When the first trailer for The Many Saints of Newark dropped, I had never seen a single episode of The Sopranos. By the time I sat down to watch the…
Our memories tend to get crystal clear when looking back on shocking events. You probably remember exactly where you were when your favorite celebrity died, for example. The pain sears…
The story of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker is a marriage of two different kinds of Christians. Jim Bakker, an infamous televangelist, saw the lucrative potential of Christianity and never…
“I’m not anything at all,” sings St. Vincent on the first song of her first album, sounding like she’s been emancipated. But she would go on to become many things.…
There are a lot of ways to take a story from stage to screen. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the movie based on the hit West End musical, goes the straightforward…
The Card Counter comes to us from esteemed filmmaker Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver, director of First Reformed, and more recently, avid Facebook poster. Schrader’s additions to the cinematic…
This new musical retelling of Cinderella was allegedly James Corden’s idea, and I mean allegedly in the legal sense, because someone has to answer for this. It’s unclear why the…
At the onset of the pandemic, a group of producers came up with an idea: challenge directors from around the world to make a short film under the constraints of…
“You are a product of all who came before you,” a wise woman tells Shang-Chi in the movie’s trailer, and she doesn’t know how right she is: Shang-Chi is another…
Rebecca Hall is so, so good in The Night House. She plays Beth, a woman who just lost her husband to suicide, and her odysseys across the spectrum of grief…
Reminiscence, ironically, takes place in the future, when society has collapsed with the climate and cities have adapted to sitting half-underwater. There’s a capitalist caste system where the rich get…
Following in the proud tradition of The Predator and The Final Destination, The Suicide Squad is a sequel-slash-reboot of an underperforming franchise with nothing but a “the” to distinguish its…
