‘Megalopolis’ (trailer screenshot)
A few months back I talked to Sam Wasson about his book, The Path to Paradise, which details the rise and fall of Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Apple’s disastrous new iPad ad. But did people overreact to the image...
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‘Unfrosted’ (MovieStillsDB)
Every once in a while, a comedy classic comes out and critics and general audiences alike aren’t quite sure what to do with it. Often, these tend toward absurdism:...
Look this is a perfectly fine action picture and the monkeys look (mostly) as real as everyone says, but my problem is that it feels like a 2-plus-hour prologue for a better, more interesting series...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discussed whether or not steamy movie scenes are back (per the New York Times) or...
The movie this most reminds me of is that Weird Al faux biopic from a couple years back: intentionally broad, fairly absurdist, lots of cameos. I am … kind of flummoxed by some of the aggressively...
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If...
Assigned Viewing: The Last Stop in Yuma County (VOD/theaters)
Richard Brake in ‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ (Courtesy: Well Go USA
The Last Stop in Yuma County reminds me a bit of two of my favorite...
I appreciate that Hollywood has finally figured out Ryan Gosling is incredibly funny after sticking him in a decade-plus of roles that slide somewhere between "dour" and "brooding." He and Jennifer...
Members of the U.S. Army Albany recruiting battalion during an Army & Veterans Community Covenant Signing Ceremony designed to foster and sustain the community's partnership in improving the quality...
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An engraving of Lord Byron, after the 1813 portrait by Richard Westall. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH on April 19, 1824 at the age of 36, Lord...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) asked if Jerry Seinfeld was right about the state of comedy. (You can read his full...
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Photo by freddie marriage on Unsplash
I’m going to step away from Hollywood for a minute to look at a different segment of the entertainment industry: publishing.
Writing on her Substack, Elle...
Mike Faist, Zendaya, and Josh O’Connor in Challengers. (Courtesy Amazon MGM Studios)
THE THING ABOUT TENNIS is that it’s a mental game more than a physical game. Yes, physicality matters; no,...
This is kind of a tough one to review, because I feel like under ideal circumstances—those being high as sh*t in a dorm or frat room or three IPAs deep in an Alamo Drafthouse with a similarly situated...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discussed whether or not the stars of The Blair Witch Project should get back-residuals...
Costume designs courtesy of Kelli Jones; collage by Hannah Yoest.
As readers may remember, The Beekeeper has been one of my favorite movies of the year thus far. One thing in particular I loved about...
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