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The Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500 years. HBO’s Rome couldn’t make it to its third season. Like Firefly and Deadwood, it’s part of...
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The Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500 years. HBO’s Rome couldn’t make it to its third season. Like Firefly and Deadwood, it’s part of...
Writer-director Colin Minahan, who specializes in horror-festival favorites like It Stains the Sand Red and What Keeps You Alive, described his 2025 movie Coyotes...
“There’s such a fine line between clever and stupid,” a wise man named Nigel Tufnel said many years ago in a movie called This...
Unlike Little Nell, I was never a regular Frankie fan. I’m not talking about the movies but the character himself, particularly as he appears...
Somewhere in the special features 60th anniversary release of The Sound of Music (you can also find it on across all physical and digital...
A friend once explained the video game The Last of Us to me as “Super Mario World, except the mushrooms bite you.” I...
In an hour and a half, the Wannsee Conference decided the fates of millions of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. HBO’s 2001 movie Conspiracy dramatizes...
Classic movie dialogue comee in two flavors: the ones people quote even if they’ve never seen the movie (“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”)...
The first time I watched Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass, I hated it. Hated it so bad that I went online looking for people to...
Shock value is to entertainment what Mike Tyson is to boxing: it’ll clobber you in the opening rounds, but hang in there and...
Dan Rather is weird. Well, he’s not just that but he is that. He’s the political commentator who used country-fried similes you never...
This is the story of a creature from another world—that is, from beyond the Disney Universe. Stitch was not born as a Disney character....
The 2002, cel-animated Lilo & Stitch was an unlikely hit at a time when unlikely was the only kind of hit Disney was likely...
The Simpsons’ “22 Short Films About Springfield” isn’t actually a parody of François Girard’s 1993 genre-crossing film about the life of Canadian pianist...
Hey, all you hep cats and bobby soxers, put on your dungarees and poodle skirts and let’s get down to the pizza joint for...
There is a word I never expected to associate with a narrative as sprawling as The Sandman, but it’s unavoidable: the second season feels...
Forty minutes into Jaws, we think we know why Martin Brody is getting drunk. He tried to shut down the beach and Mayor Vaughn...
People used to talk about Robert De Niro’s range. He could play everything from broad comedy (Meet the Parents) to quiet intensity (One...
There is a need for a documentary that pulls the curtain back on the rising tide of antisemitism in America and the infiltration...
They probably should have stopped with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. That would have been the right note for John Ford and John...
Once upon a time there was an animation studio that loved cartoons very, very much. So much that, in 1937, it made its very...
Back in the studio days, there was a contractual requirement that if your movie was shot in Technicolor, there had to be a Technicolor...
The future isn’t what it used to be. With Star Trek: Section 31, the franchise gets its first full-length movie since 2016’s Star...
There are two stories competing for our attention in the Netflix limited series Adolescence. One of these offers a warning; the other bears witness....