When Sony announced it was making a modern, Atlanta-set version of Super Fly (re-styling it as Superfly), it didn’t come as a surprise. We’re in the midst of a blaxploitation craze. Tons of film and television projects are in development based upon 1970s black action movies – films that were often criticized for their stereotypical […]
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Review Round-Up: A Largely Entertaining Origin Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story is about to land in theaters after a highly-publicized and turbulent flight, and if you’ll allow me to belabor the metaphor, it sounds as if director Ron Howard managed to pull this particular spaceship out of a potentially disastrous nosedive and smooth things out in a satisfying way. The Solo […]
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Review: A Highly Entertaining Adventure That’s Not Really About Anything
After a troubled production, Solo: A Star Wars Story is here. The good news: the behind-the-scenes woes weren’t enough to sink the film and create a mess. The bad news: that doesn’t necessarily mean everything in Solo runs as smoothly as it should. At the center of Solo is a question: what do we want […]
Slopestyle is set to be one of the most high-flying, entertaining events of the Olympics — take a look at the insane course
Ryan Stassel/Instagram This is one event you definitely won’t want to miss. Ski and snowboard slopestyle sends competitors one at a time down a terrain park constructed out of snow, filled with massive jumps and metal rails. It’s only the second time this event has been showcased on a world stage, as it made its debut […]
Intel wants to make your autonomous car rides more entertaining
Once autonomous cars can routinely take over the monotonous, minute-to-minute responsibilities of actually driving, what are their human passengers supposed to do with themselves? Well, if Intel has any say, people will spend their trips being immersed in interactive fantasy lands. To that end, Intel announced on Wednesday at the 2017 LA Auto Show that […]
‘Haunters: The Art of the Scare’ Clip: Watch a Scene From This Incredibly Entertaining Haunted House Doc
If you’re a haunted house fan (or even just a fan of Halloween), you’re going to want to check out Haunters: The Art of the Scare when it arrives on Blu-ray and digital download next week. Director Jon Schnitzer‘s incredibly entertaining documentary about haunted attractions and the people who operate them is funny and freaky and endearing […]
‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ Review Round-Up: An Overlong But Entertaining Sequel
Kingsman: The Secret Service was a nice surprise back in 2015, and the new sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, looks to expand director Matthew Vaughn‘s cinematic spy-verse in a big way by adding a ton of A-list stars to the cast and taking the action overseas. So do those decisions make this an entertaining, worthwhile addition to […]
Game of Thrones Author: HBO Is Entertaining Fifth (?!) Spinoff
The night is dark and full of ways to keep exploring the Game of Thrones-verse: According to book series author George R. R. Martin, HBO has five writers — not four, as previously reported — working on possible spinoffs of the premium cabler’s fantasy drama. “We had four scripts in development when I arrived in LA […]
Soundtracking your boring life is surprisingly entertaining
Today, I attempted to soundtrack my office life. As you might expect, sometimes the life of a blogger isn’t all that thrilling — but maybe it would be if I had a perpetual soundtrack playing in the background. Moodelizer, a new iOS app that launched earlier this month but is officially being announced today won’t […]
The Seductively Entertaining ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Tells a Tabloid Version of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s Relationship
In recent years we’ve seen an explosion of popular culture revisiting the near-mythical Golden Age of Hollywood — from the 1930s through the 1960s — and the years that followed, when the monolithic studio system began to erode. Movies like Trumbo, Saving Mr. Banks, The Artist, and Hail, Caesar!, and podcasts like You Must Remember This, remind […]