Category: Streaming

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 […]

Earlier this week, I invited you to revisit your childhood trauma with me , and as expected, many of you were excited to join the […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Given the ubiquity of TV shows like Vikings , films like The Norseman , and the upcoming Thor: Lover and Thunder (which features a bonus […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Last week, Netflix released the first trailer for Blonde , the Marilyn Monroe biopic from director Andrew Dominic, based on the novel of the same […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]