For the Love of Cheese: David Lynch Had One Condition for Appearing in Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ – and It Wasn’t Money
Just like the snack’s animated mascot Chester Cheetah, director David Lynch has a flamin’ hot love of Cheetos.
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Life on Two Wheels: Focus Features and Netflix Drop Trailers Featuring Biker Gangs in Two Very Different Eras
Get your motor runnin’ and see these movies about rogue bikers, one set in the free-wheeling 1960s and another in a hellish future version of London.
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One Lawsuit to Bind Them: The Tolkien Estate and Amazon Win Judgement Against Audacious Fan-Fic Writer
A writer who tried to sue the Tolkein estate and Amazon for infringing on his rights to publish LOTR fan-fiction has been thrown into the lava, figuratively speaking, after his lawsuit was dismissed.
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Sparks Fly: Pennsylvania Representatives Narrowly Pass Resolution Declaring 2023 the “Taylor Swift Era”
Pennsylvania lawmakers know “All Too Well” that 2023 is Taylor Swift’s year, though a resolution stating that sparked a heated debate with some lawmakers literally singing her praises.
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Holiday Bloodlust
Shauna may be obsessed with the end of the world (movies, that is), but Olivia is not giving up until she gets the other Junkies hooked on her new fave
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Shape Shifter: Blumhouse’s ‘Wolf Man’ Will Now Be Played by Christopher Abbot, Replacing Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling and his abs will no longer be starring in Blumhouse/Universal’s ‘Wolf Man’ remake, but the ‘Barbie’ actor will still be in the credits.
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3…2…1: HBO’s Documentary ‘Time Bomb Y2K’ Chronicles The Day the World Didn’t End as Expected
Do you remember when the world ended as the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2000? No, because that never happened – but many people thought it might, and a new film from HBO documents those crazy end-of-days days.
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What Might Have Been: The Untold Stories from the Scripts on The Black List That We Simply Must See
The unproduced scripts on this year’s Black List range from the thought-provoking to the truly weird, but will any of them be made into a major (or minor) motion picture? We certainly hope that at least some of them do.
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Getting to Know You: In ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ Trailer, Two Lonely Assassins Meet, Marry…and Fall in Love?
A new teaser trailer for Amazon’s ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ has bombs. bullets, and undeniable chemistry.
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The AFI Top Ten Begs the Question: Will Film Awards Season Give Us “Barbenheimer” Round Two?
Last summer’s blockbuster showdown between ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ may be playing out again as Hollywood’s award season comes around again.
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- PCJ Pop #3 May 20, 2025This week, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna recs Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Olivia pushes everyone to see Speak No Evil with James McAvoy.
