"Godzilla vs. Kong" may not be the most thought-provoking effort featuring the titular monsters, but the film more than delivers on its promised mayhem. The breathtaking battles between Godzilla and Kong elevate kaiju fighting to another level in the cinematic space. Directed by … | Continue reading
Across its 48-season runtime, "Saturday Night Live" has had at least as many bad sketches as it has great ones. For every "More Cowboy" or "Debbie Downer," there's something equally forgettable or mediocre. Sometimes, sketches that are done in bad taste reach their own level of i … | Continue reading
1991's comedy-drama "Thelma & Louise'" centers on housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend, waitress Louise (Susan Sarandon), whose weekend road trip turns into an interstate womanhunt: Louise guns down a man who tries to rape Thelma during a pitstop at a tavern, and be … | Continue reading
Few stars have cemented themselves as deeply in movie history as Marilyn Monroe. The actress wasn't just a movie star: she was hailed as an all-American sex symbol, and her legacy is still going strong to this day, 60 years after her passing. Few stars, male or female, can claim … | Continue reading
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is all about meat. The cannibalistic Sawyer family are butchers looking to sample the delicacy of human flesh as their victims find themselves in their own personal slaughterhouse. It's almost a parody that the groundbreaking horror film takes place … | Continue reading
Jeremy Renner is a man of many talents. Whether it be music, home renovation, or the short-lived Jeremy Renner App, the "Avengers" star always has something going on. This goes back to the early days of his acting career, like in 2002 when he had his first big, successful role in … | Continue reading
The timeline of George Miller's "Mad Max" feature films is a curious one, if it even exists at all. The 1979 original, "Mad Max," takes place in a dystopian near future where oil shortages have kicked off a global spate of lawlessness. Cities are still standing, but society is in … | Continue reading
Author Stephen King is a master of nightmares, and that means that sometimes moments from his novels just don't quite make the jump to the screen. Some things are simply too horrendous to be committed to celluloid, while others just don't translate with the right level of emotion … | Continue reading
"Star Trek: Picard" appears to be pulling out all the stops for its third and final season. For months now we've been hearing about how the next installment of the Paramount+ series is set to reunite several more members of the crew from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and toda … | Continue reading
Oh my Q ... they did it. They actually did it. The evil geniuses over at Paramount+ are finally going to get me to watch "Star Trek: Picard." Paramount just released the trailer for the third and final season of the series, and it's chock full of faces "Star Trek: The Next Genera … | Continue reading
One of the most interesting parts of "Scrubs" was its willingness to showcase such a drastic dichotomy in terms of its tone. The show could often be a very silly comedy, with daydream cutaways used to tell jokes too fantastical for the show's realistic hospital setting. It was al … | Continue reading
Another weekend brings another serious dilemma for moviegoers: should Friday night be spent singing along with a talking crocodile or solving a mystery with three Hollywood superstars? Based on the box office numbers, the answer is ... neither! Why solve a crime or sing along whe … | Continue reading
The image of a blood-soaked Carrie White, played by Sissy Spacek, at prom is one of the most striking images in horror history. Yes, this can be contested, as there are a great many horror films with powerful imagery. But no one can deny the visual impact and memorability that on … | Continue reading
The nameless amphibian-man (Doug Jones) may be the most recognizable part of "The Shape of Water," but it's his human lover Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who's the movie's protagonist. Hawkins' performance is stirring. Since Elisa is mute, Hawkins never says a word (barring an imagined m … | Continue reading
Brendan Fraser is very passionate about acting — just ask his doctors. The actor has sustained over a dozen injuries throughout his career. Getting your first opportunity in such a competitive field is rarely easy, and for Fraser, it was clear from the beginning that the actor wa … | Continue reading
When the creators of the '90s NBC sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" developed the idea about an alien family posing as humans on earth, they did so with the hopes of casting John Lithgow as its central protagonist, Dick Solomon. Lithgow got on board, breaking his own biggest rule in … | Continue reading
"One Piece" is a sprawling franchise of nearly 25 years, kicking off with Eiichiro Oda's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga in July 1997 before getting a rollicking anime adaptation from Toei Animation. The manga series is known for breaking the World Guinness Record for most printed comic … | Continue reading
Jamie Babbit's 1999 film "But I'm a Cheerleader" is a broad, colorful satire that takes aim at that most deserving of targets: conversion camps for teens. So-called conversion therapy, openly lambasted by the Human Rights Campaign, is the attempt to alter a young person's sexual … | Continue reading
"My Father's Dragon" is a 2022 animated feature that feels like a classic. Between the charming hand-drawn aesthetic, the imaginative setting, and the myth-like narrative structure, it has that rare quality of being truly timeless; this is a film that could have come out forty ye … | Continue reading
Before Clint Eastwood was the guy talking to a chair he was pretending Obama was sitting in, he was one of the most sought-after men in Hollywood. Not only is Eastwood a great actor, but he's a very talented director as well, having directed and starred in such movies as "Unforgi … | Continue reading
In 2019, "Good Omens" proved to us that there's such a thing as an angel and demon pair made in heaven as long -- as they're played by Michael Sheen and David Tennant, respectively. The Prime Video/BBC TV show was written as a limited series since the 1990 source material, writte … | Continue reading
The series: "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons" Where you can stream it: Netflix The pitch: Host Raphael Rowe knows a thing or two about life behind bars. After being convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the U.K. for a murder he didn't commit, he decided to start resear … | Continue reading
Those aren't coyotes you hear howling at the moon ... the "Teen Wolf" movie is almost here! The film will serve as a sequel to the events of the popular MTV series and will bring back many members of the original cast, including Tyler Hoechlin as absolute superhottie and Alpha wo … | Continue reading
The age of men is over, the time of spoilers has come. Read no further if you're not caught up on the latest episode of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." Throughout its first season, "The Rings of Power" has carefully built up an air of mystery around several of its ce … | Continue reading
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) It is extremely difficult to make a movie of any kind. Talk to any director or read any interview with anyone who ha … | Continue reading
While Margot Robbie and her costars in David Ayers' 2016 "Suicide Squad" film got off to a rough start with their DC Comics characters, Robbie has since come into her own more as the Joker's ex-girlfriend, Harley Quinn, in Cathy Yan's "Birds of Prey" and James Gunn's "The Suicide … | Continue reading
Spoilers follow for the seventh episode of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." The latest episode of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" focuses on the brutal aftermath of Mount Doom's eruption, but gives viewers an unexpected duo to root for in the process. This … | Continue reading
Well, hot damn, y'all: Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning to the horror genre on TV, and now there's a trailer here to prove it. You may have heard about "Wolf Pack," the upcoming spin-off of "Teen Wolf" (not the 1985 Michael J. Fox film, but the 2011 MTV series based on it). How … | Continue reading
(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of "Nosferatu," which turns 100 this year.) Unlike vampires themselves, the best stories arguably don't go on indefinitely. Think about it: wo … | Continue reading
It's been five years since Jodie Whittaker was cast as the first female Doctor on "Doctor Who," and now her stint as the titular Time Lord is at an end. "The Power of the Doctor" is the last of three TV specials in 2022 to wrap up Whittaker's tenure as the Thirteenth Doctor. The … | Continue reading
If you haven't seen "Werewolf By Night," there are major spoilers for the special ahead! Marvel's "Werewolf By Night" is exciting for a multitude of reasons. It's a fun directorial debut from an expert film composer Michael Giacchino, adopting the aesthetics and paying tribute to … | Continue reading
It's pretty obvious that "Werewolf By Night" is a unique entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, especially in its visuals. Its homage to classic 1930s creature features is obvious even through still shots, even if the shine of digital cameras doesn't make it look like an exact r … | Continue reading
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" has become a multi-million dollar franchise, but the low-budget set of the original film was a total horror show. Some parts of the set were just as gory in real life as they were on screen. Cutting financial corners led the art department to make s … | Continue reading
If one knows anything about filmmaker Kevin Smith, it's that he loves "Star Wars." Also superhero comics. He is an old-school Gen-X pop culture nerd. If the Death Star conversation in his 1994 film "Clerks" wasn't enough evidence, the constant Marvel Comics references in his 1995 … | Continue reading
Ahead of the streaming release of "V/H/S/99" this month, Shudder has announced the next installment of the franchise with "V/H/S/85." "Sinister" and "The Black Phone" director Scott Derrickson and "Hellraiser" and "The Night House" director David Bruckner will helm new segments i … | Continue reading
Anyone who has heard director Sam Raimi speak knows that shooting the 1981 low-budget horror movie "The Evil Dead" was a grueling experience. Raimi has gone on record repeatedly, describing the horrors of working in a remote cabin in freezing cold weather, trying to finish the mo … | Continue reading
In 2057, the sun will begin to fade out and die. Life on Earth is under threat of extinction. Humankind's solution is to gather what scant fissile materials that are remaining on the planet, construct a powerful nuclear bomb, and launch it into the sun in the hope of "restarting" … | Continue reading
"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" debuted a trailer for the season finale at New York City Comic Con today, and it teases the moment we've all been waiting for: namely, everyone seems to be saying the S-word. While the two-and-a-half-minute trailer is honestly mostly co … | Continue reading
"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word," George R.R. Martin wrote in "A Game of Thrones." It's a quote that succinctly describes how many fans still feel about "Game of Thrones" three years after its disastrous final season. The anger remains clo … | Continue reading
Martin Scorsese had just quit seminary for cinema when he caught wind of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom." The 1960 film about a serial killer obsessed with capturing the dying moments of his female victims had provoked a furor in the filmmaker's native England. Critics responded w … | Continue reading
The idea of "true names" has existed for thousands of years. Ancient cultures, religious traditions, and folktales all make mention of a "true name," a signifier for a person or deity's deepest self that must be guarded closely, lest its power dissipate. Speak your true name only … | Continue reading
"The Office" has only grown in popularity over time. After its ninth and final season wrapped in 2013, the show has found a new life on streaming, and captured millions of new fans. Seven years after it finished, it was the single most streamed show of 2020, which is pretty stagg … | Continue reading
The impact of "Star Wars" on popular culture and Hollywood filmmaking cannot be overstated. Many directors have commented on how George Lucas' 1977 film personally influenced their lives and careers. For Ridley Scott, however, experiencing "Star Wars" would not only change his ow … | Continue reading
The role of British secret agent James Bond has a storied history. Every actor that plays him joins a long line of legends and disappointments, and the pressure is on the performer to meet the standards of the role. There have been many different flavors of Bond, from Roger Moore … | Continue reading
This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law." The fact that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has a romance problem has long been documented. Across its twenty-some movies and many television series, this franchise has barely crafted a handful of … | Continue reading
It's important to remember that animation is not a genre, but rather a medium. It's a medium that can take on so many different forms, from hand-drawn 2D and computer-animated 3D to stop-motion puppeteering. Nowadays, you can even splice together several still frames of paintings … | Continue reading
As the longest running live-action comedy series in American television history, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has been pushing the boundaries of taste, depravity, and hilarity for 15 seasons. If you're somehow still unfamiliar with its debauched genius, it follows a group … | Continue reading
Throughout history, societies have told each other stories through song. Often, those ditties were the only way these stories could be passed down and remembered. There were drinking songs, sea shanties, songs to pass the time, songs to walk by, and songs to lift the heart. There … | Continue reading