4 posts tagged ‘the super bowl’
The January Canon: 20 good movies released during Hollywood’s worst dump month
AV Club,
Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith. Sandwiched between the holidays and the Super Bowl, these four weeks are generally treated like a write-off season, as bad… Read more...
Lizzie McGuire and Ethan Craft?!??!
Jezebel,
There have been very few moments in my adult life that were as heartbreaking and infuriating as when Hilary Duff announced in 2020 that the Lizzie McGuire reboot on Disney+ would not be moving forward. My 10-year-old heart broke, my (then) 30-year-old heart broke, and my… Read more...
Err, John Schneider Seems to Have Taken The Masked Singer a Little Too Seriously
Few reality shows elide popular culture and the shitshow that is American politics like The Masked Singer, a show in which the famous and famous-adjacent pose as animals, perform, and compete for a shot at fleeting cultural relevancy. Case in point: Just last spring, the now-bankrupt Rudy Giuliani was revealed to be… Read more...
Annual video game convention E3 is dead, for real now
After several years of death throes (exacerbated but not directly cause by the pandemic), annual video game convention E3—a.k.a. the Electronic Entertainment Expo—is officially fully dead now. Out of lives, out of hearts, hit by a ghost, the screen is full of blocks, Sephiroth’s sword is in its chest. You know, dead.… Read more...