22 Sci-Fi Thrillers to Watch After the Sandman
After seemingly endless false starts, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman graphic novel is finally coming to Netflix this week. Gaiman’s work has never been easily transferred […]
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After seemingly endless false starts, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman graphic novel is finally coming to Netflix this week. Gaiman’s work has never been easily transferred […]
Continue reading »The name of the game to stream in August: Reboots. Reboots , remakes and reimaginings . As much as I’d like to see my beloved […]
Continue reading »Like your favorite video streaming apps, the major subscription gaming services Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus add and remove new content every month. In […]
Continue reading »Earlier this week, I invited you to revisit your childhood trauma with me , and as expected, many of you were excited to join the […]
Continue reading »When I was 11, I couldn’t imagine a more subversive TV show than Beavis and Butt-Head . It was like a cartoon—you know, for kids! […]
Continue reading »Don’t cry on stream! It works? Is it anything? Look, if Prime Video is going to turn Tom Hanks and Geena Davis ‘ favorite 1992 […]
Continue reading »The 1970s is often referred to as the golden age of cinema, a time when filmmakers made difficult classics refusing to indulge, combining a love […]
Continue reading »As far as I can remember, the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters was RoboCop 2 , a movie in which a juvenile crime […]
Continue reading »Gaming is a well-established medium with a strong online community, but podcasts, which offer a powerful space for niche voices, have made interacting with games […]
Continue reading »When the final episode of Game of Thrones aired, the reaction from viewers was as brutal and demanding as the ordeal by fighting the Mountain […]
Continue reading »Alien abductions are not in the zeitgeist of the 90s when The X-Files propelled little green (or grey) men into the mainstream of pop culture. […]
Continue reading »While every month Netflix’s arrivals include something for everyone, the most anticipated August release is the big-budget, stellar adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s seminal comic The […]
Continue reading »Damn, Disney+. I know I made fun of you last month for not presenting anything good, but a new Marvel show, a new Star Wars […]
Continue reading »Usually the whole point of creating a new installment in a long-running franchise is to cash in on name recognition, so consider me baffled as […]
Continue reading »Like a great blues ballad or country song, sad movies can make us feel like we’re not alone. They can also provide catharsis. Or just […]
Continue reading »There are movies and TV shows that make cooking (and eating) feel like a joyful, unifying activity that brings families and cultures together. There are […]
Continue reading »From the Weather Underground movement of the 1960s to the attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the stories of radicals and radical movements […]
Continue reading »Given the ubiquity of TV shows like Vikings , films like The Norseman , and the upcoming Thor: Lover and Thunder (which features a bonus […]
Continue reading »On the one hand, all over the world things have screwed up seriously. Everyone seems to be going crazy and nothing else makes sense. But […]
Continue reading »Sometimes you want to kill hours, managing the island of losers and paying off a predatory raccoon. And sometimes you want to go through all […]
Continue reading »Governments lie. They are deceiving. They steal. Sometimes the guilt comes from within: corrupt people who tricked their way into the halls of power with […]
Continue reading »Insightful documentary exploration of today’s most pressing issues is good, but given that I usually watch TV when I want to completely wall myself off […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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