Solo: A Star Wars Story opens in a few days, and everyone is supremely excited because making a prequel to Star Wars is a slam-dunk idea that can’t fail. Most fans are content to sit back and wait for the film to open, but true fans know that...

“She really is so hard on herself,” remarks a relative of the titular character in Kent Jones’ Diane. A gaggle of cousins have come to Diane’s rescue after a drink to unwind for self-care spirals into raging drunkenness. Diane can easily...

In The Great Pretender, Mona (Maëlle Poesy-Guichard) insists that her autobiographical play is honest but her ex-boyfriend (Linas Phillips) says it's "confessional.” “Is there a difference?” she asks. “Yeah, honesty is hard,” Nick...

Two new films released in April, Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, take place in the American West and contain plenty of obvious signifiers: rustic communities, wide open spaces, horses. Yet neither really feels like a...

Blumhouse. The name has become synonymous with horror over the last decade. From macro-budget success stories to projects that make other production houses tremble, Blumhouse has proven itself repeatedly, with hits that include the Insidious,...

'If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait till I get through with it.' — Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup  Armando Iannucci's historical farce The Death of Stalin — which traces the madcap scramble for power between members of...

Movie monsters have always symbolized our hidden fears and desires. It’s impossible to dissociate the hulking behemoth of Godzilla from the atomic bomb and Japan’s perception of the good ol’ U.S. of A. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula represented...

Howdy, amigos! Looks like the Earth spun around seven times and brought us to another edition of the Friday Movie Pile & Slang Terms for Being Drunk, the long-running weekly feature that is the Internet's top source for new movie releases and...

A Quiet Place was released this weekend to big acclaim and even bigger box office. The movie is not only impressive for the fact that it’s an original non-franchise horror film that’s largely dialogue free, but that the co-writer and...

It's the end of the week, so you know what that means: time for the Friday Movie Pile & Pictures of Chris Evans As Captain America! (It may be time for other things as well, but they are of no concern to us.) We've provided this same...

Happy Easter/Passover/unaffiliated weekend, everyone! This is your Friday Movie Pile & Do-It-Yourself Woodworking Instructions, a weekly guide to the new films plus directions for building handsome, functional furniture. Let's see what...

Welcome to the Friday Movie Pile & Zesty Spring Salad Recipes, the column where we tell you about the movies coming out this weekend and also provide a healthy, delicious recipe that you can make at home for your family or pets! Put on your...

Animation saved Wes Anderson from self-parody. By the time he released his fifth feature, the exotic Indian travelogue The Darjeeling Limited (2007), even many of Anderson’s biggest fans (myself among them) had begun to grow a little wary of...

By most reckonings, 2012 was the best year of Jennifer Lawrence’s career. She starred in The Hunger Games, a movie that had an outstanding box office run and propelled her to stardom. Only a few months later, she starred in Silver Linings...

Movies -- our most precious natural resource. Each week the Friday Movie Pile seeks to explain and analyze the new releases, for the betterment of humanity. You're welcome. Tomb Raider (PG-13, 1:58) Plot: Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), who...