A View from Row 3 of Oprah's Life You Want Tour
Oprah's Life You Want Weekend (this past Friday and Saturday) was already shaping up to be an amazing experience for me months ago. I floated the idea to my client-turned-friend Mark Nepo that I'd love...
View ArticleTangled Web
With the birth of Netflix, Amazon and the continuation of YouTube's skyrocketing success, web-based series are becoming ever more popular. Orange Is The New Black, Transparent and House of Cards are...
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Is Actress Camille Sullivan of Upcoming Film the Birdwatcher Superstitious?
Actress Camille Sullivan took the Calgary International Film Festival by storm this year, starring in this year's closing gala film, ALLY WAS SCREAMING. Also, Camille can be seen starring in the indie...
View ArticleThe American InstaDream -- Fame Over Talent?
I was recently listening to Lisa Kudrow and Bill Maher chat on his show, Real Time. The discussion of fame came up, and I remember Lisa making a comment about how fascinated she was with the amount of...
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Television's 5 Greatest Sad Sack Characters
Murphy explains to us, anything that will go wrong, will. Unlike most universal laws, Murphy's Law does not require any fancy mathematical formulas or complex theorems. No, all that's required to...
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Is Birdman Michael Keaton's Best Performance Ever?
Culturalist.com is the place to shape, share and debate your opinions on anything and everything through Top 10 lists. The opinions presented here are those of our users, based upon the mathematical...
View ArticleWe Get It, You Don't Like Popular Music
I hate music snobs that believe their taste in music is the only acceptable kind. We all have those friends who say things like, "They used to be so cool before everyone else starting liking their...
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'God's' Is One Of The Best Foreign Language Films Of The Year
A rare breed of spunk and spirit co-mingle in the Polish film Gods (Bogowie), the biopic about professor Zbigniew Religa, who performed the first successful heart transplant in communist Poland in the...
View ArticleA Gay Dad's Open Letter to Rose McGowan on Lessons Learned
Rose McGowan's opinions have been all over social media the past few weeks. She started in an interview with a now-infamous diss alleging that gay men are "as misogynistic as straight men, if not more...
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Movie Review: Foxcatcher - You'll want to wrestle with this movie
When I saw Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher at the Toronto Film Festival in September, I wrote that "Miller, in my estimation, has jumped into the class of Steven Soderbergh and other great directors of...
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Jane Austen, Reinvented
Jane Austen may have died in 1817, but her novels have survived more than 200 years -- not only survived, but they've been reinterpreted in a hundred different ways, none more so than her most beloved...
View ArticleThere's Something About a Jersey Boy
I spent the first 8.5 years of my life in New Jersey. It's where I learned to walk, talk and shit - which is more or less how many outsiders view The Garden State. To them, Jersey is the smelly armpit...
View ArticleDear Kim Kardashian, You Are More Than a Great Ass
Dear Kim, I watch your show Keeping up with the Kardashians and follow you on social media. I see how much emphasis you put on always looking perfect on the outside for the public. If people hate your...
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The Walking Dead: Eugene's Betrayal
Co-Author: Justice Revils, founder of @StuffThangsTWD Caution: Spoilers if you (still?!) haven't seen The Walking Dead, "Self-Help" This week tvtag and Justice Revils focus on the biggest reveal of the...
View ArticleA-Sides with Jon Chattman: Donn T Plays the Gramophonica; Topher Mohr Funks...
My high school biology teacher was kind of a jerk. All year long, he'd constant compare me with my sister. He had taught her three years prior, and remembered her as an A-plus student. She wasn't, but...
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Nolan's Space Odyssey: Hour of the Wolf Movie Review of Interstellar
Here's the dilemma: I saw Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was 12 years old, and to say it was a formative experience is an understatement. The film fundamentally changed the way I...
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20 Facts That Prove the Simpsons Live in Illinois
This post originally appeared on Reboot Illinois. The Simpsons, in all its satirical glory, is America's longest-running animated television series and longest-running sitcom. The Simpsons (the family...
View ArticleOld Dogs & New Tricks: The Oral History of a 'Gay' Web Series
Part 1 It's a typically sun-drenched early Sunday afternoon in June the first time we chat. The last of the gloom has burned off -- at least from where I sit, in Hollywood, though he'll tell me that...
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Is He a Good Father, Katie?
"Is He A Good Father, Katie?" Fans of The Way We Were know this line as well as their morning coffee order and can instantly picture Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky unexpectedly reuniting with her...
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This Infographic Explains How America Feels About Spandau Ballet
A new documentary called Soul Boys of the Western World follows the British band Spandau Ballet from its New Romantic beginnings in London in the late 1970s through an appearance at Live Aid in 1985...
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