Chris Hodges

It might have taken a few decades, but the 2020s finally saw video game movies start to become legitimately good. "Sonic the Hedgehog" helped lead that charge, subsequently becoming one of the highest-grossing video game movies of all time

Based on the Dutch series of the same (translated) name, "The Traitors" debuted on Peacock in January 2023 and quickly joined the ranks of the best reality TV shows of all time. It follows a group of contestants who have to compete in a series of challenges in a Scottish castle in the hopes of winning a large cash prize — though as it always goes with reality competitions, there's a twist. In this case, there are a group of contestants who have been secretly informed that they are the titular traitors, and must make it their mission to eliminate the other players in order to win the prize for themselves while not revealing who they are.

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a 2012 film based on the novel by Stephen Chbosky, who also wrote and directed the adaptation. Despite the 13-year difference between the publication of the book and the release of the film, Chbosky still chose to keep the movie set in the 1991-92 school year as it follows three high school students — a freshman and two seniors — during said year. The freshman is Charlie (Logan Lerman), clinically depressed and initially unable to connect with his classmates. That is, until seniors/stepsiblings Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller) take Charlie under their wing and bring him into their social circle.

The bigger a reality show franchise gets, the wider the net that is cast for less-than-ideal personalities to potentially become associated with the brand. And we're not talking about the good kind of bad personality that makes for fun, drama-filled, tea-sipping viewing. We mean the type that includes legitimate toxicity — and that's where Peter Hunziker comes in.

Cartoon Network is an indelible part of millions of people's childhoods and home to many iconic series, but who owns the beloved cable channel now?

While some feel as though "Squid Game" Season 2's Front Man twist feels like the worst kind of déjà vu, the reveal that Player 001 is once again the boss of the operation secretly playing the games unbeknownst to the other contestants was revealed much more quickly than it was in Season 1. And this time, the show completely changes the way that wrinkle has played out thus far and will continue to do so going forward. Unlike Season 1, where it's only on a rewatch that you're armed with that knowledge about Oh Il-nam (O Yeong-su), Season 2 has let the audience keep a close eye on the new Player 001 — Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), aka Oh Young-il — and the way he pretends to care about the games and his teammates while actually having a vested interest in seeing them all fail.

From the late 1980s to the turn of the millennium, Meg Ryan was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Where has she been and what has she been doing since?

Though it just barely finished in the top 10 at the box office the year it was released, 1988's "Beetlejuice" was still considered a financial success compared to its fairly modest budget. But more importantly, director Tim Burton's underworld comedy quickly dug itself into a secure place in the cult classic pantheon and has remained there for nearly 40 years. Many people watch "Beetlejuice" every Halloween in the same way they watch "Home Alone" every Christmas.

After nearly 25 years of making extremely provocative and often deliberately hard-to-watch movies, avant-garde filmmaker John Waters began to dabble in work that was much more palatable to mainstream audiences, beginning with 1988's "Hairspray" — the 2007 remake of which we proclaimed to contain James Marsden's greatest movie role. Waters' third film in that era was "Serial Mom," released in 1994 and starring Kathleen Turner as a seemingly mild-mannered suburban housewife who also happens to have the nasty habit of brutally murdering people.

Over the years, we've had plenty of horror movies based on even scarier true stories. There are even some supernatural-based scary movies, such as William Friedkin's 1973 classic "The Exorcist" (widely considered to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time