Gatekeeping doesn't help anyone. All it does is shut down the conversation or put people off. Star Wars is for everyone. It's not more mine because I watched it as a kid than it is someone else's who just got into it. It's for us all and it's exhausting having this conversation over and over again.
Read MoreAyo and the Dora Milaje showed a measured level of patience in 'The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,' especially considering everything they've been through.
Read MoreA new report lays out the clearest picture we've gotten yet as to what went so wrong on January 6. And folks, it's not great.
Read MoreGiven the opportunity, I would cut Trump from In the Heights and any other movie he's been in. Thank god, Lin-Manuel Miranda made the choice for us!
Read MoreThe Flash is one of the most diverse shows in the Arrowverse that doesn't have a Black main character, plus with a Black showrunner, the expectations about how The Flash would handle this discourse in narrative has been brought up several times. The result, so far, is "Growing Pains."
Read MoreStates with anti-trans laws on the books could lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars in sports tourism revenue.
Read MoreThe giant killer starfish "kaiju" in the Suicide Squad trailer is actually a character called Starro with a long and fascinating DC history.
Read MoreStories are about show AND tell. They're both necessary tools in a writer's toolbox, so it makes little sense to favor one and get rid of the other altogether.
Read MoreWe, as a society, have moved past the need for Bill Maher's takes, and I'm glad that I'll continue to actually watch movies before opening my mouth about them. Unlike Maher.
Read MoreLike so many Angelenos, I had a very specific benchmark for post-COVID normalcy: seeing a film at the Arclight theater in Hollywood.
Read MoreArt imitates modern life.