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This article contains spoilers for "Frasier."Reboots, revivals, and spinoffs are odd things. So often they reek of money-grubbing creative bankruptcy, their only reason for existing being they might squeeze a bit more money out of a loyal audience before their passion slowly fizzles out. Sometimes it's clear that whoever had the most driving power behind them — the directors, the stars, usually the producers — cared only about what they could get from the new project, not about how it might retroactively impugn the legacy of the original. And sometimes, even despite all that, they still have something worthwhile to offer. Odd!

Paramount+'s "Frasier" revival falls somewhere in the vast grey area between a revivification so thoughtful and bold that it improves upon the original and a total disaster. In this very publication you can take in the range of perspectives that have generally characterized the reactions to the revival.

This post contains spoilers for "Skinamarink."

Writer/director Kyle Edward Ball's "Skinamarink" is a wholly thrilling experience, a horror film that teaches you how to watch it while you watch it, a brazen work of experimental art released into domestic multiplexes, and cleaning up in the process, it seems. One of its innovations lies in the way its cinematography and aesthetic are constructed out of liminal spaces. As /Film's Joe Roberts pointed out recently, Ball is an avowed fan of the meme, admitting that a subreddit devoted to liminal spaces influenced him when making the film. The subreddit defines the term using text from the Cambridge Art Association:

"A liminal space is the time between the 'what was' and the 'next.' It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing. Liminal space is where all transformation takes place."

Gee, that sounds kinda similar to:...

Update: James Gunn has chimed in to say that Variety's original reporting on this matter is entirely incorrect:

There are few reporters I love more than @adambvary - truly a good guy - but in this case he needs to get a new source as this is entirely untrue. https://t.co/a7cnbTfpSi

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 14, 2022

Our original story follows.

Remember when "The Batman" came out earlier this year and pretty much everyone agreed that it was good? After the usual public outcry whenever a new actor is announced for the role, Robert Pattinson proved the doubters wrong with the grungiest and most delightfully emo take we've seen from the superhero in quite some time. The stellar cast of supporting players all brought their own unique spin on classic characters like Catwoman, Jim Gordon, the Penguin, and the Riddler. And best of all, director Matt Reeves seemed to...

Half a reel of never-before-seen sequences from 1922 comedy film The Blacksmith found by Fernando Peña

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It is a far from traditional proposal. Buster Keaton takes a breath in the midst of being chased by his lumbering boss, Joe Roberts, pops down on one knee, takes hold of Virginia Fox's hand and gazes up at her, and says: "Je ne serai pas toujours forgeron et ce-jour-la me permettrez-vous …" (I won't always be a blacksmith, and today, I would like to ask …) What? He is cruelly cut off as a moment later, her stern-looking father appears and there is no time for an answer, in any language. It's not much of a love scene, perhaps, but this snippet from a recently unearthed French print of Keaton's The Blacksmith offers far more romance than the original.

Film historian Fernando Peña had already impressed his peers and...

Bruce Springsteen has written so many songs referencing his home state, it sometimes seems like all of New Jersey is a matrix of E Street memories. Graphic artist Daniel Cassaro recently set out to prove the point, drawing up a map of the state that features more than 200 references to Springsteen's lyrics along its meticulously sketched backstreets and Badlands, from The River to a drawn-out Darkness at the Edge of Town. The "Springstreets" map is available for purchase on Young Jerks Be Free Tonight (via Paste Magazine ).

Check out artifacts from Bruce Springsteen's four-decade career.