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Where to begin with The Little Hours, a new comedy written and directed by Jeff Baena and based on Boccaccio’s 1353 masterpiece The Decameron? The … Continue reading
It’s oddly easy to forget how important Spider-Man is to the current superhero movie bonanza. 2002’s Spider-Man was the first movie with a $100-million opening … Continue reading
You know the voice: a burbling purple baritone hung like a bass note plucked by the hand of God, a testosterone lullaby, a heavenly man-purr, … Continue reading
Are there still interesting stories to be mined from the notion that we all do — or would do — shitty things to survive? Umpteen … Continue reading
If you found yourself at dinner with Donald Trump, what would you do? Grit your teeth and get through it, not wanting to upset or … Continue reading
Too much has already been said about It Comes at Night, a completely insidious and utterly unsettling new horror film that continues to worm its … Continue reading
Why do superheroes do what they do? It’s a question often answered with a glib oversimplification: It’s the right thing. When you’ve developed a super-suit … Continue reading
Alongside baseball, the sport of boxing has provided a seemingly inexhaustible supply of stories for movies to tell. Brutal, lonely and intimately attuned to the … Continue reading
Ponderous, pornographic and unforgivably dull, Alien: Covenant proves once and for all that Ridley Scott is the single biggest hack in contemporary Hollywood — a … Continue reading
Whether aging is kind to an actor seems to be largely a matter of choice, and by extension, integrity. Often, great actors getting on in … Continue reading