In many ways, Thor: Love and Thunder is the MCU’s most simply enjoyable movie in years. It’s (relatively) self-contained, light on the heavy stuff, and as small-scale as the gods…
Love is a fickle thing—unless love is happening in 19th-century England, in which case it’s entirely predictable and nearly always ends the same. The Victorian/Regency-era romance genre is notoriously unadventurous.…
It’s 150 degrees outside (fine, only 120), gas might as well be $10 per gallon and you’ve already binged every imageable streaming series. What is a Valley-dweller to do? Well,…
Elvis opens on Tom Hanks, donned in the least believable fat suit you’ve ever seen, sneering in a venomously outsized accent that he’s not “the villain of this here story”…
Just before the studio logos, Lightyear tells us we’re seeing Andy of Toy Story’s favorite movie, begging an unsettling question: does Disney exist in the Toy Story universe? Does Andy…
When Disney was drumming up buzz for Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, some suit described it as “meta, something self-referential and cool,” instantly outing the project as corporate and uncool.…
Whoever suggested that Marvel revive the Sam Raimi Spider-Man characters is perfecting their backstroke through hundred-dollar bills right now, so it’s only natural that the studio would bring Raimi himself…
The films of Robert Eggers are junctures of myth and reality, each in its own way. The Witch is a slow-burn reveal that its myth is real, and The Lighthouse…
Now that superhero movies are the biggest thing in Hollywood (they accounted for a third of all domestic ticket sales last year) and one of the industry’s most contentious topics…
“Butter” (Blue Fox Entertainment), based on the book by Phoenix native Erin Jade Lange, follows the trials and tribulations of a talented, sax-playing, good-natured high-school junior. But for all his talents,…
Cyrano, the musical starring Peter Dinklage as the man himself and Haley Bennett as his beloved Roxane, was written by Peter’s wife and directed by Haley’s husband. Creative teams should…
1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a reckoning with violence as art. Such a stark depiction of senseless violence was anathema to American cinema. People didn’t know what to…
