Emerald Fennell first gained attention in Hollywood as an actor, for roles in period drama films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012) and The Danish Girl (2015), as […]
File this one under: Christmas movie I didn’t know was a Christmas movie until I was deep into it. If I’m reading the credits correctly, Genie is directed by Sam […]
Much like other recent Adam Sandler outings, such as his family comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and his sports drama Hustle, his newest animated work, […]
Napoleon Bonaparte has been featured in films for nearly 100 years (going back to Abel Gance’s 1927 Napoleon, which clocked in at about 5.5 hours), but I can’t remember a […]
Invincible‘s storytelling can be weird. On one hand, the pieces it lays out in each episode tend to combine in the end to form a fantastic and fully realized conclusion. […]
The landscape of superhero shows has become very different in the time between Invincible‘s first and second seasons. In early 2021, WandaVision was a hit, Loki and Hawkeye arrived later […]
I first encountered the bold, scene-stealing energy that is Colman Domingo in 2009, when I stumbled across Spike Lee’s filmed adaptation of Passing Strange, the stage musical about a young […]
Todd Haynes is a filmmaker’s filmmaker, an artist who makes not just movies, but cinema. From award-winning period pieces (Carol, Far From Heaven) to acclaimed documentaries (The Velvet Underground, Six […]
From the depths of Saturday Night Live comes the three-man comedy team Please Don’t Destroy, consisting of Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall, all of whom star in and […]
Filmmaker Taika Waititi has taken some wild swings in his career, from his vampire-centric faux documentary What We Do in the Shadows and the charming Hunt for the Wilderpeople to […]
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Trolls movies because of the music, and because Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake have such winning personalities to go along with their […]
Setting a Thanksgiving-themed slasher movie in Plymouth, Massachusetts, may be a bit obvious, but it certainly wouldn’t be the only element of director/co-writer Eli (Hostel, Cabin Fever) Roth’s Thanksgiving that […]