The Prohibition is probably one of the strangest and most controversial times in our short but storied history as a nation. The Church of England Temperance Society pushed a national temperance movement, convincing the American public that alcohol was the primary cause of the people’s personal and societal ills.
The Godfather is such a timeless classic that it’s hard to believe that it was made in 1972. It aged so gracefully, launching the meteoric careers of so many young actors that it feels like this movie is equal part opus and talent incubator. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James
Shooter opens with a gaff so big I’m surprised they could hump it out of the jungle. After Bob Lee Swagger (yes, that’s his name) lands some frankly stellar shots (somehow with absolutely no recoil) from an M40A3 rifle and then breaks immediately and starts yelling with lots
Coming To America hit at precisely the right time, with an impossibly talented cast (hello cameos from complete nobodies named Cuba Gooding Jr. as “Boy Getting Haircut”, some comedian nobody had ever heard of named Louis Anderson as fast food worker “Maurice”, and some guy named Samuel L. Jackson as
History is a funny thing. It’s written by the victors, to be sure, but it’s also interpreted and often sanitized. What we know happened isn’t always what actually happened, and The Kings Man celebrates that fun fact with reckless and fantastic abandon. A prequel to Kingsman: The
Nickelodeon has given us some incredible animated shows over the years. Rugrats, Spongebob Squarepants, The Fairly Oddparents, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Doug, Hey Arnold, Catdog, Rocko’s Modern Life, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Invader Zim, and many more, but none are so beloved as Avatar: The
I went to the theater and settled into the uncomfortable seat, the sticky crunch of who-knows-what sticking to my shoes. Mike Judge treated me to 81 minutes of low-brow awesomeness, complete with music tracks from the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, No
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was one of the first movies I went back to the theater to see since the lockdown. The theater, an AMC, decided to play the movie on a less-than-great projector, and seemed to turn the sound down for the final third of
