Stories By Julia Rhodes
Movies
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
May 29, 2025The toys have to employ numerous Rube Goldberg-style methods of escape—one imagines that board meetings with...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Remakes We Love
May 28, 2025Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in June 11’s remake of The Karate Kid. This week’s release...
The Fourth Wall
QUIT IT! (A Moviegoer’s Pet Peeves)
May 25, 2025In the last year or so I’ve become almost as comfortable in the local theater as...
Sex
Movie Review: Sex and the City 2
May 25, 2025Abu Dhabi, in case you were unaware, is the “new Middle East” and Dubai is “over.”...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Epic Movies of Epic Epicness
May 24, 2025Aside from questionable casting and probable cheesiness, this week’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
May 23, 2025Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Movies
What summer should have been: Camp in Movies and TV
May 21, 2025It’s already mid-May, guys. Summer’s nearly upon us. “Summer” means something different to everyone, but universally...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Action Heroines!
May 21, 2025For some reason Ridley Scott decided another retelling of Robin Hood was a good idea, and...
Movies
The Final Word: Is horror better left off-screen?
May 20, 2025Welcome back to The Final Word, a running feature from me (Julia Rhodes) and William Bibbiani,...
Television
Discussion: The Best TV of the Last Fifteen Years
May 19, 2025TV: Is it making us dumber, and how is it changing? (Aside from the fact that...




