To many people the golden age of television has come and gone multiple times. For NBC the golden age was the nineties, and the must-see event was their Thursday night block. Starting back in the eighties NBC prepared a comedy lineup every Thursday to draw in a youth market. Shows included “Cheers,” “Fame,” and “Taxi.”
Bad movies are their own genre. A film can be bad because the principle talent is amateurish, or because it tries to please everyone and so pleases no one. It can be racist, sexist, or just plain lazy with its humor.
While I don’t generally make it to the theater that often I try my darndest, and this year was no exception. A lot of great films came out in 2015, and there’s a lot I still have to see (Oscar bait especially). In no particular order here are ten of my favorite films released this year.
essica and Kilgrave’s relationship started when he decided to manipulate her via mind control (after seeing her powers in action). No time during the relationship does Jessica give consent, which is a major aspect of abuse in the real world. Not only does this show give a voice to survivors of these relationships, but reveals the true danger of a abuser's charisma.
Rambo is an enigmatic and interesting character whose origins are as much a part of his mythology as the bloodbath that he instigates in most of the Rambo films. Of course, what happens when the original actually has nothing to do with the rest of the films?
One of the best bits of news from the empowering ceremony was that each honoree had a short film about them at the ceremony, and every single one of them had been directed by a woman.
I plowed through all five installments and then tried to go to sleep, which proved to be very difficult, which I realized was the intent of the special. I hadn’t heard of many of these films which fueled my penchant for being a know it all.
Why wait until October to get into the Halloween spirit? There are tons of shows on Netflix and other platforms that you can watch all year long to get seriously spooked. Some of the best television shows have been creepy, scary, or downright disturbing. Here is a list of shows to get you in the Halloween spirit, or maybe just to binge watch at your leisure.
hat said, I do not like being scared. I will not watch anything to do with torture porn, like “Hostel” or a version of “Saw” that isn’t edited for TV. Gore is good, but not when it’s realistic, and torture is good, but not when I get to see the results.
From the original inception of this franchise there has so-far been five films, the most recent of which, “Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation,” has only just appeared in theatres. Since the release of the fourth film many have heralded it as the beginning of an era of change in the franchise, and that these films are good again.
During my childhood The Muppets were still everywhere. The TV show “Muppet Babies” ran from 1984-1991, and reruns played on Nickelodeon every day. Three Muppet movies were made in the nineties, the last of which, “Muppets from Space,” was a box office bust and led to a long drought for the franchise.
Black-ish” has gotten most of the attention from critics and audiences alike because it has had a full season, and is headed by the well-known actor Anthony Anderson. The praise has been great enough that Anderson has even been nominated for an Emmy for his performance,
Hulu has decided to dole these episodes out one at a time, instead of in complete binge watching glory, like its competitor Netflix. Of the four episodes that have already aired, there have been some choice moments. Julie’s mother, played by the amazing Andrea Martin, steals the show on more than one occasion.
Wain's great triumph, and his first directorial film, was “Wet Hot American Summer,” a parody of summer camp movies like “Meatballs,” and “Indian Summer.” What Wain understood was that to have a true homage you have to respect and understand the source material.
What’s missing from this sub-genre, are more films geared towards women. Raunchy, subversive, and absurdist are all monikers not often attached to films about girls becoming women.
After feverishly bingeing to finish the third season of Jenji Kohan's critically acclaimed "Orange is the New Black," there are a lot of new questions to be answered. From last season we weren’t sure whether Vee was dead, if Alex would be back at Litchfield this season, or if Rosa got away scot free.
Inspiration to become a writer usually comes from within, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come from the world around us as well. Maybe you were a library kid, or you always wanted to be a playwright.
Like a lot of people I usually find independent films that I want to see by going to Hulu trailers and watching to my heart’s content. There are several films that I have been eyeing, and though you never know how good a film is just from its trailer, these films are looking mighty interesting:
It’s a known fact that film festivals aren’t as inclusive to women as they are to men. Cannes especially has faced criticism in the past for not including more female film directors, whose stories are often mitigated to only the indie sphere, where they are completely dependent on festival buzz
