Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode Three: The COVID Effect on Film and TV

The Film That Never Was – Halo

Halo is one of the biggest video game franchises in the world. The majority of the games are sci-fi first-person shooters, which helped to make Microsoft a major player in the console market and set the standard for shooters on consoles. It started a big multimedia franchise that expanded to books, comics, and TV shows. There […]

Britflix: Les Misérables (2012)

Tom Hooper has two upcoming projects due to come out in the near future: the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials and an adaptation of Cats. This means it is a great time to revisit his adaptation of the musical Les Misérables. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) was a man who was released on parole after serving a 19-year sentence for stealing […]

Ted Lasso Season Two Post-Mortem

Spoiler Alert: This article discusses the second season of Ted Lasso, including events that occurred in the season finale. If you have not watched all of season two, please do so before continuing. Well, that was quite the ride, wasn’t it? And before I dive into this post-mortem on what worked and what was decidedly […]