'Golden Bachelor's 10 Best Contestants, Ranked

The Golden BachelorpremieredonSeptember 28, 2023,and put asenior-focused spinon the iconicBachelorfranchise. After years ofBachelorNation being dominated by 20 and 30-year-olds looking for love,The Golden Bachelorwas afresh take on romance and relationships.Withwidower Gerry Turner as the leading man, the show tackled topics such as losing a spouse andgiving love a second chancelater in life. And whileonly one contestant walks away with the final roseon theBachelorfranchise, many of them go down in history as fan favorites....

August 13, 2025 · 11 min · 2340 words · Brandon Lowery

'Leave the World Behind's Freaky Deer Have a Deeper Meaning

This month,Sam Esmailbrought an eerie apocalyptic adaptation ofRumaan Alam’sLeave the World Behindto Netflix. Set in a remote home on Long Island, the film centers on a family who just want to enjoy a nice vacation in a luxury rental. However, things quickly go south when two mysterious strangers arrive unannounced as the United States falls into disarray following a devastating cyberattack. While the group is cut off from the rest of society, they still experience similar events, with packs of strange deer included....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 459 words · Mr. Paul Moore

'Rogue One' Writer Strikes Back Against Those Director Rumors

Last week, it was reported thatthe famous Darth Vader sequencefrom the final moments ofRogue One: A Star Wars Storyhad been allegedly directed byDave Filoni. After all, the source had been pretty reliable, sinceFreddie Prinze Jr.was the one who stated that theAhsokashowrunner was behind the camera for one of the film’s most memorable scenes. Prinze Jr. voiced the Jedi Kanan Jarrus over the course ofStar Wars: Rebels, an animated series focusing on the crew of theGhost, and their journey that would eventually lead them to a confrontation with the evil Grand Admiral Thrawn....

August 13, 2025 · 2 min · 412 words · Erica Pittman

'Selling Sunset's 10 Best Episodes, Ranked

Netflix’s reality showSelling Sunsetpremiered back in March 2019 and introduced viewers to the high-stakes world ofluxury real estate.The show has spanned across eight seasons so farand, over the years, the drama among the agents at The Oppenheim Group has only gotten crazier. Despiteseveral agents quitting the show,Selling Sunsethas managed to keep the audience engaged with its mix ofmulti-million dollar properties and the never-ending controversythe cast keeps finding themselves in. Whether it’s high-end listings, crazy rivalries, or even a little bit of romance here and there, every season ofSelling Sunsetis more intense than the last....

August 13, 2025 · 9 min · 1822 words · Lisa Day

'The Last Drive-In' Renewed For Season 7 at Shudder

Horror hostJoe Bob Briggssays the drive-in will never die, and for another season, he’s not wrong. In a boon to mutants everywhere,Shudderhas renewed Briggs' popular seriesThe Last Drive-Infor a seventh season. Briggs announced the news himself on his Twitter account. The Last Drive-Incomes in the form of a specially curated horror movie (as Briggs says in the announcement, sometimes great, sometimes not-so-great, and sometimes horrible) interspersed with host segments from Briggs, co-host Darcy the Mail Girl (Diana Prince), and a variety of special guests....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 442 words · Ronald Moore

'Win or Lose': Everything We Know About Pixar's Upcoming Television Series

Quick Links For many, the animated films created byPixarstudios are considered some of the best–whether they’re full of hilarious monsters, space-age adventures, talking toys, and everything fantastical in between, their charm appeals to viewers, young and old. Now, with a little help from Disney+, they’re about to make a big leap in the realm of TV too. First announced in December 2020, Pixar revealed that they were working on their first original TV series,Win or Lose....

August 13, 2025 · 5 min · 967 words · Jennifer Dean

10 Best Indie Movies With Great Acting, Ranked

Independent filmmaking is the foundation for which the film industry lies, so it is no surprise that it often provides the medium with its greatest performances. The unfortunate truth isthat superhero movies and other blockbustersno longer give performers the opportunity to truly sink their teeth into roles that challenge them. Acting has often become commerce and nothing else, but the best of indie cinema is able to remind performers and cinephiles alike why filmmaking is such an exciting art form....

August 13, 2025 · 9 min · 1804 words · Krystal Travis

10 Best War Adventure Movies, Ranked

A good many war movies are grim and decidedly not adventurous in spirit, and rightly so, but with a little tweaking tonally and/or narratively, war movies can get away with also being adventure movies. Sometimes, they’re more comedic in nature, andother times, the thrills and excitement of going somewhere unfamiliar are balanced out well with anti-war sentiments or themes. The following films tend to do one or the other, and can all be considered great war-adventure movies....

August 13, 2025 · 8 min · 1587 words · Jo Peterson

10 Most Underrated TV Shows of the 2000s, Ranked

When thinking of the 2000s and TV shows, some of the most iconic series of the last 20 years come to mind. Among these are shows likeThe Wire,Mad Men, andThe Sopranos,series that have not only withstood the test of time, but went on to re-define television in the 21st century. But the turn of the century also marks the launch of exciting shows that didn’t get as much attention. A few of them have returned in some fashion, one is even still on the air....

August 13, 2025 · 9 min · 1830 words · James Cox

1917 Co-Writer Krysty Cairns-Wilson on How to Write a One-Shot Movie

How does one go about writing a movie that plays out in a single shot? And how does that differ from writing a traditional film script? Greatly, according to1917co-writerKrysty Wilson-Cairns. The up-and-coming writer had worked on two projects with Oscar-winning directorSam Mendesthat never came to fruition before theSkyfallfilmmaker called her up one day and pitched her1917. Inspired by stories from his grandfather, the film would follow a soldier through his experiences in World War I, and would be incredibly personal and character-driven....

August 13, 2025 · 16 min · 3217 words · Hayley Cook

7 Drama Movies We Wished Could Have Ended Differently

Over the years, Hollywood has produced many films that have remained the cinema classics we know today. Unfortunately, the reputation of many films is tarnished as a mere result of unsatisfactory endings. RELATED:10 Shocking Movie Endings That No One Saw Coming Whether an inadequate ending is a direct result of the lack of vision from the script, the director, or post-production, no viewers are eager to waste two hours of their life being invested in a story that ends half-heartedly....

August 13, 2025 · 7 min · 1379 words · Regina Morse

A24 'Friday the 13th' Prequel Series Loses Showrunner Bryan Fuller

TheFriday the 13thFranchise has taken another hit. It has been a crazy week full of conflicting reports for the series, reports said Peacock’sCrystal Lakeprequel was being shelved and later reworked. Now, for fans who were finally excited to see Friday the 13th return in some form, it looks like the latter was true, as the seriesjust lost its showrunnerBryan Fuller. This was confirmed by Fuller late Wednesday evening, who also revealed that the series is still going forward....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 492 words · Wendy Butler

Aaron Sorkin Takes on Mark Zuckerberg over Political Ads

Aaron Sorkinwrote one of the best movies of the decade with the scathingThe Social Network. AlthoughMark Zuckerbergwould like us to believe that the genesis of Facebook came about becausehe was just so gosh-darned concernedabout the Iraq War and not a spiteful little dweeb who made a hot-or-not clone called Facemash, the events that led to Facebook’s creation were successfully chronicled inBen Mezrich’s bookThe Accidental Billionairesand then adapted by Sorkin andDavid Fincherto provide a bit of sympathy to Zuckerberg but not so much that the film missed the irony of someone who built a way to connect people but ended up completely alone....

August 13, 2025 · 3 min · 565 words · Kimberly Mcguire