The MTV Movie & TV Awards aired last night, bringing with it an annual reminder of the march of time and our ever-growing disconnectedness with The Youths (nothing makes me feel as old as contemporary MTV, except maybe the Grammys), but there was an old-school Movie Star on hand for the awards. Sandra Bullock, one of the last capital-letter Movie Stars, won “Most Frightened Performance” for Bird Box. Full Story

Is there a song you play or that’s in your head when you’re getting ready in the morning? Or getting ready to go out? And in your mind you’re in a movie montage in your closet and your bathroom, totally feeling yourself as you’re about to go out and kill the day, or the party you’re going to?  I don’t know if that’s why she wrote it but Lizzo’s “Juice” is that kind of song. Full Story

Sometimes, even though I’m enjoying a song or a movie, I’ll get this unsettled feeling in my gut that tells me that something’s off. That perhaps I should be looking a little deeper or thinking a bit more critically about what I’m consuming. That gut feeling is also unhelpfully unspecific, leaving it up to me to figure out why I’m bothered by a piece of media. Full Story

I came across this headline on the weekend: “For the First Time in Six Years, Beyoncé Has Done an Interview” People online were talking about it too.  You can imagine the reaction. Full Story

Duana: Our unicorn babe Penelope is getting a sibling in late June and we need name help. If it's a boy, we will name him either Nicholas or Sebastian, middle name Howard (family name). Full Story

Barring Disney movies, the box office this summer (so far) has been kind of miserable. Audiences are not feeling all the sequels, but they’re not turning out for original movies, like Booksmart Full Story