First, a seemingly controversial opinion: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a good movie. A good movie—not a good film. Films win Oscars and play festivals. Movies sell popcorn and play in multiplexes. There are films that qualify as movies and movies that qualify as films, but Rise of Skywalker is definitely a movie.…

In 2019, young people learned how to talk like boomers. It showed up in tweets ("why do boomers all have such a strange relationship with capitalization and punctuation"), on Reddit ("On my first ever Facebook post to a friend's wall, I signed my name like some kind of boomer"), and people who type "ok boomer"…

Friday, December 20, 2019. By David Ostow, with cartooncollections.com. Forgot to go shopping? Here are 20 last-minute gift ideas to save Christmas. Thursday, December 19, 2019. By Drew Dernavich, with cartooncollections.com. If your present swap involves humans, here are 25 gift ideas under $25. Wednesday, December 18, 2019. By Benjamin Schwartz, with cartooncollections.com. Here on…

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