Screenworld is a magical place where social niceties and, quite often, the laws of physics don’t apply. Wizards? They exist. Time? It bends to our will. Death? A mere inconvenience. Soulmates always make it work regardless of the practical […]
It’s one of Saturday Night Live’s eternal mysteries. You watch a mediocre live show on Saturday night and shrug — the writers just couldn’t come up with any good stuff this week. Then Monday comes and SNL drops […]
If you owe money thanks to student loans, there’s a chance you saw some relief over the last four years, because the government has forgiven $168 billion in student debt. The beneficiaries of this program […]
I recently saw a poll on an unofficial Saturday Night Live social media account that asked, “Who is your cast member MVP for Season 49?” I thought about it for 30 seconds before concluding, “There isn’t one.” […]
Some things are more than just the sum of their parts, but when it comes to Saturday Night Live, individual sketches are best plucked from the vine rather than endured as part of 90-minute slogs […]
“Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg head to the U.S. Senate” sounds like the premise of a wacky comedy, but it’s a thing that actually happened back in 1990. Williams and Goldberg testified before the Senate Labor […]
Looking back at the first season of The Simpsons, it’s hard to believe that it would go on to be one of the most important shows in TV history. The voices sound off, the animation is […]
Listen, we know we’re not the smartest of cookies. If we were, we’d be contributing to society instead of mocking The Bachelor. Have we incurred at least one bruise in the course of performing basic daily functions […]
It may seem pretty pointless to criticize the integrity of The Garfield Movie considering that it’s arguably just colorful garbage engineered to distract children for 100 minutes. But upon closer inspection, there seems to be something […]
Today, Alien 3 (Alien Cubed?) is just another crappy Alien movie, among several crappy Alien movies. After all, this is a franchise that would go on to feature scenes of clones playing basketball and float conspiracy theories that Jesus was a ripped 8-foot […]
Pop culture historian Tony Hawk just couldn’t figure something out as he figuratively skateboarded past Bob Odenkirk on his Hawk Vs. Wolf podcast. Odenkirk’s early career was stuffed with Second City, Saturday Night Live, The Ben Stiller Show and Mr. Show. “You’re […]
All kids agree: The original Lion King was a gas. That’s mostly thanks to the hilarious antics of meerkat Timon and his flatulent warthog buddy Pumbaa. But the two characters — and their delightful farts — […]
Making a single well-crafted, standalone movie seems to be both impossible and an abject failure these days. Everything must set up a potential franchise because asking Hollywood executives to take a risk on an original idea is […]
There’s no question that quotations from highly regarded sources like Shakespeare or award-winning literature get a boost in their perceived value. But you can’t say that a pearl of wisdom never washes out from the […]
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was known for having a good sense of humor. He granted “Weird Al” Yankovic permission to parody “Smells Like Teen Spirit” after only five seconds of discussion, once tried to pitch a […]
As that perpetually late friend is constantly reminding you, you don’t really need to see the beginnings of most movies. You can drop in on the middle and figure out that the hobbits are going on a jewelry […]
Memes used to have a much longer shelf life. But these days, our internet connections are faster and a lot of millennials are unemployed, meaning any bit of bizarre news can go viral, and it can […]
Think you know everything there is to know about Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons? Sure, you may brag to your friends that he earned his master’s degree in folklore and mythology by translating The Lord of the Rings […]
Unless you’re a diehard devotee of the one-man show, movies need a diverse cast of characters to move the story forward. You’re not going to love all of them — that’s arguably the protagonist’s only job — […]
Kardashian reached out first to a surprised Glaser, with a message that can be neatly summarized as “You killed it on the roast.” Glaser DMed back: “Oh my god, I was trying to make eye contact […]