!['Wishful Thinking' - A Sci-Fi Romance That Redefines the Modern Rom-Com [SXSW Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Wishful-Thinking-660x372.webp "Wishful Thinking")
In Wishful Thinking, love isn’t just complicated, it’s cosmically unstable. Charlie (Lewis Pullman), a struggling musician, and Julia (Maya Hawke), an ambitious video game designer, are stuck in that uniquely frustrating relationship purgatory: they can’t make it work, but they can’t seem
Depending on your level of investment, Stranger Things 5 is either a welcome arrival, or a court-appointed pop culture event. The series that bills itself as a “cultural phenomenon” has started to conclude through a multi-tiered release of its final season. With the final 9 episodes kicking off
When watching the trailer for Netflix's new teen comedy, Do Revenge I thought, "Fun! Strangers on a Train for Teens." Then, I watched it and it is so much more! Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Mia Hawke (Stranger Things) star in the revenge comedy and carry the film effortlessly together. It's been a
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
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
