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Hallmark Channel delivers another 'Fall into Love' romance that works overtime to make you believe it was filmed during an Autumn month, but most of the Fall foliage looks as artificial as Christmas movie snow, and the seemingly absurd event ...

Coming at the tail end of the new Fall season, this week across the decade had several classic and notable series launches. 1976 saw the debut of a long running medical drama starring an actor formerly known as a slob ...

'Spooky Season' is upon us and Tubi is getting out of the gate first with a new horror-comedy that's equal parts The House on Sorority Row, Happy Death Day, Black Christmas and ... The House Bunny. In brief, Buzzkill begins ...

In our current world, influencers are one of the most common career goals for young people, and parasocial relationships run rampant. We can consider the early takes on this -- The Real World is one of the first non-competition reality ...

I find it interesting when movies intersect grief and camp -- it feels like a protective mechanism of sorts, not in a bad way, but can come off poorly or distasteful if it doesn't strike the right balance. Still though, ...

Many new films opened this week, some very memorable including 1956's Tea and Sympathy, an adaptation of a hit play that fought a battle with the censors to get made due to the suggestion of one character's sexuality; a 1966 ...

There are some ideas that mirror throughout film history, and ‘fighting nature’ is one that’s never gone out of style. Of course, filming that effectively can be a tricky thing to avoid inauthentic feelings, and it’s often quite rough on ...

It was a very big week acorss the decades for new series premieres Check out the list of TV programs that made their debuts this week across the decades, really beginning with 1976 where a variety show with puppets became ...

As the nation remembers a day of national tragedy and honors the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is only fitting that Ford's Theatre in Washington DC mounts a production of the Tony Award winning musical Come From ...

When we look back and try to remember Gen-X culture, what will be the main memory of the 'MTV Generation'? Nihilism? Defeatism? Escapism? Solipsism? Honestly I don’t know, but it’s sort of slipped through the cracks of the derided 'Boomers' ...

Every year the ‘Braille Challenge’ is held at different regional places, with the global (UK, US, Canada) contest typically in Los Angeles. This challenge is designed specifically for kids and teenagers at various levels of proficiency, with levels from ‘Apprentice’ ...

Although I never went Catholic high school, I know the type and have experienced enough similar situations to grasp the concept -- many people can identify with the conflict inherent in being a teenager in the modern world while trying ...