A show that has captured many hearts with its ability to slot into a space that has been long kept empty is Heartstopper. Depicting respectful, loving, and relatively unproblematic gay love and identities…

We are officially in spooky season, folks, also known as fall for those in the United States. With the falling of the leaves comes the entrance of spice, scares, and the things that go bump in the night. So it makes sense that for our October…

Another show, another questionable strategy of splitting its anticipated season in half in order to get more subscribers, or something similarly silly that stakeholders would have been told was the reason…

August is when the world starts preparing for the end of the year. The weather gets cooler, the moods get lower, and time gets shorter — which is probably why there were so many horror or horror-adjacent films that made their way to our screens…

Before this review starts, it’s important for us to put front and center that It Ends with Us focuses on — both in its periphery, and as its main plot point — domestic violence. If this is something you or anyone you know is not comfortable with, then I…

Whenever a movie is in development hell for a significant portion of time, to the point where it is famous for how long the process has taken, there is always a question as to why this is. Are the producers and studio unable to agree…

July is always a crazy month. Full of sun (for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere), fun, and lots to see at the local movie house. This is typically when studios will start releasing their big tentpole projects, designed to get as…

Every time a Star Wars project is announced, if it’s not part of the Skywalker Saga, you can bet there’ll be opposition to its creation. Add in there the faintest hint of “wokeness” (a.k.a. things like having a woman or LGBTQ+ main character), and…

Seldom is there a television series that sets the internet on fire as intensely as Bridgerton has the last couple of months. Quickly rising the charts to be one of the most successful series Netflix has ever produced, its popularity went from good…

783 days. That is how long viewers had to wait between Seasons Two and Three of Bridgerton. 783 days. With there being more content than any one person could fathom ever watching, this amount of…

For the beginning of summer season, the cinema has left much to be desired. The question on everybody’s lips is, where is the big blockbuster to get people talking? It feels like May was a bit of a paused month, a month of waiting, a month of fillers even. 

There are many open secrets in the pop culture realms. Things that everyone knows, talks about, or even take part in, but would rather take to their grave than admit their participation. Fanfiction is most definitely…

April — what a funny month. The one before summer officially begins in the U.S, as well as a great time for some prominent prestige films to make their entrance, allowing audiences to mull over their meanings, psychologies, and metaphors for the months ahead. By many…

Amy Winehouse is one of those singers who achieved early greatness, cementing her position as a legend of music. But she unfortunately passed away before she could continue to share her talent with the…

Halo has long been considered one of the top tier stalwarts of the video game oeuvre. So much so that there seems to be many rules as to how each piece of lore is…

Now, obviously the biggest piece of media in March was a certain “spicy” science-fiction-fantasy megalith that finally released after two years of waiting. But that’s the obvious choice for this column…

It’s always tricky when someone decides to adapt a beloved animation into the live action sphere. Personally, I always find myself questioning the need for…

As we’ve seen across this column, I don’t always build recommendations based on what was most popular in the previous month. Instead, sometimes it’s worth looking at what did atrociously, yet still lit…

Before we begin, I must make one thing very clear. 2024’s Mean Girls is a musical. A capital M, singing, and dancing, higher-than-reality logic musical. In fact, it is based on the incredibly successful stage musical..

We all have that feeling. You know the one: You finish watching a movie and something about it hits you in just the right spot. Whether it was the theme, the story, or even the characters, there was a quality…

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Apple TV+ really is becoming one of the big players. Not just because it pushes out multiple award-winning films every year…

Well, we’re back. A new year, and with it come new recommendations! We took a small break at the end of 2023 given the crazy family antics that always happen…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t quite have the stronghold over the general moviegoing public that it typically has over the last few years. Since being bombarded with what could be considered…

Ah October, the spooky month. The one where all the silly, scary skeletons come out to play, and the horror movies really get their chance to shine. So of course, it was a no-brainer for me that when it…

I think we can all agree that the concept behind Only Murders in the Building has always been bonkers. Two old men and a jaded millennial team up to solve a…

When Physical first released, I feel like it was presented as being more quirky and fun, and about nostalgia, than anything else. Instead, what was delivered was a serious exploration of identity and…

Do you all remember what I said about August being quite a dry month? I feel like this can be applied to September as well for similar reasons. It’s too early for awards season, and too late for summer…

I, like many women my age, absolutely fell in love with the first My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie. Based on the one-woman show by Nia Vardalos, it inspired a great…

August is always a funny month. Although it is part of the summer, it’s normally quite free of the big releases, so that whatever is performing the best can enjoy some fresh air away from competitors….

I think many of us were in shock when the first trailer for Gran Turismo premiered. Don’t get me wrong; a race car movie, while not so common anymore, is also not that surprising. Movies based on a video…

That’s right, this time we’re doing things a little differently. I could have just made this a pure Barbie column, but the uniqueness of Barbenheimeris a movie phenomenon that has to be documented as much as…

I’m not going to lie. This review has taken me a while to write. Rarely has there been a show that has divided audiences and critics as intensely as The Crowded Room…

June continued to serve some major players into the cinema world this year, with supposed hit after hit landing at our feet. Now some of these didn’t quite perform to the standard that many hoped they would, but others ended up being recognized much more than initially…

Pixar has long been lauded as the GOAT of animation, delivering stories that have a lot of heart, as well as buckets full of creativity. With iconic films like Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Finding Nemo, there was a time where we considered that they could do no wrong.

I have to say, 2023 has already been a crazy year for movies, and it feels like we have an even crazier summer coming up. It seems the studios are finally releasing all the properties they had kept under wraps and away from release long enough for the pandemic to sort itself out, and now the floodgates are well and truly open.

When a movie is as talked about as The Little Mermaid, it’s almost a relief when it finally does release and we can see whether all the discourse surrounding the property has been worth it. I’m not even talking about whether it ends up being…

It would be difficult to think of a video game brand that is more iconic than that of Nintendo. From this, it would be difficult to think of a game within the Nintendo oeuvre that is more iconic than Mario. After the…

When people talk about how video game movies are cursed, there’s often one example that comes to mind. I’m of course talking about the infamous 1993 Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo box office horror that has been relegated to B-…

Ah, John Wick: the ultimate assassin tale. A movie franchise that spawned out of pure will, and carefully curated stunts, John Wick: Chapter 4 gives us the latest in the crazy series that’s meant to get the adrenaline rising, eyes bulging, and blood pumping.

In the world of young adult fiction, there is little more popular than Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse. It’s full of the well-known tropes that helped define the genre in the 2010s when the popularity was at its…

February is always an interesting month. Sometimes there are some huge hits, and sometimes there’s a lot of quiet; if you know what that means in movie world, you know that it’s never good.

Hello, folks! We are back for another year of shining content recommendations! That’s right, I am once again here as your humble servant in all things media and consuming. So what, pray tell, is the first movie on this year’s list? Why, it’s none other than our girl, M3GAN…

Okay, so first of all, I understand that Smile technically came out in November. However, I have decided this month that I shall be taking some creative license due to the fact that a release date on the second last day of the month should be a bit flexible, as well as the fact that…

Well what a doozy this one has been. From the outset, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has been mired by toxic fandom and an onslaught of review bombing. You might even say that it never even had a…

It’s safe to say that Don’t Worry Darling blew up the social media waves across September with all of the intrigue, gossip, and drama that was happening behind the scenes. It was all-consuming for a week or two there…

Going into the first season of Fate: The Winx Saga, I was expecting another teen drama along the lines of CW hits we’ve gotten in recent years, such as Riverdale, CAOS, and Nancy Drew. In other words, a previously…

I have to say, folks, it seems like we’re coming to the time of the year where the summer has passed, and the movie options become thin as studios await Oscar season for their big prestige releases. So August is really that last-ditch effort to get something out before…

As we know, sometimes it’s not the best film that hits every chord on the internet; sometimes it’s the ones that are slightly lesser quality that catch the net on fire. One of these hit our streaming waves in July, and I thought there would be no better example for this month’s OSP.

In recent memory there has been a lot of success for action flicks that care more for the fight choreography than the overall plot and character development. Some obvious ones that come to mind are themany John Wick movies, Atomic Blonde, The Raid 2…

When Luck began, I thought I’d accidentally-d myself onto Disney+, which was the wrong streamer ending with an addition sign. Everything about what was happening on screen looked familiar: the look, the feel, the story beats, and even the slight tinge of magic in the air.

Seldom has there been a show with as much expectation, desire, and ability to fall towards the abyss of misguided fan-service as this one about everyone’s favorite Jedi. One that has in fact been desired by many for years, as if there’s one thing Star Wars fans can agree on it’s that…

Ancient Egypt, mental health, enthralling violence: these are all things that Moon Knight not only dives into, but explores thoroughly. As with any MCU property, there’s a lot of anticipation that comes before its release, more so when it promises to introduce a new character.

Here we are, the second Tuesday of the month, and I have returned with a brand spanking new One Stop Pop for you all. There were certainly a lot of different TV shows and movies that sparked conversation this month, and many different ones that I could easily…

April was certainly a packed month, one packed with many a strange, weird, and wonderful collection of films that have already entered our wider consciousness. There were many to choose from, but I thought, let’s go after the one that diverged audiences the most shall we?

Last month saw a pretty big film hit cinemas, and it’s still going strong a month later. All of that with an almost three-hour runtime! That’s right, I’m talking about none other than Matt Reeves’ The Batman, starring Robert Pattison, Paul Dano, and Zoë Kravitz.

There’s a lot to be said for marred expectations. There’s also a lot to be said for riding the coattails of those who have succeeded before you. Both of these statements are relevant here. Before…