Last month, Olivia Jade Giannulli took to Instagram to respond to rumors in the press about her famous family. In the Aug. 11 post, the teen vlogger mugs for the camera, face heavily made up and both middle fingers in the air. The photo’s provocative caption reads, “@dailymail @starmagazine @people @perezhilton @everyothermediaoutlet #close #source #says.” Olivia Jade takes aim at the tabloids by directly tagging them and implying that their sources are not to be trusted.

“I have never been more grateful for the president’s pettiness and stupidity,” Stephen Colbert declared during his monologue Tuesday night. “Because today, he was stupidly petty enough to save us from a very smart warmonger.” The Late Show host was of course referring to John Bolton, who was either fired or resigned as national security adviser, depending on who you believe.

The first thing you have to know about The Goldfinch is that it’s a stilted and seemingly endless (nearly three-hour, but it feels longer) adaptation of Donna Tartt’s heartfelt novel, and for that reason it will forever fall into the camp of Bad Book-to-Movie Adaptations, the ones that are such a cumbersome disaster that they make book lovers seethe.

It is certainly among the best movie moments of the year, and quite possibly could rank among the greatest character entrances ever. In Hustlers, Jennifer Lopez arrives via stripper pole. She’s playing Ramona, a veteran stripper and the main attraction at a New York City strip club where Wall Street pricks sling hundreds, right before the financial crisis of 2008.

The first episode of the gripping Showtime docuseries Couples Therapy opens on Annie and Mau, an attractive middle-aged couple, sitting on opposite ends of a rust-colored sofa. “So he has a lot of birthday…stuff,” Annie begins, pausing and gesturing on the last syllable, as if to indicate annoyance. “Always has. I have been unsuccessful for 20 years.

“Not everything lasts forever!” exclaims Joe Russo. I’m seated with the filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo, aka the Russo Brothers, at the Venice Film Festival where their latest movie, Mosul, is making its world premiere. The film, directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan and produced by the Russos as the debut feature for their studio AGBO, tells the remarkable true story of the Nineveh SWAT Team—an elite group of Iraqi soldiers fighting to reclaim their city from ISIS.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown may be Stephen King’s most terrifying creation, but It’s lasting resonance comes from the Losers Club, the band of Derry, Maine misfits who are forced to contend with an unspeakable monster and, in the process, confront their darkest fears.

Duality is at the heart of The Spy, which concerns a man pretending to be someone else, a wife mourning her happy past while enduring her solitary present, and a military handler caught between conviction and regret, duty and desire. Moreover, it stars a world-famous comedian in a dramatic role unlike any he’s tackled before.

More than any politician—or any other pop star—Taylor Swift has struck fear in the hearts of the enemies of LGBTQ equality. Democratic candidates running for president have strongly denounced the White House’s opposition to the Equality Act, for example, the broad anti-discrimination bill that would protect LGBTQ people federally. It was passed by the House earlier this year but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won’t allow a vote in the Senate.

This week, Bill Nye joined The Last Laugh podcast to offer some advice to the 10 Democratic presidential primary candidates who will be participating in CNN’s upcoming Climate Crisis Town Hall. After all, the “Science Guy” has a lot of experience making the case for climate action on TV. “Oh god,” Nye says when I bring up the appearance he made on Tucker Carlson’s show a couple of years ago.