15 of the Best Movies About Huge Liars
Screenshot: Miramax / Paramount Pictures / Amazon Prime Video In an age of fake news and casual disinformation, it’s reassuring, in a sense, to know that we can still be…
17 TV Shows and Movies About Real Women in Power
Screenshot: The Queen/HBO Max This post began life as a roundup of films built on female power—a good tie-in to the forthcoming release of the Viola Davis-starring historical epic The…
12 of Anne Heche’s Best Performances
Gracie’s Choice – Preview Clip Heche rarely wanted for work, whether on TV, stage, or in movies. There’s no question, though, that her relationship with Ellen Degeneres (and its ending)…
20 Movies That’ll Remind You the Government Can’t Be Trusted
Screenshot: Stanley Kubrick Productions/YouTube Governments lie. They cheat. They steal. Sometimes the blame comes from within: corrupt individuals who’d conned their ways into the halls of power with no moral…
15 Great Feminist Movies That Fail the Bechdel Test
Screenshot: Fargo/Prime Video A recent Twitter dustup called into question the whole point of the Bechdel test, a set of criteria to help gauge the representation of women in popular…
30 Movies Up for Oscars in 2022 (and Where to Stream Them)
Image: Dune/Warner Bros. Last year at this time, I might’ve predicted we’d have a much clearer picture of the future state of the movie industry by now. COVID has dramatically…
What’s New on Netflix in December 2021
Netflix apparently doesn’t want you to go outside again before 2022, given how much stuff they’re cramming onto their service in December: with new seasons of past breakouts, star-studded original…
Netflix Unveils 42 Original Films for 2021, Indian Titles to Come
Netflix has unveiled a slate of 42 Hollywood and international movies — fiction and non-fiction — for the rest of 2021, that star the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence,…
13 Sports Films You’ll Love Even If You Don’t Like Sports
Healthy competition builds character, and we encounter it all the time—or manufacture it where it needn’t exist. Whether we are choosing our favorite kind of pizza or voting for a…