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What does it actually mean to be a film critic anymore? Not a content creator. Not a personality. And not someone who points a phone
June 26, 2026
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What does it actually mean to be a film critic anymore? Not a content creator. Not a personality. And not someone who points a phone
And somewhere in the space between a science-fiction comedy and a Greek tragedy disguised as a cartoon, Futurama accomplished something extraordinary. It told a story
The Six Feet Under finale understands a truth that television rarely captures. It’s that every goodbye is really a thank-you. The Fishers gave us five
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And then came “Through the Looking Glass,” which is still one of television’s most devastating season finales. It’s a title borrowed from Through the Looking-Glass
I still miss Eddie Guerrero, which is a ridiculous sentence in some ways because I never knew him. Most of us didn’t. But that is
The series often insisted that “all men must die,” but Hodor’s death carried an additional implication in that some people spend their entire lives unknowingly
There is something almost spiritual about the way American men talk about ’80s action movies. If you mention Top Gun or Predator at a barbecue
That is what makes it so devastating. Homer Simpson, the patron saint of incompetence, gluttony, and half-baked schemes, finally experiences, for one silent minute, a
Which, in retrospect, makes the episode feel almost unbearably hopeful. Not because it insists humanity always wins out, but because it suggests humanity survives at
What made M*A*S*Hso extraordinary was its willingness to let comedy and tragedy occupy the same cramped tent together. One minute, somebody was wearing a dress
What Scrubs understands, perhaps better than many of its more self-serious peers, is that humor does not negate grief. It coexists with it, often in
In a series built on good times, it was the bad one that lingered. Happiness, after all, is most convincing when it acknowledges the possibility
And so “The Body” lingers, long after the credits roll, as a kind of quiet rebuttal to everything the show had taught us to expect.
What makes the scene endure is not just its sweetness but its timing. Five episodes in, Cheers had no obligation to know us this well,
There are many things one turns to How I Met Your Mother for. The yellow umbrellas, the elaborate pickup theories, and the soothing repetition of
So, in anticipation of the home video release of Send Help, a title that feels less like a film and more like a message from
Homer J. Simpson is a one-of-a-kind creation. He’s a legend not because he is perfect, but because he is loudly, messily, and unapologetically so…human.
I’m speaking, of course, of the holiest of comedic relics, the “I’m surrounded by assholes” scene in Spaceballs. It’s today’s Favorite Scene of the Day,
So, if your spooky season décor needs a little vinyl resurrection, shuffle (don’t run) to your nearest retailer or visit Funko’s crypt, er, website, and
Take, for example, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), a sequel directed, improbably, by the same man who gave us The Blob
This scene cracks me up every single time I watch it, and I’ve watched it at least two hundred and fifty times. I don’t mean
And I wish I could say I was surprised. But history is nothing if not repetitive, and antisemitism has always had the tenacity of a
Oddly, the cinematic scene that best captures this ritual isn’t some sepia-toned family drama or even Norman Rockwell’s overly earnest Freedom from Want. No, the
Every time I watch that scene, my entire body folds in on itself like a cheap deck chair. Shoulders to ears. Knees to chest. Eyes
There’s a universal law in the cinematic musical multiverse. If a pop star wanders onto your screen out of the blue, something ridiculous is about
I landed on a scene from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, known as Part IV, released in 1984, which, in classic horror-movie fashion, was
There are very few things that can make a grown adult reconsider owning dolls, but for me, it all began with one grainy VHS tape
A few years later, they made Wet Hot American Summer. It’s a film that, upon release, was largely ignored, as though the world simply wasn’t
There’s one scene, though, that deserves to be put in the Louvre, or at the very least looped forever in the background of a highbrow
