Writers and actors have taken to the streets, and at the heart of their grievances is the fight for fair streaming residuals.
Director Greta Gerwig has broken down barriers and redefined the movie-going experience with her billion-dollar summer blockbuster 'Barbie' (2023), and here's how.
While it’s easy to get absorbed into the sex, power, drug-filled, and money-driven world of 'The White Lotus,' at its core it tackles some of our most important social issues, and Season 2 kicked things up a notch.
There's been a lot of debate about social media and its impact on the culture, but I argue, that it's just bringing out what's already bubbling beneath the surface.
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.
Before the massive shakeup that was #MeToo, diversity, inclusion, equality, and cultural representation were merely words in Hollywood. Since then, there's been a concerted effort to be more inclusive not only behind-the-scenes, but in their storytelling. Let's see how it's gone.
HBO's smash-hit series 'Euphoria' doesn't pull any punches in its approach to our youth's struggles with mental health, abuse, and drug usage. But does its explicitness actually trigger more people than it helps.
'Open Ocean' is a new documentary directed by Nathan Siegel and featuring Didac Costa, which wonderfully captures the intense experience of competing in one of the most challenging and dangerous ocean races in the world – Vendée Globe.
Louise Brix Anderson's sci-fi short film, 'The Pill', adds value to the conversation of the invisible struggle by tackling complex social and ethical issues surrounding suicide and mental health, all while being impressively crafted remotely.
As a result of monumental movements and campaigns in the recent years, the voices of underrepresented groups are finally getting much needed recognition.
In recent times, there's been a separate category of boycott that's become quite ubiquitous. It comes as part of the never-ending backlash against "wokeness," and while its been loud and numerous, it hasn't been very effective.
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On 'Border Patrol,' Farees — musician, producer, poet, and activist extraordinaire — is right on target with both his music and his important message.
In this increasingly polarizing society we find ourselves in, the words of George Carlin stand out even more.
Two decades before Colin Kaepernick knelt for the National Anthem and set off the biggest sports controversy of the decade, there was Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and the NBA, and 'Stand' sets out to do his story right.
Music festivals have been big contributors to our growing environmental problems and to help, the EDM festival Mysteryland will now run almost entirely on locally-generated green grid power.
In these difficult times, we live in, the old adage “laughter is the best medicine” seems to ring powerfully true now more than ever. And fortunately, stand-up comedy has spread like wildfire.
'X' has deep roots tied to the '70s when films like 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' encapsulated America’s ideological duality; a duality that's reared it's blood soaked head once again, making it a perfect time for the return of the slasher and its much deeper themes.
Evolution Music has been researching and developing the project for two years and will be revealed at Turn Up The Volume 2022.
Are film critics living in a bubble? That's been the basis of a lot of discourse in recent weeks and months. But have they really become so far out-of-touch with the general public that it's become a problem?
Filmmaker/director Louise Brix Andersen sat down with us to discuss how she developed her sci-fi short film 'The Pill', the process of remote filmmaking, and much more.
The cover was originally based on an image of radio waves from pulsar CP 1919, but it now shows the waves as flat and lifeless to “symbolize the eternal silence of a dead planet.”
The annual Academy Awards were held last Sunday, and it was clearly a very different Oscars ceremony than usual ― leading to the worst ratings in the history of the broadcast. Here's what I think works and doesn't work about the annual proceedings.
The compilation, titled 'Drowned In The Sun', was created to raise awareness for mental health support in the music industry.
'Stranger Things' proves to be a complex deconstruction of fact and façade between two opposing world hegemonies, while its Upside Down parallel, represents America’s haunting consequences.
