Halloween Used to Be Fun Online Kate Lindsay
How the internet used to celebrate Halloween, and why no one wants to be earnest online anymore.
How Does a Queer Church Make Friends With Other Churches in the Midst of a Crisis? Lynne Gerber
AIDS helps forge an unlikely friendship between two San Francisco churches from very different neighborhoods with very different views on sexuality.
A House of Dynamite Features Cinema’s Most Stressful Zoom Call. Sam Adams, Dana Stevens, and Amy Nicholson
Kathryn Bigelow’s bureaucratic thriller A House of Dynamite performs a tense live wire act, but this explosive material may not have much bang. <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/b19b01fb-a190-44e7-9182-42266516cf45.jpeg" title="A House of Dynamite Features…
A New Movie Tries to Adapt One of Our Most Popular Novelists—and Biffs It Completely Rebecca Onion
The new Colleen Hoover movie adaptation makes even less sense than the book.
A Town Went Berserk Over Some Frightening Ring Camera Footage. It Had an All-Too-Perfect Explanation. Christina Cauterucci
It was out of a horror movie in more ways than one.
A Chilling Netflix Documentary Has Become Streaming’s Biggest Hit. I’m Not Sure That’s a Good Thing. Sam Adams
The Perfect Neighbor tells an explosive true story—but you have to look deeper.
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Ellin Stein
The road to Nebraska has a few twists and turns. <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/75263538-a5d0-44e2-9f1f-d902d81bb792.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0" title="What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” />
He Was a Famously Anti-Woke Comedian. Now He’s Starring in A-List Movies. Luke Winkie
Stavros Halkias on fame, politics, and comedy in the second Trump term.
My Colleague Has an Infuriating Approach to Meetings. He’s Sabotaging Us! Doree Shafrir
What about we just do some work?