The Blu Spot

The Movie: When The Wayans Brothers gave us the first two "Scary Movie" films back in 2000 & 2001, they were decent box office hits, but as always, that doesn't necessarily mean the films were particularly good. Indeed, the first two films have perhaps a handful of amusing moments, but for the most part, they struggled greatly to deliver any good laughs. After The Wayans departed over creative differences with the producers, the series was handed over to David Zucker and writ

The Film: Eight years ago, Boots Riley burst onto the filmmaking scene with "Sorry to Bother You," a project that had a mildly-interesting story about an African-American telemarketer who uses a "white voice" to be more successful at his job, but which ended up going a little too far off the rails into the realm of fantasy. However, despite its relatively low intake at the box office, it was quite successful based on the film's rather small budget. Instead of making another f

The Film: Just last year, James Gunn & Peter Safran kicked off their new DC Comics Universe with a new take on "Superman" (written & directed by Gunn himself), which definitely had a little room for improvement, but was received well overall, on top of being a modest box office success. For the DCU's second outing, they opted to go with a "Supergirl" solo film, an endeavor that hadn't been done since the 1984 iteration starring Helen Slater. Sadly, the reaction was quite the

The Show: "Buddy sitcoms" have been a staple of television for quite some time. With classics examples like "The Odd Couple," "Mork & Mindy," "Bosom Buddies," and "Laverne & Shirley," their oddball pairings were often fantastic conduits that led to a number of amusing misadventures. Of course, no such list would be complete without one of the most beloved & long-lasting entries, "Perfect Strangers," which ran for a total of eight seasons from 1986-1993 on ABC. It too took an

The Film: Nearly 40 years ago, He-Man fans had their wish granted when a live-action film adaptation of the insanely popular toys, comics, and cartoon came to life on the big screen, with the hope being that it would be just as exciting as the adventures that its brave heroes faced in their other iterations. However, the result was pretty far from what anyone expected. Not only did it take quite the critical lashing, with a consensus basically saying that it was a film design

The Film: When Jacques Tourneur's "Out of the Past" was first released in 1947, it received respectable reviews and even turned a fine profit for RKO Pictures, though it was also dismissed by many as being just another standard detective melodrama, one that was overly-violent and had a confusing, convoluted plot. However, decades later, the film was reappraised as the film noir genre became more established, leading to it being declared one of the very best examples of its ty

The Television Academy has just finished handing out their awards for the 2025-26 season, and what unexpectedly came down to a nail-biter finish still had "The Pitt" emerging on top to win Outstanding Drama Series for a second year in a row. The show also won Lead Actor in a Drama for Noah Wyle in another repeat win, giving the show six wins this year. The other two big winners of the evening were far more obvious, with "Widow's Bay" absolutely dominating the Comedy categorie

The Film: Filmmaker Nick Rowland has spent the last 14 years making a pretty good name for himself with shorts, TV shows, and films, with "Slap" and "Calm with Horses" even earning him a pair of prestigious BAFTA nominations for Best British Short Film and Outstanding British Film of the Year, respectively. However, you'd be forgiven if you hadn't heard of his latest endeavor, "She Rides Shotgun," which fell well under the radar for many after it was given an extremely limite

The Film: Over the decades, the horror genre has grouped itself into fairly standard sub-genres, types of films that share the same focus or approach, and quite often follow a rather familiar course of execution. This includes groups like slashers, supernatural films, body horror, and your good-old-fashion zombie flicks, but one that seems to have been getting a lot of attention lately is the "Curse" film, which does indeed bring with it a pretty rigid outline in regards to w

The Show: 60 years ago, the great Gene Roddenberry gifted us with his optimistic vision of the future in a little show called "Star Trek," whose basic premise involved a crew traveling the stars in a spaceship, but which provided the perfect template for Gene & his team to discuss important topics and themes such as race, class, tolerance, and the general betterment of humanity. It may not have been a tremendous hit at the time (though most of you likely already know of the f