It sneaks up on you, how well you know Ferrix by the end of Andor’s first season. At first it’s deceptively like Tatooine: a miserable place that’s meant to be left behind by its protagonist, […]
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are many things, but flashy certainly isn’t one of them. Along with drummer Tom Skinner of Sons of Kemet, the two Radiohead members quietly re-emerged together earlier this year as […]
In writer-director Nikyata Jusu’s pungent, psychologically unnerving “Nanny,” the title describes a suffocating swirl of demanding job, racialized identity and terror trap for Aisha (Anna Diop), a Senegalese immigrant and single mother trying to make […]
“Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is.” This short, intense memoir of Yeva Skalietska is the record, told in diary form, of the transformation of the life of a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl […]
“It wasn’t until I played Thelma,” writes Geena Davis, “that I realised I may have wanted to become an actor so fervently because I could use acting to fill out the persona of someone confident […]
One of “Strange World’s” triumphs is the vibrant, weird, visually stunning subterranean world that the film’s heroes stumble upon during their quest to save their way of life. From its lush palette to its cute […]
One of “Strange World’s” triumphs is the vibrant, weird, visually stunning subterranean world that the film’s heroes stumble upon during their quest to save their way of life. From its lush palette to its cute […]
While Disney musicals have traditionally been a slam dunk for audience success, the animation studio’s other movies — the buddy comedies, the action-adventures, the science fiction epics — are bigger risks with varying returns. Zootopia […]
credit: @Disney Disney has released the thriller for the much-anticipated Disenchanted, which is a sequel to the movie Enchanted. The movie will be premiered on November 18 on Disney+. With expectations quickly building up, let’s take […]
Sardonic, blunt, and macabre, Wednesday Addams is an aspirational figure for young Goth girls everywhere. The only daughter of the creepy and kooky Addams family, Wednesday has a legacy of her own, from Charles Addams’ […]
House is truly the genre that celebrates itself. What other music is so obsessed with describing the moment of its enjoyment – the bodies, dancefloors, drugs, love, communion? In the wrong hands, an “up in […]
Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey return for Disney+’s ‘Disnechanted’; Jonah Hill turns the camera on his therapist in ‘Stutz’ on Netflix; the Charlie Trotter mystery Share This Article
As the Pokémon world becomes a bigger, richer place filled with an ever-growing number of new monsters, the pokédexes trainers receive at the beginning of their journeys have similarly evolved with the release of each […]
The title of “A Couple,” Frederick Wiseman’s new movie, is both intriguing and a little misleading. Intriguing because it doesn’t make reference to a place, establishment or social issue, as you might expect by now […]
Mali Obomsawin is a musician from the First Abenaki Nation, growing up on ancestral land in Maine and Quebec, whose debut album asks vital questions about the reception and expression of indigenous and traditional music. […]
Modern video games can be so perceptibly realistic – grass rippling in a gentle breeze, non-player characters going about their daily routines, faces and gestures that look so close to those of real humans – […]
When I moved to Los Angeles in 1992, it was soon obvious I’d be spending a lot of time at Laemmle Theaters. With its mix of American indies, documentaries, international films, and classics on weekends, […]
The subtitle of Bardo, the Netflix film from The Revenant and Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is A False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. But as long as we’re attaching pretentious postscripts, a quotation […]
The Pokémon games evolve at a leisurely pace. This can be frustrating for fans looking for the latest and greatest but does make it easier to chart how the games progress over time. Take the […]
A few years ago I wrote an article about how the original Sonic the Hedgehog games are examples of “incorrect game design” in that they break a lot of the rules laid down by that […]