Steve—the new Cillian Murphy movie now streaming on Netflix—will be emotional watch for anyone who is, or is close to, a school teacher. This is the second movie produced by Murphy’s new independent production company, Big Things Films, which he launched with Alan Moloney in February 2024, and it's yet another great character film that shows ...
If you're anything like me, you're ready to fast-forward through the haunts of Halloween and cozy on up to the holiday season. While Hallmark Channel is known for their Christmas content—and has already unveiled their Countdown to Christmas slate—the network is premiering a movie fit for spooky season that delivers the warmth and fun of its...
Now on its sophomore season, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is back with more magical hijinks, laugh-out-loud moments, and shocking reveals than ever before. With Justin's (David Henrie) sons Roman and Milo gaining wizard powers at the end of Season 1, the Russo clan is back in the family wizard competition that started it all. Plus, a surprise...
If you're looking for the perfect spooky season stream, the 28 Days franchise is now streaming on Netflix and Hulu. The first film in the trilogy, 28 Days Later, stars Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris as two survivors trying to find sanctuary as a highly contagious virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, causing the breakdown of society....
Korean director Bong Joon Ho became one of Hollywood's fave auteurs when Parasite conquered the Oscars in 2020, but he had been putting out bangers long before then. Director Bong's 2003 masterpiece, Memories of Murder, is one of the greatest mystery thrillers ever made. The film looks back at the hunt for a serial killer in rural 1980s South...
Now that we all love Paul Thomas Anderson again in the wake of One Battle After Another, it's time to give the filmmaker's controversial last movie, Licorice Pizza—streaming free on Prime—another chance. This nostalgic coming-of-age drama raised a lot of brows, both because it depicts a romance between a teenage boy and a 25-year-old woman,...
After breezing through the new season of King of the Hill (highly recommend, btw), I was in desperate need of a new animated comedy to stream. Thankfully, I found Netflix's sensational Long Story Short. Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (BoJack Horseman), the evocative yet hilarious new series is a non-linear look at a dysfunctional middle-class...
I'm not really sure that one could make a solid argument that baseball is still America's pasttime — it's gotta be football these days, right? Even with that said, no one can argue that there's ever been a football movie that works as well as The Natural. This 1984 masterpiece is a quintessentially American fable about collision: collision...
Thankfully, we haven't seen the last of Valerie Cherish. Earlier this summer, it was announced that Lisa Kudrow's beloved HBO comedy The Comeback would be returning for a third and final season. Originally debuting in 2005, the trenchant mockumentary stars the former Friends standout as a once prominent sitcom actress who becomes the subject of a...