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Book Excerpt: How They Made TV's Most Iconic Opening Credits
The Brady Bunch is one of the strangest success stories in the history of television, running five modestly-rated and poorly-reviewed seasons from 1969 to 1974, then becoming a (sometimes ironic) hit via its seemingly endless reruns - resulting in…
TV | By Flavorwire Staff
Flavorwire's Guide to Movies You Need to See in December
The end of the year is upon us, prompting a real embarrassment of riches at the movies – as if there weren’t alreadytoo many great movies (The Irishman, Knives Out, Marriage Story, Honey Boy, The Report, etc.) to clear time out of your busy schedule…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Flavorwire’s Ultimate Gift Guide for the Pop Culture Aficionado In Your Life
Thanksgiving week is upon us again, and you know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about some gift-giving. (Or maybe not! Things are tight all over, that’s undeniable, and if the holidays have always been overtly commercialized, they seem…
Books | By Jason Bailey
Awesome Art Inspired by Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and you know what that means (aside from family get-togethers and eating too much and ill-advised shopping expeditions): it's time to watch some holiday movies. Of course, our pop culture-loving friends at Gallery1988 are…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Book Excerpt: How They Made TV's Most Iconic Opening Credits
The Brady Bunch is one of the strangest success stories in the history of television, running five modestly-rated and poorly-reviewed seasons from 1969 to 1974, then becoming a (sometimes ironic) hit via its seemingly endless reruns - resulting in…
TV | By Flavorwire Staff
Incredible, Photorealistic Paintings of Tattooed Women
Agnieszka Nienartowicz's work is a series of illusions and contradictions, in the best possible way: she crafts what appear, at first glance, to be photographs of women with tattoos of classic works of art. Only on closer examination does it become…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ready or Not,’ ‘The Report’
One of the year’s best movies pops up on Amazon Prime this week, and a delicious horror/action/comedy leads the new disc releases. Plus, a first-rate bio-doc, two new Criterion additions, and an always-rewatchable Best Picture winner returns to…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Flavorwire's Guide to Movies You Need to See in December
The end of the year is upon us, prompting a real embarrassment of riches at the movies – as if there weren’t alreadytoo many great movies (The Irishman, Knives Out, Marriage Story, Honey Boy, The Report, etc.) to clear time out of your busy schedule…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Flavorwire’s Ultimate Gift Guide for the Pop Culture Aficionado In Your Life
Thanksgiving week is upon us again, and you know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about some gift-giving. (Or maybe not! Things are tight all over, that’s undeniable, and if the holidays have always been overtly commercialized, they seem…
Books | By Jason Bailey
Awesome Art Inspired by Your Favorite Holiday Movies
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and you know what that means (aside from family get-togethers and eating too much and ill-advised shopping expeditions): it's time to watch some holiday movies. Of course, our pop culture-loving friends at Gallery1988 are…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘All About Eve’
You can tell the Thanksgiving holidays are upon us, for two reasons: 1) Netflix is unleashing its biggest movie to date, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time that’s perfect for post-Thanksgiving nothing-to-do time; and 2) several of our…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Adorable Photos of Dancers and Their Dogs
Back in January of 2017, photographers Kelly Pratt Kreidich and Ian Kreidich hit upon a new idea. For years, they'd specialized in photographing professional dancers; what if, just for fun, they tried photographing some of those dancers with the…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
'Knives Out' is a Giddily Entertaining Holiday Feast
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out opens with the image of a giant manor house. Strings surge loudly on the soundtrack; hounds run from the estate in slow-motion. This, folks, is how you open your movie – with big, broad, theatrical gestures, acknowledging…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: Elena Ferrante on the Magic of Mothers
When novelist Elena Ferrante embarked on a year of writing weekly columns for The Guardian, she saw it as a writing challenge - to work as, in her words, "an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that—if I have the will…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
Awesome Pop Culture-Inspired Holiday Tree Toppers
Somehow, the holiday season is upon us again, and while we would normally eschew seasonal posts until at least Thanksgiving, we have to make an exception for our friends at Gallery1988. You see, the latest show at the pop culture-obsessed L.A.…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Blinded By the Light,’ ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’
Three lightweight but undeniably engaging late-summer releases are out this week on disc and demand, along with a welcome Blu-ray release (and Criterion Collection blessing) for one of last year’s best. All that and a stylish crime film worth…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: A Freewheeling Dive into Postwar America
In the new novel Big Bang (out this week in paperback from Little, Brown), author David Bowman peeks into the real-life history of America in the 1950s, cheerfully intermingling real events and figures with imaginary intersections, crafting an…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
Iconic, Melancholy Panels From 'Peanuts' Comics
On October 2, 1950, a little comic strip debuted in seven newspapers and proceeded, in the years that followed, to change the form - and, in its own small way, the world. Charles Schultz's "Peanuts" turns 70 next year, and the celebration is…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Gorgeous Photos Masterfully Deconstruct Social Stereotypes
One of the most elemental but essential functions of photography is to cast things in a new light - to help us see people, places, and things in unexpected ways. This is the explicit purpose of "A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes," a…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
What Disney+ Really Tells Us About Disney
And, like that, it’s all there. Tuesday brought the launch of Disney+, the cultural behemoth’s long-promised, much-hyped streaming service – delivering, well, most of the feature films, TV movies, and shows from the company’s decades-long reign.…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: A New, Epic Thriller from Dean Koontz
Few names in modern publishing are as widely recognized as Dean Koontz, whose novels have sold over 500 million copies to date in 38 languages. Fourteen of his novels have topped the New York Times best-seller list. And now, at 74, he's embarking on…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Farewell,’ ‘Good Boys’
Two summer sleepers hit disc this week, and both are worth your time. And that’s not all – we’ve got two must-see indies, a new release of an animated classic, an unsung ‘90s gem from Criterion, and a triple feature of ace ‘70s crime movies from KL…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Disturbing Works of Modern Surrealism
Though the Surrealist movement is over a hundred years old, the aesthetics and ideas that so invigorated its creators remain strikingly relevant to contemporary artists. Eleven such artists - working in the media of painting, sculpture, and…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Hilarious Action Figures from Grown-Up Movies and TV
Since the fortune reaped by George Lucas following the release of Star Wars, the official action figure has become a standby of any commercial-friendly blockbuster movie or television show, launching entire subsets of geekdom (and lucrative revenue…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff