SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Michael. Michael plays out as if it were a film adaptation of Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia page. Although the film has good intentions (or does it?), the execution falls obnoxiously short, making the entire film...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Half Man. Richard Gadd went from an unhinged stalker and the effects of sexual abuse trauma in Baby Reindeer to examining the intersection of toxic masculinity and male loneliness in his latest venture: Half Man....
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HERE LIES LOVE is living proof that Filipino performers will forever be a personification of the triple threat, making this production of Here Lies Love a well-oiled musical machine of Filipino history — a Filipino history that can be difficult to watch.
The almighty algorithm put this video of legends Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" on The Late Show with David Letterman on March 24, 1999: https://youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?si=H3DWnZoo7EZ4yoSx It's one of...
A couple of days ago, on a total whim, I decided to start a rewatch of A Different World, the seminal Cosby Show spin-off which followed the free-spirited, new-wave, and sartorially adventurous Denise Huxtable’s (Lisa Bonet) collegiate adventures at Hillman...
Before there were flames on the side of Madeline Kahn's face in Clue, Peter Sellers was doing full-on yellowface in the Robert Moore's whodunit? Murder By Death -- and we talked to singer, dancer, actor, and RuPaul's Drag Race icon Peppermint all about it! Set up...
I've never said so many "chlamydia" so many times during a press conference. In this different, BONUS episode of Problematic Fave, we bring you into the world of press conferences! I had the opportunity to moderate the press conference for the forthcoming comedy...
There are a lot of problematic films and TV series in Hollywood, but what about the industry itself? In this week's episode Dino-Ray Ramos chats Maureen Ryan, journalist, critic and author of the book "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in...
