Coraline arrived on February 6, 2009 as the first feature Laika ever made, and it has spent the years since becoming the film people name when they are asked about stop-motion. Henry Selick directed it and wrote the screenplay himself, adapting the 2002 novella by Neil Gaiman, a book that won the Hugo and the […]
Albeit a cultural juggernaut now — George and Mandy’s First Marriage is set to air its third season in October and Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is currently a streaming hit on HBO — the Big Bang Theory was originally met with mixed reviews, earning only a 59% on Rotten Tomatoes for its first […]
The modern era of cinema is the golden age for superhero movies. There is just no real argument against it, as films like The Incredibles, The Dark Knight, and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe helped set the stage for this to become the popular genre it is today. Superhero projects were once often viewed as […]
A twelve-year-old Christopher Nolan film is currently climbing the charts on Amazon and may knock its own epic sci-fi hit from the top slot. The Netflix effect is a phenomenon where an older movie or show gets a second life because millions of viewers are exposed to it through their streaming feed. As far back […]
On September 21, 1937, a relatively unassuming fantasy novel appeared in British bookstores. The first printing consisted of just 1,500 copies, and it was marketed as a children’s book. The author? An Oxford academic who had spent years letting friends and family read the manuscript. There was no cinematic universe waiting in the wings. No […]
If there’s one thing sci-fi time-travel movies can get wrong, it’s making the plot way too complicated with paradoxes, alternate timelines, new rules here and there, and overly complex explanations. That’s not a requirement, but it’s pretty common to come across plenty of films like that. Sometimes, though, you just want something in the genre […]
One of Marvel’s most beloved and popular characters is Spider-Man, and when the Marvel Cinematic Universe started taking shape, there was a lot of curiosity about who would take on the role after Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. Today, Tom Holland is pretty much a phenomenon for an entire generation, widely praised and admired as […]
Image Courtesy of ABC It has been 49 years since one of the most embarrassing television tropes gained its name thanks to a once-beloved sitcom that ruined its reputation in one moment. Happy Days premiered in 1974 on ABC, created by Garry Marshall, and it ended up as one of the most successful television series […]
Image Courtesy of Fox It has been 24 years since a cult sci-fi masterpiece TV show premiered, and its uneasy start caused it to struggle from the very beginning. By 2002, Joss Whedon was one of the most popular showrunners for genre television, creating both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel. Both of […]
There was something truly charming about kids’ movies from back in the 1990s. You’d definitely understand if you grew up in that generation, but if you’re younger, you can easily enjoy them if you watch them with an open mind. They had a charm that is long lost today. And 1995 was a good year […]