she's gotta be more interesting than the slut I'm looking at right now." Truly a marriage made in TV heaven. This sex-and-money blockbuster chronicled the spectacularly evil Ewings and their Texas oil empire, led by Larry Hagman's J.R.Dallasinvented the prime-time soap tropes for family...
TheScreammovies started out as the 1990s’ answer to traditional horror films. With its mix of comedic and self-ironic nods to classic horror tropes, to its spectacular kills and the iconic Ghostface mask, the Scream franchise solidified itself as an enduring addition to horror capable of reinve...
AsianMoviePulse Why You Should Watch Spy x Family The spring anime season has arrived, bringing with it a new crop of series. Good thing too, because we have two major voids to fill with no new episodes ofDemon SlayerorAttack on Titanfor at least another year. The current slate of shows...
There are well-known tropes in horror — the final girl, the jump scares and perhaps the most distressing one of all: the way our leads tiptoe into dark and spooky places when they should know better. But the tropes don’t necessarily detract from the story; these breadcrumbs allow us to...
Kathy Bates’ Matlock not only re-imagined the concept behind the original show but turned the usual legal procedural tropes on their head.Using the case-of-the-week format — and Madeline’s sneakiness as she makes progress toward her revenge — Matlock Season 1 addressed issues such as the...
This is the version of the four turtles with names taken from Italian masters that introduced a lot of what we think of as being tropes of the world. If not for the cartoon, they wouldn’t even be into pizza. Imagine that! 25 of 26 “Beavis and Butt-head” MTV OK, so you ...
Of all the anti-TV tropes Nussbaum might have chosen to smugly flip in 2019, Kosinski’s prediction of a catch-phrase spitting manchild celebrity whose TV-roasted brain carries him to the White House is an odd choice. The title is only the first stumble in Nussbaum’s victory lap. I ...
Netflixis aiming to grow its production of anime content by signing four deals with creators in Japan and Korea. The producers are Japan’sNaz,Science Saru,Mappa, and Korea’sStudio Mir, and take the streamer’s total content deals in the two territories to nine. Each deal is a non-exclu...
Blood is the Ultimate Remedy in Exclusive Clip from Roxy Shih’s Painkillers Established vampire tropes are completely upended in Painkillers, a story that mixes literal bloodlust with psychological horror and a gut-churning exploration of guilt and grief. Painkillers is the latest from Taiwanese-...