Author: David Grove
Warning! The following contains spoilers from the Shifting Gears Season 2 premiere, “Secret.” Stream the episode with a Hulu subscription, and read at your own risk!Shifting Gears beat the cancellation rumor mill and returned to the 2025 TV schedule to pick up on all the drama it set up at the end of Season 1. Season 2 picked up on that big cliffhanger where Matt and Eve shared a passionate kiss after being at odds for most of the season. It took a whole heap of guest stars to help push that storyline into its next exciting chapter, and I’m…
Each year, when Halloween rolls around, genre fans and general audiences alike look for horror movies to watch. Usually, they turn to the usual suspects — Halloween, Trick ‘r Treat, Night of the Demons. Beyond the well-known and beloved seasonal classics lies a chilling world of underrated gems that deserve a place on everyone’s October watch list. Despite being undersung, these great films deliver on atmosphere, chills, and setting — and they’re all set on or around the spooky holiday of Halloween. Curated below are such underrated horror movies that deserve to be Halloween staples. Some are underappreciated gems, others…
María Gabriela de Faría’s Angela Spicer, a.k.a. The Engineer, was one of Lex Luthor’s two main sources of muscle (and maybe a romantic interest) during the events of Superman. The nanotechnology in her body made her a formidable threat to David Corenswet’s Man of Steel in the 2025 movie release. As it turns out, de Faria came close to working with writer and director James Gunn earlier through his previous DC movie, The Suicide Squad. Unfortunately, a language barrier issue stopped that from happening.During her appearance on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, María Gabriela de Faría recalled to the…
How much the viewer cares about what happens to a film’s protagonist is typically indicative of its quality. Both love and hate are preferable to indifference: Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in Alien and Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris Washington in Get Out are resilient, humane, brave heroes worth rooting for, while Justin Long’s AJ in Barbarian is the human embodiment of toxic masculinity, male privilege and selfishness. These characters evoke nuanced emotional responses in audiences, and the unconventional protagonist of writer, director and cinematographer Ben Leonberg’s 2025 supernatural horror film Good Boy accomplishes this in the most familiar of ways — for…
Spoilers for Abbott Elementary’s Season 5 premiere are ahead! To catch up, you can stream new episodes the day after they air on ABC with a Hulu subscription. It’s back-to-school season, and the fall premieres are upon us on the 2025 TV schedule, which means it’s time to watch Season 5 of Abbott Elementary and talk about it. There’s a lot to talk about, too! Over the summer, there’s been a lot of moving and shaking in this Philadelphia school, both personally and professionally. However, there’s one change among the teachers that I really loved, and I need to talk…
After three epic seasons, Alice in Borderland has come to an end, leaving audiences with a mix of powerful reactions. Some viewers enjoyed the ending of Arisu’s story, while others believe there’s more to come, and some think that it should have ended earlier with season 2. But wherever you fall on the liked/disliked-the-ending spectrum, you probably walked away with several lingering questions. Starring Kento Yamazaki as Ryōhei Arisu, Alice in Borderland took place in the land between the living and the dead, aka the Borderlands. Here, survivors of near-death experiences were forced to compete in games in order to…
David Harbour and Pedro Pascal have known each since they were 17, with the former having joked about being “mad” at the latter for 30 years because he scored the lead role in a Northwestern play. These two will share screen time in December 2026 for Avengers: Doomsday, but that’s not the only movie they have coming up together. What’s even better is that this other movie is being put together by Andor creator Tony Gilroy.Fresh off Gilroy bringing one of the best Disney+ Star Wars TV shows to a close after two seasons earlier this year, he’ll next write…
Jon Bernthal truly cemented himself as an action star with his role in the kind-of-MCU/kind-of-not-MCU series The Punisher, with his eponymous hero now officially a part of the MCU, thanks to Daredevil: Born Again. Following his turns in the original Daredevil and The Punisher, but before Daredevil: Born Again and the new MCU The Punisher special, Jon Bernthal had time to star in one of the best action movies of 2025 so far. That movie just so happened to be the long-awaited sequel to one of Ben Affleck’s most underrated movies, the 2016 crime thriller The Accountant. Bernthal cameo’d in…
Kill Bill was never meant to be two movies. As originally crafted by Quentin Tarantino, the roaring rampage of revenge was supposed to be a three-hour cinematic epic to be digested in one sitting, and while the film does split in half quite nicely (with Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 each having their own distinct tones), the full experience that the writer/director intended audiences to have has never made it to theaters. That’s been a sad reality for decades… but it’s finally changing later this year.Fans have long been clamoring for a release of what has been dubbed Kill Bill:…
2026 is setting itself up to be another blistering year for Jason Statham fans as another of his upcoming action movies has finally set a release date. This time around, Statham will be battling the elements as well the usual rogue’s gallery of past mistakes, tough bad guys, and some dubious moral choices in the movie Shelter, which comes from Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh. Fans will get to kick off the year with the Stath, as the movie will be released in cinemas on January 30, 2026. The movie has plenty of the usual Statham elements, but…