40 Hygge Movies to Get You Through the Long Dark Winter
There’s comfort viewing, and then there are movies in which the characters are comfortable. They’re not always the same thing. Some of these movies are comfy, cozy watches—though tastes vary…
The 30 Best Animated Movies You Can Stream Right Now
From the earliest days of cinema history, cartoons were never just for kids, and it’s important not to confuse the medium with a genre. Animation has produced movies that are…
11 of the Wildest Theme Park Coasters and Attractions Opening This Year
Wild Mouse POV | Cedar Point | NoLimits 2 Recreation If you’re serious about roller coasters, you go to San Dusky, Ohio’s Cedar Point—when this park opens a new attraction,…
25 of the Best Movies Based on Mythology and Folklore
Screenshot: O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Touchstone Pictures Given the ubiquity of shows like Vikings, movies like The Northman, and the forthcoming Thor: Lover and Thunder (this installment differentiated…
21 of the Best Movies for Anyone Who Ever Wanted to Fly
You have to go pretty far back into movie history to reach a time before we were making movies about airplanes. The very earliest films saw us flying in a…
10 of the Best Movies We Discovered for the First Time in 2021
Amid my desperate search for emotionally unchallenging films to watch during the pandemic, I spent a good chunk of this year drilling down on comedies from the ‘80s, the decade…
21 Times Celebrity Voiceover Stunt Casting Paid Off
Screenshot: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse/Sony Pictures Last month, Universal delighted few, annoyed many, and baffled all but those with a pragmatic view of movies-as-product when it announced Chris Pratt will…
30 of the Best Movies That Clock in at 90 Minutes or Less
Screenshot: Run Lola Run/Sony Pictures Classics Just when you thought blockbuster movies couldn’t possibly get any longer, the fine people at Universal Pictures announced the runtime for the next, long-delayed…
30 Films That Are ‘Green Flags,’ According to Twitter
Screenshot: The Princess Bride/MGM Twitter user Cuchillo Lope just dropped an inadvertent bomb on the social media platform, asking users for the kinds of movies that, when recommended, feel like…
How the Water in Luca Pushed Pixar Into a New Age of Animation
As the story of a young ‘sea monster’ boy who comes of age in a seaside town on the Italian Riveira in the 1950s, water is naturally everywhere in Luca.…