As far as major action movie franchises go, the John Wick series has had a pretty ruff (sorry) track record when it comes to the topic of dog murder. Some of us are still a little bit traumatized from…

A phenomenon of the 1940s, the superhero formerly known as Captain Marvel embodies a simpler era of comics, the sock‘’em Golden Age of godlike costumed do-gooders. But then, what superhero-addled kid…

Ah, the rock ‘n’ roll biopic: Always walking that fine line between Hollywood respectability, and giving the people the musical debauchery and gritty reality they presumably actually bought their…

This week’s question is pegged to the upcoming Deadwood movie:

Bran, Rickon, Hodor, and Osha meet the Reeds

[This article discusses plot details from Terminator Genisys, in case avoiding plot spoilers for Terminator Genisys was a big part of your life.]

Wanda is the sole epigraph of a brilliant writer and an uncommonly empathetic director. Until recently, it was almost impossible to find.

Picking up the mantle once championed by the (sadly fictional) Max Fisher Players, a high school drama club in Bergen, New Jersey recently put on what looks to be an absolutely amazing staged…

The greatest sushi I’ve ever had came from an unnamed restaurant here in Chicago. It was a neighborhood spot, at the edge of a hot neighborhood, but at the time it was still off-the-radar. A friend…

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Like many parents, I practically raised my children on chicken nuggets. Babysitter coming over, mom and dad rushing out? Throw a few nugs in the microwave, along with similarly heated-up corn. Quick…

Every now and then, our cultural zeitgeist coughs up a new public Rorschach test, the sort of big, emotionally charged issue that almost everyone can have an opinion on, and almost everyone can get…

Ever since classy, high-end movie streaming service FilmStruck was shuttered late last year, Warner Bros. has been promising some kind of replacement to fill that “where to watch our HD Bergman…

Jon Favreau’s upcoming Star Wars TV Western The Mandalorian keeps making the kind of behind-the-scenes decisions that intrigue us despite ourselves—which is sort of just a fancy way of saying he keeps…

This week, Sony Pictures Television announced that fictional homebrewer Hank Schrader’s dreams will soon be reality. In the second season of AMC’s cultural juggernaut Breaking Bad, Agent Schrader of…

We were already suitably disturbed by the brightly sinister trailer for Midsommar, the second big horror release from Hereditary writer-director Ari Aster. But now you can color us officially…

In what we can only assume is some kind of supervillain-ass effort to flood the entire planet in the tears of struggling, broken musicians, we’re procedurally mandated to report today that an…

In a turn oddly fitting for a movie all about deception and controversy, a weird wrinkle has recently cropped up in the backstory of last year’s true-crime delight Can You Ever Forgive Me?. A few…

Despite the massive box office returns of recent Marvel movies and Star Wars installments, James Cameron’s Avatar remains the highest grossing film of all time by a significant margin. Released in…

It sounds dirty, but we swear it’s not. A GoFundMe campaign seeking to change the name of Dripping Springs, TX, a tiny Hays County hamlet west of Austin, to Pound Town. Yes, we’re aware that’s what…

Every once in a while we run into casting news that is so perplexing, it’s actually quite brilliant.

No longer will the Winchester brothers save people or hunt things, for CW’s insanely long-running Supernatural will come to an end following its 15th season, which is set to air next year.

Matt Murdock tends to have awful luck, but things have been especially rough for him in the past couple years. His archenemy, Wilson Fisk, became the mayor of New York City, and he nearly died after…