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The 4 Women Who’ve Been Allowed to Solo Direct a Live-Action Film With a Budget of At Least $100 Million

March 25, 2017 // 3 Comments

New Zealand-born Niki Caro, whose new movie The Zookeeper’s Wife opens next weekend, was recently announced as the director of Disney’s forthcoming live-action [...]

Decided to Skip Iron Fist? Here’s the Stuff You Need to Know for The Defenders

March 21, 2017 // 15 Comments

In the pantheon of superhero shows I’ve watched, Iron Fist is…well, it’s definitely the most recent. High praise, right? To be fair, Iron Fist isn’t terrible, or at [...]

These 7 Influential Directors Owe Their Careers to the National Endowment for the Arts

March 17, 2017 // 2 Comments

Like clockwork, whenever Republicans control the White House or Congress or both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which is responsible for PBS and NPR), National [...]

7 Things You Can Do to Amuse Yourself While Watching Kong: Skull Island

March 11, 2017 // 5 Comments

Kong: Skull Island is a monster movie that plays out exactly as expected. Stupid humans go somewhere they shouldn’t and die. Big CGI creatures fight other CGI creatures. [...]

16 Things I Learned About Buffy the Vampire Slayer This Week

March 10, 2017 // 2 Comments

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a series now so revered and academically analyzed you can literally get a [...]

Private Parts Turns 20 Today. Here Are 10 New-to-Me Facts About the Making of the Movie.

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

If you are too young to remember the 90s you might only know Howard Stern as that one America’s Got Talent judge who made kids cry or as Donald Trump’s buddy who [...]

Seinfeld’s Advice, a Nixed Flashback & Confusion Over the Title: 8 Facts About the Making of Logan

March 5, 2017 // 1 Comment

You’ve seen Logan (if not, consider this your spoiler warning). You want to know more about how it was made. So did I (my review). Here are 8 things I dug up: 1. [...]

Michael Jackson, Lying Tom Cruise & Rachael Leigh Cook: 6 New-to-Me Facts About the First X-Men Movie

March 3, 2017 // 2 Comments

Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine on screen almost longer than new Spider-Man actor Tom Holland has been alive (the difference between Jackman’s Wolverine tenure and [...]

Review: 7 Questions You Might Have About The Great Wall

February 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

For around half of its running time, The Great Wall plays like a more colorful version of The Battle of Helm’s Deep from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, but then it [...]

Box Office: When a Movie Makes More In China Than In The US Do We Even Notice Anymore?

February 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

OMG, you guys, xXx: Return of Xander Cage just opened to a massive $61.9 million in China, which is the biggest opening for a Hollywood movie in China this year as well as a [...]