Its later seasons devolved into slapstick-y fashion porn, the movies were abysmal and the recent revival not much better, so it’s easy to forget that when it first premiered, Sex and the City was every bit as revolutionary as The Sopranos. Women had never spoken so frankly about sex and...
before moving into some podcast recommendations (Something was Wrong, Unspooled, And the Runner Up Is), Little Mermaid LIVE, Ghost World, Don’t Trust the B, Anne Hathaway in “Modern Love” and perhaps our most controversial conversation ever: Nick listens to Sweeney Todd for the first time...
The TV. The box. The telly. The small screen. The television set (if you want to be formal). Call it what you want, we’re living in its golden age. Distant is the memory of a time where all you had was a fistful of channels on your nan’s terrestrial static magnet; now, you...
s going to be very hard to believe she was a willing participant and impossible to believe you are not a classless coward of the first order). A conviction was almost a foregone conclusion. But it was not the verdict that has created the outcry here. It was the sentencing and the ...
I liked the cold equations. That was a game that felt new, even though it was using old material, going right back to Alien. (But here’s a trick: in Alien, Ripley was the one who refused to open the door. In this film, Rain was desperate to open it. What the significance!) I...
t break down or anything, they all put it in park and just sat there waiting for the sun to return. School buses full of children on their way home stopped. The kids slept overnight on the buses parked on the highways. Businesses everywhere just closed up until the white stuff was all...
It wasn’t until TNT and TBS began regularly airing A Christmas Story during the holiday season that the film’s popularity really took off. The film was based on Jean Shepherd’s novel In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, which was inspired by his life. Shepherd even has a role in...
Is The Last of Us worth watching? Liane Hentscher/HBO The Last of Usis one of the best shows of 2023. From its worldbuilding to its character development, the show is a master class in storytelling. It’s hard to believe that this show was based on a video game. Even non-zombie lov...
This science-fiction Western series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy was inspired by Michael Crichton's Westworld (1973) and is set at a Wild-West theme park created by Dr. Robert Ford (Sir Anthony Hopkins) with human-like androids, where guests are encouraged to indulge their fantasies and...