Since working on the original “Twister” in 1996, VFX supervisor Ben Snow has earned four Oscar nominations for his contributions to fantastical projects including “Iron Man”...
Obscure to the point of exasperation, “comic” in ways only its director truly “gets,” “La Palisiada” is one of the more unapproachable films of recent memory....
This article contains spoilers for the finale of HBO’s “The Penguin.” Cristin Milioti gets self-conscious about sounding too “actor-y” in interviews, and explains that she usually...
Anora, 2024. Directed by Sean Baker.Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov , Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan. SYNOPSIS: Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets...
This postelection Veterans Day weekend saw two new films crack the top three box office slots, with “Venom: The Last Dance,” bringing in $16.2 million in...
Magpie, 2024. Directed by Sam Yates.Starring Daisy Ridley, Matilda Lutz, Shazad Latif, Alistair Petrie, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Niall Wright, and Cherrelle Skeete. SYNOPSIS: A couple find their...
Once, when Keke Palmer was a little girl, she asked to have Cheerios for dinner. Her parents told her no: They had already prepared a meal...
Recently I reviewed my new indie horror obsession Grotesque, which features slasher icon in the making Mildred Moyer. Director/writer Brandon Rhiness was kind enough to let...
The well-run 1984 Olympics transformed Los Angeles. Not through the Games, which thrillingly came and went, but through the Olympic Arts Festival, which taught us to...
Going into Anora, I wasn’t sure what to expect but it certainly wasn’t a screwball comedy. Yet, following an explosively erotic, wild twist on the Pretty...
