20 Disney villain songs, ranked

Once Upon a Time’s season 4 finale was all about villains trying to finally achieve their happy endings. Then again, whoever said we wanted our Disney villains to be sympathetic? Plenty of others do, though20, by my count, as of May 2015. Credit: Disney So, without further ado, here’s a completely scientific, totally objective* ranking of them. Also: There’s no “Love Is an Open Door,” because c’mon. *Science and objectiveness not guaranteed...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Jamie West

20 highest-grossing R-rated erotic dramas of all time

Ready to turn up the heat? See where “Fifty Shades of Grey” and other spicy R-rated dramas rank at the domestic box office. Despite the changing tides, though, they still managed to get breaths hitching and wallets opening. Dakota Johnson in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’; Michael Douglas in ‘Fatal Attraction’; Matt Damon in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’.Credit:Chuck Zlotnick/Focus Features/Everett; Paramount/Everett; Miramax/Everett Read below to see which erotic dramas brought in the big bucks at the box office....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 241 words · Robert Odom

20 jaw-dropping TV and movie fan theories

From Titanic to Breaking Bad, these wild interpretations will leave you wondering. Butone fan theoryponders whether his drug empire also could have resulted in the zombie apocalypse onThe Walking Dead. The most compelling sign thatBreaking Badis a prequel toThe Walking Deadis the presence of blue meth in both series. Ursula Coyote/AMC; Gene Page/AMC “Wait this has blown my mind,“the actress wrote on Facebook. (As in she is dead.) Wait what?!?!“D.K....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Teresa Miller

20 of Taylor Swift's best tell-off songs

With over 200 Swift songs to go through, EW looks back on some of her best kiss-off anthems. Picture to Burn Swift started early in warning the boys not to mess with her. In the fourth single from her 2008 eponymous debut album, the singer literally burns photos of her ex-boyfriend. Credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images “Cold as You” We can all learn a lesson from this one. However, in the end, she realizes she’s never been as cold as him....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 310 words · Thomas Thomas

20 scariest horror stories you can read for free online

Featuring authors like H.P. Horror novels are wonderful if you have time to spare. Read it inThe New Yorker. Credit: Shane Leonard/Scribner; Laurence Hyman/Viking/Penguin Books; Allan Amato/Harper Collins “Shiva, Open Your Eye” by Laird Barron What Barron’s admittedhomage to H.P. Lovecraftlacks in plot, it makes up for in unsettling and unforgettable atmosphere. Read it atNightmare Magazine. Shane Leonard/Scribner Read it atFifty-Two Stories. Read it atThe Guardian. Read it atNightmare Magazine....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Kendra Silva

20 years ofWrong Turn: How a movie about murderous cannibals became an unkillable franchise

The Eliza Dushku-starring 2003 horror film was followed by six other movies, with two more planned. Some of the key figures in front of and behind the camera explained how it happened. “We came across a traffic jam. Emmanuelle Chriqui in ‘Wrong Turn (2003).Everett Collection Someone came to us and said, ‘Oh, this could last for 14 hours. My wife and I thought, ‘We’re going to miss our flight. What are we going to do?...

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 937 words · Nancy Kerr

2002 rewatch: All didn't glitter forAustin Powers in Goldmember

Beyonce brings Foxxy glamour, but the shagadelic franchise felt tired by the third round. Every week, Entertainment Weekly is looking back at the biggest movies of the summer of 2002. Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. Everett Collection Nobody expectedAustin Powersto make that much money when it debuted and itactually didn’t, really. And so two more films, and a supremely wiggy cultural phenomenon, were born....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Jordan Callahan

2002 rewatch: HowThe Bourne Identityreinvented action for the new millennium

Returning to the seminal thriller, it’s clear how low-key radical it was for the times. Every week,Entertainment Weeklyis looking back at the biggest movies of the summer of 2002. Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. Everett Collection DARREN:The pen, Leah,the pen! In 2002, as in 2022, the Hollywood blockbuster trend was toward big-and-bigger digital fantasy. Movie spies were now uber-spies, performing Olympian feats of action....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Evan Washington

2002 rewatch: In praise of the low-key radicalism and chill-hang vibes ofBlue Crush

Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. DARREN:I’m a beach boy, Leah, so I’ve been waiting forBlue Crushall summer. Give this surfer odyssey extra points for extra stakes. Everett Collection Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) is an Oahu prodigy just days away from her Pipeline Masters debut. But her housekeeping resort gig can’t cover the phone bill, the electricity bill,andthe rent. Anne Marie is tormented by nasty face-smashing-on-rock memories of a near-drowning that derailed her teen surf career....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 447 words · Brittany Rhodes

2002 rewatch: M. Night Shyamalan'sSignssaw dark skies in dark times

Little green men are creeping on Mel Gibson’s family, and they do not come in peace. Every week, Entertainment Weekly is looking back at the biggest movies of the summer of 2002. Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. Everett Collection Then you are ready to talk aboutSigns. Instead it’s justMel Gibsonin a corn field, staring at crop circles. He’d like to believe it’s a dumb prank, just troublemakers from the next farm over....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Teresa Young

2002 rewatch: The infinite influence and disappointment ofMinority Report

Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg’s futuristic freakout remains eye-popping in every sense. Too bad it never ends. Every week,Entertainment Weeklyis looking back at the biggest movies of the summer of 2002. Twentieth Century Studios Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. Next week:Mr. Deedsgoes to Sandlertown. LEAH:DidSamantha Mortonhave a premonition we were going to write this, Darren? Everett Collection And John carries out his job with full conviction, because the precogs are never wrong....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 506 words · Sara Ford

2002 rewatch:Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodneeded more Ya-Yas

Every week,Entertainment Weeklyis looking back at the biggest movies of the summer of 2002. Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. Or more specifically, she is roofied(!) Michael Tackett/Gaylord/All Girl Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock And I haven’t even gotten to the flashbacks yet! But I feel like you may have thoughts about that. And oh, the flashbacks, Leah. Michael Tackett/Gaylord/All Girl Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock Was there an embarrassment of riches?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 256 words · Kristina Garrett

2002 rewatch:Men in Black IIwasted everyone's charms on a horny-dog sequel

Join us for a rewatch of the first true summer of Hollywood’s strange new millennium. Next week:Road to Perditionbrings moody star-poweredchiaroscuroto the summer blockbuster season. At least to me). Melinda Sue Gordon/Columbia Pictures The otherworldly-spectacle jokes are still there, but not the goosey comic zest. (Alas, her lockdown mostly involves playing Twister with the worm guys.) But it’s also a drag on a plot that’s already not going anywhere quickly....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · Ryan Richardson