Joel Cunningham's posts

Quibi was the largest backed streaming service you never heard of (or maybe never cared about) in early 2020. The…

United States copyright law is a real beast. There was a time, not so long ago, when any creative work would fall…

For a while, the biggest film story of 2020 was what movies weren’t coming out, as the pandemic closed theaters and…

Last summer, director Christopher Nolan had the hubris to think that Tenet was a movie people would risk their lives…

A wise man once said, “I love it when a plan comes together.” And we do too—especially when we’re watching a movie.

After a two-month pandemic delay, the 2021 Academy Awards will finally be handed out on Sunday, and the big question…

After a rather limp April slate, Netflix is springing into summer blockbuster season in May, packing its release…

Amazon Prime Video’s May slate of original series is a study in literary contrasts. On the one hand, we’ve got The…

Streaming services as still dealing with the fallout from the lack of big theatrical releases in 2020, which means…

It’s been a few months since the release of the first trailer for Disney’s Cruella (dropping on Disney+ this month…

The past year has inundated us with so many horrors—untold lives needlessly lost to a virus allowed to proliferate…

Cinema snobs the world over scoffed when polarizing director Zack Snyder announced that his indulgent superhero opus …

This morning, New York finally passed legislation to legalize recreational cannabis, making it the 16th state to do…

Amazon Prime Video’s newest original series will dive into a different kind of American horror story. THEM, from…

The Nevers, HBO’s next bid for genre TV dominance, premieres April 11, carrying with it hopes it will generate, if…

Ever since Game of Thrones rewrote HBO’s fortunes and became a worldwide phenomenon, Netflix has been chasing its…

In the 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced the Oscar for Best Animated Feature,…

There is a legend of a movie. A movie with a twist so ludicrous, I dare not speak of it, lest you scoff yourself…

Little ones, gather ‘round. Let me tell you a story of the dark times in the galaxy far, far away. Before the…

I know, I know, who needs another new streaming service in 2021, right? But Paramount+, which launched today, isn’t…