What’s New on Prime Video in August 2022
There’s no crying in streaming! Does that work? Is that anything? Look, if Prime Video is going to turn the beloved 1992 Tom Hanks/Geena Davis baseball flick A League of…
May the Fourth, Rex Manning Day, and 10 More Made-Up Movie and TV Holidays
Why this day? “May the Fourth Be With You…” Get it? Credit General Dodonna (Alex McCrindle) with the first use of the the “May the Force be with you” benediction…
What’s New on Paramount+ in May 2022
Image: Strange New Worlds promotional poster/Paramount Paramount keeps rebooting Star Trek, and I keep coming back, hoping whatever they’re trying now will hit like The Next Generation did back in…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid-Culture: What Exactly Is ‘Elden Ring’?
This week, I’m answering important questions, like “which is cooler, Star Wars or Star Trek,” “What the hell is Elden Ring,” and “Can you just, like, move into your cubicle?”…
What’s New on Hulu in January 2022
Few shows have blown a lead quite like How I Met Your Mother. For a few years there in the mid-aughts, it looked the the most natural successor to Friends:…
What’s New on Paramount Plus in October 2021
Screenshot: Guilty Party/Paramount+ Outside of a few pre-sold, franchise-based hits (The Good Fight, anything with the words “Star Trek” in the title), Paramount+ hasn’t managed much in the way of…
15 Paramount+ Originals You Aren’t Watching But Should Be
It was touch-and-go for a bit there, with Paramount+ (initially “CBS All Access”) feeling a bit like a desperate afterthought in the streaming wars—a dumping ground for ViacomCBS’s vast library…
11 Otherworldly Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Written By Black Authors
By Namina Forna Screenshot: Amazon Books Based in West Africa, The Gilded Ones follows Deka, a young girl who is more than what she seems. After a coming-of-age blood ceremony,…