Hereditary is not good, so it’s a relief to discover that Ari Aster’s follow-up, Midsommar, is better. Plus, it’s frequently funny! That humor is intentional (at least at first), and the most successful part of the writer/director’s eagerly anticipated sophomore outing, which concerns a couple on the rocks that, in the company of friends, travels to Sweden to attend an ancient pagan festival.

A select few athletes are so iconic, they’re known by a single name. Jordan. The Babe. Serena. Pelé. Tiger. Shaq. And, of course, Kobayashi.

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Twitter’s latest right-wing troll is none other than nineties actor Kevin Sorbo. Most famous for his role as Hercules in the 1995 syndicated television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, he has received an influx of attention for the first time in years due to his cringy far-right internet presence.

At least one person will not be watching this Friday’s World Cup quarterfinal face-off between the US and France. On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm targeted at Megan Rapinoe, captain of the US women’s National Soccer Team, after a video surfaced of the athlete saying she’s “not going to the fucking White House” if the team wins the championship.

It is just over a year ago that Janelle Monáe, “crying in her spacesuit,” came out as pansexual in a cover story for Rolling Stone. It was, as the article said, “something the world has long guessed, something her closest friends and family already know, something she’s long been loath to say in public.

“It’s so nice to not worry about spoilers right now,” comedian Matt Walsh says as we sit down for a spoiler-heavy discussion about last month’s series finale of Veep.

After the hullabaloo over Euphoria’s frank-and-beans buffet, I get why men in Hollywood don’t want to show their penises. I mean, yeah, duh, I get it in that way. But, after yet another round of phallus-induced hysteria surrounding the HBO drama series Euphoria, I get in a different way, too. No wonder there’s such hesitation to show full-frontal nudity in film and television.

Lindsay Lohan’s days of partying in Mykonos may be behind her, according to a Page Six report that her MTV reality show Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club has been cancelled and the eponymous beach club where the show was filmed appears to be closed. The show, which premiered in January, focused on the drama between the young staff members of the club as they partied, hooked up, and tried to curry favor with their bosses, Lohan and her business partner Panos Spentzos.

Just when you thought you’d cried your last tear over Toy Story… When it was announced that there would be a fourth film in the Toy Story franchise, most people wondered why. In fact, it was even irritating. Not only was Toy Story 3 the rare film that is absolutely, unequivocally perfect, it is also a perfect ending.