Christopher Guest is a maestro of the mockumentary whether he likes the term or not (he doesn’t). His movies shine a heckling light on some of art and culture’s more frenetic weirdos from community theater actors and dog show participants to folk artists looking to revive their claim to fame. The beauty of Guest’s work…
Pop culture has an unquenchable thirst for nostalgia. Rebooted films dominate the big screen (It), throwback candy and juice are stocked on every store shelf (or forever sold out, like Ecto Cooler), and 80’s purists still abide by the “Be Kind, Rewind” mantra on Instagram. Nostalgia is not only omnipresent, but it’s dictating the way studios are producing content, which is why…
[Spoiler free] Do we ever really reconcile our past? Those darkest parts of ourselves that we desperately try to keep hidden? That’s what Bloodline confronts its characters (and viewers) with. The Netflix original revolves around a close-knit family of four adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother, Danny (the incomparable Ben Mendelsohn), returns…
Arrested Development, Wet Hot American Summer, Fuller House, the ladies Gilmore…Netflix has become an entertainment necromancer, reviving old favorites from the dead for the flocks of fans who just can’t seem to let go. Despite the mixed feelings circulating this peanut gallery called the Internet and the varying results produced by these revivals, I’m mostly…
Next month, Pee-wee is BACK! Thanks to Netflix, the new movie will make its debut March 18 on the streaming service, seeing the return of Paul Rueben’s off-kilter Pee-wee Herman for the first time (in film) since 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee. In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to…
In the most un-news-iest news ever, Marvel is straight up crushing it. Since 2008’s Iron Man and through last year’s Paul Rudd-led Ant-Man, Marvel has taken in $9,065,299,688 worldwide. That’s quite a litter of dead presidents. Despite the heaps of cash, and positive Rotten Tomatoes scores and reviews, even the geekiest fanboy can’t deny…
In the trailer for David Cross and Bob Odenkirk’s new series, ‘W/Bob & David,’ Cross promises that there’s plenty of sexy stuff and that you’ll definitely get to jerk off later. VICTORY! It’s been 20 years since the duo’s cutting-edge HBO sketch series Mr. Show, but the two have finally reunited for an all-you-can-binge Netflix…
It’s never too early to start prepping for summer camp. Especially if that camp includes Ken Marino, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd and literally fucking everybody important in comedy these days. (OK, as a die-hard Wet Hot fan, I might be a little biased…might.) Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp doesn’t debut…
The Wet Hot American Summer TV show is a GO, people! Everyone and their pet cat Lion-O has been tweeting, blogging, and freaking over the new entry to the David Wain cult Comedy. Here’s what we know so far: *The movie takes place on the last day of camp and the TV series will take…
We are in a Golden Age of television…of antiheroes, zombies, clones, cable, and most importantly, streaming. Thanks to Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and an ungodly amount of others, almost everything we’d ever need or want to see is available in just a few clicks of a button or taps on a screen. But with…