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After more than two years of pandemic disruptions, many of us have been particularly hard hit by travel this summer. Whether you’ve got a huge […]
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After more than two years of pandemic disruptions, many of us have been particularly hard hit by travel this summer. Whether you’ve got a huge […]
Continue reading »After a harrowing development process that included several failed films and more than a few false starts as a TV series, Y: The Last Man […]
Continue reading »You heard? Lady Gaga will (probably) play Harley Quinn in Joker ‘s musical sequel. While it’s certainly an interesting casting, she’s going to have a […]
Continue reading »When it comes to marketing, the multi-billion dollar budgets of almost every theatrical release over the last decade or so leave little room for experimentation […]
Continue reading »If there’s nothing good on Disney+ this July, it could be because their parent company, Walt Disney Co., decided to put all the good stuff […]
Continue reading »Will the big summer blockbuster be able to successfully air on streaming services, or has hope died upon arrival? The devout theatergoer in me says […]
Continue reading »When your brand is $150 million direct-to-stream animated films ( Turning Red ) and series budgeted as a small feature-length film per episode ( The […]
Continue reading »Last week, Netflix released the first trailer for Blonde , the Marilyn Monroe biopic from director Andrew Dominic, based on the novel of the same […]
Continue reading »Rampant inflation, interest rates are rising faster than at any time in 28 years , gas prices are skyrocketing, and continued stress from Russia’s invasion […]
Continue reading »If you’re a college student, two things are likely to be true: you probably love streaming media, and you’re probably broke. But if you need […]
Continue reading »Like a list of the “funniest” or “most fun” films, a list of the most disturbing films is going to be subjective. Everyone says that […]
Continue reading »The recent Twitter hype has cast doubt on the whole point of the Bechdel test, a set of criteria to help assess the representation of […]
Continue reading »With so much content, the start of summer is the perfect time to kick back and watch some of the blockbusters you might miss while […]
Continue reading »Gentle giants, sweet friends, vicious monsters, deadly dragons: even the earliest depictions of dinosaurs in films testify to our complex relationship with Earth’s prehistoric thunder […]
Continue reading »Having aged some 20 years in the three and a half decades since the original, Tom Cruise is back in one of the roles that […]
Continue reading »You have to go quite far in the history of cinema to get to a time before we made films about airplanes. In the earliest […]
Continue reading »Cultural critics have spent a lot of time talking poetically about how the streaming age — and Netflix in particular — devalues creative works, turning […]
Continue reading »There’s a lot to criticize about how Marvel films have changed the cinematic landscape and hastened the demise of mid-budget adult drama at the box […]
Continue reading »Is anyone else confused by the fact that we’ve been diving deep into shows that debuted during the pandemic for several seasons? Because I’m not […]
Continue reading »Despite Netflix cutting jobs and canceling one show after another due to an apparent shift to an ” everything is very strange , all the […]
Continue reading »We know exactly what’s in store for us as the high school movie plot reaches senior season. Dramatic prom coronation. Spontaneous speeches that somehow sound […]
Continue reading »Fraud is the zeitgeist right now, which means it’s showing up on podcasts everywhere, on shows from the biggest media companies to the tiniest independents. […]
Continue reading »Half the fun of being a music lover is collecting facts about the songs you love, and even if you have super niche musical tastes, […]
Continue reading »Despite all the cultural and political debate around abortion, it remains a taboo subject. Research shows that 25% of women will have an abortion by […]
Continue reading »John Cameron’s 2009 Avatar sits at the top of the list of most expensive films ever made, but even higher on the list of highest-grossing […]
Continue reading »For five seasons (and it continues), ” Sunset Sale ” has been a solid performer for Netflix, going from a reality show ostensibly about the […]
Continue reading »Like so much in modern pop culture, it all started with Star Wars . The clever pun associated with Margaret Thatcher (read on) has gradually […]
Continue reading »I’m not the first to point out that the current state of streaming is essentially a bundle of cables. It’s the streamer’s job to convince […]
Continue reading »The fact that a film is misunderstood cannot always be justified by the viewer: director François Truffaut famously suggested that it was nearly impossible to […]
Continue reading »This week’s journey into the strange corners of culture populated by young people comes with a variety of dangers! There is the danger of talking […]
Continue reading »The early days of social media ushered in an era of Web 2.0 fears, the loss of privacy and the threat of cyberbullying among them, […]
Continue reading »Spring cleaning can take many forms. Clean up your closet and donate clothes you never wear. Go through cupboards and throw away expired spices during […]
Continue reading »If you were to ask me to list the top 10 shows I once loved that I don’t think will make it into 2022, Kids […]
Continue reading »Paramount keeps rebooting Star Trek and I keep coming back hoping that what they’re trying to do now will be as successful as The Next […]
Continue reading »Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 novel The Time Traveler ‘s Wife was a book that seemed to be meant for me. It’s set in Chicago, where I […]
Continue reading »If you were in high school in the 2010s, your experience didn’t quite resemble on-screen images like The Breakfast Club, The Mean Girls, or even […]
Continue reading »Last month we wrote about Hulu’s obsession with true crime, and the streamer will be staying on that train in May. The platform will premiere […]
Continue reading »The new Nicolas Cage movie comes out this week, and it’s the biggest theatrical release of a Cage movie since pre-Covid times. In “The Unbearable […]
Continue reading »For viewers who love Marvel, Star Wars, or both, there’s a lot to look forward to at Disney+ in May. The service launched Moon Knight […]
Continue reading »If you’re an avid Netflix viewer, you probably know that the service isn’t all that great when it comes to organization. Like many apps and […]
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