I know we say this every time the box office gets a little juice, but I'm gonna say it anyway: we are so back, baby! 2026 has seen some of the biggest wins (and flops) at the box office, signaling that if the movie is right, people will come. We're only halfway through the year and have already
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
The Apothecary Diaries gives our lovably incompetent quack doctor some character development in Ep. 54 "The Paper Village". We even get to meet his family, who seem a lot less incompetent than he is, but are all more or less just as lovable. Mostly. Alas, even his family has a black sheep in it,
