Fashion emergencies can happen in the blink of an eye. Thankfully, Amazon is always dropping brand-new pieces for endless solutions to style dilemmas. Most recently, the e-tailer just released cozy short-sleeve blouses that fashionistas won’t hesitate to shop.

Starting at just $8, we found versatile options for every occasion (yes, even formal ones!). From slimming styles perfect for dressy occasions to unique prints that transport us to luxe resorts, these picks look expensive without compromising comfort. We even found wool-like picks that come in handy during chilly winter weather. These styles are brand-new, so be sure to add them to your cart before they blow up and ultimately sell out.

Casual-Chic Short-Sleeve Tops on Amazon

1. Our Favorite: Tired of traditional floral prints? This dainty knit sweater is adorned with a floral detail that elevates the otherwise plain top (and no, it’s not flashy!).

2. Runner Up: There’s nothing like the relief of locking down a style you can repurpose on a whim. Use this cap-sleeve top to build the outfit of your dreams. From rich-mom style to sporty-chic, you can create so many looks in this versatile pick.

3. Spring Dream: Do you find yourself daydreaming of sunny spring days? This short-sleeve blouse is a budget-friendly way to bring resort style to life without booking a flight. We love the boho-style detail along the neckline.

4. Elevated Option: When duty calls for a formal ensemble, you won’t regret styling this sleek top. You’ll feel like the ultimate rich-mom, no matter if belly bloat strikes.

5. Fabulous Flare: We can’t count all the ways we love this short-sleeve blouse. Along with a loose-fitting design and a striped print, this eye-catching blouse features a crochet fringe sleeve detail.

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6. Every Day Pick: With soft fabric and a subtle V-neckline, you’ll wear this casual-chic blouse with jeans, trousers and everything in between.

7. Workout Ready: If you’re gearing up for outdoor workouts, make sure you keep this stretchy top in rotation. Along with moisture-wicking fabric that helps keep you dry, it also features UPF 50+ sun protection.

8. Deal Alert: Ready to stand out? This short-sleeve T-shirt features an animal-print sleeve, adding an edgy touch. Even better? It’s on sale for half off.

9. Cozy Comfort: Speaking of discounted picks, no one would believe you snagged this ultra-soft sweater marked down for $8.

10. C-Suite Chic: Get ready to live out your CEO dreams. This silky blouse fits seamlessly underneath blazers and work-ready cardigans. The satin-like fabric adds a luxe touch that looks super-expensive.

11. Festive Find: Still looking for festive Valentine’s Day pieces? This short-sleeve number comes in a dreamy pink shade with decorative red, pink and white hearts. If you’re a Prime Member, it’ll arrive ahead of the holiday.

12. Trending Pattern: Bring the viral polka dot trend to life in this silky blouse. A crisp collar and button-down detail add an elevated touch.

13. Dreamy Print: The abstract design on this short-sleeve blouse adds a fabulous touch. If you’re a fan of more laid-back prints, it comes in 17 shades for plenty of variety.

14. Flouncy Sleeves: Tired of tight details constricting your movement? This short-sleeve blouse features a slit detail on the sleeve that allows for free movement.

15. Airy Flair: With breathable fabric and a puff-sleeve design, you’ll feel comfortable transitioning this colorful blouse into the warmer months.

16. Last but Not Least: If you prefer styles that fall below the waist, this loose-fitting T-shirt is the way to go. Soft and roomy, it skims over curves without looking bulky.

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Most serial killer movies land firmly in the R rated category so they can see a wide theatrical release and score big with horror fans at the box office. 1986’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, on the other hand, was deemed so extreme when it made its early rounds through the festival circuit that it was slapped with an X rating by the MPAA despite its positive reception. While several versions of the film have circulated over the years in an effort to secure an R rating, the unrated cut is currently streaming for free on Tubi, and it’s easy to see why the censors were all over this one.

By today’s standards, the violence in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer feels surprisingly restrained on a practical level. There are still a handful of brutally effective sequences in the second and third acts that will make your skin crawl, but it’s not necessarily the gore that risks putting you off. Much of the violence plays out like crime scene photographs taken after the fact rather than staged acts of carnage. That said, those images alone are more than enough to make you want to wash your eyeballs out with Listerine.

Based loosely on the life of real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who famously claimed responsibility for hundreds of murders, and his associate Ottis Toole, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer leans into its depravity with a level of casual confidence that’s far more unsettling than stylized cinematic violence. It’s not the crimes themselves that are most disturbing here, but the people committing them as if it were just another day at work.

Simple Story, Complex Characters

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer wastes no time introducing its three principal characters. We first meet Henry (Michael Rooker) as he drifts from town to town, picking up hitchhikers and stopping at diners. These mundane routines are punctuated by shock cuts of the bodies he leaves behind, but we never actually see him commit the murders themselves. This approach tells you everything you need to know about Henry. He’s completely unassuming, and the contrast between his outward normalcy and the devastation he causes makes it clear how easily he blends in with society.

Meanwhile, Otis (Tom Towles), Henry’s former prison mate and current roommate, is returning from the airport with his sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), who will be staying with them for the time being. When Becky presses Henry about his past, he’s forthcoming about murdering his abusive mother, the crime that landed him in prison. Becky doesn’t immediately see Henry as a bad person because she comes from an abusive household herself and understands how desperate circumstances can push people to extreme behavior that they later regret.

As Becky searches for work and tries to get back on her feet with plans to eventually return home, Otis and Henry embark on an increasingly brutal crime spree that steadily escalates. It begins with Henry killing the call girls he and Otis are seeing, but takes a darker turn after they rob a fence and steal his video equipment. Otis quickly develops a sick fascination with filming their crimes and watching the footage back when they return home.

During this stretch, Henry lays out his philosophy for staying ahead of the law, explaining the importance of constantly changing his MO and staying on the move. As the body count rises, Otis’s lack of impulse control begins to clash with Henry’s colder, more methodical approach. Otis is reckless in a way that somehow makes Henry look almost reasonable by comparison, and that growing tension eventually puts the two men at odds.

A Total Punisher In The Best Kind Of Way

Visually and thematically, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is far from an easy watch. As a character study, it remains one of director John McNaughton’s most punishing and effective efforts because it refuses to pull its punches. The violence is disturbing on its own, but what lingers far longer is the sheer indifference behind it. Henry can be polite, patient, and accommodating with Becky, only to turn into a monster without warning.

That duality is the film’s most unsettling quality. One moment he’s helping Becky clean up after dinner. The next, he’s stepping out to murder a call girl with the same emotional investment you’d put into a late night gas station run for cigarettes. The lack of distinction between those two worlds is what makes the film so difficult to shake.

Boasting an 89 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a certified fresh outing that grapples with subject matter that’s rotten to its core. Whether you can handle it is entirely up to you, but if you’re willing to find out, the unrated version is currently streaming for free on Tubi as of this writing.

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Arguably, the strongest female character in Star Trek: The Next Generation was Dr. Beverly Crusher. Not only was she the Chief Medical Officer, but she had the same rank as Commander Riker, the Enterprise’s swaggering first officer. Given the character’s rank, it would have been perfectly plausible for her to hop in the captain’s chair and take command on a relatively regular basis. However, Dr. Crusher actor Gates McFadden recently revealed why this didn’t happen: Star Trek’s producers kept her out of the captain’s chair to make the arrival of Voyager’s Captain Janeway feel more special. 

This information comes to us courtesy of Fan Expo Portland, where McFadden got very candid about her time on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She explained that the producers “knew they were going to have a female captain fairly early on.” Finishing her thoughts, she noted that “while I was put sometimes in the captain’s chair, since I had the same rank as [Will Riker], they were careful about how much they wanted to do that, because they were saving that for when Voyager happened.”

The Doctor Is In (The Chair)

The most notable example of Dr. Crusher being put in command happened during the two-part episode, “Descent.” To help search for Commander Data, Picard inexplicably sends himself, his bridge crew, and half the ship to canvas an unknown alien planet, leaving Dr. Crusher in command of the Enterprise. Her command skills are really put to the test, though, when she has to figure out how to defeat a new type of Borg vessel, which (not unlike the old vessels) is more powerful than her ship in every way.

Using a combination of scientific know-how and more than a little plot armor, Dr. Crusher takes the Enterprise into the planet’s sun. After that, she uses the ship’s phasers to trigger a solar eruption that completely destroys the Borg vessel. After seeing the good doctor kicking butt and taking names in the captain’s chair, it’s understandable that fans wanted to see more of Crusher in command.

No Future In Command

According to Gates McFadden, this didn’t happen very much because producers were busy developing Voyager. The timing of that show’s development generally matches McFadden’s account; Dr. Crusher led the Enterprise to victory over the Borg at the beginning of The Next Generation’s seventh season, which is exactly when the powers that be began working on Voyager. Because the producers knew the spinoff would have a female captain, they wanted to make Captain Janeway’s appearance special, effectively downplaying Dr. Crusher’s capabilities at commanding a starship.

Why was it so important for Voyager to have a female captain, though? While Deep Space Nine had proven to be a very successful TNG spinoff, Paramount wanted to create yet another Star Trek television show. Deciding that the new show would take place on a starship (hey, you can only do the space station gimmick once!), the producers faced a unique problem: how to make a new Star Trek show with this familiar setting that didn’t just feel like a lazy copy of The Next Generation. 

Star Trek Leans In (At Dr. Crusher’s Expense)

Part of what would ultimately make Voyager unique was its setting: namely, in the largely uncharted Delta Quadrant that the Borg call home. The crew would also be a mixture of Starfleet and Maquis personnel, which would provide (on paper, anyway) the potential for more character conflict than we ever saw on The Next Generation. Mostly, though, what set Voyager apart was that it was led by a female captain, a first for a franchise whose first show infamously claimed that women couldn’t become Starfleet officers.

Sadly, the production of Voyager kept Dr. Crusher sidelined from possible command duties. This is doubly painful because her character was often written very poorly, and she went from drunkenly throwing herself at Picard in Season 1 to boning down with a ghost in Season 7. She was also written out of Season 2 altogether by Maurice Hurley, the worst showrunner The Next Generation ever had.

Gates McFadden ultimately got the last laugh, though: Picard brought her character back for its third and final season, and both Dr. Crusher and her son became pivotal parts of the entire plot. This was arguably an even beefier revival of her vintage character than Kate Mulgrew got by voicing Captain Janeway in Prodigy. Furthermore, Picard even made Crusher an admiral and the new Head of Starfleet Medical, finally giving the dancing doctor her due after more than 35 years of writers holding her back! 

They say there’s someone out there for everyone. That sentiment rings grossly and carnally true in Grace Glowicki’s sophomore feature-length production Dead Lover. Straight from the graveyard and onto your screen, today Collider is excited to exclusively debut the first look at the helmer and scribe’s newest project, which also sees her step into the starring role. Blending horror with comedy and using German expressionist cinema as its north star, the grotesque project follows a kooky beyond-the-grave love story and darkly depicts the lengths we’re all willing to go to in order to find and hold onto that special someone.

Known only as Gravedigger (Glowicki), the very first seconds of the trailer set the tone and mission of the main character behind Dead Lover. Stinking of the rot of the corpses that she buries, Gravedigger longs for someone to take her as their own. Eventually, her wishful thinking ends up paying off when a man known as Lover (Ben Petrie) shows her that there are other folks out there who are just actually into that deadly stink. Quickly becoming enamored with one another, the pair feels they’ve finally found their match, but soon, tragedy strikes and Lover is killed in a boating accident. With only the severed finger of her beau left, Gravedigger goes to grotesque lengths to hold onto the love that she’s unwilling to lose.

Dead Lover is far from the first time that Glowicki and Petrie have worked alongside one another, with the pair first joining forces for Petrie’s Sundance Film Festival entry, Her Friend Adam. In the time since then, the duo have starred in four feature films together, including Glowicki’s SXSW-debuting title, Tito. Most recently, ahead of their work in Glowicki’s new darkly comedic, neon-drenched, and brutal film, the two actors worked alongside folks like Jason Isaacs and Kate Dickie in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s thriller, Honey Bunch.

Who Else Is Behind ‘Dead Lover’?

In addition to starring opposite one another, Petrie and Glowicki worked behind-the-scenes in multiple roles to bring Dead Lover to vibrant life. For starters, they co-penned the script and additionally served as producers alongside Yona Strauss. Filling out the lineup of executive producers are Rhianon Jones, Tristan Scott-Behrends, Matthew Miller, Lexi Tannenholtz and Olivia Niuewland. Allowing Dead Lover to jump off the screen, grab on and not let go is the title’s director of photography, Rhayne Vermette, who previously found success through her debut feature, Ste. Anne, which celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival followed by additional screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

Check out the exclusive first look at the trailer for Dead Lover above.

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Roommates, Melinda French Gates is speaking out as some jaw-dropping documents once again put Bill Gates in the spotlight. The latest revelations, connected to Jeffrey Epstein, hint at private and personal allegations that are raising eyebrows across the internet. While details are still emerging, Melinda is opening up about how the new documents have affected her personally and what questions remain unanswered.

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Shocking Emails Allegedly Link Bill Gates To STI Claims

In a new interview on NPR’s ‘Wild Card’ podcast, Melinda Gates opened up about the latest batch of private communications connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In emails, Epstein claimed that Bill Gates approached him seeking help with personal encounters and medication related to an STI from “sex with Russian girls.” The documents, which include millions of pages of Epstein’s personal emails, allege that Bill Gates sought medication to treat an STI and even tried to secretly give it to Melinda.

One email from Epstein details his frustration over having to delete emails “regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda.” A spokesperson for Bill Gates has dismissed the allegations as “absolutely absurd and completely false,” calling the emails a reflection of Epstein’s attempts to entrap and defame powerful figures.

Melinda Gates Speaks Out, Filled With Pain Over Claims

French Gates explained that reading the released documents filled her with “unbelievable sadness,” reminding her of the struggles she faced during her marriage.

“I’m able to take my own sadness and look at those young girls and say, my God, how did that happen to those girls?” she said.

Melinda also revealed that reading the documents brings back “very, very painful times” from her marriage. She added that while she has moved on personally, she hopes the women affected by Epstein’s crimes see justice.

TSR Comment Section Can’t With This Gates Drama

As soon as the news broke, folks ran straight to TSR’s Instagram comment section and were absolutely shook. Some said they believe the claims because “she said a whole lot even though she said very little,” while others celebrated that Melinda got out of that marriage. Meanwhile, a few commenters joked about running to unplug all their Microsoft products just in case it’s true.

One Instagram user @aivanelli commented, “I cannot fathom that pain 💔”

This Instagram user @lets.get.ready.to.stumble said, “Takes a strong person to turn her own pain into empathy & compassion for younger victims 💗”

And, Instagram user @hope_esq wrote, “She said so much without saying it“

Meanwhile, Instagram user @coach_ag3 added, “We hear you sis! We believe you sis and we understand you sis! She has overly explained this world to outsiders“

While Instagram user @womanownednetwork shared, “😢😢😢😢 I can only imagine what she has endured and how it impacting her emotionally. 🙏🏼”

Lastly, Instagram user @tsyagirldannieb said, “Melinda be thanking God every day you got out of it alive and well!! The things women go thru❤️”

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The Lincoln Lawyer is back for a fourth season on Netflix, and the legal drama keeps getting better. Based on Michael Connelly‘s books, the Manuel Garcia-Rulfo–led adaptation is among the highest-rated adaptations. The series is not the first time Connelly’s works have been adapted; the Prime Video series Bosch is based on his book series. In the fifth season of The Lincoln Lawyer, based on The Resurrection Walk, the two worlds collide as Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) and Mickey (Garcia-Rulfo) — who are half-brothers — team up to investigate and exonerate a woman wrongly accused of murdering her husband. Unfortunately, fans won’t see this team-up.

Since the rights to Harry Bosch are owned by Prime Video, Netflix cannot use the character in The Lincoln Lawyer. However, this family aspect of the story is important, and Netflix has a workaround. The Lincoln Lawyer‘s showrunner, Ted Humphrey, confirmed to TV Fanatic that while Bosch is not coming to help, they have a replacement lined up. “We are certainly allowed to create new characters, and we can certainly expand the world. If we have an interesting idea for how to expand the world of Mickey’s family, we can look at how to do that,” he said, before adding,

“There are a lot of interesting guest stars and new faces to the show this season. I think the audience will have to look out for who they are.”

Among some of the various guest stars in The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 is Cobie Smulders. The actress was cast in an undisclosed role, with the character’s arc expected to extend to Season 5. In the final minutes of the Season 4 finale, she introduces herself to Mickey as his sister Allison after saving him from a targeted mob hit. With The Resurrection Walk chapter of Mickey’s life exploring Mickey’s family and Allison showing the physical prowess displayed by Harry Bosch, Netflix finds a way to seal that gap.

Titus Welliver Is Not Done with ‘Bosch’ Yet

The character might not be appearing in The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5, but fans can catch him in the next season of Ballard. “I’m going to do three episodes [of Ballard] starting in February, so I’ll go and join up with Maggie Q and the whole Ballard group again. So I’m excited for that. It’ll be fun,” Welliver recently said in an interview with FabTV, confirming that he will indeed appear in the spin-off. Fans can also catch him in his post-Bosch era in the fourth season of Dark Winds, premiering on February 15.

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix.

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