579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Founders Day review: Gruesome fun for slasher devotees
AV Club,
There are lots of ways to tell when you’re in good hands while watching a movie. It might be the casting, or the lighting, or the clever dialogue in the script. It might be the way the film plays with genre, or the way it catches you off guard with smart plotting. For horror fans, all of these things can be true, but… Read more...
The best and worst moments from the 29th Critics Choice Awards
Some awards shows allow actors to pick the awards. Others allow kids. The Critics Choice Awards, however, towers over all of them, especially the People’s Choice Awards, because it is chosen by critics. Yes, the very people whose Rotten Tomatoes scores fandoms frequently tell viewers to ignore are in control tonight,… Read more...
2024 Critics Choice Awards: All the winners
This year’s Critics Choice Awards offered few surprises, save for Emma Stone winning Best Actress for her role in Poor Things. Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night with eight trophies, including Best Director and Best Picture. On the TV side, Beef and The Bear both walked away with four awards each, while The… Read more...
2024 Critics Choice Awards: Check out the big red carpet arrivals
After last week’s Golden Globes, awards season continues in full swing with the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards. Chelsea Handler returns to host the ceremony—let’s hope the monologue powers-that-be are on her side. The top TV nominees include The Morning Show (yes, really) and Succession, while the Barbenheimer… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
Gizmodo,
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
David Chase calls The Sopranos' 25th anniversary a "funeral" for the golden age of TV
David Chase has suggested that fans of his work should consider the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos a “funeral” for the so-called golden age of TV, saying in a recent U.K. Times interview that “We’re going back to where we were” when he first started making TV. (Which is to say, a “shithole,” per a different part of… Read more...
Fear Street's Next Movie is Going to Prom
If you were someone who liked Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy of movies in 2021, good news: R.L. Stine says another film is on the way. Read more...
Neve Campbell says she's open to a "respectful offer" to come save Scream from itself
Neve Campbell has stated that she’s open to a “respectful offer” to return to the Scream franchise for its seventh installment—which is damned polite of her, we’d say, given that the series has now proven it can go for exactly one movie without her without dramatically self-destructing. Read more...