5 Ways Terrace House is Giving Reality TV a Reality Check
Netflix’s fly-on-the-wall Japanese reality show is a heartwarming, intimate alternative to cutthroat reality competitions.
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Serenity and the Strangeness of Post-Oscar Acting Careers
In the wake of Serenity’s balls-out weirdness, we look at how it fits into the oeuvre of “oddball post-Oscar films” for McConaughey and Hathaway.
Of Two Minds: Dissociating Ourselves from “Raising Cain”
With Glass coming out, we plumb through our collective psyches to discuss Brian De Palma’s split-personality thriller Raising Cain.
Logging Onto Spike Jonze’s Quietly Beautiful Her for Its Fifth Anniversary
We look back at Spike Jonze’s Her on its fifth birthday.
How Creed II Evolves the Rocky Mythos (and Stallone’s Screenwriting)
Creed II is a cracking successor to Coogler’s previous film and the Rocky series as a whole, due greatly to Stallone returning as screenwriter after […]
Scrooged at 30: How Bill Murray Turned A Christmas Carol On Its Head
Three decades later, Bill Murray’s dark turn on Ebenezer Scrooge remains as adored by its fans as it was a nightmare to make. In December […]
Stan Lee Was the Icon We Needed Him to Be
Upon his passing at age 95, it’s worth reflecting on Stan Lee’s complicated legacy as comic book geekdom’s most visible brand ambassador. The Stan Lee […]
10 Movie Witches to Hex Your Halloween
Halloween season is here, which means it’s the season of the witch. The witch has long been a part of our collective unconscious, mostly in […]
How the Matrix Sequels Expanded the Wachowskis’ Universe By Humanizing its Villains
The Wachowskis’ seminal sci-fi trilogy hits 4K today ahead of the first Matrix’s 20th anniversary. In honor of that, we take a look back at […]
10 Horror Movies For People Who Don’t Like Horror
Let me rephrase that right from the beginning. This list really should be “10 Horror Movies for People Who Normally Aren’t Into Horror Movies, But […]