Skillful marketing, expensive cast packs theaters for one of the most anticipated films of 2022. PHOTO CREDIT: dontworrydarling.movie Few movies in recent years have had the same level of publicized off-screen drama as Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling.” From the supposed “spitting” at the Venice Film Festival to the controversial union of Harry Styles and…
Starring Brigit Mendler, Disney’s notorious musical film “Lemonade Mouth” never gets old. PHOTO CREDIT: IMBD When you hear the phrase “‘Disney Channel Original Movie,” what’s the first title that pops into your head? I’m willing to bet you were immediately drawn to the classics: something like the “High School Musical” or “Camp Rock” trilogies. Don’t…
Martin, Short, Gomez become television’s new trifecta Follow three iconic strangers as their shared love for true crime creates a tight-knit podcast team. PHOTO CREDIT: Rotten Tomatoes With a stacked cast and plenty of plot twists, “Only Murders in the Building” is a captivating, hilarious take on the popular whodunit mystery narrative. Starring Steve Martin,…
Director, producer Ti West continues year of success The sequel to “X,” “Pearl” provides viewers with a balance of horror and homage. PHOTO CREDIT: IMBD Following up his A24-backed hit “X” (2022), writer and director Ti West came back swinging with “Pearl,” the latest installment in his franchise. Operating as a prequel to the original…
The last three semesters as The Good Five Cent Cigar’s entertainment editor––and the two years before this time as a reporter––have provided me with some tremendous opportunities to meet some pretty great people, cover some pretty great events and, in my opinion, write some pretty great stories. So perhaps it’s only fitting that on Thursday,…
Jeffery Eugenides’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’ is meant to be left on the shelf. PHOTO CREDIT: Amazon.com Jeffery Eugenides is thought of as one of the most influential contemporary writers of our generation. Some of his most famous novels include “Middlesex,” “The Marriage Plot” and “Fresh Complaint.” Eugenides’s most famous work, “The Virgin Suicides,” was published…
Photo from amazon.com. “BookTok” has been rising in popularity on TikTok this summer, providing many books a boost in readership, even years after their initial release. As a kid, I was an avid reader, but as I got older, the only time I read books were for high school English class (and let’s be honest,…
Photo From Entertainment Weekly Deemed as a sister album to her July release of “Folklore,” Taylor Swift’s latest drop is a mind-blowing collection of emotional transparency and musical complexity. “evermore” steps even further from Swift’s pop roots and is destined to smash the charts. Being a lifelong Swiftie, I pulled an all-nighter in anticipation for…
“The Suite life of Zack and Cody” can be watched on Disney+. Photo from teenvouge.com A few months ago, I followed the trend and got Disney+. I am a big Disney fan and was really excited to see what movies and TV shows were going to be on there. To be honest, I don’t use…
Anya Taylor-Joy stars in Netflix’s new show “The Queen’s Gambit.” Photo from Lifstyleasia.com. Netflix’s miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit” had me hooked from the very beginning. Based on a 1983 novel of the same name, Beth Harmon, the main character, loses her mother in a car crash within the first minutes of the first episode. From…