Ever After: A Drew Barrymore Jawn has a complicated relationship with my brain and my heart. The year it came out, I was 12 years old with a dedicated subscription to Seventeen and its monthly updates on what all the cool public school kids were wearing while me and my Catholic school uniform looked on in envy. S eventeen ran ads and features for this weird Cinderella movie with the girl from Scream , and it looked like it would be Romeo + …

Roxane Gay's last not-so-guilty pleasure was The Fast and the Furious. I love romantic comedies. They get a bad rap that’s not entirely deserved. They are terrible because we want them to be terrible. We want them to lie to us about romance and being swept off our feet and happy endings, so many pretty little lies. It’s not that I believe love actually happens the way Hollywood pretends it does. I’m too…