A confession: I’m not wild about Christmas. As somebody who gets unnecessarily neurotic about whether or not everybody else is having a good time, the onset of shopping crowds, traveling woes, gift-buying difficulties, and food-related malaise often overwhelms my delicate constitution. (Also, the constant claptrap about the War on Christmas doesn’t make the season any more fun.) But there are a handful of Christmas traditions I have adopted over the years that have made the last six weeks of the year something close to bearable. Read More...
Leave it to Six Feet Under to achieve a happy ending by showing the deaths of each of its major characters. Well, happy in a depressing, make you reach for a Kleenex while contemplating the meaning of mortality kind of way. But who would want it any different? If nothing else, Six Feet Under has, in a pop-cultural sense, normalized the end of life, pulling back the curtain to remind us that the process can be painful, absurd, violent, funny, peaceful, sad, and beautiful, sometimes all at once. Read More...
With its incredible costumes and twisted fairy-tale plot, Snow White and the Huntsman won over audiences when it was released in theaters back in June. Now the dark adventure, starring Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen and Twilight favorite Kristen Stewart as Snow White, is set to come out on DVD and Blu-ray with an extended cut and behind-the-scenes features on Sept. 11. In the exclusive clip from the release below, the cast (including Theron, Chris Hemsworth, and Sam Claflin) discuss director Rupert Sanders’ vision for the film and show some of the original storyboards for the concept. Read More...
