Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

 What is a movie that's so bad, it's good? For many, there are some movies that are just so awful, so dreadful, so pathetic that the reaction paradoxically is joy and laughter. The most common example tends to be The Room, the Tommy Wiseau...I don't even know what to call it. Drama, I guess? Sure,...

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (And a List of the Best Weird Al Songs)

It might puzzle viewers of the opening moments of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (now streaming on Roku) as to why "Weird Al" Yankovic is being rushed into a hospital for emergency treatment due to a drug overdose. According to real-life Al Yankovic, he's never taken drugs. What gives?The teaser...

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Prey

"The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators.""But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play."-Brenda Cooper, Edge of Dark All native peoples have legends and stories about the sky, according to Lee Grayson, and in some groups, "children moving into adulthood go into nature...

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Angela Lansbury

"When they talk about the Golden Age of Hollywood," Geoffrey Rush asked Dame Angela Lansbury in his toast to her at the 2013 Governors Award in which she "at long last" received an Oscar, "aren't they just talking about you?" That's not hyperbole. When one thinks of 20th cinema in the United States,...

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Happy 60th Birthday, Mr. Bond: All 25 (+3) James Bond Movies Ranked

Sixty years ago, on October 5, 1962, audiences were first introduced to the British secret service agent, James Bond, the screen adaption of author Ian Fleming's "blunt instrument," a man just as much a promiscuous playboy as he was a capitalist cold warrior crisscrossing the globe on a a whole host...

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After Yang

For centuries, I'm sure many have looked at their pets or their babies and let out a sigh of stress, wondering what was going on in their brains. In the case of After Yang, I felt myself asking the same thing, but in this case it was an android. What really is going on inside his brain, what is he really thinking about? The titular character Yang (Justin H. Min) is a robotic teenager whom a couple...

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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Whenever there is a horrifying moment in the United States of America related to race, there sometimes is a knee-jerk reaction to it. "That's not who we are," is more or less the usual refrain. For conservatives, this "isn't who we are" because, regardless of what people of color have told everyone...

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