Chris Hodges

1 week ago | looper.com | Chris Hodges

So many of the best reality dating shows are built around the concept of attractive people falling in love with each other, but "Love is Blind" at least attempts to go a different route — even if all of the contestants are still very much conventionally attractive people. The premise is that the men and women are completely cut off from one another in different areas, and go on dates in pods where they can only hear but not see one another.

1 week ago | looper.com | Chris Hodges

The James Bond movie franchise is over 60 years old, and encompasses 25 official films as of this writing — not including 1967's weird parody version of "Casino Royale" or 1983's legally complicated "Never Say Never Again." It's overwhelming enough for 007 fans to keep up with it all, to say nothing of people who are looking to jump into the franchise and have no clue where to start.

2 weeks ago | looper.com | Chris Hodges

There are actors who seem to be in every other movie and it begins to feel like too much. Then there is someone like Timothée Chalamet, who seems to be in every other movie but nobody minds one bit. It helps that he's not only immensely talented, but tends to be picky about his projects and almost never attaches his name to a creative misfire.

3 weeks ago | looper.com | Chris Hodges

Movies are constantly doing the streaming service shuffle, leaving one service only to join another shortly thereafter. Only those who make the decisions and sign the contracts know the benefits of this churn, and why it isn't easier to just let each service have a certain percentage of the available movies and leave it at that. All we know as movie watchers is that it means we need to subscribe to more of these services than we'd prefer if we want access to as many movies as possible.

1 month ago | looper.com | Chris Hodges

"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" is a story all about how a teenager named Will (Will Smith) got sent to live with his wealthy relatives in California for a better life. The ensuing culture clash between Philadelphia-raised Will and his Bel Air aunt, uncle, and cousins kept audiences entertained between 1990 and 1996 — not to mention launching the career of one of the highest-paid actors of all time.