Posts By Christian Toto

The year’s least surprising Hollywood news is the name attached to the “Parasite” TV spin-off.

Adam McKay will help guide the limited HBO series, building on the South Korean film’s …
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Comedy Central won’t quit on far-left comic Jordan Klepper.

The channel gave Klepper his own late night show in 2017, “The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper.” The program aped right-wing conspiracy …
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York Alec Shackleton took the least obvious path to the director’s chair.

At 10 Shackleton competed professionally as a tennis player on the ATP tour. A few years later, he …
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Sonny Bunch proves right-leaning film critics are an unpredictable lot.

Bunch, formerly the Washington Free Beacon’s executive editor and film critic, left the outlet late last year. Now, he’s the …
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Misfits make for great kiddie fare.

Take a child, any child, who doesn’t “belong” and suddenly you’ve got a character to care about.

The family-friendly “Troop Zero” follows a gaggle …
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Truth tellers are a dying breed in our Fake News age.

We’ve seen that up close in the news media. Reporters warp reality until even left-wing fact checkers are blowing …
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Sequels rarely, if ever, lap the originals.

Worst case scenarios include “Zoolander 2,” “Caddyshack II” and, gasp, “Jaws 3D.”  Even well-intentioned sequels (“Godfather III”) come up embarrassingly short.

So it’s …
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A British newspaper offered a timely lesson this week … by accident.

The liberal Guardian covered VaughnGate, arguably the most important news story of the last 48 hours. Actor Vince …
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Terry Gilliam teased an interviewer recently, and her fellow scribes quickly rallied against the Monty Python legend.

Gilliam suggested he identified as a black lesbian, and that white males shouldn’t …
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“Joker” had the last laugh this week, snaring the highest number of Oscar nominations in a very crowded field.

The team behind “1917” earned just one less Monday, but the …
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