Pop Culture Lunch Box

Bridesmaids fits easily into my list of "top 60 funniest movies" of all time, all of which are five-star classics. The thing tha...

In honor of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming Netflix movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The New York Times makes him this subject of The Interview thi...

I just watched two very different, I suppose you could call them, "girl power" movies - one whose role in history played a major r...

The unhealthy diets and tummy aches of the Civil War-era led a drive to culinary innovation, and by baking water and graham flour, Dr. James...

Have you ever wondered what high school might be like if everyone said out loud exactly what everyone was thinking?  No? Me neither. But tha...

I've long espoused the mastery of Richard Linklater , who I now place as my third-favorite movie director behind Alfred Hitchcock and Qu...

While there is plenty of great stuff to see on Apple TV, there is also a lifetime’s worth elsewhere. So I cancelled my subscription upon com...

I was listening to a podcast recently with Quentin Tarantino discussing the films that had influenced him at an early age and I was surprise...

I watched quite a bit of Day 1 of the French Open. Then I went and hit around on the courts for a while. I should have stopped with the tenn...

Maybe it’s just a matter of getting older and wiser, but it seems like the movie Super Size Me was the point in my life when I went from reg...

I've written about all the Planet of the Apes movies and I even named the 1968 original number 6 on my list of all-time favorite films...

Steve Martin was around 10 when he realized that, even though he didn’t have a talent, he wanted to be on stage. His workaround was to learn...

I must be getting warmed up for Challengers (a tennis rom-com with Zendaya that I'm very excited about) because - on the plane from Wash...

The fact that Killers of the Flower Moon is probably the best movie ever about the genocide by whites of Native Americans says a lot about h...

I've always loved mountain biking. I don't do it anymore as much as other activities like tennis and road biking, but when I do, I a...

Director Alexander Payne cements himself as a modern great after Election, Sideways, and The Descendants. And then he returned in 2023 with ...

I would probably be considered an R.E.M. Relatively emotional male. I've known this since at least 1982, when I first saw E.T. The Extra...

I was so inspired by Bob Marley that I journeyed to Jamaica to retrace his footsteps after high school. Admittedly, on that trip, I wasn’t v...

Psycho remains my favorite movie and so it makes sense that I am likewise fascinated with its creator Alfred Hitchcock. I’ve read a lot abou...

When I was 15, I already loved music so much, and it was a time when the “top 40” popular choices still meant something. It was what everyon...