What’s New to Stream on Netflix for May 2021

Crossing the Streams is a series of columns spotlighting all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month. This time we’re checking out the new Netflix arrivals for May 2021, including new movies from Zack Snyder, Alexandre Aja, Joe Wright, and...

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Show Me the (Fake) Money: The Art and Artifice of Prop Currency

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about how prop money works. Movie magic, by and large, is about faking things. Faking explosions, faking identical twins, faking...

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“Night of the Living Late Show” Sees ‘Creepshow’ Go Out on a High Note

The second season of Shudder’s Creepshow anthology series has come to an end after just five episodes. Don’t worry, though, as a third season has already been greenlit. Each previous episode has featured two story segments, but the finale features only one — “Night...

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Justin Theroux Can’t Outrun Capitalism in Moralizing Adventure Series ‘The Mosquito Coast’

Welcome to Up Next, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews The Mosquito Coast, an Apple TV+ adaptation of an award-winning adventure novel. The world has changed significantly since Paul Theroux’s...

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‘Chaos Walking’ Trips All Over Itself and Never Gets Back Up

Apologies in advance for reminding you of its existence, but remember 2016’s Passengers? It was a much-ballyhooed science fiction “original” anchored by two massive franchise stars, and it pretty much stinks for multiple reasons including a tone-deaf narrative...

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‘Without Remorse’ Would Be Unmemorable Without Michael B. Jordan

Tom Clancy may have died eight years ago, but new books (from lower profile writers credited in small print) and film/TV adaptations have continued at a steady pace. The middling Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) was the last feature to bear Clancy’s name while...

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‘Bridesmaids’ Perfected Gross-Out Humor

“It’s coming out of me like lava!” wails Melissa McCarthy as she sits over a china sink in a designer gown halfway through Bridesmaids. In hindsight, that might have been the moment the 2011 film was deemed worthy of comedy classic status. Written by Annie Mumolo...

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Farce and Fiction: What Makes a Great Movie Within a Movie

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay celebrating the best meta-movies within movies. You gotta admit, it’s always a treat when there’s a movie within a movie. After...

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Stay Behind the White Line with Our Pick of the Week

Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so each week we take a look at the new Blu-rays and DVDs making their way into the world. Welcome to this week in Home...

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20 Things We Learned from ‘The Slumber Party Massacre’ Commentary

Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this edition, Rob Hunter celebrates Chloe Zhao’s historic Best Director win at the Oscars by revisiting another classic...

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Is Sharon Carter a Skrull?

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Explained is our ongoing series delving into Marvel’s grand new bromance between Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. In this entry, we’re looking one more time at The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale and asking, is Sharon Carter...

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What Robert Zemeckis Can Teach Us About the Moving Master Shot

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about how director Robert Zemeckis is the master of the moving master shot. Let’s be honest, long takes get all the glory....

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The Ending of ‘Mortal Kombat’ Explained

Ending Explained is a recurring series in which we explore the finales, secrets, and themes of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. This time, we explain the ending of Mortal Kombat (2021). When a new movie in the Mortal Kombat franchise comes out,...

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