Kyle Hoffman

🎃OCTOBER COLUMN🎃
The works of Stephen King have been adapted over and over (and over) again into iconic films and popular TV shows. While taking on the entire King canon may be daunting, these classics are a perfect place to start — just in time for spooky season.

🔗: bit.ly/OctScene2025

🍿SEPTEMBER COLUMN🍿
“Weapons” is an expertly-paced, frightening and mordantly funny modern fairytale tinged with sadness and grief.

In this age of reboots and sequels, it’s an original horror thriller that should give us hope.

Read my full column: bit.ly/SceneSept2025

Not a big superhero guy, but Superman impressed me. A fun, poppy, quirky summer blockbuster for a xenophobic, social-media-obsessed, billionaire-run world.
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Picked this up as a fan of Nora Princiotti’s work at The Ringer, as a music lover, and as a millennial seeking nostalgic comfort in these complicated times. It hit all the right notes. A deeply-reported and insightful history of 2000s pop music and aughts culture.

Cc: @noraprinciotti.bsky.social

Jarring how the world’s falling apart, but there’s also a rich and smart, “Broadcast News”-ish romantic drama written/directed by a talented auteur in theaters. We are so done, and we are so back!

Probably won’t work for everyone, but #Materialists > Past Lives for me.
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SCENE JUNE- What 2 Watch: 'The Pitt' is true must-see television It’s been rough sledding at the multiplex these past five months. As studios tend to save their best stuff for the summer and fall, the first half of each year

🚨JUNE COLUMN🚨
“The Pitt” just completed a first season for the ages, one of the best in TV history. Read my full column: bit.ly/SceneJune2025

SCENE APRIL - What 2 Watch: The Oscars sometimes get it right We can all rest easy, a good movie won Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards.

🎬 APRIL COLUMN 🎬
We can rest easy, a good movie won Best Picture at the 97th Oscars a few weeks ago. That isn't always the case. This month, I examine 5 ceremonies in the past 20 years when Oscar voters actually got it right.

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🎸 FEBRUARY COLUMN 🎸
Director James Mangold has mastered the music biopic — a genre often plagued by mediocrity — first with “Walk The Line,” and now with “A Complete Unknown.”

Read my full column: bit.ly/SceneFeb2025

SCENE JANUARY - The 10 best films of 2024 We knew from the outset that 2024 would be a weird movie year. The SAG-AFTRA strike of 2023 shut down Hollywood for months, postponing the production and delaying the release

🏅JANUARY COLUMN🏅
2024 was a weird (and deceptively fun) movie year. There were a lot of films I loved, some I just liked, and others I found truly confounding. Here are the ten that stuck with me over these past 12 months: bit.ly/JanScene

It’s a holiday tradition to watch “Home Alone” and it’s a holiday tradition to remember anew that Kevin McCallister has TWO additional siblings besides Buzz and the annoying girl with braces trying to speak French.

Time to erase those two randos from my brain for another year!

🎄DECEMBER COLUMN🎄
It’s the most wonderful time of the year … for those wreathed in love. But what about the lonely, the grieving, and the left behind? “The Holdovers,” a new holiday classic, gives voice to the lost and weary.

📰 Read my full column: bit.ly/DecScene