Two-and-a-half days from now, an 11-year, 22-movie journey will end with Avengers: Endgame. It all started in 2008. I was a 16-year-old in awe at Robert Downey Jr. turning Iron Man from a C-List character to the cornerstone of a movie multiverse. In 2019, I’m a jaded 26-year-old chasing recognition …
Read More »Best Movies and TV to Stream in April: 'Ramy,' Jordan Peele's 'Twilight Zone'
Imagine, if you will, a month of streaming programming covering a lot of ground by tone and genre. There’s the big re-launch of The Twilight Zone under the stewardship of one Jordan Peele, and another season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been conjured. Netflix has a Swedish court procedural …
Read More »Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan Talk 'Catastrophe' Finale
Last week, I spoke with Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, the co-creators and stars of the wonderful romantic comedy Catastrophe, whose fourth and final season was released by Amazon on Friday. We covered a lot of ground in that interview, but they asked that our discussion of the ending be …
Read More »How 'True Detective' Season Three Redeemed the Franchise
(This post contains full season spoilers for True Detective Season Three. On Sunday night, Sean T. Collins recapped “Now Am Found,“ the season finale.) “You write the story, you get past the start, it’s important to know how you want it to end,” Amelia Hays declares midway through the concluding …
Read More »Monkey Business: The Wild Ride of 'Challenge' Bad Boy Johnny Bananas
The first time Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio appeared on MTV’s The Challenge he suffered the worst humiliation of his life. It was October of 2006 and the brash 25-year-old was still riding high from his recent run on The Real World: Key West. Little was required of him on that show …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Breaking Down the Nominations, or This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
We knew this was coming. Deep down, we knew. We had assumed that Roma andThe Favourite and A Star Is Born would rack up a lot of Oscars love, as was their destiny — 10 nominations each for the first two, eight nominations for the latter. We knew that there …
Read More »'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Is the Only Comic-Book Movie You'll Ever Need
Anyone who’s ever cut their teeth on superhero comic-books — whether as a casual prepubescent collector or someone whose reader alter-ego skews a little closer to this — has almost assuredly gone through a Spider-Man phase. Maybe you prefer the Ditko-to-Romitas (Sr. and Jr.) era, or when he changed his …
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