Poker Face is a murder-of-the-week procedural in an overtly Colombo vein. Yet Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne‘s modern-day all-star throwback loves movies almost as much as it adores TV, peppering ...
From Wake in Fright to Wolf Creek, Australia has been depicted in film as a wild and primal wasteland that punishes interlopers foolish enough to venture into its harsh outback. ...
Lamenting lost youth is the destiny of the middle aged. Yet while The Four Seasons understands grown-ups’ wistfulness for wild adventures, crazy nights, and blossoming love, it also understands that ...
Rust will forever be defined by the tragic 2021 accidental death of its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and questions about the prudence of completing the feature are only exacerbated by the ...
Leave it to a bunch of misfits to give the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) a mighty boost. Thunderbolts*, the franchise’s 36th (!) entry, is a Suicide Squad done right, bringing ...
Do screenwriters realize when they’re drawing from human experience, as opposed to when they’re copying types from other screenplays? The new movie Neighborhood Watch has a couple of great examples ...
The actor Daisy Edgar-Jones has a shifting, slightly elusive quality. It’s not that she’s a chameleon, unrecognizable from role to role, nor exactly a juiceless cipher. Instead, she has the ...
Havoc is a perfect title for Gareth Evans’ latest extravaganza, whose stock in trade is merciless, concussive chaos. For his first film in seven years, premiering April 25, the action ...
How do you cinematically adapt a video game that itself was designed as an interactive movie? Until Dawn’s answer is that you create something that resembles its source material in ...
“I see it now,” a character tells You’s homicidal protagonist Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) late in Season 5. “The fantasy of a man like you is how cope with the ...
