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One year later, one last bracket, one more time... #TheCrustBowl The Boy—who’s less and less a “boy” these days—and I began these food brackets almost exactly one year ago. And

There was a moment, when I was at Entertainment Weekly, that I asked for a promotion I didn't get. I saw colleagues get promoted past me and I wanted mine.

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a movie called The Bodyguard. You remember it, right? 1992 romance, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. It

So, for #StarTrekDay and #StarTrekUnitedGives , here's the story of my first encounter with the Captain's chair of the U.S.S. Enterprise... In the summer between my junior and senior

As a dude who loves food, I am a huge fan of @netflix's Chef's Table series. When it's great, it tells these intimate, personal stories of how history, culture, and

In my almost 30 years of working in entertainment, as both a journalist and a writer, here's what I've learned about adaptation: It is almost always a better outcome when

Let me say this about #TheLastofUsPartII : It's a masterpiece. A singular narrative achievement that can only be expressed as a video game. No movie, television show, novel, or album

I just found this essay I wrote for a BirthMoviesDeath Star Wars special magazine some five years ago. I wish I'd found it a week ago, when Empire celebrated its

The thing to remember about any TV show: There's a small horde of people in the writers room, all working to execute one person's vision. Sometimes that vision is pure,

Had quite the scare over the past 24 hours. Got a call from my mother last night. "Hey. So remember how I took the #coronavirus test just before your brother

The Silver Bun ain’t nothing to sneeze at — and I definitely won’t feel slighted if I end up hitting the Five Guys in my hood that’s right next to

Okay, let's go. I've got my #SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse cued up at 0:00. Why the #SpiderBagel hashtag, you ask? Named after my favorite joke in the whole movie. (We'll get there.) We