25 Movies That Will Make You Cry Ugly
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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »There’s a lot of sex on TV, although most of it is a random window cover – thrown there thoughtlessly, as if at the behest […]
Continue reading »You say Christmas is shit? Christmas movies are bad, right? Well, instead of supporting a festive industrial complex by watching Miracle on 34th Street or […]
Continue reading »Moving to a streaming business model has been a tough one for theater owners and a headache for Hollywood, but we’re not talking about the […]
Continue reading »I don’t know why I thought the monthly Paramount + news reviews were a good idea or even a necessity. I mean, I think so: […]
Continue reading »Some films live forever. But some films, like old toys, are passionately loved and then completely abandoned. Sometimes this is done on purpose; films made […]
Continue reading »Few shows have exploded a lead like How I Met Your Mother . For several years in the mid-2000s, she looked like the most natural […]
Continue reading »When Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, it also acquired the once-venerable studio’s animation list that was in development, including two comic-inspired objects that […]
Continue reading »This year and every year – but especially this year – there has been a lot of talk about how the world of cinema has […]
Continue reading »While your knee-jerk reaction may indicate otherwise, there is nothing ridiculous about pairing Christmas with scary stories. For centuries in Britain, families have gathered around […]
Continue reading »While Netflix may seem a little rich to launch a new comedy series that appears to be a direct parody of The Woman in the […]
Continue reading »According to Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, “… once you break the 1-inch subtitle barrier, you will experience many more amazing films.” Fortunately, in the field […]
Continue reading »Remember the thing you like? From what came before? Well, it’s back. Hooray? Filmmaking for a franchise is cause for regret if you’re an arrogant […]
Continue reading »The cost of subscribing to streaming services to cover all of your viewing and listening needs can skyrocket, especially if you don’t take advantage of […]
Continue reading »It has been a good year for films. However, not the best year for cinemas : in 2019, when the pandemic did not affect the […]
Continue reading »HBO has just released a trailer for the second season of its acclaimed teen drama Euphoria. There was a long wait between seasons – although […]
Continue reading »Tired: My Favorite Christmas Movie is Die Hard . Wired: “My favorite Christmas movie is Eyes Wide Shut. “ You can be forgiven that the […]
Continue reading »The strangest thing about the Age of Peak Streaming is that there are TV shows that have been going on for years that I, the […]
Continue reading »Is your Roku causing you problems? You may have sat down to watch HBO Max, or started looking forward to the release of Hawkeye on […]
Continue reading »Netflix apparently doesn’t want you to go out again until 2022, given how many things they’ll squeeze into their service in December: with new seasons […]
Continue reading »We now have more broadcast and cable networks and streaming services that anyone, household, or perhaps a small village can watch, all of them desperate […]
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