Most of us, at some point or another, have suffered through the slow, painful ending of a long-term romantic relationship, the gradual grinding down of what was into what’s left, with nothing for it in the aftermath but to pick up your personal pieces and grimly soldier on. A comparatively much smaller number of us,…Read more...

Ángel Manuel Soto’s lighthearted superhero flick Blue Beetle had a lot of strikes going against it when it slumped into the box office back in 2023, fairly few of them the movie’s fault. It arrived amidst Hollywood labor issues that short-circuited its marketing; it landed smack dab in the weird interregnum between…Read more...

Say what you like about Pixar’s (admittedly!) mercenary embrace of the concept of sequels: They do make the ducats flow. Variety reports today that the studio’s latest return to the well, Inside Out 2, is on track for the biggest opening weekend of 2024 to date, and will likely become the first Hollywood movie to…Read more...

The cancellation of Apple’s The Problem With Jon Stewart remains one of the more fascinating “failures” in the short history of streaming TV: A tech giant with aspirations to prestige television journalism hired one of the medium’s most determinedly independent minds to launch deep dives into the issues affecting the…Read more...

Turmoil is nothing especially new in the world of Bravo’s reality TV empire, but it rarely comes with out-and-out consequences; more profitable, typically, to issue a slap on the wrist, and then film the recriminations to follow. So it’s slightly surprising to learn tonight that the network has reportedly issued an…Read more...

A new investigation from ridiculously massive French entertainment producer Banijay, aimed at shows starring comedian and TV personality Russell Brand—specifically, those Brand-focused shows produced by its recent acquisition Endemol—has found that the production of multiple shows featured environments where…Read more...