Our tips for shows and movies like The Good Place
One of our favorite comedies on television right now is The Good Place, about an underachieving woman who dies and accidentally ends up in “the good place”. Not only does the show have one of...
Whatever happened to… Bridget Fonda
One of the “It girls” in the 90s was definitely Bridget Fonda. It’s no surprise Fonda managed to appear in a string of high-profile films, given her family’s stature in Hollywood. Not only is...
A tribute to Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit
Today is a sad day, as Scott Hutchison, singer and founding member of Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit, has been confirmed as dead (source). The 36-year old songwriter had gone missing on Wednesday,...
No Netflix movies at Cannes, company regrets ban
Another week, another article on streaming giant Netflix. While the company continues to crank out content (see our article here on Netflix pushing localized content), it seems that others in the industry aren’t too...
What can we expect for neo noir cinema in 2018?
As any true movie fan will attest to, film noir is one of the best genres to have ever graced the big screen. A standard film noir would tell the story of a detective...
Oh God, there’s a kickstarter for a ketchup slice
Dumbing down is an ongoing series in which we highlight new trends or innovations in the world, which signal our decline as a species. Today: a kickstarter that is trying to will a slice...
Bento is dead, but he was never the real keyboard cat
The world has just become an even crueler place, as Bento the keyboard cat has died. Bento rose to fame in 2009, when the internet caught wind of a video in which owner Charlie...
2018: The year where Hollywood struggles with social media
As we all remember, 2017 was a bad year for Hollywood. Not just a bad year even, or a very bad year, but an absolutely horrible year. The sexual allegations that came forward after...
Watch Phoenix’s excellent cover of Whitney’s No Woman
During our backpack travels in Australia, the channel that kept us together during long drives was definitely Triple J. This is completely counter to what we’re usually exposed to: public radio stations sounding like...
We can’t get excited for… Ready Player One
The world is now days away from the release of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, and we could not care less. What happened to our old selves, we ask ourselves, the ones who used...
Norm MacDonald is getting his own talk show on Netflix
Only a few days ago we were writing about peak TV reinvigorating genres of TV shows, with our article about what an anthology series is. That type of TV show is not the only...