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Review: WOMEN TALKING, Director Sarah Polley Breaks Out
Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jesse Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand star in the excellent feminist film.
Arrow Unwraps THE LEECH And More Holiday Treats This December
Hard to believe that we're here, it's December already. Our attention has turned to the holidays and preparing for Christmas and New Years. When you're all spent and done after long day of shopping or partied out it's time to...
Review: VIOLENT NIGHT, Die Hard With a Christmas Vengeance
On an event-free morning, afternoon, or possibly evening, longtime friends, high-school classmates, and screenwriting partners Pat Casey and Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog I and II) turned to each other and simultaneously said: “What if Die Hard … but with...
Trailer for COCAINE BEAR. Need We Say More?
How about it stars Keri Russell (The Americans), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Ray Liotta in one of his last roles (Goodfellas), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), and Brooklynn...
Review: THE MENU Expertly Balances Humor and Horror
Hungry for social satire? The Menu is pretty palatable. It follows other recent films pitting the rich against the poor: Ready or Not (2019), The Platform (2019), and Triangle of Sadness (2022) are three examples that do it well. If...
Review: WHITE NOISE, Calculated Comedic Chaos and Commentary
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig tune in for Noah Baumbach's existential ride.
Friday One Sheet: WHITE NOISE
Like a cross between Mort Drucker's dense caricature work for Mad Magazine, the Where's Waldo? children's books, and the board game Scotland Yard, illustrator Marija Tiurina's key art for White Noise is a helluva thing. Tiurina has done several of...
Review: WEDNESDAY, A Showcase for Jenny Ortega's Considerable Talents
Since New Jersey-born cartoonist Charles Addams’s eponymously named family made the jump from comics to television in 1964 (the brilliantly morbid, short-lived series lives on via syndicated perpetuity), the Addams Family has returned periodically in animated and non-animated form since,...
Review: ECHO 3, They Grabbed My Wife and His Sister. We're Coming For You.
Michael Huisman, Luke Evans and Jessica Ann Collins star in the series, created by Mark Boal and debuting globally on Apple TV+, that aims to explore deeper issues than the action that predominates.
Review: BONES AND ALL, Young Cannibals in Love
Timothée Chalamet reunites with his Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for another unconventional romance, the cannibal road movie Bones And All, adapted from Camille DeAngelis’ award-winning 2016 novel of the same name. Chalamet is just one...
Review: THE FABELMANS, Dreams Can Also Be Fun
Dreams are scary. In The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg puts his own childhood up on the big screen, through the Dream Factory, with the help of many of his regular collaborators, including screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Lincoln), John Williams (Jaws, Indiana...
Review: STRANGE WORLD, Top-Notch World-Building, A-Level Animation
For Strange World, its 61st feature-length animated film in its 85-year-old history, Disney Animation Studios tapped veteran animator Don Hall (Raya and the Last Dragon, Moana, Big Hero 6) and playwright-turned-screenwriter Qui Nguyen (Raya and the Last Dragon), the former to...
Review: GLASS ONION - A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, Daniel Craig's Super-Sleuth Takes on the One Percent (Again)
Over the last several weeks, the cult of personality centered on onetime tech “genius” (and billionaire) Elon Musk suffered a major setback, a self-inflicted wound that threatened to take down one of the largest, most popular social media platforms. Beware,...
Review: GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO, Stunningly Realized Stop-Motion Animation
There’s a moment in the stunningly realized Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio where the familiar title character (winningly voiced by Gregory Mann), newly granted a semblance of animated life by a compassionate supernatural spirit, attempts to greet his new “father,” Geppetto...
Now Streaming: THE ENGLISH and MAMMALS, Bloody Twists and Clever Turns
Emily Blunt and James Corden, respectively, star in new British series debuting on Prime Video. Plus: 'The Curse' slyly captivates on BritBox, while 'Mythic Quest' finds new ways to adventure on Apple TV+.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 Official Trailer
With the price on his head ever increasing, Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Osaka to Berlin
Review: BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, A Celebration of Legacies Real and Imaginary
The tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman, a generational talent hitting just the prime of what should have been a decades-long, award-filled acting career, in the summer of 2020 came as a devastating blow to many, especially during a year filled...
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES: Win The Complete Trilogy on Blu-ray
RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, will release A Discovery of Witches: The Complete Trilogy on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15, 2022. Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its...
Now Streaming: THE MOSQUITO COAST Resets the Table
Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Logan Polish and Gabriel Bateman star in the second season of the 'fugitive family' series, premiering on Apple TV+.
Review: ARMAGEDDON TIME, Refracting the Past Through the Eyes of a Young Man
Filmmaker James Gray tells a very personal story, featuring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong and Anthony Hopkins.
