Dan writes about games, film, music, and sports for Noozify. A native of Vermont, he graduated from the University at Albany with a degree in marketing and has since worked in a range of administrative roles.
His passions are gaming, movies, music, and running, which is why most of what he covers here falls somewhere in that territory.
Elizabeth Holmes has been the subject of an exposé, a book, a podcast, a miniseries, and a trial. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary, filmed in the weeks before she went to prison, asks a different question, and audiences made it the biggest documentary opening in more than a decade. Noozify gives it an A−.
Cameron Winter played Carnegie Hall alone at a piano with his back to the audience while Paul Thomas Anderson filmed. The live album answers the question that has followed him for two years, whether he means it, and earns an A.
LeBron James left nearly $53 million on the table to chase one more title in Philadelphia. The favorites, the MVP race, the rookies, and what a final run really costs.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satire Digger buried Tom Cruise under prosthetics, split the critics, and opened to $8 million in North America. Its real audience may have been a few thousand Oscar voters.
Elia Kazan's 1955 film adapted only the last part of Steinbeck's novel. His granddaughter's seven-episode Netflix series takes on the rest, with Florence Pugh's Cathy Ames at its center.
The NHL's first 84-game season opened with a goalie goal and Alex Ovechkin's farewell announcement. Together they point at what will decide the year, from Washington's last run with its captain to a Stanley Cup race shaped by goaltending.
Leon Bridges says his role on his fifth album is "to be light." Made with Jungle, Happiness Anytime delivers the grooves while its lyrics stay slight, and a flash of frustration inside "Illusion" suggests the happiness took work.
A24's Primetime gets the broad strokes of the 2006 Texas sting right, then invents a producer and a police chief, reshapes the raid, and moves a 2011 tabloid scandal. Here is what's real, what isn't, and why the distortion may be the point.
Fresh off a championship, Jalen Brunson became only the fifth NBA player to host SNL, opening season 52 alongside Katseye, two new featured players, and a cast in transition. The night's real subject was what happens when someone at the top of one profession agrees to be a beginner at another.
Most TV sequels take years. Slow Horses, back for season six, has delivered a season every year since 2022, and the reason is a production line as unglamorous as Slough House itself.
Zach Cregger kept the games' dread and dropped their characters. His reboot opened to $60 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide, both franchise records, and holds a 96 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
Sinner withdrew, Djokovic lost in the first round, and Alcaraz fell at 3:33 a.m. The titles went instead to Alexander Zverev and Elena Rybakina, two players in their late twenties who had spent years coming close.
Ten new head coaches, a former No. 1 pick released and signed for the league minimum, and a three-time Defensive Player of the Year working out in a helmet he has not officially put back on. A survey of the NFL offseason, the morning after Seattle won the Super Bowl rematch 13-10 with a backup at quarterback.
Nintendo gave one franchise a full 30 minutes and spent it on restraint. A movie announced with no trailer, an Ocarina of Time remake that leaves Hyrule Field as empty as it was in 1998, a concert tour, and a console that ships without the game.
"This mirror weighs a ton, but at least we act sudden." Paul Banks says the line came out of automatic writing and does not really mean anything. Interpol named its best-reviewed album in twenty years after it — a record about reflection and surveillance, titled by the one moment its songwriter stopped controlling his words.
Matt Johnson's A24 biopic stakes everything on one mid-1970s Provincetown summer, splicing scenes lifted straight from Kitchen Confidential with inventions the memoir never mentions. Here is what really happened — and what didn't.
Six years after Punisher, Bridgers returns with an album that treats memory as something recording technology can manipulate — her late father's voicemail woven into an arrangement, her own voice run through the same machines, and a surprising debt to a 1988 computer-music composition.