Hot Chelle Rae is back! After a five-year hiatus, the band has regrouped, made a new EP (listen to Tangerine here), and is hosting a LIVE Quarandtream release party today at 4 p.m. PST with special guests across their social media platforms. Vital Thrills chatted exclusively with Hot Chelle Rae lead guitarist Nash Overstreet about the …
As a television-obsessed writer, there is no place I would rather be than inside. In the last three weeks, my husband and I have binged seven complete seasons of various TV shows – and that doesn’t include news, reruns, and currently airing network television. Thankfully, there is an abundance of streaming sites and thousands of TV …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the seventh episode of the season, titled “Dangerous Debt.” After being imprisoned by the Pykes, Ahsoka Tano and the Martez sisters manage a daring escape from their stronghold. Together …
For a long time, complex subjects have had to be dealt with in allegory and obscurity, working around their subjects due to commercial and cultural sensitivities. There is a lot of artistic good that can come from that, requiring filmmakers to create subtle and understandable spaces for audiences to fill in rather than having everything …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the sixth episode of the season, titled “Deal No Deal.” When Trace Martez pilots her prized ship on a mysterious job arranged by her sister Rafa, Ahsoka is alarmed …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the fifth episode of the season, titled “Gone With a Trace.” In the Coruscant underworld, Ahsoka Tano befriends a pilot whose sister enlists her to help build droids, but …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the third episode of the season, titled “On the Wings of Keeradaks.” Having located Echo, Anakin leads Rex and the Bad Batch in a daring escape. But with the Techno …
Locke & Key premiered on Netflix on February 7, and viewers learned all about the mysterious keys that have followed the Locke family and their friends. The series is based on the hit comics by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. We recently got to chat with actress Hallea Jones, who plays Eden Hawkins in the series. …
Netflix announced today that the streaming service has given the green light to Ragnarok Season 2. Netflix released new images, which spell “Oh My God,” to announce the second season. You can view them below. The first season of the Norwegian-language drama series debuted on Netflix on January 31st. It consists of six episodes. Ragnarok is a …
There are particular buttons in a movie that, when I see them, automatically elicit an emotional response. It’s Pavlovian – if you make a movie about fathers and sons, for example, I am almost certain to react with tears. It’s just hardwired into my moviegoing DNA. Thus, Pixar Animation Studios’ Onward was almost guaranteed to make …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the second episode of the season, titled “A Distant Echo.” After discovering that clonetrooper Echo may be alive, Republic forces form a rescue team to retrieve him. Led by Anakin …
Horror, more than any other genre, it seems, has its hand directly on the pulse of the here and now. It has to be – our fears are changing and evolving, even while those base instincts remain the same. Our monsters may come with different, more modern costumes, but they are still monsters. The Invisible …
It’s been a long time since there’s been a film iteration of H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man with Paul Verhoeven last giving it a go 20 years ago with The Hollow Man, starring Kevin Bacon. Universal Pictures has been trying for a while to get something going for one of their Classic Movie Monsters, although …
Serious fans of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild novel will likely be disappointed in the latest adaptation by 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox, now owned by Disney, and one of Fox’s final productions). The novel is surely dated and somewhat problematic now, with its treatment of North American indigenous people and the …
Red chairs will soon be turning on The Voice Season 18 again, but there will be a few notable changes. The Voice Season 18 will premiere with a special two-night event on Monday, February 24, and Tuesday, February 25, on NBC. Nick Jonas makes his debut, and he’s the youngest coach to date. The 27-year-old joins Kelly …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the premiere episode of the season, titled “The Bad Batch.” The war takes a turn for the worse for the Republic as the Separatist droids take on new tactics. The …
How do we know a story is a classic? Is it by the sheer universality of the characters or dialogue to the point where they are referenced consistently in later works? Is it the insight and depth of the story and what it says about the human condition? Is it the fact that it has …
The upcoming Pixar film Onward opens in theaters on March 6, 2020. Earlier today, we got a chance to attend the press conference for the film, which included Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, as well as director Dan Scanlon and producer Kori Rae. In the film, when teenage elf brothers Barley and Ian Lightfoot (voices of …
Even if Downhill wasn’t based on a unique (and acclaimed) Swedish film, it would suffer in comparison to everything around it. Being borne from something as unique as Force Majeure — and the singular vision behind it — puts any adaptation at a disadvantage. But at every turn, writer-directors Rash and Faxon (The Descendants) pick the wrong …
As a refugee from another planet, Sonic the Hedgehog has spent most of his life in hiding on Earth. While he keeps himself hidden from the town of Green Hills by using his super speed, he feels close to its residents. Sonic feels particularly fond of the local sheriff, Tom Wachowski, whom he dubs “Donut …