“The dead speak!” That phrase – the first words of the opening scrawl in JJ Abrams’s Episode IX, also known as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – has become, in certain circles, handy code for trashing this film. But I think it’s the perfect way to begin this fun […]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, it cost about $745 million to make The Hobbit trilogy, which was three times as much as it cost to make The Lord Of The Rings movies. However, The Hobbit trilogy was not as well-received by audiences as The Lord of the Rings movies were, […]

12 best TV and movie recipes from ‘Binging with Babish’ Steamed hams from The Simpsons. Imaginary pies from Hook. Meat tornadoes straight outta Pawnee, Indiana. What’s actually in these fictional onscreen wonders and can we have them in our real lives? Yes we can. Brooklyn-based chef, cookbook author, and longtime […]

We’ve all become massive movie and TV fans this year thanks to the pandemic keeping us inside. So why not give gifts that enable these fandoms – whether newfound or longheld, big screen or small – this holiday season? Here are several gift ideas – a majority either created by or available at local […]

Emma Corrin has already described how everyone on The Crown’s set fell silent when she appeared in the recreation of the Emanuels’ concoction. The atmosphere at the moment Diana was changing into her own dress, was comparable: “We knew there was all this noise outside, but we got her ready […]

Sacha Baron Cohen; Maria Bakalova Amazon Studios (screengrab) The full title of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie is Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and it would be an understatement to say that this, his followup to his insane […]