The Week in Culture (August 21st)
### Watch Hot Ticket: Eden Ron Howard delves into thriller territory with this pre-WWII parable about a group of expats who find their jun
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Sydney Sweeney and The King of the Summer Movie Season
Actor Paul Walter Hauser and writer/director Tony Tost pay homage to the rest of the country in their neo-western Americana
The State of the Fair
As the Wilson County — Tennessee State Fair inches toward one million annual attendees, Pick Tennessee has become its crown jewel
The Week in Culture (August 14th)
Watch Hot Ticket Nobody 2 Bob Odenkirk returns as the lifelong assassin turned family man who now finds his summer vacation interrupted by
Review: Weapons (2025)
August long ago gained the moniker of Hollywood’s dumping ground, a reputation that has only worsened in the age of franchise IP. But the su
A Sketch of Nashville's Film Industry
Steve Taylor has been a pillar of Music City’s film scene for decades. Now he’s produced the movie of the summer in our own backyard.
The Week in Culture (August 7th)
WATCH Hot Ticket: Freakier Friday and Weapons The former reunites Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis for a nostalgic family romp 20+ years
Review: Gary Rivlin’s Saving Main Street
From 9/11 to the Great Recession, epoch-defining events often provide a windfall for America’s largest publishing houses. Yet, five years af
No Country for Coeds
How the Right’s scorched-Earth approach to higher ed compromises its fundamental principles.
The Week In Culture (July 31st)
WATCH Hot Ticket: The Naked Gun Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson star in a reboot of the classic 80s cop movie sendup. Turns out, the guy b
Review: Oh, Hi!
Twilight and some Freddie Prinze Jr. teen movies notwithstanding, millennials never got their Hollywood romance. Blame the Great Recession o
Pandemic Multiplex
From Eddington and 28 Years Later to Jurassic World: Rebirth and Death of a Unicorn, the movies are the only medium coming to terms with the aftermath of COVID
The Week in Culture (July 24th)
MOVIES Hot Ticket: The Fantastic Four: First Steps By all accounts, Marvel has finally regained its mojo with this 60s-set reboot that fin
Summer Spotlight: County Highway Comes to Grimey’s
The months after the pandemic may not have seemed like the best time to start a print newspaper modeled after the 20-page broadsides of the
Superman Isn’t The Problem
Understanding the motivations behind the online rage is the key to countering America’s cultural rot.