20 Movies and Series That Prove There Is a Generational Gap
Generation gap stories are nothing new in film, television, or human history, but especially after the 1950s rolled around and American children suddenly became a […]
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Generation gap stories are nothing new in film, television, or human history, but especially after the 1950s rolled around and American children suddenly became a […]
Continue reading »It may be a reflection of the state of the world (or our perception of it), but many of the most popular genre films of […]
Continue reading »Oliver Stone’s Wall Street gave us the iconic and chronically misused “greed is good” adage, but movies usually like to show us otherwise. History is […]
Continue reading »Although intended to celebrate Irish heritage and culture, many tend to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a pub crawl and a plate of corned beef, […]
Continue reading »By now, we all know that a VPN can be used to watch region-specific content on international streaming services like Netflix and Hulu , but […]
Continue reading »I have always been perfectly content with watching movies alone. All is well if it’s Fast & Furious 2 or Uncharted , but there are […]
Continue reading »With the fourth season of Ozark airing in January and ” Inventing Anna ” premiered in February, it looks like March will be tragically devoid […]
Continue reading »Sitcom is one of the oldest and most venerable forms of television, and the ways they tried to reflect our “working class” economic realities are […]
Continue reading »The first time Disney+ unveiled a new Pixar movie that never hit theaters, it seemed like a much-needed pandemic holiday gift, and the streaming-only release […]
Continue reading »In the spirit of the latest Halloween reboot, this week’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre direct-to-Netflix film, which, like Michael Myers’ 2018 film, ignores all in-between […]
Continue reading »Real life crime dramas based on podcasts? Hulu got them in March when the streaming service launches a pair of miniseries featuring stars investigating the […]
Continue reading »Released this week is Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg’s adaptation of the Uncharted video game series, based on Indiana Jones with a modern young protagonist. […]
Continue reading »Baseball may be an American pastime, but our version of football is a distinct cultural phenomenon. While the sport itself reflects our values, football films […]
Continue reading »Is Valentine’s Day a beautiful tribute to one of the most fundamental parts of the human experience, or a made-up holiday designed to get you […]
Continue reading »Super Bowl LVI kicks off February 13 at 6:30 pm ET (3:30 pm PT). This leaves you with about three days to figure out how […]
Continue reading »After months of wrangling over Spotify’s business partnership with Joe Rogan, artists including Neil Young, India Ari and Crosby, Stills and Nash are pulling their […]
Continue reading »Last year at this time, I may have predicted that by now we would have a much clearer picture of the future state of the […]
Continue reading »Hating on Valentine’s Day has become fashionable, and I understand – commercialization; unreasonable expectations; banal packaging of all this. But just as important, it’s okay […]
Continue reading »This year’s Oscar nominees are due to be announced tomorrow, February 8th, which means we’ll soon find out which films and their directors are in […]
Continue reading »The early 90s represented a kind of Big Bang for the time loop narrative. Groundhog Day was certainly not the first instance of repetitive time-telling […]
Continue reading »It’s GARDEN season, kids, and this is no joke. I’m talking, of course, about seasonal affective disorder, that depressive disorder that has to do with […]
Continue reading »Other news from the niche corners of today’s streaming market include The Legend of Vox Machina , a hyper-violent fantasy animated series that’s half Dungeons […]
Continue reading »There’s a reason VH1 was able to film so many episodes of Behind the Music in its time. There is almost always drama to be […]
Continue reading »Without a doubt, we live in an age of media glut. Even after COVID (laughs), the industry is still releasing new movies and new streaming […]
Continue reading »Steven Soderbergh retires even worse than Hayao Miyazaki . Despite his stated intention to stop making films and try his hand at drawing back in […]
Continue reading »The 1990s covered my teenage years, so of course I know all about Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee and their infamous 1995 sex tape leak […]
Continue reading »Joel Coen’s new expressionist take on The Tragedy of Macbeth was (at least) a modest success and certainly a critical success. It’s very difficult to […]
Continue reading »Two days ago, Disney released the trailer for Moon Knight , the next in a lineup of streaming series set in the ever-expanding frontiers of […]
Continue reading »With all the growth in streaming that has killed theaters and ruined the world of entertainment, I have to admit that I’m still impressed by […]
Continue reading »Some of the very best films of all time have flaws that are not conclusive but nonetheless conspicuous: a questionable performance, a problematic element, an […]
Continue reading »Look, let’s be realistic: despite the pandemic, we won’t go to the movies like we used to. A lot of the dramas we bought tickets […]
Continue reading »I was attracted to virtual reality by the idea that I could actively immerse myself in other worlds. I loved the idea of slicing fruit […]
Continue reading »Bahamian-American actor, director and cultural ambassador Sidney Poitier passed away last week at the age of 94. Although he retired from film almost two decades […]
Continue reading »Now I’m quite content to draw inspiration from anywhere. It’s probably an exaggeration to suggest that the human race has hit rock bottom (I wouldn’t […]
Continue reading »January is Hollywood’s “junkyard month” when studios release underdog films that aren’t worthy of the summer blockbuster season and aren’t good enough for the December […]
Continue reading »Betty White’s first role came in 1930, when she played an orphan in a silly radio drama called Empire Builders. Her last appearance will take […]
Continue reading »Netflix’s new movie Don’t Look Up has garnered several … strong responses from critics and social media. The rapidly changing zeitgeist has shifted from its […]
Continue reading »Without diving too deeply into the divided responses to Lana Wachowski’s Matrix Resurrections , it’s clear that later sequels are becoming increasingly the norm. If […]
Continue reading »When I think of Paul Thomas Anderson, the cold atmosphere of the party usually does not occur to me. More like the tragic-comic poignancy with […]
Continue reading »What do you do when your favorite artist gets canceled ? If you’re HBO Max, you seem to be leaving them out of the reunion […]
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