Jake Valentine

The 1980s are filled with cinematic classics like Field of Dreams, The Princess Bride, The Natural, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and The Shining. These are the movies that…

There’s a popular saying: the book is always better than the movie. That’s not always the case, though. The best film adaptations elevate the source…

The best comedies make us laugh no matter how many times we watch them. A good comedy can lift our spirits on the worst days,…

The 2000s represented a golden era of television. Sitcoms advanced from tired tropes of the past, dramas rivaled what we saw in movies, and several…

Just because a movie bombs at the box office doesn’t mean it’s bad. It proves that not every great movie can find an audience in…

The classic television sitcom is, sadly, a relic of a different time. Today’s sitcoms forgo many of the old school tropes from television’s past, such…

Some movie characters are so iconic that we can’t imagine anyone else playing them. But there are times when these roles were nearly played by…