This week’s podcast episode/article is about Spice World, AKA The Most Feminist Movie Ever Made. Directed by Bob Spiers and written by Kim Fuller, it’s the Platonic Ideal of Major Motion Pictures (Except not, because Plato was a raging misogynist,…
This week, we’re talking about Michael Moore’s (somehow) Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling For Columbine. Released in 2002, it was a hit with audiences and critics alike, garnering rave reviews and grossing $58 million, which is a lot for a doc. Named…
Based on the novel by Helen Fielding, the 2001 film adaptation of Bridget Jones’ Diary is a comic masterpiece. Twenty years after its initial release, this film holds up (almost entirely, but admittedly not completely). Let’s revisit this tale of…
Die Hard, the movie straight men love to mansplain to women at bars, has become something of a Christmas classic. While the film was released in July of 1988, it is set on Christmas Eve. And the action may revolve…
It’s a fact, universally acknowledged, that 1994 was the most important year for holiday music in the history of the world. That’s because two iconic holiday anthems, Adam Sandler’s “The Hanukkah Song” and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas…
This week, we’re discussing what could be the most toxic holiday movie ever made, The Family Stone. That’s right, readers, this horror show hidden behind mistletoe is probably more problematic than Love, Actually. Released in 2005, and directed by Tom…
This week, we’re revisiting Grey’s Anatomy. Now in its 17th season (Yes, the show is almost old enough to vote), it debuted to critical acclaim in 2005. Created by Shonda Rhimes, it chronicled the professional and personal lives of surgical…
Before BTS Versus Blackpink, before anyone heard of Drake Or Meek Mill, there was a legendary rivalry between America’s two biggest boy bands, NSync And The Backstreet Boys… The Backstreet Boys were older, both as a band and as people…
The West Wing is everyone’s favourite ensemble drama about what would happen if the president didn’t suck. Created by Aaron Sorkin, King of the Smug Fast Talkers, the series debuted in 1999 and aired until 2006. It follows the madcap…
This week, The Hold Up revisits Bring It On. Released twenty years ago, the iconic teen comedy became a mainstay on the Tween Sleepover circuit. But does this cheerful (pun intended) film hold up to the standards of 2020? It’’s…