We’re a few days into the new year, and a calendar of promising cultural output is on the horizon. As we dive into what’s hopefully a strong year for film and TV, here’s my list of the 10 things I’m most excited for in the next ten months. …

If you’ve read my list of the 20 best films of 2022, you’ll know how important individual moments of brilliance — good beginnings, good endings, good scenes in between — were to determining what I considered the really great films of the past year. So here are the ten best…

It’s been interesting seeing the breadth of good films each year claw back after the pandemic. In 2020, I had to merge my best film and TV lists into one, because there wasn’t enough of either. Last year I was just about able to assemble 10 films worthy of being…

Movie marketing, baby! It’s an art form all of its own. And while commercial films with significant budgets tend to have more impressively cut trailers, it’s still a form of cultural hype-building worthy of recognition, in my opinion. So here are my ten favourite trailers of 2022. Some of these…

It can be hard to determine what TV shows are ‘better’ than others in a given year. With films, it’s one contained project that can be reassessed easily a number of times. With TV, it’s many hours that may have ups and downs in quality; often part of a multiyear…

If I had a nickel for every time in the past 5 years somebody either from my own life, or on Twitter Dot Com (a good website owned by very ethical and normal people), has complained that “they” don’t make “rom-coms” anymore, I’d be a wealthy man. As a stiff…

She always keeps us on our toes. And this Friday, Taylor Swift will drop her 10th original studio album with not a single, music video or even a snippet of a song to be spoken of. It’s a thrilling anticipatory period for a major pop record, and a perfect opportunity…