOT more last-minute press info lately? Like "The only press screening for this movie is tomorrow!" or "By the way, our movie hits VOD in two days!" or radio silence on junket confirmations until 24 hours before?

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

The headline here is generic and it buries the lede — by adding a short string to the end of your Google searches, you can get simplified results pages without the often-wrong AI summary, the ads, and the sponsored results. For now, at least.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

PRESENCE (2025, Soderbergh) poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/look-s...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

At the annual Level Eater D&D public radio benefit event. During combat: Wizard: I think I can pull this off. My fireball has a 40-foot radius. Can I hit all five of them? GM: Yeah, looks like it. I'm not going to fight you on this. Three players in chorus: YOU'RE LITERALLY FIGHTING US RIGHT NOW.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of good suggestions for New Goblin King out in comments, but this opinion hurt my head: "Instead of thinking Bowie's replacement should be sexy and androgynous, it should be someone shocking to current sensibilities — Tim Robinson or Nathan Fielder. It would certainly upset a lot of people."

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

In which I make an argument that NOSFERATU and LABYRINTH do have a strong connection, and I can see Eggers taking on the sequel — but if you have any earthly idea who'd be up to the challenge of taking on the David Bowie role, I'd love to hear it.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments