“It feels like the slime is after me personally,” says Dr. Erin Gilbert in the reboot of Ghostbusters. The running joke here is that Kristen Wiig’s character is the uptight member of the team, and she ...

Probably because I am not a 7-year-old, I did not initially understand the appeal of slime. The stuff is everywhere now, oozing out of all corners of the Internet. I'm told by friends who have ...