Image: Netflix When the original Knives Out released in 2019, it received such a strong, mostly positive reaction that it wasn’t a surprise when a follow up was eventually announced. Glass Onion, which recently began its one-week theatrical run before it goes to Netflix on December 23is the first of two Knives Out sequels that …
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WALL-EImage: Courtesy of Disney/Pixar Practically from the moment of its 2008 release, Pixar’s WALL-E was hailed as a classic. Pleasing a wide swath of moviegoers and raising the already high bar set by previous Pixar releases like Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles, WALL-E earned six Academy Awards and won an Oscar …
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Image: Lucasfilm It doesn’t feel like that long ago that the idea of Diego Luna’s Rogue One character Cassian Andor getting a solo series felt strange. But over the past two months and change, Andor has proven itself to be a pretty great show. Not just “great for Star Wars,” but legitimately great in a …
Image: Studio MAPPA/Toho Animation Similar to what HBO Max did back in 2021, Netflix launched an ad-supported plan at the start of November. At a cheaper price, it’s the streamer’s way of bringing in more users to balance out its loss of subscribers from earlier in the year. That alone would be notable, given Netflix’s …
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Screenshot: Lucasfilm So much has happened to them Star Wars franchise in the last 14 years that it can be difficult to remember that the new canon actually began with Dave Filoni’s Clone Wars cartoon. It was retroactively added into Disney’s new Star Wars stories by virtue of being a pretty good show helmed by …
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Photo: Max Fleury Being a multi-hyphenate performer is something Nina West knows well. Winning Miss Congeniality on Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 11, partnering with Dolly Parton on a kindness campaign, making music for kids, acting opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, becoming the LGBTQ face of Disney’s Pride campaign and releasing …
Every few years someone will try to tell me that the 1968 movie Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen and renowned for its chase sequence, is good. “Have you seen the car chase?” they will say, and that is usually the only thing, because Bullittas a movie, is trash. We bring this up once again in these …
Photo: Ralph Liebhold (Shutterstock) If you’ve been holding out for a cheaper price on a major streaming service, now is a good time. Most major streaming platforms have Black Friday deals on offer, from several months at a reduced rate to discounts on annual subscriptions. Hulu is cheaper for a year New and returning Hulu …
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Andor (Diego Luna) looks towards his future. Image: Lucasfilm As the final credits rolled on what has been some of the best Star Wars or all the timeyou almost didn’t want to see Andor do anything that might be considered derivative of modern blockbuster entertainment. No big cameos, no huge surprises, just good old-fashioned storytelling. …
Ice CubePhoto: Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images for BIG3 Ice Cube would like you to know that he’s still very angry about the COVID vaccine (that nobody actually required him to get)venting on a recent podcast interview that his refusal to get “the jab”—that is, a vaccine show to prevent infection from a virus that killed millions …
