”It’s a Wonderful Life” is a holiday fixture now but that was not true at first. Movie fans did not always think the classic – No. 20 on the A…
One thing about pandemics: You figure you’re going to get some great albums out of it. Not because artists are writing about PCR tests and toi…
When the Wachowski siblings, Lana and Lilly, changed the film landscape (and popular culture) forever with 1999’s “The Matrix,” a philosophica…
While the Billboard Hot 100 is known to highlight current music and a shift in styles and acts over time, the Holiday 100 is where songs decad…
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has always had a lingering fascination with monsters, so it’s no surprise that he’d be drawn to the circus-set ps…
Casting Tom Holland as Peter Parker was one of the sharper decisions to emerge from the ever-present, oxygen-sucking Marvel Cinematic Universe…
Purists can relax, and put their smelling salts away. The vibrant new “West Side Story” hasn’t been updated, or relocated.
The Playboy Mansion is about to give up some of its secrets, four years after the death of Hugh Hefner, founder and editor in chief of Playboy…
My sister’s high school film students rebel when she tries to show black-and-white movies. But they’d better get used to it because multiplexe…
Halfway through “Belfast,” Sir Kenneth Branagh’s deeply personal cinematic memoir of growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Brana…
PHILADELPHIA – With the premiere of its 15th season Wednesday on FXX, “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” became the longest-running live acti…
Television will not be kept down. Given the ongoing emergency – not the destruction of American democracy, the other one – the medium produced…
But what to watch, an old-time favorite or a new-school entry in the Christmas canon? There are plenty of both available across the top stream…
Director Ridley Scott loves pretty things.
Gordon Parks was the first Black photographer hired by Life magazine. He was a pioneering photojournalist, a film director (“Shaft,” “The Lear…
Lin-Manuel Miranda concludes his domination of 2021 movie musicals with the droll, vibrant “Encanto.”
When we talk about Adele’s singing – when we’ve talked about it over the past decade as she became the biggest pop vocalist on the planet – we…
“King Richard” redirects tennis phenomenon of Venus and Serena Williams away from the sisters and toward their father, Richard. He is played b…
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is indeed haunted. But it’s not just the likes of Muncher and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man that need to be zapped i…
Of the nearly 150 performers who have graduated from “Saturday Night Live,” none has won an Academy Award. Cue the Debbie Downer music.
I went on a sightseeing trip to Big Bend National Park with my grandfather not too long ago. A native Texan, he told me he knew the place like…
After 2-year concert hiatus, ever-surprising Bob Dylan returns to embrace his 'Rough and Rowdy Ways'
MILWAUKEE – Bob Dylan always has had his own sense of time, and timing.
“Eternals” introduces a slew of Marvel Cinematic Universe firsts. First same-sex kiss. First tender love scene between two hetero superheroes …
”Dune” is about 155 minutes long. Approximately seven of those minutes – or 4.5% of the film – feature top-billed star Zendaya.
Nostalgia can offer history a brighter, more exciting and decidedly rose-colored sheen. This is the question filmmaker Edgar Wright, and co-wr…
In “Inside Job,” certain celebrities and politicians are revealed to be members of a race of shape-shifting lizard people that secretly live a…
Filmmaker Scott Cooper, known for his films of rugged masculinity, including “Out of the Furnace” and “Hostiles,” makes his first foray into t…
“While the events of this story are fictional … These. People. Existed.” So begins “The Harder They Fall,” with an intriguing setup and enough…
Wes Anderson is undeniably the king of kitschy quirk, an auteur of the highest order in the realm of highly mannered and fastidious filmmaking…
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