579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
The Best Movies You May Have Missed in 2023, and Where to Stream Them
Gizmodo,
No one can see every movie that comes out in a year. Heck, no one can even see all the good movies that come out in a year. These days, even if it’s literally your job, so many movies come out from all across the world, and on so many different platforms, that even if you spent all day every day watching, you’d… Read more...
Year-end roundtable: What's next for television after a weird 2023?
AV Club,
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at some of the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
Russell T. Davies Teases One of Doctor Who's New Mysteries
Bendy and the Ink Machine is headed to the big screen. Pixar’s Jay Ward teases the future of Cars. Could the Quantum Leap revival actually give Ben his happy ending? Plus, get a look at the car-themed heroes of the next Super Sentai series. Spoilers now! Read more...
The biggest pop culture news stories of 2023
What a year, huh? It feels like we’ve been saying that since March (in the spirit of a 30 Rock meme) but, finally, the expression is earned. Every year is weird at this point; they have been since at least 2020, and you could make the case the weirdness started even earlier. Maybe life itself is weird. It probably is. Read more...
Starz was sneakily 2023's best cable network. Then it canceled Shining Vale
Goddamnit, Starz, you had it kind of good this year. With Power-house franchises, the return of a cult classic, Outlander’s latest season, and rescuing Minx, the premium cable network sneakily delivered an outstanding year of TV, even if it sadly canceled some of its notable gems. Another blow came recently with the… Read more...
Glen Powell clarifies that Twisters is simply a "standalone story" in the Twister cinematic universe
Look, we gotta be careful here. If anyone in this Newswire even tries to suggest that upcoming film Twisters is a reboot of Jan De Bont’s 1996 cow-displacement epic Twister—or, god help us, a continuation of same—we are absolutely going to hear about it from Glen Powell. He’s mid-press tour right now, too (promoting… Read more...
Barack Obama's list of the best movies of 2023 sure has a lot of Barack Obama movies on it
It’s a long-standing tradition for Barack Obama—who’s done a lot of work, over the years, to cultivate his image as “The President who might actually like a movie you like”—to release lists of his pop culture consumption. This year, though, Obama’s listing of his favorite films of the year was a bit different—in so… Read more...
Zack Snyder Discusses the Vast Universe of His Netflix Sci-Fi Epic, Rebel Moon
Zack Snyder knows what he’s doing. Whether it’s using his considerable popularity to his artistic benefit, or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So, of course, when it comes to his latest film, Rebel Moon, he more than anyone knows when he’s referencing the sci-fi… Read more...