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Oscars 2015: It's a Real Race, But Not Between the Movies You Think
Remember just a couple weeks ago, in the days leading up to the Oscar nominations, when there was so much handwringing about how, instead of the populist slate the Academy might have preferred, all the...
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How Indie Filmmakers Have Transformed TV
It's a paradox. Independent films -- the kind that are often dramas or comedies about everyday people, rather than superheroes -- have all but vanished from theaters, which now show mostly popcorn...
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Oscars 2015: The Rest of the Races
Is everyone finally ready to move on from the "Selma" vs. "American Sniper" throwdown? It seems so, not just because the ideological battle between them is artificial and increasingly irrelevant, but...
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The 35 Best TV Spinoffs Ever
Its strange that "Better Call Saul," which debuts on Feb. 8 on AMC, is so eagerly awaited. After all, how can the series, a prequel of sorts to "Breaking Bad," be anywhere near as good as the show...
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Should 'Saturday Night Live' Outlast Lorne Michaels?
If you need any further proof that "Saturday Night Live" has lost whatever edge it once had, there's the news that Sarah Palin is planning to appear on the show's 40th anniversary special, airing Feb....
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Disney's 'Pinocchio': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Animated Classic
Given how revered Disney's "Pinocchio" is today, it's hard to believe it was a flop when it was first released exactly three quarters of a century ago. Upon its New York City premiere, on February 7,...
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Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood,' 'Birdman,' Backlash, Behavior, and Backstory
For all the months of campaigning surrounding Oscars season, this week is the one week that actually counts. Ballots for the final vote went out to Academy members on Friday, February 6, and must be...
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Jon Stewart and Brian Williams: TV News, Entertainment, and Accountability
There has been a lot of chatter -- jokes, tweets, rueful speculation -- noting the paradox of Brian Williams' forced six-month leave from the anchor chair at "NBC Nightly News" and Jon Stewart's...
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'The Breakfast Club' Cast: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)
Why do we still care about "The Breakfast Club"? Thirty years after its release (on February 15, 1985), it remains the definitive movie about the American high school experience. In his tale of five...
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Disney's 'Cinderella': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Beloved Fairy Tale...
We never get tired of the story of Cinderella, and whether we know it or not, the version we never get tired of is the one put forth by Walt Disney 65 years ago. The 1950 animated feature, released 65...
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Oscars 2015: 7 Burning Questions Remain
The Oscars aren't until next Sunday, but the race will be all over by Tuesday. The 17th is the day ballots are due; after that, it's all in the hands of the number-crunchers at Pricewaterhouse Cooper....
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The 17 Best and Worst TV Roommates of All Time
It's been 50 years since Neil Simon wrote his play "The Odd Couple," the story of two divorced, middle-aged New York men driving each other nuts as roommates. It's an indestructible premise that's...
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Oscars 2015: 16 Things You'll See at This Year's Academy Awards
Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony should actually be pretty exciting, in a Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots kind of way. Like the Super Bowl contenders earlier this month, the two top movies...
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What You Can Learn From New Streaming Service Shout! Factory TV
Streaming video is a godsend if you want to catch up with recent seasons of TV series. But what's a TV fan to do who wants to stream older shows? Netflix has very little from before the millennium,...
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Final Predictions for the 2015 Oscars
When it comes to predicting success and failure in Hollywood, as "The Princess Bride" screenwriter William Goldman famously said, "Nobody knows anything." Well, nobody except the accountants at...
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15 Memorable Moments From the 2015 Oscars
"Stay weird. Stay different." That was the advice of Best Adapted Screenplay winner Graham Moore ("The Imitation Game") to kids out there who might one day follow in his footsteps, but it also could...
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Oscars 2015: 9 Politically-Charged Acceptance Speeches
There may have been few surprises among the winners at Sunday night's Academy Awards, but one surprise was how political their speeches were. After all, in recent years, political statements have...
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13 Reasons Why Elizabeth Taylor Is Still the Queen of Hollywood
It's time to raise your glass and rattle your jewelry for a birthday toast to Elizabeth Taylor, who'd have turned 83 on Feb. 27. Though memories of her begin to fade, the legacy of the woman who was...
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'Two and a Half Men,' 'Parks and Recreation,' and How to End a Series
I don't envy any showrunner who has to write a series finale, especially after observing the very different reactions over the past few days to the final episodes of "Two and a Half Men" and "Parks...
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Box Office: Will Smith's Lost 'Focus' and the Oscars Effect
The narrative going into this weekend was that "Focus" would mark a comeback of sorts for Will Smith. His first lead role since the career stumbling block two years ago that was "After Earth," "Focus"...
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