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Here Today

When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.Release Date: May 07, 2021
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Link Tank: Best Stoner Movies to Stream on Netflix Today

Fire up a joint and be prepared to chill this 4/20. Check out the best stoner movies to stream on Netflix right now. “Netflix has finally expanded its original offerings to include the stoner-movie genre, finally mining the way so many people watch while sewn into their couches. But the streaming giant’s library also is well stocked with stuff you should fire up when you’re out of Planet Earth episodes. Grab some munchies and enjoy the movies below.” Read more at Thrillist. With coffee beans’ role in the climate crisis, we have to start looking elsewhere for our daily cups…
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The Dark Knight: Why Heath Ledger’s Joker is Still Scary Today

It’s one of the great villain introductions in cinema history. Standing with a slight hunch at the center of a massive 70mm image, Heath Ledger’s interpretation of the Joker not so much dominates the frame as he commandeers it. He seduces the IMAX camera, which is still capturing vast amounts of Chicago’s cityscape around him, and draws it closer to his sphere of influence, and by extension us. Before this moment in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the director’s Gotham City functioned with clocklike precision. Even its greatest villains were slaves to the need of rationalizing everything in cold, utilitarian…
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The Conjuring 2’s Enfield Case: A True Story That Still Haunts Us Today

Lorraine Warren has seen true evil at the start of The Conjuring 2 and wants to call it quits — at least for a while — but when the Hodgson family finds itself under siege by a terrible haunting, the paranormal investigators have no choice but to help. Set in the late ’70s in the London Borough of Enfield, The Conjuring 2 ticks off many of the same boxes as the original: haunted house, demonic possession, and a relentless pace full of jump scares that doesn’t let up until the Warrens are back in their spooky museum, locking away their…
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