Whenever there's a mass shooting — or, as has been the case in the U.S. in recent weeks, many of them — there's always the blaming of violent movies followed not long after by the charge of Hollywood anti-gun hypocrisy.
'Deep Throat' is quite possibly the most famous pornographic movie of all time and is angling for a 50th anniversary cinema return, but that raises a litany of questions that need considering.
The Slap Heard 'Round the World completely overshadowed an Oscar telecast that was just an all-around abomination, one plagued by every imaginable wrong choice. But no one is talking about any of that.
Cult indie band, The Pocket Gods, are trying to raise awareness about musicians' continued campaign for fair royalty rates by releasing a 1,000 track album of 30-second songs.
A piece appeared over this past weekend that represents about a half-dozen of the worst trends in pop culture journalism at the moment, with one Rachel Zegler (of 'West Side Story') at the bizarre center of it all.
Will the arguments never end about Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles'? Brooks' 1974 comedy classic might be the most argued-about older movie of all-time, mostly stemming from whether it could be made today or not.
30 years ago, Oliver Stone delivered 'JFK', one of the best edited movies in history, that on the one hand is almost wholly untrue while on the other hand hugely entertaining.
Tarantino's previously announced plans to put seven uncut scenes from 'Pulp Fiction' up for auction as NFTs has been hit by a cease-and-desist letter from Miramax.
Amidst all of the modern-day appreciation of the series, one thing has been largely forgotten: While 'The Sopranos' was on the air, there was always a significant backlash against the show.
Just 24 hours after it was announced that rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) would play late jazz legend Thelonious Monk in a new biopic, the artists' estate came out condemning the project.
MoviePass is mostly remembered as a business idea that was too good to be true, but now there’s word that they were up to much worse things than merely running a business that failed.
One of the classic "Captain America" Harley-Davidson choppers that appeared in the counterculture icon, 'Easy Rider,' is up for auction. But its authenticity has been called into question.
Since its publication, 'The Handmaid's Tale' has often found itself on lists of the most-banned books, and this new version is a protest against censorship and book bans.
There have been many reasons thrown around for why Netflix has posted it's first subscriber loss in over a decade, but there's one gaining attention that's been for, well, just about everything: "wokeness."
The Oscars are in crisis and they've tried several changes over the years that have all largely failed. There's no easy fix but, I think the answer has one solution: get the Oscars the hell off of network TV.
'We Need to Talk About Cosby', the new 4-part documentary from W. Kamau Bell, just might have created a new template for how to tell the complicated and extremely uncomfortable stories of the most significant #MeToo offenders.
It's a common occurrence these days for film critics to find themselves at odds with vocal fans of a given movie, but the sparring that's been happening around Adam McKay's star-studded latest film, 'Don't Look Up', has felt notably different.
As much as we may try to deny it, the fact of the matter is that we actually love a good controversy; so let’s examine 4 circumstances where bad publicity have ironically helped properties achieve higher levels of success.
The world of documentary filmmaking can deliver some great stories but it's also filled with countless pitfalls and dangers of crossing the line of what's ethical as was the case with 2006's 'The Bridge' and this year's doc on Anthony Bourdain, 'Roadrunner.'
'Moonlight' is probably best-known for that now infamous Best Picture debacle, but it deserves much better than that. More than anything else, it tells the type of story that movies that compete for, and win Oscars, very rarely tell.
Since Joel Coen announced his solo directorial debut, there's been wide speculation about the nature of the pair's split, but it turns out it was for amicable reasons.
After a two-week national debate about what the lyrics actually said, the matter has been settled by Springsteen’s longtime manager Jon Landau, who co-produced the iconic 'Born to Run.'
In his 'Hergé - Hopper' series, Marabout imagined a romantic life for Tintin in the intimate and voyeuristic universe of the famous American painter; describing his work as "strip art."
Florida rapper Kidd Wes claims that Gambino’s "This Is America" has ‘substantial similarities' to his song from 2016.
