Since his starring role in 2023’s Oppenheimer, a role that made him a bona fide Hollywood A-lister and won him an Academy Award, Cillian Murphy…
It’s always been Prestige TV’s inclination to dip into darker material and gritty violence, but lately there’s been a tendency to spill over into pure…
True crime documentaries in the streaming era are a dime a dozen, catnip for those who consume their content passively. They can be reasonably diverting…
Many have written and spoken about how aging differs from growing old. All manner of physical decline may await, but that doesn’t mean our love…
Director Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have previously worked together to great effect: Caron directed the episode of The Crown which netted Kirby an…
Genndy Tartakovsky has earned the one for him. As creator of some of the most seminal animated television of the late ‘90s and early 2000s,…
For a particular contingent of American moviegoer — one born in the mid-to-late 1980s, say — Happy Gilmore is something of a sacred cow. Its…
“Democracy dies in darkness,” the slogan of The Washington Post, couldn’t be further removed from the salvational rhetoric witnessed in Brazil with the rise of…
Girls is Lena Dunham’s magnum opus. The irony is that she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the HBO classic at the ripe age of…
Despite having only arrived five years ago, 2020 feels in a lot of ways as if it were a century from another era, wherein a…
Fear Street began life as a series of novels written by R.L. Stine, the Goosebumps mastermind and Juvenile Fiction equivalent of Stephen King. With the…
The opening sequence of Gareth Evans’ new Netflix original Havoc — a hotly anticipated action epic from the director of the modern classic The Raid…
It’s been eight years since The Raid director Gareth Evans served as the man behind the camera on a feature film (that would be 2018’s…
While the title gives the impression that this is an Asylum-style mockbuster ripping off the little-loved Brad Pitt-starring Bullet Train, the new Bullet Train Explosion…
The crime genre bleeds blue. Crimes tend to be bad, and that makes it easy to establish the police, by the nature of their work,…
You could argue that it’s extremely ironic that The Electric State, an absolutely dismal movie about humanity learning to love corporate-branded A.I. robots rising up…
It becomes clear very early on that the new documentary CHAOS: The Manson Murders is going to be largely incoherent. What is unclear is how…
35 years have passed since Wallace, the affable human inventor, and Gromit, his silent but otherwise exceedingly human-like and exceptionally faithful canine companion, made their…
Over the past few years, Netflix has, to various degrees, made gestures toward bringing beloved box-office stars from Millennial childhoods like Lindsay Lohan, Winona Ryder,…
Perhaps good things happen in airports on Christmas Eve in real life, but never in the movies. Carry-On is no exception, a reasonably diverting thriller that…
An aging singer, years past her prime and in failing health after decades of self-abuse, attempts a Pyrrhic comeback. The compressed structure of a few…