Following his 2021 Oscar-winning Drive My Car, writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (whose also excellent Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was released stateside the same year) takes a more oblique but no less potent and […]
Under its super-charged surface story of an obsessed young fan of a TV show, I Saw the TV Glow has a great deal going on, including the story of an identity transformation […]
For women in Hollywood, aging is not the easiest thing to do. Often, the mere act of passing time and surviving is enough to tank a woman’s career, particularly when […]
Humor is subjective; it always has been. It baffles me endlessly when anyone tries to argue that a film that some people find funny isn’t funny. Others found it funny, […]
Quite often, when a film features such a completely stacked cast of comedic talent, it’s almost guaranteed to be terrible. Sure, some of the actors will get out a doozy […]
In this hit-you-over-the-head love letter to the stunt community of Hollywood, former stunt man, stunt coordinator and now director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, Hobbs & Shaw) […]
Being on the receiving end of a crash course on the paintings of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is to understand that before photo-heavy fashion magazines and influencers evaluating the designers […]
When the world was shutting down and isolating in early 2020, Terry Goon (John Early) was keeping strict quarantine in the Brooklyn brownstone where he lives, though is actually still […]
It feels like it’s based on a comic book; the visuals make me think it might be based on a video game. But in fact, Boy Kills World, the feature […]
Set in the world of competitive tennis, filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria remake) and writer Justin Kuritzkes’ Challengers is about players who are young and hungry, […]
The Motive and the Cue is a theater-lover’s dream, a deliciously funny and candid theater story. Directed by Sam Mendes (Empire of Light, The Ferryman), it’s a new play about the rehearsal period for […]
A few years ago, director Rod Blackhurst co-directed a documentary called Amanda Knox that I remember thinking was quite impressive. So when I heard he was taking on a crime […]