Poor Things: The Woman With Two Brains
What are the movies’ best takeoffs on the Frankenstein story? My inner comedy nerd says Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. Bomani J. Story’s The Angry...
Color Purple: African Violet
There was not as much outcry as you might expect when Steven Spielberg was announced as the director of The Color Purple in the...
Wonka: Hot Chocolate
What does it mean that all the actors who have played Willy Wonka on screen have been Americans? You might not have tabbed Timothée...
Eileen: Someone to Love
Recently, Saltburn took us deep into the mind of an incel. It’s not the first movie to do so, which begs the question: What...
Holiday Movie Preview
The Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes are now over, but the ripple effects are still evident at the multiplexes. The Dune sequel got bumped...
Renaissance: All You Can Bey
In the wake of the Taylor Swift documentary’s success, observers were saying that Beyoncé was perhaps the only other current pop star who could...
Dream Scenario: Fancies of Our Sleeps
Kristoffer Borgli is a 38-year-old Norwegian director who finds humor in the place where fame and social media meet. His debut feature, the art-world...
Of Monsters and Men
A friend and I recently commiserated that keeping up with the Marvel movies and TV shows is beginning to feel like homework, how if...
Saltburn: Home for the Holidays
After Barry Keoghan won an Oscar nomination last year for his work as the cop’s abused and ill-fated son in The Banshees of Inisherin,...
Napoleon: Cock, Aid
Almost 100 years ago, Abel Gance made a movie about Napoleon Bonaparte. That was more than 100 years after the French conqueror’s death, but...
