Static Media One of the earlier running gags on Matt Stone’s and Trey Parker’s animated sitcom “South Park” was the repeated, comedic death of Kenny McCormick. Kenny (Stone) was the best friend of Stan (Parker), Kyle (also Stone), and Cartman (also Parker), and he seemed to be…
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Bryanston Distributing Company Tobe Hooper’s 1974 gut-wrenching horror classic “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” is not based on a real story, despite what the film’s marketing might have you believe. There was no Texan serial murderer nicknamed Leatherface, nor was there ever a real-life family of backwoods…
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Static Media Spike Lee’s “Inside Man” is a loving homage to New York City and Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon,” infused with post-9/11 anxieties, an eclectic cast, and unexpected twists. Sleek and exciting, this popcorn flick is about a game of wits between law enforcement officers and…
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Fox Nothing is stronger than a bond between a kid and his dog, particularly one that’s crossed time and space like Brian and Stewie’s (Seth MacFarlane) in “Family Guy.” However, in season 8 (one of the very best seasons of the show), episode 17, the show didn’t…
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Searchlight Pictures For years, a Cillian Murphy horror classic has remained almost impossible to watch. In the age of streaming, where every piece of media ever made is at our fingertips, that seems like a downright scandal. Thankfully, it’s one that will soon be rectified, as this…
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“The Simpsons” is still good, you guys. Sure, it may no longer be the most innovative, influential show on TV, but it is still doing some experimenting like it used to. Recent seasons have given us plenty of entertaining, fresh, hilarious, poignant episodes that feel not like echoes of the Golden Era of “The Simpsons,”…
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James Fisher/Warner Bros. Pictures One of the cool things about the “Alien” movies, at least before Ridley Scott returned to make the (underrated!) “Prometheus” in 2012, is that the franchise has served as a sandbox for all sorts of directors to play around in. After Scott gave…
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Paramount The following contains spoilers for the “Yellowstone” season 5 finale. With the head of the Dutton family now dead (yet, somehow, making a secret appearance in the “Yellowstone” finale) and the next generation left to pick up the pieces, there was only one direction “Yellowstone” could…
Static Media/Shutterstock For Christmas one year, I gave my grandpa a DVD box set of the early “Seinfeld” seasons. My dad thought it was a silly gift because a now-classic show like “Seinfeld” would probably have reruns until the end of time. So far, my dad has…
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Universal This probably sounds unthinkable in 2024, but 25 years ago, the notion of Adam Sandler appearing in a film with even the slightest of awards hopes was considered deranged. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran was one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, but the movies…
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