Category Archives: Variety

Best Movies and Songs for a Peaceful Post-Election Thanksgiving: From ‘Meet the Fockers’ to ‘All You Need Is Love’
Now that the historically nasty, contentious presidential election of 2024 is over, don't let down your guard just yet. There's another war percolating that most certainly could boil over come a day m...
Rosemary Rossi Nov 25, 2024

‘If Only I Could Hibernate’ Review: A Heartfelt Ode to Proud, Overachieving Elder Boys Everywhere
Our dreams can only be as expansive as our circumstances. To have ambitions requires the ability to imagine a way out of your present. That can be a difficult task if much of your existence is spent m...
Manuel Betancourt Nov 25, 2024

‘Beatles ’64’ Review: The Beatles’ First Visit to America Looks New Again in an Electrifying Documentary Produced by Martin Scorsese
it takes this fabled, high-swoon moment of pop-music history, almost all of which we now view through a mythological lens, and humanizes it in an exhilarating way.
Owen Gleiberman Nov 25, 2024

Animation Guild, AMPTP Reach Tentative Contract Deal
The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) and AMPTP reached a tentative deal for a new three-year contact, the Guild has confirmed. TAG, which represents an estimated 5,000 artists, technicians, writers a...
Carolyn Giardina Nov 25, 2024

Dwayne Johnson Says Sing in the Movie Theater If ‘You’ve Gone to a Musical and You’re Into It’: ‘Sing! You’ve Paid Your Hard Earned Money for a Ticket’
Dwayne Johnson is telling audiences to sing in the movie theater if they wish. The A-list actor and producer is reprising his voice role of the demigod Maui in Disney’s animated musical sequel &...
Zack Sharf Nov 25, 2024

‘Old Fox’ Review: A Mostly Compelling Taiwanese Melodrama Offers an Important Lesson About Values
Set in Taipei, against the backdrop of the economic bubble of 1989, the Taiwanese international feature Oscar submission "Old Fox" is a relatively engaging popular melodrama about altruism vs. self-in...
Alissasimon Nov 25, 2024

LMU Announces Inaugural AI-Focused Innovators Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television (SFTV) has set the inaugural Innovators Film Festival, a two-day global student short film event set for March 27 and 28, 2025 on LMU's West...
Katcy Stephan Nov 25, 2024

Kendrick Lamar References Ice-T, ‘Menace II Society’ and Nate Dogg in ‘Squabble Up’ Music Video
Kendrick Lamar has dropped the music video for "Squabble Up," a cut included on his surprise-released album "GNX" that arrived on Friday morning. Directed by Callmatic, the video is the first song to ...
Steven J. Horowitz Nov 25, 2024

Danica McKellar Says Controversial ‘The Wonder Years’ Ending Was ‘Only the Beginning’: ‘Maybe Kevin and Winnie Ended Up Together After All’
Danica McKellar has good news for those who didn’t like the original ending of “The Wonder Years” - things may have changed! The actor, who played Winnie Cooper on the sitcom from 19...
Emily Longeretta Nov 25, 2024

‘It Ends With Us’ Sets Netflix Streaming Date in December
Netflix has announced that "It Ends With Us," the Colleen Hoover movie adaptation starring Blake Lively, will begin streaming on Netflix in the U.S. on Dec. 9. The film had its theatrical release Aug....
Matthew Minton Nov 25, 2024