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I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone sweat in a movie as much as poor Colin Farrell in Ballad of a Small Player. Whether it’s from the constant, shirt-soaking humidity of Macau’s tropical climate or from the anxiety of losing hundreds—or thousands—on a single hand of cards at a...
A popular horror franchise never dies as long as characters and actors are around to cycle and recycle through iteration after iteration. In Scream 7, Neve Campbell returns as Sidney Prescott, this time as a protective mama bear to her daughter (Isabel May). Ghostface is back, of course, to...
First off, it must be said: Hedda certainly looks gorgeous—both the movie and Tessa Thompson as the titular character Hedda Gabler. Writer/director Nia DaCosta has taken Henrik Ibsen’s classic play and put her stamp on it in more ways than one, changing the setting from the late 1800s to...
Anyone who has been a caregiver—whether taking care of a child, caring for someone who is seriously ill, or parenting an elderly parent—will absolutely relate to the character at the claustrophobic center of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Experiencing this film may not make you feel better...
Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt efficiently introduces the main players of this entangled, moralistically murky tale. We are dropped into any Ivy League house party hosted in a professor’s home, where pseudo-intellectual banter flows as copiously as the booze. Inhibitions are lowered, bodies casually drape over each other on...
When first I heard that Kiss of the Spider Woman (originally brought to the screen in 1985, winning an Oscar for William Hurt) was being turned into a Broadway musical, it struck me as an odd choice. After all, it’s a drama about a revolutionary named Valentín and Molina,...
Tron: Ares starts with an evil tech CEO named Dillinger (Evan Peters) waving his arms and making big sweeping pronouncements about the latest advances in AI. Why immerse yourself in AI virtual reality when you can now bring virtual reality into the tangible, 3D world? Specifically, he says to...
Daniel Day-Lewis is such a master of his craft that he could read the ingredients off a can of cat food and make it sound sinister, spiritual, or heartbreakingly tragic. In the familial drama Anemone, he mesmerizes with two striking monologues: a grotesque tale of revenge on a childhood...
If you have no background on ultimate fighting (aka mixed martial arts) The Smashing Machine gives you only a few teases to understand what’s going on. The fighters are a mix of wrestlers, boxers, and martial artists, so can use all of the above skills in order to take...
Spenser for Hire is an ’80s TV staple that I remember fondly, if not well. It seems like it was always on, but can I recall a single plot line? Heck no. The release of the complete series on DVD is a delightful opportunity to revisit this classic show...
Expecting a wacky comedy from the trailers, I was genuinely shocked by the chilling opening scene of One Battle After Another: a visceral sequence of revolutionaries violently breaking into a borderland U.S. immigration detention center. Led by the ferocious Perfidia (Teyana Taylor), a group calling themselves French 75 overpower...
It only took Hollywood decades to figure out that 90-something June Squibb could easily hold her own as a lead. After landing a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Nebraska (2013), it still took another decade for her to get her first starring role in last year’s delightful comedy Thelma....
