Best of 2012

Sure, there have been a lot of things that happened this year, but of all the moments from TV shows and movies and other celebrity-driven detritus do you remember where everyone was fully clothed. Read more

For many movie-goers, 2012’s film slate hit close to home. Especially if they sat in theaters admiring cinema’s best real estate of the year. Read more

In the past 12 months, we watched as Ryan Lochte took the London Summer Olympics by storm, epic Hollywood couple Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise called it quits, and President Barack Obama was elected for a second term. Read more

Ermahgerd, Internetz! The Internet, kids, it’s such a funny place. Full of funny people doing funny things and funny animals doing funny (and/or adorable) things. Read more

Birds do it, bees do it, even Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones do it. In fact, it seemed like just about every A-list star was doing it on the big screen this year, thanks to sex scenes featuring the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Michelle Williams, Daniel Craig, Marion Cotillard, Zac Efron, and Robert Pattinson. Read more

It’s almost time to bid adieu to 2012 and with it, we’re hoping, a few less-than-flattering fashion trends. Read more

Could The Dark Knight Rises earn a Best Picture nomination and make up for its predecessor’s egregious snub in 2008? While there’s some heavy competition this year (the jam-packed 2012 is certainly no predictable, dull 2011) the summer blockbuster could earn a slot. Read more

There were good movies and bad movies and sad movies and scary movies and all sorts of movies in 2012. Movies that made us scream and cry and laugh and yawn. Read more

When Twitter first launched in 2006, most tweets fell firmly in the “overshare” category. But it has since grown from a veritable dream journal and catalogue of breakfast foods to the most up-to-the-minute news (and celebrity gossip) source for 500 million users. Read more

Dry your eyes, pop culture fanatics, you made it through the 10 saddest moments in movies from the past year. Read more

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since our senses shut down as a defense mechanism following Lana Del Rey’s January 2012 performance of “Video Games” on Saturday Night Live. Read more

Oh, September 2002 — what a strange and magical time. The fresh beats of boy bands were in the air, sophomore homecoming was just around the corner, and I actually cared, deeply, about Kelly Clarkson beating Justin Guarini on the first season of American Idol. Read more

Most people think kids are the best. Just the all-around cutest things ever (second only to baby animals, if the Internet is to be trusted). But there are some kids who just… really suck. Read more

In Coldplay’s hit 2011 song, frontman Chris Martin crooned “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.” Okay, while that’s a totally ridiculous sentiment, it may have made a little bit more sense if the band had released the song this year, considering all the movies that caused us to cry waterfall-sized tears. Read more

When it comes to 2012 there are going to be plenty of things you remember: the election, the Summer Olympics, that time you got so drunk that you threw up on a tree in Brooklyn and you don’t remember how you got home but, man, do you remember how you felt the next day. Read more

The single girl is by no means the new girl in town. In fact, as a culture, we’re kind of obsessed with her. Read more

Sometimes the pop culture moments that stick with you the most are the ones where people have sharp, deadly things stuck in them. Read more

Much like wolves, elephants, dolphins, meerkats, termites, and especially codependent pangolins, movie concepts travel in packs. Read more

Al Lizzio has been in the archery business for 50 years, managing Queen’s Archery in New York City for nearly half that time. Read more

Eh, what’s up, Doc? You talkin’ to me? Come on down! D’oh! Pop culture is basically a petrie dish for wordy witticisms and the other oh-so-repeatables that permeate our lexicon when joking or conversing with friends and coworkers alike. Read more

SPOILER ALERT: 2012 is nearly over and will go down in history as one of the most twisty turny years for movies in recent memory. Read more

First, let’s start with the bad news: The Mayan calendar (and, more importantly, a stellar John Cusack movie) have confirmed that the world is ending in a few weeks. Read more

Who had the best (and worst) TV death of the year? Read more

December 21, 2012. The end of the world. You’ve heard chatter about this date for a couple of years now, likely in the form of vociferous warnings from the itinerant madman who is just articulate enough to make you think on the subject. Read more

It happens to even the best shows on television. A character arrives and he or she is so blatantly obnoxious/useless/whiny/pretentious/uninteresting, that we deem them Lord of the Eyeroll, or less formally: the worst. Read more

You know the old motto: follow the crowd! Stick with what’s popular! Always let other people do your thinking for you! Read more

Every year, the tabloids are full of sad breakup stories — of romances turned sour after a cheating scandal and of divorces caused by fights the likes of us normal folk could never imagine. Read more

Although they’re souped up with modern technology, today’s blockbusters really aren’t all that different than the ones from the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s. Read more

2012: what a year it’s been! Long, strange, creepy, hilarious, warm-fuzzy, smelly, sweet, victorious 2012, you and your stars have really outdone yourselves. Read more

At the end of the new movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, the world actually ends. Spoiler alert! Read more

Maybe there are fewer movie stars these days or maybe there are just fewer sure things in Hollywood now that the box office numbers are depressed, but it seems like a large number of actors are taking up a lion’s share of the movie roles these days. Read more

What good is sittin’ alone in your room? Well, actually, a lot of great things come out of sitting alone in your room–like Game of Thrones marathons! Read more

There’s no denying that while careful political analysis has played an essential role leading up to Election Day 2012, the Internets (that’s the social media-heavy, meme-loving, GIF-collecting portions of the online community) have played a heavier role than many of us expected. Read more

Amy Poehler may not have walked away with an Emmy last night (why Emmy gods, why must you punish us?!) but she walked away a winner when she — once again — proved to have one of the best moments of the ceremony when she “mixed up” her acceptance speech with Julia Louis-Dreyfus’. Read more

When you stop and think about it, dressing for the red carpet really isn’t that hard. You have a team to help you, the dresses are free, and you just have to pick something that fits. Read more

Phew. The Games are over, the medals have been awarded, and the thousands of Olympic athletes and officials have packed their bags and headed back to their home country. Read more

The MTV Movie Awards this year showed us a lot of, well, stuff. It wasn’t all bad, and it wasn’t all good; but watching the awards show was an experience. Read more