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Christopher Nolan’s films have long distinguished themselves through technical brilliance, grand ambition, and a fearless sense of scale. His command of image, sound, size, and setting remains [...]

Anya Taylor-Joy may be the closest thing we have today to one of the great silent film actresses who could hold the camera so demonstrably without ever speaking a word. Think about how little she [...]

Bryce Hirschberg would probably be well off just being an actor. He has an easy charm, looks good on camera, and holds it with his emotions too. But Hirsch is more ambitious than that. That’s why [...]

For the second time in two months, Hollywood has opened an R-rated sex comedy that mostly skirts the issue of sex. First, THE INVITE took a snickering, almost junior high attitude towards [...]

Director Olivia Wilde’s new comedy THE INVITE is supposed to be a stark examination of two marriages and how they act and react when the possibility of switching partners for sex arises at a [...]

Are we having fun yet? James Gunn, the filmmaker who made the Marvel Cinematic Universe hilarious with his take on GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, was given the keys to the kingdom to reboot the [...]

Those in creative fields have been pushing back against A.I. for years now, rightly lambasting it for taking away jobs, creating inaccurate characters in TikTok videos with six fingers, and being [...]

The essence of writer/director Michael Sarnoski’s new film, THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, is obvious from its very first scene. A brutal winter is bearing down on the mountains of Ireland, and a [...]

To convey my problems with Steven Spielberg’s new film DISCLOSURE DAY presents a difficult review to write, as I’m not only a fan of the brilliant filmmaker, but I also don’t like to give away [...]

Few actors can play both villain and hero as well as Javier Bardem. For every iconic baddie he plays, like in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and SKYFALL, he impresses on screen playing good men like in [...]