Hollywood has perfected the horror movie formula: a low-budget, a cast of up-and-coming actors, and a scary but clever concept. Last year’s wildly successful Don’t Breathe — budgeted at just $9.9...
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David Kozlowski
Is TV Ready For Another Live-Action Video Game Series?
Live-action videogame adaptations are a Hollywood punchline, and yet the industry keeps trying, bless their hearts. Tomb Raider is the latest example, and Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage will soon take its shot —...
Is Ready Player One Spielberg’s Last Big-Budget Hurrah?
Steven Spielberg is a national treasure, he’s responsible for some of the most memorable, most successful, and most award-winning movies over the last 45 years. And he’s still near the top of his form, as...
Netflix Obtains The Entire Monty Python Comedy Catalog
"We are the knights who say, 'Ni!'"
Hollywood’s Secret Fascination With Spoilers
Spoilers are the third-rail of popular entertainment, and the media is increasingly willing to grab it in order to snag a few more clicks, regardless of the damage it poses to the very industry it relies upon...
Why Does Netflix Bury Their Original Programming?
Netflix has bought or developed dozens of original series and films over the last decade, and some of them are quite good. So why do they make it so frustrating to find them? I’m a Netflix fan. I love their...
Sicario Sequel Raises The Stakes And Escalates The Violence
Sony’s Sicario (2015) was a dark and powerful action-drama that posed serious questions about unchecked power and corruption in our never-ending drug war along the US-Mexican border. Seen through the eyes of FBI...
Traditional Sports Leagues Are Rapidly Losing Ground to Esports
Competitive videogame-based esports leagues are gaining on the more traditional American professional sports leagues, and it’s probably too late to reverse the trend. Millennials, that universally-coveted...
Indiana Jones 5 Begins Filming in 2019
Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark is an all-time classic — number 60 on AFI’s 100 greatest movies — but the most recent film in the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...
Final ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Trailer is an Emotional Rollercoaster
When’s the last time a movie trailer gave you the chills? I’m not talking about the ‘wow’ factor of visual effects or the shock value of violent death, plenty of trailers achieve this. I’m...
Is Netflix About To Jump Into News Programming Too?
What is Netflix’s next big move in the streaming wars? They’re already burning through cash to amass a library of original content, to stay one step ahead of Amazon, Hulu, YouTube TV/Red, and (soon) Disney...
FX’s ‘The Americans’ is the Best TV Show Nobody’s Watching
After six gut-wrenching seasons of Cold War spy drama, FX’s The Americans is reaching an earned conclusion. Shame that almost no one has seen it. Last season’s premiere episode fell to a 0.3 rating among the...
Is Hollywood’s Gun Culture Finally Shifting?
Remember when everybody smoked in the movies? Good guys, bad guys, teenagers, old people — everybody was doing it. Then something changed, and it was roughly when society shifted its attitude toward smoking...
Marvel’s Jessica Jones is Both Catalyst and Product of the #MeToo Movement
Marvel and Netflix’s Jessica Jones became a symbol of female empowerment two years before the #MeToo movement even began. The show’s second season, which arrives on Netflix today, further embraces this theme...
Avengers: Infinity War Will Break The Force Awakens’ Box Office Record
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War is expected to earn an estimated $235 million during its opening weekend, which is a new record for the studio, according to multiple reports. But that’s just the beginning of...
Netflix’s ‘Lost in Space’ Is Serious, Epic Sci-Fi TV
In a crazy twist of fate, the CBS television network passed on Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek back in 1965, choosing instead to develop a competing sci-fi series by mega-producer Irwin Allen (The Towering Inferno...
Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Sequel Starts Shooting This Summer
How do you feel about a Top Gun sequel starring a 55-year-old Tom Cruise? Well, according to a report by OmegaUnderground, we’re about to find out, because Top Gun: Maverick goes in front of cameras this July! The...
Tarantino’s Manson Movie Takes Shape, But Shifts Focus
A trio of gunmen stand watch at an isolated train station under a blistering Arizona sun. A locomotive chugs into the station and drops off a lone traveler; he plays a grating harmonica tune to announce his arrival. The...