I missed Conan monologues so badly: the transparent assessments of how every joke has landed and milking an extra laugh from those laughs, ...

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FAILED STATE is an independently produced feature film about the pandemic summer of 2020, told from the perspective of Dale, a package delivery ...

I face the ban of TikTok (at least, the iteration that isn’t completely under the thumb of Donald Trump) in the United States ...

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Before I was the music fan I am now, when I was instead known as one of the resident film buffs at my ...

H. Nelson Tracey’s BREAKUP SEASON has a unique aura about it—there’s a dash of cynicism, certainly, but ultimately that energizes the film well, ...