Leo Noboru Lima

Bob Clark's "A Christmas Story" is perhaps one of the most notorious cases in history of a film that didn't quite find its audience right away. Released in November 1983 to only moderate commercial and critical success, the film didn't quite make the splash during its original year-end theatrical run that one might expect of a movie that has become all but synonymous with Christmas. Instead, its gradual consolidation into the holiday canon happened — fittingly enough — in people's living rooms, through home video and annual, highly-rated television marathons that turned "A Christmas Story" into a sort of all-encompassing holiday tradition.

The idea of a "Squid Game" Season 2 has long been controversial. Many argued that the first season was so perfect and self-contained that it needed no continuation at all. At the same time, the mythology introduced by Season 1 was so fascinating that further exploration seemed like a great idea to a lot of fans. Regardless of which camp you stood on, "Squid Game" was the kind of massive TV success that couldn't not get a follow-up, and, three years later, that follow-up is finally here, with Season 2 set to arrive all in one swoop to the homes of Netflix subscribers on December 26, 2024.

The box office record-breaking success of "Wicked" is once again proving the crowd-pleasing chops of Jon M.

There are few characters in American media, let alone superhero comics, let alone Marvel lore, as legendary as the Hulk. From his grey-skinned, Gothic horror-inspired beginnings in 1962, when Jack Kirby and Stan Lee conceived him as a "Frankenstein"-type innocent giant trapped in a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"-esque dynamic with Bruce Banner, the character has consistently captivated audiences around the world, effectively establishing a new fiction archetype of its own. Everyone knows the Hulk. Everyone loves the Hulk.

"Pride and Prejudice" is the kind of novel that feels modern no matter when it's read, but Jane Austen herself died in 1817, more than 70 years removed from the invention of motion pictures.

Some of the longest-running TV shows in history have been reality shows. Whether structured or unstructured, in competition format or not, it seems that there's something near-inexhaustible about a strong reality TV formula. A reality show that finds success early on and plays its cards right could go on playing for so many years as to settle into the back of cultural view and become an intrinsic part of the entertainment landscape — something tens of millions of people are guaranteed to watch year in, year out, so long as the usual, familiar goods are provided.

Love them or hate them, obsess over them or ignore them altogether, the Academy Awards are a cultural artifact whose history mirrors the very history of American film.

If film is, as Roger Ebert famously put it, a machine that generates empathy, then there's perhaps no other artistic medium out there so perfectly suited to communicating and eliciting sadness.

After five years, we've finally gotten an answer to the fascinating question of "Just what is renowned Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins up to with his photorealistic 'The Lion King' prequel?" As it turns out, the answer is, "A movie that fixes a lot of the problems with the original 2019 film and deepens the 'Lion King' mythos, while serving as a vehicle for Jenkins to explore a lot of his own interests as a director."

In the ongoing streaming wars and the endless discussions about the state of the entertainment industry that they've sparked, NBCUniversal's Peacock