As the publicity blitz for his new album keeps reminding us, Nick Jonas is sexy now. For adults who didn’t grow up idolizing the Jonas Brothers, it’s a disconcerting transition — that adorable, promise-ringed moppet has turned into a shirt-doffing, penis-grabbing hunk. How did this happen? And, just as important, when? For casual observers, one date will live in infamy: July 30, 2013, the day a 20-year-old Jonas showed off the Jonabs in an instantly viral shirtless Instagram.

Kenan Thompson on SNL. Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series Underrated, we chat with writers and performers from the comedy world about an unsung comedy moment of their choosing that they think deserves more praise. Jan Hooks used to refer to Phil Hartman as “The Glue.” As a Saturday Night Live cast member from 1986–1994, Hartman discovered that the most effective way to separate himself from the rest of the herd was by binding the herd together.

There’s a great psychosexual drama lurking inside this otherwise serviceable trifle starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley. For the most part, Wicked Little Letters is a serviceable trifle. It’s a bouncy English countryside jaunt that would be perfect as a weekend PBS movie — if it weren’t for the sexually graphic profanity driving the plot, of course. This is more critique than praise, because the film wastes the very clear assets it has, including a premise bursting with possibility and a cast headlined by Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.

Oh, there’s layers to this casting. Swarm dropped today on Amazon Prime Video, and the internet is buzzing over a scene where a stripper named Hailey describes herself as Black and explains, “My dad’s half.” The show’s main character, Dre — hearing this information but not seeing it — asks incredulously, “Half what? Black?” “Yeah,” Hailey replies. “That’s why my stage name’s Halsey.” As it turns out, Hailey is played by none other than Paris Jackson … yes, as in the daughter of Michael Jackson.

This Weekend’s Winner: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (No. 1 with $24.4 million). Julian Schnabel’s Miral, modest $65,000 from just four screens. This Weekend’s Loser: Zach Snyder’s Sucker Punch (No. 2 with just $19 million) How It All Went Down: Despite spending more than double what it cost to make Diary of a Wimpy Kid just to advertise Sucker Punch, the ladies somewhat predictably passed on the film.

Battleship Potemkin. Everyone knows about how great the Criterion Channel is, but have you heard about the Kino Film Collection? You should. The film distributor Kino Lorber — known for its arthouse and international releases — launched its own channel on Prime Video in November. For $5.99 per month, the collection includes new Kino Lorber releases like Chile ’76 and Four Daughters along with hundreds of catalog titles from acclaimed filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Bujalski, Jia Zhangke, Jafar Panahi, and Todd Haynes.

Until as recently as 1972, pads and tampons couldn’t be advertised on TV. When the ban was finally lifted, the ads were far from accurate — instead of blood, a blue liquid was used to show absorbency. It wasn’t until 13 years later, in 1985, that the word “period” (as a reference to menstruation) was even uttered on TV, by a pre-Friends Courtney Cox in a Tampax commercial. The evolution of how we think and talk about periods has been both influenced and mirrored by depictions onscreen.

Matthew Barney, DRILL TEAM: screw BOLUS (1991). By the time Matthew Barney’s debut solo show opened at Barbara Gladstone’s Greene Street gallery in 1991, the work of this 24-year-old artist had already rocked my world. The previous year, in an otherwise unremarkable large group show in the now-defunct Althea Viafora Gallery in Soho, I saw a TV monitor depicting a naked male — Barney — scaling a rope to the ceiling, then descending over a shape of cooled Vaseline.

Actress Karen Black, best known for her roles in Nashville and Five Easy Pieces died today of ampullary cancer, her husband Stephen Eckelberry confirmed on Facebook. She was 74. Black rose to fame in 1969’s Easy Rider, and followed that film up with Five Easy Pieces (for which she was nominated for an Oscar); Drive, He Said; A Gunfight, and then won a Golden Globe for her role as Myrtle Wilson in 1974’s The Great Gatsby.

Mood board vibes. Pinterest: great for weddings and for blocking sexy, passionate movie scenes. Get your head out of the gutter; we’re talking about Glen Powell’s latest film, Hit Man. If you loved the sensual chemistry between Powell and his co-star Adria Arjona, you have her to thank — it wasn’t in the original script of the movie. She told Cosmopolitan that she created a “full mood board of images” that she wanted to have them replicate during the intimate moments.