We're now on day five of a Golden Globes-inspired 'One Battle After Another' discourse that gets at an important question for 2026: what do we actually want from our stories?
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I've always accepted the idea that we shouldn't talk about someone's appearance. The 'Wicked' press tour is forcing me to confront the limitations of that perspective
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In his new book, the Globe and Mail's Barry Hertz tracks 25 years of the Fast & Furious franchise, detailing not just how these movies came together, but also how they changed Hollywood—and why they matter
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And sorry to 'Superman' and 'The Fantasic Four: First Steps,' but I think we probably shouldn't give into that impulse
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The iconic teen movie turns 30 later this month, so I'm chatting with academic and author Veronica Litt about nostalgia, politics and why we're all still obsessed with a teen comedy from the '90s.
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A chat with the CBC sitcom's co-showrunners, Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, and star, Anna Lambe, about Inuit humour, writing for a wide audience and making potentially controversial storytelling decisions.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in October 2024, including Abbott Elementary , Ali Wong: Single Lady and Challengers.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in September 2024, including Agatha All Along, Wolfs, The Penguin, His Three Daughters and A Very Royal Scandal.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in August 2024, including season 4 of both Emily in Paris and Only Murders in the Building, as well as Night Raiders and RuPauls’s Drag Race Global All Stars.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in July 2024, including Crave’s Faye featuring Faye Dunaway, CBC Gem’s Canadian slasher Slash/Back and Prime Video’s original series Space Cadet.
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'The Idea of You,' 'A Family Affair'—a new wave of romcoms is positioning relationships between older women and younger men as harmless fantasy fodder. And that’s fun, says culture writer Sadaf Ahsan. But let’s not forget how dicey these dynamics can get IRL.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in June 2024, including The Bear, House of the Dragon and Bridgerton.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in May 2024, including season 3 of Bridgerton, the Anne Hathaway rom-com The Idea of You and a new season of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in March 2024, including Girls State, We’re Here, Get Up, Aisha and The Veil.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in March 2024, including Palm Royale, The Regime, Near or Far and The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version).
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Here’s something interesting/infuriating about most of the coverage I’ve seen of Israel’s allegations against the UNRWA: it often doesn’t even mention whether they were credible or not.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in February 2024, including The New Look, the sixth season of Love is Blind, the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me…Now: A Love Story and Allegiance.
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People of colour were nominated in every acting category and there were several history-making nods. So why did we spend the whole week talking about white women who were nominated for awards?
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in January 2024, including Criminal Record, new seasons of True Detective and Queer Eye, Disney+’s Echo and the premiere of For the Culture with Amanda Parris.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu Canada, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in December 2023, including The Family Plan, the complete series of The O.C., Prime Video’s Your Christmas or Mine 2 and the premiere of Something Undone.
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