You Might Suffer Emotional Whiplash Watching the Wonderful Big Hero 6

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  665 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Based on a lesser-known Marvel comic, Disney’s Big Hero 6 is an exciting and touching — at times, a little too touching — tale of families both real and surrogate. But wait, those who’ve seen the trailer might ask. Isn’t this that funny action cartoon with the giant, poofy robot? Well, yes, and therein lies part of the dissonance with this often-wonderful, deceptively strange movie. You could get emotional whiplash watching it. [Read More]

Your Box Office Explained: Why Did Jack the Giant Slayer Bomb?

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  933 words  |  Janel Helmers

This Weekend’s Winners: If you won an Oscar, you took a victory lap this past weekend. Ang Lee’s Best Director winner Life of Pi shot up 43 percent to gross $2.3 million, putting it near $117 million domestically. Best Picture winner Argo rose by over a fifth, to $2.2 million, cresting $133 million just in the States. Even Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence’s Silver Linings Playbook was up 3 percent to an estimated $5. [Read More]

Yung Miami Defends Her Verse on Chloe x Halles Do It Remix, Which Is Her Right

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  320 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Yung Miami’s response to everybody who didn’t like her verse. If you thought Chloe x Halle were done changing the game, then you’d be sorely mistaken. The duo released a remix of their hit song “Do It” featuring City Girls, Doja Cat, and Mulatto at midnight on Friday, September 4. The pair has had a busy summer, delivering memorably performances at the BET Awards, GLAAD Awards, and, most recently, the VMA pre-show (why they weren’t included in the regular show is a mystery to us). [Read More]

Zoe Saldana to Master Even More Ways to Kill People for New Role in Hummingbird

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  151 words  |  Janel Helmers

Zoe Saldana is building a résumé like she wants to usurp Michelle Rodriguez’s title of Deadliest Woman in Cinema Today. She’s been a Na’vi warrior in Avatar, a lieutenant in the United Federation of Planets for Star Trek, a deadly space assassin in Guardians of the Galaxy, and now she’ll take her second turn as a deadly terrestrial assassin in Hummingbird. The movie comes from a Black List script by John McClain, and Saldana will play a black-ops level killer for hire whose latest contract forces her to confront who she really is. [Read More]

10 Eye-Popping Deals on Animation DVD and Blu-ray Box Sets

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1514 words  |  Zora Stowers

Streamliner Presented by Streamliner Presented by It takes real work to keep track of how to watch your favorite cartoons. Many shows are available to stream, yet they also tend to bounce from service to service, or disappear altogether for stretches. One solution to that annoyance: Own something you can hold in your hand and cherish, or at least always know where to find. Prime Day is offering some great deals on DVD or Blu-ray sets of animated series; we selected ten that are particularly worth owning. [Read More]

10 Things That Scare Me Is a Smartly Designed, Bite-size Window Into the Soul

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  884 words  |  Zora Stowers

Fear has a way of revealing truths. You can tell a lot about a person based on the things they are afraid of. Some people, you could say, are defined by their fears; others are merely informed by them. Either way, a specific fear is an expression of underlying value systems: evolutionary ones, sure, as in the way some are afraid of the dark because it generally makes everything less safe in the Stone Age and so on; but also systems that are more personal and moral — what you cherish, what you’re comfortable with, what gets into your bones. [Read More]

18 Essential Episodes of Criminal Minds

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2453 words  |  Zora Stowers

One thing was clear when Criminal Minds premiered in 2005: The show was horrific. That’s not a criticism — it was the initial appeal. The CBS series was the most psychologically gruesome of its early-to-mid-aughts procedural counterparts, at times even surpassing SVU in the kinds of disturbing crimes it featured. This was the very nature of the show, which followed the members of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit as they tracked down the country’s most disturbing unknown subjects (“unsubs”). [Read More]

1923 Series-Premiere Recap: At Close Range

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1983 words  |  Janel Helmers

1923 1923 Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » 1923 1923 Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » This is what the Mountain West is like in 1923: The land is parched. The rain is locusts. The grass is straw. Cows and sheep go hungry. [Read More]

20 Great Christmas Movies That Arent Christmas Movies

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  18 minutes  |  3632 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Clockwise from top left: L.A. Confidential, Lethal Weapon, Batman Returns, The Thin Man. This article was originally published on December 21, 2017. It has been updated to include more films. Whenever we discuss our favorite Christmas movies, there’s always that one guy (and it’s always a guy) who chimes in, “What about Die Hard?” And listen, Die Hard is a great film, but saying it’s a great Christmas film is, at this point, well-trod territory. [Read More]

21 Horror Games to Play This Spooky Season

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2161 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The approach of Halloween is getting us all in the mood for something spooky, and there’s no better way to feel the fright than with horror video games. By immersing you in the action and putting you in charge of your own fate, horror games are often scarier than even the most intense horror movies. Of course, even the horror-averse might want to dip a toe into the world of interactive scares this October. [Read More]