If you're a moviegoer who's very interested in obscure stories from the nooks and crannies of the history of the American car industry, 2019 has been your year. Read More
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It's not crazy to think that Billie Eilish, born in 2001, would be unfamiliar with Van Halen. The public reaction however, was curious... Read More
One of Hollywood's top directors hasn't made a movie in over 2 years but it'll be interesting to see what his version of 'Dazed and Confused' could look like. Read More
'Jojo Rabbit' tells a child's-eye view of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, attempting to splice in some humor and social commentary. While it doesn't fail for the same reason this sort of stuff usually does, fail it does. Read More
Divorce isn’t a fun topic under any circumstance, but when it comes to it, Noah Baumbach knows of which he speaks, and he’s made one of his best films yet. Read More
It's hard to imagine a more perfect marriage of creators and material than the one that was announced this past week. Read More
'Quiz Show' is an all-around triumph of filmmaking, and by far the best film Robert Redford has ever directed, and would likely be remembered more fondly if it didn't run into the buzzsaw that was 'Forrest Gump'/'Pulp Fiction' of that same year. Read More
If you thought the discourse about Todd Phillips' 'Joker' was tiresome before the movie was actually released, then you ain't seen nothing yet. Read More
Audiences have praised 'Hustlers' for its spirit of sisterhood, its inspired filmmaking, and the go-for-broke, movie star performance by Jennifer Lopez; but one thing that’s been noticed by many critics and other viewers of 'Hustlers' is just how much it resembles Martin Scorsese’s crime films. Read More
1999 was a special time for movies and 'American Beauty' is one whose reputation has waxed and waned over time, as has my impression of it as I’ve re-watched it over the years. But there are several reasons 'American Beauty' isn’t a fun movie to think about these days. Read More
After a major Muppet revival that began with 2011's 'The Muppets' reboot movie, Kermit, Piggy and the rest of the gang are once again far from cultural ubiquity. And now, one of their potential comeback vehicles has been cancelled. Read More
'Sticks & Stones', and the cultural discussion around it means that we get to once again act out an irritating, tiresome cultural two-step, one marked by bad faith, straw-manning, and a complete misunderstanding of social media outrage, how it works, and its ultimate effects. Read More
Fans have been increasingly calling for DC and Warner Bros. to #releasethesnydercut of 'Justice League' but let's pump the brakes and resist giving in to the demands and threats of toxic fandom. Read More
Disney's long-in-the-works attempt to combat Netflix has finally launched, and while there have been plenty of legit reasons to complain about it's early days, there is one thing that's occasioned criticism that is, to my mind, utterly ridiculous. Read More
The denunciations of Scorsese have been pretty hilarious and what has followed is the ridiculous notion that if someone doesn't like Batman or Iron Man as much as you do, it's the equivalent of actual prejudice or discrimination. Read More
Adam McKay has worked out a first-look deal with HBO and the first project of that deal will be a limited series based on the reporting of Julie K. Brown about notorious financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Read More
HBO had been developing at least five different 'Game of Thrones' spinoffs, and now they've announced the next one: 'House of the Dragon,' a series based on Martin's 'Fire & Blood' series. Read More
There's a good chance no single account has delivered more laughs than @dril who's always trafficked in the sort of absurdist humor long associated with "Weird Twitter." Now, dril is going to have an (online) TV series with Adult Swim. Read More
A limited series is in development based on 'A Higher Loyalty', the memoir by former FBI Director James Comey, and will feature Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson as the leads. Read More
'Joker' director, Todd Phillips, has recently joined the crowded "wokeness ruined comedy" team, but like most claims of its ilk, it's much ado about nothing. Read More
It all started with a tweet from Variety, which stated that Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra had claimed that “very famous people whose names I won’t use” are interested in a "redo" of 'The Princess Bride.' Read More
A few months after it was confirmed that Netflix is losing two of its most popular legacy streaming shows, 'Friends' and 'The Office', the streamer has sprung for the rights to another major Thursday night NBC sitcom of the past. Read More
Described as a classic dystopian faith-based YA gun rights movie. 'The Reliant' will have a one-night-only Fathom Events release, on October 24. Read More
Going into the film I was nervous, for a simple reason: this is going to be my kids, in a couple of years. The kinds of conversations and incidents hinted at in this movie are in the not-too-distant future. Am I ready for that? Read More