Author: Harry Khachatrian Washington Examiner

There’s a scene in the latest South Park episode, “Got a Nut,” in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem leads a squad of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents through the pearly gates of heaven. “Only the brown ones. If it’s brown, it goes down,” she instructs. It’s a depiction so grotesque and absurd it could…

Watching The Naked Gun (2025), Akiva Schaffer’s remake of the 1988 slapstick classic, I got the impression he had been waiting his whole life to make this movie. The screenplay is a rapid‑fire catalog of jokes; ninety brisk minutes of sight gags, wordplay, and pratfalls.  Not every joke lands, but most do, and many had…

“I will not sacrifice my child for this world,” declares an impassioned Sue Storm, both superhero and new mother (in the superhero industry, maternity leave is evidently scant), in one of the emotional high points of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel’s much-anticipated franchise revival. After a lackluster Phase Five — marred by formulaic, forgettable…

“Woke is dead,” declared Eric Cartman, in the much-anticipated return of South Park on Wednesday. The popular cartoon show is back on television following a two-year hiatus beset by contractual negotiations with the series’ parent company, Paramount. Having finally secured a sizable $1.5 billion deal with the media conglomerate, firebrand comedians Matt Stone and Trey Parker…

Lena Dunham’s much-anticipated return to TV arrived in the form of Too Much, a Netflix comedy-drama that reimagines her real-life breakup with musician-producer Jack Antonoff as a self-lacerating romantic odyssey. Largely staying behind the camera due to health problems, Dunham channeled her emotional chaos into a fictional avatar: Jessica (played with twitchy, unfiltered energy by…

There’s a moment in the second act of James Gunn’s Superman where Lois Lane consoles the titular hero as he grapples with the revelation that his Kryptonian parents didn’t send him to Earth as a savior, but as a conqueror. Meanwhile, outside his apartment window, the Green Lantern and his Justice Gang are being thrashed…

Ceremonially closing the curtain on a long and storied career that began in 1968, Ozzy Osbourne, more theatrically known as the Prince of Darkness and the Godfather of Heavy Metal, took the stage one last time on Tuesday where it all began: Birmingham, England. Following a spate of beleaguered years marked by postponed, rescheduled, and…

In what is now the seventh installment of the Jurassic saga — rebadged as Jurassic World to denote the presence and prevalence of dinosaurs beyond island enclosures (pray Universal never dreams up a Jurassic Multiverse) — screenwriter David Koepp, who penned the original 1993 adaptation, cements the classic’s central message that some relics are best…