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28 Years Later gives viewers both thoughtful commentary and jagged flaws to chew on

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

Britain isn't just the home of Paddington Bear, infamous dentistry, and colonialism. In the 28 Days Later universe, it's also the place where, circa. 2002, the Rage Virus spread like wildfire and turned human beings into vicious, speedy zombies. As its title indicates, 28 Years Later begins 28 years after this apocalyptic scourge began. Surviving humans have carved out new, heavily fortified lives just to survive from one day to the next.
Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck is a soulful, profoundly moving exercise

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

Some quality movies seemed destined for greatness from the get-go. How could combining Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart into one comedy, for instance, not result in a masterpiece like The Philadelphia Story? Lynne Ramsay’s insightful and harrowing sensibilities, meanwhile, were perfect for adapting the Jonathan Ames novella You Were Never Really Here. The Life of Chuck is not one of those features.
The overcrowded but charming Elio works best channeling cosmic weirdness

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

We all know space is the final frontier. For 11-year-old Elio Solis (Yonas Kibreab), it's also the only frontier that matters. After his parents perished, Elio now lives with his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña). An employee working for the U.S. military’s space program, Olga’s struggling to find her footing as a mother. While these two grow more distant with each other, Elio becomes increasingly enamored with the idea of aliens abducting him. Perhaps somebody in the cosmos will finally accept him.
2025's How to Train Your Dragon is both slightly better and much worse than it could've been

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

It’s funny to remember how Lilo & Stitch helmers Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois were last-minute replacement directors on the original How to Train Your Dragon. Under those circumstances, they had only 15 months to realize their vision for this fantasy adventure (typically, big-budget American animated movies take four years to produce).
How to Train Your Dragon soars to the top of the Father's Day 2025 box office

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

“This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!”That’s what so many box office analysts and film observers must be saying after this weekend’s box office frame, which solidified that Universal/DreamWorks Animation can also make bank with live-action remakes of animated features. Disney no longer has a monopoly on this cursed market. “There are two of them”, indeed.
Give me The Paper series immediately

1 week ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

It's my most-anticipated show at the moment. This fall, The Office universe will officially expand with The Paper -- a similar series focused on the staff of a newsroom rather than the office of a paper company. The two shows share the same creator, which means audiences can expect a familiar style in this spinoff compared to the original show. There are plenty of reasons I need to see this show immediately.
Come and See earns its legendary cinema status with its harrowing depiction of Hell on Earth

2 weeks ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

CW: Discussions of genocide, sexual assault, violence, and other disturbing topics is ahead. In American cinema, viewers are trained to look upward when explosions fill the screen. These fiery events make western audiences gaze to the heavens, seeing just how high the fireball has gone or bearing witness to how powerfully it’s spread shrapnel. Elem Klimov’s grueling masterpiece Come and See, though, ensured I’ll never look at an explosion the same way again.
10 romance books to add to your beach bag for summer 2025

2 weeks ago | culturess.com | Rebecca Mills

These 10 romances will have you feeling even hotter on the beach. With the hot weather finally hitting most of the US, many are planning a trip to the beach. Whether it's a quick weekend trip or a week-long stint, it's all about relaxing and getting in the sun. What better way to relax than reading a romance book? No matter how long you're planning to be at the beach, you can't go wrong in adding a book or your Kindle to your beach bag.
Taylor Swift's debut (Taylor's Version) will be her most interesting re-recording yet

2 weeks ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

That is, if she ever releases it. Since Taylor Swift first began releasing her "Taylor's Version" re-recordings in the spring of 2021, I've been looking forward to Taylor Swift (TV) more than any of the other five albums on the list. This is a much more complex discussion now that Swift has reclaimed ownership of her master recordings, which was the whole reason for her "Taylor's Version" albums to begin with.
Bob's Burgers recap and review: The Place Beyond the Pinecones

2 weeks ago | culturess.com | Rebecca Mills

Gather round, it's time to talk about "The Place Beyond the Pinecones." If there's one thing we can all appreciateBob's Burgers for, it's how the show pays homage to certain things while also avoiding saying its true name. One of the more obvious picks has to be The Thundergirls. We all know that it's the show's version of Girl Scouts but the show decided to go with the same idea but put a twist on it. However, the Thundergirls are truly much more ruthless than any Girl Scout troop I've ever seen.