The Big Short sneaked up on me. On us all. When awards season began, it wasn’t really in the conversation. After all, here was Adam McKay, the filmmaker behind broad Will Ferrell comedies like Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys, and co-creator of the Funny or Die website co-writing and directing an adaptation of Michael […]

“Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars, Give me those Star Wars, don’t let them end. Star Wars, if they should bar wars, please let these Star Wars stay.”   The return of Star Wars this past month to theaters, social media, box-office record books, the pop-culture landscape, every advertising tie-in imaginable, and seemingly many of […]