Ben Coleman

A perfectly serviceable airport novel of a movie, Beirut has enough espionage-y twists to keep you occupied for 109 minutes and mostly distracted from the fact its best parts never fully develop. It’s also kind of xenophobic and white savior-y, but those are almost genre requirements for this sort of thing; you’ve either made your […]

Like a mischievous bee, The Leisure Seeker has been generating some bad buzz—or, at the very least, some low review aggregator scores. But like a bee, the film is performing a small but necessary task, unglamorous though it may be. And if you’re wondering why I’m still talking about bees in a review of a […]

I grew up in the era of the VHS tape. Everything was fuzzy and nothing had chapter menus and the TVs we watched them on were small and square and inexplicably heavy. But there’s a quality to what was on some of those tapes—a post-green screen, pre-internet desire for total radness and earnest sentimentality—that Brigsby […]