October 7, 2024

It’s Rom-Com Week at Cinematrix

If you can name a romantic comedy starring Gabrielle Union or Rachael Leigh Cook, this game is for you. Play today's Cinematrix and check back every weekday through October 11 to fall in love with a new game. 

By Brennan Kilbane

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Rex is your typical teen in that he has a 15-minute skin-care routine. It begins with a dime-size drop of cleanser, specifically one with moisturizing water-lily extract, that when rubbed into cheeks blossoms into a foam. He follows that with the Rile Face Hydrator, a lightweight emollient, or CeraVe’s heavier Night Cream; he likes a heavy cream and rarely goes to bed without spreading Vaseline on his lips. Any leftover mirror time is spent in close self-examination, which is how he first noticed the blackheads. “He asked me to get him a facial,” his mother said. “I asked a good amount,” the 15-year-old added, a single pimple convalescing beneath a hydrocolloid patch on his chin.

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By Madame Clairevoyant

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She's a 10, but she's AI. How "snowflake babies" could change IVF politics. Boomers have spent years accumulating junk, another mess they'll leave behind for others to clean up. Would you be surprised to learn that certain tarantulas get frisky around Halloween? And Qantas Airlines has apologized after subjecting an entire plane full of people to an in-flight screening of Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn's film Daddio, which one passenger described as "40 minutes of penis and boobs." Thing is, the passengers voted to watch the film.

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A biweekly newsletter interrogating modern family life, written by Kathryn Jezer-Morton.