Blue Bayou could not have arrived at a more prescient time. When it was filmed and edited in 2019, it was before George Floyd and Elijah McClain forced police injustice to the forefront of the American consciousness. Prison reform was only...
When a Coen Brother makes a film – solo or otherwise – you take notice. When he casts Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in the lead roles, you become invested. And when the film is an adaptation of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous...
It’s been a while since I last made an Oscar prediction update for the 94th Primetime Emmy Awards. It’s been kind of challenging – not only have I been relatively busy with my day job, but with films and studios shifting everything around due to...
Well, the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards have come to a close. And overall, it was a night that gave us mostly what we expected – obvious winners, a couple big surprises, and a laidback atmosphere that showed us both the best and worst that award...
Well, folks, it’s that time of year again! The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Who will emerge victorious in one of the strangest, best years of television we’ve seen in a long time? I mean, seriously. Even if we have a strong inkling...
Well, this year’s Toronto International Film Festival has come to an end. It was something of a quiet affair. There were very few new titles, and most of the titles they did have were almost impossible to see – it’s been almost roundly criticized...
This Sunday, the Television Academy will hold the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. At this point, certain categories feel inevitable – Ted Lasso and The Crown are coming, y’all. But between categories consisting of almost exclusively new nominees and...
It’s always baffled me that so many television preachers are capable of swindling folks – usually the elderly – into giving up their last pennies under the implication of “buying their way into Heaven” while they themselves get richer. It’s...
Having now completed my work ranking every Pixar film, it only seems right that I turn my attention to the Mouse House itself. That’s right, Disney. Now, I’ve had a bit of a rough-and-tumble history with Disney – I still do. Part of it was being...
I feel like I’ve been writing way too many obituaries recently. And it’s not getting any easier, as Norm Macdonald, a man I consider to be one of my greatest comedic influences and one of the greatest comics to ever live, has passed away at the...
It’s rather astonishing that more movie musicals aren’t set in high schools. After all, Grease is one of the highest grossing musicals of all time, and the hormone and emotion-ridden time in an adolescent’s life marks the perfect place for...
Horror based on depression has become a dime a dozen in recent years. While it’s always been a recurring theme in the genre (horror is designed to help us cathartically release the terrors we can’t explain), it seems that in recent years these...
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