In the streaming era, maybe the surest sign of star power isn’t the ability to get people to show up at a movie theater just to see them, but the ability to get people to […]
Jesse Hassenger
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“My life is very strange. I don’t do anything normal.” So speaks Simon Templar, also known as the Saint, very late in the movie of the same name. By this point, there’s no real need […]
Shiva Baby, a movie about a floundering young woman who feels walls closing in on her while attends a shiva for a family friend, doesn’t sound like an influential, long-tail comedy that would help launch […]
When news of a new David Fincher/Brad Pitt movie surfaced on Tuesday, a lot of people reacted with the assumption that it was a joke. Yes, it was April Fool’s Day, a dubious holiday that […]
The movie event of 2025 so far for a certain type of dude just landed on Netflix: Not long after the original film ruled the streaming services charts, Den of Thieves: Pantera has come home. […]
When I was in college, I watched The Simpsons three times a day. My school was located at a nexus of affiliates, meaning that our free broadcast stations included two different local Fox stations, one […]