It’s no secret that science fiction stands with horror and comedy among genres afforded the least amount of respect by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hell, it may be the least-respected, full stop; The Silence Of the Lambs and Shakespeare In Love both won Best Picture, at least. So it’s not…
One of the best scenes in Holy Motors—the Leos Carax drama from 2012—is a musical number in which Denis Lavant leads…
Kim’s Convenience is ending but Simu Liu’s movie career is just beginning—and in a very big way. To celebrate his…
The entertainment landscape of the 1990s was compartmentalized: Film was meant to be seen on the big screen, television was for home viewing, and the two rarely commingled. This seems archaic today, when the lines between pop culture media are blurred daily, but it was once a fact of life. Only TV shows with the most…
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a pretty trashy, by-the-numbers example of the kind of slasher revival films that dominated the horror genre a few decades ago (it’s like Scream without being clever), but it does have one standout scene: After being sufficiently terrorized by a mysterious killer with a big hook and…
It’s been 10 days since The Hollywood Reporter published “Everyone Just Knows He’s An Absolute Monster,” a long-form…
We’ll be honest: A lot of Hollywood prop auctions are fairly underwhelming affairs. “Now you, too, can own a jacket that was once in the same room as Benedict Cumberbatch’s torso!” “Purchase a coffee cup that was almost on-camera in Stuber!” “Whoooooo wants a boom mic?!” It’s a lot of chaff-from-wheat separation, is…
For most people—i.e., those who didn’t enjoy the actually quite excellent Person Of Interest—Jim Caviezel is probably still best known as Jesus from The Passion Of The Christ. Now, though, Caviezel is apparently launching a dramatic and ambitious career reinvention, seeking to wrest the coveted title of “Worst opinion…
Google “best movies to watch” on any given day, and one of the top answers autocorrect will offer you every time, without fail, is “… high.” Especially during Our Pandemic Year, one of the most comforting things we as a society have been able to do for ourselves is curl up on the couch at the end of the day, get…
Spider-Man, the franchise, owes a lot to Alfred Molina. Out of the various villains who’ve popped up in the 8 Spider-Man films made since 2002, Molina’s Otto Octavius is generally held up as the best, nailing the blend of sympathetic and sociopathic required to really get under Peter Parker’s skin. That legacy is part…
It’s been a minute—on account of the COVID—since Hollywood has been able to celebrate one of its really big “Hooray, a new movie!’ parties. (Also known, in elitist industry speak, as “premieres,” or “red-carpet hootenannies.”) That’s about to change, though, as the Tribeca Film Festival announced today that it’s…
It’s Moira Rose’s favorite season: awards. But obviously, given how COVID-19 is still a thing, awards ceremonies are very different this time around. This year’s Oscars will be the first under the pandemic and the Academy Awards decided to forego the painful awkwardness of a Zoom ceremony like the one we sat through…
It’s a joke or a tragedy or maybe a little of both that HAL 9000, the neurotic AI antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey, is more human than the humans he’s eventually pitted against. Dave, the machine’s adversary, is a remote representative of our species, and his chilly scientific remove set the tone for a whole genre…
In its journey from Sundance to its six Academy Award nominations, Minari has been frequently touted as a chronicle of the American Dream. Loosely inspired by writer/director Lee Isaac Chung’s own childhood in rural Arkansas, the film follows the Korean-American Yi family as they acclimate to life in the country,…
An ’80s horror ingenue with a sideline in soap operas (or was it the other way around?), Barbara Crampton rose to cult fame as the star of Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), and, of course, the killer-robots-exploding-horny-teenagers classic Chopping Mall (1986). Not an unusual trajectory; this was the era of the…
With the Academy Awards ceremony roughly a week away, we’re closing in on the end of this unusual and unusually long awards season. On the third installment of Film Club’s four-part series discussing the major categories, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife take a closer look at this year’s Best Actor contenders, as well…
It’s been more than a decade since a wholly original film was the biggest hit of its year. All our reigning blockbusters since 2009's Avatar have been sequels or adaptations or sequels to adaptations. The military biopic American Sniper, the biggest hit of 2014, could be considered an exception, but it was based on a…
We’ve seen the Predators from Predator fight with all sorts of weapons over the years: The shoulder gun. The cool…
According to Variety, Pete Davidson has signed on to star in I Slept With Joey Ramone, an upcoming biopic about the punk star for Netflix. This is a promotion from Davidson’s last appearance in a rock biopic, as he didn’t even get a chance to play one of the actual Mötley Crüe members in Netflix’s The Dirt (he played…
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Voyagers now in theaters and Stowaway on Netflix next week, we’re looking to the stars for five days of space movies.
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