Introduction About an hour into Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola’s much-discussed 2003 feature, Bob (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlet Johansson) give in to insomnia and meet up in his hotel room for a Japanese-subtitled TV showing of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960), another film about love and modernity in an urban…

“One man’s poison is another man’s cake” — Idina Menzel 13 Hottest Horrors to Run from This Summer (Living) Summer body tips inspired by our hellish political climate — and also our changing climate. Nuclear proliferation and literal Nazis are back in; while on your morning run, just imagine you’re…

(Written for 2017, but holds up) — Ready for the 2018 summer season? Some of us can’t wait to lay down our textbooks and forget what day of the week we’re living in, but our bodies aren’t quite caught up with our beach-going schedule yet. If that’s your case, don’t worry: nothing like a good run to…

Back in May, CNN International correspondent Arwa Damon appeared on Crooked Media’s Pod Save the World to discuss the refugee crisis, among other topics. Beyond humanitarian reasons, she made a point about how the West extending help to refugees is also a strategic imperative in the fight against terror. When…

And understanding why you can’t make yourself OK — In the sixth episode of the third and final season of HBO’s The Leftovers, a show so little-watched that it’s managed to survive on critical acclaim alone, three main characters contemplate suicide. Each of them does this for entirely different reasons, just three hours before the end of the series…

Originally published on HelloGiggles. The hardest part of growing up is not the realization that your parents aren’t superheroes — it’s learning that you can hurt them. That power comes in handy when you’re 15 and in need of a clapback because you just need to go to that party and it’s so unfair that they won’t let you. But when you wound your parents, it’s impossible not to hurt yourself in the process…

What makes a good person? The characters on Girls have never been charged with murder, and it’s safe to assume that none of them vote Republican — though I’m definitely keeping an eye on Shoshanna in the future. However, consensus even among fans of the show seems to be that…

The HBO show and its showrunner do not match the ones in your head. — It’s so funny-slash-tragic that the overwhelming majority of people who hate Girls most adamantly are actually hating on a completely different show. One that must air in their minds whenever they get really angry at Lena Dunham or at Starbucks, but not on HBO at ten on Sundays. The latter…

Originally published on HelloGiggles. Many friends have joked with me about how they too like to see their lives as a TV show, but I don’t think they understand the level of detail with which I run mine: chopping years up into television seasons, with promising premieres and explosive finales…