Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is a throwback to the slasher era of horror films. The film would feel right at home late night on the SyFy channel -- and that's not a complaint, either. Building off the previous film, Blood and Honey 2 is just the right mix of self-aware schlock and genuinely
For nearly thirty years, Robert Smigel's Triumph the Insult Comic Dog has been ripping into people of all different walks of life. A veteran of Saturday Night Live, Smigel's foul-mouthed puppet persona has become one of the most enduring comedic characters of the 21st century. No one's safe from
In 1999, Farscape joined the sci-fi TV canon and set the seeds for decades of fans. Aired on Sci-Fi Channel years before it became SyFy, Farscape was an outlier among its peers. A free-flowing and chaotic series that was filled with impressive puppet creations and an anarchic tone, Farscape ran for
Arthur the King is the ultimate feel-good adventure movie. The Mark Wahlberg-led film highlights the deep bond that can form in the most unlikely of places. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones (The Family Plan, Jessica Jones), the film follows Michael Light (Wahlberg). Based on a true story, Light
Directed by Peter Farrelly, Ricky Stanicky is a big broad comedy from its opening moments. At first glance doesn't seem to be aiming for anything but belly laughs. Bolstered by a committed cast, the film delivers on this impulse throughout the first half. Initially, it doesn't appear to have any
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely