Star Wars season is a nothing-idea, seeing as Star Wars fandom exists in the world always, just as the Force does, experiencing periods of senescence in “dark periods” in which no new Star Wars material is created. (This is a rarity, thanks to the Expanded Universe.)
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Last year, when The Hateful Eight was still in pre-production, Quentin Tarantino proclaimed that he would retire after his tenth feature film.
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Last week, Chicago native Chance the Rapper posted a series of Tweets criticizing Spike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq for being “exploitive and problematic.”  
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The Guilty Remnant have scored another victory.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a strange beast. At just 90 members — just a third of the number the Motion Picture Academy invited to join in 2014 alone, and a small fraction of the Television Academy’s twenty thousand-plus — the trade organization responsible for the Golden Globe Awards is bound to be more idiosyncratic, and have more definite preferences, than larger groups. And for this year’s television nominees, those preferences were on full display. 
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As Kristen Stewart gets end-of-year recognition for her performance as the enigmatic personal assistant (and Juliette Binoche’s projection?) in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, we now have a look at another dramatic indie turn from the actress. 
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The sad story of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin has come to a fitting end. Yesterday we learned that the only existing copy of the album — comprising a CD housed in two hand-carved nickel-silver boxes — now belongs to Martin Shkreli, the ethically dubious 32-year-old made famous in September by his decision to gouge the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat individuals with immune systems compromised by AIDS and cancer, by 5,000 percent. A one-time wunderkind turned “pharma bro,” Shkreli has already made a mockery of the Shaolin project on Twitter.
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Though you may not have thought about Jeopardy! in the last 10 years — except perhaps to think, “I can’t believe I’m thinking about Jeopardy!” and “I really wish I thought about Jeopardy!” and perhaps most commonly “Jeopardy! is still on? That’s great!” — today’s guest on the classic game show indicates that perhaps the show is still pretty “with it.”
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This morning, a small battle was won in the single most inconsequential war in American culture. The battleground was the nominations announcement for the Golden Globes, the annual award ceremony for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — an organization that, despite their comically small membership (“about 90 members”) and history of totally goofy nominations, has attained a reputation as some kind of bellwether for the Academy Awards. And the war that’s being waged concerns the scourge of (sit down for this, cover your children’s ears, etc.) “category fraud.”
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This year, the student activist movement had the mainstream media’s ear — and tugged on it. …Read More