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Writer-director Sean Baker won the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. His previous film Red Rocket (2021) was nominated for the Palm…

In my review for the hit, Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024), I said it was a spiritual prequel to The People v.…

Natasha Rothwell got her big break as a writer for Saturday Night Live back in 2014. She likely got more people's attention on-screen for her …

It's probably not coincidental that this film was released right before the 2024 Presidential election in the United States. It's based on Bri…

One could classify this film as a kind of psychological horror, one that's built more on a metaphor than any kind of plot. It's more about try…

In the history of television, there will be certain names that will be put into the record books for incredible achievements. Ryan Murphy will…

On October 26, 1970, less than a week before Halloween, 54 years ago, Muhammad Ali had a boxing match against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia…

Titus Kaphar is an African American painter from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He got his Master's degree from Yale University. In 2018, he won the Mac…

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States. He was elected in 2016 as the Republican candidate. He's from Queens, New York City. …

In a lot of ways, this show is a spiritual prequel to The People v. O. J. Simpson (2016), the hit, Emmy-winning series about a Los Angeles mur…

Nicole Kidman has been a movie star since the 90's, but she's been doing a lot of television lately. Her most successful was HBO's Big Little …

The Emmy-winning sketch comedy series known as Saturday Night Live aired its first episode on October 11, 1975. This year marks the 50th seaso…

This film has an interesting premise. A teenage girl gets a visit from her older self from 20 years in the future. That older self gives the y…

This is an adaptation of a 2016 children's book by Peter Brown. It was written and directed by Chris Sanders and if you're familiar with Sande…

Director and co-writer Jussie Smollett has his sophomore feature focusing on a married man named Jason Holliday, played by Smollett himself. J…

Francis Ford Coppola is an iconic film director. He won five, Academy Awards. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival twice. Cannes …

There have been six feature films in the franchise that started with James Cameron's The Terminator (1984). The franchise also spawned a live-…

A comedy series about educators in public schools can't come along now and not draw comparisons to Abbott Elementary (2021), the hit ABC serie…

Most of the films, live-action or animated, in this franchise have focused on the so-called "robots in disguise" already living on Earth. This…

Demi Moore has done a lot of thrillers. Some have been scary. Early in her career, she did horror films like a lot of actors, but, over the co…

If you're familiar with writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, a filmmaker from the DMV area, this film will also feel familiar. His breakout work w…

Girls For A Change is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower girls and young women and encourage them into social justice projects. Ca…

Tim Burton started working in Hollywood as an animator for the Walt Disney Company. However, his first feature was Pee-wee's Big Adventure (19…

This is the fourth film from Spanish filmmaker, Pablo Berger. His three previous features were noticeably aimed at adults. This one is his fir…

If you've seen The Exorcist (1973), The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982) or even the more recent The Conjuring (2013), there is no…

Ever since the release of Die Hard (1988), which was a hit the year it came out, ever since then, there have been numerous films that have tak…

So many films have been meta toward Hollywood. Either they've been about filmmaking or they've been about entertainers, either actors, musicia…

What was interesting is that this film begins as one thing and diverts into another. It does so rather seamlessly. It has a strong protagonist…

The first billion-dollar film of the year was Inside Out 2 (2024). This film, written and directed by Sean Wang, is basically a live-action ve…

This film is about same-sex marriage in church. In the United States and a lot of countries, same-sex marriage is currently legal. There are s…

I haven't watched that many films about golf. From comedies like Caddyshack (1980) and Happy Gilmore (1996) to dramas like Bobby Jones: Stroke…

Thanks to Lily Gladstone getting nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), the door …

Eddie Murphy is the latest movie star from the 80's and 90's to revisit a popular character from his prime. He did so first with Coming 2 Amer…

Given that Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) is blowing up the box office and is set to be the biggest film of the year, it's a good idea to exp…

Hugh Jackman first starred as the character of Wolverine in X-Men (2000). It was produced by 20th Century Fox. It kicked off a franchise that …

Dave Bautista was a wrestler, a WWE champion and mixed martial artist from the 90's to the early 2000's. Bautista started appearing in Hollywo…

This is Tyler Perry's 25th feature as director. He wrote the screenplay, which is his 26th where he has produced and directed himself. The onl…

This film is being described as a sequel, but there isn't much narrative connection to the 1996 blockbuster. It's instead a remake or reboot. …

A film about a female swimmer was Oscar-nominated this past year. It was called Nyad (2023). In it, Annette Bening played a 60-year-old woman …

Most coming-of-age films center on young boys who are typically straight and who do typical straight things like play sports, fight with sibli…

At first, the film feels like it's about westward expansion and manifest destiny, but, because it's only the first episode in a planned four-p…

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 was launched on a mission to land on the Moon and then return to Earth. On July 20, the lunar module touched down …

Ever since Ava DuVernay's I Will Follow (2011), there has been a lack of films or stories about Black female musicians in genres outside R&…

10. DUNE: PART TWO by Denis Villeneuve - The previous 2021 film did incredibly well at the box office, given that it was released in the wake …

10. A MAN IN FULL (Netflix) - David E. Kelley created this series. I haven't seen every show Kelley has done, but I tend to be a fan of his wo…

10. STAMPEDE: VOL. 1 [EP] by Orville Peck - This is the EP that features half the songs that will appear on the full album, being released in …

June Squibb is an actress, currently 94 in age. She started acting 70 years ago, mostly doing theater. She started working in film 30 years ag…