Share: The biggest movie theater chain, AMC, has recently announced their new program “sightline” which will create new pricing tiers for theater seats. The program will include three tiers with seats closest to the screen being value seats and seats in the middle being preferred seating. While this new system is still in its early development, it has already begun being implemented in the country. Many are questioning the motivation of AMC to make their product more exclusive when the company is still trying to …
Streaming service price hike forces students to give up services
Share: In 2023 there is no shortage of streaming services to choose from. Between HBO Max, Netflix, and Hulu the hours of bingeable shows and movies are endless but, the days of using your old roommate’s Netflix password are officially coming to an end. Netflix has recently announced its new plan to limit how people use the streaming service. Sharing an account password with someone outside of your immediate household will not be possible as early as March. Netflix’s plan has been met with immediate …
‘Knock at the Cabin’ almost knocks it out of the park
Share: “Knock at the Cabin” is a rare sight for filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, where the movie manages to impress and disappoint. At best, he reaches the early highs of his career marked by blockbusters such as “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs.” At worst, his failure to stick the landing harkens back to the disaster of “The Last Airbender.” “Knock at the Cabin” falls under this narrow margin, but not without striving for brilliance. Wen and her two dads, Eric and Andrew, drive to a …
And the award for most boring television broadcast goes to…
Share: For an industry whose main priority is making entertainment that attracts the largest audience, Hollywood excels in creating comatose-inducing award shows commemorating the quintessential “best” movies and TV shows. Unsurprisingly, that’s just the start of their many faults and hypocritical megalomania. When NBC canceled the Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 after a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed the awards body had no black members, the 2023 broadcast was poised for a momentous comeback. To their credit, ratings only fell by about 9% compared to …
‘M3GAN’ is killer, with minimal buffering
Share: You’re probably familiar with the old adage about shooting for the moon and landing amongst the stars. To begin this review by referencing that adage would be cheesy. Luckily “M3GAN” the latest theatrical release from the horror trailblazers at Blumhouse, pairs perfectly with a little cheese. M3GAN, short for Model 3 Generative Android, is an A.I. prototype willed and welded into existence by roboticist Gemma. Built to be the last toy any kid will ever need, M3GAN becomes just that and more when tragedy …
‘Glass Onion’ peels back layers in another Rian Johnson whodunnit
Share: After a sweeping box office success in 2019, Rian Johnson was off to the races to produce a sequel to “Knives Out” and after three years, a switch in distributors, and a pandemic, it finally arrived. Ditching the New England estate and familial setting, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” moves detective Benoit Blanc to a Grecian island owned by tech billionaire Miles Bron. The film follows a fantastic ensemble cast, so-called “disruptors” who are portrayed by the likes of Kathryn Hahn as Claire …
‘Halloween Ends’ and 9 other slasher movies you should be watching this October
Share: “Halloween Ends” arrived in theaters and streaming on Peacock last Friday, with the promise of bringing one of the most iconic and identifiable horror franchises to a close. The series, which began with John Carpenter’s undisputed classic in 1978, has followed masked serial killer Michael Myers in pursuit of babysitter Laurie Strode for more than a dozen films spanning over 40 years. Jamie Lee Curtis has starred as Strode since the original, and has vowed that “Ends” will be her final reprisal of the …
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ fails to serve suspense to its viewers
Share: While watching ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ there were a lot of questions. In fact, there are only questions. The unnecessarily long movie takes place in an experimental neighborhood designed to impersonate a perfect and safe community. Main characters Alice and Jack Chamber, played by Florence Pugh and Harry Styles respectively, live an ongoing honeymoon life with no kids and friends who act similarly. What seemed like a tired version of the Disney Plus series, Wanda Vision, takes a turn into becoming a semi-thriller when Alice …
Adorable capuchin steals the show in ‘Gigi & Nate’
Share: “Gigi & Nate” is a heartwarming tale of a boy who is given a capuchin monkey as a service animal after an accident causes him to become quadriplegic. An animal rights group threatens to take away Gigi, the monkey, the only thing that gives Nate a sense of what life was like before the accident. “I’m excited for them to see a genuinely emotional, entertaining, almost old-fashioned Billy Wilder kind of movie, which allows you to enter a beautiful domestic world and have a great …
Schitt’s Emmys, Zendaya’s ‘Euphoria,’ and Tyler Perry’s quilt?
Share: The camera pans between numerous celebrities sitting in the audience as Jimmy Kimmel goes through his opening monologue. From Keegan-Michael Key to Meryl Streep to even Kimmel himself sitting in front of Ted Danson, all laughing along with Kimmel’s jokes. The host then feigns confusion as to why he sees himself in the audience only for the camera to zoom out to a wide shot to reveal a hollow auditorium vacant of attendees. “Of course we don’t have an audience,” Kimmel said. “This isn’t …