I gotta be honest, there are so many different things happening all at once that I’m not … entirely sure what precisely [redacted] is helping the feds stop at the end? But it’s suitably clever...
This week, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the controversial (or nontroversial?) practice of digitizing extras. Setting aside issues...
Some backstory to this episode: last month I bought a ticket for Sound of Freedom because I was curious about the year’s most unexpected box office sensation. As the credits rolled, star...
Some backstory to this episode: last month I bought a ticket for Sound of Freedom because I was curious about the year’s most unexpected box office sensation. As the credits rolled, star Jim Caviezel...
looking at the Barbenheimmer box office like
It is always a mistake to draw broader inferences about audience tastes from a handful of films released over the two or three months you’ve most...
Between this, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, and PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, it feels like we're in the midst of a revolution against the smooth and clean computer-generated animation preferred...
The most amusing thing about something like They Cloned Tyrone or They Live is the idea that you need some sort of secret, all-encompassing manipulative program to control the masses rather than their...
I would simply not shake the horror hand that opens up a portal to a dimension full of damned souls who want to inhabit your body.
Update: A fuller examination of the film here as part of my late-summer...
‘Meg 2: The Trench’ is shaping up to be a long bright spot for Hollywood in China.
I’m rejoined this week by The Wall Street Journal’s Erich Schwartzel, author of Red Carpet: Hollywood,...
I’m rejoined this week by The Wall Street Journal’s Erich Schwartzel, author of Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, to talk about Hollywood’s disastrous...
Yeah, it’s a masterpiece.
(It’s also very funny that Christopher Nolan’s first sex scene can be interpreted as an argument that sex is dirty and needs to be investigated and will bring shame...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask if movie theaters could wind up being the biggest casualty of the ongoing actor’s...
Competently shot and well-acted with a very good cast, though giving off strong "eat your vegetables" vibes. (This is as much like homework as any black-and-white classic or modern oscar-bait movie...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask why WB keeps stepping on rakes by doing things like demanding GQ rewrite pieces...
I’m fascinated by the art of trailers, those little mini-movies used to advertise full-length features to the masses. A great trailer can lead to great success for even the worst of movies:...
Have to say, I'm a *little* surprised by the rapturous response to this film, which I liked but isn't even the best A24 movie about a woman writer living in NYC and dealing with marital issues released...
Should I have spent 300 words writing about the Paramount mountains and how their absence symbolizes everything wrong with this movie? Probably not. But I did. I dunno man. I don't *hate* this movie—Harrison...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) try to figure out how this Vulture feature on the work that went into making Spider-Man:...
David Zaslav attends the Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros. “The Flash” at Ovation Hollywood on June 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic)
Warner Bros....
As someone who loves Wes Anderson—someone who literally thinks he might have one of the best movies of the decade from each of the last four decades—I really wanted to love ASTEROID CITY. But this...
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