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Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer, the most overrated metric in entertainment, is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. “Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do,” says filmmaker Paul Schrader.

American songwriting, whether it is folk, rock, or country, has a long history of featuring lyrics and music about the things that inspire the writers. In 1970, after one singer had been performing onstage for only a few months, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert came across him quite by accident. And the experience floored […]

"Rich Men North of Richmond" touched people for different reasons, but mainly the daily struggles of making ends meet and never moving up.

Lance Storm wrestled before Dave Meltzer's star ratings systems took off, and he remembers when fans didn't used to care about those things.

If you were a person who has lived the pain Anthony wrote about, you knew immediately it was never about the Right or the Left.

September 5, 2023 Movie trailers exist for one reason: to get us to see an upcoming film. At times, trailers contain too much of the plot; most of us have

THE FOUNDATION "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This...

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Usually I write my 'Last Week In Life' post detailing what happened in history and the  current news the previous week. August was  a tad bit busy, having

September 4, 2023 The word "cringe" is often used online – as an adjective, not a verb. Often a 20- or 30-something will declare the arts and