A mystery that haunted the Republican Party during the 2022 midterm elections, under President Joe Biden, was why the party failed to achieve the congressional surge its members craved. Then, last month, when Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) won their respective states’ gubernatorial races, the pattern continued, and the same question remained. […]

The elusive original cut of Quentin Tarantino’s fourth and fifth films, known together as Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, had hitherto existed only on one print, personally owned by Tarantino. It screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and a handful of times since. Now, after decades of anticipation, it has hit cinemas […]

Over several decades, as Hollywood comedy has become mostly paint-by-numbers, Adult Swim, the nighttime programming block on Cartoon Network that has played host to weird ephemera alongside hits like Rick and Morty and The Boondocks, has long served as cringe comedy’s deep space region. It has aired shows that plumbed every possible emotional depth except […]

Rob Reiner was the leading light of what could be called the “sitcom generation” of filmmakers.  In the late 1970s and into the 1980s, a raft of former sitcom stars maneuvered their way into director’s chairs, including Ron Howard of Happy Days and Penny Marshall of Laverne and Shirley (also Reiner’s first wife). Reiner, of […]