Like your sainted grandmother almost certainly used to say, there’s nothing better than an insipidly violent piece of trash to restore your faith in…
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Now with three feature films to his name as writer-director, Ted Geoghegan has carved out a nice niche for himself as a go-for-broke indie…
A film about the creation of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos sounds like a bit of a farce, the subject matter seemingly better suited for a…
So far as vanity projects go, Shooting Stars is a refreshingly humble affair, which is perhaps fitting for a global superstar — LeBron James…
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Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning — these whistleblowers, through their defiance, would define the creeping American military industrial and security complex in the years after…
One of the biggest pitfalls of depicting and representing trauma arrives precisely and most insidiously in what appears to be its greatest strength: by…
In theory, a modern-day update of 1992’s White Men Can’t Jump isn’t exactly heretical as far as remakes are concerned. Aside from the admittedly…
Aside from Tom Hanks, it’s hard to think of an actor more beloved and respected by both the general public and his fellow peers…
Since its launch in November 2019 — fortuitous timing for a streaming service to enter the public sphere — Disney+ has padded its subscriber…
In the wake of the mass protests that raged throughout Hong Kong for much of 2019 and the first half of last year, the…
Just in time for Mother’s Day comes The Mother, a heartwarming tale of familial love courtesy of Netflix that opens with our titular heroine…
There’s no denying a certain charm inherent to the Broken Lizard crew. Grating as they almost certainly are to your mom, there’s always been…
Nestled in David Lowery’s filmography, between his Badlands-indebted Sundance breakthrough Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and his quietly shattering journey across the eons, A Ghost…
It’s hard not to see the Dead Ringers miniseries as yet another domino tumbling on the remake assembly line that turns everything from The…
Dexter Fletcher’s Ghosted is a high-concept romantic action comedy with movie stars and a decent budget that, were this 2005, would presumably have the…