Minor spoilers for Buddy (2026) As a kid growing up through the 90s and 2000s, I didn’t get shamed for liking TV shows that were “too young” for me. With one exception. Barney. Despite having pretty strong memories of the show, I have stronger memories of fervently denying that I liked it, and of the … Read more
What do you know about the wives of Henry VIII? Their names, their eventual fates? Their solo numbers? SIX tells the story of Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr in the form of a girl group’s pop concert, moving the six queens out of time and … Read more
Like many dinosaur enthusiasts, I have grown weary of the Jurassic Park series. With only one great movie out of seven, and perhaps two additional watchable ones, the franchise has not only survived but thrived due to the lack of competition in cinemas. When was the last high-quality theatrical dino movie? Pixar’s underwhelming The Good Dinosaur … Read more
Spider-Man Brand New Day has had a lot riding on it – not only does it need to continue Spider-Man’s story from a very difficult place, but it needs to reinvigorate the plateaued interest the public has in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before Avengers Doomsday hits this December. This is a tall order, because many MCU … Read more
Avatar: The Last Airbender has always been extremely important to me, from watching the premiere as a little kid on Nickelodeon to holding watch parties in college for The Legend of Korra to reading the comics. In my adulthood, during COVID, I rediscovered Avatar when it came to streaming and saw an entirely new show unfold in front … Read more
Broadway devotees have been saying it for years: we don’t want million-dollar adaptations, we don’t want star-studded casts and so much CGI we can hardly see the choreography. We just want to see a professionally-shot stage production. And damn, if Hadestown didn’t deliver. Hadestown: The Musical is the live stage recording of the 2025 limited-engagement … Read more
Avatar: The Last Airbender is probably closer to my heart than any other story I’ve ever been told. It is strong, it is meaningful, and it is very, very important. Go watch it! You deserve it. While I was very disappointed with much of Season 1 back in 2024, I was probably alone in thinking … Read more
I have often seen the sentiment, particularly since his Oscar win with Oppenheimer, that Christopher Nolan himself is Hollywood’s most valuable IP. Who else could have turned a partially black-and-white biopic about a man most people have never heard of into a $976 million box office Best Picture? Nolan’s name carries a weight, a seal … Read more
Here we are, folks, at the Crossroads of Destiny. As Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender closes out its second season, the Gaang finds themselves in the crystal caverns beneath Ba Sing Se as the second act of our grand story brings us to its “all is lost” ending. With only 7 episodes … Read more
With Aang and the Gaang back from the Spirit Library, Jet dead, and Appa taken, things are bleak for Team Avatar. Fans will know that because things played out so differently in the Netflix show, with Long Feng directly kidnapping Appa and putting him directly in Lake Laogai, there is no Appa’s Lost Days anymore. This … Read more
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