If you can get past the spectacle of British and Australian actors portraying some of the most important figures of 20th-century American literature, Genius is a goo
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Director Jake Paltrow (Young Ones, The Good Night) met Brian De Palma at a party. He'd had a few drinks and worked up the courage to talk to the legendary filmmaker,
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In cinema, all things move toward acceptance. In time, debates about filmmakers usually settle in favor of the filmmaker ? not because detractors change their minds
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When commercials for Mel Brooks' Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) ran on Channel One at my high school, I was ready. Vampire movies had dominated the late '80s and
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In 2001 a friend, a grown-up, saw The Fellowship of the Ring more than a dozen times in the theater. Sometimes she'd leave half an hour before the end. I just ne
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There's something satisfying about hearing Tyler Perry, as mad scientist Baxter Stockman, say the words, Eliminate those turtles, but it's not quite novel enough to
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Back in 2013, James Wan's The Conjuring represented the high point of a wave of mainstream horror that showed there was still value in old-school scares ? that t
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Thousands of bright-eyed, would-be actors and actresses pour into Los Angeles every year with their big dreams of stardom in tow. But some big-screen hopefuls only h
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If midcentury pulp and noir gave us the cynical, quippy hardboiled detective, then Peak TV has given birth to its successor: the charbroiled cop, a bitter, corrupt,
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Mockumentary Hitler's Folly,at only an hour long, stretches its incredibly thin premise over a surface area the size of the European front. Its single, exhausti
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It's a feat to out-idiot TMZ culture. In achieving that, the fake-doc white-rapper satire Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a breakthrough for studio comedie
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At first glance, the most obvious analog to Mark Elijah Rosenberg's Approaching the Unknown would be The Martian, both being about lone men on treacherous missi
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