Featured Stories
SNL@50: The Eras: 1976-1979: Addition By Subtraction
For most shows, losing your biggest and most popular star would be fatal. For SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it only made it better. [click for more]
Month: October 2024
Featured Stories
We Found It On Streaming: WEREWOLVES WITHIN (2021)
WEREWOLVES WITHIN is an excellent blend of horror and comedy, with a great cast from top to bottom and witty writing that balances the scares and the laughs. [click for more]
Featured Stories
SATURDAY NIGHT And The Truth Of “Based On A True Story”
SATURDAY NIGHT asks the question of how much creative license is too much, and how lack of authenticity affects the film. [click for more]
Movie News
READY OR NOT 2 In Development
Samara Weaving’s Bride is coming back. [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: SATURDAY NIGHT A Frenetic Love Letter To A Comedic Institution
Director Jason Reitman takes us behind the scenes of the iconic SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE with a (fictionalized) telling of the ninety minutes leading up to the show’s very first broadcast. [click for more]
Featured Stories
SNL@50: The Other SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
In 1975, two SATURDAY NIGHT LIVES debuted. One is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the other did even last a year. We talk about that one here. [click for more]
Featured Stories
We Found It On Streaming: SCARE ME (2020)
SCARE ME is a creepy display of the horrors of storytelling, buoyed by the performance of its leads, that can’t quite make it to the finish line intact. [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s DAYTIME REVOLUTION
For one week in February 1972, the counterculture invaded America’s living rooms as John Lennon and Yoko Ono served as co-hosts on the wildly popular THE MIKE DOUGLAS talk show. [click for more]
Podcast
The Big Picture Podcast: Moving To MEGALOPOLIS
On this episode, Rich Drees and Natasha Bogutzki take time to remember the career of the great Dame Maggie Smith before taking a trip to inspect Francis Ford Coppola’s life-long passion project, MAGAOPOLIS. [click for more]
Featured Stories
SNL@50: The Eras: 1975-1976: In The Beginning
Our first SNL era covers the first, tumultuous year of the show. We cover its growing pains, its successes and its failures. [click for more]