The comedy franchise’s belated new entry is lightweight but delightful, allowing its stars to flex their comic muscles while exploring middle age, suburban ennui, and abandoned dreams.
Read more
Colm McCarthy’s 2016 adaptation of M.R. Carey’s novel (now streaming on Netflix) is a thoughtful and often exhilarating examination of survival and sacrifice.
Read more
Terrence Malick’s 1978 classic (now streaming on Amazon Prime) remains a gorgeous sensory experience – and a showcase for several magnificent performances.
Read more
The turn of the 21st century was ruled by a particular kind of comedic heroine. Blond hair, a bubbly personality, and […]
Read more
Director Michael Ritchie veered from character studies to commercial comedies, but throughout his filmography, the subject of sports (and a cynical approach to it) was a constant.
Read more
Nicolas Roeg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel (released 30 years ago today) still plays like gangbusters, thought its subtext serves as a subtle reminder of the “stranger danger” era.
Read more
Pump Up the Volume never capitulates. In its opening scene, a law-breaking teenage radio DJ who goes by the moniker Hard […]
Read more
Random Acts of Violence isn’t the cleanest or cleverest of horror movies, but it displays a grindhouse ambition that’s worth paying attention to.
Read more
How can we know Nikola Tesla? The 19th-century Serbian-American inventor was a formative figure in the advances of electricity – but […]
Read more
The gloomier the world gets, the more lugubrious the art reflecting it becomes. The world has never witnessed a calamity of […]
Read more
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,For, those, whom thou think’st, thou […]
Read more
Boys State begins with a famous quote from George Washington’s farewell address about the potential danger of political parties, warning the […]
Read more