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Vulgar Kids’ Movie Jokes You Didn’t Understand as a Kid

By Jennifer Lewis on

Halloween may feel like a distant memory, but it was just last week. If you’re anything like this author, you may or may not have watched Hocus Pocus more times than you can count, partly because it happened to be on TV, but mostly because you’re sort of going through a weird Bette Midler phase right now. Yes? No? Just me? Well — around Hocus Pocus viewing #3, you’ll start to notice some subtle sex jokes thrown into that very kid-friendly movie. Although jokes as such often feel like a kick to the childhood’s stomach, we can’t help but find them somewhat amusing. So, click through to find our selection of kids’ film jokes that you probably didn’t understand as a kid (save for those super-famous Disney ones), and brace yourself — there are a couple fairly vulgar ones in your near future. … Read More

Pop Culture

The 25 Craziest Works of Halloween Nail Art We’ve Ever Seen

By Judy Berman on

Now that nail art has taken over the world — and, most importantly, the Internet — there are nails for every occasion: Christmas, Thanksgiving, your third cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, your former co-worker’s Graceland destination wedding. But no holiday inspires the nail art world like Halloween. Whether it’s tiny renderings of horror movie villains, nails painted to look like zombie claws, or a 3D press-on set called “fierce black cats and brains on crack,” there’s plenty of scary — and scarily elaborate — Halloween nail art out there. We’ve spent longer than we’d like to admit scouring the web for the best examples, and our 25 favorite designs are below. … Read More

Film

10 ’90s Kids Movies We’d Actually Watch the Sequels To Today

By Emily Temple on

This week, we heard a rumor that Disney is developing a sequel to everyone’s favorite ’90s Halloween cult classic Hocus Pocus, tentatively titled Hocus Pocus 2: Rise of the Elderwitch. This, obviously, is an idea we are 100% behind, and the vague promise of the project got us to thinking about which kids movies from the ’90s we’d actually like to watch the sequels to now, as our grown up selves. Not that there wouldn’t obviously be an enormous camp factor regardless of the film, but still. Obviously, we’ve stayed away from movies that already have sequels to their name, but otherwise, we let our little nostalgic hearts run wild. Click through to see which ’90s kids movies we think deserve sequels, and let us know which ones you’d race to the theaters for in the comments! … Read More

Film

Separated at Birth: Grace Coddington’s Doppelganger

By Heather Schwedel on

We can’t wait to see The September Issue, R. J. Cutler’s documentary treatment of queen bee fashion magazine Vogue. Aside from Anna Wintour, one of the film’s stars is Grace Coddington, the magazine’s longtime creative director. Where Wintour is known for her signature bob and sunglasses, Coddington’s trademarks are her red hair and barely-there eyebrows. We hesitate to say this because we’re not implying that anyone is a witch, but: Coddington really, really reminds of Bette Middler’s character in Hocus Pocus, the 1993 Disney Halloween comedy. It’s uncanny,… Read More