Without Mel Brooks, comedy simply wouldn’t be the same. His works turned low-brow humor and vulgarity into sophisticated art. From the early years growing up in Brooklyn, Mel always had a knack for making people laugh. He also had a penchant for music, having worked as a drummer in his teens. After serving in the US army disarming landmines during World War II, he took on comedy full time, working in clubs and an occasional radio stint before becoming a writer on Your Show of Shows....

The holiday season is currently upon us and cable channels are in full competition to see who can cram the most Christmas movies down our throats by the time December 25th comes around. We’re definitely not complaining, especially when those movies include classics such as A Charlie Brown Christmas Special. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole gang of Peanuts give one of their best on-screen performances in this particular special as everybody’s favorite group of blockheads try to find the real meaning of Christmas....

No matter if you prefer Mary Lambert’s original 1989 take on the story, or the recent remake by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, one element of Pet Sematary that always works is “Church” the cat: a smelly, reanimated feline and one of the spookiest parts of both the novel and films. But Church isn’t nearly the most dangerous, frightening, or disturbing animal in cinema. Below are ten other flicks featuring killer creatures that would have Stephen King’s zombie cat messing in his litter box....

Budgets for Hollywood movies can get pretty intense. Of course, action flicks, superhero movies, and anything with lots of explosions and inhuman characters is likely to rack up quite a lot of expenses. That being said, it’s really the CGI effects that cost A LOT of pennies. Most movies with these kinds of effects make for a pretty intense and incredible cinematic experience, but has anyone ever wondered just how much the best effects out there actually cost?...

“God is dead.” In three words, Friedrich Nietzsche declared the end of the almighty. In AMC’s upcoming and hotly anticipated new drama, Preacher, the protagonist strives to fulfill Nietzsche’s vision. In short, Preacher is a comic-book-turned-TV series about killing God. For the American Movie Channel, whose scripted dramas are founded on such phenomena as Breaking Bad and Mad Men, these will be their highest stakes to date. Premiering on May 22, you have several weeks to check out the source material and gear up for the release of what will surely be cable television’s most graphic, scandalous and shocking material....

The movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are always so busy referencing each other and throwing in Easter eggs that tease future sequels and storylines and character introductions that you wouldn’t think they’d have time to make reference to movies and TV shows outside the MCU. And yet, they do! Tony Stark is responsible for most of the movie and TV references in the MCU. He’s given pretty much everyone a pop culture-inspired nickname: Hawkeye is “Legolas,” Thor is “Point Break,” Bucky is “Manchurian Candidate,” Peter Quill is “Flash Gordon,” Loki is “Rock of Ages” etc....

In the months leading up to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fans spent a lot of time theorizing about what might happen in the new film. When they finally got to see the movie, they discovered that there was still plenty left to be discussed, as not all the questions initially posed were answered. Moviegoers are now beginning the wait for Episode 8, and they’re going back to what they do best: speculating about Star Wars....

HBO’s eclectic anthology series Room 104, created by the Duplass brothers, is the perfect vehicle for providing new filmmakers across all genres with an opportunity to create cinematic stories about the lives of people checking into an unnamed hotel in America. Filmmakers involved in the series include So Yong Kim, Patrice Brice, Liza Johnson, and Sarah Adina Smith. Room 104 does a good job of breaking out into dreamlike sequences, where distinctions between reality and fantasy are completely obscured....

Netflix’s groundbreaking miniseries Unbelievable is a show that really lives up to its name. Of course, the title most clearly refers to the fact that a young girl who comes forward with her experience of rape is not believed and treated absolutely abysmally by all of the people around her. But there is also an obvious meta level meaning to it, because honestly the entire story is so insane that it really is hard to believe, even if the audience knows that the story is true....

Among all the extremely exciting MCU news that came out of Comic-Con, we received a lot of details on the very intriguing upcoming film, The Eternals. The film will be directed by Chloe Zhao and feature a star-studded cast including the likes of Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani and Angelina Jolie. The story follows a group of superpowered beings and is said to expand thousands of years across the Marvel Universe. With an epic story like that, there’s no doubt the movie will feature some huge revelations about the MCU and set the stage for the future as well....

The first trailer for Assassin’s Creed finally came out late last week, and expectations for the adaption of the popular video game series are already running high. Fans are hoping that this could be one of the first successful films based on a game, and maybe even be the start of a film franchise. Nobody wants another movie to add to the long list of game adaption flops, but there are a lot of things Assassin’s Creed is going to have to do to please both the casual fans and the gamers in the audience....

The next season of BoJack Horseman will air on Netflix at the end of the month, and its sixth season will be its last. The announcement was made via YouTube, with the closing season of the animated series set to debut in two installments in October and January respectively. BoJack has been one of Netflix’s biggest successes and has tackled serious stigmas surrounding mental health whilst luring fans with the vibrant, colorful world of anthropomorphic characters....

One of the reasons for the lagging movement in achieving GDPR compliance is the poor understanding of what the regulation expects you, as a business, to do. GDPR is many things, but one thing that’s universal about it is the regulation is all about the data. In this article, I’ll look at 10 areas that touch on the data requirements of GDPR. Consent to process data Consent is the legal basis upon which the GDPR pivots....

If your program is about time travel, there are bound to be plot holes, so it stands to reason that Doctor Who is riddled with them. Many of these plot holes aren’t even time related, however, and merely point to overlooked details or dropped stories. From Davros’s reality bomb that had to go off in some parallel universe to supposedly fixed points in time constantly changing, rules are often broken on the show, leaving gaping plot voids the serpent in the Thames could easily pass through....

After two very controversial seasons, 13 Reasons Why will return for Season 3, Netflix has confirmed. Originally based on the book of the same name by Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why exhausted its source material in Season 1, and branched out on its own for Season 2 under showrunner Brian Yorkey. The show originally told the story of Hannah Baker, and her decision to commit suicide. However, 13 Reasons Why has become much more about the lives of a group of teenagers, each of whom is struggling with their own issues....

San Diego Comic-Con 2019 happened just a few weeks ago and the Marvel Cinematic Universe did not leave their fans empty-handed. After presenting the beginning of Phase 4, fans got to learn about the new films as well as actors who will be joining the MCU within the next two years, both on the big screen and Disney+. However, one actor who a lot of fans, as well as people at Marvel Studios, want to join the MCU, is the one and only Keanu Reeves....

Sylvester Stallone practically invented the now-clichéd boxing underdog story that has been copied over and over with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for the first Rocky movie back in 1976. Although the studio didn’t expect it to do well, it came out of the gate and became a tremendous box office success. Boxing isn’t universally relatable, but going after your goals against all odds definitely is. The boxing is all just an elaborate metaphor built around that theme....

TV is a fickle game, and loving TV is like being married to a bipolar flamethrower. Whether you’re basking in the glory of a perfect show as it gets canceled and ripped from your life forever, or that one show you used to love just keeps piling up on your DVR after the past three seasons of mediocrity, to watch TV is to flirt with danger. But for every TV show you’ve fallen in love with are a hundred more that you never got the chance to see....

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019) released to thunderous media and audience buzz. The last year has been a landmark one in the music biopic circuit. Despite the controversy surrounding director Bryan Singer and rampant questions concerning the film’s accuracy, Bohemian Rhapsody managed to demolish box office records and procure four Oscars (including the highly coveted Oscar for best actor). While it didn’t quite measure up to Bohemian Rhapsody’s lush box office success, Rocketman held its own, enjoying seemingly boundless praise for its production quality and for Taron Egerton’s performance as the force of nature that is Elton John....

You’d be hard-pressed to find an action movie as insane as John Woo’s Face/Off. The premise alone is like a mad joke. An FBI agent (John Travolta) undergoes a procedure to have the face of a terrorist (Nicolas Cage) swapped with his. The plan unsurprisingly goes wrong when the terrorist steals the agent’s face to take his identity. That’s just the beginning of the madness as Travolta and Cage give some of their most outrageous performances, going way over-the-top in impersonating each other....