WHEN WE WERE ALL STARS: NOSTALGIA & THE INTERNET’S FORGOTTEN SMASH MOUTH MASHUP
By PJ Grisar At the tail end of 2016 in the chemtrails of a simpering frog named Pepe, the Memeosphere […]
ANNA’S ANIME ALCOVE: ‘SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN’ — ‘WEIRD’
In Anna’s Anime Alcove, arts journalist and unapologetic anime enthusiast Anna Gibertini recaps the darkest, most cutting-edge series in the […]
‘RETURN OF THE LIVING HORROR MOVIE SEQUEL PART 2’
Have you heard? The Taste Basket’s own Dan Poorman and Kevin Redding have a new podcast, Return of the Living Horror […]
THE MAGNIFICENT MURRAYTHON: PART III
By Brad Grandrino Wes Anderson is one of those directors whose unique style is either loved or loathed. Admittedly it […]
THE MAGNIFICENT MURRAYTHON: PART II
By Brad Grandrino For all the ceaseless nostalgic love the 1990s gets from folks all over the internet, the decade […]
THE MAGNIFICENT MURRAYTHON: PART I
By Brad Grandrino There are certain hive-mind mentalities among film fanatics – circle-jerks, as they’re crudely though commonly called. They […]
THE JON SNOW EFFECT: AUTHORIAL INTENT AND RESURRECTING DEAD
By PJ Grisar WARNING: Here there be Spoilers! On last Sunday’s Game of Thrones, Jon Snow gasped his way out of […]
R.L. STINE IS GETTING INTO LATE NIGHT COMEDY (YES, THAT R.L. STINE)
R.L. Stine is trading in the screams for laughs as he hosts Night Late, UCB Chelsea’s late night talk show, […]
‘THE BAD NEWS BEARS’ TURNS 40
By Kevin Redding For my money, two of the greatest sports movies ever made came out in 1976: Rocky and […]
A LOOK AT THE 2016 OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS
By Anna Gibertini This year marks the 88th Academy Awards and the 84th year that animated shorts have been a […]
‘THE WITCH’: PRIMEVAL, PROGRESSIVE AND PETRIFYING
By Dan Poorman We will conquer this wilderness. It will not consume us! William, The Witch Sorry, Will, but it totally […]
ARTHUR MILLER AND NAMING NAMES
By PJ Grisar The occasion of Miller’s centennial finds an artist concerned with individual and national legacy Slumped with concern, […]
FIRST WATCH 2015: MEMORABLE FILMS AND TV, OLD AND NEW
By The Taste Basket Team It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love… with “Best Of” lists. […]
THE TASTE BASKET PODCAST: A BASKETFUL OF CHRISTMAS!
Sit beside a cozy fire, sip on some hot chocolate, and bask(et) in the Christmas glory as you listen to […]
POD-RACISM: THE HARMFUL DIVERSITY OF ‘STAR WARS’
By PJ Grisar When that definitive Star Wars text first crawled onto the screen in 1977, the world had never […]
‘KRAMPUS’ MAKES CHRISTMAS WHACKO AGAIN
By Dan Poorman A Christmas Story. Gremlins. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Home Alone. The Nightmare Before Christmas. Hell, even Jingle All The Way. These are the […]
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