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There is too much streaming content these days. There, I said it. For all the handwringing about HBO Max canceling this movie or Netflix not giving that series a final season, the onrush of new entertainment still outpaces our ability to…

It’s a truth universally accepted that the Oscars doesn’t always (or even often) get it right. While there are some truly head-scratching victors among the ranks of Academy Award winners, it’s also true that Oscar often likes to play…

Star Trek content has long dominated Paramount+, but March shifts its focus towards a whole bunch of Academy Award nominees and winners ahead of the Oscars ceremony on March 12. Releases include 12 Years A Slave, Life of Pi, Sunset…

When it comes to books, my policy is generally to make a point to seek out the ones people try to ban; they’re almost always worthwhile, at least to understand why their ideas are being suppressed. That’s true with movies too, but the…

It’s a brand new year, and that means a ton of art and entertainment has gone from privately owned to the property of everyone and no one. In the United States, books, films, songs, and other works published in 1927 are free to be shared,…

The holidays are a time for big emotions. The weather’s extreme (in many places), there’s too much to do, and family gatherings offer up wild swings of intense feeling: joy, excitement, apprehension, annoyance, exhaustion. The movies (and…

Friends, this is the story of Cocaine Bear; a coke-lovin’ carnivore who ran wild circa 1985.Read more...

After years at the bottom of a contractual pond, the rights to the Friday the 13th horror franchise have landed in a truly fascinating new home: A24, producers of some of the weirder, artier, and more successful independent films of the…