The story of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and sex offender, is a topic of great interest for many reasons; one of those being a "list" that's been making the rounds around Twitter.
In what's pretty clearly the stand-up comedy event of the year, Chris Rock debuted his new special, 'Selective Outrage,' and as expected there's been the same old tired reactions from both sides of the aisle.
This year, as with every other year, there's a big controversy about the Oscar nominations, and it mostly centers on the Best Actress category.
Cancel culture has been a constant topic in comedy these days, so let's take a look back at that Kevin Hart Oscars incident and see what cancellation looks like.
You may have heard, probably way more than you should have, about Sydney Sweeney's mother's 60th birthday party. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
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.
The Academy Awards have been troubled for quite a long time, and seemed like one of those unsolvable problems. But this year's Oscars show, for the first time in at least a decade, was actually well-done.
In the early weeks of 2023, one of the major issues in film discourse centered on the area of sex scenes. It seems everyone has an opinion about sex in the movies: There's either too little of it or too much.
The veteran actor Neal McDonough isn't typically part of viral news stories, but that's exactly what happened when an interview began re-circulating about how he was "blacklisted."
'The Whale', starring a resurgent Brendan Fraser, has been one of the biggest hits of the early festival season, drawing minutes-long standing ovations. But... aside from Fraser, the film itself is not good.
With the 'Game of Thrones' prequel series set to air, there have been various early reactions from critics, with one tabloid in particular running a truly bizarre piece...
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.'
