Pop culture

‘Hard to Walk Away From’

It should go without saying that you can tell how much someone cares about something based on how well they take care of it. Being good stewards — of anything — shows the world a genuine care and desire to nurture something. Conversely, if someone or something treats a property poorly or in negligent fashion, […]

Warner Bros. Discovery Halts Blockbuster Merger Talks: Report

Streaming’s slow, but steady, march towards becoming the very traditional cable it sought to replace has hit a small snag. As more and more services look to merge and become bigger (and more expensive) to try and rival Netflix, streaming platforms are increasingly looking like (and costing as much as) traditional cable, much to the […]

Did AI Program Actors and Write the Script?

Show, don’t tell — it’s a lesson every writer worth their salt learned early on in their career. When given the choice between telling the audience what a character feels through dialogue — i.e. a character saying “I feel sad” — and showing them through action — i.e. depicting a character staring out a window […]

Is Disney’s Japanese Epic the New ‘Game of Thrones’?

If you’ve been watching television for long enough — and this writer certainly has — you’ve undoubtedly heard about “the next big thing.” You know, “the next ‘Seinfeld,’” “the next ‘The Office,’” “the next ‘Band of Brothers,’” “the next ‘Lost,’” or “the next ‘Game of Thrones‘” have all been bandied about in the last 30 […]

Sony Latest Company to Announce Mass Layoffs

If you’re at all old enough to recall the “dot-com bubble” bursting in the early aughts, the current state of the tech industry should seem depressingly familiar to you. Back in the mid-’90s, with the advent of the internet, online e-commerce was booming at unprecedented levels, and businesses invested in that market — to a […]

2023’s Top 5 Suprise Box Office Successes

In 2023, we were all given the pleasure of watching Hollywood’s monopoly die. It used to be if you wanted to make a good movie, you needed to be going through the Hollywood system. But now, that system is failing, and audiences are looking elsewhere to get their movie fix. Thanks to many factors — […]

Marvel Makes Christian Hero Nightcrawler Perform Lesbian Wedding

Nightcrawler has long been a fan-favorite character for many Christian fans of Marvel comics. Despite inheriting a mutation that makes him look like a demon, Nightcrawler — also known as Kurt Wagner — joined the Catholic faith, an interesting dichotomy that drew many readers to the character following his 1975 debut. Throughout Wagner’s early appearances […]