Danny Gillespie

Cinema & Films

When the trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War came out late last year, I was nervous. Though I wanted to be excited, it had...

TV & Movie News

It’s that time again! As I did last year, it’s time to award movies and performances that I think were the best of the...

TV & Movie News

Unfortunately, the Academy and I are wildly out of step this year. Of the ten nominees for Best Picture, I only enjoyed less than...

Cinema & Films

I’m writing this on Sunday, February 18th days after Bob Marley: One Love and Madame Web opened. It must be noted that this is...

Podcasts & Interviews

Throughout 2023, Jo and I, along with our friend Audrey, ran a year-long “filmstagram” event called the Other Filmmakers Challenge. Participants were given prompts—like...

TV & Movie News

It’s been a strange week to be in the online movie space. On Tuesday, Oscar nominations were announced and were even more predictable and...

TV & Movie News

Taylor Swift is not strictly speaking a movie-related topic, or at least this was true until recently. With The Eras Tour still currently (as...

Cinema & Films

This is the big one! The best of the best of the year. I saw over 100 movies released in 2023, and here are...

Cinema & Films

There are still a half-dozen movies I’m trying to watch before finalizing my year-end list, so in the meantime, you get this list about...

Cinema & Films

2023 in movies was a LOT. The summer box office was very bad until Barbenheimer was historically good, and then the fall box office...

Cinema & Films

We are now 6 years since the explosive beginnings of #MeToo in late 2017 and early 2018. #MeToo movies began shortly after with Kitty...

Cinema & Films

On December 15th, Barbie will start streaming on Max for the handful of people out there that haven’t seen it yet. This coincides with...

Television & OTT

The following contains vague spoilers for Squid Game: The Challenge episodes 1-9. The finale releases on Netflix December 6.  Like nearly everyone on the...

TV & Movie News

Welcome Caoilfhionn’s Collection, a page where I discuss and review the movies in my personal collection and others that I see that seem worth...

Cinema & Films

I can see you there, rolling your eyes saying, “Barbie is all anyone has talked about for the last two months.” On one level,...

Cinema & Films

A mix of Coming Attractions and a movie list, this is a place to give thoughts on movies that have premiered at the Venice,...

Cinema & Films

I wrote this preview throughout August and finished it up Aug. 22nd or so. Dune Part Two was moved on Thursday, so I deleted...

Television & OTT

One of my favorite shows is the sketch comedy I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. The segments are full of absurd twists...

Television & OTT

A few weeks ago the FX staple It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia finished airing its 16th season. Even though most seasons are 8-10 episodes,...

Cinema & Films

Last week I went to see Oppenheimer so I could write about it and Barbie and the strange cultural moment we are in. Barbenheimer...

TV & Movie News

By now, on the eve of Barbieheimer, most of the narratives of this summer movie season have been written (some of them by me). ...

Cinema & Films

If the summer movie season runs May through August, we’re about halfway through the summer, with most of the highest-profile releases having already happened....

Cinema & Films

I was pretty excited about No Hard Feelings, ranking it my 4th most anticipated movie of the summer in my summer preview. It didn’t...

Leisure & Lifestyle

I’m excited to finally get to talk about books for Scribe Mag. There are a ton of great LGBTQ+ books out there, but here...

Television & OTT

We close things out with some Pride Month music picks. If you missed the movie list, you can find it here. The TV list...

Television & OTT

If you missed part 1 you can find it here. This is part 2, focused on my picks in the realm of LGBTQ+ representation...

Cinema & Films

I’m asexual, nonbinary, and generally queer. My favorite summation of queerness comes from bell hooks: “Queer’ not as being about who you’re having sex...

TV & Movie News

My favorite show ever is Arrested Development. And my favorite line from it comes from George Michael: “You know, say what you will about...

Television & OTT

The title of this article is a play on McKenzie Wark’s book Capital is Dead: Is this Something Worse?. Published in 2019, the book...

Television & OTT

I have a piece coming out on the site soon about my generally negative feelings toward the odd thing that streaming TV has become...

Cinema & Films

I have a lot of strong feelings and opinions about a lot of movies that are almost universally beloved in film circles. I have...

It’s that time of year again when the movie world turns focus to the summer movie blockbuster season. I’ll admit that I’m not the...

Cinema & Films

A few weeks ago I watched this excellent analysis from Maggie Mae Fish on Todd Field’s Tár and the importance of time. She teased...

Television & OTT

Last summer my colleague Mike Hilty wrote this great review about season 3 of HBO’s Barry. In it, he goes over all the major...

TV & Movie News

We have a teaser trailer for The Marvels, Marvel’s big fall release, and it’s time to talk about it here on Coming Attractions. What...

Television & OTT

Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Succession” Season 4, Episode 3, “Connor’s Wedding.” The most recent episode of HBO’s Succession, “Connor’s Wedding,” is one...

Cinema & Films

Incredibly we’re a quarter of the way through the year already! And it’s been a year full of very solid movies, or at least...

TV & Movie News

On this Coming Attractions, it’s time for season 2 of Schmigadoon!. This is one of my favorite hidden gem shows of the last few...

Television & OTT

Throughout April and May, HBO’s Succession is going to air its final season. Since the midpoint of season 2, I’ve considered it the best...

Cinema & Films

Wednesday was International Women’s Day. There is no movie-related cause I care more about than promoting women directors, as evidenced by pieces like this...

Cinema & Films

I enjoyed three of the past four Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films—Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022),...

Cinema & Films

It’s Black History Month, so deep cuts this month feature a double dose of excellent Black satire that, until recently, had been pretty hard...

Cinema & Films

The Oscar nominations are out and official. You felt the sadness (possibly triangles of it) and joy that comes with the nominations, of pleasant...

Television & OTT

This past summer, having finished full or partial rewatches of my go-to sitcoms—The Office, Parks and Recreation, New Girl, and Arrested Development—I went looking...

Television & OTT

It’s been a while since I wrote about a TV topic for this column and the reasons for that are complex. For one there...

Cinema & Films

Tis the season for lists and recaps, and here is the big one: my picks for the best movies of 2022. This year through...

Cinema & Films

By the time the year ends, I will have watched over 150 movies released in 2022. That means that while there are some definite...

Cinema & Films

Where I live in Idaho, we have a very average AMC Theater with 11 screens. It gets most of the big movies and a...

Cinema & Films

Recently my friend and colleague, Jo Urbinati, wrote this piece on “problematic art” and how we might go about separating the art from the...