Movies & TV

COURTESY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER The most astounding thing about Cyrano is not that this film, based on a French comedy from the 1890s, begins with Peter Dinklage performing a sword-fighting rap battle. It’s that this is, in fact, how the original play began. The original play introduces Cyrano as a large-nosed, charismatic, obnoxious, lovable, bombastic poet who […]

Renate Reinsve as Julie seems to be experiencing a “Nicole Kidman after signing divorce papers” moment. Courtesy of Neon Warning of incoming exuberance: I want to gush about this movie. I want to write that THIS IS CINEMA that ignites your very soul! I loved it. And I’m not the only one; it’s already picked […]

Death on the Nile: The mystery is in the mustache. 20th Century Studios The first ten minutes of Death on the Nile are an artistic black-and-white origin story for Hercule Poirot’s mustache. Later, we see that he sleeps wearing a custom-made face mask in the shape of said mustache. “Enough already about the mustache,” I […]

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa on Yellowjackets. Kailey Schwerman At this cultural crash sight of a moment, Jasmin Savoy Brown is arguably best known for going full HAM on a wolf who dared to attack her girlfriend—after she and the rest of her high school soccer team became stranded in the Canadian Rockies—on the […]

Pam & Tommy relives the famous sex tape scandal… and reminds us that maybe we were part of the problem? Hulu With the tagline “The Greatest Love Story Ever Sold,” you could kinda think that the new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, about model/TV star Pamela Anderson and rocker Tommy Lee, would focus on their […]

Don’t walk… run (or drive) to see Drive My Car. Drive My Car © DR It has been awarded the top prize by Los Angeles, New York, and the National Society of Film Critics. It was named one of the best films of 2021 by the Seattle Film Critics Society and is Japan’s entry to […]

“Weird… what’s this knife doing here?” Courtesy Paramount Pictures Scream and its sequels have always felt like those “Learn Conversational French” videos, where you learn a language by watching stilted interactions between people who speak in the simplest of sentences (“j’adore les blue jeans”), except that in Scream, the language you’re learning is that of […]

Good cast. Baaaaaad movie. The 355 The worst thing a film can do is squander what it’s got going for it. In The 355, a blockbuster espionage action-thriller (now showing in theaters), it has two solid things at play: its strong ensemble cast and an interesting musical composition. Those two things should be enough to […]