SPOILER ALERT: This article includes specific details about revival of A Different World. The other day I made it my responsibility to teach a young Gen Z’er about the original A Different World and how it was a spin-off of The Cosby Show. I went into a full-on...
A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve. Around 2018, when I was an editor at Deadline Hollywood, I had a lunch meeting at what was then known as the H Club in...
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A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve. During a post-movie dinner with a group of fellow Filipinos, the conversation turned to a film little known beyond the...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about It Ends, Passenger, and Camp Rock 3. It Ends… or does it? Following the success of Backrooms and Obsession, director Alex Ullom is the latest to jump on the horror auteur train with It Ends. It Ends premiered at...
There was a cathartic validation while reading Roshan Sethi’s debut novel, The Simp, a searingly realistic tale about the absurdity of Hollywood in all its white splendor. The Simp follows the aforementioned Raj, an unemployed actor who lands a job as an assistant...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about season two of Beef. When the first season of Beef premiered in 2023, the golden age of the DEI movement in Hollywood was running its final laps, but Lee Sung Jin’s dark comedy was a manifestation of how many people...
The first season of Hacks premiered on May 13, 2021, on HBO Max, and it was a juggernaut of a show, immediately receiving critical praise and accolades. The show’s premise seems standard: a legendary comedy icon, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), meets struggling...
If there is one thing that Dan Levy does exceptionally, it’s playing one-half (or in the case of Big Mistakes, one-third) of a siblinghood. His lovingly intense and frantic chemistry with Annie Murphy’s Alexis Rose in Schitt’s Creek was on point, showing a...
