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It's a vampire flick that spends a hour basically hiding and obscuring that fact. Eventually, it gets to a place where the supernatural phenom…

Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet (1993) was a touchstone in queer cinema. It was a critically acclaimed gay romantic comedy with an Asian leading…

If you have Apple's iPhone or any Apple device since 2011, then you might be familiar with a wi-fi and Bluetooth service known as AirDrop, whi…

Michael Angarano is an Emmy-nominated actor for his role in This Is Us (2016). Angarano is in his mid to late 30's but he started acting as a …

Robert Littell is an author, comparable to John le Carré or Ian Fleming. He writes spy novels or espionage thrillers. He perhaps isn't as succ…

It was strange, but it's not a spoiler to say this film is based on a true story or based on the memories of the writer and co-director of thi…

Minecraft (2011) is the best-selling video game of all time. It has sold more than Super Mario Bros. (1985) and Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). Rec…

Every season, a group of people arrive at a fancy resort overseas. The first season took place in Hawaii. The second season took place in Ital…

The first season premiered in 2022. It centered on a young handsome man who is pulled into international espionage and government conspiracies…

This is a horror comedy and when it comes to horror comedies, the gold standard is Ghostbusters (1984) with its nearly perfect balance of humo…

This film is about three generations of men. The subjects are a young man in his mid 30's, his father who is in his 60's and the young man's g…

Gerard Butler has done a string of muscular genre films, basically filling the gap that Liam Neeson left. Around the late 2000's, early 2010's…

This film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in January where it won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award and was a nominee for the …

Despite being a spy movie, one of the film's that came to mind was Knives Out (2019), which was obviously inspired by Agatha Christie's storie…

Jhett Tolentino is a Filipino theater producer. He's the second Filipino to win the Tony Award. He won for Best Play, Best Revival of a Play a…

Over the past few years, a term that has been thrown out in the media a lot is "cult of personality," which has been described as a kind of ce…

Much in the way that comic books or comic-book films do, this feature creates an alternative history. It rewrites the second half of the 20th …

The Looney Tunes began as theatrical short films in 1930. They each focused on various anthropomorphized animals and even some human character…

This series pulled off an amazing trick when it first premiered on YouTube back in 2018. A series like Stranger Things (2016) had already been…

I'm not exactly sure what it says about this show that its star is the least interesting thing about the show. There are a lot of spy shows or…

In 2012, a serious accident involving saturation diving caused a man to be trapped at the bottom of the North Sea. Alex Parkinson co-directed …

Black History Month 2025 is over, but, at the end of that month, a bit of Black history was made on television. CBS premiered the first daytim…

Emmy-winner and Oscar-nominee, Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us and The People v. O. J. Simpson) stars as Xavier Collins, a Secret Service agent …

It's interesting to learn that Norman Lear is an executive producer on this series. Lear is the creator of such iconic shows, such as All in t…

The 1990's was a very good time for Black sitcoms. It was a good time for multi-camera TV shows in general, but African Americans leading sitc…

Ahmir K. Thompson aka "Questlove" is the Grammy-winning musician who is best known as being the drummer for the rap group, The Roots. He won t…

Josh Ruben is the director here. Ruben has mainly done television. He seems to have found his niche though. His last two features were horror …

This is the 35th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or MCU. At this point, if you haven't seen Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), …

Tracy Oliver is a Hollywood writer who has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to write a film that grossed over $100 mi…

Harlan Coben is an author from New Jersey who has been publishing books since the 90's. He has dozens of books under his name, but only one of…

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, this film depicts the demolition of Masafer Yatta, which is a collection of…

Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 95th Academy Awards. His role in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) was his f…

The 1990's was the height of mainstream Black cinema. So many films, including comedies, were produced. One of the most successful was Friday …

The reference to the Sylvester Stallone film Rocky (1976) is obvious. The opening literally takes place in the same city where we see the prot…

The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced. The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

As is the case, I posted the full list of my favorite films of the year on my personal blog. Here, I distilled that list down to these selecti…

On my personal blog, I made a list of almost 20 programs, either series or TV movies that I absolutely loved this past calendar. Boiling them …

As usual, my personal blog has a collection of 25 albums and 16 individual tracks that constitute all of my favorites in various categories. F…

Adrien Brody (The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Pianist) stars as László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor and Jewish immigrant who arrives in the Uni…

Colson Whitehead is a highly acclaimed, African American author. His novel The Underground Railroad (2016) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.…

Released on Christmas 2024, it marked 25 years since the debut of this stop-motion franchise, created by 66-year-old, English animator, Nick P…

This is an adaptation of the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs. To appreciate it fully, one has to know Burroughs' writing, as well as majo…

There are several interesting things happening here. Provincetown is considered a gay mecca, much like Fire Island, but it's most active durin…

The National Board of Review named this film as Best Documentary. It won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festiv…

Almost a decade ago, a documentary from Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper called T-Rex (2016) was released and it was one of my favorite films …

This film is about sex, specifically female sexuality, so if you have a problem with that, be forewarned. Arguably, the depiction of the sex h…

If you're going to see this film, most likely you've seen the previous two, either one or both. If so, odds are you like the franchise and wan…