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Why Romantic Movies Are Especially Bloody This Year

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Joseph Holmes |Guy Denton |Hannah Long |Michael Warren

Culture Treating love like a horror-fantasy isn’t very helpful for human flourishing. Published February 15, 2025 This month has brought a surprising uptick in a more gory kind of date flick. Companion is a sci-fi thriller about a companion robot who turns against her owner and blows his brains out. Heart Eyes follows a slasher villain named Heart Eyes who kills couples on Valentine’s Day. Love Hurts is about a mob enforcer who kills his old crew to save an old flame.
The Animated Series,' the Ambitious Cartoon That Changed Everything

Nov 19, 2024 | msn.com | Guy Denton

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The Oral History of

Nov 19, 2024 | inverse.com | Guy Denton

In 1994, Spider-Man was down on his luck. His various comic book lines were being slowly consumed by the infamous “Clone Saga,” which would come to represent Marvel at its height of desperation and excess. James Cameron was developing a feature film based on his adventures, but the project was destined to collapse. And while he remained synonymous with ’60s camp in the television world, Batman and the X-Men had been adapted into massively successful and thoroughly modern animated shows. But on Nov.
The Oral History of 'Spider-Man: The Animated Series,' the Ambitious Cartoon That Changed Everything

Nov 19, 2024 | flipboard.com | Guy Denton

1 hour agoThe comedy legend had some blunt words for Cher. When Cher’s marriage to Sonny Bono soured, she turned to another icon for help. In her new book, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” Cher writes that she reached out to Lucille Ball, who had had similar problems in her marriage to her "I Love Lucy" co-star …
A Post Threatening Donald Trump and Circulating on X Is Fake

Nov 5, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |Luis Parrales |Guy Denton |Scott Lincicome

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project did not tweet ‘we still have two months to end him.’ Published November 5, 2024 A fake tweet attributed to the Lincoln Project—an anti-Trump political action committee—is spreading on X. “If he wins, we still have two months to end him,” reads the post, which originated from an account that closely resembles the Lincoln Project’s official X account. Several pro-Trump X accounts shared screenshots of the post on Tuesday afternoon.
Our Best Stuff to Get You Ready for Election Day

Nov 2, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Garry Kasparov |Guy Denton |Alex Demas

What to look out for, when things will get interesting, and more. Published November 2, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. At long last, we’re just three days out from the 2024 election. At Dispatch HQ, we spent the last week tying up loose ends for the last bits of our election preview and planning our coverage for Tuesday and the days (weeks?) after.
How to Watch Election Night (or Week)

Nov 2, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Chris Stirewalt |Garry Kasparov |Mary Trimble |Guy Denton

Published November 2, 2024 There is a lovely window in American political life that opens the Friday before Election Day every two years in which there is, thank God, nothing left for politicians and their acolytes to say. All the spin has been spun, all the talking points have been nailed to the wall. There’s always lots of umbrage to be taken and outrage to gin up, but at this late hour, the race is what it’s going to be.
Measles, Mumps, and Self-Determination

Nov 2, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Garry Kasparov |Mary Trimble |Guy Denton

Make America Measles-Free Again. Published November 2, 2024 Note: Things got a little heated on CNN Friday morning. It’s been a long election year. Nevertheless and always a mensch, Jonah addresses the controversy related to Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding Liz Cheney.
Family and ‘Fatherland’

Nov 2, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Guy Denton |Yuval Levin |Noah C. Chauvin |Garry Kasparov

A new play explores how January 6 pulled a father, son, and nation apart.
Are We There Yet?

Oct 20, 2024 | freebeacon.com | Guy Denton

In 2001, Anthony Hopkins celebrated his newly acquired American citizenship by taking a 3,000-mile road trip across the Midwest. It wasn't his first cross-country voyage. He'd taken many such excursions in the past, motivated in large part by the insights they provided into the American soul. "I think it's wonderful meeting people who run America, people doing things that will never be recognized," he remarked in 1998.