The Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television honoring Black, Latino, and AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) achievements occurred at the Fairmont Century Plaza this past Monday evening, Dec. 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. The celebration is…
It’s hard to imagine an American comic book movie that’s as proudly naïve and nostalgic as the fizzy Bollywood musical “The Archies,” which relocates the happy stock characters of “Archie” comics to a fantasy version of mid-‘60s India. It’s harder…
“I’m not a serial killer, I’m somebody who solves a problem for somebody else.” Yep. Netflix has debuted a 3-minute behind-the-scenes look at David Fincher’s The Killer, his assassin thriller from this year that’s now streaming on Netflix worldwide. Fincher…
Folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is auditioning for Bud Grossman (F. Murray Abraham) in a last-ditch effort to salvage his fading chances of making it as a folk singer. This single pivotal scene defines what the Coen Brothers superb…
Some things never change, according to the song that opens this film of the Broadway stage production. But as the final song reminds us, some things do change, and what happens between are the kinds of changes that happen to us…
Celebrate the holidays with some ho-ho-horror movies. By Meg Shields · Published on December 7th, 2023 Welcome to Horrorscope, a monthly column keeping horror nerds and initiates up to date on all the horror content coming to and leaving your favorite streaming…
In which Todd Haynes goes full Pedro Almodóvar and never looks back. By Meg Shields · Published on December 7th, 2023 There is a moment early in the set-dressing of May December when my jaw swung open like the doors of a…
“I don’t always feel like the most reliable source…” Gravitas posted the official trailer for this indie horror creation called Soft Liquid Center, made by a filmmaking duo called “Perry Home Video“. It premiered at a few fests earlier this…
A little over halfway through “Saltburn”—writer/director Emerald Fennell’s early aughts-set class study—it’s clear the jig is up. Wealthy golden boy Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) takes the shape-shifting Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) on a road trip to what he believes is…
You do a disservice to Werner Herzog’s movies—and maybe Herzog himself—by uncritically reducing them to extensions of his singular personality, known predominantly in American pop culture as a whimsical mythomaniac with a funny accent. To their credit, the makers of…