12 Longest Film Debates
Good movies make us speak well after we’ve left the theater. Great films have kept us talking for decades. Sometimes an ambiguous ending or an […]
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Good movies make us speak well after we’ve left the theater. Great films have kept us talking for decades. Sometimes an ambiguous ending or an […]
Continue reading »These 12 celebrities are widely known, but only to a subset of most households. If your personalized algorithm on YouTube or TikTok shows WWII documentaries […]
Continue reading »Determined to prove that actors in their sixties are perfectly capable of risking life and limb for the perfect shot, actor Tom Cruise promises his […]
Continue reading »It wasn’t the best year for the shows you like. If you mainly watch crime series like CSI , NCIS and Blue Bloods , or […]
Continue reading »I used to think that Paramount+ would only be defined as the home of Star Trek – aside from the catalog series, it’s the only […]
Continue reading »It seems like just yesterday we expected all the high-profile video game adaptations to hit theaters and streaming services in 2023 , and one of […]
Continue reading »As a narrative epitome of one of those “want to feel old?” memes, That ’90s Show — decades later, the sequel to Fox ‘s hit […]
Continue reading »I predict 2023 will be the year video game adaptations get good . Game-based storytelling has been on a bumpy ride since the first major […]
Continue reading »The Naughty Christmas Movie is a venerable subgenre dating back at least to 1974’s Black Christmas , a film that shocked audiences with the dual […]
Continue reading »The first season of Hunters on Prime Video, a late 70s action film about a group of Nazi hunters hunting down surviving members of the […]
Continue reading »In addition to being a global disaster in many ways, COVID-19 has taken a toll on the film industry, and Hollywood is still clearing the […]
Continue reading »Back in the mid-2000s, it seemed like How I Met Your Mother was destined to be the next Friends — sort of a constantly revisited […]
Continue reading »New Years, same old Disney+ streaming strategy: Throw in a bunch of pretty obscure old TV series and movies while garnering subscribers with this sweet, […]
Continue reading »We all know how it goes: Golden Globe nominations just dropped, Oscar nominations coming up in January, and in both cases, most of the discussion […]
Continue reading »Do you know those Christmas magazine videos that are popular during the holidays ? There’s a new one available to stream on HBO Max, but […]
Continue reading »As cinemas increasingly focus on four-quadrant blockbusters designed to offend as few people as possible, television has become a playground for experimentation. At least for […]
Continue reading »Holidays are a time of great emotions. The weather is extreme (in many places), there is too much to do, and family gatherings cause wild […]
Continue reading »Friends, this is the story of Cocaine Bear; A cocaine-loving carnivore that went feral around 1985. Kentucky Fun Mall Directed by Elizabeth Banks, the upcoming […]
Continue reading »People like the environment , it seems. From Smallville ‘s masterminds Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (with a little help from executive producer Tim Burton, […]
Continue reading »Rejoice, my fellow Grinchies: there is (almost) no Santa Claus in this carefully curated list of December streaming options. Even though this is a pretty […]
Continue reading »I may be speaking only for myself here, but Andor , the just-ended Disney+ series, revived a bit of a Star Wars passion that had […]
Continue reading »Imagine Trainspotting without Lust for Life. Do the right thing without “struggling with power”. Shaft without… “Shaft”. You can not. The perfect song choice can […]
Continue reading »I confess that I only got into holiday TV movies in the last few years, as the advent of the gay Christmas movie pushed me […]
Continue reading »If you’ve been aiming for a lower price on a major streaming service, now is the perfect time. Most major streaming platforms offer Black Friday […]
Continue reading »After a year of turmoil at Warner Bros. Discovery, we can be thankful for at least one streaming blessing this holiday season: David Zaslav hasn’t […]
Continue reading »Add one more to the list of TV shows no one in New York even knows exists: in December, Paramount+ will launch the second spin-off […]
Continue reading »Octavia Butler, venerable science fiction writer and futurist, died unexpectedly in 2006. It spared her how terrifyingly prescient her 1993 post-apocalyptic novel, The Parable of […]
Continue reading »In my day, TV shows had the decency to come back from hiatus every September like clockwork. In the streaming arena, that clock is broken. […]
Continue reading »The first film, National Treasure , was released in 2004 and was an archaeological dive into the myths of the founding of the United States, […]
Continue reading »In the old days, when cinemas still made real money by showing films outside the “cinematic universe”, December was the best time of the year […]
Continue reading »There are two Americas (well, at least): elite east and west coast enclaves with avocado toast, overpriced yoga pants, and artisanal sex toys; and a […]
Continue reading »When was the last time you bought an album? For many of us, this is probably ancient history. Taylor Swift’s Midnights is $12.99 per CD […]
Continue reading »Perhaps your family is balanced, open and cold, and your holiday gatherings bring pure joy. For the rest of us, it’s difficult, which isn’t necessarily […]
Continue reading »Films from Hong Kong filmmakers have treated action as art for decades, and martial arts films have always been big hits in China, South Korea, […]
Continue reading »There is a lot of excitement among Muppets fans, and true fans will know exactly what I’m talking about: after a couple of years of […]
Continue reading »After years at the bottom of the contract pond, the rights to the Friday the 13th horror franchise have found themselves in a truly charming […]
Continue reading »Every November, I have to face the fact that for some reason the concept of a real Thanksgiving movie will always be ignored in favor […]
Continue reading »Dwayne Johnson’s passion project Black Adam was met with bad reviews (critics) and rapturous hugs (fans) over the weekend. Even though the superhero genre is […]
Continue reading »Over the past few years, Taylor Sheridan has become one of the most important movers in television. I mean presumably. As with Dick Wolf and […]
Continue reading »It’s been more than a dozen years since Disney released a traditionally animated feature film, prompting audience indifference to mediocre mid-00s films like The Range […]
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