'Billions', like a lot of TV series, frequently "rips from the headlines"; this time it might've gotten them in trouble.
How the reaction to a piece about how 'Friends' holds up illustrates some of the worst tendencies of pop culture analysis on the Internet.
The 2019 'Watchmen', much like 'The Last Jedi', got a certain segment of fans very, very angry but taking brave risks, and questioning assumptions, is what great art is supposed to do.
Gone are the days when the number one concern of womankind was ditching the vacuum. We have a bigger problem in 21 Studios' conventions, TED-talk style YouTube videos, and 21 University ("It's like Netflix, for men").
'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.
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 these days of culture wars, it appears that the definition of the word "censorship" has been defined down considerably. With the latest example involving the removal of… a single Bob Dylan song from YouTube.
The leaked video of the recent destruction of hundreds of Gibson Firebird X guitars has garnered a response from the struggling manufacturer.
Florida rapper Kidd Wes claims that Gambino’s "This Is America" has ‘substantial similarities' to his song from 2016.
Few movies in recent history have met as much condemnation as 'Joker', but this concern isn’t new. In fact, it joins a long lineage of widely acclaimed films that expressed the popular rage of the times in which they were created.
Rapper Ice Spice first broke onto the scene with her Brooklyn drill song "In Ha Mood," but did she actually steal it? Let's chat.
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.
'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.
Two major cultural happenings, at least not related to COVID-19, have taken place in the first half of July 2020: 'Hamilton' debuted on Disney+, and a massive culture-wide debate has been had over "cancel culture." So naturally, the two have intersected.
'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.
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.
Internal company documents show that Monsanto’s ‘intelligence center’ worked to discredit and investigate the singer and others.
Houston Astro's star outfielder Alex Bregman just announced that he's firing his agent, at least in part, due to a recently announced documentary on their sign stealing scandal produced by LeBron James' media company.
Fox News, with an assist from the president, appears to have succeeded in stopping the release of the Blumhouse produced film.
There has been an unprecedented reckoning about policing in America, and its one that's begun to trickle down into popular culture. Now, it appears 'Paw Patrol' is facing the wrath of the cancel culture... or is it?
If you thought the discourse about Todd Phillips' 'Joker' was tiresome before the movie was actually released, then you ain't seen nothing yet.
'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.
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.
The once great AV Club kicked off the never-ending and tired debate of Martin Scorsese vs Marvel movies, and it's time to give it a rest.