Based on the best-selling 2022 book by Freida McFadden and adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine, The Housemaid is something of a wild-ride thriller about Millie (Sydney Sweeney), a young woman with […]
For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, James Cameron’s Avatar films continue to land with mass, global audiences in an unexpected way. To be clear, I’m not someone who dislikes […]
Though his name might not be familiar to most, my ears always perk up when I hear Wagner Moura is in something new. He’s been acting since the late ’90s, […]
With a successful acting career under his belt, including two Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper set his sights on filmmaking—and not in a small way. Cooper launched out of the gate […]
The theatrical release of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair justifies its own existence within moments, as the tremolo guitar of Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang” sends tremors through our seat […]
Returning for round two in the troubling adventures of CW (Cassandra Naud), writer/director Kurtis David Harder brings us Influencers, the sequel to the surprisingly effective story set in the world […]
After years of boundary-pushing success in television, writer/director Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, multiple Star Trek series) finally gets a crack at his first feature film with the darkly inventive […]
In such indisputable modern classics as Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good As it Gets, writer/director James L. Brooks profiled the lives of deeply flawed characters with good […]
Over the course of his storied career, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had quite a stunning list of successes and very few misses. His greatest fail, however, came in 1981 […]
Even though combing through the archival material could feasibly take a lifetime, making a documentary on a legendary photographer like Steve Schapiro must be the most fun to assemble. Searching […]
Directed by Marshall Curry (an Oscar-winning shorts filmmaker) and narrated by Julianne Moore, The New Yorker at 100 tells the fairly straightforward but no less interesting tale of both the […]
Set in an alternative past in which the world worships a god named Birdman (personified by Richard E. Grant, naturally), who has a mischievous daughter named Kiddo (Safia Oakley-Green) and […]