None of Hollywood's currently striking writers and actors will come right out and say it, but they’re all pining for the past when box...

As I type these words, more than 11,500 Writers Guild of America members are striking. One of their chief demands against the studios at...

An early scene in Air–the Ben Affleck-directed, Matt Damon-starring movie about Nike’s signing of Michael Jordan to the most culturally...

I’m terrible at a lot of things. Recognizing celebrities in public is one of them. Growing up in Miami, I had plenty of opportunities to...

It’s been almost 30 years since I had a phone number with a 305 area code. But these Miami-inspired social feeds take me back to the...

Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying describes a series of emotions experienced by dying...

Oh, Internet. Time and again you do your best to hurt me. But like any soul-crushing addiction worth the chase and inevitable...

Every person over sixty who’s clicked through to this story after sizing up its title probably checked with their doctor first to see if...

I stayed out of her way. That’s how you direct the truly talented ones. It was a Saturday in August 2008, and I needed the scene to work...

I still remember the day in the fifth grade back in 1987 when smooth-talking Stevie “Twinkies” fleeced me out of a Little Debbie cupcake...

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The most interesting athlete in the Tokyo Summer Olympics will carry the American flag in today’s opening ceremony. I should know. I...

Maybe it’s because it was released in 2020, a social-watershed of a year destined to baffle and fascinate historians for decades to come....

When Colin Kaepernick stood in front of his locker in 2016 and explained to the press that in protest of rampant police brutality against...

The first thing George Holliday shot with his brand new Sony camcorder in early 1991 was footage of Arnold Schwarzenegger on a motorcycle...

No point in issuing a spoiler alert. You already know how Joker ends. It’s in the title. It’s on the poster. It’s in the trailer. By the...

I wasn't going to leave until he agreed to be in my movie, but for a guy with his own art palace and beer label, he sure seemed to have a...

Arguably the greatest standup comedian of his generation, Dave Chappelle's most enlightened political joke was unleashed not during his...

On December 21, 1979, at just after 1 AM, thirty-three-year-old Arthur McDuffie left his girlfriend’s apartment in Miami’s Liberty City...

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I'll admit it for you if, unlike the rest of the internet, you're still in denial. The series finale of Game of Thrones didn't satisfy....

“Having a bad day? Going nowhere fast? The economy making you tense? Afraid to walk the streets? Life in the ‘90s got you down? What are...

Filmmaker John Singleton died yesterday at 51. Most will remember him for his 1991 debut Boyz N the Hood. I’ll forever remember him for...