TV Characters Don’t Have Text History. This Is Not OK
The immediate question that arises any time this problem appears is, how could the writers be so lazy? They sweat so hard creating a richly imagined world, only to rip us out of it by…
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The Hollywood Tech Tricks Getting Film Crews Back On Set
It’s not surprising that Hollywood has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. After all, movie sets typically require hundreds of people coming together from all around the world to work in close proximity to…
WandaVision Brought the Multiverse to Marvel
That’s all business-side multiversing, but I think some of the in-story kind is on its way, too. I have nothing but my own speculation here. Disney’s Star Wars arm has promised a krayt dragon–sized bolus…
‘Fake Famous’ Review: A Fun Window Into Instagram Influencers
In Los Angeles, the corner of Melrose and Harper has become a tourist destination to rival the Eiffel Tower, or the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall. Rather than an architectural marvel or a piece…
What You Lose When You Turn Into an Animal
So what’s a guy like Joe to do when he lands on his enfelined feet in Soul? The exact thing the genre has prepared him for: patch up family bonds. Joe wasn’t a fully actualized…
2021 and the Conspiracies of ‘Johnny Mnemonic’
Keanu Reeves has never been worse—which, in his special case, is understood to mean better—than he was in Johnny Mnemonic. The 1995 cyberpunk almost-classic captures a pre-Matrix, pre-Cyberpunk 2077 Reeves at his most cartoonishly buttoned-up,…
26 Movies We Want to See in 2021—One Way or Another
Over the past 12 months, cinephiles have had to completely transform how they consume their media of choice. As Covid-19 shuttered theaters all over the world, movie lovers could no longer float between multiplexes and…
Humanity Is in Danger of Becoming Obsolete in ‘LX 2048’
He's such a wonderful actor. I was actually discussing a bigger project with James that was very close to happening while I was working on this script. When that other film ended up postponed, I…
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After 2020, Live Events Might Not Look the Same. Good!
Another thing that’s proven wildly popular at virtual events? Online gaming. ReedPop, the company that puts on NYCC, also produces the PAX video game conventions. This year, those conventions morphed into PAX Online, which streamed…
The 20 Most Underrated Movies of the Past 20 Years
Though awards season is already upon us, it certainly doesn’t feel that way. Like so many other things in 2020, Hollywood is in the midst of a sea change. Even if you wanted to, it…