Movies

Thirty-three years ago, Dirty Dancing hit big screens. Since then, it has become one of the most popular romance movies of all time. Generations of film fanatics have learned the story of Johnny Castle and Frances “Baby” Houseman—famously played by the late Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, respectively. While Dirty Dancing got released in 1987, it still...

If there’s someone who is universally loved – or at least tolerated – it’s Jane Austen. Sure, there are people who think they have hot takes, or who think themselves somehow special because they don’t enjoy her work, but by and large, people do. Which is why these 14 Tumblrs and their jokes can just...

I guess there are people in the world who still hate on Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice, but if you as me, it mostly just smacks of either envy or somehow thinking it makes you cool and superior to not like the thing everyone else enjoys. Because the story, the characters, and the adaptations have endured...

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 film starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters (who just happen to be real witches). In the movie, teenage Max Dennison is a new transplant to Salem, Massachusetts. He sets off a series of events that culminate in a graveyard battle with the witches....

It’s been a few years since the #metoo movement really got going, and since top male Hollywood figures have begun to surely quake in their boots, wondering when their past misdeeds will come for them. Because let’s face it…most of them have skeletons in their closet. Back in 2009, though, the culture of underage sexualization...

As something of a movie buff, I’ve sat through my fair share of stinkers in my life. Sometimes, I even enjoy a bad movie if it’s bad/good, like The Room, but then there are some films that are just painful and sitting through them feels like being in the dentist’s chair for 2 hours. Ugh! Here...

The best villains are people you can see their point of view, and maybe even be a little sympathetic toward. We’re all the heroes of our own stories, of course, so most “bad guys” believe they are doing things for the right reason. If your audiences end up rooting for the bad guy to win,...

The way you know a “bad” guy is well-written is that you can easily see where they’re coming from, you feel badly for them, and you can glimpse how, through their eyes, they’re doing the right thing. No one likes a cardboard, one-dimensional villain who is all bad and loves it, because that’s not real...