When The Strays begins, it focuses on an apartment building while Cheryl (Ashley Madekwe) is hysterically venting to her sister on the phone. She’s had it – if the slow pan of a pile of credit card bills on her living room table didn’t drive the point home. Cheryl has won Salesperson of the Year […]
February 27, 2023
The town of Rylstone, Nebraska, has seen much better days. Corn blight has destroyed the local crops so severely that most businesses are closing down. Restaurants are advertising selling day-old bread. Depending on whom you ask, things have gone south for a couple of reasons. For starters, Rylstone accepted an offer from a company to […]
February 27, 2023
Before Ben Affleck took the mantle of Batman’s cowl and Bruce Wayne throughout the DC iteration of the Snyderverse, he was The Man Without Fear, blind lawyer by day Matt Murdock in 2003’s Daredevil. It was a time when the character rights for Marvel characters were scattered amongst a lot of studios. Initially, Home Alone, […]
February 20, 2023
Let me quickly set the stage for you. WWE (then known as the WWF back in 2001) was riding high at the end of the Attitude era. The company had officially bought out their competition in WCW and ECW and then did an invasion angle which, well, happened. Stone Cold Steve Austin had briefly turned […]
February 17, 2023
Hollywood is undergoing a biopic revival as of late, and now the illustrious life of former heavyweight champion George Foreman. The title is indicative of the extensive life Foreman has lived – “Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World.” (got all that?) The trailer chronicles Foreman’s […]
February 1, 2023
Alice, Darling begins on a subtle note with the title character (played by Anna Kendrick) in a taxi heading out to a night with her two friends, Sophia (Wunmi Mosaku) and Tess (Kaniehtiio Horn). However, there’s something subtle that seems off about this. Alice is twirling her hair to the point of her finger getting […]
January 17, 2023
We are so far removed from the abundance of infomercials in a streaming world that it might be a foreign concept that people were calling into 1-900 numbers seeking guidance – but they did. Around midnight, psychics would implore viewers who were up to call in (the first three minutes were free) and get readings […]
December 15, 2022
The most earth-shattering news that rocked the wrestling world this year is, by far, Vince McMahon stepping down from his chairman and CEO posts at WWE in July. It was a significant consensus that McMahon would be on his deathbed before he ever turned over the reigns to somebody else. Ultimately, it was the sexual […]
December 14, 2022
Set for a return to in-person premieres for the first time since 2020, the Sundance Institute announced its full slate for the 2023 iteration of the festival taking place January 19-29, 2023, in Park City, Utah. There will still be a digital component to this year’s festival. However, only a portion of the films will […]
December 7, 2022